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TWA Flight 800 – Almost 30 Years Later

TWA Flight 800 was a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-131 that tragically exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, just 12 minutes after departing from JFK Airport en route to Paris and Rome. All 230 passengers and crew aboard perished, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in U.S. history .