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However, in an article in the April 8 issue of The New York Book Review, Elaine Scarry, Cabot professor of aesthetics and the general theory of value, alleges that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) overlooked a potential cause: electromagnetic interference (EMI) from nearby military activity...
...article, the English professor details the danger EMI pose to aircraft and how EMI from nearby military aircraft and warships might have caused the guidance and electrical systems of Flight 800 to malfunction. This, she says, may have led to the catastrophic explosion that killed all 229 aboard...
...letter to Scarry dated April 21st, NTSB Chair Jim Hall called the article "quite interesting," and said thatpresently "the [NTSB] investigative team isworking with private concentrators and themilitary to determine the effects of EMI and [HighIntensity Radiation Fields] on Boeing 747s...
...EMI describes an effect that occurs when energywaves collide. Most commonly seen as the fuzzylines that appear on a television when a hairdryer is turned on or the static heard on AM radiostations during a lightening storm, EMI is causedby the interaction of electric and magneticfields...
...danger of EMI is so great that it hasbecome an offensive military weapon. "Jamming," orthe use of EMI to disable enemy radar andcommunications systems, is an integral part ofmodern warfare. Planes, ships and ground-basedtransceivers equipped with jamming electronics canthrow millions, or in some cases, billions ofwatts of energy at enemy targets...