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| Title: | Explosion in-flight, Trans World Airlines, Inc., Boeing 707-331B, N8734, in The Ionian Sea, September 8, 1974 |
| Micro summary: | This Boeing 707-331B exploded when in cruise over the Ionian Sea. |
| Event Time: | 1974-09-08 at 0940 GMT |
| File Name: | 1974-09-08-US.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) |
| Publishing Country: | USA |
| Report number: | NTSB-AAR-75-7 |
| Pages: | 46 |
| Site of event: | Cruise, FL280, Pinger located N38°18.1' E019°15' |
| Departure: | Athens Hellenikon, Athens, Greece |
| Destination: | Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport (Fiumicino), Fiumicino, Italy |
| Airplane Type(s): | Boeing 707-331B |
| Flight Phase: | Cruise |
| Registration(s): | N8734 |
| Operator(s): | Trans World Airlines |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 88 |
| Fatalities: | 88 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 0 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | At 0940 Greenwich mean time, September 8, 1974, Trans World Airlines, Inc. , Flight 841, crashed into the Ionian Sea about 50 nmi west of Cephalonia, Greece. There were 79 passengers and 9 crewmembers on board; no one survived. The aircraft was destroyed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the detonation of an explosive device within the aft cargo compartment of the aircraft which rendered the aircraft uncontrollable. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Terrorism/Violence |
| Consequence - Damage - Airframe or fuselage | |
| Consequence - Hull Loss |
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