As a result of the investigation, new requirements were developed for aircraft to prevent future fuel tank explosions. Conspiracy theories claim that the crash was due to a U.S. Navy missile test gone awry, a terrorist missile strike, or an on-board bomb. [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. 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. [1]:31. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. 26, p. 91, Primary radar returns that appeared near the TWA 800 after 8:31:12pm: The 30-knot track is at the bottom center of the image. The rule required airlines to pump inert gas into the tanks. These records range from 1996 to 1998 and concern FBI forensic analysis associated with the Bureaus crash investigation. [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. The new statutory language and the MOU have improved coordination between the NTSB and FBI since the TWA flight 800 accident. [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. [41]:5 Since the primary objective was to identify all remains rather than performing a detailed forensic autopsy, the thoroughness of the examinations was highly variable. Pathologists are meeting daily with family members, conducting interviews about minute details of the victims' bodies to help determine who is who. [1]:8789 None of these contacts intersected TWA 800's position at any time. "[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. They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. That added some time to the investigation.. [15]:4[16][17] The last recorded radar transponder return from the airplane was recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) radar site at Trevose, Pennsylvania, at 8:31:12pm. The website of The New York Times had its traffic increase to 1.5 million views per day, 50% higher than its previous rate. So losing Flight 800 to an in-flight explosion of another kind was a very rare event indeed.. Speculation fueled theories that a terrorist act had caused the crash that killed the 230 on board, but an investigation later concluded it was a tragic mechanical error. The FQIS on Flight 800 is known to have been malfunctioning; the captain remarked on "crazy" readings from the system about 2 minutes and 30 seconds before the aircraft exploded. 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. According to commercial aviation historian Shea Oakley, NTSB investigations are almost never short-term affairs. All 230 passengers and crew were killed. On July 24, 2012, this FOIA release was re-uploaded to address technical issues. [1]:87 Instead, the NTSB conducted a series of computer simulations to examine the flightpath of the main portion of the fuselage. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), side-scan sonar, and laser line-scanning equipment were used to search for and investigate underwater debris fields. This authority includes interviewing witnesses. THE DEAD DO SOMETIMES TELL tales, if you know how to look for them. [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. [1]:93 None of these sequences intersected TWA 800's position at any time, either. [1]:309312 Among the recommendations was that significant consideration should be given to the development of modifications such as nitrogen-inerting systems for new airplane designs, and where feasible, for existing airplanes. "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. While some victims' bodies were mostly intact, most were either burned, fragmented, skeletonized, or decaying, so they had to be identified by DNA testing and dental records. [1]:118 These samples were submitted to the FBI's laboratory in Washington, DC, which determined that one sample contained traces of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX), another nitroglycerin, and the third a combination of RDX and pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN);[1]:118 these findings received much media attention at the time. [1]:94 Further, review of the Islip radar data for other similar summer days and nights in 1999 indicated that the 30-knot track was consistent with normal commercial fishing, recreational, and cargo vessel traffic. Flight 800 lawsuit puts focus on fuel pump - Dec . N93119, the aircraft involved in the accident, in May 1995. Nearly all pieces of the 170-ton jet were recovered from the ocean floor and reconstructed as part of the ensuing investigation. [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. [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. [1]:258 None of the victims' remains showed any evidence of injuries that could have been caused by high-energy explosives. Plus, investigators applied extra diligence to accommodate a huge amount of pressure applied from many quarters to make absolutely sure this was not the result of a terrorist operation, or an errant missile fired by our, or some other nations, military.. [1]:93 Military records examined by the NTSB showed no military surface vessels within 15 nautical miles (28km; 17mi) of TWA800 at the time of the accident. 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. [24][25], The NTSB was notified about 8:50pm the day of the accident; a full "go team" was assembled in Washington, DC, and arrived on scene early the next morning. [1]:63 This facility became the command center and headquarters for the investigation. [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. 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According to Purvis, the safety board addressed the missile idea in its report. The NTSB investigation ended with the adoption of the board's final report on August 23, 2000. "You get a little used to it," he said. The NTSB and the FBI have designated liaisons to ensure that information flows between agencies, and to coordinate on-scene operations. The four-year investigation into what caused the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was the longest, and at $40 million, the priciest in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board. The coroner who oversaw the autopsies on most of the victims of T.W.A. Vacationer Joanne Bechhoff canceled a birthday party she had booked for tonight on the sandy volleyball court at the water's edge because she said she simply could not bear to be in a place so closely linked to such a huge tragedy. Head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries were multiple and severe, contributing to the mortality of the occupants. [30], Search and recovery operations were conducted by federal, state, and local agencies, as well as government contractors. 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. [56] In 2014, the NTSB declined the petition to reopen the investigation. [54]:6. 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. 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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. TWA 800 then received a series of heading changes and generally increasing altitude assignments as it climbed to its intended cruising altitude. [1]:259, Although it was unable to determine the exact source of the trace amounts of explosive residue found on the wreckage, the lack of any other corroborating evidence associated with a high-energy explosion led the NTSB to conclude, "the in-flight breakup of TWA flight 800 was not initiated by a bomb or missile strike. "[55] Speculation was fueled in part by early descriptions, visuals, and eyewitness accounts of the disaster that indicated a sudden explosion and trails of fire moving in an upward direction. Maintenance records indicate that the aircraft had numerous VSO-related maintenance writeups in the weeks before the accident. [44]:78, In February 1998, the FBI, having closed its active investigation, agreed to fully release the witness summaries to the NTSB. [1]:93 All the reviewed radar data showed no radar returns consistent with a missile or other projectile traveling toward TWA 800. The NTSB's conclusions about the cause of the TWA 800 disaster took four years and one month to be published. Flight 800 lawsuit puts focus on fuel pump - Dec . 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. "You'd better, or you're not going to be able to last.". [1]:45[note 1][12][13][note 2], The ground-maintenance crew locked out the thrust reverser for engine #3 (treated as a minimum equipment list item) because of technical problems with the thrust reverser sensors during the landing of TWA 881 at JFK, prior to Flight 800's departure. "[58], Many internet users responded to the incident; the resulting web traffic set records for internet activity at the time. 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. [1]:3 [70], For almost 25 years, the wreckage of Flight 800 was kept by the NTSB and used as an accident-investigation teaching aid. With todays very sophisticated weather radar and stringent rules for avoiding potentially dangerous weather this virtually never occurs, Oakley says. [64], The crash of TWA Flight 800, and that of ValuJet Flight 592 earlier in 1996, prompted Congress to pass the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996 as part of the federal aviation appropriations bill. Victims and wreckage were recovered by scuba divers and ROVs; later scallop trawlers were used to recover wreckage embedded in the sea floor. [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. [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. Funds for the memorial were raised by the Families of TWA Flight 800 Association. To continue the pressure fueling, a TWA mechanic overrode the automatic VSO by pulling the volumetric fuse and an overflow circuit breaker. I saw none, and the real experts, who were much better at it than I, saw nothing either. The explosion that occurred on TWA 800 was in the center wing fuel tank and was not from anything external, he says. [1]:93 In addition, the records indicated that the closest area scheduled for military use, warning area W-387A/B, was 160 nautical miles (296km; 184mi) south. But even though we're physicians, we're still human. [1]:118, Further examination of the airplane structure, seats, and other interior components found no damage typically associated with a high-energy explosion of a bomb or missile warhead ("severe pitting, cratering, petalling, or hot-gas washing"). And no one is very comfortable going there, so close to the place where that happened, and just sitting and relaxing and playing volleyball." [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. . 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