... TWA Flight 800 and the 9/11 Commission Cover Up: An Interview With ... Indonesian navy personnel retrieve bodies of QZ8501 victims at INDONESIA-JAVA SEA-AIRASIA-VICTIMS: pin. 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. "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. If mechanical failure brought down the Boeing 747, investigators have said the most likely scenario would be an explosion set off by vapors in an empty fuel tank at the center of the plane. A TWA employee who was supposed to serve as first officer on Flight 800 Wednesday night says that N93119 was "flawless" on its Tuesday touchdown at J.F.K. Nonetheless, the NTSB concluded that "the ignition energy for the CWT explosion most likely entered the CWT through the FQIS wiring".Though the FQIS itself was designed to prevent danger by minimizing voltages and currents, the innermost tube of Flight 800's FQIS compensator showed damage similar to that of the compensator tube identified as the ignition source for the The captain's cockpit voice recorder channel showed two "dropouts" of background power harmonics in the second before the recording ended (with the separation of the nose).The NTSB investigation ended with the adoption of the board's final report on August 23, 2000. Coast Guard crewmen collect parts of the TWA jetliner from the waters off Long Island's south shore July 18, 1996.A piece of TWA flight 800 is removed from a Navy barge and loaded onto a truck at the Coast Guard Station at Shinnecock, N.Y., July 29, 1996. Victims from the TWA flight 800 crash lie in body MORICHES, NY - JULY 9: Victims from the TWA flight 800 crash lie in body bags(R) on the deck of a New Jersey State Police boat as they are brought into the Moriches, New York harbor after being picked up 18 July in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island. The blast occurred when the plane was traveling at 400 mph at about 13,700 feet the evening of July 17. 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