# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Da5VgX6jEgr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67925588-newsday-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e1c58a7bcf.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17T13:35:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

On a beautiful summer evening 30 years ago, 212 passengers and 18 crew members died when TWA Flight 800 exploded high above the Atlantic Ocean.

The Boeing 747 destined for Paris and then Rome exploded at 8:31 p.m. on July 17, 1996, 10 miles south of East Moriches, and just 12 minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board pointed to an electrical short in faulty wiring as the likely cause, igniting vapors in the plane’s fuel tank and causing the explosion.

Ahead of the 30th anniversary on Friday, the loved ones of those who died, first responders who rushed to the scene and Long Islanders who witnessed the aftermath shared with Newsday their memories of the tragedy and what it means today.

Read more in the link in bio. (Photo credit: John H. Cornell Jr., Alejandra Villa Loarca, Falcon Griffith, Steve Pfost and Mary Klug)
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