Originally posted by Deadstick
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The WHOLE debris field of all that was behind the nose and the fragmentation ring laded AHEAD of the forward fuselage that his the ocean intact.
This is a very systematic behavior. We are NOT talking about pieces of plane randomly scattered by the explosion, the fall, and the water currents.
If the above sketch is true, I have no doubt whatsoever that the fuselage and wings (minus the nose) was FLYING fast for quite some time after the initial fracture.
How much altitude did the Afghanistan 747 gain before it fell out of the sky?
Granted it was moving more slowly but my guess would be "not much." I think TWA 800, as wounded as it was probably didn't gain more than a couple of hundred feet, not 3000.
But after looking at the sketch of the debris fields, I think that it was moving fast for several seconds after the fracture, and moving fast + wings available + CG shift certainly has the potential for a good climb.
I hope they revisit the investigation and we get the facts of this crash, but I'm not holding my breath. I don't trust the FBI much less the CIA. They're in the business of hiding the truth.
Do you trust the NTSB more?
Because it's THEY who did the simulation of the flight after the fracture of the nose.
The NTSB conducted a series of computer simulations to examine the flightpath of the main portion of the fuselage.[96] Hundreds of simulations were run using various combinations of possible times the nose of TWA 800 separated (the exact time was unknown), different models of the behavior of the crippled aircraft (the aerodynamic properties of the aircraft without its nose could only be estimated), and longitudinal radar data (the recorded radar tracks of the east/west position of TWA 800 from various sites differed).[97] These simulations indicated that after the loss of the forward fuselage the remainder of the aircraft continued on in crippled flight, then pitched up while rolling to the left (north),[94] climbing to a maximum altitude between 15,537 feet (4,736 m) and 16,678 feet (5,083 m)[98] from its last recorded altitude, 13,760 feet (4,190 m).
The above is from wikipedia, but you can read the original source too:
1.16.2 Trajectory and Main Wreckage Flightpath Studies
Pages 94 to 100.
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