TWA Flight 800
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Flight that exploded and crashed in 1996 off the coast of New York
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Within Vinony's link graph, TWA Flight 800 is referenced by 343 other articles, and connects out to flight recorder, Boeing 747 and Roma Fiumicino Airport.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NY.
It sits within the topics 1996 disasters in the United States, 1996 in New York (state) and Airliner accidents and incidents involving in-flight explosions.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Date
- July 17, 1996 ( 1996-07-17 )
- Summary
- In-flight breakup due to explosion in center wing fuel tank caused by short circuit
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747-131
- Operator
- Trans World Airlines
- Iata flight no
- TW800
- Icao flight no
- TWA800
- Call sign
- TWA 800
- Registration
- N93119
- Flight origin
- John F. Kennedy Int'l Airport , New York City, United States
- Stopover
- Charles de Gaulle Airport , Paris, France
- Destination
- Leonardo da Vinci Airport , Rome, Italy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aviation accident
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- Trans World Airlines
- Image
- TWA flight 800 reconstruction by the National Transportation Safety Board was used as a training aid for about 20 years until 2021 at the NTSB’s Training Center in Ashburn, Virginia 01.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 230
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- number of survivors
- 0
- Commons category
- TWA Flight 800 (1996)
- aircraft registration
- N93119
- point in time
- 1996-07-17
- start point
- John F. Kennedy International Airport
- destination point
- Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
- different from
- TWA Flight 800
- vessel
- Boeing 747
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Encyclopedic overview
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 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, twelve minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747 exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
All 230 people on board were killed in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history. Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning amid speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York Police Department Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later, the JTTF announced that no evidence of a criminal act had been found and closed its active investigation.
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