The clip below is from my interview with TWA Flight 841 passenger Peter Fehr. In this short clip, Peter describes what the spiral dive of TWA 841 was like from the perspective of a passenger. …
A passenger’s perspective
Yesterday was the thirty-fourth anniversary of TWA Flight 841. I flew to Minneapolis to interview two of the passengers on the flight. In the clip below, passenger Roger Peterson gives his perspective on the NTSB findings of probable cause. …
Search for missing parts
You have a damaged airplane with some crucial parts missing from the plane after landing. How do you find those parts? The NTSB decided to publicize their search in both print and radio. Below is one of the actual newspaper articles that ran in a local Michigan paper (right-click and select open in …
The physical evidence of TWA 841
In an earlier post titled Garbage in, garbage out, I wrote about how the NTSB discounted the crew's testimony and tried to rely solely on the physical evidence, which consisted of the CVR, FDR, and the damaged aircraft. The picture included here shows the missing #7 slat. It's easy to see why the …
Two accidents, two near accidents, one rudder
In researching the TWA 841 roll-over incident, all evidence thus far points to a problem with the rudder. Investigators, however, were following a red herring involving the #7 slat. After all, it was a glaring clue staring them right in the face -- a large gaping hole on the right side of the …
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Garbage in garbage out
The flight data recorder (FDR) on TWA 841 recorded just four parameters: altitude, g loads (vertical acceleration), heading, and airspeed. Today's modern digital flight data recorders (DFDR) can record 28 parameters and even more on fly by wire aircraft. When the NTSB investigators decided that the …
