NTSB Animation of TWA Flight 800

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This day in history, July 17th, marks the eighteenth anniversary of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800. • Carrying 230 passengers and crew, the plane exploded without warning while flying twelve miles out and two and a half miles up over East Morishes, Long Island, NY. • After four years of investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Transportation Safety Board, it was determined that that cause of Flight 800s demise was due to: • [An] explosion of the center wing fuel tank (CWT), resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. The source of ignition energy for the explosion could not be determined with certainty, but, of the sources evaluated by the investigation, the most likely was a short circuit outside of the CWT that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring associated with the fuel quantity indication system. • • The NTSB also released this very same video here depicting what most likely occurred that hot summer evening and what witnesses more than likely saw in the sky. • When the plane lost its 18,000 pound nose from the tank blowing out, the center of gravity shifted to the back and tilted the tail down. Since it was traveling at 386 miles per hour and was positioned in a climbing angle, the plane's kinetic energy with the sudden weight loss and four engines that were spooling out of control with power and thrust, all served to drive the remaining fuselage into a brief climb to a maximum altitude between 15,537 and 16,678 feet (4,736 and 5,083 m) from its last recorded altitude, 13,760 feet (4,190 m). • This climb came to an end when the outer edges of the wings snapped off and the main section stalled and plunged into the ocean. • For more information about the crash of TWA 800, please see my other video on this disaster: • • TWA Flight 800 Remastered Re-creation • • LICENSING: • This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

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