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Tragedy of TWA Flight 800 reaches final chapter
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The Washington Post
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Today at 2:48 a.m.
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.
(The Washington Post/John McDonnell)
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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