Rebuilt wreckage of TWA Flight 800 being moved to Virginia GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than seven years after TWA Flight 800 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, the reconstructed jumbo jet has been packed up and is being sent to a college in Virginia, where it will be used to train air safety investigators. All 230 people aboard the plane died minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport on a flight to Paris on July 17, 1996. The National Transportation Safety Board found that Flight 800 was destroyed by a center fuel tank explosion, probably caused by a spark from a short-circuit in the wiring that ignited vapors in the tank. As part of its investigation, the NTSB rebuilt a 96-foot section of the Boeing 747 in a hangar at the site of a former defense contractor in Calverton, on eastern Long Island. Roger EWROPS