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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.
Flying Lessons By Christine Negroni on April 29, 2021 at 7:53 AM
During the second half of the nineties, the patrician visage of Robert Talcott Francis dominated the news. And yet, when he died earlier this month at the age of 83, few outside of the aviation press published obituaries. This is not an obituary either, but my impressions of a thin slice of the man’s career when he was caught between feuding agencies and a multinational catastrophe.
In 1996, Francis, with his Oxford shirts and aristocratic manner, was the vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board and as such he was the face of two high-casualty, high-profile airline crashes.
they could to answer the question why. as a result of the ntsb s findings, major safety improvements are implemented with both aircraft design and maintenance. we now have systems in center fuel tanks so that if there is not fuel in them that there s an increased amount of nitrogen, that is nonexplosive, that s manufactured on the airplane and then directed into the fuel tank. aging aircraft wiring maintenance programs have been significantly improved. that s a direct result. for the families of the victims, the tragedy leads to the passage of the family assistance act, forever changing how loved ones are treated after transportation disasters. families will know exactly where to go and who will speak for the government when they have lost a loved one. it took the events of twa 800 and the action of president clinton to ensure that their loved ones were given the proper respect when people have a loss
they are sitting waiting and watching of course there s not much they can do because the search effort is halted at this point. we were talking with will and with andrew at the airport about the families you know a lot about family assistance, because you wrote the book on it literally, right? in 1996 twa value jet and earlier the u.s. air accident pittsburgh the families came together and were pushing the ntsb and i chaired a and we wrote the family assistance act that congress passed in 1996 that really set the worldwide standard and has been taken up by virtually every other country. indonesia too? indonesia signed the treaty