Moon Township, Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Aircraft type
Martin 4-0-4
Operator
Trans World Airlines
Registration
N40403
Flight origin
Pittsburgh International Airport, Pennsylvania (PIT/KPIT)
Destination
Newark International Airport, New Jersey (EWR/KEWR)
Passengers
33
Crew
3
Fatalities
22 (passengers:21 crew:1)
Survivors
14 (passengers:12 crew:2)
On April 1, 1956, a Martin 4-0-4, registration #N40403, operating as TWA Flight 400, crashed on takeoff from Greater Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Twenty-two of the 36 people aboard the aircraft, including one crewmember,[1] perished in the evening crash on Easter Sunday.[2][3][4][5]
Flight 400 was to be an eastbound IFR flight from Pittsburgh to Newark International Airport (EWR) in New Jersey, with scheduled stops in eastern Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, Reading, and Allentown. On this particular flight, the first officer was in the left seat, as he was being line-checked by the captain; both pilots survived.
^"Crew of crashed plane". The Day. (New London, Connecticut}. (AP photo). April 3, 1956. p. 1.
^Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
^"22 are killed, 14 survive as airliner crashes here". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 2, 1956. p. 1.
^"22 dead in airliner crash". Pittsburgh Press. April 2, 1956. p. 1.
^"Plane crash death toll 22 as another body is found". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). Associated Press. April 2, 1956. p. 1.
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