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Your article on the search for aircraft sabotage [AFTERMATH: FLIGHT 800 CRASH, Aug. 5] included a reference to the May 9, 1976, crash near Madrid of an Iranian air force plane that was the same model as TWA Flight 800. You mistakenly said this leased aircraft was a Continental Airlines Boeing 747-100. The aircraft in question was never in Continental's fleet. It was leased to the prerevolutionary Iranian air force by another U.S. air carrier. NED WALKER, Vice President for Corporate Communications Continental Airlines Houston...
...crash of TWA Flight 800. Rain and strong winds disrupted and eventually interrupted search operations. But on Friday there was a breakthrough. Deep Drone 7200, a remotely operated robot outfitted with cameras that can explore ocean depths without divers, located part of the cockpit, "the nerve center of the aircraft," as Robert Francis, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), described it. Said James Kallstrom, the FBI's lead investigator: "I just think that somewhere in the front of the plane is a clue." Investigators generally believe that if a bomb destroyed Flight 800, it exploded...
...through the machines." Crash clues, in the end, could come in very small packages. Says an aviation expert: "All the significant evidence could fit on top of a desk." But finding that evidence could require raising most of the plane. Through Friday, less than 10% of the aircraft had been recovered...
...closed the temporary morgue set up at a Coast Guard station immediately after the explosion; it has been two days since divers have recovered the bodies of any new victims, and searchers are no longer confident that they will find any more. The recovery of large pieces of the aircraft continues. Crews pulled a 75-foot section of the right wing from the ocean Wednesday, and investigators also plan to bring ashore the left wing and two intact engines which have been spotted on the ocean floor. The prevailing theory is that a bomb was placed in the forward cargo...
...fuselage, the largest chunk recovered so far. No explosive residue has been found yet on any of the recovered pieces. The FBI and NTSB still say they have not gathered enough forensic evidence to explain why the plane exploded in mid-air. The remains of the 350,000 ton aircraft are scattered over the ocean floor in heaps 10 to 12 feet high. Divers have described the hazards of exploring the wreckage in the dark as equivalent to diving into an underwater junkyard. TIME's Elaine Rivera reports from East Moriches: "Divers are having serious problems getting to parts...