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The Crash of TWA Flight 260 (Paperback)
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The Crash of TWA Flight 260 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
You Save R97 (16%)
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At 7:05 am on February 19, 1955, TWA Flight 260 took off from the
Albuquerque airport for a short flight to Santa Fe. The plane's
approved air route was a dog-leg running north-northwest from
Albuquerque, then east-northeast into Santa Fe to avoid flying over
the Sandia Mountains. At 7:08 am the Ground Service Help at the
airport saw Flight 260 about half a mile north of the airport
terminal headed directly toward Sandia Ridge, almost entirely
obscured by storm clouds. An Air Force Colonel standing in front of
his home a mile and half northeast of the airport saw Flight 260
pass overhead and observed that if the plane was eastbound, it was
too low; if it was northbound, it was off course. At 7:12 am the
plane's terrain-warning bell sounded its alarm. Instinctively
looking out the window, both pilots suddenly saw the sheer west
face of the Sandias just beyond the right wingtip. It was an
appalling shock considering they should have been ten miles further
west. Reacting instantly, they rolled the plain steeply to the left
and pulled its nose up. When the heading indicator indicated a
westerly heading, they started to level the wings. It was their
final act. Hidden by the storm, another cliff-side lay directly
ahead. When they struck it, they were still in a left bank, nose
high. Charles Williams, one of the first men on the scene of this
horrific crash, has spent a lifetime unraveling the enigmas of TWA
Flight 260's final flight. It is a tale of days, minutes, and
seconds spread out over the span of half a century and a dramatic
mystery cast upon a beautiful and treacherous mountain. In the end,
Williams helps solve some of the controversies surrounding the
crash, including the Civil Aeronautics Board's over-swift
determination that the pilots were at fault.
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