If you search TWA 800, you’ll find that FR was up to the challenge in those days.
There were many spirited discussions right here.
You can condense the arguments into about three generalities.
One was the “official” version: That wiring caused a spark in the center fuel tank causing the explosion. (The CIA aided and assisted in this theory, - Really- and none of the tv talking heads batted an eye. )
Two was the Navy missile theory: That the Navy was conducting missile tests at the time in a heavy civilian traffic area. I have some very serious doubts, although Jack Cashill has switched to this .
Three, the one I lean towards: A missile from bad guys. Maybe aided by an on board bomb.. maybe not.
These discussions attracted some “unusual” posters. Some were suspected to be government spooks planting misinformation. Dig and read, FRiends.
I remember watching ABC news a few days after and they had a report showing a discarded launch tube from a shoulder fired missile that had washed up on the jersey shore. It disappeared after that. No more mention of it.
IIRC part of the story was the Prime Minister of Israel was on an EL AL 747 scheduled to depart JFK ahead of TWA 800. For some reason they pulled into a holding pad , and TWA 800 took off before them. That lends some credence to the advisory shot down from a manpad in a small boat that sped away after the shoot down.
If the US Navy errantly shot TWA down with a missile durning an exercise...that would be almost impossible to cover up with so many people involved.
An El Al flight was 2 planes in the flight path ahead TWA 800. It was supposed to take off in TWA 800 slot