[1]:87 Because of accuracy limitations, these radar data could not be used to determine whether the aircraft climbed after the nose separated. July 22, 1996 12 AM PT. 22c, p. 68, Recovery locations of the wreckage from the ocean (the red, yellow, and green zones) clearly indicated: (1) the red area pieces (from the forward portion of the wing center section and a ring of fuselage directly in front) were the earliest pieces to separate from the airplane; (2) the forward fuselage section departed simultaneously with or shortly after the red area pieces, landing relatively intact in the yellow zone; (3) the green area pieces (wings and the aft portion of the fuselage) remained intact for a period after the separation of the forward fuselage, and impacted the water in the green zone. [44]:7 No verbatim records of the witness interviews were produced; instead, the agents who conducted the interviews wrote summaries that they then submitted. 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. [49]:29 An overpressure event was defined as a rapid increase in pressure resulting in failure of the structure of the CWT. [1]:270, To determine what ignited the flammable fuel-air vapor in the CWT and caused the explosion, the NTSB evaluated numerous potential ignition sources. [1]:273, Similarly, the investigation considered the possibility that a small explosive charge placed on the CWT could have been the ignition source. - Administrative Policy Procedures -Anti-War -Bureau Personnel -Civil Rights -Counterterrorism -Foreign Counterintelligence- Frequently Requested -Fugitives -Gangs Extremist Groups -Gangster Era -Miscellaneous -Organizations -Organized Crime -Political Figures Events -Popular Culture -Public Corruption -Supreme Court -Unexplained Phenomenon -World War II -Violent Crime. He said it was likely that death for the passengers was instantaneous. "[1]:265 Regarding these differing accounts, the NTSB noted that based on their experience in previous investigations "witness reports are often inconsistent with the known facts or with other witnesses' reports of the same events. ATC recording (courtesy Allec Joshua Ibay), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, surge tank fire that destroyed a 747 near Madrid in 1976, AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services, "In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean Trans World Airlines Flight 800 Boeing 747-131, N93119 Near East Moriches, New York July 17, 1996", "Investigators Focus Closely on Terrorism As Cause of Explosion: Chemicals Found on Jet Victims, U.S. Reports", "Terror on Flight 800: Who wishes us ill? First, the time it took to isolate the circumstances that caused a very rare eventthe center fuel tank explosion, which, he adds, had never occurred with a 747. Additionally, severed cables for the engine #3 thrust reverser were replaced. The elimination of the possibility of any reoccurrence of the same kind of incident is virtually always the fruit of an extensive accident investigation, and this one was certainly about as extensive as humanly possible.. In this case, the victim was a Long Island. [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. [59], The wreckage was moved to an NTSB facility in Ashburn, Virginia, that was custom-built for the purpose. [68][non-primary source needed], Heidi Snow, the fiance of Flight 800 victim Michel Breistroff, established the AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services nonprofit group together with families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103. [1]:257 The NTSB concluded that "the in-flight breakup of TWA flight 800 was not initiated by a pre-existing condition resulting in a structural failure and decompression. [1]:63 In one of the largest diver-assisted salvage operations ever conducted, often working in very difficult and dangerous conditions, over 95% of the airplane wreckage was eventually recovered. No nothing. [18] Many witnesses in the vicinity of the crash stated that they saw or heard explosions, accompanied by a large fireball or fireballs over the ocean, and observed debris, some of which was burning while falling into the water. The TWA press release gives 25. [1]:290 The NTSB concluded that the most likely source of sufficient voltage to cause ignition was a short from damaged wiring, or within electrical components of the FQIS. [44]:5 Witnesses were not asked to review or correct the summaries. [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. They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. Even as trauma specialists comforted the families of victims at Kennedy airport, they have been attending carefully to the search teams, pathologists and investigators exposed to the human horrors being pulled from the ocean. Minutes after its take off from New Yorks Kennedy International Airport, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris exploded midair over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, leaving all 230 people aboard dead. [1]:63 This facility became the command center and headquarters for the investigation. Below is a list of those on board, according to family, friends or officials . "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. [56] In 2014, the NTSB declined the petition to reopen the investigation. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. [2][3][4] Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York Police Department Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. "You would see ripping, shredding and tearing of bodies" from a bomb in the cabin, he said. [1]:367 The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered by U.S. Navy divers one week after the accident; they were immediately shipped to the NTSB laboratory in Washington, DC, for readout. The . Engine #3 was started 10 minutes later at 8:14 pm. So far, most of the recovered bodies that pathologists are examining have been "relatively intact," said Wetli, but he emphasized that "relative" is itself a relative term. Dr. Charles V. Wetli, the Suffolk County Medical Examiner, reluctantly began releasing the autopsy reports after being pressured by family members who sought the details of how their loved ones had died. The FBI's earliest investigations and interviews, later used by the NTSB, were performed under the assumption of a missile attack, a fact noted in the NTSB's final report. January 3, 1997. [1]:xvi Problems with the aircraft's wiring were found, including evidence of arcing in the fuel quantity indication system (FQIS) wiring that enters the tank. The coroner who oversaw the autopsies on most of the victims of T.W.A. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Transportation Safety Board. "[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. [1]:8789 None of these contacts intersected TWA 800's position at any time. The NTSB's conclusions about the cause of the TWA 800 disaster took four years and one month to be published. Results: All 230 passengers of TWA Flight 800 were recovered as fatalities. Among the dead were 18 crew members and 212 passengers, including 16 students and five chaperones from Pennsylvania's Montoursville Area High School French Club. "[1]:270. [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. New York's Pataki asks feds to help pay for TWA recovery - December 27, 1996. In this case, the victim was a Long Island dentist who had assisted forensic dentists in the medical examiner's office. Oakley notes that from the distant perspective of witnesses on the ground, the sequence of the explosion, a sudden shift of gravity and continuing forward momentum that caused a sharp temporary climb, and the planes vertical dive and fiery descent, the crash could have looked like the result of some sort of attack. [1]:1 After the owner of the baggage in question was confirmed to be on board, the flight crew prepared for departure, and the aircraft pushed back from Gate 27 at the TWA Flight Center. Flight 800 was actually a training flight for Kevorkian, and he was seated in the captain's (left) seat. All 230 passengers and crew were killed. The website of The New York Times had its traffic increase to 1.5 million views per day, 50% higher than its previous rate. The NTSB concluded, "the ignition energy for the CWT explosion most likely entered the CWT through the FQIS wiring. Web posted at: 10:00 p.m. EST. Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning[1]:313 amid speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. "[1]:265 In addition, 18 witnesses reported seeing a streak of light that originated at the surface, or the horizon, which did not "appear to be consistent with the airplane's calculated flightpath and other known aspects of the accident sequence. TWA800 was behind the target, and with the likely forward-looking perspective of the target's occupant(s), the occupants would not have been in a position to observe the aircraft's breakup or subsequent explosions or fireball(s). [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. Two Coast Guard crew members who spent two days and nights pulling bodies from the ocean were so traumatized by what they had seen and touched that they were in serious emotional distress, according to local watermen who know them. [1]:3 In addition, it restricts lawyers and other parties from contacting family members within 30 days of the accident. [1]:93 None of these sequences intersected TWA 800's position at any time, either. So far, Wetli said he cannot rule out a bomb as the cause, but he said he has found no evidence of one, such as metal and bomb parts trapped in bodies. During this time, quenching was identified as an issue, where the explosion would extinguish itself as it passed through the complex structure of the CWT. [33] Many waited until the remains of their family members had been recovered, identified, and released. 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. Although the source that led to the explosion was never discovered, the investigation concluded the crashs cause was not a terrorist attack, but an electrical failure that ignited a nearly empty center wing fuel tank in the 25-year-old aircraft. A List of the Passengers and Crew Aboard Ill-Fated TWA Flight 800 L.A. Times Archives July 20, 1996 12 AM PT Here is a complete list of the 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and. He acknowledged that families of the victims are extremely impatient for their loved ones to be identified; 16 have been tentatively identified and the dentist colleague has been positively identified along with his wife traveling with him on Flight 800. [1]:109 After about 34 seconds (based on information from witness documents), the outer portions of both the right and left wings failed. [1]:9697 These simulations indicated that after the loss of the forward fuselage the remainder of the aircraft continued in crippled flight, then pitched up while rolling to the left (north),[1]:263 climbing to a maximum altitude between 15,537 and 16,678 feet (4,736 and 5,083m)[1]:97 from its last recorded altitude, 13,760 feet (4,190m). [1]:290 Experiments showed that applying power to a wire leading to the fuel quantity gauge can cause the digital display to change by several hundred pounds before the circuit breaker trips. [1]:288 Arcing signs were also seen on two wires sharing a cable raceway with FQIS wiring at station 955. 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. Captain/Check Airman Snyder was seated in the first officer's (right) seat monitoring Kevorkian's progress. [1]:272279 After analysis, the investigation determined that these potential sources were "very unlikely" to have been the source of ignition. [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. [65], During the investigation, the NTSB and the FBI clashed with each other. [44]:78, In February 1998, the FBI, having closed its active investigation, agreed to fully release the witness summaries to the NTSB. The MOU states that: [t]his procedure is intendedto ensure that neither NTSB nor FBI investigative activity unnecessarily complicates or compromises the other agencys investigation. By 2021, the methods taught using the wreckage were determined to no longer be relevant to modern accident investigation, which by then relied heavily on new technology, including three-dimensional laser-scanning techniques. Death On Flight 800. 22a, p. 66, Wreckage found in each zone corresponded to specific areas of the aircraft[1]:fig. In 1996, few U.S. government websites were updated daily, but the United States Navy's crash website was constantly updated and had detailed information about the salvage of the crash site. It is figure 29 of the report, which is described as: A photograph of the large three-dimensional reconstruction, with the support scaffolding visible. "As physicians, part of our training is being able to separate -- to empathize without sympathizing," said Wetli, who was deputy medical examiner in Dade County, Fla., during Hurricane Andrew. "[41]:4 Meanwhile, the NTSB was required to refute or play down speculation about conclusions and evidence, frequently supplied to reporters by law enforcement officials and politicians. The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. Thus, the gauge anomaly could have been caused by a short to the FQIS wiring. As a result of the investigation, new requirements were developed for aircraft to prevent future fuel tank explosions. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. [57] In a press release, the NTSB stated: "After a thorough review of all the information provided by the petitioners, the NTSB denied the petition in its entirety because the evidence and analysis presented did not show the original findings were incorrect. [1]:273274 Since none of the recovered CWT wreckage exhibited these damage characteristics, and none of the areas of missing wreckage was large enough to encompass all the expected damage, the investigation concluded that this scenario was "very unlikely". EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. [49]:34, Fire damage and soot deposits on the recovered wreckage indicated that some areas of fire existed on the airplane as it continued in crippled flight after the loss of the forward fuselage. But one customer said the motives are far more complicated. [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]:263, Only the FAA radar facility in North Truro, Massachusetts, using specialized processing software from the United States Air Force 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron, was capable of estimating the altitude of TWA 800 after it lost power due to the CWT explosion. Accordingly, the NTSB decommissioned the wreckage in July 2021. It's no more emotionally stressful than a doctor who deals every day with childhood leukemia. [1]:256 This, together with the distribution of wreckage and witness reports, all indicated a sudden catastrophic in-flight breakup of TWA 800. TWA Flight 800 was en route from New York to Paris when it exploded over Long Island Sound minutes after takeoff. According to Purvis, the safety board addressed the missile idea in its report. [1]:109,263 Shortly after, the left wing separated from what remained of the main fuselage, which resulted in further development of the fuel-fed fireballs as the pieces of wreckage fell to the ocean. Seventeen of the 18 crew members[20] and 152 of the passengers were Americans; the remaining crew member was Italian, while the remaining passengers were of various other nationalities. [14] During refueling of the aircraft, the volumetric shutoff (VSO) control was believed to have been triggered before the tanks were full. He said the bodies will be identified through medical records and interview materials. "The explosion that occurred on TWA 800 was in the center wing fuel tank and was not from anything external," he says. [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. could have biased interviewees' responses in some cases. [73][74] Destruction of the wreckage was scheduled for completion before the end of 2021.[72]. Notable passengers included:[20], In addition, 16 students and five adult chaperones from the French Club of the Montoursville Area High School in Pennsylvania were on board. [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. The FBI interviewed at least 755 witnesses. Each agency can call upon the other's laboratories and other assets. [44]:7 From November 1996 through April 1997, this group reviewed summaries of witness accounts on loan from the FBI (with personal information redacted), and conducted interviews with crewmembers from a New York Air National Guard HH-60 helicopter and C-130 airplane, as well as a U.S. Navy P-3 airplane that was flying in the vicinity of TWA 800 at the time of the accident. It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". The certification of the Boeing 747 with heat sources located beneath the CWT with no means to reduce the heat transferred into the CWT or to render the fuel tank vapor noncombustible, This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 07:17. Victims and wreckage were recovered by scuba divers and ROVs; later scallop trawlers were used to recover wreckage embedded in the sea floor. Flight 800 Autopsy Reports Are Given to Victims' Families, https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/04/nyregion/flight-800-autopsy-reports-are-given-to-victims-families.html. Medical investigators were holding up remarkably well as they went about their gruesome work -- opening body bags, removing corpses, examining them in painstaking detail -- when a forensic dentist looked up from one of the bodies and told his colleagues: "I know this person.". [6], The four-year NTSB investigation concluded with the approval of the Aircraft Accident Report on August 23, 2000, ending the most extensive, complex and costly air disaster investigation in U.S. history at that time. Instead, he said, there are blunt force trauma injuries, consistent with being struck by pieces of the jet as it fell from the sky after an explosion elsewhere in the plane. In addition to the probable cause, the NTSB found the following contributing factors to the accident:[1]:308, During the course of its investigation, and in its final report, the NTSB issued 15 safety recommendations, mostly covering fuel tank and wiring-related issues. The NTSB investigation ended with the adoption of the board's final report on August 23, 2000. Medical Examiner Wetli said only half of the 100 bodies retrieved from the ocean so far had been processed, meaning photographed, fingerprinted, weighed, X-rayed, and autopsied. First autopsy report released from TWA 800 crash - January 3, 1997. [1]:118 According to the seat manufacturer, the locations and appearance of this substance were consistent with adhesive used in the construction of the seats, and additional laboratory testing by NASA identified the substance as being consistent with adhesives. Evidence of arcing was found in a wire bundle that included FQIS wiring connecting to the center wing tank. All 230 people on board died in the crash. [1]:137, To better determine whether a fuel-air vapor explosion in the CWT would generate sufficient pressure to break apart the fuel tank and lead to the destruction of the airplane, tests were conducted in July and August 1997, using a retired Air France 747 at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, England. Bodies and debris have been carried far from the crash site by tides -- requiring searchers to cover more than 400 square miles of ocean -- and large sections of the 747 jetliner have sunk more than 100 feet, likely with many of the missing bodies inside. On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of Long Island, New York. [29] In the case of TWA 800, the FBI initiated a parallel criminal investigation alongside the NTSB's accident investigation. The FBI conducted an investigation. Flight 800 lawsuit puts focus on fuel pump - Dec . Dale Russakoff is the author of "The Prize," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. So the appearance of a missile was basically an optical illusion.. As of 2005[update], NTSB and FBI personnel conduct joint exercises. 1. [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. The NTSB Final Report gives Oliver Krick's age as being 24. [1]:87 Instead, the NTSB conducted a series of computer simulations to examine the flightpath of the main portion of the fuselage. The event remains one of the deadliest plane crashes in U.S. history. [1]:94 Additionally, the occupants of the target track were unlikely to have been able to hear the explosions over the sound of its engines and the noise of the hull traveling through water, even more so if the occupants were in an enclosed bridge or cabin. [1]:279, Because a combustible fuel-air mixture will always exist in fuel tanks, Boeing designers had attempted to eliminate all possible sources of ignition in the 747's tanks. He had 17,000 flight hours, with more than 4,700 of them on the Boeing 747. In April 1998, the FBI provided the NTSB with the identities of the witnesses, but due to the time elapsed, a decision was made to rely on the original FBI documents rather than reinterview witnesses. [1]:89, The NTSB addressed allegations that the Islip radar data showed groups of military surface targets converging in a suspicious manner in an area around the accident, and that a 30-knot radar track, never identified and 3 nautical miles (5.6km; 3.5mi) from the crash site, was involved in foul play, as evidenced by its failure to divert from its course and assist with the search and rescue operations. What many thought was a missile was actually the death throes of an airplane that briefly went up before it, sadly and inevitably, went down, Oakley says. After a forensic dentist emerged visibly shaken from the medical examiner's office, saying it was difficult to settle himself Thursday night even after he was home and comfortably in his own bed, Wetli said that most members of his staff are tolerating the trauma well, thanks to years of training and experience. John Purvis, head of the accident investigation unit for the Boeing Company at the time of the event, says airplane explosions are quite rare, in part due to security measures and equipment improvement. [47][48] In addition, the backs of several damaged passenger seats were observed to have an unknown red/brown-shaded substance on them. 22b, p. 67, The pathways the wreckage took as it fell to the ocean[1]:fig. First autopsy report released from TWA 800 crash - January 3, 1997. [44]:10 With access to these documents no longer controlled by the FBI, the NTSB formed a second witness group to review the documents. The board determined that the probable cause of the TWA 800 accident was:[1]:308. When the explosion occurred, some may have had a sudden panic attack for . Purvis says while four years is a long time for an investigation, its not outside the accepted bounds. When investigative priority remains with the NTSB, the FBI must coordinate its investigative activities with the NTSB investigator-in-charge. A plastic bomb would not leave such traces, he emphasized. [41]:1 The FBI, from the start assuming that a criminal act had occurred,[41]:3 saw the NTSB as indecisive. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), side-scan sonar, and laser line-scanning equipment were used to search for and investigate underwater debris fields. He said some of them are afraid that debris or body parts will wash up. [1]:89 Attention was drawn to data from the Islip, New York, ARTCC facility that showed three tracks in the vicinity of TWA 800 that did not appear in any of the other radar data. Air travel safety, in general, has steadily improved since the beginning of the widespread use of jet aircraft in 1958, he says. Customers have virtually disappeared from Larry's Crab House, a festive restaurant with a deck and volleyball court adjacent to a marina on Moriches Bay. According to WNYC, on July 17, 1996, the doomed Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 Boeing 747-131 jetliner was heading from New York City towards Paris, and was scheduled to stop there before continuing on to its final destination in Rome. CNN's traffic quadrupled to 3.9 million views per day. [1]:293294 This was not considered proof of a source of ignition. New York's Pataki asks feds to help pay for TWA recovery - December 27, 1996. A 3-D scan of the reconstruction will be made for historical record. [43]:165[45]:184, Within days of the crash, the NTSB announced its intent to form its own witness group and to interview witnesses to the crash. Only 15 of the 230 bodies have not been recovered. [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]:2 A loud noise recorded on the last few tenths of a second of the CVR was similar to the last noises recorded from other airplanes that had experienced in-flight breakups. [32]:2, With lines of authority unclear, differences in agendas and culture between the FBI and NTSB resulted in discord. THE DEAD DO SOMETIMES TELL tales, if you know how to look for them. "[1]:257, A review of recorded data from long-range and airport surveillance radars revealed multiple contacts of airplanes or objects in TWA800's vicinity at the time of the accident. [1]:258 This included the pieces on which trace amounts of explosives were found. 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