TWA 800 1996

Denne ulykken var det mange spekulasjoner rundt. Ikke minst at USN drev øvelse med rakettskyting fra fartøy i nærheten av flyets rute, like vest av JFK. Det som skapte uro og frustrasjon var at NTSB totalt ble overkjørt av FBI. Det demonstrerte en gang for alle at påtalemyndigheten ikke hører hjemme i havarietterforsking. Det får vente til utrederne har gjort jobben.

NTSB declines to reopen review of TWA Flight 800 crash

The National Transportation Safety Board denied a group's petition to reopen the investigation into what caused the fatal TWA Flight 800 crash in 1996.

The plane was flying from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Paris when it exploded near Long Island, killing all 230 people aboard. Terrorism was initially suspected, and a number of witnesses on shore came forward with accounts of seeing a flare, rocket or "streak of light" headed toward the plane before the explosion.

After a four-year investigation, however, the NTSB determined that a fuel tank explosion - sparked by a short circuit in the wiring - caused the crash. The safety board found that witnesses were vague or imprecise in their recollections.

The FBI also conducted an investigation, and it did not find evidence of a crime.

In June 2013, a group called TWA Project 800 filed a petition asking the NTSB to reopen the case. The group claimed that "a detonation or high velocity explosion" was the cause, according to the NTSB.

The NTSB said the group did not show that the agency's original conclusion of a fuel tank explosion was incorrect, so the petition was denied.