| Date: | March 16, 1960 |
| Location: | Tell City, Indiana |
| Aircraft: | Lockheed 188C Electra |
| Reg: | N121US |
| Airline: | Northwest Orient Airlines |
| Flight No: | 710 |
| Fatalities: | 63 : 63 |
| A design flaw in the Electra caused an ocillation know as whorl mode to produce a flutter in the wings which led to the detachment of the wing. The plane crashed to earth in a high speed dive. |