FBI Report Sways Families on 747 Crash

After hearing a report that included everything from spy-satellite intelligence to interviews with the crew that installed movies on the plane, families of TWA Flight 800 victims emerged from a two-hour FBI presentation convinced that the explosion of the Boeing 747 off Long Island, N.Y., in July 1996 was an accident and not a terrorist act. The 15 family members at the private meeting heard evidence discounting a bomb and watched a CIA computer animation of the final moments of the flight that convinced them that eyewitness accounts of a missile streaking toward the plane are untrue. But the FBI’s conclusion doesn’t end the matter for the families, who want an explanation for the crash.