Volume 45, Number 6 · April 9, 1998
The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electromagnetic Interference
By Elaine Scarry
For more than a year, the inquiry into the fall of TWA 800 has addressed three questions: whether mechanical trouble can be ruled out, whether a bomb inside the plane can be ruled out, whether a missile or other high-velocity object (such as a meteorite) can be ruled out. But there is a fourth possibility that has been ignored and that needs to be raised in the inquiry.
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