In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI Investigation of Twa Flight 800 - Hardcover

Offers an in-depth account of the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island in July 1996, the intensive FBI investigation--the largest and most complex ever--that followed, and the conclusions the agency reached about the tragedy. 20,000 first printing.

king of the Titanic, the crash of TWA Flight 800 just off Long Island, New York, in the early evening of July 17, 1996, captured the world's imagination. Associated Press reporter Pat Milton has covered the story from day one and was granted unprecedented access to the FBI investigation--the largest and most complex in the agency's history.

Initially suspecting that a crime had been committed, James Kallstrom, the head of the FBI's New York office, led the two-year investigation from the start. In the Blink of an Eye offers a rare look at the efforts of several government agencies--which often had different missions--to find the truth about the most mysterious and disturbing disaster in aviation history.
        
Commercial jets don't just fall out of the sky. So what happened? Was TWA's Flight 800 the first plane to be downed by enemy action within the United States? On the night of the crash, President Clinton told his national securi