He also confirmed that the plane did not suddenly rise up in a steep climb. The wings fell off immediately after the explosion, and all of the parts went down. Not up.
@@roadkillavenger1325 No he didn't. You're putting words into his mouth that, he absolutely did not say. People like you fail to understand that in cases like this & 9/11, when you twist the words that people say, you twist the knife in the hearts of those left behind to mourn & grieve. I'm talking about those who will likely never know, but fear the pain & terror their loved ones experienced as they died. I bet you think the towers were brought down with Super Thermite. Just another conspiracy theorist who hurts people who are already hurting. You deserve nothing but ridicule & disgrace.
@bexfun The official story is that the cockpit fell off. When it fell off, the rest of the plane suddenly began rising steeply. The ""experts"" say hundreds of eyewitnesses thought the rising plane was a missile. That pilot said the plane did not rise at all. He said the wings came off during the explosion. He said all of the pieces fell down. Several eyewitnesses saw a light on the horizon at sea level. They watched the object originate from the surface of the water and fly up to meet the plane. It's a big cover-up. No sane person could mistake an object originating from the surface of the water with a plane exploding at over 2 miles high in the sky. The government really does believe us citizens are as dumb as sheep. Well, some of us are. The ones who believe everything thr government tells them are the good little sheep.
My mom was an FA at the time for TWA, She had flown that route many times. She lost a bunch of friends on that flight, very sad day I remember vividly as a teenager.
I was about 20 years old in 1996 on my way home from NY to London after finishing my year-long Au-pair job in USA. I was on stand-by-ticket waiting for TWA800 to Paris during mid-day that day. But due to delays for TWA800 i was bumped up and booked a ticket with another TWA-flight. Direct to my destination London instead. One little change of a flight-ticket can totally change everything .... 😥😥🤔🤔🤔😲😲😲😲
Sometimes, delays and disappprovals can save us from danger. Believe it or not, me and my parents were almost taken by the ISIS if they decided to confine me in our local public hosptal. Luckily, my mom's instinct let her decide to bring me in the other hospital even it's 1 hour faraway from our province. Then at 3pm, we recieved text messages that the ISIS group had captured our hospital and killed some innocent people and policemen.
John Lydon (sex pistols singer) & his wife Nora missed their flight from Germany to the US, because Nora took so long to pack her case. The flight they missed was Pan Am 103 that exploded over Lockerbie. They didn't let their family know they'd missed the flight, so they were understandably going out of their minds trying to find out.
Just to point out, if you had made the flight, history would have been different. Maybe the flight would not have been delayed in the heat with the air con going full blast Or something else.
@@jeffhampton2767Being the word 🚓 police is juvenile. Who are you to correct another man about the words he uses. I bet you wouldn't do it face to face with a grown man so why be a keyboard warrior.
Same here. And I was at my desk at work letting this play in my ear as just background noise and then I heard the emotion in his voice so started paying attention. Made me shed a couple tears.
I knew the captain of flight 800. He used to stay at my family’s trout fishing lodge during his vacations in New Zealand in the 1970’s. I remember him always being so patient and kind, as a child I harassed him constantly with questions about flying and aeroplanes. He used to send me photos of himself at work on the flight decks of the aircraft he flew from time to time. When I knew Ralph, he was a first officer for TWA on 727’s. R.I.P Ralph and all those people on that aircraft that night. 😢
@@williambush2924 Dude,Your wound waaaay to tight for Y/T. Which part was asinine?? that he had beautiful young family or the totally benign statement of him sounding like Tom hanks. Saying he had a beautiful family is nothing about their individual appearances but they looked great as a family,They looked happy and content as a family. What are you 12?? Can’t believe an adult could find anything wrong with what I wrote.I
@@mellifluousmike Just another Keyboard Rambo with nothing to say for themselves so they have to bag on anyone that has. What’s the matter did I hit a nerve?? You depressed,unhappy and just miserable to be around people crack me up. You actually think you have any input into what I say and do. It pisses you off when anyone is happy around you doesn’t it?? Like I said,What was asinine about my comment. You think the man deserved it because he loved his family??
Man, I can't even fathom having to heal from being affected by a plane crash in any capacity, and may no one else ever have to find themselves in that situation ever again. RIP and healing to all those in involved, if such a thing can be found. It feels cheap to say it that way, but I don't know what else to say
Geez That was beautifully written . Damn . I’m just a viewer like everyone else , but Pheew you got a hold of me with that . Made my wife read it as well . Your a great person . Thanks and stay safe . Later Joey in western Pennsylvania
@@Onora619 I’m dreading this Wednesday but I’m ready to see what tributes Woody.EXE has planned for the 28th anniversary. I know it’s going to make me cry without fail
I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like for that man, to lose his identity as a husband, and as a father. It brings me joy to know that he was given the opportunity to have a family again. He must cherish that new family on another level. God bless him and all of them.
I am so sorry for the loss of your brother. 24‘May the LORD bless you and keep you; 25may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.’
I met many of those marines when I was there in Beirut. It seems there are few of us who remember that. I’m so sorry you have had to live remembering that EVERY day.
I was in high school when this happened. Remember feeling so sad for the students. It’s sad how you can feel a measure of the pain some of the loved ones are feeling. Rest in peace to all those on board. Never forgotten 🙏🏽
I am from the UK and I was visiting my dad in Arizona at the time. I was 12 and I had gone as an unaccompanied child (they see you onto and off of the plane and hand you to your relatives). I had 8 weeks to go til I flew back from the day I heard about this. It was so tragic. I was so scared to fly back to the UK. On my journey home we flew over Gatwick and over the tannoy the Pilot announced that we had lost a tyre back in phoenix and that we were having to fly to Heathrow as it was a larger runway and airport and had more support there. I was holding the hand of the girl next to me who was also travelling unaccompanied from the announcement til when we approached the Heathrow runway...longest 10-15 mins of my life..the fear and the wondering of what was to come and the TWA was fresh in my mind. As we approached I could see the fire engines on standby. So glad to say that we landed without incident and I've never been so relieved in my life. I remember thinking that I hope those on the TWA instant didn't know anything and that it is as instant. Knowing something will happen, I can't fully imagine but I know I had a taster of the fear and it was horrendous. Also what stuck in my mind was that my mum and stepdad were at Gatwick waiting for me and they were telling me how the board just suddenly said 'delayed' and they knew we were mid air at the time. The panic on everyone was palpable apparently as you can imagine. Imagine what all the TWA victims families were feeling standing there watching and waiting for their loved ones. Tragic and harrowing. The TWA crash has stayed with me for the last 28!years as if I was an American. Back home noone really knew anything about it and that was hard as it had affected me but couldn't relate to anyone. Rip to all those souls on board and love to their families ❤
Do you still fly today? I don't think I would (especially as an adolescent) be able to fly all the way back to the UK in the first place. Then to have a mechanical issue happen during your flight??? That's just terrifying. I feel bad for your little 12 year old self! Those series of events HAD to have changed you in some way, don't you think? More cautious, lest trusting , less carefree (or more?), afraid of flying, ...
@@le_th_ True. I was a TWA FA for five years (until the early 90s) and after Carl Icahn (corporate raider) took over in the mid 80s, the airline was hemorrhaging $$. This tragic event was the nail in the coffin.
I am norwegian. I remember this well because two young norwegian men aged 23 and 30 were on the plane. They were cousins and had been on a trip to the US with their corps. The cousins decided to stay a few days longer when the rest went home, because they wanted to see New York.
Goddamn. Must have been a surreal feeling knowing how close it was. Then again, if the car hadn't broken down, the plane may not have crashed either due to chaos theory.
I have always accepted that there are some things in this life we will never know. I have had such questions in the deaths of people in my own Family. The hardest thing for me was coming to terms with that. Thank you CNN.
I still find it hard to accept that 9/11 has happened and I always fear of crashing into buildings whenever I’m on a plane and then I refuse to accept the deaths of the passengers of United 93 because they’re my heroes. I’ve hated planes ever since coming very close to 9/11
@@user-fi6qr8wb9u, the whole UK/Canadian Mayday series goes deeper into the NTSB investigation side of things and has more concrete evidence of what potentially happened to the plane. To this day, the FBI has tried numerous times to confirm their suspicions without much success.
The man who lost his wife and two daughters has had the best attitude! I believe the investigators got it right. My condolences to all who lost loved ones on this flight. May the victims RIP
I don't usually watch things like this but I've never forgotten how many people said they saw a rocket. My deepest condolences these family members who have lived with this tragedy.
And many of them are still around, even the folks that were in the water on their fishing boats and till this day, swear by everything they saw that tragic day. They got memory holed and dismissed as Conspiracy Theorist.
I remember seeing a video of it on the news. A rocket or something shot from right to left going upwards and hitting the plane. After that the video went missing and they brought a psychologist on tv to try and convince everyone that what we saw was streaking from the plane not towards it. That's when my eyes opened to many things. Rip them all.
I remember the evening of July 17, 1996, very vividly. Even though no one I knew was on Flight 800, for some reason this one felt so personal. Those who lost someone they love, they are all equally as important. But, Mr. Lychner's story stood out the most to me. I always wondered what became of him, and I'm so glad to see that he remarried and has moved on.
I will always remember the date because it was my friend's birthday and we were out in Manhattan and learned about the explosion as we were getting ready to go back home to Long Island.
I just watched the Mayday episode. The thought of the cockpit falling to the ocean with the pilots still alive is just horrifying to imagine. My sincere condolences to the families of everyone involved.
@@Maryyeung12894One of the best planes ever made. And, ignore the media hysteria, Boeing airplanes still have the best safety record of any airline manufacturer in history. Both Boeing and Airbus passenger planes are incredibly safe.
I cannot imagine losing your wife AND children. My sister took French in high school, and to this day, she refuses any trip requiring flying over the ocean because a high school French class on this flight. It traumatized her deeply.
My highschool friend Oliver Krick was the flight engineer on Flight 800 ...he was only 25 years old. Watching this brought back many memories. I still wonder what really happened that night and if he had any idea what was happening before it actually happened. I can't believe it's been 28 years since he's been gone. He had his whole life ahead of him. I miss him so much. We will meet again some day my friend 🙏
It’s weird how July 17th is a somber day in aviation history, marked by tragic incidents like TWA Flight 800, Alliance Air Flight 7412, and TAM Airlines Flight 3054. I know that because 7/17 is my b-day and I remember all these flight crashes because of this 😔
I worked with a civil engineer when this happened. Her boyfriend was well off and lived in Seabright, NJ. They were up on far side of the sea wall having drinks and a bbq the night TWA 800 came down. She came to work, simply stunned at seeing what she described was a “missile,” a bright streak of light, coming up from the ground, hitting the plane and watching it explode and come down into the water. The fuel burning on the surface of the water. She was the first person I had heard this from, soon followed by various witnesses saying the same thing. My heartfelt sympathies to the family members. I guess no one will ever truly know what really happened.
My Love and warm thoughts go to all the families of the passengers and crew who perished in this terrible tragedy ❤❤🙏 May the passengers and crew RIP🙏❤️❤️
I was 5 years old, we were leaving cupsogue and saw what I thought was a firework over the ocean. I didn’t know it was a plane crash and loved fireworks but this creeped me out, for years I would have dreams of strange fireworks and phenomenon so happening over the ocean putting me into a phobia of the ocean for years to come. I was so young I never understood that it was a plane crash but i knew something was horribly wrong. One night we were talking about flight 800 in my teens and for the first time realized that was flight 800 I saw.
First of all why did the FBI do the investigation? It has to be the NTSB period. The NTSB was investigators were not happy to be treated in a bad way. This has got to be a missile
My friend was the lead engineer on the investigation. He is a very smart guy and I trust him for sure. He showed me pictures of the reconstructed plane (he reassembled it twice). There is zero percent chance the plane was shot down.
Reassembled it twice? It was only reassembled in the Calverton Hangar in Long Island during the FBI investigation that lasted over a year. I don't care what your friend says, 700 plus people saw something happen that night, some more specific than others and the FBI didn't give a crap what they had to say. There was evidence of a missile but it was suppressed by the FBI. James Sanders and his wife Liz, a former TWA employee went to jail for simply getting a piece of the plane seat examined in a lab and it came back positive for nitrates. The radar data released via FOIA, showed the debris traveling at Mach 4. It wasn't a spark in the CWT, enough with the lies and deceit already. I have a myriad of contradictory evidence proving that you and your imaginary friend are full of shit. Whistleblowers came out years later confirming that the investigation was tainted from the get go by the FBI and the CIA.
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No evidence of a missle, bomb, or explosive material other than jet fuel, corrrect? Someone for sure would have leaked that critical info if there was the slightest evidence me thinks. Too many investigators to all be in on something else, like a terrorist attack.
*Please turn on the automatic closed captions!* This is useful for many people, _besides the hearing impaired_---if children are playing in the backgroud; outside noise coming through an open window; listening late at night when others are asleep, and other reasons. How does a huge news organization like CNN not have captions enabled? *_PLEASE TURN ON AUTOMATIC CLOSED CAPTIONS._*
Multiple planes in the air, none of those pilots saw a streak of light heading towards it. Whereas multiple witnesses on the ground all echoing what one or two said they saw it; I’ll go with the pilots who were on or near the same level as the plane.
I remember this happening almost down to the minute. I was in the waiting room to the ER thinking I was having a heart issue. Then this happened and was being broadcast on the tv up on the wall. Dear God, that was the last thing I needed to be seeing. It turned out I was having panic attacks instead of a heart issue, but I'll never forget the stress of seeing this unfold.
This happened to me after watching Come and See the most horrifying war movie ever made in 1985, I thought I was actually in the war but it was just the nightmares triggering everything. I’ve never experienced a panic attack like it because I was so severely traumatised that taking it all out on Woody was the best thing yet since he didn’t understand what I was feeling
This was the accident that got me fascinated with airplanes and made me want to investigate planes crashes. Later in life I met a person who would become one of my best friends and she told me her cousin was on the plane. He went to montoursville, HS.
moriches bay was the site of a UFO recovery on the inlet island to the right, i m a flounder fisherman wittnessed us army , navy and coast guard operation going on there in sept of 1989. was even told by coast guard to stay away from area but you could see it was a huge operation ! sorry to all who lost family on that day .
This air disaster happened on July 17, 1996 not 2014. The documentary and movie came out in 2013 after years of extensive investigation as to what caused the plane to explode mid takeoff.
I remember that woman reporting that she had visions of this happening prior to the crash. The movie final destination was based around this psychic phenomena.
My heart goes out to All of them❤.But the Man who lost his wife Pam and his 2 daughters hit me hart.Imagine you talk to your wife on the phone hearing your girls behind her and half hour later your family is gone😢
I should be preparing for my interview for a cabin crew job on weekend yet here I am binge watching plane crashes and bawling my eyes out 😭 RIP to everyone 🤍
Former aircraft mechanic in the 70's with com'l pilot's license. An empty fuel tank is FAR dangerous that a full one as it's the vapor of fuel and not the fuel itself that either burns or when it's concentrated explodes. Case in point: we had a C-130 cargo plane in front of our hanger, the fuel had been drained from the left wing, and (with breathing equipment) a mechanic was INSIDE the wing through a manhole cover on top of the wing. An inspector was standing on top of the wing signing off on his work. Some idiot threw a switch in the cockpit (marked with a red tag!), an electrical arc (spark) occurred in the wing. The force of the explosion obliterated the two men and blew the wing right off the aircraft. Conspiracy theories aside, the NTSB got it right when they figured out that the empty of fuel, (but not vapors) center tank was set off by an arcing electrical line that ran right through the tank. This is one of the hazards of aging aircraft that require more and more maintenance to keep them airworthy and flying.
I'm still skeptical of it. Even if the center fuel tank was completely empty , the voltage that they are saying arced and ignited it would still be too low. If this was true , it would've been a far more common occurrence amongst many different types of craft. Sitting on a tarmac in NYC for a few hours ? Imagine how many failures or common maladies would have occurred to craft sitting on the tarmac in Texas or Arizona where it's really , really hot.
That’s why it’s so annoying when people act like a car full of fuel is a danger to have a big explosion. A car’s fuel tank is basically can only explode if it’s running on fume.
Two days earlier, I was in Nashville enjoying the music of French guitarist Marcel Dadi. Sadly, he was on that flight headed home when FLT 800 fell into the sea.
21:58 - "I did not find any holes." As the video shows the plane littered with holes. In another video, the same guy "I was standing outside looking down and I did not find any evidence of the ground."
It should be noted that most air crash investigations end with a "probable" cause. This is an acknowledgement of the fact that if new information comes to light then the original determined cause of a crash might be wrong. It's not indicative of a conspiracy, it's just how investigators work. They acknowledge that it's nearly impossible to be 100% certain. As for the 2 second break in the recording, it was an old decrepit aircraft, and it had wiring faults. As the NTSB thinks a wiring fault was responsible for igniting the centre wing tank it's perfectly reasonable to assume that wiring faults also interrupted the recording for a moment. Other things on the recording indicate one of the gauges in the cockpit was behaving weirdly, which could also have been due to a wiring fault.
I just took on a job at a UK airport, my training suggested a TWA aircraft that had an electrical fault , and to report any electrical socket issues . I am not saying it was this flight . But my on my training it stated an electrical fault with a TWA aircraft.
I don't think so necessarily. In these parts, yes. But most people I know have forgotten about the crash, but still remember TWA very well, at least for the over 50 crowd.
twa was a great airline and the people who worked there were great , i left on a twa 707 from jfk to texas to report for basic training us army @@cchris874
Younger people, yes. If they know of the airline at all! It was an iconic airline though, especially because of Howard Hughes. I love seeing the old TWA terminal at JFK though. I remember walking through it many times when I worked flights to NY. I was a flight attendant based in San Francisco/Los Angeles.
so it is the accident of 1996, and 2014 is when this documentary was made? I find it somewhat unclear (skipping your vision on the first 30 seconds) maybe placing the date 1996 in the title or info tabs underneath would help.
I remember that night. I was at a concert (Chicago, Crosby Stills & Nash) at Fiddler's Green, which is in the Denver metro area. Heard about the crash from a fellow concert-goer.
I remember this event very well as my sister was getting married and her husband was supposed to be in New York for Boeing and had struggled to get the time off to get married. He was a Boeing engineer and was supposed to be taking part in exercises with the military simulating a commercial airplane being flown into a New York skyscraper, we had talked about the exercises in regards to him getting the time off. The point is the military was supposed to track a plane and shoot it down but obviously there wasn’t supposed to be any live fire and I can tell you his phone was blowing up from his boss before the news was on the air, this exercise also confirmed for me George bush was lying on 9/11 when he claimed the government never considered someone would use airplanes to destroy buildings as we had budgeted money for and conducted exercises for that very scenario
Yeah Dubya didn't look very convincing in that schoolroom reading an upside down book. Likewise multiple stories of draft dodging Cheney playing simulated war games on the East Coast that morning creating massive fake radar blips from DC to Boston.
So you believe they shot down TWA flight 800? I imagine your brother in law has to answer some questions? Officially they still have no answer on cause. I sure hope they didn’t shoot it down and it didn’t “act “ like a plane ✈️ being shot down?
As a retired aircraft ground maintenance supervisor, it sickens me to know what really caused this tragedy. WHY did they not fuel that plane correctly? Fuel balance is critical, so they should have KNOWN they had no fuel in the center fuel tank. It just sickens me. And it sickens me even more to hear idiots spewing their bovine excretion about missiles and terrorism when it was simply a moronic failure of the ground crew. You NEVER leave the center tank empty. There are too many sources of heat under it. Not to mention weight and balance requirements. It wasn't terrorism. It was lack of professionalism.
This had nothing to do whatsoever with the Center Fuel Tank. I am former US Navy aircraft handler and it was/ is impossible for there to have been a 'catastrophic' explosion from kerosene. Are you on Facebook?
*_Former Boeing Everett - where 747's are produced._* I was working there in 1996 at the time of Accident. From the beginning, lots of confusion what happened and how do we prevent it from happening again. It wasn't until much later in 2000 that the Final Report was released. I have been inside the Center Fuel Tank on new 747's and they are big enough to walk through standing up. The likely culprit was the Center Fuel Tank exploded. It was empty at the time, but fumes from the Jet Fuel (refined Kerosene) ignited. At the time, it was hot and the aircraft was waiting for hours due to delays at JFK Airport. The AC equipment is located under the center fuel tank. Heat from the AC's heated up the Tank and the little fuel left on bottom. Wiring had damaged insulation, and a spark caused an explosion at 16,000 feet when it was still climbing. Front of plane blew off and fell to the ocean below. Rest of plane with wings climbed steeply because center of gravity shifted towards rear with front of plane now gone. It too fell into the ocean. There were no survivors. Since then, wire with this kind of insulation is no longer used. Older planes are inspected more frequently and wiring replaced if indicated. A better layer of insulation between the AC equipment was installed on older and all new aircraft to prevent heat from reaching tanks. Inert Nitrogen Gas is also used to replace any Air in Fuel Tanks. Air supports Combustion while Nitrogen prevents it. There have been no further Accidents of this kind since the New Safety Procedures went into effect.
When they said that the souls who were lost died instantly, I hate to ask this question, but how? Many of their bodies were still in tact in the ocean. Was it from asphyxiation?
@@cleochip2938 The instant decompression and thin air at that height alone could kill most but what instantly killed them was most likely snapping of the neck once the plane broke apart those winds at that speed are fierce. Just think of the adrenaline rush from merely putting your head slightly out of a car window how the wind whips and rips past your face. Only people who may not have died instantly had to be at the rear of the plane
@@cleochip2938Plane was at 16,000 feet. After explosion, the center section pitched up and rose thousands more before falling. Lack of Oxygen and trauma from explosion probably killed them before they hit the sea.
@@SJR_Media_Group i think it depends on the position of the passengers. The ones probably to the rear of the craft wouldnt have had the same trauma. The plane didnt go up to high, so they wouldnt have had hypoxia. The alaskan airlines jet with the door that blew off in jan happened around the same altitude, no one passed out. We will never know who was alive but it must have been beyond terrifying. Its just awful to think about.
Exactly I get that it’s safest statistically speaking, but I cannot imagine being in the air and having absolutely no control over what’s going to happen when something like this takes place it’s scary
To the guy specifically, who lost his beautiful family (at beginning, 2 little blonde daughters), obviously my heart pangs for all. But this is a heartfelt message from my family to you. May you find solace, from this transatlantic message of hope. We are with you, and hope our love reaches you. There are people pan-global who care, empathise and feel your pain and loss, albeit on a different level. In the most dreadful of circumstances, my family and I convey our love, and are sincerely glad your precious loved ones were all recovered and laid to rest with the dignity you all warranted. R.I.P.🪽✝️⛪️
Everybody has seen what shrapnel damage to an airliner looks like because of the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down over the Ukraine by a Russian BUK anti-aircraft missile. TWA 800 shows none of that damage.
They left the AC packs running and it got too hot. Fuel vapor/oxygen mixture ignited in the empty center tank. Leaving tanks empty with a bit of fuel sloshing around in there is incredibly dangerous.
I have to say the fact that all or many bodies were recovered intact makes me doubt that there was an explosion. Wouldn't it be expected that people would be in pieces?
@@edreynolds8721 i have studied the pictures and video many times and you are right. A lot were intact, some were still strapped in the seats. I often wonder if any of the passengers were alive until the very end. Such a sad senseless murder.
@@PassiveSmokingand there was shrapnel found in the bodies as well as bone found lodged in a piece of metal so…. Should give you an idea of the force these bodies went through. Not one but at least TWO missiles went off beside and under that plane. Look into the documentary film TWA800, I think it’s free right now on Amazon Prime and YT.
@@Blivot There has always been hatred in the world. It only seems like there's more hatred now because of the false impression that we're smarter these days. We're not smarter. We're actually more dumb. Spiritually, emotionally, and mentally more dumb. We've forgotten why we're here, as if many of us knew in the first place.
@@Jeff-bz6jp Thank you! That precisely explains what someone as stupid and hateful as Donald Trump became such a popular politician-it's a reflection of our people and times.
When I was in the Coast Guard we were tasked with cleaning up the crash. We were told at the time that it was a Navy accident that they were firing projectiles during a training exercise and one of those projectiles (chaff) struck the plane. Surprising to see how this video is talking about it.
That was a theory without evidence to support it. They refused to believe the missile strike, despite significant eyewitness testimony from multiple locations and angles of view. Crash site investigators definitely found evidence of explosives on some parts of the wreckage, but the FBI intentionally ignored and then "misplaced" pieces sent for examination by NTSB officials. Kalstrom is a liar, Period. Do you think its possible for a plane without a nose to ascend 2000 feet before beginning to fall?
That sounds illogical, tho. If you KNOW overheating is a possibility, you can't possibly be stupid enough to put the HOT A/C components UNDER the fuel tanks. But, there it is.
There is another documentary if you can find it where several retired NTSB agents assigned to the crash, confirmed, residue commensurate with fuel from a missile impact. But the FBI restricted their abilities.
I worked for twa as a flight attendant. To this day I do not believe it was a malfunction. Most twa people believe it was a friendly fire accident. Over 200 people who saw this agree💯🙏
I’ll take a multi-year and agency investigation over your ‘belief’. You don’t even understand what damage it does. You are no better than those who deny Sandy Hook. Shame on you.
@@Sylvia-zv1eq And what's the reason for a coverup here? There weren't any naval vessels in the area at that time and they sure as hell wouldn't be firing live missiles into civilian air corridors
I will never forget that evening. It was like when people ask you "where were you when JFK was shot?". I will never forget where i was when i heard the plane went down. I was 15 years old, living in Queens, not far from JFK airport. My family was driving home from dinner, and the breaking news came on the radio. When we got home, we all put the tvs on to see what happened. It hurt so much, to think other high school students, my age, were on that plane. They will never experience the things i was about to experience in high school. I cant believe its been 28 years since it happened.
It's ridiculous to think it was a shoulder fire missile. Do the math. If a naval AA missile was out of range. Then there's no way a shoulder fire missile could have reached 13,700 alt @ 15 miles out to sea.Traveling at 800 mph. Best range on a SF is 550 yds. There's no way a SF missile can do that. It would've had to be a vehicle mounted AA missle. And the fire trail would be so large. It would like apollo 11 taking off. You just can't carry around a missle that large. And fire one without anybody knowing exactly where it came from.
Man, this is very sad. After a long week watching the 9/11 videos this just pushed me over the edge and I just start watching. That man that lost his wife and 2 daughters really moved me.
does those two seconds missing line up with the time on the radar that there was an anomaly heading toward the plane? has someone checked the times against one another????
Yes. I have done an exhaustive analysis on this case. -25- seconds of Flight data recorder 'data' was omitted by the NTSB for their tabular chart for their exhibit.
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When the father started talking about his daughter... I had to cry. You could still see the pain in his eyes years later😭💔
Same here… it was heartbreaking to watch 😔. He is reunited with his beloved daughter because he passed away Feb 26, 2023.
@@cazi5759 how sad 😞 but now he is reunited with your beloved daughter 🙏🏻🕊️🖤
😢😢😢😢
@@cazi5759 So sad for him.
Rip
The pilot who witnessed the explosion is obviously affected to this day, it's in his voice and on his face...God bless this man too 😞
He also confirmed that the plane did not suddenly rise up in a steep climb. The wings fell off immediately after the explosion, and all of the parts went down. Not up.
@@roadkillavenger1325 No he didn't. You're putting words into his mouth that, he absolutely did not say. People like you fail to understand that in cases like this & 9/11, when you twist the words that people say, you twist the knife in the hearts of those left behind to mourn & grieve. I'm talking about those who will likely never know, but fear the pain & terror their loved ones experienced as they died. I bet you think the towers were brought down with Super Thermite. Just another conspiracy theorist who hurts people who are already hurting. You deserve nothing but ridicule & disgrace.
@@roadkillavenger1325what does that imply?
@bexfun The official story is that the cockpit fell off. When it fell off, the rest of the plane suddenly began rising steeply. The ""experts"" say hundreds of eyewitnesses thought the rising plane was a missile.
That pilot said the plane did not rise at all. He said the wings came off during the explosion. He said all of the pieces fell down.
Several eyewitnesses saw a light on the horizon at sea level. They watched the object originate from the surface of the water and fly up to meet the plane.
It's a big cover-up. No sane person could mistake an object originating from the surface of the water with a plane exploding at over 2 miles high in the sky.
The government really does believe us citizens are as dumb as sheep. Well, some of us are. The ones who believe everything thr government tells them are the good little sheep.
@@bexfun It implies that @roadkillavenger1325 is full of shit & a conspiracy theorist. The witness did not say any of that.
My mom was an FA at the time for TWA, She had flown that route many times. She lost a bunch of friends on that flight, very sad day I remember vividly as a teenager.
I was about 20 years old in 1996 on my way home from NY to London after finishing my year-long Au-pair job in USA. I was on stand-by-ticket waiting for TWA800 to Paris during mid-day that day. But due to delays for TWA800 i was bumped up and booked a ticket with another TWA-flight. Direct to my destination London instead. One little change of a flight-ticket can totally change everything .... 😥😥🤔🤔🤔😲😲😲😲
Wow. Talk about chilling!
Sometimes, delays and disappprovals can save us from danger. Believe it or not, me and my parents were almost taken by the ISIS if they decided to confine me in our local public hosptal. Luckily, my mom's instinct let her decide to bring me in the other hospital even it's 1 hour faraway from our province. Then at 3pm, we recieved text messages that the ISIS group had captured our hospital and killed some innocent people and policemen.
Did you hear about that woman who had visions/premonitions about TWA flight 800 crash prior to it happening?
John Lydon (sex pistols singer) & his wife Nora missed their flight from Germany to the US, because Nora took so long to pack her case. The flight they missed was Pan Am 103 that exploded over Lockerbie. They didn't let their family know they'd missed the flight, so they were understandably going out of their minds trying to find out.
Just to point out, if you had made the flight, history would have been different. Maybe the flight would not have been delayed in the heat with the air con going full blast
Or something else.
That father talking about his daughter made my grown ass man ass cry 😭 RIP to all victims of this tragedy
Can’t lie it had my stone cold hardened ass bawling like a baby
Why say ass. It's Juvenile
@@jeffhampton2767Being the word 🚓 police is juvenile. Who are you to correct another man about the words he uses. I bet you wouldn't do it face to face with a grown man so why be a keyboard warrior.
Me to bro
Same here. And I was at my desk at work letting this play in my ear as just background noise and then I heard the emotion in his voice so started paying attention. Made me shed a couple tears.
I knew the captain of flight 800. He used to stay at my family’s trout fishing lodge during his vacations in New Zealand in the 1970’s. I remember him always being so patient and kind, as a child I harassed him constantly with questions about flying and aeroplanes. He used to send me photos of himself at work on the flight decks of the aircraft he flew from time to time. When I knew Ralph, he was a first officer for TWA on 727’s. R.I.P Ralph and all those people on that aircraft that night. 😢
Joe Lichner had a beautiful young family. I can’t even imagine how he feels.
He sounds so much like Tom Hanks.
@fuzzybutkus8970 Would it have mattered if they were all not so attractive?? what an asinine comment.
@@williambush2924 Dude,Your wound waaaay to tight for Y/T. Which part was asinine?? that he had beautiful young family or the totally benign statement of him sounding like Tom hanks. Saying he had a beautiful family is nothing about their individual appearances but they looked great as a family,They looked happy and content as a family. What are you 12?? Can’t believe an adult could find anything wrong with what I wrote.I
@@fuzzybutkus8970 Forget about meaningless troll comments, don't even respond dude.
@@mellifluousmike Just another Keyboard Rambo with nothing to say for themselves so they have to bag on anyone that has. What’s the matter did I hit a nerve?? You depressed,unhappy and just miserable to be around people crack me up. You actually think you have any input into what I say and do. It pisses you off when anyone is happy around you doesn’t it?? Like I said,What was asinine about my comment. You think the man deserved it because he loved his family??
Man, I can't even fathom having to heal from being affected by a plane crash in any capacity, and may no one else ever have to find themselves in that situation ever again. RIP and healing to all those in involved, if such a thing can be found. It feels cheap to say it that way, but I don't know what else to say
Geez That was beautifully written . Damn . I’m just a viewer like everyone else , but Pheew you got a hold of me with that . Made my wife read it as well . Your a great person . Thanks and stay safe . Later Joey in western Pennsylvania
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I’m dreading this Wednesday but I’m ready to see what tributes Woody.EXE has planned for the 28th anniversary. I know it’s going to make me cry without fail
I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like for that man, to lose his identity as a husband, and as a father. It brings me joy to know that he was given the opportunity to have a family again. He must cherish that new family on another level. God bless him and all of them.
“I have a family waiting for me in heaven and a family while I’m here” 😭😭😭😭😭
My brother died in a terror bombing in ‘83. I have never been the same.
I am so sorry for the loss of your brother.
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25may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.’
I’m sorry for your tragic loss.
I met many of those marines when I was there in Beirut. It seems there are few of us who remember that. I’m so sorry you have had to live remembering that EVERY day.
I’m very sorry for the loss of your brother. Believe that you will see him again.
My condolences on the loss of your brother.
I could barely listen to that father. Wow! Talk about pain 😞
That man is broken.
That was me after learning about TWA Flight 800 from Final Destination series and I’ve never been the same since
2:15 This man lost everything. Dam.
Rest in Peace to his family and God bless him.
@@markfarrington9727yep it looks a cover up to me . A big one
Your sky fairy obviously didn’t BLESS ANYONE on this flight or their family and friends!!!! YOU ARE DELUSIONAL!!!
I was in high school when this happened. Remember feeling so sad for the students. It’s sad how you can feel a measure of the pain some of the loved ones are feeling. Rest in peace to all those on board. Never forgotten 🙏🏽
Are you in college now?
@@Here_and_there89 lol
It’s not about u max
Smh I live here just took pics of memorial today smh crazy
Them parents were never the same smh
I am from the UK and I was visiting my dad in Arizona at the time. I was 12 and I had gone as an unaccompanied child (they see you onto and off of the plane and hand you to your relatives). I had 8 weeks to go til I flew back from the day I heard about this. It was so tragic. I was so scared to fly back to the UK. On my journey home we flew over Gatwick and over the tannoy the Pilot announced that we had lost a tyre back in phoenix and that we were having to fly to Heathrow as it was a larger runway and airport and had more support there. I was holding the hand of the girl next to me who was also travelling unaccompanied from the announcement til when we approached the Heathrow runway...longest 10-15 mins of my life..the fear and the wondering of what was to come and the TWA was fresh in my mind. As we approached I could see the fire engines on standby. So glad to say that we landed without incident and I've never been so relieved in my life. I remember thinking that I hope those on the TWA instant didn't know anything and that it is as instant. Knowing something will happen, I can't fully imagine but I know I had a taster of the fear and it was horrendous. Also what stuck in my mind was that my mum and stepdad were at Gatwick waiting for me and they were telling me how the board just suddenly said 'delayed' and they knew we were mid air at the time. The panic on everyone was palpable apparently as you can imagine. Imagine what all the TWA victims families were feeling standing there watching and waiting for their loved ones. Tragic and harrowing. The TWA crash has stayed with me for the last 28!years as if I was an American. Back home noone really knew anything about it and that was hard as it had affected me but couldn't relate to anyone. Rip to all those souls on board and love to their families ❤
Do you still fly today? I don't think I would (especially as an adolescent) be able to fly all the way back to the UK in the first place. Then to have a mechanical issue happen during your flight??? That's just terrifying. I feel bad for your little 12 year old self! Those series of events HAD to have changed you in some way, don't you think? More cautious, lest trusting , less carefree (or more?), afraid of flying, ...
USA...the greatest country for covering up its own faults because of course USA and its Military doesnt make mistakes...so dont you dare
And they lied about Pan Am 103.
This was the day before my 9th birthday. My birthday was 7/18. I never forgot it. My grandma lost her best friend on this flight. 💔
I'm so sorry
@@christinewhitmore-8208 It's okay. My grandma was positive that her friend didn't suffer. It still is painful to her and she will never forget it.
Next Wednesday marks the 28th Anniversary of TWA Flight 800 accident.
RIP to all 230 passengers who died so tragically on this day, I love you all ❤️
Incredible how they were able to put that plane back together
Yes, my sentiment is exactly 🤔
That incident ended TWA.
TWA had been circling the drain since 1989 if not earlier.
@@le_th_are you sure I’m just asking I wasn’t born till 2 years later
Just like how the Lockerbie bombing effectively ended Pan Am.
@@le_th_ True. I was a TWA FA for five years (until the early 90s) and after Carl Icahn (corporate raider) took over in the mid 80s, the airline was hemorrhaging $$. This tragic event was the nail in the coffin.
It ended my trust in the government. If they could cover this up, what else are they hiding?
I am norwegian. I remember this well because two young norwegian men aged 23 and 30 were on the plane. They were cousins and had been on a trip to the US with their corps. The cousins decided to stay a few days longer when the rest went home, because they wanted to see New York.
Very sorry for your loss! May they RIP!
My friend missed the flight due to broken down car
Very glad he/she didn't get on the plane. I hope they didn't have to deal with any survivor's guilt.
PRAISE GOD!!!
@@Mimi2thebestboyseverbut not for the the dead.
@@Mimi2thebestboysever The same god that killed all the people on the 'plane?
Goddamn. Must have been a surreal feeling knowing how close it was. Then again, if the car hadn't broken down, the plane may not have crashed either due to chaos theory.
I have always accepted that there are some things in this life we will never know. I have had such questions in the deaths of people in my own Family. The hardest thing for me was coming to terms with that.
Thank you CNN.
I'm sorry for your losses.
I still find it hard to accept that 9/11 has happened and I always fear of crashing into buildings whenever I’m on a plane and then I refuse to accept the deaths of the passengers of United 93 because they’re my heroes. I’ve hated planes ever since coming very close to 9/11
My dad said don't let fear stop you from living a good life.
There's a documentary on free movies artist that goes in depth
@@user-fi6qr8wb9u, the whole UK/Canadian Mayday series goes deeper into the NTSB investigation side of things and has more concrete evidence of what potentially happened to the plane. To this day, the FBI has tried numerous times to confirm their suspicions without much success.
The man who lost his wife and two daughters has had the best attitude! I believe the investigators got it right. My condolences to all who lost loved ones on this flight. May the victims RIP
I believe the 700 witnesses who saw the missile.
RIH to the passengers and crew of TWA 800.
My condolences.
Rih?
The navy shot that plane down
@@XisrRein Rest In Heaven*
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@@JamesFaye-lt4dvAbsolutely. And it's still covered up to this day.
I don't usually watch things like this but I've never forgotten how many people said they saw a rocket. My deepest condolences these family members who have lived with this tragedy.
And many of them are still around, even the folks that were in the water on their fishing boats and till this day, swear by everything they saw that tragic day. They got memory holed and dismissed as Conspiracy Theorist.
Like Pan Am 103, we never get the truth. Absolute liars the governments.
I remember seeing a video of it on the news. A rocket or something shot from right to left going upwards and hitting the plane. After that the video went missing and they brought a psychologist on tv to try and convince everyone that what we saw was streaking from the plane not towards it. That's when my eyes opened to many things. Rip them all.
Over 700 witnesses saw the missile and got harassed and threatened for years by the CIA and FBI.
This is so heartbreaking. RIP to all who perished in this tragedy. 😭
I remember the evening of July 17, 1996, very vividly. Even though no one I knew was on Flight 800, for some reason this one felt so personal. Those who lost someone they love, they are all equally as important. But, Mr. Lychner's story stood out the most to me. I always wondered what became of him, and I'm so glad to see that he remarried and has moved on.
I will always remember the date because it was my friend's birthday and we were out in Manhattan and learned about the explosion as we were getting ready to go back home to Long Island.
Damn the air traffic controller realizing what occurred was a haunting conversation
May your family rest in peace. I understand pain . It hurts.
What is that supposed to mean???
Yes…I agree with you…and you never get over it you just get through it one day at a time…
I just watched the Mayday episode. The thought of the cockpit falling to the ocean with the pilots still alive is just horrifying to imagine. My sincere condolences to the families of everyone involved.
Was it made by Boeing?
@@Maryyeung12894 Funny enough. It was 747-400
@@SleezelGreezel*747-100, it was the older -100 model
I’ve seen that Mayday episode as well.
@@Maryyeung12894One of the best planes ever made. And, ignore the media hysteria, Boeing airplanes still have the best safety record of any airline manufacturer in history. Both Boeing and Airbus passenger planes are incredibly safe.
I cannot imagine losing your wife AND children. My sister took French in high school, and to this day, she refuses any trip requiring flying over the ocean because a high school French class on this flight. It traumatized her deeply.
SO SAD 💔💔💔💔 HEARTBREAKING
RIP
To the passengers and crew of TWA Flight 800
My highschool friend Oliver Krick was the flight engineer on Flight 800 ...he was only 25 years old. Watching this brought back many memories. I still wonder what really happened that night and if he had any idea what was happening before it actually happened. I can't believe it's been 28 years since he's been gone. He had his whole life ahead of him. I miss him so much. We will meet again some day my friend 🙏
R.I.P to who was lost 💔
It’s weird how July 17th is a somber day in aviation history, marked by tragic incidents like TWA Flight 800, Alliance Air Flight 7412, and TAM Airlines Flight 3054. I know that because 7/17 is my b-day and I remember all these flight crashes because of this 😔
me too my b- day is dec 21 same for pan am over scottland !
My birthday is 7/18 so that is how i remember TWA flight 800. I was 9 years old when it went down.
17 July 2014 is when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
@@gerardpoltawsky4656Have 4 friends born 12/21. What are the odds?
@@HPG747Wow, that’s insane. The odds of multiple jumbo jets going down on the same has to be insanely low.
The NTSB was annoyed by the FBI during the investigation.
This was right before my 10th birthday. I will always remember this!
5 days before by 13th birthday. To this day I still vividly remember that entire evening.
I worked with a civil engineer when this happened. Her boyfriend was well off and lived in Seabright, NJ. They were up on far side of the sea wall having drinks and a bbq the night TWA 800 came down. She came to work, simply stunned at seeing what she described was a “missile,” a bright streak of light, coming up from the ground, hitting the plane and watching it explode and come down into the water. The fuel burning on the surface of the water. She was the first person I had heard this from, soon followed by various witnesses saying the same thing. My heartfelt sympathies to the family members. I guess no one will ever truly know what really happened.
Looks like we do know. The plane was brought down by a missile.
@ I completely agree. A LOT of people witnessed the same thing. It would be great to find out why one day.
My Love and warm thoughts go to all the families of the passengers and crew who perished in this terrible tragedy ❤❤🙏 May the passengers and crew RIP🙏❤️❤️
I was 5 years old, we were leaving cupsogue and saw what I thought was a firework over the ocean. I didn’t know it was a plane crash and loved fireworks but this creeped me out, for years I would have dreams of strange fireworks and phenomenon so happening over the ocean putting me into a phobia of the ocean for years to come. I was so young I never understood that it was a plane crash but i knew something was horribly wrong. One night we were talking about flight 800 in my teens and for the first time realized that was flight 800 I saw.
First of all why did the FBI do the investigation? It has to be the NTSB period. The NTSB was investigators were not happy to be treated in a bad way. This has got to be a missile
It was a NATO missile. that is, the missiles that were seen.
Proof, please. Not rumors. Proof.
It was considered a crime scene at first
@@JimMac23 Proof but In order. So it was not a center fuel tank just blowing up. And that was proven in federal court. See RAY LAHR v NTSB.
@@gabemorgan1212 That was the needed P.R. The gov knew that a 'TARGET AV' impacted the plane. But that would come out in time.
My friend was the lead engineer on the investigation. He is a very smart guy and I trust him for sure. He showed me pictures of the reconstructed plane (he reassembled it twice). There is zero percent chance the plane was shot down.
Reassembled it twice? It was only reassembled in the Calverton Hangar in Long Island during the FBI investigation that lasted over a year. I don't care what your friend says, 700 plus people saw something happen that night, some more specific than others and the FBI didn't give a crap what they had to say. There was evidence of a missile but it was suppressed by the FBI. James Sanders and his wife Liz, a former TWA employee went to jail for simply getting a piece of the plane seat examined in a lab and it came back positive for nitrates. The radar data released via FOIA, showed the debris traveling at Mach 4. It wasn't a spark in the CWT, enough with the lies and deceit already. I have a myriad of contradictory evidence proving that you and your imaginary friend are full of shit. Whistleblowers came out years later confirming that the investigation was tainted from the get go by the FBI and the CIA.
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wow, really credible.
No evidence of a missle, bomb, or explosive material other than jet fuel, corrrect?
Someone for sure would have leaked that critical info if there was the slightest evidence me thinks. Too many investigators to all be in on something else, like a terrorist attack.
*Please turn on the automatic closed captions!*
This is useful for many people, _besides the hearing impaired_---if children are playing in the backgroud; outside noise coming through an open window; listening late at night when others are asleep, and other reasons.
How does a huge news organization like CNN not have captions enabled?
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Multiple planes in the air, none of those pilots saw a streak of light heading towards it. Whereas multiple witnesses on the ground all echoing what one or two said they saw it; I’ll go with the pilots who were on or near the same level as the plane.
I can't even imagine what it was like in there when that blew & the nose came off. Sick.
I remember this happening almost down to the minute. I was in the waiting room to the ER thinking I was having a heart issue. Then this happened and was being broadcast on the tv up on the wall. Dear God, that was the last thing I needed to be seeing. It turned out I was having panic attacks instead of a heart issue, but I'll never forget the stress of seeing this unfold.
This happened to me after watching Come and See the most horrifying war movie ever made in 1985, I thought I was actually in the war but it was just the nightmares triggering everything. I’ve never experienced a panic attack like it because I was so severely traumatised that taking it all out on Woody was the best thing yet since he didn’t understand what I was feeling
Your anxiety brought down the plane. Your energy transmitted to the fuselage and brought it down.
I've always been skeptical about the reasons for the crash 😢
This is so heartbreaking
This was the accident that got me fascinated with airplanes and made me want to investigate planes crashes. Later in life I met a person who would become one of my best friends and she told me her cousin was on the plane. He went to montoursville, HS.
moriches bay was the site of a UFO recovery on the inlet island to the right, i m a flounder fisherman wittnessed us army , navy and coast guard operation going on there in sept of 1989. was even told by coast guard to stay away from area but you could see it was a huge operation ! sorry to all who lost family on that day .
This air disaster happened on July 17, 1996 not 2014. The documentary and movie came out in 2013 after years of extensive investigation as to what caused the plane to explode mid takeoff.
He said 18 years ago..
I remember hearing about Flight 800 that came across the news back in 1996 it was really bad and made me sick to my stomach
God, that poor man. To lose his wife and his children, his entire family, in one horrible instant.
13:08 THEY THOUGHT SHE HAD A HEARTBEAT 😮 😢
Just listening to that poor man made me tear up
I remember that woman reporting that she had visions of this happening prior to the crash.
The movie final destination was based around this psychic phenomena.
My friend's father was an off-duty pilot n this flight.
Cap Kevorkian ?
no,@@BRAIRCO
My heart goes out to All of them❤.But the Man who lost his wife Pam and his 2 daughters hit me hart.Imagine you talk to your wife on the phone hearing your girls behind her and half hour later your family is gone😢
false flags, false flags everywhere.
I don't think I've ever heard of this incident. glad every victim was able to be recovered. great docu
A millenial like me hahaha
@@nxo91 yup lol
Where have you been I distinctly remember this the day time and where I was.
This has been a huge coverup.
@@nxo91more like Gen Z. Y’all are kids that probably weren’t even alive yet. Millennials were.
Depends on your definition of Milllenials. I guess you are a baby boomer huh@@Tsumami__
I should be preparing for my interview for a cabin crew job on weekend yet here I am binge watching plane crashes and bawling my eyes out 😭 RIP to everyone 🤍
Former aircraft mechanic in the 70's with com'l pilot's license. An empty fuel tank is FAR dangerous that a full one as it's the vapor of fuel and not the fuel itself that either burns or when it's concentrated explodes. Case in point: we had a C-130 cargo plane in front of our hanger, the fuel had been drained from the left wing, and (with breathing equipment) a mechanic was INSIDE the wing through a manhole cover on top of the wing. An inspector was standing on top of the wing signing off on his work. Some idiot threw a switch in the cockpit (marked with a red tag!), an electrical arc (spark) occurred in the wing. The force of the explosion obliterated the two men and blew the wing right off the aircraft.
Conspiracy theories aside, the NTSB got it right when they figured out that the empty of fuel, (but not vapors) center tank was set off by an arcing electrical line that ran right through the tank. This is one of the hazards of aging aircraft that require more and more maintenance to keep them airworthy and flying.
They never said the tank was empty. Actually, if it's an overseas flight, it was more likely full.
@@melinda5777 There was a center tank in-between the wings that was not full
That sounds so avoidable. How horrendous that people died. ;(
I'm still skeptical of it. Even if the center fuel tank was completely empty , the voltage that they are saying arced and ignited it would still be too low. If this was true , it would've been a far more common occurrence amongst many different types of craft. Sitting on a tarmac in NYC for a few hours ? Imagine how many failures or common maladies would have occurred to craft sitting on the tarmac in Texas or Arizona where it's really , really hot.
That’s why it’s so annoying when people act like a car full of fuel is a danger to have a big explosion. A car’s fuel tank is basically can only explode if it’s running on fume.
So sorry😢😢😢
Two days earlier, I was in Nashville enjoying the music of French guitarist Marcel Dadi. Sadly, he was on that flight headed home when FLT 800 fell into the sea.
There are better documentaries. One showed the investigation into the fuel and electrical lines and their confuguration.
This isn't about the accident, though. It is about the people affected by it.
That wasn't the reason. A missile was.
It's CNN. What do you expect?
The fuel tank story is bull shit
The navy shot that lane down
21:58 - "I did not find any holes." As the video shows the plane littered with holes.
In another video, the same guy "I was standing outside looking down and I did not find any evidence of the ground."
can you explain more of what you are talking about? thanx
It should be noted that most air crash investigations end with a "probable" cause. This is an acknowledgement of the fact that if new information comes to light then the original determined cause of a crash might be wrong. It's not indicative of a conspiracy, it's just how investigators work. They acknowledge that it's nearly impossible to be 100% certain.
As for the 2 second break in the recording, it was an old decrepit aircraft, and it had wiring faults. As the NTSB thinks a wiring fault was responsible for igniting the centre wing tank it's perfectly reasonable to assume that wiring faults also interrupted the recording for a moment. Other things on the recording indicate one of the gauges in the cockpit was behaving weirdly, which could also have been due to a wiring fault.
I just took on a job at a UK airport, my training suggested a TWA aircraft that had an electrical fault , and to report any electrical socket issues . I am not saying it was this flight . But my on my training it stated an electrical fault with a TWA aircraft.
it is amazing how this is the only thing most people today remember of that airline
I don't think so necessarily. In these parts, yes. But most people I know have forgotten about the crash, but still remember TWA very well, at least for the over 50 crowd.
twa was a great airline and the people who worked there were great , i left on a twa 707 from jfk to texas to report for basic training us army
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Younger people, yes. If they know of the airline at all! It was an iconic airline though, especially because of Howard Hughes. I love seeing the old TWA terminal at JFK though. I remember walking through it many times when I worked flights to NY. I was a flight attendant based in San Francisco/Los Angeles.
so it is the accident of 1996, and 2014 is when this documentary was made? I find it somewhat unclear
(skipping your vision on the first 30 seconds)
maybe placing the date 1996 in the title or info tabs underneath would help.
Exactly that! Happened in 96, originally aired in 2014!
I remember that night. I was at a concert (Chicago, Crosby Stills & Nash) at Fiddler's Green, which is in the Denver metro area. Heard about the crash from a fellow concert-goer.
RIP to those lost!
I remember this event very well as my sister was getting married and her husband was supposed to be in New York for Boeing and had struggled to get the time off to get married. He was a Boeing engineer and was supposed to be taking part in exercises with the military simulating a commercial airplane being flown into a New York skyscraper, we had talked about the exercises in regards to him getting the time off. The point is the military was supposed to track a plane and shoot it down but obviously there wasn’t supposed to be any live fire and I can tell you his phone was blowing up from his boss before the news was on the air, this exercise also confirmed for me George bush was lying on 9/11 when he claimed the government never considered someone would use airplanes to destroy buildings as we had budgeted money for and conducted exercises for that very scenario
Yeah Dubya didn't look very convincing in that schoolroom reading an upside down book.
Likewise multiple stories of draft dodging Cheney playing simulated war games on the East Coast that morning creating massive fake radar blips from DC to Boston.
So you believe they shot down TWA flight 800? I imagine your brother in law has to answer some questions? Officially they still have no answer on cause. I sure hope they didn’t shoot it down and it didn’t “act “ like a plane ✈️ being shot down?
AMEN!!!! ✝️
As a retired aircraft ground maintenance supervisor, it sickens me to know what really caused this tragedy. WHY did they not fuel that plane correctly? Fuel balance is critical, so they should have KNOWN they had no fuel in the center fuel tank. It just sickens me.
And it sickens me even more to hear idiots spewing their bovine excretion about missiles and terrorism when it was simply a moronic failure of the ground crew. You NEVER leave the center tank empty. There are too many sources of heat under it. Not to mention weight and balance requirements. It wasn't terrorism. It was lack of professionalism.
This had nothing to do whatsoever with the Center Fuel Tank. I am former US Navy aircraft handler and it was/ is impossible for there to have been a 'catastrophic' explosion from kerosene. Are you on Facebook?
*_Former Boeing Everett - where 747's are produced._* I was working there in 1996 at the time of Accident. From the beginning, lots of confusion what happened and how do we prevent it from happening again. It wasn't until much later in 2000 that the Final Report was released. I have been inside the Center Fuel Tank on new 747's and they are big enough to walk through standing up.
The likely culprit was the Center Fuel Tank exploded. It was empty at the time, but fumes from the Jet Fuel (refined Kerosene) ignited. At the time, it was hot and the aircraft was waiting for hours due to delays at JFK Airport. The AC equipment is located under the center fuel tank. Heat from the AC's heated up the Tank and the little fuel left on bottom. Wiring had damaged insulation, and a spark caused an explosion at 16,000 feet when it was still climbing. Front of plane blew off and fell to the ocean below. Rest of plane with wings climbed steeply because center of gravity shifted towards rear with front of plane now gone. It too fell into the ocean. There were no survivors.
Since then, wire with this kind of insulation is no longer used. Older planes are inspected more frequently and wiring replaced if indicated. A better layer of insulation between the AC equipment was installed on older and all new aircraft to prevent heat from reaching tanks. Inert Nitrogen Gas is also used to replace any Air in Fuel Tanks. Air supports Combustion while Nitrogen prevents it. There have been no further Accidents of this kind since the New Safety Procedures went into effect.
When they said that the souls who were lost died instantly, I hate to ask this question, but how? Many of their bodies were still in tact in the ocean. Was it from asphyxiation?
@@cleochip2938 The instant decompression and thin air at that height alone could kill most but what instantly killed them was most likely snapping of the neck once the plane broke apart those winds at that speed are fierce. Just think of the adrenaline rush from merely putting your head slightly out of a car window how the wind whips and rips past your face. Only people who may not have died instantly had to be at the rear of the plane
@@cleochip2938Plane was at 16,000 feet. After explosion, the center section pitched up and rose thousands more before falling. Lack of Oxygen and trauma from explosion probably killed them before they hit the sea.
@@SJR_Media_Group i think it depends on the position of the passengers. The ones probably to the rear of the craft wouldnt have had the same trauma. The plane didnt go up to high, so they wouldnt have had hypoxia. The alaskan airlines jet with the door that blew off in jan happened around the same altitude, no one passed out. We will never know who was alive but it must have been beyond terrifying. Its just awful to think about.
@@s3vR3xThanks for comment...
As safe as air travel is promoted to the public, there’s no chance of survival in 95% of accidents. No open casket either
Statistically it is the safest way to travel though.
Exactly I get that it’s safest statistically speaking, but I cannot imagine being in the air and having absolutely no control over what’s going to happen when something like this takes place it’s scary
Those missing 2 seconds arr highly unlikely to tell you anything useful about what happened.
To the guy specifically, who lost his beautiful family (at beginning, 2 little blonde daughters), obviously my heart pangs for all. But this is a heartfelt message from my family to you. May you find solace, from this transatlantic message of hope. We are with you, and hope our love reaches you. There are people pan-global who care, empathise and feel your pain and loss, albeit on a different level. In the most dreadful of circumstances, my family and I convey our love, and are sincerely glad your precious loved ones were all recovered and laid to rest with the dignity you all warranted. R.I.P.🪽✝️⛪️
Everybody has seen what shrapnel damage to an airliner looks like because of the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down over the Ukraine by a Russian BUK anti-aircraft missile. TWA 800 shows none of that damage.
Exactly.
8:15 That wreckage is still on fire 😱✈ rip to all the souls on board.
I am so sorry for the loss of your wife and daughters.
Poor guy, lost his whole family? 💀💀💀😭
Best Evidence TWA Flight 800 video has a lot of the witnesses
They left the AC packs running and it got too hot. Fuel vapor/oxygen mixture ignited in the empty center tank. Leaving tanks empty with a bit of fuel sloshing around in there is incredibly dangerous.
That has been proven thats what happened
I have to say the fact that all or many bodies were recovered intact makes me doubt that there was an explosion. Wouldn't it be expected that people would be in pieces?
There would definitely be shrapnel and metal debris not from the aircraft itself in the bodies, like with MH-17.
Some are designed to detonate just before impact. It's possoble
@@edreynolds8721 i have studied the pictures and video many times and you are right. A lot were intact, some were still strapped in the seats. I often wonder if any of the passengers were alive until the very end. Such a sad senseless murder.
Explosions rarely rip people into tiny pieces let alone one that happens at the very front of the plane.
@@PassiveSmokingand there was shrapnel found in the bodies as well as bone found lodged in a piece of metal so…. Should give you an idea of the force these bodies went through. Not one but at least TWO missiles went off beside and under that plane. Look into the documentary film TWA800, I think it’s free right now on Amazon Prime and YT.
“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
- Stephen King
The average American is propagandized daily by our MSM via The Owner class and MIC.
"One way or the other, you WILL come down." Stephen King.
I would believe aircraft pilots and mechanics before media presenters.
Its crazy how deranged people are to bring Trump and politics into this video.
Our world has become a pit of hatred...where is that Asteroid?
@@Blivot There has always been hatred in the world. It only seems like there's more hatred now because of the false impression that we're smarter these days. We're not smarter. We're actually more dumb. Spiritually, emotionally, and mentally more dumb. We've forgotten why we're here, as if many of us knew in the first place.
Politics connects everything. You're a bit naive frankly if you don't see that.
@@Jeff-bz6jp Thank you! That precisely explains what someone as stupid and hateful as Donald Trump became such a popular politician-it's a reflection of our people and times.
And right away pointing the finger at others because the US makes no mistakes !!!
When I was in the Coast Guard we were tasked with cleaning up the crash. We were told at the time that it was a Navy accident that they were firing projectiles during a training exercise and one of those projectiles (chaff) struck the plane. Surprising to see how this video is talking about it.
Because this came out in 2014.
The cause was also neither friendly fire nor terrorism. It was a freaking short circuit.
@@Tsumami__ So internally the navy took ownership over the incident but later came up with a cover story?
That was a theory without evidence to support it. They refused to believe the missile strike, despite significant eyewitness testimony from multiple locations and angles of view. Crash site investigators definitely found evidence of explosives on some parts of the wreckage, but the FBI intentionally ignored and then "misplaced" pieces sent for examination by NTSB officials. Kalstrom is a liar, Period. Do you think its possible for a plane without a nose to ascend 2000 feet before beginning to fall?
That sounds illogical, tho. If you KNOW overheating is a possibility, you can't possibly be stupid enough to put the HOT A/C components UNDER the fuel tanks. But, there it is.
There is another documentary if you can find it where several retired NTSB agents assigned to the crash, confirmed, residue commensurate with fuel from a missile impact. But the FBI restricted their abilities.
After analzying radar data, I am with Tom Stahlcup and his theory as being an absolute valid one. RIP to all.
I worked for twa as a flight attendant. To this day I do not believe it was a malfunction. Most twa people believe it was a friendly fire accident. Over 200 people who saw this agree💯🙏
I’ll take a multi-year and agency investigation over your ‘belief’. You don’t even understand what damage it does. You are no better than those who deny Sandy Hook. Shame on you.
As yes, being a TWA flight attendant must mean you're more qualified to speak on this than experts who's job it is to investigate these things
@Crustaceannationrepresentative she probably is. You are a smart ass. Coverups happens allllll the time.
@@Sylvia-zv1eq And what's the reason for a coverup here? There weren't any naval vessels in the area at that time and they sure as hell wouldn't be firing live missiles into civilian air corridors
@@Sylvia-zv1eq That’s exactly why they covered up Iranair 655 right?
I will never forget that evening. It was like when people ask you "where were you when JFK was shot?". I will never forget where i was when i heard the plane went down. I was 15 years old, living in Queens, not far from JFK airport. My family was driving home from dinner, and the breaking news came on the radio. When we got home, we all put the tvs on to see what happened. It hurt so much, to think other high school students, my age, were on that plane. They will never experience the things i was about to experience in high school. I cant believe its been 28 years since it happened.
My heart breaks for the first Gentleman
I remember seeing this on the news and the anchorwoman tearing up while reporting it. Such a tragedy 😢.
God Bless him.....utterly tragic...
“I don’t believe we’ve ever done that…” smh
It's ridiculous to think it was a shoulder fire missile. Do the math. If a naval AA missile was out of range. Then there's no way a shoulder fire missile could have reached 13,700 alt @ 15 miles out to sea.Traveling at 800 mph. Best range on a SF is 550 yds. There's no way a SF missile can do that. It would've had to be a vehicle mounted AA missle. And the fire trail would be so large. It would like apollo 11 taking off. You just can't carry around a missle that large. And fire one without anybody knowing exactly where it came from.
It was a missle...
@@user-fi6qr8wb9uNo it wasn’t
You can not reason with dumbasses, unfortunately.
Sure 😮
People in the in the New York area saw otherwise.
Man, this is very sad. After a long week watching the 9/11 videos this just pushed me over the edge and I just start watching. That man that lost his wife and 2 daughters really moved me.
We must not forget aviation disasters so many lifes lost
does those two seconds missing line up with the time on the radar that there was an anomaly heading toward the plane?
has someone checked the times against one another????
Yes. I have done an exhaustive analysis on this case. -25- seconds of Flight data recorder 'data' was omitted by the NTSB for their tabular chart for their exhibit.