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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 742, a Boeing 707-331B, experienced severe in-flight oscillation over the Pacific Ocean; 1 critically injured passenger died two days later. September 8, 1974 Flight 841 , a Boeing 707-331B , crashed in the Ionian Sea off the Greek coast after a bomb on board exploded, killing all 88 on board.
Gerald L. "Gerry" Gitner [1] is an American former aviation executive who occupied high-level positions at Trans World Airlines (TWA), Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), People Express Airlines, [2] and other major airlines. [3] [4] He has also served as chairman and director for several aviation-related and non-aviation-related companies. [5 ...
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 Fokker Super Universal which made up TWA fleet of airplanes were dealt a big blow, when one another Fokker design, the Fokker F-10, crashed near Bazaar, Kansas on March 31, 1931, with Knute Rockne, famous Notre Dame Football coach while en route to participate in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame. Both pilots and all six ...
This operation was later sold by Trans World Corporation while under the leadership of Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. the CEO of TWA and the first known to receive a golden parachute employment contract. In 1983, Trans World Corporation, under Chief Executive Officer L. Edwin Smart, spun off Trans World Airlines [2] [3] to Carl C. Icahn, [citation ...
The first new addition to the Air West fleet was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, which had been ordered by Bonanza Air Lines. Hungry for another adventure in the airline industry, TWA's former owner Howard Hughes sought the airline in 1968, [10] [11] and the US$90 million deal was finalized in April 1970.
Trans World Airlines Flight 106 was a scheduled passenger flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to Chicago, Illinois. On November 27, 1971, the Boeing 727 servicing the flight was hijacked by three armed and wanted men at Albuquerque International Sunport in Albuquerque , New Mexico , and flown to Havana, Cuba .