In the summer of 1996, a standard Transworld Airlines flight was set to travel from New York City to Paris, France.

It was a routine flight with nothing out of the ordinary until disaster struck.

The plane erupted into a fireball in the sky and crashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.

Immediately, the world began to wonder,

was this an unfortunate technical malfunction or a more sinister act? Today we're investigating

TWA Flight 800. This is Red Web. Welcome back Task Force to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries,

true crime, and the unknown. I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and

joining me hearing this case for the very first time is Alfredo

Diaz. I'm wondering why everyone is jumping to possibly some type of like incident that isn't

just a malfunction. You know, what year was again? 1980. 1996. 1996.

So what was going on in 96?

Is there a type of small,

is there a war or anything happening?

Re-invading something?

Well, we're not long after Operation Desert Storm,

which ended by 91.

The fall of the USSR at the turn of the 90s.

Also, I was a five-year-old, so I was running around watching Lion King at this point. So that's also my memory of the 90s, but no, nothing comes to mind necessarily,

at least not through the lens of this case. I mean, like half a decade later, yeah,

it doesn't seem like there'd be any type of world

event for the U.S. that would make it alarming and have people jump to the conclusion necessarily,

you know?

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