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.

This documentary on the TWA 800 air disaster provides more than enough evidence to cast doubt on the official investigation and the ludicrous explanation that was made up out of thin air to explain why this fully loaded airliner ended up in the Atlantic Ocean.

Anyone who has studied the TWA 800 event already knows that the official conclusion is completely absurd. Apparently we're to believe that a faulty wire caused the central fuel tank to explode. Yes, the FBI, CIA, and much of our government thinks the average citizen is actually dumb enough to accept this ridiculously implausible and unsubstantiated conclusion. Unfortunately much of the population accepted it without question and moved on with their lives, unaware of the treasonous and deceitful cover- up that was conducted by persons within the FBI, CIA, and NTSB.

Missiles brought that plane down. The citizens demand to know why!

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.

Thank you to the courageous Americans who are putting their reputation on the line to bring up the lies we were told about TWA flight 800. Watch out for "reviewers" who attack the documentary with the intent to discourage people from watching it and coming to their own conclusions. I recall watching a retired Air Force Pilot who went on CSPAN debunk this "center fuel tank explosion" theory years ago, and he was a credible as any person I've listened to. That was when I first realized (sadly I admit) that our government lies to us and that they cannot be trusted. I am a psychologist and I'm frightened at how psychology was referenced by the government to imply that eye witness testimony is so unreliable as a means to discredit hundreds of eye witnesses to what was a very basic event (little details to get mixed up). Listen to the eye witnesses in this documentary and see for yourself if they seem credible. I've watched lots of documentaries and I don't often agree with them because I think they don't provide all of the details or distort the facts. I also look for who has an agenda to push. I see no ulterior motives with those who are interviewed for this movie. I just recommend that you watch it for yourself, and if it's your first exposure to how easily our government lies to its citizens, be prepared to be discouraged (and hopefully motivated to make some changes).

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 ****