Paradigmatic disaster : the crash of TWA Flight 800.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in crime, order and policing occasional paper ; No. 13Publication details: Leicester : Scarman Centre for the Study of Public Order, University of Leicester, 1998Description: 54 p. : illISBN:

1874493472 (pbk)

DDC classification:

363.124650974721 21

Subject: On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 Series 100, owned and operated by America's Trans World Airlines (TWA), crashed into the sea off Long Island, New York. The aircraft had exploded at a height of approximately 13,00 ft. (4,000 metres), some 20 minutes into a routine passenger flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle. All 210 passengers and 18 crew on board were killed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Transportation Safety Board were dispatched to solve the mystery of Flight 800. This paper argues first, that the FBI's initial view that the aircraft had been bombed was preconceived and presumptious - in other words, paradigmatic, and secondly, that other parties either directly involved in, or touched by the disaster were not immune to preconceived ideas about its causation. The paper concludes with a look at the possible consequences of the FBI's paradigmatic interpretation of the disaster for US domestic and foreign relations, for the NTSB's efforts to solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800, and for overall passenger safety

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Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	P363.124650974721 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900067770

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On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 Series 100, owned and operated by America's Trans World Airlines (TWA), crashed into the sea off Long Island, New York. The aircraft had exploded at a height of approximately 13,00 ft. (4,000 metres), some 20 minutes into a routine passenger flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle. All 210 passengers and 18 crew on board were killed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Transportation Safety Board were dispatched to solve the mystery of Flight 800. This paper argues first, that the FBI's initial view that the aircraft had been bombed was preconceived and presumptious - in other words, paradigmatic, and secondly, that other parties either directly involved in, or touched by the disaster were not immune to preconceived ideas about its causation. The paper concludes with a look at the possible consequences of the FBI's paradigmatic interpretation of the disaster for US domestic and foreign relations, for the NTSB's efforts to solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800, and for overall passenger safety

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