Monday of next week, we acknowledge an historic anniversary about which the media will be mum, the 27th anniversary of the destruction of TWA Flight 800.
As a quick refresher, TWA 800 left JFK airport in New York en route to Paris on July 17, 1996. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the ill-fated 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 souls aboard. No one has pursued the truth behind this disaster more relentlessly than physicist Tom Stalcup. I first met Stalcup when I interviewed him for a documentary on TWA 800 called “Silenced” that James Sanders and I produced in 2001. Stalcup had been deeply involved in the case from very nearly the beginning and remains committed to this day. He is likely the only independent researcher to catch the attention of the New York Times
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