Computer scientist David Naiditch has also referred to HAARP as " a magnet for conspiracy theorists ", saying the project has been blamed for triggering catastrophes such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and devastating earthquakes in Pakistan and the Philippines, major power outages, the downing of TWA Flight 800, Gulf War syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

* On 6 September 1970, the PFLP ( including Leila Khaled ) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich, and failed in an attempt to hijack an El Al aircraft which landed safely in London after one hijacker was killed and the other overpowered ; and on 9 September 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bahrain to London via Beirut.

) Jet airliners arrived in 1961 ; in 1964 American and TWA started flying nonstop to California, though Newark's longest runway remained until 1970.

On July 17, 1959, the first jet aircraft landed in Geneva, an SAS Caravelle, and it was followed, 11 years later, by a TWA Boeing 747 which landed in 1970.

The first direct flight to New York was operated by a TWA Boeing 707 who also operated the first Boeing 747 service in 1970.

On September 7, 1970, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA that were landed in Azraq area and a Pan Am that was landed in Cairo.

Burroughs designated it the B8300 after Trans World Airlines ( TWA ) ordered one in September 1965.

On the morning of June 30, 1956, a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation and a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 departed Los Angeles International Airport within three minutes of one another on eastbound transcontinental flights.

Eventually an agreement was reached which allowed one US carrier, TWA, to service Dublin Airport through Shannon.

The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 49 weekday departures on American, 31 Eastern, 25 Northeast, 8 United, 7 TWA domestic, 6 National, 6 Mohawk, 2 TCA and one Provincetown-Boston.

The March 1939 Official Aviation Guide shows 18 airline departures on weekdays — seventeen United and one TWA.

The April 1957 OAG shows nine weekday departures on Western, six on United, six on Pacific Air Lines ( which subsequently merged with Bonanza Airlines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West ), one TWA and one American ( a nonstop to Chicago Midway ).

The April 1957 shows 38 on United, 12 Continental, seven Braniff, seven Frontier, seven Western, five TWA and one Central.

* The US FAA announces it will attempt to require a fuel tank inerting system in most large airliners in an effort to prevent fuel tank explosions such as the one which apparently destroyed TWA Flight 800 in 1996.

One offered that TIA “ would get a route system, equipment and facilities in place .” To other analysts and even airline executives, it was obvious why Lorenzo was interested in TWA: said one executive, “ Frank ’ s a financial man — that ’ s his game ,” and TWA offered Lorenzo a tricky financial situation with an unattractive amount of long term debt ($ 643 million, a relatively large amount in the industry ) offset by a portion of that debt carrying an extremely attractive and low interest rate of 4 %.

In 1952 Wing Headquarters shared the Wichita Municipal Airport Terminal Building with four commercial airlines, Braniff, Central, TWA, and Continental, plus one private flying service: Executive Airways.

He routinely expressed his desire for Cuba to return to the way it used to be ; such was the occasion when he made one of his famous jokes, involving a TWA flight he supposedly took between Havana and Miami.

* The official explanation for the explosion and subsequent crash of TWA Flight 800 is that an explosive fuel / air mixture was created in one of the aircraft's fuel tanks.

A tragedy was experienced by the Walden School community on July 17, 1996, when David Hogan was one of the victims of the TWA Flight 800 crash.

The aircraft was refueled, and there was a crew change ; the new flight crew consisted of Captain Ralph G. Kevorkian, Captain / Check Airman Steven E. Snyder and Flight Engineer / Check Airman Richard G. Campbell ( all with more than 30 years employment at TWA ), and Flight Engineer Trainee Oliver Krick, who was starting the sixth leg of his initial operating experience training.

The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 316 weekday departures: 95 Eastern ( plus six flights a week to / from South America ), 77 American, 61 Capital, 23 National, 17 TWA, 10 United, 10 Delta, 6 Allegheny, 6 Braniff, 5 Piedmont, 3 Northeast and 3 Northwest.

One pier of the main terminal ( now Terminal A ), which mainly housed American Airlines and Pan Am, was demolished ; the other pier, originally designed for Northwest / TWA remains operational today as gates 1 – 9.

The American Airlines terminal, the Northwest / TWA terminal, and the US Air Interim terminal were designed by Joseph C. Giuliani, FAIA of Giuliani Associates Architects.

" A TLV – TWA of 1 ppm ( 3. 89 mg / m3 ) is recommended for occupational exposure to methyl bromide "- ACGIH 8 hour time weighted average.

Trans World Airlines ( TWA ) and United Airlines flights to San Francisco / Oakland and Los Angeles moved from Chandler Field to Fresno Air Terminal in 1947 ; TWA ceased serving Fresno in 1963.

* Trans World Airlines ( TWA ), the other major US flag carrier of that era, used to operate affinity group / ABC flights from Tegel to the USA on an ad hoc basis during the early 1970s.

Other airlines that commenced / resumed scheduled operations from Berlin Tegel at the beginning of the post-reunification era included Aero Lloyd, Alitalia, American Airlines, Austrian Airlines, SAS Eurolink, Swissair, TWA and United Airlines.

Then the dome was known as the Trans World Dome, after Trans World Airlines, until 2001, when TWA was acquired by American Airlines ( American already has its name on two NBA / NHL venues in Dallas and Miami ).

After World War II long runways were available, and American, Canadian and European carriers such as Pan Am, TWA, Trans Canada Airlines ( TCA ), BOAC, and Air France acquired larger piston aircraft, which allowed flights over the North Atlantic with intermediate stops ( usually in Gander, Newfoundland and / or Shannon, Ireland ).

After the demise of Joint / RWS, All Star's chief rival on the live circuit was Scott Conway's TWA ( The Wrestling Alliance ) promotion, originally founded as the Southeastern Wrestling Alliance in 1989.

The gap left by TWA in the traditional British scene was later filled by such promotions as Revolution British Wrestling ( RBW ) and later still LDN's Academy / Spirit League.

* The Drywall Project / The Drywall Incident ( TWA, 1996 )-Two-disc compilation of Drywall's " Work The Dumb Oracle " and music recorded for the film " The Drywall Project "

In 1949, the Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aeronautique ( SITA ) was formed as a cooperative by 11 airlines: Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, TWA, British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation, British South American Airways, Swedish A. G. Aerotransport, Danish Det Danske Luftfartselskab A / S, and Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap.

The 11 original airlines were: Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, TWA, British European Airways Corporation ( BEAC ), British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ), British South American Airways ( BSAA ), Swedish A. G. Aerotransport, Danish Det Danske Luftfartselskab A / S, and Noweigan Det Norske Luftfartselskap.

After the demise of Joint / RWS, All Star's chief rival on the live circuit was Scott Conway's TWA ( The Wrestling Alliance ) promotion, originally founded as the Southeastern Wrestling Alliance in 1989.

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The September 1947 ABC Guide shows 27 passenger flights a week west across the North Atlantic to the US and Canada on BOAC and other European airlines and 151 flights every two weeks on Pan Am, AOA, TWA and TCA.

WAE soon moved to the West Mesa Airport and was joined by TAT as the two airlines merged to become Trans World Airlines ( TWA ).

On March 1, 1986, the two airlines announced plans to merge: TWA would buy Ozark for $ 242 million in cash.

A few years earlier, TWA flew between London and Brussels but, unlike United, did not have traffic rights to carry local traffic between the two cities.

( Pan Am and TWA continued in their role as the two designated US flag carriers between London and New York as well as London and Los Angeles respectively.

She recorded spots for the three national television networks in the 1980s ( ABC, NBC and CBS ), four major airlines ( American, Delta, Eastern and TWA ), two national retailers Sears and JC Penney and the two most popular soft drinks: Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

* 1997: Emmy Award, for coverage of the crash of TWA ’ s flight 800 ; with two additional from the St. Louis chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences