TWA Flight 800 left John F. Kennedy International Airport at 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996. At 8:31 p.m., the Boeing 747-100 exploded over East Moriches, New York, 12 miles off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 people on board including the 16 students and five chaperones from Montoursville, Pa.
Flight 800 had just received clearance to initiate a climb to cruise altitude when it exploded without warning.
Because the plane was loaded with fuel for the long transatlantic journey, it vaporized within moments, creating a fireball seen almost all along the coastline of Long Island., and many suspected terrorism. Suspicions of foul play seemed to be confirmed when a number of eyewitnesses reported that they had seen what appeared to be a missile shoot up toward the airline an instant before the explosion.
When it was revealed that several U.S. Navy vessels were training in the Long Island area on the night of the blast, some began to suspect that Flight 800 had been accidentally downed by a Navy test missile. U.S. authorities ruled out the possibility of an errant missile strike by the Navy, but a number of conspiracists, including former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger, supported the theory. The much-criticized Flight 800 investigation ended in late 1998, with investigators concluding that the explosion resulted from mechanical failure, not from a bomb or a missile.”is located at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, Long Island, New York. It opened on July 17, 2002.
The reconstructed TWA airplane is being decommissioned at the NTSB training center in Ashburn, Virginia. It had been used for training. A digital documentation will be made and the
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