| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | July 30, 1992 |
| Time: | 1741 |
| Location: | JFK Airport, New York, New York |
| Operator: | Trans World Airlines |
| Flight #: | 843 |
| Route: | New York City - San Francisco |
| AC Type: | Lockheed L-1011 |
| Registration: | N11002 |
| cn / ln: | 1014 |
| Aboard: | 292 (passengers:280 crew:12) |
| Fatalities: | 0 (passengers:0 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Immediately after liftoff, the stick shaker activated. The takeoff was aborted but the aircraft ran off the runway and caught fire. A defective stall warning system. A design flaw that allowed the defective stall warning system to go undetected. Failure of TWA's maintenance program to correct a repetitive malfunction of the stall warning system, and inadequate crew coordination between the captain and first officer that resulted in their inappropriate response to a false stall warning. |
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