TWA Flight 800 Tragedy REPLAY - 657

Generation Why: True Crime

Wondery

Murder, Unsolved, Missing Person, 855520, Crime, Conspiracies, Serial Killer, Exhibit C, Conspiracy, Controversy, Society & Culture, True Crime, Trial, Government, Case, Documentary

4.6 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

TWA Flight 800. July 17, 1996. JFK International Airport. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was to takeoff for Paris, France at around 7pm EST. Various issues kept it from taking off until 8:19pm. Just 12 minutes into the flight, at 8:31pm, the plane exploded. Efforts were made to rescue anyone alive in the Atlantic Ocean from the destroyed Boeing 747, but none of the 230 passengers and crew had survived. Terrorism was suspected early on as the United States was facing threats at home and abroad. As the investigation continued, though, the evidence began to point to an issue with the plane itself. Or did it?

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0:00.0	Hey, Generation Y listeners, if you can't get enough of the twists and turns and theories that we
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0:15.4	Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. Merry Christmas and happy new year to everybody.
0:24.1	We hope you are spending some time with your families.
0:30.5	We are putting out a replay episode so we can spend some time with our families.
0:33.4	We hope you enjoy this replay episode.
0:37.3	It's the TWA Flight 800.
0:40.6	We were very proud of this episode when we released it,
0:45.6	so we hope you can revisit it and enjoy it just as much as you did the first time. Yeah. Time. It's all the same.
0:57.0	It's all right. How you doing tonight, Aaron?
1:22.0	I'm okay, man. How are you?
1:23.9	I'm doing good. I hope everyone enjoyed the Mothman. I've read a few comments that people
1:30.0	thought that I was angry. And no, I would say I was mildly annoyed, not actually angry, but I try
1:38.1	not to get that angry on the show. I don't know. People take it however you will. It was a fun
1:43.9	episode. And if you don't like
1:46.0	hearing about cryptoids or mysterious things, then you know, you can just wait and get to the next
1:52.4	episode. Or if you really don't like those things, then maybe you do want to hear our episode
1:57.4	because we usually have a different take than other shows do.
2:01.3	Yeah.
2:02.0	Tonight's episode, some people say it's a crime.
2:06.0	Other people say it's a terrible accident.
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