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Showing Original Post only (View all)Documentary aims to 'break silence' on crash of TWA Flight 800 [View all]
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/us/twa-crash-claim/
(CNN) -- Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental.
The twist: It includes six members of the large accident investigation team who, publicists say, will "break their silence" on the cause of the explosion.
They will petition the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation some 17 years after the B-747 fell in pieces into the waters off of Long Island, New York.
They include Hank Hughes, who served as a senior accident investigator with the NTSB and helped reconstruct the aircraft following its destruction. Also included, Bob Young, a top TWA investigator who participated in the investigation, and Jim Speer, an accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association.
"These investigators were not allowed to speak to the public or refute any comments made by their superiors and/or NTSB and FBI officials about their work at the time of the official investigation," a news release announcing the documentary said.
"They waited until after retirement to reveal how the official conclusion by the (NTSB) was falsified and lay out their case."
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(CNN) -- Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental.
The twist: It includes six members of the large accident investigation team who, publicists say, will "break their silence" on the cause of the explosion.
They will petition the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation some 17 years after the B-747 fell in pieces into the waters off of Long Island, New York.
They include Hank Hughes, who served as a senior accident investigator with the NTSB and helped reconstruct the aircraft following its destruction. Also included, Bob Young, a top TWA investigator who participated in the investigation, and Jim Speer, an accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association.
"These investigators were not allowed to speak to the public or refute any comments made by their superiors and/or NTSB and FBI officials about their work at the time of the official investigation," a news release announcing the documentary said.
"They waited until after retirement to reveal how the official conclusion by the (NTSB) was falsified and lay out their case."
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Timing is everything. Why in the world is this old case long ruled on and decided, back NOW???
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#1
They waited until after the retired and then it takes awhile to make a movie.
tammywammy
Jun 2013
#6
I know like the convient way deep throat was id'd and as he was old, died shortly afterward.
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#8
Because insurgents in Syria just got hold of Soviet shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles?
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
#9
that's the PSA 727 that was hit by a Cessna 172 back in the 70's in California
Cooley Hurd
Jun 2013
#49
It took the official investigators four years to discover what Fox new within hours.
Eddie Haskell
Jun 2013
#26
I remember being told that two maintenace workers at Fire Island, in separate locations
byeya
Jun 2013
#14
That's the explanation given and I don't deny it's possibility. These two men in question
byeya
Jun 2013
#102
I remember a radar screenshot in a Denver newspaper showing an object approaching the plane.
reformist2
Jun 2013
#16
You only ground the whole fleet if they all have the same critical design flaw
Blue_Tires
Jun 2013
#79
Convienent, how those "terrorists" always seem to know about our training excercises?
Eddie Haskell
Jun 2013
#33
Wow. Thanks for the totally irrelevant preemptive smear of a fellow DUer. Nice.
Comrade Grumpy
Jun 2013
#60