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 ...

On Wednesday, July 17, 1996, at 8:19 p.m., TWA Flight 800 took off from JFK airport and headed out over Long Island toward Paris. It was a perfect summer night, 70 degrees, the sky clear.

The NTSB promised families the wreckage would never be publicly displayed. The National Transportation Safety Board said it will destroy the remaining wreckage of TWA Flight 800 after nearly 20 ...

Was TWA Flight 800 shot out of the sky? As a former pilot, that is a question I get asked about all the time. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but let’s be clear: Yes. I say it was. And I believe ...

Such is the complicated, enduring legacy of TWA Flight 800. To some it is still a story of a terrorist conspiracy that persists despite well-documented facts showing the plane was actually brought ...

More than a decade after concluding a fuel tank explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, senior U.S. accident investigators stood their ground on Tuesday against skeptics claiming new evidence suggests ...

A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers “solid proof that there was an external detonation,” its co-producer said Wednesday. “Of course, everyone knows ...

Remembering the 23-year anniversary of TWA Flight 800's July 17, 1996 crash off Long Island with photos chronicling the aftermath and investigation. Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Flames ...

“After 25 years, family members realize it’s a reasonable amount of time for them to let it go,” said James Hall, who served as NTSB chairman during the TWA 800 crash and investigation.

The NTSB is set to close another chapter in the story of TWA 800. The downed jetliner, one of a handful recovered and reconstructed, was decommissioned this month and will be destroyed by the end ...