TWA Flight 800, reassembled after it blew apart in the skies off Long Island, is being taken apart and destroyed.
AS CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff, who covered the 1996 explosion, reports, the charred twisted remains of TWA Flight 800 have sat mournfully in a Virginia warehouse for two decades, teaching aviation safety.
But the National Transportation Safety Board says its useful life is over. The warehouse lease is expiring.
“It will live on in the training world. It just won’t be physically here in the training center,” said NTSB Managing Director Sharon Bryson.,
The reconstruction was a tireless feat. For months, pieces of the 747 were salvaged from the ocean off Long Island, painstakingly cobbled back together.
