AREA FOUND WHERE MISSILE POSSIBLY FIRED AT AIRLINER.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The FBI has zeroed in on one area where an attacker most likely would have had to be located to fire a shoulder-launched missile at TWA TWA Time-weighted average, see there Flight 800, the Associated Press learned Sunday. The missile theory has been deemed no more probable than the possibilities that a bomb or a mechanical malfunction caused the July 17 explosion off the coast of Long Island, in which 230 people died. But investigators have said it has been kept alive because of eyewitness An individual who was present during an event and is called by a party in a lawsuit to testify as to what he or she observed. The state and Federal Rules of Evidence, which govern the admissibility of evidence in civil actions and criminal proceedings, impose requirements accounts. If a missile did hit the aircraft, it likely would have been fired from somewhere ahead of the plane as it flew along the Long Island coast on a flight to Paris, said an investigator who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``The conjecture is that if the plane was hit by a terrorist missile, the terrorist would have been east of the airplane when he fired,'' said the investigator. ``He would have been in front of the flight path seeing the nose of the plane as opposed to the rear.'' Investigators speculate that such an assailant would have had to have been in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean [Lat.,=of Atlas], second largest ocean (c.31,800,000 sq mi/82,362,000 sq km; c.36,000,000 sq mi/93,240,000 sq km with marginal seas). Physical Geography Extent and Seas inside a 5-mile-wide area east of the zone where the Boeing 747's wreckage splashed into the sea. FBI scientists and experts helped by the Pentagon have examined the technical capabilities of missiles, in combination with the locations of the wreckage. They also have studied interviews with people who saw streaks of light in the sky before the explosion, and have pinpointed where each witness was standing. About 200 people reported seeing something that night, but only about 10 to 20 of them saw anything that investigators categorized as significant. James Kallstrom, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of FBI chief who is heading the criminal investigation, has said in the past that despite eyewitness reports, there is no evidence a missile or bomb brought down the plane. He said the FBI would continue investigating until it is convinced the crash was not caused by a criminal act. Investigators are serious enough about the possibility that they have given the crews of scallop scallop or pecten, marine bivalve mollusk. Like its close relative the oyster, the scallop has no siphons, the mantle being completely open, but it differs from other mollusks in that both mantle edges have a row of steely blue "eyes" and trawlers, which are dredging dredging, process of excavating materials underwater. It is used to deepen waterways, harbors, and docks and for mining alluvial mineral deposits, including tin, gold, and diamonds. up additional wreckage from the ocean floor, photographs of a missile launcher missile launcher n → lanzamisiles m inv missile launcher n → lance-missiles m missile launcher missile n in case such a device was ditched at sea. The possible missile launch area pinpointed by investigators would mean any culprit might have been showered by falling wreckage, the investigator said. Outside that area, an assailant would have been too far away to hit the plane, the investigator said. |
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