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Wonder if TWA 800 review is next.

i wonder why the FBI was the lead investigative agency on an airplane crash. Isn't that usually the pervue of the NTSB? The fact that the FBI was involved to the extent they were is plenty of reason to question anything that was 'concluded' concerning flight TWA 800.

7 posted on 01/01/2007 11:01:56 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord (I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper)

i wonder why the FBI was the lead investigative agency on an airplane crash. Isn't that usually the pervue of the NTSB?

The initial reaction of the government (Clinton administration ) to TWA 800 was that it was a terrorist attack..
That is why the FBI took over the investigation..
It was considered a "criminal" investigation from the "git-go"..

If it had been handled by the NTSB first, until such evidence of terrorism was actually revealed, then we might have had a different story..
The results of NTSB investigations are public..
By making it a criminal investigation and citing national security, all evidence could be withheld from public scrutiny..