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...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 in the front of the aircraft. Examining the cockpit could help prove that theory...
Those clues are being arduously analyzed by experts at the NTSB and the FBI. One cluster of NTSB engineers is tracking the trajectories of pieces of wreckage from where they landed to where they began to fall. This is done with computers that factor in radar records, wind direction and speed, and other data. The studies will help experts determine the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the plane's destruction. Also, the sharp sound at the end of the cockpit voice recording is being analyzed in minuscule detail, with attention to the different speeds at which the vibrations...
Amid surging hopes that the cause of the crash would soon be revealed, both boxes--the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders--were flown immediately to the NTSB lab in Washington, where experts spent much of Thursday in preliminary analysis. The flight-data recorder, which automatically tracks a number of the plane's navigational and mechanical processes, had been partly damaged by salt water, though officials believe much of the encoded information can eventually be salvaged...
...111/2 minutes into the flight, followed by silence. This tiny glitch of noise reinforced the notion--privately held by many government officials almost from the beginning--that Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb or even a missile. During a Friday- afternoon news conference, Francis revealed that the NTSB was consulting with investigators of what proved to be bombings of an Air India jet in 1985 and of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 to see if the sounds on the TWA voice recorder match up with those recovered from the other two downed planes...
EAST MORICHES: After a day of investigation that NTSB vice chairman Robert Francis called the most unproductive since Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, salvage work is continuing on the remains of TWA's flight 800. Ten bodies were recovered on Thursday, leaving only 46 of 230 victims unaccounted for. Also pulled from the ocean was a 40-foot long piece of the plane's 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...