TWA flight 800, flight of aTrans World Airlines(TWA) jumbo jet airliner that broke up over theAtlantic Oceanand went down about 8 miles (13 km) off the coast ofLong Island, near East Moriches,New York, on the evening of July 17, 1996. All 230 people on board died in the crash. ...
The government’s investigation of the TWA 800 crash, considered the largest and most expensive in commercial air disaster history, has been controversial from the start. In the days following, nearly 100 of more than 700 eyewitnesses interviewed by the FBI described seeing a streak of light move...
Inaccurate:The NTSB investigation into TWA Flight 800 was painstaking and thorough.This is false. To date, the NTSB has not published an analysis of the high-velocity and radar-recorded explosion that caused the crash. Such a blatant oversight would not have been missed in a thorough investigati...
Date: October 11, 1996 Article excerpt Even if federal investigators are unable to determine what caused TWA Flight 800 to explode on July 17, lawyers preparing to file suit against the air carrier say they will conduct their own investigation and present their findings to a civil jury. At ...