Stone “crash-theory” axed by ABC

After a weekend of speculation, The giant American TV network ABC has pulled the plug on director Oliver Stone's controversial plans to produce a television show dealing with the infamous TWA flight 800 which crashed off the coast of New York in 1986. Stone had agreed to produce an episode for ABC focusing on the mysterious event. His reasoning for the disaster followed that of many conspiracy theorists in America who believe the crash was caused by an errant navy missile locking onto the passenger plane. Stone planned to use this theory to explain the TWA disaster but ABC, following heavy press coverage in the States, decided the political heat generated from the show would be too intense. ABC confirmed that they did not want to "blur the line" between fact-based entertainment shows and hard news, and so decided to ice the project. "We found that it would be too difficult to distinguish between these two forms", an ABC spokesman said. Stone, meanwhile, has refused to comment on the decision but it looks as though his healthy appetite for conspiracy theories has yet to be satisfied. Perhaps he could take a shot at ex-MP Ron Davies and find out what exactly happened that night on Clapham Common.