25 years after TWA Flight 800
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- Twenty-five years ago today, one of the deadliest aircraft disasters in American history shook the world. TWA Flight 800, a 747 jet bound from New York to Paris, exploded off the coast of Long Island, New York, with 230 people onboard. Errol Barnett looks back at how this disaster changed aviation, and so many lives, forever.
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My neighbor lost his wife on that flight. She was a Dectective. She was also a Mother. Very sad.
Very sad 😔
I’m so sorry to hear that😭
@Scenic Road Sunset fake investigation, government cover up. It was a US navy missle.
@Scenic Road Sunset a brilliant example of government corruption.
Does he believe there was a cover-up?
I’ll never forget watching the breaking news on a hot summer evening at my grandma’s house in Detroit, MI, and seeing that burning wreckage floating. The news said there were a bunch of high schoolers from Michigan on that plane on a class trip. I was 16 when this happened and just getting interested in commercial aviation. I’ve been a flight attendant for 20 years now. RIP to all those lost.
I’ll never forget sitting at my dinner table being 16 years old just finishing up dinner, in Mastic Beach NY. Out my back door I saw a giant flying fireball, looked like a missile. I had a perfect view from my seat at the table. It was the most incredible thing my family and I have ever seen. Then we instantly turned on the TV and learned it was TWA Flight 800
@@6z0 That must’ve quite a scary thing to see. Just knowing what those poor 230 souls endured in their final seconds alive is painfully sad and makes you wanna cry for them and for the families 😥😥😥😢😢😥😥 just devastating.
I live not that far away from where the crash site happened because I live in Queens NY and I was only 13 then when this happened and you know kids normally don’t pay very much attention to the news because of school they’re busy with and all that stuff, but I started to get curious about what really happened about a year after I graduated college when I was 23 and once I heard the details, my heart sank so much for the victims and their family members, I immediately had tears rolling down my face. Awful in what happened. I’m sure all the victims were dead instantly after blunt force trauma whiplash they suffered from after the first explosion and then the fireball struck the cabin burning them all very very bad, sparing them the horror of nosediving into the sea at 450 mph. Just horrible 😥😢
May they Rest In Peace and may God continue to bless their family members with his love, healing, comfort and his strength. I’m sorry for them they had to hear it like this that their loved one isn’t coming home. This is the last thing family members should ever have to hear.
Why would you become a flight attendant then after hear about this lol f that
That’s a great comment. Yes there were 16 high school students in a French Club from Montoursville, PA on that plane. It was horrible. Those of us who were a bit older wondered if terrorism was being denied to deprive the terrorists of claiming a victory. After the US mistakenly shot down an Iranian airliner reprisals were planned. The bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland came to mind for many of us. Years later we learned of the Bojinka Plot which was downright scary. Regardless of the cause we hope that the victims Rest In Peace & so glad to hear that it didn’t stop you from your career. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot
My great uncle and cousin died on this flight, and although I wasn't alive when they passed the effects of the plane crash permeate through my family. Many members of my family avoid flying, and I find myself praying whenever I board a flight.
This is a reminder thats why you pray specificially for flights i think. Other more dangerous things like hiking or driving on a bus perhaps doesnt get the same praying response from you as your family has not been affected by that even though the chances of being affected badly by that are higher than flying in a plane
I was 16. It was so surreal seeing this on the news, because there hadn’t been a crash in so long. Found out a couple days later that one of our teachers was on that flight with her daughter.
@Deena Dallas Thank you. I wasn't as close with her, but she was such a favorite across our high school. Practically the whole town showed up for her memorial. It was nice to see so many people there for her, and also a tough reminder of how many lives get affected.
I was 16 too, lived in Southern New York, and vividly remember watching the small tv in my friend's kitchen as the fiery wreckage burned in black water. Then, with 9/11 a few years later, I didn't fly for the better part of a decade.
I lost my Uncle to the crash
Attention seeker such greedy for likes
@@bignun680 that’s so sad :(
My father was one of the divers who recovered the bodies, the stories he has told didnt seem to phase him, but to me they actually seemed traumatizing. Its insane how much water can deteriorate someone.
Unfortunately, especially cave divers, are usually very experienced with recoveries rather than rescue.
He was probably traumatized and I say this because I encountered them at the coast guard base where this occurred coming off the boats after their dives and saw their faces and talked to quite a bit off them about it when they actually opened up a little about what they saw down there
Glad he wasn't on the plane
I sure it was bad. God bless your Dad. What troubles me is I have read 2 of the medical examiners said 16 bodies were decapitated and bones were found in the fuselage. I doubt that was from an exlosion, it was from a missle......Are you aware of all the Navy activity that the NTSB admitted to at the very very end of the so called investigation?
Why was a P-3 plane "above" TWA 800?? That was the giveaway....They were supposed to be flying at a higher altitude but there was a delay in getting to a higher altitude and they found themselveds in the middle of an Aegis missile test.........When is the last time a center wing or any fuel tank blew up in mid air??
I remember this flight , I am 72, I’m so sorry to the family and friends.
Let the victims families come see it, touch it, have their final moments with it, then scrap it. It's all that can be done now.
Why would the family not want it to go to a museum though
@@yamkaw346 Did you not watch the video?
@@yamkaw346 I wonder the same thing. This should be preserved.
@@mrbear1302 yes... “it will not go to a museum because of the family‘s wishes”
I think they probably have done it. Probably many years ago.
Let the people you care about know that you love them everyday.
It might be the last time you see them.
that could get annoying let's be real. maybe every week
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My distant cousins passed away on this flight right after a family reunion when I was just a toddler.
Sorry to hear that :/
@@StephenBrewer89 why use that emotion? :/ to a tragedy?
@@drakecaspianbatuhan1831 cause it’s sad. Sorry I meant :( sympathy for the family regardless.
15 when this happened and can still remember seeing the debris floating on the ocean’s surface. What an awful thing it was. God rest those souls.
15 🤚
12
Comfort kits for kids.
Now that folks, made this entire thing worth watching.
My grandfather was a TWA pilot for 15 years prior to this, he’s alive thank god but god bless those
I was the electrician at the coast guard base where the bodies were brought back to and to this day I still remember this very vividly .
Remember reading this when I was a child now I am 40. Times changed years passed but the scar still remains.
I wasn’t alive yet and don’t remember hearing about this but prayers for everyone effected 🙏
well said. ❤️
You were 15. That’s not a child
@@thehapagirl92 Still a child
@@thehapagirl92 its just a child, come on whats the matter with you
It's saddening to know that in order for aviation to become safer, most of the time we have to learn the hard way.
Unfortunately, this is very true.
Take comfort in the fact that commercial planes are so close to infallible at this point, I think airliners are probably going to look similar to what we have now until the end of time for this reason.
@@penskepc2374 I believe you're correct. Aviation has gotten so much safer over the last several decades.
@@penskepc2374 not until Boeing made a serious f*ck up with 737 MAX.
It's not only in aviation. Americans don't learn or take precautions with anything until something tragic happens.
Every time I drive through Montoursville, PA I think about the teenagers who perished in this crash. My 💔 broke for all the families.
Yeah absolutely 😢😢😥😥😥😥😥😥😢😢😢😢 I mean losing a family member that has serious cancer and is in hospice care and is gonna die in the coming days or weeks is already awful enough. But losing loved ones this tragically unexpected like this is a TRILLION TRILLION TRILLION times painfully worse. Those poor families. I can imagine how emotionally wounded they still feel 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 just devastating
The Montoursville school was a block away from my grandparents house… I was a teenager… Devastating.
I still remember. I will never forget. I love all the victims even though I knew none of them, may they RIP, and their families have peace of mind.
Rest In Peace Judy....
My friend parent survived the crash, only because they went on a later flight. They were shocked when their original plane crashed. How terrifying my friend almost didn't exist by a last-minute descion
They possibly felt guilty, I'm so glad they didn't board that plane.
I was 17 at the time and I remember the burning wreckage on the water. The orange fire against the black water. The news anchors talking about the search for survivors. The debris pieces were so small I knew there would be no survivors.
Me too, going into Junior year of high school. We were all at my friend's house in Greenwich because her parents were gone and she was having a party. I have no idea who first learned about the crash, but we turned on the tiny tv in her kitchen and just stared at the wreckage, exactly as you describe: orange fire on the black water.
I was 6. However, I knew about it because I'm French and we heard about it. Final Destination reminded me about it. My fear of planes never faltered.
And of course, decades later the Navy admits they were testing a new missile guidance system and admitted that one of their missiles was unaccounted for. At lease 88 eye witnesses declared that they had seen a red glow strike the airplane causing an explosion initially, then the plane broke up...
Read James Sanders book The Downing of TWA 800
It all makes sense now
Eyewitness accounts are not reliable.
Of course, the original explanation for the crash didn't really make sense compared to what witnesses saw
i dont buy they were testing....they could have used a decommissioned jetliner to test their systems.
im not ignoring your view here, i actually agree with it...but i dont think it was a test...i think someone on that plane was their target.
I was 9 when this happened. I still remember Tom Brokaw cutting in with the breaking news announcement.
I miss him being the one to break bad new to us.
Same here.
Jed Johnson passed away on this flight, a friend of Andy Warhol. I've heard Jed was an angel in real life & I wish all of these people didn't pass in such a horrific way. 😢
Yeah, he was his “friend”
I was with 3 other family members in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, exiting a store, around sunset, hearing a huge, huge
BANG!!!!!!. Not thinking of looking skyward, we went about life as usual.
WOW MY UNCLE LIVES IN WESTERY ,RI A STONES THROW FROM WATCH HILL LOVELY VILLAGE .IM FROM EASTERN CT AND BEEN THERE SINCE 1983
HE USED TO LIVE IN UCONN STORRS AREA
I REMEMBER SEEING THE BREAKING NEWS MY MOMS COUSIN USED TO LIVE IN BABYLON,NY ON LONG ISLAND BEFORE HE GOT MARRIED -HES IN FLORIDA NOW HE SAW THE SMOKE FROM A DISTANCE HE WAS LIKE 25 MILES AWAY. I DIDN TKNOW YOU COULD HEAR IT FROM WATCH HILL AREA
AMAZING
This is what the 2000 film ‘FINAL DESTINATION’ was based off of 😢😢😢😢😢
The film told the story of A flight from NY to Paris, also with students on board, starting from the fuel tank and no survivors
Yep and I walked out of this movie because of this as someone who was stationed at the coast guard base the bodies were brought back to. I have never finished this movie because of this
I was 10 when this happened. I still remember watching this on the news and it still breaks my heart. I remember saying my prayers that night & prayed for the families & being a ignorant child I prayed they would find survivors in the water. Now I continue to pray for the families who are still dealing with the crash every year.
There was nothing wrong with that prayer sometimes miracles do happen I'm now 52 and I would still pray the same ignorant prayer
I remember this tragedy; bless the poor souls of TWA Flight 800.
Too late
I remember when this happened. I was only 8, but I remember that this was all over the news. This crash changed so many lives, as I remember, this crash is what killed TWA. It's scary to think how so many lives were affected in an instant.
Yeah
For some reason I remember the OJ thing when I was 5 but like nothing else from that period until the Monica Lewinsky thing.
Two tragic events happened here on this day
1. Port Chicago (1944)
2. TWA Flight 800 (1996)
May they all rest in peace!
FYI nobody thought it was a terrorist attack. Everyone thought it was a military accident.
Wrong
REST IN PEACE 🙏
I appreciate the reporter's comment why this is going online, the preciousness of life.
I was 10 years old when this happened, and I never forgot the date it happened neither, and after 25 years I still remember watching the news when this tragedy occurred. 💔
I was 8. And eating dinner with the family and it was on the TV because my dad had the news on. The sight of the fire on the water at night ill never forget. I was terrified just looking at it
I was also 10 when this happened. Till this day “TWA flight 800” has been stuck in my head.
I remember watching this on the news. I was 18. Heartbreaking and horrific. Still is.
Crazy writers and movie produces get crazy ideas off tragic events like this….Final Destination made series made millions
Crazy ideas? This is a real fear; a common fear. Traveling in cars, trains and planes is scary for many people. Movies with "crazy ideas" will be made whether or not things like this happen.
Actually, the screenplay for that film began a while before this crash happened and was meant to be on the X-Files. it's possible that they added other details after this event occurred but the plot of an air disaster and cheating death were there from the start. You do have a point though, Hollywood is infamous for turning tragedies into blockbusters, e.g. Scream, 30 Minutes Or Less, The Exorcist, etc.
@@quimbyyyyy5425 The X-Files did end up doing a story arc about a UFO causing a plane crash not too long after this disaster
@@joev3770 that's insane
You mean it was shot down. The tanks didn’t explode
Thank you
@@gynandroidhead I’m a aircraft mechanic. Most of us don’t believe a fuel pump sparked in a fuel tank.
@@tylergraston5270 Neither do I. Hence the thank you for posting.
Affirmitive,.....A retired Brigadier General, Benton Partin, confirmed it was his weapons technology that he had designed and developed at the weapons armament lab where he was a project engineer that took down that plane,...TWA was misidentified as a target drone....Partin passed away in 2019 at 95 years old.
No, the wreckage clearly shows that the explosion was from WITHIN THE FUEL TANK!!!
R.I.P. to all those poor 230 souls that perished on that awful hot muggy summer night and may God continue to bless their family with all his continued healing and strength and comfort. My heart breaks for them 😥😥😥😥😢😢😢😢 it really does. Even though I was only 13 then when this happened, my heart sinks for these families, I mean losing a family member from cancer that couldn’t survive it or from death from natural causes etc is terrible enough, but to lose a family member in a tragedy unexpectedly exactly like this is a TRILLION TRILLION TRILLION times painfully worse. 😥😥😥😥😢😢😢 those poor families. Just devastating.
Never stay mad at your family members folks. Whatever argument or fight you have with them about, make up with them as soon as possible because they could possibly be gone the next day.
I just hate it when my parents always argue at simple things
Are you sure its trillion times worse? Sounds disrespectful. Losing anyone close to you is traumatic no matter what. And the last part about not staying mad and arguments its not that simple as you put it. Oftentimes the feeling of guilt and shame result from that and the communication is not that smooth and misunderstandings happen, thats the reality of those kinds of situations for many
May God “continue” to “bless” these families? Are you serious? The same god who stood idly by watching their loved ones die when he could have prevented it from happening in the first place? Is that the god you’re talking about? What a great god. 🙄
And as someone who has lost many loved ones to cancer and two close friends to horrific automobile accidents, death is death. It hurts the same no matter the circumstances. Your emotion driven opinion that this was “a trillion…” times worse is irresponsible and hurtful. It’s well and good to think and to feel something strongly in your heart but it doesn’t always need to be disseminated on social media. Or anywhere.
This one disturbs me the most. Rip the lives lost in this horrible accident. 😔
Look at flight 811. 9 people got thrown out of the plane due to BS door locks.
Wow unbelievable 25 years ago already ! I remember seeing the coverage on ABC that morning. Very sad. Prayers to all involved 🙏 ❤
I was 13 when this happened nor did I forget when I saw the horrific images on t.v.......... well that was 25 years ago
Prayers for all those lives lost
Too late
They went through all the trouble piecing together this crashed plane to distract you from the fact that the Navy shot a missile at this plane. What a show
Nope 👎. Wrong. Try again. See the following:
Thai Airways Intl Flight 114
Philippine Airlines Flight 143
@@lashlarue7924 This investigation remains controversial for some very good reasons:
Initial CNN coverage interviewed eye witnesses, and more that 50 people (who were in different areas, and didn't know one another) said the saw a streak of light ascending towards the plane before the explosion. (Some said flares, some said fireworks)
FAA radar operators saw an object climbing towards the plane at 1,400 mph moments before the disaster, and notified their superiors. (reported by CNN at the time) NTSB head honcho, Jim Hall relayed this information to Bill Clinton.
This is the first crash in aviation history, where the investigators had NO INTEREST in eye witnesses, and went to great lengths to discredit them. No eye witnesses were allowed to testify at the NTSB hearing, a first.
They even took out a full page ad in the Washington Times to say what they had seen.
I have followed this story closely since the night it happened. I have seen the story change as politics took over, and, in an election year, a mechanical fault became the preferred narrative.
The CIA produced an animation with the crippled plane "climbing several thousand feet," and this was designed to placate the press, that the eye witnesses who said they saw missiles, actually saw the doomed plane climbing. Problem is that a 747 with the nose weighing about 6,500 lbs suddenly blown off CANNOT CLIMB, it stalls immediately, breaks up, and drops like a rock. Ask any pilot.
Also, FAA radar data (FOIA request) shows that the plane did NOT slow down after the explosion, proving it could not trade speed for altitude.
FAA radar data shows (at the moment the plane lost electrical power) supersonic debris shooting out of the plane at Mach 4, moving from left to right, which is consistent with Nat. Guard helicopter pilot Major Fred 'Fritz' Meyer's claim of seeing the missile hit the plane from the left. A fuel tank explosion could NOT POSSIBLY explain this, (according to physicist Dr. Tom Stalcup) as a jet fuel explosion is subsonic and cannot produce a force of this magnitude. This is the smoking gun, disproving the NTSB conclusion..
And . . . a whistle blower came forward, a mission specialist on the Missile Cruiser USS Carr, William H. Teele III (On CZcams). His ship was targeting a drone towed by another aircraft, when USS Leyte Gulf fired a group of missiles, and hit TWA 800.
TRUE! I saw the radar video clip.
it is a little sad this won't be going to a museum or otherwise preserved, but i'm glad to hear they are respecting the families wishes
The truth is that a missile brought down the plane, not a fuel tank explosion.
It can be argued either way.
@@cchris874 this crash is actually very interesting as both sides have convincing arguments. It's hard to find the truth of what happened to TWA 800. Eye witnesses say they saw something similar to a missile moving towards the plane. Also US navy boats were under twa 800 at the time. However an ntsb investigation concluded it was a fuel tank explosion with all the evidence they had. Then again, the government had plenty of time to make it look like a fuel tank explosion while it was in their storage. So you know. I'm very suspicious about the fuel tank theory
@@ron3557
Confused. Why did you just reply in another thread it was definitely a missile?
@@cchris874 Opinions and thoughts can change quickly.
@@ron3557 Well you got me there!
I cannot begin to understand what the families went through, but why would you get rid of aircraft like that that can be studied by future engineers? It's invaluable.
I grew up on Long Island in East Hampton and our Main Beach would have parts of the plane hitting shore often. It was so sad!!
Yep found some myself surfing off of montauk
Thanks for the Upload 👍 !!
I remember watching this when the news broke live, the footage of the flames on the water still haunt me til this day.
so sad. still remember it as if it were last week. just awful. RIP.
Why don’t the family want this to go in a museum?? Why not?
I read this quote from a victims assistance specialist from the NTSB in a news article:
"(Families) did not want it to become something of a museum piece or where people just sort of casually walked by and looked at it," Bryson said. "If it served a purpose to improve safety and transportation and to teach, they were fully on board with that."
I wouldn't. And I would never want to see it
@@IJustWantToUseMyName I got one. Forensics are going to improve as time goes on. That's a good reason
This was a rocket fired by accident by our armed forces.
No it wasn't. See: Thai Airways Intl Flight 114
and Philippine Airlines Flight 143.
I’m 39 now. I still remember this. I think of these people often. So so sad.
im 39 as well. i was in hawaii on vacation
Ohhhh man….you had to fly home:/
Rest in peace.
I will never forget this. We all know. What happened. They’re just not telling us.
You would think they would have a service at the plane for any family members wanting to attend before destroying it. A final farewell.
Why?
@@johnp139 Because their loved ones died in it. Once it's destroyed they is nothing left but memories.
Those poor lost souls had a truly terrible ending - so sorry to everyone affected x
I remember seeing witnesses on television saying they saw a streak of light go up into the sky and then see an explosion when TWA 800 went down. The US Navy was conducting exercises in the waters off NYC at the time.
I must say that the exaltation of witness reports relating to this flight is completely asinine. Maybe it would be acceptable if we were living in the 1930's, but we aren't. Today it is painfully obvious that witness reports are some of the worst evidence possible, and the fact that people no longer get convicted of a crime based off witness testimony alone in addition to the slew of "guilty" people freed decades later by DNA analysis is a testament to this. Witnesses trying to remember what they saw several miles away may make for good TV content, but unfortunately for those who wish to "believe", they must do exactly that: believe, because even if you disregard physical evidence (which they do, obviously) witness accounts are worthless. That I even have to say this is absurd and if you had any sort of analytical job you would immediately get fired if this was your level of thinking.
@Jaime D I'm aware that it happens, but it's not supposed to. My point was that witnesses are known to be strikingly unreliable and the regard to which they're held has fallen greatly in the last few decades.That still stands and will probably only become more true in the future.
MANY,MANY witnesses saw the same thing but they were all told they were mistaken... like 9/11.. we were TOLD what we saw. But the physical evidence says otherwise...we're told that's just a 'conspiracy theory'..
czcams.com/video/ermHx3akejc/video.html
@Jaime D yea but those guys would be happy to claim it and they didn't claim it did they?
@@brucefisher4025 You see when you argue a plane was secretly destroyed by a missile-a conspiracy theory-but can't help yourself from arguing for absolutely no reason that the September 11 attacks were also a conspiracy, it becomes a very obvious that you're not here to stand for evidence or reasoning-you're just here to stand for conspiracy theories in general. If that's your thing then fine, but once you get out into the real world you will be hard pressed to find like-minded people who "believe" for the sake of it. Yet that's not even the worst; the nail in the coffin would be to assume that your inability to relate to other people is the result of anything other than them being smarter than you.
I remember this. I was 12. It was the beginning of the end of TWA and everyone will always associate TWA with flight 800.
I would never ever notice this story but, maybe i would like to say that the pilots that die and tried there best to save the plane and the passengers that died at the time of the crash may all go to heaven in peace and meet god in peace.
REST IN PEACE. 🙏🏻
My mother refuses to watch plane crashes cause of this flight. We live in PA and she had a lot of friends who died that day. She is okay to talk about it and what she believes happened only on the anniversary.
May god bless the families of victims from Montoursville PA.
Amen
Wasn't this the flight 180 that was based in final destination? That movie is no joke about death.
I remember the breaking news here in the Buffalo, New York area and I knew something went catastrophically wrong with that plane. I am glad it was nothing more than a terrible accident, and not terrorism, as many believed.
Obviously, condolences must be expressed to the families & loved ones of the victims of this tragedy....
If you're really interested in this, you need to read Night Fall, by Nelson DeMille.... And then do a little google searching....
A lot of questions, have never been properly answered, about this entire affair....
Very sad 😞. Hard to believe it was 25 years ago
Never would’ve thought this back then but,
I wonder who/what was on that plane?
back then we always knew the media & government was currupt but we knew (or thought) they would never go too far. now ? they don't even hide what they do. it's sad how much American has fallen
@@chrisdooley6468 how many people were actually watching a dot in the air three miles away when they supposedly saw the missiles?
@@chrisdooley6468 people swear to all sorts of things. i'd think if you have a background in private intelligence, you'd know better than to follow unfounded conspiracy theories. The not knowing is why they puzzled the whole plane together. They would have noticed a missile & not allowed the wreckage to be broadcast if it was some big cover-up obviously.
THAT PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN!!!
@@andrewasp6043 It may not be a crazy idea. The Russians sold many SA-8 _Gecko_ (9K33) SAM systems to client Middle Eastern states during the Soviet era, and it's possible some terrorist group with good technical knowledge jury-rigged a 9K33 system to be launched from a boat. Given that the 9M33 missile could hit a target as high as 42,000 feet, such a jury-rigged system could easily hit that TWA 747.
Is this the flight that was shot down by a navy missile?
YES,....two of them
No. It wasn't. Thai Airways Intl Flight 114
Philippine Airlines Flight 143
No
The United States Navy will never admit fault
That's because they weren't at fault. See: Thai Airways Intl Flight 114
Philippine Airlines Flight 143
@@lashlarue7924 The FAA never grounded any 747's after this crash, nor did they mandate any technical fixes, only issuing 'advisories', which are voluntary, proving they didn't buy the CWT theory.
CBS helped with the cover up 25 years ago
That following December, I was on TWA flight 880 to Rome from JFK. Why was that 747 plane still flying if it was mechanical failure five months later. And it was never grounded. James Kallstrum, the head of the FBI investigation got a real sweetheart retirement package for playing ball. He said it was mechanica,l but he well knew it was a missile that brought that plane down, accidental or not.
I’ve been to the NTSB headquarters where that plane is now and took the class about it.
Only under a very specific set of circumstances can that happen again. Boeing put out a special bulletin specifying how much fuel needs to be in the center tank if you’re going to run the air conditioners for a long time. The planes are not unsafe.
Nope, sorry. BS. 💩 Explain these with your cute missile theory:
Thai Airways Intl Flight 114
Philippine Airlines Flight 143
Im a New Yorker and I remember that day.. RIP 🙏
So sad
Very SAD
Was 9 years old when this terrible tragedy happened
Lisa Perry, the closest eyewitness on land to the disaster, stated that she had just stepped out onto the deck at her beach house and immediately noticed a reddish orange light moving around up in the sky. She followed it for a few seconds and then, an airliner appeared. She immediately thought that the plane was flying a bit too low. Remember, Flight 800 had been told to hold at 13,000 feet because a plane above it was getting ready to make a descent to Rhode Island. Then, she said that the object in the sky exploded at the side of the plane and that, for a couple of seconds, the plane just sort of hung up in the sky like a toy. What she was witnessing was the 747 being arrested by intense missile shockwave forces. But at that very moment she said that another streak of reddish orange light came zooming up off of the water to the underneath of the plane and, at that moment, the plane shattered in half, turned to its side & plummeted to the sea below. No "zoom climb", as was the CIA's animation video and final conclusion.
you have the right and ignored story.Why they chose to ignore 100s of witnesses is chill,some of them were airline pilots and help guard pilots,experienced people
A retired Brigadier General, Benton Partin, confirmed it was his weapons technology that he had designed and developed at the weapons armament lab where he was a project engineer that took down that plane,...TWA was misidentified as a target drone....Gen. Partin passed away two years at 95.
@@NATES84 Lol you are acting like all the eyewitness testimonies were completely identical. Many of them were conflicting and completely contradictory to each other.
In my experience as a lawyer, a very common and illegal tactic to discredit legitimate eyewitnesses is to prop up potential witnesses. These are people who hadn't actually seen anything, but were close to the scene of the crime. These people are fed conflicting stories which they reproduce in court so that the prosecution/defence can claim unreliable testimony
I was eleven when this tragedy occurred!
Honestly placing it on a museum would be better than destroying it since this something we shouldn't forget about
Navy accidently shot it down... So sad
If that’s the case then why did they say the AC was over clocking it and caused a fire?
Rest In Peace ☮️
So sad, God bless them all
I can't believe that its been 28 years since then as I can remember this disaster as if it was yesterday as I was 16 back then.
I was on holiday in the UK, I had a nightmare of being on a plane that disintegrated in flight the night before.
The next day when the news broke my blood ran cold and I went as white as a sheet.
Rest in peace to all of the victims of this disaster and my prayers for the families of those who are left behind.
I'd think the safest day to fly would be the next day after one of these. You've never seen 2 airliner crashes in 2 successive days.
It needs to be preserved as a piece of history
Has anyone ever been curious why it was CIA animation??
Because technically the plane was going foreign. So passengers could be from all over Europe
@@jeffreyepstien9205 That's a non-answer.
It was CIA because they were involved as the cause of the crash (you can hide the facts if you make your own animation).
I’m still skeptical.
@@jimziemer474 Agreed
Damn it's sad I remember that it was my 17th birthday July 17th '96...God bless 🙏
It was my 18th birthday. And we were scheduled on the same flight the next day. I was terrified.
This plane is so huge
Super sad!!! 😞
I very much remember this night.
This accident still gives me nightmares
Important we remember
I would hope, because this kind of reconstruction is such a rarity now (MH 17 the most recent), allow a photographer to shoot it with FILM, making slides and/or prints. Good way to archive it.
I'm sorry, but there were people on the ground that said they saw missiles hitting it. I will always believe a missile hit it
Actually (allegedly) the missile hit another plane that was flying into the world trade center at night. It was filled with so many explosives that it blew up flight 800. And there were reports that they pulled two planes out of the ocean. there were reports that this explosion was so large that it shook bridges in New York 10 miles away. but yes there was a u.s. coast guard Captain who witnessed a missile being fired from a ship. I don't know why the government chose to cover up this story since it was a real act of terrorism.
Why would anyone be watching a dot fly over 3 miles away from them?
@@johnp139 obviously the object (whatever it was) was bright, large and/or fast-moving enough to catch people's attention
Did a "missile" also hit Thai Airways Intl Flight 114 and Philippine Airlines Flight 143?
The Lockerbie PanAm plane, in similar condition is still somewhere in the UK, I believe
What about the missile strike theory?
The government does not want you to talk about that... www.nydailynews.com/new-york/obama-pilot-twa-flight-800-shot-article-1.2186329
Whuddabout Thai Airways Intl Flight 114 and Philippine Airlines Flight 143?
Final destination 2000 was based off this event. So technically you can say it's based off a true story
Oh definitely. The French class actually existed.
Crazy they destroyed that history piece
Tru
I love the “eyewitness” that SWEARS that she HEARD the explosion before SEEING IT, even though she said that she was looking that direction when it happened! She defies PHYSICS!!!
Long Island really couldn’t catch a break in 2003.
Was final destination based of this?