TWA Flight 800
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Date | July 17, 1996 |
Deaths | 230 |
Survivors | 0 |
Exposed by | Kristina Borjesson, Henry F. Hughes |
Interest of | James Kallstrom |
Description | A suspicious air crash, which occurred simultaneously with a live fire exercise being carried out by the US Navy. |
Contents
Official narrative
An electrical fault. Nothing to see here, move along...
Initial reports
Over 250 people said they saw something streaking toward the plane and then an explosion[1][2]. Many believed that the cause of the crash was a surface-to-air missile attack.[3][4][5]
WhatReallyHappened reports that the US Navy "kicked out the New York Police Department divers, who had legal jurisdiction in the area", and sent its own deep salvage vessels to the area, and searched as wide as searched out 20 miles to either side of the known debris field. Information was leaked by the FBI and the US Navy which implied that there was an object of extreme biological danger aboard Flight 800, one which posed a serious risk to anyone who picked it up. Although later retracted, the story, coupled with reports of bio-suited soldiers along the beaches of Long Island, created the impression that the FBI and NTSB did not want anyone looking too closely at any of the wreckage.[6]
Press Conference
The film Shadows of Liberty includes footage of an early FBI press conference about the fate of TWA Flight 800 at which an activist asked "Why is the navy involved in the recovery when they are a suspect?" By way of answer, the chairman just pointed at him and declared "Remove him!" and he was summarily manhandled out of the room by 4 or 5 suited men. The commercially-controlled media 'journalists' continued with their set questions as if nothing had happened.
NTSB investigation
The initial NTSB investigation concluded that the cause was likely criminal, so it passed control to the FBI, since the NTSB does not investigate criminal cases.[7] In the case of TWA 800, the FBI initiated a parallel criminal investigation alongside the NTSB's accident investigation.[8] The four-year NTSB investigation concluded on August 23, 2000, ending the most expensive air disaster investigation in United States history. It concluded that the crash was caused by a gas tank explosion.[9]
Aftermath
The wreckage is permanently stored in a custom-built NTSB facility in Ashburn, Virginia. The reconstructed aircraft is used to train accident investigators.[10][11]
Notable passengers
Some of the notable passengers on TWA 800 included:[12]
- Pam Lychner, American crime victims' rights advocate
- Rodolphe Mérieux, physician, son of Alain Mérieux, the president of the pharmaceutical company Merieux Laboratories which is the primary researcher in aids vaccines.
- Charles Beatty, 50, senior systems engineer with the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, a Navy Research and Development Center
- Charles H. "Hank" Gray, 47, president and chief operating officer of Midland Financial Group, Inc. (which has many ties to Arkansas)[13]
Related Document
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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File:Proof the Investigation is Politically Directed TWA Flight 800.pdf | report | 21 July 1997 | Joe Brancatelli | A report about what an airline executive with military background thought about TWA Flight 800 in the immediate aftermath. |
Rating
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No definitive conclusion, but an introduction to a deep event which remain undeciphered to this day.
References
- ↑ http://pix11.com/2013/07/17/twa-flight-800-crash-a-reporter-reflects-on-the-disaster-17-years-on/
- ↑ http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/STATEMENTS.html
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- ↑ National Transportation Safety Board. "The Investigative Process". Retrieved February 11, 2010.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ National Transportation Safety Board. "NTSB Board Meeting on TWA 800 August 22, 2000, Morning Session". Retrieved February 11, 2010.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344246/Are-conspiracy-theorists-say-TWA-flight-800-shot-right-Flimmakers-claim-jet-crashed-Long-Island-killing-230-hit-explosions-OUTSIDE-aircraft.html
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