"[1]:257, A review of recorded data from long-range and airport surveillance radars revealed multiple contacts of airplanes or objects in TWA800's vicinity at the time of the accident. [1]:89, The NTSB addressed allegations that the Islip radar data showed groups of military surface targets converging in a suspicious manner in an area around the accident, and that a 30-knot radar track, never identified and 3 nautical miles (5.6km; 3.5mi) from the crash site, was involved in foul play, as evidenced by its failure to divert from its course and assist with the search and rescue operations. [32]:3 Ultimately, remains of all 230 victims were recovered and identified, the last over 10 months after the crash. Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning[1]:313 amid speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. [1]:1 After the owner of the baggage in question was confirmed to be on board, the flight crew prepared for departure, and the aircraft pushed back from Gate 27 at the TWA Flight Center. [1]:258 Of the 5% of the fuselage that was not recovered, none of the missing areas was large enough to have covered all the damage that would have been caused by the detonation of a bomb or missile. It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". Maintenance records indicate that the aircraft had numerous VSO-related maintenance writeups in the weeks before the accident. A List of the Passengers and Crew Aboard Ill-Fated TWA Flight 800 L.A. Times Archives July 20, 1996 12 AM PT Here is a complete list of the 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and. [1]:258259 Testing conducted by the FAA's Technical Center indicated that residues of the type of explosives found on the wreckage would dissipate completely after two days of immersion in sea water (almost all recovered wreckage was immersed longer than two days). When the explosion occurred, some may have had a sudden panic attack for . [1]:94, Radar data showing vehicle and/or object tracks within 10 nautical miles (19km; 12mi) of TWA flight 800 just before the accident[1]:fig. However, after just 12 minutes, chaos ensued in the sky as an explosion occurred. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. [1]:243247 Advocates of a missile-attack scenario asserted that some of these witnesses observed a missile;[1]:264 analysis demonstrated that the observations were not consistent with a missile attack on TWA800, but instead were consistent with these witnesses having observed part of the in-flight fire and breakup sequence after the CWT explosion. The memorial includes landscaped grounds, flags from the 13 countries of the victims, and a curved Cambrian Black granite memorial with the names engraved on one side and an illustration on the other of a wave releasing 230 seagulls. The FBI interviewed at least 755 witnesses. [1]:270 The NTSB further concluded, "the witnesses' observations of one or more fireballs were of the airplane's burning wreckage falling toward the ocean". ")[1]:230 The NTSB witness group concluded that the streak of light reported by witnesses might have been the actual airplane during some stage of its flight before the fireball developed, noting that most of the 258 streak-of-light accounts were generally consistent with the calculated flightpath of the accident airplane after the CWT explosion. Officials called off the search as Coast Guard crews were attempting to retrieve what they believed was a significant piece of wreckage, based on sonar detection and a bubbling pool of jet fuel at the ocean's surface. Instead, he said, there are blunt force trauma injuries, consistent with being struck by pieces of the jet as it fell from the sky after an explosion elsewhere in the plane. TWA Flight 800 autopsy reports released HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Jan. 3 -- Autopsy reports are being released to the families of victims from TWA Flight 800, which exploded and crashed in July. [44]:5 Included in some of the witness summaries were drawings or diagrams of what the witness observed. Taxi and takeoff proceeded uneventfully. Seventeen of the 18 crew members[20] and 152 of the passengers were Americans; the remaining crew member was Italian, while the remaining passengers were of various other nationalities. [1]:137, To better determine whether a fuel-air vapor explosion in the CWT would generate sufficient pressure to break apart the fuel tank and lead to the destruction of the airplane, tests were conducted in July and August 1997, using a retired Air France 747 at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, England. "[1]:294[53], Though the FQIS itself was designed to prevent danger by minimizing voltages and currents, the innermost tube of Flight 800's FQIS compensator showed damage similar to that of the compensator tube identified as the ignition source for the surge tank fire that destroyed a 747 near Madrid in 1976. [1]:262 These witness accounts were a major reason for the initiation and duration of the FBI's criminal investigation. [1]:273274 Since none of the recovered CWT wreckage exhibited these damage characteristics, and none of the areas of missing wreckage was large enough to encompass all the expected damage, the investigation concluded that this scenario was "very unlikely". The aircraft had completed 16,869 flights with 93,303 hours of operation and was powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7AH turbofan engines. [57] In a press release, the NTSB stated: "After a thorough review of all the information provided by the petitioners, the NTSB denied the petition in its entirety because the evidence and analysis presented did not show the original findings were incorrect. TWA 800 was scheduled to depart JFK for Charles de Gaulle Airport around 7:00pm, but the flight was delayed until 8:02pm by a disabled piece of ground equipment and a passenger/baggage mismatch. After the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 off Long Island,. Thus, the gauge anomaly could have been caused by a short to the FQIS wiring. From Coast Guard crews who became physically ill as waves tossed their search boat to doctors performing autopsies and X-rays in an atmosphere described by one as "a horror movie turned real," the toll of the Flight 800 disaster became increasingly vivid today on its behind-the-scenes players. [1]:2 Weather in the area was light winds with scattered clouds,[1]:256 with dusk lighting conditions. After a forensic dentist emerged visibly shaken from the medical examiner's office, saying it was difficult to settle himself Thursday night even after he was home and comfortably in his own bed, Wetli said that most members of his staff are tolerating the trauma well, thanks to years of training and experience. New York's Pataki asks feds to help pay for TWA recovery - December 27, 1996. These tests simulated a fuel-air explosion in the CWT by igniting a propane-air mixture; this resulted in the failure of the tank structure due to overpressure. According to commercial aviation historian Shea Oakley, NTSB investigations are almost never short-term affairs. Pathologists are meeting daily with family members, conducting interviews about minute details of the victims' bodies to help determine who is who. At the time of the crash, 49 CFR 831.5 specified that the NTSB's aviation accident investigations have priority over all other federal investigations. Captain/Check Airman Snyder was seated in the first officer's (right) seat monitoring Kevorkian's progress. Flight 800, "Documents Pertaining to Witnesses 300-399", "Witness Group Chairman's Factual Report", "Flight Data Recorder Group Chairman's Factual Report", "Source: Traces of 2nd explosive found in TWA debris", "Metallurgy/Structures Group Chairman Factual Report Sequencing Study", "Solving the Mystery of the "Missile Sightings", "Witnesses 4 - Group Chairman Factual Report - Appendix Z - Interview transcript Capt. [1]:259 The NTSB concluded that it was "quite possible" that the explosive residue detected was transferred from military ships or ground vehicles, or the clothing and boots of military personnel, onto the wreckage during or after the recovery operation and was not present when the aircraft crashed into the water. "As physicians, part of our training is being able to separate -- to empathize without sympathizing," said Wetli, who was deputy medical examiner in Dade County, Fla., during Hurricane Andrew. Dr. Wetli began releasing them this week, saying the families had to contact him in writing to obtain the documents. [1]:100 The Sequencing Group concluded that the first event in the breakup sequence was a fracture in the wing center section of the aircraft, caused by an "overpressure event" in the center wing fuel tank (CWT). [1]:3 Engine #3 was started 10 minutes later at 8:14 pm. [1]:118 According to the seat manufacturer, the locations and appearance of this substance were consistent with adhesive used in the construction of the seats, and additional laboratory testing by NASA identified the substance as being consistent with adhesives. [47][48] In addition, the backs of several damaged passenger seats were observed to have an unknown red/brown-shaded substance on them. To me, it is impossible for secrets like this to be kept secret very long.. "You don't want anybody to onion.". Additionally, severed cables for the engine #3 thrust reverser were replaced. Accordingly, the NTSB decommissioned the wreckage in July 2021. [32]:2, With lines of authority unclear, differences in agendas and culture between the FBI and NTSB resulted in discord. Death On Flight 800. These plugs were blown out following the explosion of Flight 800. In this case, the victim was a Long Island dentist who had assisted forensic dentists in the medical examiner's office. [1]:6[10][11] On the day of the accident, the airplane departed from Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, as TWA Flight 881 and arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) about 4:38 pm. Although the source that led to the explosion was never discovered, the investigation concluded the crashs cause was not a terrorist attack, but an electrical failure that ignited a nearly empty center wing fuel tank in the 25-year-old aircraft. [1]:4 The last radio transmission from the airplane occurred at 8:30pm, when the flight crew received and then acknowledged instructions from Boston Center to climb to 15,000 feet (4,600m). [44]:5, Around 80 FBI agents conducted interviews with potential witnesses daily. When the rare fatal air accident occurs it usually involves a causality chain, including a number of seemingly unconnected small anomalies that, together, create a sort of perfect storm which causes a crash, he says. To honor this agreement made with the families of the victims of TWA Flight 800, the NTSB will work closely with a federal government contractor to dismantle the reconstruction and destroy the wreckage. [1]:93 None of these sequences intersected TWA 800's position at any time, either. [1]:363365 NTSB and FBI personnel were present to observe all transfers to preserve the evidentiary value of the wreckage. He said the bodies will be identified through medical records and interview materials. All 230 passengers and crew were killed. He acknowledged that families of the victims are extremely impatient for their loved ones to be identified; 16 have been tentatively identified and the dentist colleague has been positively identified along with his wife traveling with him on Flight 800. "You'd better, or you're not going to be able to last.". [1]:6574 The green zone with the aft portion of the aircraft was located the furthest along the flight path. The coroner who oversaw the autopsies on most of the victims of T.W.A. [1]:9697 These simulations indicated that after the loss of the forward fuselage the remainder of the aircraft continued in crippled flight, then pitched up while rolling to the left (north),[1]:263 climbing to a maximum altitude between 15,537 and 16,678 feet (4,736 and 5,083m)[1]:97 from its last recorded altitude, 13,760 feet (4,190m). Behind drawn shades in the autopsy rooms of the Suffolk . [1]:230 Despite the two and a half years that had elapsed since the accident, the witness group did interview the captain of Eastwind Airlines Flight 507, who was the first to report the explosion of TWA 800, because of his vantage point and experience as an airline pilot. [63] The NTSB had first recommended such a rule just five months after the incident and 33 years after a similar recommendation issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board Bureau of Safety on December 17, 1963, nine days after the crash of Pan Am Flight 214. But he said the pattern of injuries he has seen -- which reflects examinations of less than one-fourth of those on the plane -- would not be consistent with a bomb, plastic or otherwise, in the passenger cabin. [1]:256257, Close examination of the wreckage revealed no evidence of structural faults such as fatigue, corrosion, or mechanical damage that could have caused the in-flight breakup. TWA Flight 800 crashed eight miles off the coast of Long Island at dusk on a clear summer night. When investigative priority remains with the NTSB, the FBI must coordinate its investigative activities with the NTSB investigator-in-charge. [1]:266 The NTSB concluded that given the large number of witnesses in this case, they "did not expect all of the documented witness observations to be consistent with one another"[1]:269 and "did not view these apparently anomalous witness reports as persuasive evidence that some witnesses might have observed a missile. [32]:2, Relatives of TWA 800 passengers and crew, as well as the media, gathered at the Ramada Plaza JFK Hotel. [30][31]:1 The search and recovery effort identified three main areas of wreckage underwater;[1]:65 the yellow zone, red zone, and green zone contained wreckage from front, center, and rear sections of the airplane, respectively. [31]:3[41]:4 The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, an invited party to the NTSB investigation, criticized the undocumented removal by FBI agents of wreckage from the hangar where it was stored. [33] Many waited until the remains of their family members had been recovered, identified, and released. In addition, it restricts lawyers and other parties from contacting family members within 30 days of the accident. [1]:123 Because the research data regarding quenching were limited, a complete understanding of quenching behavior was not possible, and the issue of quenching remained unresolved. "There's a process called onioning,' where you can keep covering up the levels of trauma one on top of the other," said Louis Gallagher, coordinator of Suffolk County's community mental health response team who has been working 20-hour days counseling victims' families. In 1996, few U.S. government websites were updated daily, but the United States Navy's crash website was constantly updated and had detailed information about the salvage of the crash site. On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of Long Island, New York. [1]:229, Examination of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder data showed a normal takeoff and climb,[15]:4 with the aircraft in normal flight[46]:2 before both abruptly stopped at 8:31:12pm. [51]:6, As the investigation progressed, the NTSB decided to form a witness group to more fully address the accounts of witnesses. Among other things, the act gives NTSB, instead of the particular airline involved, responsibility for coordinating services to the families of victims of fatal aircraft accidents in the United States. Fuel-air explosion in the center wing fuel tank, In-flight breakup sequence and crippled flight, Analysis of reported witness observations, Possible ignition sources of the center wing fuel tank, Missile fragment or small explosive charge. Crash", "Behind a Calm Facade, Chaos, Distrust, Valor", International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: Analysis and Recommendations Regarding T.W.A. On June 19, 2013, the NTSB acknowledged in a press release that they received a petition for reconsideration of its investigation into the July 17, 1996, crash of TWA Flight 800. SMITHTOWN, N.Y. Autopsies reveal that most passengers aboard the ill-fated TWA Flight 800 died almost immediately in the air, sparing them the long plunge into the ocean after the plane broke. [1]:263, Only the FAA radar facility in North Truro, Massachusetts, using specialized processing software from the United States Air Force 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron, was capable of estimating the altitude of TWA 800 after it lost power due to the CWT explosion. . "[58], Many internet users responded to the incident; the resulting web traffic set records for internet activity at the time. Once victims are identified, investigators will plot them and their detailed injuries atop a seating chart of Flight 800 provided by TWA to determine if the pattern of injuries explains the nature of the explosion that caused the crash. Among the dead were 18 crew members and 212 passengers, including 16 students and five chaperones from Pennsylvania's Montoursville Area High School French Club. [44]:10 With access to these documents no longer controlled by the FBI, the NTSB formed a second witness group to review the documents. "It's never very pleasant when you're in this field and you have to autopsy someone you know," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. In April 1998, the FBI provided the NTSB with the identities of the witnesses, but due to the time elapsed, a decision was made to rely on the original FBI documents rather than reinterview witnesses. A full four years after the crash of TWA Flight 800, the NTSB released its official report: It found the probable cause of the accident was a spark in the center fuel tank that eventually led. The spacecraft was exposed to re-entry temperatures of 3,000 degrees while traveling at 12,500 mph, or 18 times the speed of sound. And no one is very comfortable going there, so close to the place where that happened, and just sitting and relaxing and playing volleyball." So far, most of the recovered bodies that pathologists are examining have been "relatively intact," said Wetli, but he emphasized that "relative" is itself a relative term. [44]:10 Because of time that had elapsed (about 21 months) before the NTSB received information about the identity of the witnesses, the witness group chose not to reinterview the witnesses, but instead to rely on the original summaries of witness statements written by FBI agents as the best available evidence of the observations initially reported by the witnesses. The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. [1]:288. The design and certification concept that fuel tank explosions could be prevented solely by precluding all ignition sources. I spent a fair amount of time examining the wreckage, looking for signs of missile/projectile entry. First autopsy report released from TWA 800 crash - January 3, 1997. [specify] The agencies lacked a detailed protocol describing which agency should take the lead when whether an event was an accident or a criminal act was initially unclear. In addition to the probable cause, the NTSB found the following contributing factors to the accident:[1]:308, During the course of its investigation, and in its final report, the NTSB issued 15 safety recommendations, mostly covering fuel tank and wiring-related issues. In the case of the 747-100 series, the only wiring located inside the CWT is that associated with the FQIS. According to Oakley, the 25 years following the tragic Flight 800 crash have included the safest years in U.S. commercial aviation history. Customers have virtually disappeared from Larry's Crab House, a festive restaurant with a deck and volleyball court adjacent to a marina on Moriches Bay. [69], The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial was dedicated in a 2-acre (8,100m2) parcel immediately adjoining the main pavilion at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, New York, on July 14, 2004. [1]:293294 This was not considered proof of a source of ignition. [26][27][28] Since the NTSB does not investigate criminal activity, the United States Attorney General is empowered to declare an investigation to be linked to a criminal act, and require the NTSB to relinquish control of the investigation to the FBI. New York's Pataki asks feds to help pay for TWA recovery - December 27, 1996. 22a, p. 66, Wreckage found in each zone corresponded to specific areas of the aircraft[1]:fig. Recovery workers searching the wreckage of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 found the bodies of dozens of victims of the crash yesterday in a large area of debris on the ocean floor off Long Island. Medical Examiner Wetli said only half of the 100 bodies retrieved from the ocean so far had been processed, meaning photographed, fingerprinted, weighed, X-rayed, and autopsied. [1]:363365 An HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter of the New York Air National Guard saw the explosion from about 8 miles away; it arrived at the scene of the explosion while debris was still in the process of falling into the water, forcing the crew to pull away. The captain's CVR channel showed two "dropouts" of background power harmonics in the second before the recording ended (with the separation of the nose). Funds for the memorial were raised by the Families of TWA Flight 800 Association. As of 2005[update], NTSB and FBI personnel conduct joint exercises. He said it was likely that death for the passengers was instantaneous. Investigators believe the explosion began in the center fuel tank, but they say. In July 2006, an abstract black granite statue of a 10-foot-high (3.0m) lighthouse was added above a tomb holding many of the victims' personal belongings. [1]:270, To determine what ignited the flammable fuel-air vapor in the CWT and caused the explosion, the NTSB evaluated numerous potential ignition sources. Flight engineer trainee Krick was seated in the flight engineer's seat (being monitored by Flight Engineer/Check Airman Campbell); he was the least experienced of the crew, having logged 2,520 flight hours, but with only 30 of them on the Boeing 747. ``I don't think anybody was conscious as they fell from 13,000 feet to the water. As not all components and wiring were recovered, pinpointing the source of the necessary voltage was not possible. [1]:272 Computer simulations using missile performance data simulated a missile detonating in a location such that a fragment from the warhead could penetrate the CWT. TWA Flight 800 On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of Long Island, New York. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. A U.S. government inquiry determined that a mixture of fuel and air had ignited accidentally within a fuel tank . The FBI conducted an investigation. So the appearance of a missile was basically an optical illusion.. Despite the safety boards official findings, over the last two decades, conspiracy theorists, bolstered by eyewitness accounts reporting a missile strike, continue to charge that a terrorist attack, bombing or even friendly fire took down Flight 800. Bodies and debris have been carried far from the crash site by tides -- requiring searchers to cover more than 400 square miles of ocean -- and large sections of the 747 jetliner have sunk more than 100 feet, likely with many of the missing bodies inside. HAUPPAUGE, New York (CNN) -- The Suffolk County medical examiner has released the first autopsy report on the victims from TWA Flight 800. The board determined that the probable cause of the TWA 800 accident was:[1]:308. [70], For almost 25 years, the wreckage of Flight 800 was kept by the NTSB and used as an accident-investigation teaching aid. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31pm. But James K. Kallstrom, who is heading the criminal arm of the investigation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told the Medical Examiner last week that he had no objection to the release of the autopsy reports to the next of kin. [36][37][38], Grief turned to anger at TWA's delay in confirming the passenger list,[33] conflicting information from agencies and officials,[39]:1 and mistrust of the recovery operation's priorities. [44]:78, In February 1998, the FBI, having closed its active investigation, agreed to fully release the witness summaries to the NTSB. [44]:6 After the FBI raised concerns about nongovernmental parties in the NTSB's investigation having access to this information and possible prosecutorial difficulties resulting from multiple interviews of the same witness,[44]:6 the NTSB deferred and did not interview witnesses to the crash. The flight crew started the engines at 8:04 pm. But even though we're physicians, we're still human. Analysis revealed that the severity of injury and anatomic injury pattern did not generally correlate with seating position or structural damage. Flight 800 lawsuit puts focus on fuel pump - Dec . It takes a great deal of time and high-tech detective work to piece together the often seemingly disparate events in flight which, together lead up to a major accident., Oakley says the length of the Flight 800 investigation was due to a couple factors. However, because of the previous maintenance undertaken on engine #3, the flight crew only started engines #1, #2, and #4. [1]:279, Because a combustible fuel-air mixture will always exist in fuel tanks, Boeing designers had attempted to eliminate all possible sources of ignition in the 747's tanks. To do so, all devices are protected from vapor intrusion, and voltages and currents used by the fuel quantity indication system (FQIS) are kept very low. [1]:63 In one of the largest diver-assisted salvage operations ever conducted, often working in very difficult and dangerous conditions, over 95% of the airplane wreckage was eventually recovered. "[1]:2 A loud noise recorded on the last few tenths of a second of the CVR was similar to the last noises recorded from other airplanes that had experienced in-flight breakups. ", Later in the day, a second dentist emerged from the medical examiner's office and talked with composure about having helped identify his colleague. "[41]:4 Meanwhile, the NTSB was required to refute or play down speculation about conclusions and evidence, frequently supplied to reporters by law enforcement officials and politicians. [62], On July 18, 2008, the U.S secretary of transportation visited the facility and announced a final rule designed to prevent accidents caused by fuel-tank explosions. ''I would not want to read the autopsy of my loved one,'' Dr. Wetli said in an interview. [1]:9596 Hundreds of simulations were run using various combinations of possible times the nose of TWA 800 separated (the exact time was unknown), different models of the behavior of the crippled aircraft (the aerodynamic properties of the aircraft without its nose could only be estimated), and longitudinal radar data (the recorded radar tracks of the east/west position of TWA 800 from various sites differed). Nearly all pieces of the 170-ton jet were recovered from the ocean floor and reconstructed as part of the ensuing investigation. So far, Wetli said he cannot rule out a bomb as the cause, but he said he has found no evidence of one, such as metal and bomb parts trapped in bodies. - Administrative Policy Procedures -Anti-War -Bureau Personnel -Civil Rights -Counterterrorism -Foreign Counterintelligence- Frequently Requested -Fugitives -Gangs Extremist Groups -Gangster Era -Miscellaneous -Organizations -Organized Crime -Political Figures Events -Popular Culture -Public Corruption -Supreme Court -Unexplained Phenomenon -World War II -Violent Crime. [1]:313 Meanwhile, initial witness descriptions led many to believe the cause of the crash was a bomb or surface-to-air missile attack. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. About minute details of the aircraft had numerous VSO-related maintenance writeups in first. 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