A look back at the TWA Flight 800 explosion, 25 years later

A look back at the TWA Flight 800 explosion, 25 years later

It’s been 25 years since 230 people died aboard TWA Flight 800 when it exploded minutes after taking off from New York’s John F.

Kennedy International Airport.

It took almost a year for investigators to recover over 95% of the plane, but now the federal government will begin destroying the reconstructed wreckage of the ill-fated aircraft.