The NTSB also came up with a similar simulation.
Neither Boeing nor the NTSB could explain why, if the center wing tank exploded (which is also the center wing box,) the wings didn’t immediately depart the aircraft instead of hanging on for 10 seconds as the aircraft pitched up 3,200 feet, and all four engines continued to provide thrust. Boeing builds them good, but not that good.
If they got such a basic and fundamental aerodynamic fact wrong, how can anyone believe the remainder of the NTSB’s conclusions?
Well it seems to me that the TWA 800 investigation fell into the same category as a few other government investigations in the same relative time frame.
Bits and pieces of those determinations were also shown to have been very problematic. There were facets of four additional investigations that made it quite clear we weren’t getting the straight scoop.
Why did they HAVE to explain that? It wasn’t relevant to the crash. Once the explosion occurred, it was a done deal.