Trans World Airlines
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Trans World Airlines was a trunk carrier, a scheduled airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Weste
A Boeing 747-131 of TWA at Heathrow Airport in 1984
Lindbergh Line DC-2
A Lockheed 12A, used by TWA as an experimental/test aircraft
A TWA Douglas DC-3 is prepared for takeoff from Columbus, Ohio, in 1940.
TWA Flight 800
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TWA Flight 800 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, with a stopover
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…TWA became saddled with debt, sold its London routes, underwent Chapter 11 restructuring in 1992 and 1995, and was further stressed by the explosion of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, which would become the third deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history. TWA was headquartered at one time in Kansas City, Missouri, and…
The reconstructed wreckage of the aircraft, formerly stored by the NTSB at Calverton Executive Airpark before being scrapped
N93119, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in 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