Word: twa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just to list one more event, we can look to the TWA flight 800 crash in 1996. Once again, even before investigators had time to explore mechanical causes for the airplane's crash, experts were already pointing fingers at Arabs and Muslims, and once again, no apology was made when the real reason, a frayed wire, was discovered...
...thus far," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "By making the FBI the lead agency in the investigation, it now becomes possible for a more thorough investigation into the background and lives of everyone aboard the plane. And the men leading the probe headed up the PanAm 103 and TWA 800 investigations respectively, giving them plenty of experience in investigating terrorism that looks like accidents and accidents that look like terrorism...
...National Transportation Safety Board is determined to proceed with caution this time, dampening the kind of speculation that flourished after TWA Flight 800 went down. Chairman Jim Hall, who was overshadowed by the FBI in that investigation, has appeared at nearly every press conference, emphasizing the importance of waiting for the facts--and the analysis of the black boxes...
...ready to subscribe to a "new Bermuda Triangle theory"--namely that there is a curse on aircraft traveling up the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a graveyard that now contains the remains not only of John F. Kennedy Jr. but also of some of the passengers and crew aboard TWA Flight 800. No less than Mubarak himself seemed taken with the theory, urging the U.S. to investigate "something in the atmosphere, something in the weather." For many, that explanation was better than none...
EgyptAir 990 is showing signs of going the way of TWA 800 - a mysterious disaster whose investigation produces no answers, only forensically guided hypotheses. Hopes that the cockpit voice recorder would unlock the mystery appear to have been dashed Monday, as sources close to the investigation indicated that the tape provided no answers. Evidence from the first "black box" had established that the Boeing 767's engines were turned off at 33,000 feet, precipitating a plunge of 16,000 feet in just 40 seconds before the plane steeply climbed for a mile and a half and then finally plunged...