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Flight 541, a Douglas DC-9, was hijacked by a man who demanded release of prisoners. The aircraft was stormed and the hijacker arrested. [71] December 5, 1981 Flight 534, a Boeing 707, was hijacked by a man who was then subdued. [72] October 27, 1982 A pocketknife-wielding man attempted to hijack Flight 72, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, at Los ...
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors .
TWA Flight 159; TWA Flight 260; TWA Flight 277; TWA Flight 355; TWA Flight 358; TWA Flight 400; 1994 St. Louis Airport collision; TWA Flight 513; TWA Flight 514; TWA Flight 529; TWA Flight 541; TWA Flight 553; TWA Flight 742; TWA Flight 800 (1964) TWA Flight 840; TWA Flight 840 bombing; TWA Flight 840 hijacking; TWA Flight 841 (1974) TWA Flight ...
The aircraft was a four and a half year old Boeing 707-331, registered N769TW. Onboard were 62 passengers and 11 crew. The flight crew consisted of Captain Vernon W. Lowell, an experienced pilot with 17,408 logged hours, 2,617 of those in the Boeing 707. The First Officer was William A. Slaughter who had 17,419 hours overall and 1,269 on the 707.
Trans World Airlines Flight 2, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation named Star of the Seine, with Captain Jack Gandy (age 41), First Officer James Ritner (31), and Flight Engineer Forrest Breyfogle (37), departed Los Angeles on Saturday, June 30, 1956, at 9:01 am PST with 64 passengers (including 11 TWA off-duty employees on free tickets) and six crew members (including two flight attendants ...
Flight Engineer Pruitt had accumulated 8,500 flight hours, of which 379 were in the DC-8. [1] Trans World Airlines Flight 266, Star of Sicily, registered as N6907C, [8] was a Super Constellation carrying 39 passengers and 5 crew members from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, to LaGuardia Airport in Queens.
The DC-9 involved seen in 1993, in service with USAir. Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 159 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York City to Los Angeles, California, with a stopover in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Kentucky, that crashed after an aborted takeoff from Cincinnati on November 6, 1967.
TWA Flight 843 (TW843, TWA843) was a scheduled Trans World Airlines passenger flight that crashed after an aborted takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport to San Francisco International Airport on July 30, 1992. Despite an intense fire after the crash, the crew was able to evacuate all 280 passengers from the aircraft.