Ronald Krick is the father of Oliver Krick, who was a 25-year-old student flight engineer who was killed in the shooting down of TWA 800. Krick, along with other relatives of people killed on July 17, 1996, has filed suit against the Raytheon Company, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the United States government. This suit is progressing through the courts.
Jack Cashill has written on this topic extensively and recently highlighted this lawsuit. What follows are extensive passages from Cashill’s blogpost on this suit.
—On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at around 8:20 p.m. Within twelve minutes of takeoff, the plane exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York. All 230 passengers and crew members perished.
—After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center fuel tank.
—Only recently, thanks to the work of physicist, Dr. Thomas Stalcup, through his Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) litigation in Massachusetts federal court, has evidence emerged proving that TWA 800’s explosion was not caused by any defect in the airplane, but instead by an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby.
—The evidence unearthed by Dr. Stalcup establishes that the United States, including its agencies, such as the United States Missile Defense Agency (formerly known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization), the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Navy (the “Government Defendants”), acting in concert and working side-by-side with Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation (the “Contractor Defendants”) and DOES 1 through 20, inclusive (collectively the “Defendants”) were testing the Aegis Weapons System and firing SM-2 missiles with live warheads from warship(s) at aerial missile targets off the coast of New York in close proximity to commercial airline flight paths. One such missile struck TWA flight 800, causing it to break apart and crash into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everyone aboard.
—Newly discovered evidence also shows that these Defendants engaged in a top-down cover-up to prevent the public from learning the truth about TWA 800. Proof of this cover-up, and of Defendants’ underlying culpability for the crash, was only recently unearthed by Dr. Stalcup after more than a decade of FOIA litigation against the Government Defendants.
—his evidence reveals that the United States and its agencies, acting in concert with Contractor Defendants, conducted initial operational tests of the SPY-ID(V) radar upgrade with testing that involved firing at least one missile with a live warhead in May of 1996. This testing—firing live warheads off the coast of New Jersey and New York—was “a departure from prior practices.” The Department of Defense urged the missile system to proceed “as quickly as possible to production and deployment” to increase defense capabilities. Consequently, the Senate Committee approved the funding and the Navy accelerated testing and development of the next-generation Aegis missile system. Instead of conducting testing away from potential flight paths of other aircrafts, SPY-ID(V) was tested on an expedited basis in and around a land-based testing site called the Combat Systems Engineering and Development Site (“CSEDS”) in New Jersey, which is a highly congested area.
—The evidence obtained through Dr. Stalcup’s FOIA litigation also suggests that the FBI interfered with the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB”) investigation. Following the TWA 800 collision, the FBI led the investigation of the incident and enlisted the assistance of the CIA, rather than allowing NTSB— the agency tasked with investigating all domestic aviation incidents— to lead investigative efforts. Throughout the course of its investigation, the FBI removed all copies of Navy radar tapes and refused to allow the NTSB to conduct eyewitness interviews or review the FBI’s results regarding the cause of the TWA 800 crash. These copies of the Navy radar tapes were finally released and show an object “heading straight for TWA 800.” This information appears to corroborate previously discredited testimony from eyewitnesses, many of whom maintained that they saw something “arcing” toward TWA 800 before the plane exploded, but were not permitted to testify at any NTSB hearings. Some eyewitnesses reported being threatened by the FBI to “keep quiet.”
As Jack Cashill notes, the only real quibble with the info presented is the word “enlisted” as to the CIA’s involvement. The CIA was part of the coverup from the beginning. In fact, the CIA discouraged the FBI from publishing a preliminary report that would have identified a missile as the probable cause of the crash. That preliminary report never saw the light of day after that. The CIA stopped any info from getting out that would have called the mechanical failure cause into question.
The Clinton administration issued Executive Order 13039 that removed whistleblower protections from all members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group. This unit contains the Navy units that recovered the debris of TWA 800. The rights of the Navy crew were revoked to protect “national security.” Protect national security from a disaster supposedly caused by mechanical failure?
Cashill notes:
The Krick suit should come to fruition in 2026, but media support in the interim would be extremely valuable. This is one conspiracy that is more than a theory. It is a crime, and many of the major perps are still in the game.
God knows that the DOJ and FBI have their hands full right now. However, this is one case that needs sunlight. The American public needs to know just how corrupt our government has been. The public needs to know just how far the Democrats will go to stay in power. And a small town in Pennsylvania (Montoursville) deserves to know the truth about what happened to 16 teenagers and five chaperones.
YouTube has a documentary that can be purchased for $5.99 on the TWA 800 disaster. In it one will learn that not one but most likely three missiles took down the aircraft. It can be watched for free on Plex.tv. It is 91 minutes in length. It is a professional production that is worth the time.
A great deal of thanks goes to Dr. Tom Stalcup, a physicist, who has been relentless in the pursuit of the truth. The documentary is a product of his efforts to bring sunlight to this horrific disaster. It features six former members of the official crash investigation team. They break their silence to refute the officially proposed cause of the jetliner’s demise. In doing so they reveal how the investigation was systematically undermined from the get-go.
Plex.tv…TWA Flight 800
YouTube…TWA Flight 800