TWA Flight 159
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twa-flight-159-177-11537129
title:
TWA Flight 159
text:
Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 159 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York City to Los Angeles, California, with a stopover in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Kentucky, that crashed after an aborted takeoff from Cincinnati on November 6, 1967. The Boeing 707 attempted to abort takeoff when the copilot became concerned that the aircraft had collided with a disabled DC-9 on the runway. The aircraft overran the runway, struck an embankment and caught fire. On
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1967 aviation accident
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_159
date created:
2006-09-03T19:44:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T04:25:35Z
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13
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