American Airlines is one of the largest airlines in the world, and the very largest in terms of passengers carried and daily ...

The tragic crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 66 in 1975 spurred crucial safety improvements, saving countless lives in the ...

The tail of the Trans World Airlines (TWA) airplane, which had recently taken off from Midway Airport, is among the wreckage found in a field near Clarendon Hills on Sept. 1, 1961.

The world's only Douglas DC-1 first flew on July 1, 1933, by Carl Cover. After half a year of testing and performing over 200 test flights (and out competing the Ford Trimotor and the Fokker ...

Another mail carrier turned airline, Trans World Airlines' history dates back to pre-World War 2, the early days of American aviation, according to USA Today.

Trans World Airlines led the way as one of America's major airlines from 1930 to 2001. The influence TWA has had on the world and locally, is one that history can't ignore.

For the past seven years, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines have been tangled in a complex legal battle. The conflict dates back to late 1960, when Hughes, in return for ...

Trans World Airlines. Founded as Transcontinental Air Transport in 1929, Trans World Airlines was Kansas City’s first, operating out of what is now the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport.

A Trans World Airlines flight bound for Paris, France, exploded and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, N.Y. All 230 people on board were killed.

The “big one,” as Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University professor Robert Joslin calls it, happened over the Grand Canyon in 1956 when United Airlines Flight 718 collided with Trans World ...