Monday, Jan. 7, 2002 11:03 a.m. EST
Flight 587 Witnesses Charge Cover-Up
Dozens of eyewitnesses to the Nov. 12 crash of
American Airlines Flight 587 now say the government is ignoring their claims
that the Airbus 300 exploded in midair before breaking up minutes after takeoff
at New York's JFK airport.
Six Flight 587 witnesses, including a recently
retired police lieutenant and a fire department deputy chief, have written to
the National Transportation Safety Board to demand a full public hearing on what
they saw, the New York Post reported Monday.
"The NTSB is not acknowledging the many eyewitness
accounts of the in-flight fire or explosion, many from people who are adamant
that the fire occurred before any tail or engine breakup," retired firefighter
and eyewitness Tom Lynch told the paper.
Lynch said he saw two fireballs erupt from the
plane's right side and insisted, "There were no falling parts until the second
explosion of flames - I'll go to my grave with that."
Another witness not quoted by the Post corroborated
Lynch's account almost exactly in an interview just minutes after the crash.
Jackie Powers told ABC-News in New York that she
saw "an enormous flash" on the right side of the plane's fuselage, with debris
exiting to the left.
"The right wing seemed to catch fire and explode.
The wing was on fire with a trail of smoke behind it," a third witness told New
York's WABC Radio that morning.
Additionally, a Metropolitan Transportation
Authority traffic surveillance tape that reportedly captured Flight 587's short
flight was turned over to the FBI. The video's quality is said to be poor, but a
New York Daily News reporter who was allowed to view the one-frame-per-second
images said it shows a "puff of smoke" in the cloudless sky after the AA 300
Airbus plummeted to the ground.
Investigators have declined to release the tape and
have not returned numerous calls from NewsMax.com asking about its contents.
James Kallstrom, the FBI's former TWA 800 lead
investigator and now chief of New York state's Office of Public Security, told
NewsMax two weeks after the crash:
"I have not seen the tape. I heard some mention of
it. But I've not seen the tape and I really have no knowledge of it. Why it
hasn't been released, I suspect, is because the investigation is ongoing."
In a weekend interview with the Post, an NTSB
spokesman made no mention of the video but said that over 200 Flight 587
witnesses had been interrogated and that their accounts were being considered as
part of the investigation.
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