WHO can ever forget that July day, 10 ½ years ago, when we all woke up to the news that Flight 800, a TWA 747 bound to Paris, had crashed within minutes of taking off from JFK, killing all 230 people ...

On the evening of July 17,1996, 230 people (originally reported as 229) perished as a TWA jet bound for Paris exploded shortly after taking off from Kennedy Airport, raining debris over the Atlantic ...

For nearly 20 years, a relic of one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history has been tucked away in a warehouse in Northern Virginia. The fuselage of the Boeing 747, painstakingly reassembled ...

Metallurgical tests on wreckage of TWA Flight 800 suggest that the Boeing 747 crashed as a result of a mechanical malfunction and not because of an explosive device, said senior air safety and law ...

ASHBURN, Va. — The bones of one of America’s worst air disasters are finally being laid to rest. But there will be no special grave or burial ceremony for the battered, twisted and fire-scarred chunk ...

(CNN)The reconstructed wreckage of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, which exploded minutes after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996, will be ...

Investigation and recovery costs for TWA Flight 800 could reach the $100 million mark, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. Calling the reconstruction of the Boeing 747 ...

The first class area of a TWA 747 was transformed into a television studio for the fourth anniversary of David Letterman’s show. The seats were removed, making room for Letterman’s desk and the show’s ...

Tears likely still flow in the small borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County just five miles east of Williamsport. It has been 26 years since the town lost some of its shining stars when Trans ...

(New York Daily News published this on July 18, 1996. This was written by Salvatore Arena, K.C. Baker, Joe Calderone, Mike Claffey, Jim Dwyer, Don Gentile, Helen ...

ASHBURN, Va. (ABC7) — In 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of New York. The crash grabbed the world's attention when 230 people died. It became the NTSB's longest, most complicated and ...

LONDON — TWA is investigating a jumbo jet pilot’s failure to put down his wheels until a sharp-eyed air traffic controller shouted a warning less than a minute before the plane was to land, officials ...