It looks like the source for the claim that the seat residue was PETN is Sanders' interpretation of the testing he had done on the stolen seat fabric.
The seat fabric wasn't stolen. It was removed by TWA pilot and NTSB investigator Terrell Stacey when he complained to ex-cop Sanders that the investigation wasn't on the level. Actually the stealing of those samples occurred when FBI confiscated and then destroyed them. Replacing them with deliberately-switched cuttings of seat fabric with obvious adhesive on them and no residue. No honest evaluator could see your version as being anything other than the dishonest rendering it is.
That testing was done by West Coast Analytical Service, which is in Santa Fe Springs, CA (Jetblast has said the lab was in NM, probably mistakenly reading it as Santa Fe).
I had seen it told as LA and New Mexico. Looks like Los Angeles was correct.
Does anyone have information about the results of those tests? All I could find was this from a very pro-missile web site. Apparently the lab concluded the residue was not consistent with explosives, though Sanders continued to think it was. Here is the quote:
The test showed PETN. All you are doing is quoting FBI's lying disinformation used to get around it. If we viewed the orginal tests and methodology it would show PETN. The lab did not know the situation when it did the tests. It was later intimidated by FBI like many others. This is the correct context of the information. Your FBI damage control isn't.
So no lab who tested the residue said it was consistent with explosives, the guy who stole the fabric does not think it was explosive residue, but a reporter thinks it is anyway. And that is literally the entire case in favor of the residue being related to explosives, as far as I can see. Correct me if there is more to it.
You never answered the FBI being caught faking and lying about seat glue.
The reason your offerings are bogus is because they don't reflect that they came after Sanders was threatened with 5 years in jail for something he wasn't guilty of and that the FBI was obviously desperate to cover-up the finding. There's some simple things that destroy this disinformation. First is any test of a US missile containing that propellant on 747 seat fabric would produce the same residue. Second is FBI illegally collected and destroyed the samples and also lied about the seat glue tests - both sure signs of guilt. Deniers have no problem with FBI not making the samples available for further testing and don't question any of the excuses FBI makes. Also, how did seat glue end-up in a 3 row-wide plume pattern? Do deniers ever wonder why this unexplained plume just so happened to be the same color and width of missile exhaust? No curiosity? No objections about FBI illegally dumping the seat covers in a dumpster behind the hangar? (Also a sure sign of guilt)
No problem that the original tests are not right out in the open? Sanders has charts comparing the chemicals found by the lab vs missile exhaust. They line-up perfectly. Don't you think your source is rather dishonest for not pointing this out? It's also dishonest to say Stacey though it wasn't missile residue.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/BASS/bassett.html
If you watch the new documentary a splatter pattern was found across the outside roof of the center fuel tank. Forensics proved it occurred before the center tank exploded. This is forensic proof that something other than the center tank caused the crash.
Checkmate.



