Yes. And they even printed up a fancy poster, showing a 747 (in their version) slamming into the ocean just off of NYC, with the twin towers in the background.
It was posted a number of places (in Pakistan, I believe) well before the downing.
WND and a few other places carried the story, which went nowhere, since it would contradict the whole “Peace and Prosperity” meme promulgated b4 Clinton’s re-election.
I flew on TWA 800 about 18 months before it went down. The flight then was scheduled to go from JFK to Paris and then on to Tel Aviv. There were many orthodox Jews on the flight and before take off (which was in the late afternoon),I remember them facing the setting sun out the airport windows and praying while bobbing up and down.
Our flight was uneventful, but I always thought maybe the fact that the final destination was Israel had something to do with the crash. I never saw this fact brought out in the news at the time. I suppose it is possible that the flight no longer went on to Tel Aviv from Paris and whoever brought it down didn’t know that the schedule was changed.