- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | August 28, 1973 |
Time: | 2050 |
Location: | Thirty-five miles west of Los Angeles, California |
Operator: | Trans World Airlines |
Flight #: | 742 |
Route: | Honolulu - Los Angeles |
AC Type: | Boeing B-707-331B |
Registration: | N8705T |
cn / ln: | 18916/455 |
Aboard: | 149 (passengers:141 crew:8) |
Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The plane porpoised while descending to LAX. The aircraft was subjected to 2 minutes of peak acceleration forces of 2.4 g. A combination of design tolerances in the aircraft's longitudinal control system which, under certain conditions, produced a critical relationship between control forces and aircraft response. |
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