The National Transportation Safety Board said it would no longer use the wreckage of the 1996 TWA 800 crash as a teaching tool and would soon destroy it. The flight, a Boeing 747, exploded about 12 ...
ASHBURN, Va. — The bones of one of America’s worst air disasters are finally being laid to rest. But there will be no special grave or burial ceremony for the battered, twisted and fire-scarred chunk ...
As the F.B.I. chief in New York, he spent 16 months investigating why Flight 800 crashed 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 people on board. By Sam Roberts The National Transportation Safety ...
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport at 8:19 p.m., hugging the South Shore of Long Island en route to Paris. Twelve minutes after takeoff, the 747 ...
The reconstructed wreckage of one of the deadliest crashes in U.S. aviation history has spent the last 25 years serving as an important teaching tool for investigators that has likely helped save ...
When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...
The reconstruction of TWA Flight 800, which has been housed in Ashburn, Virginia and used for National Transportation Safety Board training purposes for nearly 20 years, will be decommissioned this ...
June 30, 1956 was a slightly overcast summer’s morning in Los Angeles. Inside LAX, 65 passengers awaited the call to board TWA flight 2 to Kansas City, Missouri. At a nearby gate, 53 others were lined ...