FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: 7/12/06

TWA Flight 800 Federal Law Suit for ‘missing evidence’ Filed Today

Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) is filing a federal complaint against the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for data and information related to the crash of TWA Flight 800. Specifically, FIRO is suing for documents regarding the chain of custody of evidence.

One wreckage item in particular was described as possibly being the “smoking gun” by FIRO Chairman Dr. Tom Stalcup. The wreckage exited Flight 800’s airframe at apparent supersonic speeds and landed about a half mile closer to JFK airport than any other piece of wreckage. The Navy recovered it, but it never made it to the reconstruction hangar.

Flight 800 exploded and crashed south of Long Island, NY on July 17, 1996. Witnesses saw a streak of light rise from the ocean surface before the crash, indicating a missile attack. Ultimately federal investigators dismissed the missile theory due to an apparent lack of physical evidence. And the NTSB announced the an electrical short-circuit most likely caused one of the jetliner’s fuel tanks to explode, although no conclusive evidence for this short-circuit was discovered.

FIRO researchers determined that Navy divers recovered the high-speed wreckage. It’s listed “recovered (confirmed)” on a Navy salvage map, but is not listed in the NTSB’s official debris field data base. Other wreckage disappeared from the reconstruction hangar according to investigators, and FIRO’s law suit seeks information on this other wreckage as well.

Radar sites recorded the wreckage flying off the aircraft’s right side, on a southerly course, which matches eyewitness accounts. The witnesses saw an object head southbound and then explode when it reached Flight 800. This object’s momentum, together with the force of its explosion can explain the radar data and the Navy’s recovery location of the high-speed wreckage.

For more information, as well as an instructional video on the radar data and this wreckage, see http://Flight800.org

Contact: Tom Stalcup, FIRO Chairman, 774-392-0856