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A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago.
However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down.
With conspiracy theories immediately swirling around the crash – one being that it was caused by a terrorist missile strike -- the FBI conducted a 16-month investigation and concluded that there was no evidence to indicate that any criminal act occurred.
I didn't see that. I wonder if anybody taped the broadcast? Sometimes I would tape stuff so I could watch it later and FF through the commercials, but I wasn't watching MSNBC at that time.
Originally posted by NickDC202
I was glued to MSNBC all night and will never forget the airing of an amateur video showing what appeared to be a missile soaring up from the ocean and then an explosion in the sky. That explosion was TWA 800.
The article linked in the OP does say something about radar evidence:
Originally posted by EViLKoNCEPTz
There was no radar evidence of a SAM
“They also provide radar and forensic evidence proving that one or more ordinance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash.”
Originally posted by NickDC202
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Most people weren't watching MSNBC at that time, frankly it had just debuted that week and with Brian Williams' Rand McNally map as the graphics, I'd assume that most watching when the news broke switched over to CNN (or local NY news). The TWA 800 video exclusive was what they hoped would put the network on the map (MSNBC won the bidding war and I hear the price was outrageous), but the FBI had other ideas.
Originally posted by TheSpanishArcher
Ok, my mind is slightly blown. If one had asked me the date this happened, I would have said early to mid 2000's. I'm only about a decade off. Well, anyways, I always thought this was blown up by someone and I have no recollection of why I thought that. Might have been sketchy news reports at the time, I don't remember but that's what I've believed since it happened.