Airplane Crash - Thirty-Five Miles West Of Los Angeles, California 08/28/1973
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Thirty-five miles west of Los Angeles, California
| Date | 08/28/1973 |
| Time | 20:50 |
| Location | Thirty-five miles west of Los Angeles, California |
| Operator | Trans World Airlines |
| Flight # | 742 |
| Route | Honolulu - Los Angeles |
| Type | Boeing B-707-331B |
| Registration | N8705T |
| Cn/In | 18916/455 |
| Aboard | 149 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| 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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