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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… ...
The National Transportation Safety Board said it will destroy the remaining wreckage of TWA Flight 800 after nearly 20 years as a training tool. TWA Flight 800 grabbed the world’s attention when ...
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 ...
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.
A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that killed 230 people and just before the ...
Ann Hood, a best-selling author, has recounted her adventures working as cabin crew on TWA flights in the 1980s in a book detailing the highs and lows of life during the early jet age.
Ruth Richter Holden, daughter of TWA co-founder Paul Richter, donates 1937 Lockheed 12A Electra Junior to Kansas City’s TWA Museum.
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 ...