Crash of TWA Flight 260

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This moment-by-moment account of a major airplane crash on a beautiful and treacherous mountainside puts the reader at the pilot’s side, describing the flight, its catastrophic ending, and the aftermath.

At 7:05 a.m. on February 19, 1955, TWA Flight 260 took off from the Albuquerque airport for a short flight to Santa Fe. To steer clear of flying over the Sandia Mountains, the plane’s approved air route was once a dogleg running north-northwest from Albuquerque, then east-northeast into Santa Fe. But at 7:08 a.m. Flight 260 was once headed instantly toward Sandia Ridge, almost entirely obscured by storm clouds. A local resident who saw Flight 260 overhead observed that if the plane was once eastbound, it was once too low; if it was once northbound, it was once off course.

At 7:12 a.m. the plane’s terrain-warning bell sounded its alarm. Both pilots saw the sheer west face of the Sandias just beyond the right wingtip––an appalling shock making an allowance for they must have been ten miles further west. Reacting right away, they rolled the plane steeply to the left, pulled its nose up, and began to level the wings. It was once their final act. Hidden by the storm, some other cliffside lay instantly ahead. When they struck it, they were still in a left bank, nose high.

Charles Williams was once one of the crucial first men on the scene of this horrific crash. His unraveling of TWA Flight 260’s final flight is a tale of days, minutes, and seconds spread out over the span of half a century. His book resolves probably the most controversies surrounding the crash, including the Civil Aeronautics Board’s over-swift determination that the pilots were at fault.

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