Investigators and experts are breaking their silence about their conclusions about the 1996 crash of a passenger airliner departing from New York City. in an upcoming documentary, "TWA Flight 800," they are stating that the crash was no accident. TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996, en route to Paris when it exploded and crashed off the coast of nearby East Moriches, Long Island, killing everyone on the plane. The "official story" given by the NTSB was that the probable cause of the accident was an explosion of flammable fuel/air vapors in a fuel tank, most likely triggered by a short circuit. However, many sources say that the Federal Government engaged in a deliberate coverup. "There was a lack of coordination and willful denial of information," Hank Hughes, a senior accident investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters. "There were 755 witnesses. At no time was information provided by the witnesses shared by the FBI." Jim Speer, an accident investigator at the time of the crash for the Airline Pilots Association, who sifted through the recovered wreckage in a hangar, said he discovered holes consistent with those that would be formed by a high-energy blast in the right wing. He requested it be tested for explosives. When the test came back positive, he said, he was "physically removed" from a room by two CIA agents. Dozens of eyewitnesses in the Long Island area "recalled seeing something resembling a flare or firework ascend and culminate in an explosion," the CIA said in a 2008 report. "Had the crash been the result of state-sponsored terrorism, it would have been considered an act of war." “..This team of investigators who actually handled the wreckage and victims’ bodies, prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash,” reads a statement by the producers of the film, which will debut on cable network EPIX next month. Now we are left to speculate. If it was not an accident, then who caused the crash? And why the coverup? Was it a missile, or a planted bomb? Was it deliberate terrorism that was masked as an accident? Was it an act of government treachery used to eliminate some target(s) on board? Who was on Flight 800? ARTICLE: news.yahoo/blogs/lookout/twa-flight-800-crash-investigation-ntsb-141624708.html BACKGROUND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:40 +0000
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