Pan Am Flight 214
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Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Friendship Airport near Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia International Airport. On December 8, 1963, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the Boeing 707-121 serving the flight crashed near Elkton, Maryland. All 81 occupants of the plane were killed. The crash was Pan Am's first fatal accident with the 707, which it had introduced to its fleet five years earlier.
A Pan Am Boeing 707-121 aircraft similar to the aircraft involved in the crash
Wreckage from the flight after the crash
Diagram showing the Boeing 707's fuel-tank layout.
Monument erected at the crash site in Elkton, Maryland (2022)
TWA Flight 800
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Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history. Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning amid speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash.
The reconstructed wreckage of TWA 800, stored by the NTSB at Calverton Executive Airpark
N93119, the aircraft involved in the accident, in May 1995.
The close-up view of N93119's front fuselage, in 1972, showing the seven plugged windows on the upper deck. These plugs were blown out following the explosion of Flight 800.
Burning wreckage of Flight 800 on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean