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Show Bank Shootout Pilot Says He Saw Missile Hit TWA 800 NEW YORK (AP) - A miliary helicopter pilot who witnessed the explosion of TWA Flight 800 repeatedly told investigators he thought a missile struck the plane, a source said Tuesday. The Air National Guard pilot has not been allowed to speak pub-fid- y because of an FBI ban on federal employees speaking about the investigation. The pilot, Capt Chris Baur, is a civilian pikx for U.S. Customs.- - '" v," ,' account one r causes ; Barn's eyewitness report comes to light as critics of the investigation claim to have evidence suggesting that Flight 800 was shot down by an errant US. Navy missile A Pentagon spokesperson said investigators had thoroughly probed the issue, even inventorying the Navy's missile arsenal "Fteonnel have been interviewed; records have been checked. There is absolutely no evidence to support this theory," Kenneth Bacon said.-.,"- : r . , There was not evidence two months ago; there is not evidence now. A new set of allegations rehashing old theories docs not make for new evidence." One of the reasons why a missile remains under consideration was the number of eyewitness accounts from people who said they saw something in the sky die night of die crash. Baur's dear view from the helicopter and his military training would make his . . . as pos- - , 'Baur spoke with the FBI, the NTSB and invtstigaton from the Joint Terrorism Task Force after die disaster, die source said, speakdie base after ing on condition of anonymity. Upon returning to . r;V.. hnmh akn haven't been ruled out frfrirr MTI . of the crash. , sile searching for survivors, Baur "told officials immediately he thought hesawamissc.N Baur "saw a track of light and saw a hard explosion, then another exptaico," the source said. Baur's account differs from that of another military pilot on the did not helicopter who reported seeing lights in the sky but said he know what the object was. A third man aboard the helicopter was-- . n't facing the frcnt cf die helicbptt the explosion.. An NTSB investigator who interviewed Baur said what the pilot saw could be explained by mechanical malfunction that created "a - tongue of flame coming from the aircraft," the source said. Early Tuesday, the FBI seized a videotape from the Florida home of retired United Airlines pflot Richard Russell, who has long supported the theory that a Navy missile brought down the plane. He contends die tape is a copy ofFAA radar. - Aman wearing camouflage bank Tuesday, and ordered everyone else a at killed three people inside to sing the Lord's Prayer with him before he was kiOed m a DETROIT of the most credible. (AP) gray-ao&wh- ' ;.- barrage ofpolkc gunfire, r Conicrica the inside bank branch, killed first two He employees him to the outside, man shoving took an hostage then elderly and Officers head. the then in him and opened fatally shooting ground - fire. see "Shootout - CAMPUS-pY -- . "It appears as if we have a person who walked in to luH," Chief Isaiah McKinnon said. "It was a matter cfminutes, but Tm sure for those people there, it must have been an eternity." shootout at a bank in 11 days. It was the second deadly big-cit- y The gunman was identified as ABen Lane GriffinJt,2l,whothe chief said was apparendy depressed over a "domestk situation. Griffin began the rampage two blocks from the bank, confronting a man out jogging with his dog, shooting the man in die face, then stealing a Volvo, which he drove to the bank. "You could hear through die glass. He was yelling loud, "Get downf" said Belinda Crawford, who was approaching die cash machine and saw a man inside wielding a shotgun. After shooting three people in die bank, McKinnon said, 'lie: made all the people who were on the floor start to sing the Lord's on page 5 L r 'W v 7 . J tr of jjj , x ;For: Participants;;;, ., StageRight ThealerCornpany will donate the proceeds from its March". 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