The crash Catastrophe was referred Adducing to in Martin Scorsese 's film `` The Aviator '' , based on the life of TWA 's then-owner , Howard Hughes .

TWA Flight 800 was a Boeing 707 that crashed Catastrophe during take off Departing on runway 25 at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport , Rome at 13:09 GMT on a flight to Athens International Airport , Greece on 23 November 1964 .

On 6 September , TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt ( a Boeing 707 ) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich ( a Douglas DC-8 ) were forced Motion to land at Dawson 's Field .

Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded Damaging and crashed Catastrophe into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches , New York , on July 17 , 1996 , at about 8:31 p.m. EDT , 12 minutes after takeoff Self_motion from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome , with a stopover in Paris .