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...front third of the aircraft was ripped off by an explosion in the center fuel tank. Seconds later, the plummeting remainder was consumed by flames. This was not for the faint of heart, the Bureau's assistant director James Kallstrom warned, but insisted the American people deserved...
...know what caused the crash beyond an unspecified mechanical failure. But the reconstruction sought to nix niggling fears of a friendly fire incident, and to prove that what dissenting eyewitnesses had seen was not a missile going up, but Flight 800 coming down. At least one skeptic was convinced: Kallstrom said Pierre Salinger had called to concur with his findings...
...YORK: The FBI meant well. When assistant director James Kallstrom decided to tell victims' families he was closing his criminal investigation into the Flight 800 disaster for lack of evidence, says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, "he didn't want them to read it in the morning paper...
...announcement went out to families overseas on Monday; domestic letters were posted Wednesday. But by Thursday morning, there it was on page one. "This was just a snafu," Shannon said after talking to FBI officials. "Especially because he has a close friend whose wife was on the flight, Kallstrom feels very strongly about avoiding any insensitivity to those families. But the letter got leaked. He's not happy about it." The formal announcement may come next week; in any case the news was a surprise to no one. "They had some tests to conclude, and then it was just dotting...
Federal agents thought they had deep-sixed the friendly fire story when it first emerged in September. "It's based on third- and fourth-hand gossip and hearsay," says James Kallstrom, the FBI's investigator. The Navy says its nearest vessel was 180 miles away, far out of missile range. The FBI says it has independently verified the Navy's account and that the plane wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck...