The NTSB is pushing back — hard — to refute claims by a group of documentary filmmakers and former crash investigators who say a missile attack and not a fuel tank explosion brought down TWA Flight 800 in July 1996.
At a rare media briefing in Virginia yesterday in front of the reconstructed Boeing 747, investigators who worked on the case insisted that the NTSB and FBI investigation into the disaster was thorough. Ultimately, they said, it arrived at the correct conclusion.