Several aviation experts along with many investigators are now coming forward to state that they feel a missile is the cause of a crash off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., on July 17, 1996.

Just minutes after take-off, a Paris-bound plane out of New York's JFK Airport crashed, resulting in the deaths of all 230 people on board. In the weeks proceeding the tragedy, the aircraft was reassembled in a hangar with the parts recovered from the site of the incident.

The cause of the crash wasn't determined immediately, but at the time, authorities said it happened due to static electricity ignited fuel flames. However, there are numerous skeptics that are rebuking the respective theory.

There were multiple witness accounts, stating that they saw a fireball going up from the ground and hitting the plane, according to Fox News, but the FBI had dismissed those accounts at the time.

Six investigators are saying that they were never allowed to get the truth, but strongly think that a missile was the primary cause of the devastating crash.

"We don't know who fired the missile. But we have a lot more confidence that it was a missile," Jim Speer, an accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association, told the news site.

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