"Climb to one five thousand."
— Last words
January 1, 1970
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Who: Ralph G. Kevorkian, captain aboard TWA Flight 800. — Note: Routine acknowledgement of ATC instructions from Boston Center, ordering the flight to climb to 15000 feet. Forty-four seconds later, a short circuit ignited fuel vapors from the plane's central fuel tank, blowing up the aircraft mid-flight.
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Who: Ralph G. Kevorkian, captain aboard TWA Flight 800. — Note: Routine acknowledgement of ATC instructions from Boston Center, ordering the flight to climb to 15000 feet. Forty-four seconds later, a short circuit ignited fuel vapors from the plane's central fuel tank, blowing up the aircraft mid-flight.