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- Electromagnetic pulses from military craft may have
been responsible for several civilian airline disasters in the past four
years. If the theory is proved correct, it suggests navy ships and air
force planes pose a lethal threat to passenger flights. Crash investigators
have been startled by similarities between several tragedies. In particular,
they have uncovered common features in two crashes: Swissair 111, on 2
September 1998, and TWA 800, on 17 July 1996. Both planes took off from
the same airport, New York's JFK, on the same day, a Wednesday, at the
same minute, 8.19pm. Both followed the same route over Long Island. Both
reported trouble in the same region of airspace, and both suffered catastrophic
electrical malfunctions.
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- And on both occasions the planes were flying at a time
when extensive military exercises - involving submarines and US Navy
P3 fighter planes - were being conducted. These factors - outlined by
Elaine Scarry in the forthcoming issue of the New York Review of Books
- suggest to many investigators that a routine weekly event, probably
involving the generation of strong electromagnetic pulses by military
personnel, may have triggered short-circuits in the two planes. In the
case of the TWA 800 flight, this could have caused a spark to set off
a fire in its fuel tanks.
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- Alternatively, a pulse could have knocked out instruments,
causing the Boeing 747 to spin out of control, making metal parts tear
and produce sparks. In the case of the Swissair 111, a fire was reported
in the cabin and the plane plunged into the sea off the coast of Nova
Scotia.
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