Passenger List: TWA Flight 800 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. According to the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation report, TWA Flight 3's flight plan was usually prepared by the First Officer under the supervision of the Captain, and was to be approved and signed by the Captain Sadly, on January 16, 1942 at 7:20 p.m. (PST) TWA Flight 3 impacted a near verticle cliff Aerotoons®, is a participant in the Amazon Affiliates Program.
On the morning of January 16, 1942 actress Carole Lombard At the scheduled stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico TWA Flight 3 took on an additional 15 U.S. Army Air Corp members and made a crew change. As of 2005Heidi Snow, the fiancée of Flight 800 victim Michel Breistroff, established the The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial was dedicated in a 2-acre (8,100 mFlight that exploded and crashed in 1996 off the coast of New YorkN93119, the aircraft involved in the accident, in May 1995.The close-up view of the accident aircraft's front fuselage, showing the seven plugged windows on the upper deck. This list was posted to the internet, but the version I have does not identify the researcher's name, which is why its not properly credited. The Pioneer Saloon was built in 1913 and has been featured in several TV shows and movies. Snyder was seated in the first officer's seat and had 17,000 flight hours, with more than 4,700 of them on the Boeing 747. ")Thirty-eight witnesses described a streak of light that ascended vertically, or nearly so, and these accounts "seem[ed] to be inconsistent with the accident airplane's flightpath. Approximately 15 minutes later it collided with an almost vertical rock cliff, near the top of Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountain Range. This authority includes interviewing witnesses. At 4:40 PM, Flight 3 departed Albuquerque for the Las Vegas Air Terminal which unlike Boulder City (TWA Terminal) had lighted runways. At this time during World War II military personnel were deemed essential and took precedence over other passengers so Lombard, Peters, and Winkler were asked to deplane in order to accommodate them. The MOU states that: “[t]his procedure is intended…to ensure that neither NTSB nor FBI investigative activity unnecessarily complicates or compromises the other agency’s investigation. Here is a list of the 39 passengers and crew held hostage in Beirut in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. The 30-knot track is at the bottom center of the image.Trace amounts of explosive residue were detected on three samples of material from three separate locations of the recovered airplane wreckage (described by the FBI as a piece of canvas-like material and two pieces of a floor panel).Further examination of the airplane structure, seats, and other interior components found no damage typically associated with a high-energy explosion of a bomb or missile warhead ("severe pitting, cratering, petalling, or hot gas washing").The NTSB considered the possibility that the explosive residue was due to contamination from the aircraft's use in 1991 transporting troops during the Although it was unable to determine the exact source of the trace amounts of explosive residue found on the wreckage, the lack of any other corroborating evidence associated with a high-energy explosion led the NTSB to conclude that "the in-flight breakup of TWA flight 800 was not initiated by a bomb or missile strike. "In order to evaluate the sequence of structural breakup of the airplane, the NTSB formed the Sequencing Group,Because there was no evidence that an explosive device detonated in this (or any other) area of the airplane, this overpressure event could only have been caused by a fuel/air explosion in the CWT.In order to better determine whether a fuel/air vapor explosion in the CWT would generate sufficient pressure to break apart the fuel tank and lead to the destruction of the airplane, tests were conducted in July and August 1997, using a retired Ultimately, based on "the accident airplane's breakup sequence; wreckage damage characteristics; scientific tests and research on fuels, fuel tank explosions, and the conditions in the CWT at the time of the accident; and analysis of witness information,"Recovery locations of the wreckage from the ocean (the red, yellow, and green zones) clearly indicated that: (1) the red area pieces (from the forward portion of the wing center section and a ring of fuselage directly in front) were the earliest pieces to separate from the airplane; (2) the forward fuselage section departed simultaneously with or shortly after the red area pieces, landing relatively intact in the yellow zone; (3) the green area pieces (wings and the aft portion of the fuselage) remained intact for a period after the separation of the forward fuselage, and impacted the water in the green zone.Fire damage and soot deposits on the recovered wreckage indicated that some areas of fire existed on the airplane as it continued in crippled flight after the loss of the forward fuselage.At the start of FBI's investigation, because of the possibility that international terrorists might have been involved, assistance was requested from the CIA (US As the investigation progressed, the NTSB decided to form a witness group to more fully address the accounts of witnesses.In February 1998, the FBI, having closed its active investigation, agreed to fully release the witness summaries to the NTSB.The NTSB's review of the released witness documents determined that they contained 736 witness accounts, of which 258 were characterized as "streak of light" witnesses ("an object moving in the sky... variously described [as] a point of light, fireworks, a flare, a shooting star, or something similar.