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TWA Flight 800

  • TV Movie
  • 2013
  • PG-13
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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TWA Flight 800 (2013)
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An independent scientist is joined by former members of the official investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 to blow the whistle on the cover-up of the real cause of the crash.An independent scientist is joined by former members of the official investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 to blow the whistle on the cover-up of the real cause of the crash.An independent scientist is joined by former members of the official investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 to blow the whistle on the cover-up of the real cause of the crash.

  • Director
    • Kristina Borjesson
  • Writer
    • Kristina Borjesson
  • Stars
    • Merritt Birky
    • Roy Blunt
    • Al Dickinson
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    • Director
      • Kristina Borjesson
    • Writer
      • Kristina Borjesson
    • Stars
      • Merritt Birky
      • Roy Blunt
      • Al Dickinson
    • 21User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Merritt Birky
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    Roy Blunt
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    Al Dickinson
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    Vernon L. Grose
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    Robert Hager
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    James Kallstrom
    James Kallstrom
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    Bernard Loeb
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    Charley Pereira
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    Tom Stalcup
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    James Traficant
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    Charles Wetli
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    • Director
      • Kristina Borjesson
    • Writer
      • Kristina Borjesson
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    Crackpot compete debunked conspiracy using utterly untrue statements

    First of all several of the "investigators" supposedly attached to the investigator of this accident were never attached to the investigation. that is lie number one.

    The "documentary" is filled with falsehoods, misdirection, red herrings and strawman arguments.

    It is a craven attempt to make money off of the families of the dead -- that is disgusting
    9Stewatson35

    Been saying it for years. The alphabet gangs can't be trusted.

    The ATF, the FBI and even the CIA all involved themselves in this disaster where a "dr fauxci" style man gives evidence to Congress about 800 eyewitnesses all being wrong!

    This documentary shows that the people who are supposed to be looking after your own interests, are actively fighting against the truth to keep the country - and world - in the dark as to what really happened.

    Way too many commercial flights just disappear. Something has to be done about this.

    The government still denies the eyewitnesses accounts. All 800 of them.

    They'd use eyewitness testimony in just about any other case. 🤷‍♂️ Go figure.
    7moonspinner55

    Now that we've established the "how", it's time the determine the "why"...

    Writer-director Kristina Borjesson has assembled a fascinating, frustrating, anger-causing documentary on TWA Flight 800, the ill-fated Boeing 747-100 which, in 1996, exploded over the shores of Long Island just minutes after takeoff from JFK Airport en route to Paris, France. Borjesson is very careful not to immediately point fingers and declare a massive government cover-up (in the interest of a juicy exposé; we're all fascinated by conspiracies). Instead, she establishes a cover-up with her evidence. TWA Flight 800 was very clearly shot down by three separate missiles, all deliberately launched in order to take that plane down. The FBI, the CIA and the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) each concluded there was no external foul play involved in the crash, that the internal problem was located in the plane's center fuel tank (it even says so on the memorial!). After viewing the witness testimonials and evidence, one can see this is utter nonsense. The underlying horror of this film is the fact the nightly news (via the powers-that-be) is giving falsified reports to the public--and the public is asked to believe every word of it because, after all, these guys are the experts. *** from ****
    8vlefaive

    WHY ? Why cover up ?

    Man...Astonishing documentary alleges seriously that the U.S. government-including the FBI and DOJ-are corrupt and cover-up the truth concerning the mysterious crash of TWA Ft 800 on July 17, 1996.

    Flight 800 was possibly destroyed by a surface-to-air missile or missiles. Every allegation made in this film is backed up with facts also dramatic are those that come from the Federal agencies themselves.

    Shared is what hundreds ( more than 700 ) official eyewitnesses actually saw; why aviators reject the CIA "cartoon" explanation; how the Feds criminally suppressed reporting; the damning radar data and documentation; the critical witness drawings; the rigged NTSB hearings; the altered physical evidence; undeniable proof of explosive residue proving a missile strike; the stinging report from the machinist union. What I want to know ? WHY ? WHY ? WHY ?
    10happy_in_side

    This research librarian is convinced

    I'm a research librarian who teaches information literacy to college students. Information literacy is essentially how to find, evaluate, and use credible information. There is such an onslaught of bogus information out there that it's sometimes hard to know what's actually true. One way is to look at primary source documents such as video, photographs, interviews and original research conducted at the time of events. Those involved with this documentary went to great lengths through such means as Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, to gather together primary source documents that, when viewed together with expert testimony from those directly involved in the original investigation, create a much more plausible scenario than the official findings released by the FBI and NTSB.

    I would be highly suspicious of one-star reviews stating things like "Opinions predominate, facts are scarce." I'm someone trained to know the difference and I can say quite confidently that this is not a "conspiracy film" based on innuendo and the convictions of those who hate and distrust the Federal Government. This is a well-researched documentary that asks us to consider an alternative conclusion to the one presented by the FBI and NTSB...a conclusion based on the actual evidence. I for one am convinced and I hope this film will generate enough public outcry to force the NTSB and FBI to reopen the investigation or at the very least, be more forthcoming about their actual findings.

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      Basic military air crash investigation techniques reveal that an external explosion would have peppered the airframe, fuselage and wings full of holes, much like a shotgun blast. If these holes were present, microscopic examination would reveal what direction the external force came from.

      Furthermore micro cratering would be present on the crash debris from molten metal striking the aircraft at high speed.

      None of these features are present on TWA 800 crash debris.
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      Referenced in Pastor Mike Online: Man of Steel Coming to a Church Near You! (2013)

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    • Release date
      • July 17, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
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      • 1h 30m(90 min)
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