Boeing’s customer as well as their employees. Recommendations should also take into considerations the cost and time of conducting the stated recommendations.2.0 BACKGROUND2.1 FLIGHT PATH On July 17, 1996, about 8:19 p.m. eastern US time, a Boeing 747-131, operated as Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800) took off and was bound for Charles De Gaulle International Airport (Paris, France). TWA 800 was heading northeasterly, roughly paralleled the southeastern coastline of Long Island (Phillips, 1996, p27). The weather at John F. Kennedy International Airport was clear with 25 mi. Visibility, temperature was 71F and winds from the southwest at 4 kt.At about 8:28 p.m., when the aircraft at an altitude of 10,000 ft. the aircraft accelerated from 250 kt. To 300 kt. which indicated the airspeed was for the en route climb segment. After 13 minutes into the flight, air controllers lost radar contact with the Boeing 747-131. The Center Wing Tank (CWT) had exploded eight miles south of East Moriches, New York, at an altitude of 13,700 ft.2.2 NTSB Investigation After the explosion, NTSB was commissioned by the U.S. government to investigate into the cause of the explosion and recommend the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and implement designs or operational changes to increase the safety of transport category aircraft. During the NTSB’s investigation, Seven main types of evidences where used to find the cause of the explosion. These include (NTSB hearing summary 1997):Radar - The short flight of TWA800 was tracked by radar from two stations. The radar also recorded the trajectory path of the numerous pieces of the aircraft’s wreckage.Cockpit Voice recorder (CVR) – The device, which records the voice from the cockpit, captured a high energy signal that was consistent with an explosion in the fuel tank, whose sound was transmitted to the cockpit area microphone.Flight data recorder...
