NTSB Denies Petition To Re-examine TWA 800 Accident
Board says group did not prove its claim that a missile shot down the Boeing 747.
The NTSB reassembled enough of TWA 800’s fuselage to be quite certain of the cause of the explosion. (Photo: NTSB)
The NTSB reassembled enough of TWA 800’s fuselage to be quite certain of the cause of the explosion. (Photo: NTSB)

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) last week denied a 2013 petition to re-examine the causes of the July 1996 accident in which TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean soon after takeoff from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport. A group called The TWA 800 Project filed the petition, claiming that a “detonation or high-velocity explosion” (possibly a missile) brought down the Boeing 747.