TWA Flight 800 – Accident investigators said Wednesday, July 2, they would not re-open the probe of the mid-air explosion that brought down TWA 800 nearly 18 years ago on July 26, 1996, killing ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Four years after TWA Flight 800 erupted in a ball of flames off the Long Island coast, federal accident investigators Wednesday formally blamed the explosion on volatile vapors ...

A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that killed 230 people and just before the ...

But there will be no special grave or burial ceremony for the battered, twisted and fire-scarred chunk of fuselage from TWA Flight 800 which exploded minutes after takeoff 25 years ago this month ...

Thirteen minutes after TWA flight 800 took off, the plane was rocked by an explosion in a fuel tank near the wings. The jetliner cracked and broke into several sections, then fell into the Atlantic.

The remnants of one of America’s worst air disasters are set to be demolished 25 years after TWA Flight 800 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean.

The July 17, 1996, explosion off of Long Island killed 230 passengers and crew members shortly after TWA Flight 800 departed New York Kennedy for Paris, with plans to continue on to Rome.

On Wednesday, July 17, 1996, at 8:19 p.m., TWA Flight 800 took off from JFK airport and headed out over Long Island toward Paris. It was a perfect summer night, 70 degrees, the sky clear. Twelve mi… ...

TWA Flight 800 grabbed the world’s attention when shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in July 1996, the Paris-bound Boeing 747 exploded, killing all 230 onboard.

A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that killed 230 people and just before the ...

By Pete Muntean and Devan Cole, CNN A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that ...