Hi there, the same rules apply here as the True crime from around the world book, if I couldn't find a true crime case, it was replaced by a plane crash.
This plane crash takes us to the state of Nebraska, which is located next to the following states: Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Wyoming.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft in July 1966.
Braniff International Airways Flight 250, registered as November 1553 (N1533), the flight was operated by a BAC 1-11-203AE, crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, on the 6th of August 1966, it was en route to Eppley Airfield (IATA: OMA, ICAO: KOMA), Omaha, Nebraska from Kansas City International Airport (IATA: MCI, ICAO: KMCI), Kansas City, Missouri, thirty eight passengers and four crew members (42 people in total) were killed in the crash, which occurred in a farm field late on a Saturday night, in flight structural failure due to extreme turbulence in an avoidable weather hazard was cited as the cause of the crash.
The crew asked ATC if they could remain at 5,000 feet but they were cleared up to 20,000 feet, this was because of the weather, the flight then climbed up to 6,000 feet and remained there until permission was received at 23:06pm CST ( Central Standard Time) to descend back down to 5,000 feet, at 23:08pm CST the crew contacted a Braniff flight that had just departed Omaha's Eppley Airfield , they reported back to the crew that there was light to moderate turbulence.
About four minutes later at 00:02am CST, Flight 250 entered an updraft within an area of active squall line of severe thunderstorms , the plane violently accelerated upwards and entered a left roll, at this time the right tail plane and the vertical stabiliser failed, the aircraft then pitched nose down and within one to two seconds of entering the nose down pitch the right wing also failed, the plane then tumbled down in flames until it entered a flat spin before it impacted the ground, it crashed approximately halfway between Kansas City, Missouri and Omaha, Nebraska.
The summary of the crash was in flight structural failure.
