On Wednesday, July 17, 1996, at 8:19 p.m., TWA Flight 800 took off from JFK airport and headed out over Long Island toward Paris. It was a perfect summer night, 70 degrees, the sky clear. Twelve mi… ...

On July 17, 1996, all 230 people aboard died when faulty wiring led to a fire and the disintegration of TWA Flight 800 over the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, N.Y., providing the ending ...

Wreckage from TWA Flight 800 explosion to be destroyed In 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded after takeoff, killing 230 people. Its wreckage has been used for training for nearly two decades.

TWA was the Marilyn Monroe of the airlines: an American icon done in by powerful men who wanted a piece of its magic. Glamorous, tragic, gone before its time. And even though TWA’s demise didn’t ...

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Or bull." There is a memorial for TWA Flight 800 at Smith Point County Park.

The "TWA lounge at 1WTC" is equal parts museum and timepiece. It features memorabilia as well as TWA-themed lounge areas on the building's 86th floor.

TWA was a jewel of air travel's Golden Age, a symbol of in-flight glamour and style. That glamour reached its peak in 1962 with the opening of its new terminal at New York's Idlewild Airport (as ...

“TWA Flight 800” is based on the claims of former federal investigators who took part in the initial probe and witnesses who say their accounts were not taken seriously. They want a do-over.

Ruth Richter Holden, daughter of TWA co-founder Paul Richter, donates 1937 Lockheed 12A Electra Junior to Kansas City’s TWA Museum.

July 17, 2017 / 7:26 PM EDT / CBS New York SHIRLEY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- Monday marked the 21st anniversary of the crash of TWA flight 800, which killed all 230 people on board.