[65836] in Cypherpunks
Re: All Bets Off
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Wed Sep 18 20:01:23 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: Jeff Davis <eagle@armory.com>
Cc: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.com>, cypher punks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <9609171918.aa03723@deepthought.armory.com>
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > Just so this isn't hanging in cyberspace forever, my $5,000 bet for
> > anyone to prove the TWA 800 flight was downed by a U.S. missile is now
> > *off the table*.
>
> I heard through the family grapevine that they have pictures of a Stinger
> taking out the plane they're analyzing in the Pentagon. There are 220+
> Stingers *missing* in the US, so its not like they have to smuggle them
> in... (That's not proof by any means, but *my* family grapevine has always
> been very reliable. The cousin who told me this has a Dad who flew as
> the intelligence officer observer on Bronco flights out of Quang Tri for
> 18 months, rotating out just before the base was over run in May of '72.)
Does this cousin also have an aunt who lived next door to Joe Montana's
babysitter? I might know his father ...
Ask your family grapevine about the stinger's op altitude, and the
altitute of the TWA when it broke up - I don't have Jane's lying around,
but it seems that the TWA plane was a tad bit high for a stinger.
- r.w.
