TWA Flight 514

TWA Flight 514

N54328, the aircraft involved
Accident
Date	December 1, 1974 (1974-12-01) 11:09:22 am EST
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error
Site	Mount Weather, Clarke County, Virginia, U.S. 39°04.6′N 77°52.9′W / 39.0767°N 77.8817°W / 39.0767; -77.8817
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 727-231
Operator	Trans World Airlines
IATA flight No.	TW514
ICAO flight No.	TWA514
Call sign	TWA 514
Registration	N54328
Flight origin	Indianapolis International Airport, Indianapolis, Indiana
Stopover	Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus, Ohio
Destination	Washington Dulles International Airport diverted from Washington National Airport
Occupants	92
Passengers	85
Crew	7
Fatalities	92
Survivors	0

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Location in the United States

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Location in Virginia

Trans World Airlines Flight 514, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 92 occupants aboard, 85 passengers and 7 crew members, were killed.^[1][2] In stormy conditions late in the morning, the aircraft was in controlled flight and impacted a low mountain 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi)^[3] northwest of its revised destination.^[4][5] The accident was one of two crashes involving Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States that day, the other being the crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 later that evening near Haverstraw, New York.