TWA Flight 800 grabbed the world’s attention when shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in July 1996, the Paris-bound Boeing 747 exploded, killing all 230 onboard.

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… ...

Off of the recently opened TWA hotel, flight attendants and historians from the TWA heyday draw a warts-and-all picture of TWA's air travel during the early '60s. The reopening romanticizes the ...

More than a decade after concluding a fuel tank explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, senior U.S. accident investigators stood their ground on Tuesday against skeptics claiming new evidence suggests ...

A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas ...

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 ...

On July 17th, 1996, TWA Flight 800 took off from JFK Airport, on the way to Paris, but it suddenly exploded in the air, near East Moriches, Long Island.

NEW YORK — Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA terminal at what is now John F. Kennedy International Airport has always been about selling a fantasy. When it opened, it promoted the vision of its ...

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

Wreckage from TWA Flight 800, which exploded in 1996 shortly after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy airport, will be decommissioned and destroyed, the NTSB announced.