Investigators claim FBI cover-up over plane disaster

Former investigators into an air crash off the coast of New York in 1996, which killed 230 people, want the case reopened over claims there was an FBI cover-up.

Investigators claim FBI cover-up over plane disaster

The investigators have called on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the cause of the TWA 800 crash saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.

The New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after the jetliner took off from John F Kennedy Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.

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