Atlantic Ocean / Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) Flight 800 Crash / Investigation

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Atlantic Ocean / Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) Flight 800 Crash / Investigation #164103

ABC Evening News for Saturday, Dec 14, 1996
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.

(Washington: Lisa Stark) Meeting of epresentatives of the NTSB, Federal Aviation Administration and FBI with members of the families of the victims of Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) Flight 800, which crashed last summer, featured; details given of NTSB's announcement that the accident may have been caused by a buildup of hot vapors in the plane's fuel tank. [Fathers of victim Jose CREMADES, Michael BREISTROFF - say we want to know the cause and are being told nothing.] The angry reaction of the FBI to the NTSB for reaching a tentative conclusion that the cause was mechanical failure noted; statement from the FBI's James Kallstrom quoted.

Reporter(s):: Brown, Aaron;; Stark, Lisa
Duration:: 00:02:10

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