Tag: Elevator Control Failure
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On This Day In 1961: TWA Flight 529 Suddenly Pitched Up, Stalled and Crashed Killing 78 – Investigation Traced Disaster to a Tiny Missing Elevator Bolt
On September 1, 1961, a routine overnight passenger flight from Boston to Los Angeles became one of the deadliest aviation disasters in American history when a four-engine Lockheed L-049 Constellation suddenly pitched violently upward just minutes after departing Chicago. The aircraft, named Star of Paris and registered N86511, was carrying 73 passengers and five crew…
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