Transcript of Hearing 12/12/97 - TWA Flight 800 Investigation

127212effort and what is referred to as the Safer Committeewhich was a full advisory committee that met for a3couple of years,I believe -- and it, by the way, has45tons of documentation.They looked at --after the notice went out6789they looked at the history of accidents. Myrecollection is that at that point they concluded thatthere wasn’t an in flight history as significant asthere was of a post crash fire history.10so,they believed the most appropriate thing11to do at the time was to create a post-crash fire12scenario as the scenario,or as the goal that everybody13was trying to protect against.Quite frankly, I think141516171819202122we have been fairly effective in doing that.Q Yes, sir. Essentially what has happened isthat there is new information and new experiencecontributed since that time, would you agree, tosomewhat change our view of these incidents?A Well, I think I clearly made that statementearlier in this testimony that our opinion of thepast -- and it is just like anybody else -- our opinionof the past is certainly likely to be different today23than it was back then,and we have gone on the record2425many times to say everything is on the table, includingnitrogen inerting.CAPITAL HILL REPORTING, INC.(202) 466-9500