Trevor Collins

And then for 20 years, you have people coming through here to investigate and understand what happened, how this can be prevented.

And honestly, what do you think that does for a generation of FAA employees or NTSB employees?

Safety will be right there at the front.

Yeah, or get this heart to a patient that needs it, you know, like, you know, whatever can be done out of this unfortunate end.

Right, right.

To ignore it would be to...

almost tacitly like have another one happen right to to not learn from it so ultimately like i said nearly 20 years uh it was dismantled in i believe it was 2021 because the lease on the hangar expired it's kind of an unfortunate way for that to end but i assume there's other details in play there

The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial was built in 2002 to honor all 230 souls who perished in the crash that day.

If you're in the area or if you're interested Task Force in seeing it, you can find it located in Smith Point County Park, Long Island, New York.

It is near the site of this crash.

So in the wake of the crash, like I said, the FAA concluded that many operating airplanes were lacking in ignition prevention strategies.

We really learned about wiring, aging of wires, but also like looking at how, like you were saying like this feels so obvious.

If this can be ignited, why aren't we looking at all the ways it can happen?

Well, that's exactly what the FAA is starting to do at this point.

In 2001, the FAA issued Special Federal Aviation Regulation, SFAR, S-F-A-R 88.

This regulation required the reexamination of existing commercial planes and their ignition prevention.

It also required the implementation of enhanced safety features from their findings.

So not only are they saying, I need to get eyes on every single plane, I'm going to take what I learned from that and apply it to all new planes going forward as a regulation.

As you can imagine, while executing SFAR 88, many different airplane models discovered and reported various different ignition sources.

So I can only imagine the guy or woman at the lead of the FAA going, oh my gosh, because you're saying this felt like it was bound to happen just based on everything I know about this one plane.