Originally Posted by
Bill Greenwood
The missile story sounds possible, but it may change. Years ago there was an airliner that left NY and blew up in midair. Someone who I know from EAA wrote a story about a U S missile fired by the Navy going off course and hitting the plane. The source was a man who I know of, tho not personally and who was said to have inside knowledge from the military. It was a conspiracy feast. Perhaps within a year the NTSB examination of the wreckage determined the cause to be electrical wiring shorts and sparks. The source soon admitted that he made the whole thing up about the missile , not an exaggeration, but created from scratch. No reason was give for that, as far as I know.