KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Trans World Airlines led the way as one of America's major airlines from 1930 to 2001. The influence TWA has had on the world and locally is one that history can't ignore. The TWA ...

At one time TWA was the airline to fly, but as popular as it was, fame didn't hold on. "Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of Trans World Airlines," was released by the Missouri Historical Society ...

KANSAS CITY -- It was back in 1986 when a group of Kansas City aviation history buffs decided to take on the massive project of finding and restoring an airliner to like new condition. But it wasn't ...

The head of Trans World Airlines in the late 1950s, Ralph S. Damon, was a forward thinking visionary corporate leader, willing to take chances. For his company’s new world-class airline terminal at ...

The crashed TWA plane, with the center vertical fin still intact, lies in the cornfield near the start of the swatch cut by debris as the craft was torn apart after striking the ground on Sept. 1, ...

ST. LOUIS -- "A tragic day for the industry" is how the agency community described the possible demise of long-time carrier TWA. Executive vice president and chief operating officer of ASTA, Bill ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After peacefully ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

I was the first person in my immediate family to ever take an airplane trip. My father may have flown at some point in his military service during World War II, but he was in the Navy, so maybe not, ...