AVIATION Missile protection recommended
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Your support makes all the difference.A commission of aviation experts convened by President Bill Clinton following the crash of TWA 800 last summer is to recommend fitting commercial airliners with anti-missile devices to help protect them against terrorist attack.
A draft of the commission's report, which should be officially published next week, includes a call on the US government to "prepare for use of surface-to-air missiles by terrorists", among other sweeping recommendations on improving flight safety.
The possibility of a missile attack was seriously considered by investigators into the TWA crash, following eyewitness reports of a streak of light touching the plane before it fell. But the theory has fallen from favour, with an explosion in a central fuel tank now seen as the likely cause.
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