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Crash of TWA Flight 694. TWA flight 694, tail #N93211, had taken off from the airport when it was struck by a private DC-3 & fell to the ground approximately 750 feet west of here, on January 12, 1955 at 9:04 a.m. The TWA Martin 202A was en route to Cleveland, Ohio & the DC-3 was en route from Battle Creek, Mich. to Lexington, Ky. when the impact occurred. Over (Reverse) 13 passengers and crew on flight 694, including 1 N. Kentuckian, and 2 crew members on the DC-3 perished. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) ruled that the probable cause of the accident was the DC-3 operating in the area as unknown traffic and without clearance. This was the first fatal commercial airplane accident since the airport began its operations in 1947.
by Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Highways Department #2380 of the Kentucky Historical Marker series
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