On January 12, 1955, at 9:04 a.m., TWA Flight 694, tail #N93211, took off from the airport and was struck by a private DC-3, then fell to the ground approximately 750 feet west of here. The TWA Martin 202A was en route to Cleveland, Ohio, and the DC-3 was en route from Battle Creek, Mich. to Lexington, Ky., when the impact occurred. Thirteen passengers and crew on Flight 694, including one northern Kentuckian, and two crew members on the DC-3 perished. The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that the probable cause of the accident was the DC-3 operating in the area as unknown traffic and without clearance. This was the first fatal commercial airplane accident since the airport began operations in 1947.