Their theory was given to explain that streaming fuel from Flight 800's ruptured fuel tanks caused the light streaks that eye witnesses thought were missile exhaust trails. Over one hundred people saw some light trails traveling upward off the Long island shore that evening and the FBI and NTSB are doing their best to convince the public that the eye witnesses were mistaken about what they saw. If a 747 can continue to fly after being decapitated and even climb several thousand feet then pigs should be able to fly. At the top of the page is a representation of a 747-100B in level flight at cruising speed. Everything is in balance.
Aerodynamic lift equals the aircraft weight.
Engine thrust just equals the total aircraft drag. That's almost the condition Flight 800 was in except Flight 800 was in a climbing mode on its way to a cruising altitude of approximately 36,000 feet. That meant the engines were putting out a little more power to increase the aircraft's speed and its lift which equated to a mild climb rate. Then something very terrible happened to Flight 800 which critically weakened the fuselage just in front of the wing fairing box. The entire front end of the fuselage started to shake violently, finally shaking so hard that a large fracture began at the underside of the fuselage and propagated upward on both sides of the fuselage.