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TWA flight 800, surface to air missles, conspiracypunks
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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:26:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brock N. Meeks <[email protected]>
To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
Surface to air missles do not need to make contact to explode. They have
a proximity system that explodes the missle if it gets within range.
Of course, sometimes the missle does hit; there is a famous story --
documented -- of an SA-2 (an old Soviet SAM) hitting an RF-4 during Viet
Nam. The missle didn't explode but stuck in the plane like a dart; the
pilot flew the plane back to the airfield and was told to ditch the plane
when the air traffic control noticed it stuck in his plane.
-- Brock