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The aircraft involved, manufactured in July 1971, was a Boeing 747-131 registered as N93119. The aircraft was purchased new by Trans World Airlines in 1971. It had completed 16,869 flights in 93,303 hours of operation and was powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7AH turbofan engines.
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.
April 2, 1986 A bomb on board Flight 840, a Boeing 727-231, detonated over Argos, Greece, blowing a hole in the right side of the fuselage.Although four passengers were sucked out of the aircraft and killed, the aircraft landed safely at Athens with no other casualties.
TWA 800, a Boeing 747-131, was a scheduled international passenger flight from New York City to Rome, with a stopover in Paris.At about 20:31 EDT, on July 17, 1996, about 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), TWA 800 exploded and then crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York.
Saudi Arabian Airlines: 9 747-100B SUD March 24, 1986 Japan Airlines: September 9, 1986 Japan Airlines: 2 Total 747-100 Series: 205 747-200B January 16, 1971 KLM: December 20, 1990 United States Air Force: 233 747-200F (Freighter) March 10, 1972 Lufthansa: November 19, 1991 Nippon Cargo Airlines 73 747-200C (Convertble) April 30, 1973 World Airways
Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was an international scheduled passenger service from Kansas City, Missouri to Cairo, Egypt via Chicago, New York City, ...
The latest nation to take ownership of the Queen of the Skies is Egypt, which was the mystery buyer of an old 747 from Boeing in 2021.
The aircraft involved was a five year old Boeing 747-131 (serial number 19677 and line number 73) which made its first flight on September 15, 1970. On September 26, the aircraft was delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) with registration N53111. On October 15, 1975, the aircraft was returned to the Boeing factory in Wichita, Kansas. It was ...