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TIME's TWA crash site at time.com/twa offers a special report on the disaster and daily news updates
...ocean stubbornly held on to its mysteries for most of last week. It was especially uncooperative on Thursday for the men and women investigating the 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...
...disaster but also about the originators of what they are almost certain is a monstrous crime. A well-placed U.S. intelligence source has told TIME that calls and transmissions tracked by the CIA out of Tehran "have raised suspicions" that there is an Iranian connection to the crash. The CIA is also looking at intelligence on a meeting of terrorist leaders in Iran the month before the crash to see if any green light was given for the attack. "There's a hard look being taken at the Iran possibility," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. However, he adds...
...explosive, and some of those particles penetrate porous material and lodge there, protected from the elements. Says a bomb specialist: "Nylon, porous materials, seat cushions--a lot of stuff can get in there and stick. You wash down the debris with a solvent and run it 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...
...played two of the saddest girls in moviedom--The Piano's Flora and the young Jane Eyre--Paquin, 14, keeps the melancholy theme going in her next film, Fly Away Home. She plays Amy, who moves in with her estranged inventor father after her mother dies in a car crash. She has to teach wild geese she finds to fly, or a wildlife officer will clip their wings. At least she gets to cuddle something soft...