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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 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
Passengers side with crew
There were 82 passengers aboard TWA 841. If anyone had an interest in finding out what had happened to TWA 841, it was them. During the course of the investigation, as Hoot and the crew came under suspicion for having caused the upset, Hoot visited with several passengers . Jeannine
Overlooked clues
Of the many problems associated with the investigation of TWA 841, one of the biggest oversights was the failure of the investigators to explain several important clues. For example, no attempt was made to explain the importance of the yaw damper fail flag noticed by the crew after the recovery.
Fabricating evidence
In the post Garbage in garbage out, I talk about how the NTSB made numerous mistakes in their attempts to analyze and reproduce the FDR readout from TWA 841. Misreading the FDR readout is one thing, but what do you call it when the NTSB tries to draw comparisons between
So what really happened?
My efforts to vindicate the crew of TWA 841 through a thorough examining of the evidence would not be complete if I didn’t also put forth evidence explaining the most likely cause of the upset. The book and possible documentary will lay out the facts of the case in, I hope,