American Airlines Pilot Says Missile Flew by His Jetliner
Weeks after the TWA Flight 800 explosion and hundreds of miles away, an American Airlines pilot claimed that he saw a missile pass by his jetliner in flight, federal investigators said Saturday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the pilot on an Aug. 29 American Airlines flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Boston said he saw a missile pass his Boeing 757 over Wallops Island, Va. NASA has a program for unmanned research rockets there.
NTSB spokesman Peter Goelz said: “We’re going to look into it. So far we have not been able to confirm anything.”
Military spokesmen have said repeatedly that no exercises with live weapons were being conducted in the area of Flight 800.
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