Family and friends of those killed onboard Twa Flight 800 will gather Wednesday night at the memorial in Smith Point County Park on the 17th anniversary of the explosion and crash -- at the same time that a documentary, questioning investigators' findings, will be broadcast.
The Boeing 747-100 -- going from New York to Rome, with a stop in Paris -- plummeted into the waters off East Moriches at 8:31 p.m. on July 17, 1996, shortly after takeoff from Kennedy Airport, killing all 230 passengers and crew. A four-year investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause was an accidental fuel tank explosion.
At 8 p.m. the Epix cable TV channel will broadcast "Twa Flight 800," a 90-minute documentary. In it, six former members of the official crash probe rebut the official cause and claim the investigation was systematically undermined.
The Ntsb ruled out a bomb or a missile as the cause.
The Boeing 747-100 -- going from New York to Rome, with a stop in Paris -- plummeted into the waters off East Moriches at 8:31 p.m. on July 17, 1996, shortly after takeoff from Kennedy Airport, killing all 230 passengers and crew. A four-year investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause was an accidental fuel tank explosion.
At 8 p.m. the Epix cable TV channel will broadcast "Twa Flight 800," a 90-minute documentary. In it, six former members of the official crash probe rebut the official cause and claim the investigation was systematically undermined.
The Ntsb ruled out a bomb or a missile as the cause.
- 7/17/2013
- by Newsday
- Huffington Post
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