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Accident investigators said Wednesday, July 2, they would not re-open the probe of the mid-air explosion that brought down TWA 800 nearly 18 years ago on July 26, 1996, killing all aboard. The decision by the National Transportation Safety Board dashed the hopes of a documentary film team claiming to have uncovered "solid proof" that investigators erred in concluding it was an accident.
Here, a section of the wing of TWA Flight 800, seen here a couple of days after the crash, floats in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York. JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
Here, a section of the wing of TWA Flight 800, seen here a couple of days after the crash, floats in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York. JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
A member of the U.S. Coast Guard pulls a piece of wreckage from the waters on July 18, 1996. JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
Ron Dwyer pauses to compose himself on July 20, 1996, as he speaks about his 11-year-old daughter Larkyn Lynn Dwyer, who was on TWA Flight 800. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
A warning sign on the dunes alerts beach-goers to watch for debris washed ashore at Smith's Point, Long Island, New York, on July 25, 1996. JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
A police officer stands guard as part of the plane is transported from a dock in Brooklyn, New York, on July 19, 1996. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
Wreckage of the front portion of the Boeing 747 aircraft is displayed in its reconstructed state on November 19, 1997, in Calverton, Long Island, New York. JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
Parts of the aircraft's wing sit in the hangar on July 8, 1999, in Calverton, New York. JOHN CORNELL JR./AFP/Getty Images/FILE
The partially reconstructed fuselage of TWA Flight 800 is pulled out of a hangar in Calverton, New York, on September 14, 1999. MATT CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
Antonella Naglieri, whose relatives Giuseppe Mercurio and Anna D'Alessandro were killed in the crash, places a rose in the surf after a memorial service at Smith Point Park in Shirley, New York, on July 17, 2001. MATT CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images/FILE
Joanne Festa touches the memorial wall commemorating the victims of TWA Flight 800 on July 16, 2006, at the Smith Point County Park in Shirley, New York. Sylwia Kapuscinski/Getty Images/FILE
