Wreckage from TWA Flight 800 to be destroyed years after explosion
CNN)The reconstructed wreckage of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, which exploded minutes after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996, will be decommissioned and destroyed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
All 230 people on board the Paris-bound flight were killed. The Boeing 747 was destroyed, and the wreckage fell into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Long Island, New York.
The reconstructed wreckage has been used in accident investigation training courses for nearly 20 years, the NTSB said in a statement on Monday.
The tragedy prompted one of the largest & most expensive aviation investigations in history and set off a flurry of conspiracy theories, though the NTSB eventually deemed it an accident and found no evidence of foul play.
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After an exhaustive four-year investigation, the NTSB determined that the probable cause of the explosion was an electrical short that detonated vapors in the center wing fuel tank, though they never definitively determined where the initial spark came from.
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