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TWA 800

Printed page xvi. PDF page 18.

be determined with certainty, but, of the sources evaluated by the investigation, the most likely was a short circuit outside of the CWT that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring associated with the fuel quantity indication system.
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TWA 800

Printed page 84. PDF page 102.

indicated that the presence of small amounts of alcohol in some of the specimens was most likely "from postmortem ethanol production" caused by decomposition. During the investigation of the accident, the Medical Forensic Group, which included medical/forensic experts f
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TWA 800

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the WCS, and a limited amount of fuselage structure above the right wing and that the most likely source of fuel for this fire was the right wing inboard fuel tank. Many of the fractures from the portion of the
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TWA 800

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connections. The AFRL report concluded that the accumulation of silver-sulfide deposits "is most likely the result of a long-term degradation or corrosion process...[and that] as the probes age, more probe failures [calibration errors] can be expected."350 As a result of
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TWA 800

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Flight 800 Missile Impact Analysis," dated December 1997. 521 The expert considered it most likely that, if a missile were involved in the TWA flight 800 accident, it would be a shoulder-launched missile (a Man Portables Air Defense System) because
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TWA 800

Printed page 251. PDF page 269.

infrared signature measurements of 747s on approach to a commercial airport to identify the most likely tracking points for a shoulder-launched missile. According to the NAWC-WD report, infrared seekers on shoulder-launched missiles typically aim for hot spots, such as engine
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