BY ARGIRIS MALAPANIS

NEW YORK - As we go to press, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board announced that none of the evidence recovered from the Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crash proves that a bomb brought down the plane. The jet exploded in mid-air July 17, shortly after take-off from New York's JFK airport and crashed into the ocean off Long Island's shore, killing all 230 people aboard.

Federal investigators say they plan tests intended to show that the explosion of the TWA plane could have been caused by a mechanical failure. "The failure to find proof of a bombing, after more than two months, lends indirect credence to another theory, that an explosion in the Boeing 747's center fuel tank might have been sufficient to destroy the plane," reported the September 19 New York Times in a front-page article.

A senior NTSB official told the Times the fact that they have not found any parts of a missile discredits that theory as well.  
 
 
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