TWA Flight 800

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.

I'm a huge fan of documentaries in general but I usually stay from this type because the producers are typically pushing their own theory, which is often just plain silly (take the 9/11 conspiracy advocates for example). But that's not the case here-- this film simply exposes a number of very troubling issues with the investigation of Flight 800.

We know that the FBI lied about certain aspects of the Branch Davidian tragedy in Texas and here we have several long-time NTSB investigators telling us that the FBI concealed and/or "disappeared" evidence, and that a number of FBI agents were caught tampering with evidence. One has to wonder why.

One eyewitness describes telling her story to FBI agents, who then reveal that they know she has applied for US citizenship and advise her that she should not mention what she saw to anyone if she wants her application to be approved. *If* she's telling the truth then the FBI had done a background check on her *before* getting her witness statement. Why would the FBI run a background check before the fact on a witness to an air disaster? Other witnesses claim to have been intimidated as well. Again, why?

It's entirely possible that the plane really was brought down by a fuel tank explosion, but that in the earlier stages of the investigation the FBI thought the cause was something they/the US government wanted to conceal. This documentary doesn't push its own theory of the cause so much as it seems to expose a huge number of irregularities in the investigation. If even a few of the claims made within are true the already heavily discredited FBI looks even worse. Considering the FBI's abject failures in the intervening years it's not difficult to believe that the Bureau was playing politics here as well.

Unfortunately, this film provides more questions than answers, but credit to the producers for not working backward from their own theory and instead simply giving investigators and witnesses a chance to be heard. Sure, it's obvious that the producers don't buy the official explanation for the crash so the film is made from that perspective, but the government had its say in hearings (while apparently suppressing alternate views & evidence), so this piece of work offers an interesting counterpoint.

See it for yourself and see if it doesn't leave you wondering why the FBI has "botched" so many highly political investigations in the past few decades.

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 ****

I just saw this flick on Pluto TV. I thought it was a great documentary about all the evidence tampering and ignoring of eye witnesses to the demise of Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, NY. The question is why????? Why did missiles shoot this plane out of the sky. Who shot the missiles and why did the CIA and the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) go to so much trouble to inject false information and make sure the truth was never told. We all knew the CIA was lying about what happened to JFK and JFK, Jr., now we can add this tragedy to the list of their lies. The most amazing part of this flick is preventing the numerous eye witnesses from testifying at the four-year long investigation into the plane crash. The film is a good expose of how psychopaths who run our government contrive the official story. Jason Goodman, an internet reporter, has a frequent guest named David Hawkins who reverse engineers crime scenes by studying patents that could be involved in or leased for committing crimes. Hawkins believes a reason these sort of events happen is because bored, wealthy,global elite psychos bet on how long it will take to kill everyone and / or how many people will survive. According to Hawkins, these psychos consider the demise of Flight 800 or the demolition of the twin towers on 911 to be a "snuff film" which they can watch and re-watch to get their jollies. .

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.