Why Congress Must Reopen the TWA 800 Investigation

Articles: Why Congress Must Reopen the TWA 800 Investigation:
Contrary to NTSB regulations, Hughes, although a group chairman, was not allowed to write an analysis of what he found.
The evidence his group gathered led him to much the same conclusion as the IAMAW’s.
The pattern of seat damage and passenger injuries strongly suggested not a low-speed fuel tank explosion, as the NTSB would later insist, but “a high-order explosion from a military-type explosive detonating a significant distance away from the airframe.” 
Says Hughes, “This was the first time in my 26 years as an NTSB accident investigator that I had been ordered not to write an analysis.”
Hughes was not the only high-level investigator whose analysis was suppressed.
As he notes, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Wetli and the NTSB’s Aero-Medical Forensic Consultant, Col. Dennis Shanahan, M.D., were also told not to submit analyses of their findings.
The most spectacular bit of mischief involved the CIA. 
The FBI had, for no good reason, commissioned the CIA to create an animation to prove that the 270 eyewitnesses who reported seeing something like a missile saw something other than a missile. 
The CIA analysts concluded that what they saw was a noseless aircraft rocketing into space for another 3,500 or so feet before crashing into the sea. 
This scenario, says Hughes unequivocally, “is physically impossible given what the FAA radar tracking data shows.”
According to Hughes, the CIA analysts knew this was impossible, but FBI honcho James Kallstrom went ahead and showed the animation at a wrap-up press conference to prove that there was “absolutely no evidence” that a criminal event destroyed the aircraft.