With all his might, Captain Gibson struggles to bring the aircraft under control as with each passing second, thousands of feet in altitude are lost. Actor Joe Mantegna (pictured in June last year) pauses each year on the TWA Flight 800 . The NTSB's investigation, from April 1979 to June 1981, was then the longest and most expensive case in the history of the Safety Board. Everyone anticipated tuning into the largest ever simulcasted concert event, Live Aid. It could take years, he said, before the board reviews it. The detonation of the bomb destroyed the systems responsible for operating the plane's . Performance Group Rpt, Addendum 2 dated 11Aug80. But there was cause for suspicion over what happened that night, particularly when it was revealed that Flight 841`s cockpit voice recorder had been erased. According to an affidavit filed with the petition, the same plane that Gibson flew on Flight 841, N840TW, was used in 1977 on a TWA test flight. [1]:6 The NTSB made the following statement in the accident report: We believe the captain's erasure of the CVR is a factor we cannot ignore and cannot sanction. She, too, was certain that death was upon her. . To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. In the clip below, passenger Roger Peterson gives his perspective on the NTSB findings of probable cause. And I said, Oh God, I'll never make it, I'm the only one without an oxygen mask, and nobody knows I'm in here.. The erroneous, unwarranted assumptionthat an Extended #7 Slat caused the INITIAL upsetfouled each phase of the NTSB investigation from 1979 to June'81. Suddenly, the plane rolls steeply to the right. The crew suggested instead that an actuator on the #7 slat had failed, causing its inadvertent deployment. Williams is a member of the union`s TWA accident investigation committee. Everybody was. TWA Flight 841 was a Boeing 747 passenger plane that was bombed by the Abu Nidal Organization over the Ionian Sea on 8 September 1974, killing all 88 people on board. Immediately following news of the crash, a Palestinian youth organization claimed it had put a bomb on the plane. The plane, a Boeing 727 designed to cruise at about 525 miles an hour, had gone out Of control at 39,000 feet, twisted through a complete 360degree barrel roll and plunged 27,000 feet in 10 seconds, almost tearing itself apart before making an emergency landing at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport late Wednesday night. York, Capt Sonnemann, Tobiason). Flight 841 originated in Tel Aviv, stopped in Athens and was scheduled to make stops in Rome and New York. 26Apr79 -- FDR Group Factual Report completed. Upon departing Columbus, the three-engine jetliner carried 85 passengers and a crew of seven. NY Times reviewed this Meeting of the Board: After this Board Meeting, the captain was dogged by the claim mentioned during this "Sunshine Meeting". Suspicion has fallen on Abu Nidal and his terror organization. On April 4, 1979, at or around 948p.m. But almost a decade later, Gibson is still trying to clear his name. The NTSB rejected this as improbable and attributed the extension of the flaps to the deliberate actions of the crew. TWA Flight 841 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Trans World Airlines Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on Sunday, December 1, 1974. The crew responded immediately by disengaging the autopilot and getting the aircraft under control. That word, delivered over the intercom with captainlike calm, was, There has been a little trouble, and we are going to make a precautionary landing at Detroit, recalled Dean Abrahamson, physicist at the University of Minnesota. He saw the plane banking right and the autopilot moving the control wheel to the left to level the wings. South Lebanon was also referred to as Fatahland, due to the almost complete control of Fatah and other military Palestinian organizations over this officially Lebanese area, which they used to stage attacks against Israel. [6][14] Both petitions were rejected: the former for lack of new evidence, and the latter for lack of jurisdiction due to the NTSB's "unreviewable discretion". . Yorke's powerful insight, correlating the direct evidence, was later presented to the NTSB in a formal Petition For Reconsideration, receipt acknowledged by the NTSB on October 9, 1990. 79 passengers and 9 crew members of the TWA Flight 841 on its way from Tel Aviv to New York City died when the plane crashed down due to a bomb explosion on September 8, 1974. After the ousting of the PLO from Jordan following the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war, the Palestinian military organizations made South Lebanon into their headquarters, enlisting militants from Palestinian refugee camps. Watch all remaining episodes of the brand new season of Air Crash Investigation, Mondays at 8pm, only on National Geographic. Harvey "Hoot" Gibson, First Officer Jess Scott Kennedy, and Flight Engineer Gary Nelson Banks denied having caused the extension. [1]:6 In a deposition taken by the Safety Board, the captain stated that he usually activates the bulk-erase feature on the CVR at the conclusion of each flight to preclude inappropriate use of recorded conversations. Explosive Proof: Directed by Tim Wolochatiuk. The bomb . I'm not going to make it. . Ik*..% j I HV.VWJ u u a u H A fl JMJU . . After stopping for 68 minutes in Athens, it departed for Rome. Based in Alicante, Spain. Gibson appealed against the NTSB's findings, first to the NTSB itself and then to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. At 8:25p.m. EST, TWA Flight 841 departed JFK International after a 45-minute delay due to traffic congestion and reached its initial cruising altitude of 35,000feet at 8:54p.m. Due to a 100-knot headwind, the pilots requested to climb to 39,000feet at 9:25p.m., which was granted. Image: GC maps. The airline's Tel Aviv office said 49 passengers boarded the plane there for Rome and the United States. "Crew Will Testify Today On Near-Fatal Jet Plunge. This setting for this NTSB "depositional proceeding" violated NTSB's Order 6230.18, dated 27Sep78, which required the deposition site "shall be chosen carefully to create an informal environment and not take on either appearance or formality of a hearing." On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (registered N8734) operating as TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York City via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea, killing all aboard. : 1 All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third . They also determined that it was "impossible" for the flaps to extend without manipulating the controls. Upon hardover recognition, the pilot can disconnect the faulty unit at which time the airplane is readily recoverable." After eliminating all probable individual or combined mechanical failures, or malfunctions which could lead to slat extension, the Safety Board determined that the extension of the slats was the result of the flightcrew's manipulation of the flap/slat controls. The Board's May 4, 1995 denial-of-Reconsideration was a forced response to an impending court decision, a "cover-up": The NTSB's staff had strayed from investigative-err (AAR81-8), into investigative-misconduct and fraud, by falsifying the "facts" previously documented Unwarranted assumptions & investigative misconduct. (CBS News) All 230 passengers and crew were killed when TWA flight 800, a New York-to-Paris flight, crashed July 17, 1996, shortly after takeoff from John F . Test disclosed numerous instances of HDG-trace "moving backward in time", similar to time-shifts on the mishaps FDR-foil. 29May79 -- Operations Group Factual Report completed. Initially, the Investigator-in-Charge was Fred Rathke (CHI Field Office), and the NTSB's case number was initially CHI-79-A-A040 (an investigation assigned to a field office). She, too, was praying. The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on 30 May 1972. For the 89 passengers aboard an early evening flight from John F Kennedy Airport to Minneapolis, TWA Flight 841 is like any other. The airline's Tel Aviv office said 49 passengers boarded the plane there for Rome and the . Don Morrison, TWA vice president of public affairs, said last Wednesday that the company had not seen the affidavit and had no comment. ''It never occurred to me that they would have tested this very same plane and found similar happenings and not tell us about it,'' said Landon Dowdey, a Washington lawyer who represented Gibson during the safety board`s investigation. National Geographic gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible through groundbreaking storytelling. There was the bleeding ulcer. Friday, 6Apr79 -- Crew were again debriefed by NTSB; " the cockpit voice recorder had nothing on it when it was examined " No system functional testing of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) interfaces was ever accomplished. 10May79 -- Structures Group Factual Report completed. [1]:2 Gibson shouted "Get em' up!" Nor did I observe any other crew member take any action within the cockpit, either intentional or inadvertent, which would have caused the extension.". FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond inspected crippled plane at Detroit; called it a miracle; NY Times reported "it is agreed that the pilot saved the passengers from certain death " Crew were debriefed by NTSB; "movement of the malfunctioning slat was the apparent cause buffeting and vibration right wing and nose dropped ". Overhead racks buckled, some oxygen masks dangled, and Mrs. Merrill, pinned on the floor of the restroom, felt the locked door burst open. Many of the fleeing Palestinians ended up in South Lebanon, where there was already a strong presence. TWA Flight 841 was a regularly scheduled service between Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) in Israel and John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York, with stops at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport (ATH) in Greece and Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) in Italy. This had no effect so Gibson disconnected the autopilot and applied full left aileron which had no effect. Gibson went back to fly for TWA after the incident. Two more seconds and the aircraft would have hit the . 7 slat precipitated control problems that culminated in a loss of control.". (N840TW's sensing inputs, for the CVR's bulk-erase field activation, were never examined, nor did NTSB do any bench-test of the CVR). At the high point of the 1960s spate of hijackings, a plane was held up on average once every six days in the . On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (registered N8734[1]) operating as TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York City via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea, killing all aboard. On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (registered N8734) operating as TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York City via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea, killing all aboard.The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the plane had been destroyed by a bomb hidden in the cargo hold. Mohammed Ali Hamadei. Two Board Members did not participate during this Meeting, and so did not endorse that P.C. This was the first known instance of a young Arab boarding an American plane in a suicide mission. Barry Werth, 31 Days: Gerald Ford, The Nixon Pardon and a Government in Crisis (New York: Anchor Books). Last edited on 12 December 2022, at 21:35, "Explosion in-flight, Trans World Airlines, Inc., Boeing 707-331B, N8734, in The Ionian Sea, September 8, 1974", Terrorist who plotted 1973 car bombs, Khalid Al-Jawary, gets deported, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TWA_Flight_841_(1974)&oldid=1127094494, Terrorist bombing causing structural and control system failures followed by stall, Over the West Coast of Greece (Ionian Sea), This page was last edited on 12 December 2022, at 21:35. From R.L. Formed in 1974 after a split from Yasser Arafat's Fatah, Abu Nidal carried out the Rome and Vienna airport attacks on December 27, 1985. Boeing determined that the #7 slat had failed because the slats had been extended while the aircraft was flying at cruising speed. The flight had been scheduled to land at 10:23 a.m. at Washington National Airport, directly across the Potomac River . When retraction of the flaps was ordered, the Number 7 leading edge slat failed to retract, causing the uncommanded roll to the right. Among pilots and flight attendants his name always provokes an immediate reaction-sometimes a snicker, sometimes outrage. 17Jan80 -- NTSB issued Safety Recommendation A-80-8 (the formal letter dated 21Jan80): " Safety Board believes that an extended No. In his opening remarks, Kampschror (NTSB) stated that this was not a "public hearing" : thus there were none of the usual procedural safeguards customary of a formal Public Hearing. Until at 9.30pm, less than. All I could think after all we'd been through was, we'll crash on impact and burst into flames.. It is doubtful that the appointed Board Members are aware of their staff's violations of NTSB's investigative procedures. . Following a 45-minute delay, the aircraft, a 13-year-old Boeing 727-31 with the registration number N840TW, was just over an hour into the 3hr 10min flight when something went terribly wrong.. After traveling around 540 miles and cruising at . Prezi. However, in this instance, he could not recall having done so. Despite the Captain and First Officer's best efforts, the plane dove 34,000 feet out of control for 63 seconds. Anyone can read what you share. Interestingly 21 minutes of the cockpits voice recorder were missing and can only be erased when the aircraft is on the ground with its parking brake engaged. For the last 11 years, ever since the night he captained TWA Flight 841 from New York to the Twin Cities, Gibson`s life has been this way. The latter is decidedly less morbid. 2006, p. 324-5. According to Stewart, the damage should have meant that the computers did not recognize the aircraft in a fully landed state (page 217). Diverted toward DTW: loss of System "A" Hydraulic System, both MLG displayed red Gear Unsafe indication even after attempted Manual Gear Release; Alternate Flap Extension resulted in uncontrolled rolling momentso pilots retracted TE Flaps; first approach for control-ability check and tower fly-by to verify Gear position, then a second approach at 170 KIAS "no-flap" (no TE-Flap) landing on DTW 3L, at 2231EST. The procedure worked the first time; but on the second attempt, the autopilot gave the appearance of having disconnected while actually remaining engaged. As the nation mourns its worst-ever air disaster, investigators face puzzling evidence: The surviving captain of Air China Flight 129 claims that everything on board was normal, but air traffic controllers testify that the crew's radio communications were anything but. New Marvel Sequel, 'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse' Gets First Trailer . In an interview at AOL Build, he spilled the beans on what the Duffer Brothers were planning all along. Although the reasons for the accident are still discussed only as likelihoods, it is agreed that the pilot, Harvey S. Gibson of Las Vegas, saved the passengers and five other crew members on the New YorkMinneapolis flight from certain death by dropping his landing gear as the plane plunged, producing enough drag to slow it down and allow him to level off. The plane started to plunge and turn, the noise got louder and louder and the whole plane was shaking. This feature can be activated only after the aircraft is on the ground with its parking brake engaged. There were the student pilots who tore the pages from their log books so there would be no proof that H.G. Although we recognize that habits can cause actions not desired or intended by the actor, we have difficulty accepting the fact that the captain's putative habit of routinely erasing the CVR after each flight was not restrainable after a flight in which disaster was only narrowly averted. Just prior to the upset of TWA 841 there was an uncommanded rudder movement, this precipitated the entire event, quite plausibly causing the. A few seconds after extending the gear, Captain Gibson managed to regain control and pull the 727 out of its dive, and at about 5,000 feet (1,500m) the nose finally came up again. [1]:6 Tests of the CVR in the aircraft revealed no discrepancies in the CVR's electrical and recording systems. Turkish Airlines Flight 301 was a passenger flight operated by a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship of Turkish Airlines registered as TC-JAO that crashed during takeoff at zmir Cumaovas Airport on 26 January 1974 while en route to Istanbul Yeilky Airport (IST/LTBA), killing 66 of its 73 passengers and crew.. Three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (PFLP-EO), attacked Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) near Tel Aviv, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others. Not until Captain Gibson got the plane stabilized did the passengers receive any word on what was going on. It works, and an emergency landing is planned at Detroit. The report indicates most of the passengers were incapacitated when the aircraft landed anyway so the aircraft was pretty much doomed the moment the fire started. Video grab of hostage aboard TWA flight 847 Allyn Conwell during tv interview from Beirut. The Lois Van Epps Scholarship has awarded $147,000 to 89 Edgemont seniors since the crash, Schutt said. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was an international scheduled passenger service from Kansas City, Missouri to Cairo, Egypt via Chicago, New York City, Paris, Milan, Rome, and Athens. . 6 TWA Flight 841 Terrorist attacks: The worst terrorist attack in the air . "Safety Board Hints Crew Errors May Have Led to Jet Dive Over Michigan. Suspicion immediately focused on the Abu Nidal terrorist organization, the most ruthless of all the Palestinian terrorist groups. This critical press coverage, of the NTSB's investigative methods, prompted the case review by D. Yorke : Yorke refuted the "Boeing Scenario" endorsed by the Safety Board in AAR81-8, showing that the physical evidence was ignored by the NTSB, and showing the #7 Slat remained in the more secure retracted position during the initial upset and dive; then the #7 Slat was pulled from the retracted position after loss of "A" System Hydraulic Pressure. Le Duc Tan, a ranger in the South Vietnamese army . Ships operating in the area were the first on the scene, and while they reported floating debris, there were no signs of any survivors. They watched the aircraft execute a steep climb, followed by the separation of an engine from the wing and a death spiral. King denying request to remove Kampschror as IIC. The Boeing simulation, presented to the NTSB's Performance Group, offered only that single failure condition: a simulation study with the #7 Slat Extended; done by modeling the sudden contribution of the "incremental rolling moment coefficient caused by the extension of the slat No. All 79 passengers and nine crew members were killed. On April 4, 1979, TWA Flight 841 departed New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) for Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) in Minnesota. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 pm. That gave us time to think, Mrs. Merrill said. Gibson insisted he had done nothing wrong, and no disciplinary action was ever taken against him, neither by TWA nor by the Federal Aviation Administration. When Langhorne Bond, of the Federal Aviation Administration, inspected the crippled plane, parked beside a Detroit runway yesterday, he said: The miracle is that it held together under such extraordinary speed and circumstances. The plane spoilers had been ripped off, the landing gear and undercarriage were damaged, yet somehow it held together. With a weak central Lebanese government, they were allowed to set up armed militias. Regarding the NTSB's concern for "scientific retraction" of their published mistakes, C.O. 1 History of the Flight Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 841, a Boeing 707-331B, N8734, was a regularly scheduled international passenger and cargo flight from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, to John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, New York. ''It`s unpleasant enough that I try not to think about it,'' said Gibson, who grew up on the family farm in Earlville, Ill., about 75 miles west of Chicago. The flight crew of Pan American Airways Flight 110, also a Boeing 707 en route eastbound from Rome to Beirut, was in the vicinity of the TWA aircraft at a cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. During the first two weeks of this NTSB investigation, several investigative mis-steps, and policy-reversals, affected the later course of this investigation. June 20, 2013 / 10:37 AM / CBS News. About 30 minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed into the Ionian Sea. The Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the isolation of the No. [1]:24 However, the NTSB ultimately concluded that the flight crew was probably attempting to use 2 of flaps at cruising speed: While cruising at Mach 0.816 and 39,000 feet pressure altitude and with the autopilot controlling the aircraft, an attempt was made to extend 2 of trailing edge flaps independently of the leading edge slats, probably in an effort to improve aircraft performance[1]:32. "[4] Later, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the plane was indeed destroyed by a bomb hidden in the cargo hold, which caused structural failure resulting in uncontrollable flight. TWA Flight 841 was a regularly scheduled service between Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) in Israel and John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York, with stops at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport (ATH) in Greece and Roma . Inspector Gordon asked if Gibson was alright " This report form, relating an informal midnight conversation, between the mishap-pilot and two mechanics employed by the FAA, led to a misunderstanding (a mistaken inference by one listener) that would return to haunt the pilots months later. The pilot Captain Harvey "Hoot" Gibson, said the plane was operating with the autopilot on "Altitude Hold" mode when it began a steep roll to the right. Yorke's powerful insight, correlating the direct evidence, was later presented to the NTSB in a formal Petition For Reconsideration, receipt acknowledged by the NTSB on October 9, 1990. An event that impacted the dynamics of global politics and inspired the increase in terrorism. This mismanaged NTSB "depositional proceeding" added to the earlier breakdown of the NTSB's "safety investigation", by mixing-in assertions of crew misconductrather than accomplishing the usual engineering fault-analysis of the pre-existing latent-failures in N840TW's subsystems; latent failures only uncovered after the mishap. Abbreviations: RHS = Right; LHS = Left; MLG = Main Landing Gear; NLG = Nose Landing Gear; A&P = license, Airframe and Power Plant mechanic; IIC = Investigator-in-Charge (NTSB). 7May79 -- Systems Group Factual Report completed. He got on the rudder pedals to apply full left rudder. On April 4, 1979, at or around 9:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (01:48 UTC), while flying over Saginaw, Michigan, the Boeing 727-31 airliner began a sharp, uncommanded roll to the right, and subsequently went into a spiral dive. Thus, no Board Member was assigned to this case, no Board Member was on-scene at DTW in the days following the mishap. When the NTSB asked Glen why the tape had been erased, he said that he always did it after a flight but, in this instance, could not remember having done it. The highjacking of Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight 847. The crew of the Pan Am Clipper witnessed the TWA plane enter a steep climb, flip over onto its back, and then enter a spiraling dive before crashing in the Ionian Sea 50 nautical miles west of the Greek island of Cephalonia. Suspicion fell on Abu Nidal and his terror organization. The out-of-control aircraft was observed by crew on the flight deck of Pan Am flight 110. However, a spokesman for TWA said sabotage was "highly unlikely. His enthusiasm for aviation news and wealth of experience lends itself to some excellent insight, with his work cited in Forbes amongst other publications. TWA Flight 514 originated at Indianapolis, Indiana, and was bound for Washington, D.C., with an intermediate stop at Columbus, Ohio. Badly bruised, she apparently was the most seriously hurt of the passengers, but she had no broken bones. They included 17 Americans (plus a baby), 13 Japanese, four Italians, four French, three Indians, two Iranians, two Israelis, two Sri Lankans, an Australian and a Canadian. "Pilot Says Extending Landing Gear Was Near Last Resort to Stop Dive.". It was all Mr. Roberts could do to get her back on a Northwest Orient flight from Detroit home early Thursday morning. [1]:18 Records after 1974 did include this information, and (other than Flight 174) only two slat extension problems were reported between 1974 and the close of the NTSB's investigation in 1981, one of which was inadvertently caused by the flight crew. Since the ousting of the PLO from Jordan, following the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war, the Palestinian military organizations made South Lebanon into headquarters, enlisting militants from Palestinian refugee camps. TWA Flight 841 was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At no time prior to the incident did I take any action within the cockpit either intentionally or inadvertently, that would have caused the extension of the leading edge slats or trailing edge flaps. extension of the number seven slat. New York to San Francisco, TWA's L1011, Flight 843, would soon fly into the journals of aviation history. [citation needed] The crash occurred about 50 nautical miles west of Cephalonia, Greece. Photo: The USS Independence andUSS Biddle were given the job of recovering the bodies and wreckage. Journalist - Mark is an experienced travel journalist having published work in the industry for more than seven years. His enthusiasm for aviation news and wealth of experience lends itself to some excellent insight, with his work cited in Forbes amongst other publications. I thought: That was my last breath. The detonation of the bomb destroyed the systems responsible for operating the plane's control surfaces, causing the plane to pitch up until it stalled and dove into the sea.[2][3]. . Ntsb's Investigator-In-Charge (IIC) asked Boeing to commit to several tasks, IIC Kampschror asked Boeing to propose a scenario to explain the mysterious upset of B727 N840TW: 22Jun79 -- Human Factors Specialist's Report (included some interviews with F/As and passengers), but only few passenger interviews were retained (his notes were lost). During these simulator runs in Seattle, the Performance Group had mistakenly accepted Boeing's simulation-modeling, as "using simulator software for the B-727-100". 2Oct80, Flight test aboard Boeing-owned B727 E209, from BFI in Seattle. Select from premium Twa Flight 847 of the highest quality. "[4] Later, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the plane was indeed destroyed by a bomb hidden in the cargo hold, which caused structural failure resulting in uncontrollable flight. [5], In January 2009, the Associated Press published an investigation saying that Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, responsible for the 1973 New York City bomb plot, was linked to the bombing of TWA Flight 841. Investigators of the 1974 flight had only about 2,500 pounds of debris to work with, far less than has already been found from TWA's Flight 800. According to the affidavit, Williams flew plane N840TW on a test flight May 23, 1977. DETROIT, April 6 The Federal Aviation Administrator call it a miracle, and the passengers on TWA flight 841 say, "Amen! With Jonathan Aris, Jeffrey Knight, Bruce Pringle, Colin Glazer. Recommended. [13] The NTSB report noted that between 1970 and 1973, seven separate cases involving a single leading edge slat extension and separation were reported, but none of these reports indicated whether or not the slat extension was due to flight crew involvement. 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