Originally Posted by Pugilistic Animus
However, as an aside my uncle a retired Naval officer, informed me that during the time of flight 800 the Navy was testing a very high powered radar antenna {not entirely sure exactly what} installation.
He then informed me that they frequently 'lock on to civil airliners' for practice drills and calibration of such equipment [and just look around that area on sectionals and you know they do 'something secret' around that airspace] perhaps that was the initial trigger of the arcing condition perhaps an overvoltage/surge was the final dagger in the heart of flt 800
No. This is the hypothesis that Elaine Scarry proposed in the NYRB. It has been definitively discredited by NASA and myself and Willie Schepper. Please read the NASA report in the docket, and read our paper.
PBL