re: TWA 800 What do you think actually happened?

NTSB's determination of a center fuel tank explosion caused by faulty electrical wiring sparking fuel vapor ignition is supported by thousands of hours of engineering analysis, and similar type accidents on other aircraft.

Assuming for argument a Navy ship fired a missile, inadvertent or deliberate, that launch would have been quickly reported by the ship's CO to his superior officer, then up the chain of command and onward to many senior officers. Adding the sailors and officers onboard, the odds that several hundreds of individuals managed to remain silent at the time, or all the following years, is zero.

Flight 800's fuselage reconstruction revealed no metallurgical or forensic explosives evidence of an external source. No shrapnel damage or other evidence of external sourced fuselage penetration. The investigation concluded that the evidence clearly proved an internal explosive cause, and how that occurred.







The reconstructed wreckage was scheduled for demolition in the summer of 2021.

TWA 800 Remnants to be Scrapped

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The NTSB's “decommissioning” of the fuselage in the warehouse is so secret that it is being managed like a military operation. The ultimate goal is to melt, slice, dice and otherwise eviscerate the 60,000-pound section of the jetliner — including passengers’ seats — into bits and pieces so unrecognizable that profiteers won’t be able to sell it.

“We don’t want any of this turning up on eBay,” said NTSB spokesman Christopher T. O’Neil. “When all is said and done, there will be nothing that can be used as an artifact of TWA 800. There’s not going to be anything that can be exploited.”

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