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25 years after TWA Flight 800

Twenty-five years ago today, one of the deadliest aircraft disasters in American history shook the world. TWA Flight 800, a 747 jet bound from New York to Paris, exploded off the coast of Long Island, New York, with 230 people onboard. Errol Barnett looks back at how this disaster changed aviation, and so many lives, forever.
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