Piles of eyeball witnesses saw the plane shot down.
the chaffed wiring in the empty center fuel tank was a known problem Boeing didnt fix urgently enough.
And it was difficult to diagnose, inspect, and repair.
i suggest a YouTube search.
Read First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America by Jack Cashill, then the addition articles by him.
I believe the plane was shot down by a missile but this story starts off with the author “taking a mental health day off”. No one spoke like that in 1996. You would get laughed at or punched out talking that nonsense.
Piles of eyeball witnesses saw the plane shot down.
My impression is that it was shot down. They say that the radar demonstrates MULTIPLE transits going up to flight 800. That doesn’t sound like an accidental launch, and it would be hard to hide a military launch of that order. I have suspected it was a terrorist attack, and that Clinton didn’t want the bad press that would come with his refusal to eliminate Bin Laden when he had the chance.