Mysterious Explosion Over New York

Black Box Down

Society & Culture, Aviation, True Crime, Leisure, Documentary

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A Boeing 747 suddenly explodes over New York. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 is climbing out of New York City when it suddenly bursts into flames, separates into pieces and falls to the Atlantic Ocean below. What caused this plane to suddenly explode? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by Gabi (gabi.com/blackboxdown) and The Jordan Harbinger Show (jordanharbinger.com/start) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a rooster-teeth production.
0:07.0	July 17, 1996.
0:10.0	TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 with 230 people on board, is taking off from New York's JFK
0:17.0	airport, bound for Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, then until Leonardo da Vinci airport
0:21.4	in Rome.
0:22.4	The flight has been delayed for over an hour over suspicions that there may be unattended
0:26.0	baggage in the cargo hold.
0:27.6	Once they are finally underway, the jumbo jet is climbing through 13,000 feet east of
0:31.5	New York on its way up to its cruising altitude.
0:34.0	Suddenly an explosion rips through the plane, separating the fourth-third of the plane from
0:37.8	the aft section.
0:38.8	The cockpit plunges into the ocean while the body of the plane climbs another 1,500 feet
0:43.0	into the sky before plummeting into the Atlantic Ocean below.
0:46.2	The FBI suspects a bomb has brought down the plane.
0:48.7	eyewitnesses report saying a missile is streaking through the sky towards the plane.
0:52.2	The NTSB does not believe either of those theories, but can't immediately explain what
0:56.0	happened.
0:57.0	In the next four years, they work to get to the bottom of this mystery.
1:00.0	What did the NTSB find?
1:01.6	What brought down TWA 800?
1:03.7	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
1:08.4	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down.
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