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TWA Flight 800

Flight that exploded and crashed in 1996 off the coast of New York
Event aviation_accident Q908717
TWA Flight 800
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Facts

14 properties
Instance of
aviation accident
Country
United States[2]
Location
Moriches Inlet[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.649°, -72.637°[7]
Aircraft registration
N93119[5]
Depicted by
Explosive Proof, TWA Flight 800[9][10]
Destination point
Roma Fiumicino Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport[12][13]
Different from
TWA Flight 800[16]
Number of deaths
+230[8]
Number of survivors
+0[14]
Operator
Trans World Airlines[3]
Point in time
July 17, 1996[6]
Start point
John F. Kennedy International Airport[11]
Vessel
Boeing 747[15]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 11
Library of Congress authority ID
sh99013422
Aviation Safety Network accident ID
19960717-0
BBC Things ID
758bf104-f6cf-485e-ad9b-f91b1ef83378
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
twa-flight-800-disaster
FAST ID
1141688
Freebase ID
/m/07jyq
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007556499005171
National Transportation Safety Board report ID
AAR0003
OpenStreetMap node ID
10733708563
Quora topic ID
TWA-Flight-800
Yale LUX ID
concept/96b08a36-7600-45a3-a92a-82831a4edf4d

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🔗 Connections
Destination point 2
Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roma Fiumicino Airport
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
TWA Flight 800
Instance of 1
aviation accident
Operator 1
Trans World Airlines
Start point 1
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Vessel 1
Boeing 747
← Different from 1
TWA Flight 800
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Summary

TWA Flight 800 is an aviation accident[1].

Related Entities

United States

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap node ID → 10733708563
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ OpenStreetMap node ID: 10733708563, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/270419|batch #270419]]"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Start point → John F. Kennedy International Airport
    Destination point → Roma Fiumicino Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
    Point in time → —
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007556499005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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