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Old 23rd Aug 2002, 02:51
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JohnBarrySmith
 
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JBS>Locate hinge on top of cargo door: To the left is a petal shaped outward bulge; that is where the aft midspan latch was located. On other picture, locate hinge on top of door: to right and below is where the forward midspan latch used to be. The bottom sill fiasco is hard to believe since it means hanging a large piece of wreckage in the wrong place but the wreckage database is complete with addendum and there is only one sill retrieved and that was the aft sill. They are identical in shape and size and function.

Also, one pressure relief door was recovered and placed in the reconstruction.

Note that the port side opposite this shattered area is smooth.

You are looking at the initial hull rupture location points for Trans World Airlines Flight 800 and it's not the center tank.

Cheers,
Barry
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