conspiracy theorists believe we still don t know the truthful was it a bomb? a missile or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minutes after takeoff from new york s jfk airport. it was just 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interviews later, claims that a u.s. navy ship had accidentally shot down airplane. finally, four years into it, terrorism and a friendly fire missile strike were ruled out. determines that the probable cause of the flight 800 accident was an explosion of the center wing tank resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel air mixture in the tank. another great mystery, u.s. air flight 427. it left chicago s o hare international airport on september 8th, 1994, bound for pittsburgh. just six miles out while passing
americans believe that ufos exist and there s no evidence of that. so i mean the fact that people believe things that aren t true, that doesn t influence necessarily a serious investigation. i will say in the tw800 case it took four years for the national transportation safety board to come up with the actual reason the plane crashed, which was a mechanical failure in the central wing tank, electrical failure. so these investigations take a long time in the best of circumstances. our thanks to peter bergen, national security analyst. you know, i will say even if they don t hamper the investigation, what they sometimes do do is make it impossible or harder for people to believe the results after the fact. to cut through the noise, right? well, after it s all over, tw800 they came up with the reason and there are still so many people that don t believe it and because malaysian officials the answers have not always been consistent there, you can see why we re hearing more and more t
was twa flight 800, conspiracy theorists believe we still don t know the truth. was it a bomb, a missile, or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minute after takeoff from new york s jfk airport. it was july 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris-bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interviews later claims that a u.s. navy ship had accidentally shot down the airplane. finally, four years into it, terrorism and a friendly fire missile strike were ruled out. we ve determined that the probable cause of the twa flight 800 accident was an explosion of the center wing tank resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel air mixture in the tank. reporter: another great mystery, u.s. air flight 427. it left chicago s o hare international airport on september 8, 1994, bound for
the conclusion, pilot error. in an attempt to recover from ice crystals affecting their speed sensors, the pilots pointed the nose upward rather than downward. 13 years before that crash there was twa flight 800, conspiracy theorists believe we still don t know the truth. was it a bomb, a missile, or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minutes after takeoff from new york s jfk airport. it was july 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris-bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interviews later claims that a u.s. navy ship had accidentally shot down the airplane. finally, four years into it, terrorism and a friendly fire missile strike were ruled out. we ve determined that the probable cause of the twa flight 800 accident was an explosion of the center wing tank resulting
that for about 30 seconds more, the coach section kept flying. the plane is flying without the forward third of it still attached. how does that happen? the airplane has momentum and it does not stop in the air when it happens so it continues with the speed and the velocity. there was not just one explosion. but two that doomed the plane. you see the soot on the wreckage? that second blast half a minute later erupted when the left wing tore away leaking fuel from the much larger wing tank. what created that fireball that everybody saw? that s as the fuel is misting into the air, it finds the ig niin addition source and flairs up to create the fireball as the pieces are dropping to the water. cnn created this animation of what the ntsb describes as the last moments of twa 800.