About Time For an Honest Investigation
No media organization worked harder to get at the truth behind the destruction of TWA Flight 800 than the DC-based, Accuracy in Media. AIM founder Reed Irvine got involved in this project several years before I did and opened doors for me that I could not have opened. AIM has remained committed to the project and has never hesitated to share its research. — Jack Cashill
When I arrived at AIM in 1997, we were just getting involved in the story behind the tragic downing of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, New York, in July 1996. We worked with two different groups of investigators — those pursuing the naval exercise gone wrong theory, and those pursuing the notion that it was terrorism that brought the plane down. At the end of the day, we all agreed that missiles brought the 747 down.
“There’s no question about the fact that that airplane was shot down,” former Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer told us. This theory had been reinforced well before Moorer’s comment when an investigative reporter and former cop James Sanders obtained “some fabric from the wreckage that proved to contain explosive residue,” as we noted in 2011 in an article entitled “Investigating the Mystery of TWA 800.”
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While most of the mainstream media condemned the idea that the plane was brought down by a missile or missiles as a conspiracy theory, Accuracy in Media fought to expose the government cover-up through the use of the Freedom of Information Act. We also produced a documentary titled TWA 800: The Search for the Truth, which maintains that TWA Flight 800 did not simply explode. The flight was brought down by one or more missiles.
The FBI interviewed 736 eyewitnesses who saw TWA Flight 800 fall out of the sky. As AIM reported, “Eyewitnesses were not allowed to testify, and their words were only summarized in FBI reports which they could not personally review.” Accuracy in Media’s founder Reed Irvine scoured the eyewitness statements for additional clues to this mystery and discovered that one of the statements mentioned the word “wire,” which was, in fact, a name that the redactors failed to redact.
AIM tracked down witness Mike Wire, a millwright, who said he saw “a white light that was traveling skyward from the ground at approximately a 40-degree angle,” after which he saw an “orange light that appeared to be a fireball.” The CIA animation that aired on national television during a press conference claimed that Wire had said there was fire coming from the plane and not a missile moving toward it. As we reported, “He [Wire] never realized that it was him they were talking about in the CIA video until he received the call from Irvine some three years later.”
This July marks the 20th anniversary of the crash. Yet the media continue their virtual blackout, failing to ask questions as to whether this was a terrorist incident or a naval exercise gone wrong. Last year the anniversary of the flight’s demise was greeted, at most, with local media reports. It remains to be seen whether this year the mainstream media will take seriously the deaths of the 230 people on board that flight.
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