A new film claims the official government report on the
crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 is an elaborate fabrication, but the most
shocking part of the story is that charges are being leveled by some of the
very investigators who put the report together.
Six experts who appear in the
film were members of the National Transportation Safety Board investigation
team that concluded the crash was an accident, but they now claim they were
silenced by their superiors. The movies, "TWA Flight 800" will debut
on EPIX TV next month, on the 17-year anniversary of the crash.
TWA Flight 800 was en route from JFK Airport in New York to
Paris, France, when it exploded and crashed off the coast of Long Island,
killing all 230 people on board. From the very beginning, there were some who
speculated that the plane was the victim of a terrorist attack, leading the FBI
to conduct its own criminal investigation.
Among the possibilities that were
suggested as the cause were a bomb in the cargo hold, or an anti-aircraft
missile. Several witnesses even claimed they saw an object or streak of light
that looked liked a missile or rocket moving toward the plane before it
exploded.
The final NTSB reported said that faulty wiring connected to
a central fuel tank caused a blast that destroyed the fuesalage, however, there
were still many skeptics and conspiracy theorists who have long doubted that
official story.
In one particularly famous example, Pierre Salinger, a former
Press Secretary for President John Kennedy and reporter for ABC News, claimed
he'd seen proof that the U.S. Navy shot down the plane and then covered it up.
Now, those theories are likely to get a new airing, thanks
to accident investigators who worked on the TWA 800 case, but say they were not
allowed to speak up at the time of the official report.
The experts include
NTSB and TWA accident investigators, who say they are only able to speak up now
that they are retired. According their statements in the film, they believe the
official explanation is wrong and the damage was caused by an explosion that
came from outside the plane.
The filmmakers won't speculate on what could have caused
such an explosion, and haven't yet offered up evidence to support their theory
(you'll have to watch on July 17), but they are asking the NTSB to re-open the
investigation. Whether or not that happens, or even if a follow-up reaches the
same conclusions as the original, this new film will ensure that the alternate
theories and claims up a cover will probably never be put to rest.
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