{"id":6820,"date":"2024-01-29T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/twa-flight-800-mid-air-explosion-cause\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:45:12","slug":"what-caused-twa-flight-800-to-explode-in-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=6820","title":{"rendered":"What Caused TWA Flight 800 To Explode In Mid-Air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 exploded and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 12 minutes after takeoff from New York&rsquo;s JFK Airport. It was a scheduled flight from New York to Rome with a stopover in Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-was-it-like-onboard-twas-boeing-747s\/\">onboard a carrier&rsquo;s Boeing 747-100 (N93119). <\/a>All 230 passengers and crew members onboard Flight 800 perished. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) speculated a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary investigation indicated the presence of a bomb onboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676,396,408,240,2742,2740,2741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accident","category-aircraft","category-history","category-north-america","category-twa","category-twa-800","category-twa-boeing-747"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6822,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}