The investigation into TWA 841 was very much like a botched criminal investigation. The chief investigator never saw the damaged airplane, nor did he ever visit the field where the parts from TWA 841 were found. Is that important? Looking at the big picture probably not, but they could have spent a …
TWA 841 guided tour
I'll admit it, I've been obsessed recently with Google Earth. As I learn more about the program the more I want to take advantage of it. One feature I especially like is the ability to use Google Earth to help tell a story. In this short video I take the viewer on a Google Earth guided tour of TWA …
Parts found
In my post searching for missing parts, I talked about how the NTSB put out word that they were looking for parts from TWA 841 and that they eventually found many of the missing parts in a farmer's field in Saginaw, Michigan. Well, they didn't have Google Earth back in 1979. But with a little …
The flight engineer controversy
In my previous post, Did anybody see what happened? I mentioned the fact that the Rakowskys were sitting in first class. I also talked briefly about the controversy surrounding Gary Banks, the flight engineer, and whether or not he had left the cockpit. The reason why this was such an important …
Did anybody see what happened?
In my previous post, The story of the CVR and the man with blinders, I talked about how the crew was excluded from the investigation. Three expert witnesses and no one wants to talk to them. But the crew weren't the only witnesses. There were also 80 passengers and 4 cabin attendants. Surely they …
The story of the CVR and the man with blinders
If there was one thing that caused the investigation of TWA 841 to go off the rails, it was the discovery that there were only nine minutes of recorded audio on the thirty minute CVR tape. This was discovered within days of the incident. A bulk erase tone was present on the remaining 21 minutes of …
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