DATE: Thursday, July 17, 1997               TAG: 9707170439

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: FOCUS

SOURCE: BY JOHN J. GOLDMAN AND ERIC MALNIC, LOS ANGELES TIMES 

DATELINE: NEW YORK                          LENGTH:   35 lines

FOCUS: THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 800 A YEAR AFTER THE DEADLY TWA CRASH, THE MOST EXPENSIVE, COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT DETECTION EFFORT IN U.S. AVIATION HISTORY HAS PRODUCED NO FIRM CONCLUSION ABOUT WHAT CAUSED IT.

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A woman, sitting next to a rose she planted in the sand at Fire

Island, N.Y., mourns the loss of some friends who were aboard TWA

Flight 800 a year ago. An intense investigation has yet to provide

the answer about what caused the explosion and crash, in which 230

people died.

Photo

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TWA executive William Compton and his wife, Dreana, a stewardess for

the airline, pause Wednesday at the Kennedy Airport monument to 53

TWA employees who died in the crash.

Graphic

A FRUSTRATING SITUATION

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