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Memorial services for Michel Breistroff '94-'95 will be held today at 9:30 a.m. in Memorial Church. Breistroff, a former Mather resident, died in the TWA Flight 800 crash this summer...
...LOUIS, MO: Surprising industry insiders, Trans World Airlines chief executive and president Jeffrey Erickson announced his resignation late Thursday, on the day the airline posted a $14.3 million quarterly loss linked to the July crash of TWA flight 800. The tragedy reversed the remarkable financial turnaround that was underway at the long-floundering company, which posted a 400-fold gain in its second-quarter earnings on July 17, the day of the crash. Erickson, 51, said he would step down in January. As investigators increasingly focus on possible mechanical failure as a leading theory for the crash, amid speculation, accurate...
...TWA: RUMORS ABOUT A MISSILE...
...theory about the crash of TWA's Flight 800 [NATION, Sept. 30] has been circulating claiming that a missile from a U.S. Navy warship on maneuvers may have downed the aircraft. Although this rumor has been vehemently denied by the Navy and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, what a sorry state of affairs it would be if this proved to be true. It would be one of the biggest and worst cover-ups in U.S. history. VICKI DUCANOIS St. Avertin, France...
Ever since TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair on July 17, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI have been scrambling to determine what caused the Boeing 747 jumbo jet to plunge into the Atlantic, killing all 230 people on board. From the beginning, the theories--a missile, an exploding fuel tank, a mechanical failure or possibly even a meteorite strike--seemed almost as confusing as the jumbled pieces of the plane. And then a set of tantalizing clues emerged. Investigators discovered that several pieces of recovered wreckage bore minute traces of chemical explosives. That evidence provided...