Status:	Final
Date:	22 APR 1970
Time:	15:55
Type:	Boeing 707-131
Operator:	Trans World Airlines - TWA
Registration:	N743TW
C/n / msn:	17670/46
First flight:	1959
Engines:	4 Pratt & Whitney JT3C-
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Indianapolis-Weir Cook Municipal Airport, IN (IND) (United States of America)
Phase:	Standing (STD)
Nature:	-
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
Boeing 707 N743TW was parked on the apron of the Indianapolis Municipal Airport. A cove light capacitor on the port side of seat row 25 failed due thermal runaway, causing a fire aboard the aircraft.

PROBABLE CAUSE:
systems - electrical system: other

Events:

Sources:
» NTSB