Part 18: New York

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These two plane crashes take us to the state of New York, which is located next to the following states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Québec and Ontario.

WARNINGS OF PLANE CRASHES

Number 1- TWA Flight 800

  Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in May 1995

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  Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in May 1995.

Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800, registered as November 93119 (N93119), was a Boeing 747-100 aircraft that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on the 17th of July 1996, at about 8:31pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 12 minutes after the plane took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK), New York City, New York on a scheduled international passenger flight to Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF), Rome, Italy, with a stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), Paris, France, all 230 people on board the aircraft were killed in the crash; it's the third deadliest aviation accident in U.S history.

TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport and it was climbing out of New York when it was given a series of heading changes and generally increasing altitude assignments as the plane climbed to it's intended cruise altitude, weather in the area was light winds with scattered clouds, the last radio transmission from the plane occurred at 8:30pm EDT, when the flight crew received and then acknowledged instructions from Boston Center to climb to 15,000 feet (4,600 meters), the last recorded radar transponder returned by FAA radar site at Trevose, Pennsylvania was received at 8:31:12pm EDT.

TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport and it was climbing out of New York when it was given a series of heading changes and generally increasing altitude assignments as the plane climbed to it's intended cruise altitude, weather in the area was light wi...

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   This is the map of where the wreckage ended up after the explosion.

Recovery locations of the wreckage after the explosion from the ocean (the red, yellow and green zones in the above picture); The first parts to fall off after the explosion were the forward section of the wing center section and a ring of fuselage directly in front of this section (showed by the red section in the photo); the second parts to fall off after the explosion was the forward fuselage which landed relatively intact in the yellow section of the above photo and in the green zone was the wings and the aft portion of the fuselage, which remained intact for a period of time after the explosion of the plane and the separation of the forward fuselage and it impacted the water in the green zone of the above photo, fire damage to the aircraft indicated that some areas of fire existed on the plane as it continued the flight after the loss of the forward fuselage, after about 34 seconds, the outer portions of both wings failed, shortly after the failure, the left wing separated from the main fuselage, which resulted in further development of the fuel-fed fireball as the pieces of wreckage fell into the ocean, none of the 260 people survived the crash.

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