Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error
Site
Mount Weather, Clarke County, Virginia, U.S. 39°04.6′N77°52.9′W / 39.0767°N 77.8817°W / 39.0767; -77.8817
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
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Location in the United States
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Location in Virginia
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.
^"Plane crash in Va. kills 92". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. December 2, 1974. p. 1.
^"Virginia jet crash kills 92". Chicago Tribune. December 2, 1974. p. 1, sec. 1.
^"Aircraft Accident Report Trans World Airlines, Inc. Boeing 727-231, N54328 Berryville, Virginia December 1, 1974" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. 1975-11-26 – via Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
^Jones, Edward (December 2, 1974). "Weather hampers air crash probe". Free Lance-Star. (Fredericksburg, Virginia). p. 1.
^"Search hampered for jet victims". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. December 2, 1974. p. 2.[permanent dead link]
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