{"slug": "trans-world-airlines", "label": "Trans World Airlines", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_World_Airlines", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527341", "qid": "Q527341", "description": "defunct airline in the United States (1930–2001)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1956, 1986], "span_label": ["1956 CE", "1986 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["TWA"], "related": [{"slug": "new-york-city", "label": "New York City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brussels", "label": "Brussels", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "frankfurt", "label": "Frankfurt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zurich", "label": "Zurich", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arizona", "label": "Arizona", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "staten-island", "label": "Staten Island", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 30", "text": "June 30 – 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: A TWA Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft, in the deadliest civil aviation disaster to date; the accident leads to sweeping changes in the regulation of cross-country flight and air traffic control over the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#June", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – New York mid-air collision: A United Air Lines DC-8 collides in mid-air with a TWA Lockheed Constellation over Staten Island in New York City. All 128 passengers and crewmembers on the two airliners, and six people on the ground, are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#December", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to show regularly scheduled movies during its flights, presenting By Love Possessed to 1st-class passengers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#July", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#August", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zurich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#September", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 2", "text": "April 2 – A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#April", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › April"}}]}