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  2. Trans World Airlines - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. List of Trans World Airlines accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category : Trans World Airlines accidents and incidents

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    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 ...

  5. Pan Am - Wikipedia

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    TWA's transatlantic challenge—the impending introduction of its faster, pressurized Lockheed Constellations—resulted in Pan Am ordering its own Constellation fleet at $750,000 (equivalent to $10.07 million in 2023) [15] apiece. Pan Am began transatlantic Constellation flights on January 14, 1946, beating TWA by three weeks. [54]

  6. 1994 St. Louis Airport collision - Wikipedia

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    TWA Flight 427 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from St. Louis International Airport to Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado. [1]: 1 On the date of the accident, Flight 427 was operated using a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number N954U). [1]: 1 There were 132 passengers and 8 crew on board.

  7. Ozark Air Lines - Wikipedia

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    Ozark Air Lines was incorporated on 1 September 1943 in Missouri by Laddie Hamilton, Barak Mattingly and Floyd Jones with $100,000 in paid-up capital. [2] Ozark flew from Springfield, Missouri, [3] and, in January 1945, it began flights between Springfield and St. Louis on Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwings, replaced by Cessna AT-17 Bobcats in the late 1940s.

  8. 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash

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    The Transcontinental and Western Air flight was a Fokker F.10 Trimotor en route from Kansas City to Los Angeles on March 31, 1931. [2] On the first leg of the flight to Wichita, the airplane crashed into an open field [note 2] a few miles southwest of Bazaar; all eight on board died, including famed football coach Knute Rockne, of the University of Notre Dame.

  9. Hughes Airwest - Wikipedia

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    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.