Wreckage of TWA Flight 800 will be destroyed 25 years after the deadly explosion
Keeping a promise to the families of those lost, the NTSB never publicly displayed the wreckage. Now, 25 years later, TWA Flight 800 is being destroyed for good.
Credit: AP
FILE - In this July 16, 2001, file photo, the seats, foreground, and wreckage of TWA Flight 800 sit in a hangar in Calverton, N.Y. The July 17, 1996, calamity was one of the most infamous air disasters in history. Some still debate findings that the Boeing 747 was brought down by a center fuel-tank explosion ignited by a spark from a short-circuit; a conclusion reached after the disintegrated jet was painstakingly put back together like a jigsaw puzzle. (AP Photo/ Ed Betz, File)
Letter: Long Island has its Big Duck so fly away from Nipper
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Celebrity deaths in 2020: Remembering stars who died this year
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
2020 celebrity deaths included actors Sean Connery, Chadwick Boseman and Kelly Preston and rocker Eddie Van Halen. (AP)
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Celebrity deaths: In memoriam 2020
As we near the end of 2020, we take time to look back at those celebrities and other famous individuals we have lost in the past year. Check out our slideshows to learn more about those stars who have passed on.
Singer Hillard “Sweet Pea” Atkinson, 1945 - 2020
Ohio native and former member of Was (Not Was) also collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Sir Elton John over the course of his career