Tragedy of TWA Flight 800 reaches final chapter
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The fuselage of the TWA Boeing 747, shown at its training center in Ashburn., Va., was painstakingly reassembled from nearly 1,600 pieces plucked from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
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For nearly 20 years, a haunting relic of one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history has been tucked away in a warehouse in Northern Virginia.
The fuselage of the Boeing 747, painstakingly reassembled from nearly 1,600 pieces plucked from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, is a macabre jigsaw puzzle of wires and burned, twisted metal. But it is all that remains of Trans World Airline Flight 800, the Paris-bound jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from New York s John F. Kennedy International Airport 25 years ago, killing all 230 people onboard.
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TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed off southern Long Island 25 years ago this month. The disaster killed 230 people and sparked a four-year investigation that changed the way aircrafts are designed.
TWA Flight 800 had exploded in mid-air and plunged into the ocean just off East Moriches on July 17, 1996. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded faulty wires caused the fuel tank to ignite.
The NTSB stored the wreckage in Virginia and used it as a training tool for crash site investigators. Now, the NTSB said advances in technology mean they no longer need the downed plane for training.
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