Flight 800–The Mystery That Will Not Die
Despite a massive effort by the government and its train of media supplicants–CNN, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post and all the usual suspects–the TWA Flight 800 mystery will not die. On July 17, after a news conference staged by relatives and witnesses, ABCNews.com left the media bandwagon and joined the New York Observer, which has been critical of the NTSB investigation from the beginning, in raising questions about the official story. Philip Weiss of the Observer has consistently published articles questioning the official story. On July 12, 1999, he published an article about the so-called “30-knot track,” a radar track of a boat that has never been identified. This boat moved away from directly under Flight 800 at high speed.read more