What the records say
- When
- 31 Aug 1950
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 30.05° N, 31.23° E
- Description
- 1950 plane crash of a TWA Lockheed L-749A Constellation 'The Star of Maryland' near Ityei el Barud, Western Desert, Egypt
- Deaths
- 55
- Participants
- 55
TWA Flight 903
1950 aviation accident
TWA Flight 903 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bombay International Airport, India to New York-Idlewild Airport, via Cairo-King Farouk Airport and Rome-Ciampino Airport. On 31 August 1950, the flight crashed in Egypt due to engine failure.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Absturz eines Passagierflugzeugs von Kairo nach Rom etwa einhundert Kilometer westnordwestlich des Startflughafens kommen alle 55 Personen an Bord,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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