- Date
- November 23, 1964
- Place
- Rome, Italy · ROME, Italy
- Injuries
- 48 fatal, 11 serious, 6 minor, 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N769TWBoeing 707 331
- Status
- Completed · report February 22, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 180620
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0080 64/11/23 ROME ITALY BOEING 707 331 CR- 5 2 4 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV AGE UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL TIME - 1415 N769TW PX- 43 9 10 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - FIUMICINO AIRPORT OPERATOR - TRANS WORLD AIRLINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GROUND-WATER LOOP-SWERVE TAKEOFF: ABORTED COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - THRUST REVERSER: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - THRUST REVERSAL-ASYMETRICAL FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- INVEST AND REPT BY ITALIAN GOVT.ACFT STRUCK STEAMROLLER.NO.2 ENG NOT IN REV.LITE IND ENG IN REVERS
Aircraft
- Registration
- N769TW
- Reported as
- Boeing 707 331
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Fiumicino Airport
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