Who exactly was on trial?
The civil trial held in May and June of 1983 was against Boeing and TWA. They were the defendants in the case. The reality, however, was that the crew of TWA 841 was also on trial. If Boeing and the plaintiff’s attorney could show that the crew was responsible for the upset, as had already […]
The crew gets a retrial
Two years after the NTSB accused the crew of having caused the upset that nearly resulted in the deaths of 89 passengers and crew, the flight crew was given a second chance of sorts to clear their names. That opportunity came in the form of a civil trial. A number of TWA 841 passengers had filed […]