Neil Genzlinger, NY Times - On Epix, the anniversary of the crash, some of the more credible doubters take their best shot at proving that a missile or missiles brought down the plane. This isn’t crackpot conspiracy theory stuff; the documentary is as serious and somber as its title, “TWA Flight 800.”
The film is certainly successful at rekindling any misgivings you might have had about the original government finding, which attributed the explosion to fuel tank vapors. It presents witnesses who are still adamant that they saw a flare or missile ascending toward the plane just before it blew up. And it relies heavily on several people who were directly involved in the long investigation, who talk about evidence that they say was tampered with, and other odd goings-on...
The film ends with a lengthy list of officials who declined to be interviewed, which leaves it one-sided, and it doesn’t go beyond merely asking that the crash get another look: the intent is not to explore who might have fired any missiles that were fired.
These days, though, the real question is, who would have the credibility to conduct the reopened investigation that Dr. Stalcup and others seen here want? The agencies involved in the original one come off poorly in this film, and it’s hard to imagine any entity that would command the authority that could put the Flight 800 case to rest.
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