Commercial aviation history was reshaped when two passenger airliners flying east over the tri-state area plummeted into the Grand Canyon after a collision at an altitude of 21,000 feet 69 years ago.

It was the first commercial flight incident resulting in more than 100 fatalities in America as there were no survivors among the 128 people aboard both aircraft. The Flight 2 Transworld Airlines (TWA) Lockheed 1049A Super Constellation departed the Los Angeles International Airport in California for Kansas City, Missouri at 9:01 a.m. on June 30, 1956.

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