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From left, Matthew Ziemkiewicz, brother TWA Flight 800 victim Jill Ziemkiewicz, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark Rosenker, Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters, and acting ...
Theories that Flight 800 may have been destroyed by a bomb, missile or meteor have nonetheless lingered. TWA Flight 800: Remnants to be scrapped, 25 years after explosion killed 230 passengers ...
Answers and a sense of completion are both missing as the National Transportation Safety Board prepares to issue its “final report” on the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800.
Twelve minutes after takeoff, TWA Flight 800 exploded south of Moriches Inlet. At an altitude of 13,700 feet, the aircraft broke apart and plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean.
MINEOLA, N.Y. Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the ...
The crash of TWA Flight 800 remains a painful tragedy, with victims’ relatives expected to gather Saturday to mark the 25 years that have passed since the disaster.
The crew monument is not to be confused with the much larger memorial for all 230 Flight 800 victims, who were lost 14 miles offshore only minutes after the Paris-bound jet took off.
On July 17, 1996, 230 passengers and the TWA Flight 800 crew departed John F. Kennedy International Airport for Paris. But 10 minutes later, all died in midflight on their way to the French city.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) plans to destroy the reconstructed wreckage of TWA Flight 800 because it is no longer needed as an instructional tool.
Surviving family members of victims of the TWA Flight 800 crash came together near Smith Point Park in Shirley Sunday to mark 26 years since the tragedy. It was back in 1996 when TWA Flight 800 ...