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Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major United States-based airline with hubs in St. Louis, New York (JFK), with focus cities in Kansas City, Missouri; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Los Angeles, California. The airline operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. Prior to the...
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TWA Flight 847
TWA Flight 847 was an international Trans World Airlines flight which was hijacked by Lebanese Shia Islamists on Friday morning, June 14, 1985, after originally taking off from Cairo, Egypt. The flight was en route from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy...
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- 8
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- 152
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Date:
- Jun 14, 1985
Fatalities:
- 1
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Passengers:
- 153
Dawson's Field hijackings
In the Dawson's Field hijackings (September 6, 1970) four jet aircraft bound for New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
While the majority of the 310 hostages were transferred to Amman and freed...
Flight origin:
- Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport ,
- Brussels Airport ,
- Zürich International Airport ,
- Ben Gurion International Airport
Crew:
- 9 ,
- 8 ,
- 17 ,
- 10
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Injuries:
- 1
Survivors:
- 154 ,
- 153 ,
- 152 ,
- 148
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- Sep 9, 1970 ,
- Sep 6, 1970
Passengers:
- 145 ,
- 144 ,
- 138 ,
- 136
TWA 903
TWA Flight 903 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bombay (Mumbai), India to New York-Idlewild, via Cairo and Rome-Ciampino.
"The Star of Maryland", a Lockheed Constellation 749A, flew the route on the night of August 31, 1950. It departed Cairo...
Crew:
- 7
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Date:
- Sep 1, 1950
Fatalities:
- 55
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Passengers:
- 48
TWA Flight 514
TWA Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 85 passengers and 7 crew...
Crew:
- 7
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Date:
- Dec 1, 1974
Fatalities:
- 92
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Passengers:
- 85
TWA Flight 260
TWA Flight 260 was the Trans World Airlines (TWA) designation for a flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the 1950s. On February 19, 1955, the 40 passenger, Martin 4-0-4 prop plane used by TWA for that route crashed into the...
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- 3
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- Feb 19, 1955
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Passengers:
- 13
TWA Flight 128
Convair N821TW/Fleet # 8821 was the 27th 880 produced at Convair. In June 1960 the aircraft was stored in San Diego for TWA pending financing by Toolco {Hughes Tool Co.}. The sell and delivery to Trans World Airlines was executed on January 1,1961...
Tail number:
- N821TW
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Crew:
- 7
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Injuries:
- 12
Survivors:
- 12
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Date:
- Nov 20, 1967
Fatalities:
- 70
Passengers:
- 75
TWA Flight 840
Trans World Airlines Flight 840, registration N54340, was a Boeing 727-231 flying en route from Rome's Fiumicino Airport to Athens. A bomb was detonated on the aircraft while it was over Argos, Greece, ejecting four American passengers (including a...
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Crew:
- 7
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Injuries:
- 5
Survivors:
- 117
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Date:
- Apr 2, 1986
Fatalities:
- 4
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 114
TWA Flight 840
In August 1969, leaders in the Palestinian left-wing organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) learned that Yitzak Rabin, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States was scheduled to be aboard a Trans World Airlines (TWA)...
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Crew:
- 7
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Survivors:
- 127
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Date:
- Aug 29, 1969
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Passengers:
- 120
TWA Flight 599
Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 599 was a Fokker F.10 Trimotor en route from Kansas City, Missouri, to Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 1931. It crashed a few miles north west of Bazaar, Kansas; all eight on board died. One of those...
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Crew:
- 2
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Date:
- Mar 31, 1931
Fatalities:
- 8
Passengers:
- 6
TWA Flight 841
On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (tail number N8734) operating as TWA Flight 841 took off from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv en route to JFK International Airport, New York City. It was scheduled to land in Athens, followed by...
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Crew:
- 8 ,
- 9
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Date:
- Sep 8, 1974
Fatalities:
- 88
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Passengers:
- 79
TWA Flight 841
On April 4, 1979, a Boeing 727-31 (tail number N840TW) operating as TWA Flight 841 took off from JFK International Airport, New York City en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Over Saginaw, Michigan, while the plane was cruising...
Crew:
- 7
Operator:
Site:
Injuries:
- 8
Date:
- Apr 4, 1979
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 82
TWA Flight 400
On April 1, 1956, a Martin 4-0-4, registration #N40403, operating as TWA Flight 400, crashed on takeoff from Greater Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Twenty-two of the 36 people aboard the aircraft, including one crewmember, perished in the...
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Crew:
- 3
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Survivors:
- 14
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Date:
- Apr 1, 1956
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 33
TWA Flight 3
Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3-382 propliner, registration NC1946, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, NY to Burbank, CA via Indianapolis, IN, Saint Louis, MO, Albuquerque...
Crew:
- 3
Date:
- Jan 16, 1942
Fatalities:
- 22
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 19
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
The 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred on Saturday June 30, 1956 at 10:30 AM local time when a United Airlines passenger airliner struck a Trans World Airlines (TWA) airliner over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, resulting in the crash of both...
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Tail number:
- N6902C
Date:
- Jun 30, 1956
TWA Flight 277
Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 277 was a C-54 Skymaster en route from Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador to Washington D.C. on June 20, 1944. The aircraft crashed on Fort Mountain, in Maine's Baxter State Park. All seven on board died,...
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Crew:
- 6
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Date:
- Jun 20, 1944
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Passengers:
- 1
TWA Flight 529
TWA Flight 529 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, registration N86511, operating as a scheduled passenger service from Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California. On September 1, 1961, at 02:05 CDT, the flight crashed shortly...
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Crew:
- 5
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Date:
- Sep 1, 1961
Fatalities:
- 78
Aircraft type:
Passengers:
- 73
