| Date: | Wednesday 22 April 1970 |
| Time: | 15:55 |
| Type: |  Boeing 707-131 |
| Owner/operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
| Registration: | N743TW |
| MSN: | 17670/46 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3C- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | Indianapolis-Weir Cook Municipal Airport, IN (IND) -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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
Sources:
NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Phil Brooks; Indianapolis-Weir Cook Municipal Airport, IN (IND); April 1970
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