Aviation Attorney Paul Hedlund Discusses TWA 800 Crash on MSNBC
July 24, 2017
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as posted by the channel► On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800) exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean minutes after departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The TWA Flight 800 explosion and subsequent crash killed all 230 people aboard the Boeing 747 plane.
In the wake of this tragedy, one of the deadliest in U.S. aviation history, Baum Hedlund aviation attorney Paul Hedlund was invited to discuss the crash investigation on MSNBC. During the conversation, Hedlund pointed out the possibility of an electrical component in fuel tanks creating a spark, which could have ignited heavily aerated fuel.
“There are a lot of electrical components that measure how much fuel is in there, and that pump fuel out of the tank and into the engines,” said Hedlund. “Both of those components have electrical current that runs through them, or are electrically operated.”
“It’s been my opinion all along that only two things can bring down an airliner like this, in this fashion – one is a high explosive and the other is heavily aerated fuel. Heavily aerated fuel is exactly fumes, it’s very little fuel, a lot of oxygen. If you have a spark in a situation like that, you can have an explosion that ensues,” Hedlund said.
The four-year investigation conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was the most extensive and costly air disaster investigation in U.S. history. The NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the TWA 800 accident was an explosion of flammable fuel/air vapors in a fuel tank. While investigators could not make a certain determination, the likely cause of the explosion was a short circuit.
Interview date: 9-24-1996
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