This was a dream, which actually turned out to be more of a premonition and the setting in the dream was the summer of 1996. This very unusual as I never dream of precise dates. In the dream, my wife and I were visiting her mother, who lived in New Haven Connecticut. She lived in a huge building with many floors and about a quarter of a mile away from the nearest beach. We had spent most of the day there, and it was just about sundown when I figured it was getting late.  I suggested to my wife that we get going and she agreed. As my wife said her good-byes, I went to retrieve our car, which was parked in a Parking Garage across the way. I remember walking to the garage when I began to hear a deep rumbling in the sky. I looked, but didn't see anything. The intense sound strengthened, and I noticed that it was coming from the area of the beach. People around me began to panic and started to run towards the shore and I followed with curiosity. When I got to the beach I remember looking up and seeing a huge Jumbo jet, 747, flying unusually low and very loud. Standing in the sand of the beach, with the water about 5 feet away, I saw the 747 fly directly over my head and a little farther out to the water. All of a sudden there was a flash and the jet exploded. Pieces of the burning plane came crashing down into the water. A horrible feeling came over me as I thought something very terrible had happened and I remember saying to myself with certainty…"nobody survived that blast". I also remember feeling the heat of the fiery pieces of the plane as they fell into the ocean.... That's when the dream ended and I woke up in a cold sweat. The feeling I got was that there was something very wrong with this event and it didn't seem like "just an accident". Also, it was very unusual that I could produce a date and see the details of such a horrible explosion. The fact that this happened three years into the future was eerie enough.

Commentary: On July 17, 1996 at 8:41 PM, TWA (Jumbo jet 747) flight 800 exploded about 10 minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport over the Long Island sound. No survivors were found or expected. Cause of the crash is still unknown to this date, although it has been speculated that an empty center fuel tank accumulated fuel vapors and then exploded due to faulty wiring. Many have challenged this theory and others claim to have seen a mysterious leading fireball before the explosion. I can't get over the empty feeling as I watched the news cast as I thought to myself that I had seen this crash three years ago.