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It always struck me as unusual that Boeing raced out and admitted that TWA flight 800 was their fault even before all the wreckage had been fished out of the water, or the NTSB had finished their investigation. It is my experience that airframe manufacturers never like to admit fault no matter how damning the evidence, and certainly they would not usually admit fault with litigation still pending. It never made sense that they would race out and shout it from the rooftops that this explosion was caused by a manufacturing defect and nothing more. I guess I’m too cynical to believe they just wanted the truth to be known. I suspect something else happened and Boeing and our government conspired to cover it up.

[Non-Sequitur]

It always struck me as unusual that Boeing raced out and admitted that TWA flight 800 was their fault even before all the wreckage had been fished out of the water, or the NTSB had finished their investigation.

I'm not aware that Boeing has ever admitted fault though they agreed to make the changes the FAA ordered. Can you point me to the documentation where they did?

[Tymesup]

IIRC, Boeing got a big contract after TWA 800.