TWA Flight 800 disaster

An aerial view of the U.S. Coast Guard station at East Moriches, N.Y., July 27, 1996.

The base was the operations center for the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800.

Former investigators of the Paris-bound TWA flight, which crashed off Long Island killing 230 people, are now calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the case.

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New York FBI Director James Kalstrom (L) talks to reporters about the investigation of TWA flight 800 as NTSB Vice Chairman Robert Francis (R) stands by at the Moriches coast guard station in Long Island, N.Y., July 19, 1997.

Wreckage from TWA flight 800 floats in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean as a coast guard cutter continues the search in the distance off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., July 18, 1996.

The 747 TWA aircraft exploded in mid-air with 228 passenger on board.

Baggage and sneakers sit on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Juniper as it searches the Atlantic Ocean at the crash site of TWA Flight 800, July 18, 1996.

A mother comforts her daughter during a memorial service for victims of TWA's flight 800 in East Moriches, N.Y., July 21, 1996.
Br> Residents of the small town witnessed hundreds of investigators and members of the media arrive due to the town's close proximity to the crash site of the Boeing 747.

Wreckage from TWA's flight 800 is brought to the Shinnecock, N.Y. Coast Guard Station after being recovered from the ocean floor, July 29, 1996.

A man tosses flowers into the ocean at Smith Point Park on Fire Island, N.Y. after an oceanside memorial service held for family and friends of those lost on TWA Flight 800, July 22, 1996.

A dory filled with flowers from loved ones is rowed out to sea from Smith Point Park beach on Fire Island, N.Y., in memory of those who perished in the TWA Flight 800, July 22, 1996.

Pieces of wreckage and personal effects from the downed TWA flight 800 that have washed ashore on Southampton beach are taken away in plastic bags by a member of the salvage recovery team, July 20, 1996.

A navigator aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Juniper calculates the ship's position on charts of the waters around Long Island, off Westhampton, N.Y., as the search for debris from downed TWA flight 800 continues, July 20, 1996.

U.S. Coast Guard crewmen collect parts of the TWA jetliner from the waters off Long Island's south shore July 18, 1996.

A piece of TWA flight 800 is removed from a Navy barge and loaded onto a truck at the Coast Guard Station at Shinnecock, N.Y., July 29, 1996.

Two navy frogmen prepare to leave for the crash site where TWA flight 800 exploded and plunged into the ocean off the coast of Long Island, July 19, 1996.

Debris from the TWA jetliner that exploded and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean is collected on the deck of U.S. Coast Guard cutter Juniper as salvage operations continue, July 18, 1996.

A container with TWA markings is lowered into a truck after it was recovered from the ocean floor and brought to the Shinnecock, N.Y. Coast Guard Station, July 29, 1996.

A U.S. Coast Guard boat sits near wreckage from TWA flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, N.Y. as search operations continue, July 18, 1996.

Air safety officials stand in the hangar where the remains of TWA Flight 800 have been re-assembled at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) training facility July 16, 2008, in Ashburn, Va.

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 1997 file photo, FBI agents and New York state police guard the reconstruction of TWA Flight 800 in Calverton, N.Y. Flight 800 exploded and crashed July 17, 1996 while flying from New York to Paris, killing all 230 people aboard. Former investigators on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 called on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the cause, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Reconstruction work on TWA flight 800 continues in Calverton, N.Y., March 6, 1997.

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