TWA 800 crash - CNN - 1996-07-19 - 5:45 a.m. (E)
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[0:17] well more of the wreckage of tww Flight
[0:19] 800 is being brought to shore but so far
[0:21] authorities do not know why the plane
[0:23] exploded shortly after takeoff joining
[0:25] us from London to help us understand
[0:27] what could have happened to the ill-
[0:28] fated jetliner is Aviation expert John
[0:31] Morocco good morning Mr Morocco good
[0:33] morning now from your experience when do
[0:35] you think we will know the cause of the
[0:37] crash it could take some days uh
[0:40] although it uh it might be sooner than
[0:42] that uh the teams will be looking at the
[0:44] wreckage trying to recover it it's not
[0:46] in that deep water 120 ft um so it
[0:49] depends on how quickly they can get a
[0:52] look at the wreckage and get the uh
[0:54] black boxes how important are those
[0:56] black boxes they're they're very
[0:58] important because they contain much of
[1:00] the data in terms of the flight um so
[1:03] they'll be looking to go over those very
[1:05] carefully now are they needed to
[1:08] determine if this was a criminal
[1:10] act um there are a variety of ways to um
[1:15] to determine that if you look back at uh
[1:18] at lockerby it's an extremely uh um
[1:22] difficult forensic task to try to find
[1:24] that they'll be taking apart also the
[1:26] the looking at the wreckage looking for
[1:28] scorch marks on the aircraft uh to try
[1:31] to determine the cause how difficult is
[1:34] it to detect
[1:35] explosives um it is not necessarily uh
[1:39] terribly difficult but it it is
[1:41] difficult in this case because you're
[1:42] talking about an aircraft that went into
[1:44] the water um with uh all that involves
[1:48] and also um trying to determine uh cause
[1:52] from some of these explosives is