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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2013, 01:55 PM Jul 2013

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TWA Flight 800 Victims Remembered 17 Years Later

NY1News

Today marks 17 years since the crash of TWA flight 800.

The plane exploded shortly after taking off from JFK for Paris in 1996.

All 230 people on board were killed.

Federal investigators have said the plane was brought down by a fuel tank explosion.

Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/185624/twa-flight-800-victims-remembered-17-years-later

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TWA Flight 800 Victims Remembered 17 Years Later (Original Post) hrmjustin Jul 2013 OP

just another blueknight Jul 2013 #1

We will never really know in the end. hrmjustin Jul 2013 #2

A fuel tank explosion? Huh. Can any aviation expert here tell me how many planes, ever, have Nay Jul 2013 #3

I have not heard of it. hrmjustin Jul 2013 #4

blueknight

(2,831 posts)

1. just another

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 02:23 PM

Jul 2013

cover up by the goverment, nothing to see here....

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. We will never really know in the end.

Reply to blueknight (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 02:24 PM

Jul 2013

Nay

(12,051 posts)

3. A fuel tank explosion? Huh. Can any aviation expert here tell me how many planes, ever, have

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 03:11 PM

Jul 2013

been downed by a fuel tank explosion? I don't think I have EVER heard of that....

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. I have not heard of it.

Reply to Nay (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 04:38 PM

Jul 2013

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