TWA Flight 800 wreckage is being moved to Virginia

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More than seven years after TWA Flight 800 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, the reconstructed jumbo jet has been packed up and is being sent to a college in Virginia, where it will be used to train air safety investigators.
All 230 people aboard the plane died minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport on a flight to Paris on July 17, 1996.
The NTSB* rebuilt a 96-foot section of the Boeing 747 in a hangar at the site of a former defense contractor in Calverton, on eastern Long Island.
"We get air safety investigators from all over the country, all over the world, in fact, who come to us for training,"


*National Transportation Safety Board