What the records say
- When
- 9 Mar 1967
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 40.17° N, 83.83° W
- Description
- mid-air collision
- Deaths
- 26
- Injured
- 0
TWA Flight 553
1967 aviation disaster in Concord Township, Ohio, US
TWA Flight 553 was a domestic flight operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 jet airliner, registration N1063T, for Trans World Airlines on March 9, 1967, between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Dayton, Ohio. While descending toward Dayton about 29 miles from the airport, the aircraft collided in midair with a Beechcraft Baron, a small, general-aviation airplane, near Urbana, Ohio.
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