Accident Investigations
Burning Tailless Fuselage, Not a Missile, Fooled Hundreds of TWA 800 Witnesses
When the nose section of TWA Flight 800 separated, the loss of pitch balance caused the remaining fuselage to rear upward violently, climbing a further 2,000 to 3,000 feet on residual momentum and engine thrust before stalling at nearly 16,000 feet, rolling right, and plunging vertically into the At