TWA Flight 800

The Boeing 747-131 was on a scheduled IFR flight from New York to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris. At 13,500 feet an explosion tore off the nose, which fell into the ocean, and the aircraft came down in the Atlantic near East Moriches, New York at about 2031 eastern daylight time. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable cause to be an explosion of the centre wing fuel tank resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture inside it.

Date

1996-07-17

Deaths (Wikipedia list)

230

What the pin marks

The position the cited page gives in the Atlantic off East Moriches, New York.

Where the position is published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: aviation, new york, boeing 747, fuel tank, ntsb

Coordinates: 40.64917, -72.63694

Part of Airliner accidents that killed 200 or more people since 1970

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