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Associated Retired Aviation Professionals Post Office Box 90, Clements, Maryland 20624 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --For Immediate Release-- FOIA Law Suit Reaches Boston’s Federal Appeals Court FBI Cannot Locate Documents, Again On September 12, 2002 the 1st Circuit Federal Appeals Court in Boston will hear arguments from the FBI and the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) over the release of data and analyses from the FBI’s investigation into TWA Flight 800. Flight 800 crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, killing all 230 onboard. FIRO is hoping to gain access to the reports and laboratory analyses of foreign objects...

--For Immediate Release-- FOIA Law Suit Reaches Boston’s Federal Appeals Court FBI Cannot Locate Documents, Again On September 12, 2002 the 1st Circuit Federal Appeals Court in Boston will hear arguments from the FBI and the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) over the release of data and analyses from the FBI’s investigation into TWA Flight 800. Flight 800 crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, killing all 230 onboard. FIRO is hoping to gain access to the reports and laboratory analyses of foreign objects found during victim autopsy examinations. Some of those objects have been determined to...

A Brief Summary of a Declassified FBI Report Subject: The analysis of evidence with possible high energy characteristics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Tom Stalcup, Feb. 20, 2002 A recently declassified FBI report presents the results of an analysis of TWA Flight 800 debris "that exhibited possible high energy characteristics" and other items of "unknown origin."[1] The FBI and NTSB contracted scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to analyze these items, but restricted the scientists from sharing their findings with individuals outside the official investigation. The parties to the investigation (e.g. Boeing and TWA) did not participate in this...

The deadliest U.S. airline disaster prior to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was the July 17, 1996, midair explosion that destroyed TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, N.Y. Six years later, while the official investigation has been closed (or forever forgotten in "inactive pending" status), the nature of the explosion that killed the 230 passengers of the Paris-bound jumbo jet is very much on the radar of independent investigators. Indeed, investigators now have used the government's own regulations to petition the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for a reconsideration and modification...