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One of the big issues of this crash was the way family members and the passenger list was mishandled. In fact, Swissair Flight 111 even mentions this as something to learn from. It's actually why I landed on this article because I wondered what TWA did, but having read the article, I do not see anything but a brief mention and it's not even elaborated on. If time allows, I will try to write a section on that. I feel that this is significant because it too was a contributing factor in the aftermath. In fact, in a very left handed kind of way, the TWA response is nodded too via the law change mentioned in the 4th paragraph of the Aftermath section. MagnoliaSouth ^(talk) 08:11, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to post the article that mentions TWA though they are not the focus of the article: Airlines act swiftly to help relatives New U.S. law required detailed emergency plan. MagnoliaSouth ^(talk) 15:32, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has been proposed in this section that TWA Flight 800 be renamed and moved to TWA Flight 800 (1996). A bot will list this discussion on requested moves' current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use ((subst:requested move)). Do not use ((requested move/dated)) directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move

TWA Flight 800 → TWA Flight 800 (1996) – Another incident involved TWA Flight 800 (1964). Whenever the flight number is used at least twice with the same operator, we write the year on both articles (for e.g. Japan Air Lines Flight 472 (1972) and Japan Air Lines Flight 472 (1977)) and only this article is exempt from that. Also per WP:AATF. Username006 (talk) 05:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies here. The incident was the only incident that involved TWA 800 that most people know despite another incident with different aircraft happened in 1964. If you want to move the article, why not creating DAB for base name? 125.167.58.183 (talk) 10:22, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose for same reason, primary topic; I think the existing redirect is sufficient. The crash was important enough that the NTSB kept the fuselage for training. Comparing 1964 to 1996 pageviews over a two year span (Nov '19-21), the former accident has 26,528, the latter 1,534,337. Both articles saw a major spike corresponding to the NTSB decommissioning in July this year, meaning people probably confused 1964 for the modern accident, and adding a date could possible confuse more than help imho. Strangerpete (talk) 12:45, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. – The Grid (talk) 14:08, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose I like the idea, but I've never heard of the other one and find no compelling reason to confuse people. #bodyContent a[title="PlaneCeiling912 { background-color: ##FF0000; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; } 19:04, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]