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Old 06-20-2013 | 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by block30
TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence in new documentary, claim original conclusion about cause of crash is wrong | Fox News

A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago.
However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down.
Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded and crashed off the coast of nearby East Moriches, Long Island, killing everyone on the plane.
Guess they have decided to not stop short of the speculation anymore.
The article linked below seems to suggest they are concentrating on that exact theory.

Former TWA Flight 800 crash investigators want federal government to re-examine case - The Washington Post

I'm curious too the nature of the *new information* not available to the original investigation.

Personally I don't think there is anything here - but I'm glad that they are open to looking at any TRULY new information.