No one with half a brain ever believed the government bullcrap fantasy about a bad wire in a fuel cell.
A defect never seen before or since on a Boeing 747.
The government caused an untold amount of inconvenience and caused the airlines a lot of money and down time in a transparent attempt to lend credibility to their bogus cover story.
They knew then and know now that it was a terrorist missle attack that killed 230 people and dealt another severe blow to TWA already staggering under the mismanagement of Carl Icahn.
Back then people still had some faith in the federal government and the FBI but this incident marked a turning point.
Now the government and the FBI have less credibility than a used car salesman.
Except my super liberal Clinton supporter brother who was then employed as an engineer on the Boeing 777, he laughed at me when I said I saw the video and it looked like a missile. He went to his grave thinking his own company had made an inferior product even though before that day and to this, it has never happened again.