TWA Flight 514
1974 plane crash in Virginia, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trans World Airlines Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 92 people aboard, 85 passengers and seven crew members, were killed.[1][2] In stormy conditions late in the morning, the aircraft was in controlled flight and impacted a low mountain 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi)[3] northwest of its revised destination.[4][5] The accident was one of two crashes involving Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States that day, the other being the crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 later that evening near Haverstraw, New York.
Accident | |
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Date | December 1, 1974 11:09:22 am EST |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error |
Site | Mount Weather, Clarke County, Virginia, U.S. 39°04.6′N 77°52.9′W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 727-231 |
Operator | Trans World Airlines |
Registration | N54328 |
Flight origin | Indianapolis International Airport, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Stopover | Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus, Ohio |
Destination | Washington Dulles International Airport diverted from Washington National Airport |
Occupants | 92 |
Passengers | 85 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 92 |
Survivors | 0 |