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...investigating some 50 people--maintenance workers, food handlers and members of cleaning crews--who were in or near the TWA jet during its New York layover to see if any one of them could have planted a device. FBI agents will also begin screening any cargo shippers that may have sent boxes on the plane...
Theory after theory flickered across the news last week, with reports of suspicious cargo that might have slipped onto the plane or of manifestos claiming responsibility for the deed. But any case for a bomb--and against bombers--begins with hard evidence from the crash site itself. And so last week the U.S. Coast Guard methodically raked up the debris off Long Island, 16 miles south of Moriches Inlet. Searchers ranged over an area of 240 square miles, neatly subdivided into nine grids. Each grid was systematically combed in a zigzag pattern; every piece of debris, of trash, every personal...
...checked luggage be matched with a passenger, and that checked luggage be X-rayed. But a former top security official with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees Kennedy airport, says that to save time, baggage checked at curbside is often taken directly to the cargo area without going through an X-ray machine. U.S. domestic flights still do not require bags and passengers to travel together--even after the CIA issued a warning last summer that there were signs of increased terrorist threats to U.S. airlines. And when the FAA proposed positive bag matches...
...whether it was carried on whether something hit the plane from outside and caused it to explode." But Kallstrom then contradicted himself, saying he was not ruling out other possibilities, such as "a mechanical problem that has nothing to do with terrorism or criminality, or something in the cargo that would have caused a mechanical problem." Robert Francis of the National Transportation Safety Board could not say what the sound was, and said the flight data recorder tape had been contaminated by water and needed further study. Francis said divers on Wednesday found the data and voice recorders, which...
...together the 747 airliner. They will study such factors as the direction in which particular pieces of the wreckage were bent, and the relative heat damage to different parts of the airliner, which provide vital clues to the precise source and direction of the explosion: a bomb inside the cargo department? an exploding engine? a missile from outside? "These people are so expert in their field that they can reassemble the plane with even the smallest pieces of metal," says Hannifin. Once the pieces are put together, FBI specialists perform tests on the plane parts to trace particles of outgassing...