It still takes my breath away : TWA Flight 800 to be scrapped after 25 years | Mike Kelly
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ASHBURN, Virginia The bones of one of America’s worst air disasters are finally being laid to rest.
But there will be no special grave or burial ceremony for the battered, twisted and fire-scarred chunk of fuselage from TWA Flight 800 which exploded minutes after takeoff 25 years ago this month over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 passengers and crew members who were bound for Paris and then Rome.
Or as the National Transportation Safety Board officially calls the process: “Certified destruction.”
Before this painstaking dismantling begins, NorthJersey.com and the USA TODAY Network was given an exclusive look Tuesday at the fuselage, which has sat for nearly two decades in a sweltering warehouse just off a highway in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.
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