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| The Sacramento Bee Online, Sacramento, CA ... |
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 --- 36 days ago http://www.sacbee.com/830/story/1086842.html
 A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, killing all 230 people aboard. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters, right, and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Mark Rosenker, left, look over a device designed to eliminate flammable gases in large passenger airplane fuel tanks, during a news conference at the National Transportation Safety Board Training Academy in Chantilly, Va., July 16, 2008. A flammable mixture of fuel and oxygenated air caused the catastrophic explosion of a Boeing 747, TWA Flight 800, in 1996. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters displays a device designed to eliminate flammable gases in large passenger airplane fuel tanks, during a news conference at the National Transportation Safety Board Training Academy in Ashburn, Va., July 16, 2008. A flammable mixture of fuel and oxygenated air caused the catastrophic explosion of a Boeing 747, TWA Flight 800, in 1996. The recovered wreckage of TWA Flight 800 stands reassembled at the National Transportation Safety Board Training Academy in Chantilly, Va., July 16, 2008, where it is used for training new investigators. The Boeing 747 crashed into the Atlantic after passing over Long Island Sound and Long Island, New York in 1996, after a flammable mixture of fuel and oxygenated ... |
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