Fwd: EMI and TWA 800 (fwd)

CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:45:27 -0800


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-> > The April 9 New York Review of Books has published a long
-> > special supplement, "The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility
-> > of Electromagnetic Interference," by Elaine Scarry, a noted author
-> > and Harvard professor:
-> >
-> > http://jya.com/twa800-emi.htm (128K with 3 images)
-> >
-> > The article closely examines the possibility of electromagnetic
-> > interference in TWA 800's controls, comm, and black boxes
-> > by activities of the ten US military planes and ships in the
-> > vicinity which were heavily equipped for electronic warfare
-> > and were conducting tests of the gear.
-> >
-> > It is reports on what is publically known about the EM armaments
-> > of planes and ships in the vicinity, about secret EM weapons and
-> > defenses, the several dozen military and commercial planes that
-> > have crashed due to EMI, military studies of long-standing EM
-> > hazards which will not be released to crash investigators, current
-> > research in EMI and what scientists in the field think about the
-> > possibility of EMI causing the fall of TWA 800.
-> >
-> > It calls for the military to release its classified EMI research to
-> > NTSB investigators, and short of that, for the servicemen and
-> > women on the planes and ships at the scene to tell what they
-> > know. It asks Congress to order military cooperation.
-> >
-> > Not at all inflammatory or accusatory, it is thoroughly researched
-> > (over 100 notes and citations) and highly informative on the
-> > hazards of EMI, and worthy of ciritque by learned scientists
-> > in the field here.
-> >
-> > Coda: Ron Brown's crash is not mentioned but its characteristics
-> > fit several other EMI accidents for which the military will not
-> > release findings, claiming that national security EM weapons
-> > secrets would be jeopardized.
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