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...National Guard troops plowed through the area to collect bits and pieces of the wreckage, they were aware of the possibility that the cause of the crash might never be discovered. There were some similarities to the still unsolved crash of another Electra last September, in which a Braniff plane went to pieces in the air over Buffalo, Texas. In both the Tell City and Buffalo crashes, severe air turbulence had been reported by the airmen aloft in the vicinity. And although Electras have generally performed well, instances of metal fatigue have been reported; Lockheed Aircraft Corp. some time...
...Braniff Airways Captain George R. Teskey is one of three stockholders in a Dallas wholesale brick-and-tile distributing company, House of Bricks and Tile, Inc., which grosses about $250,000 a year...
...airplane was a brand-new model of the four-jet Boeing 707, the first 707 destined for Braniff International Airways. Its special trick, as Boeing Test Pilot Russel H. Baum, 32, was trying to demonstrate to veteran Braniff Pilot Jack Berke, 49, was its eccentric reaction to an excessive sidewise skid, or yaw. Skid her too far one way or the other, he explained, and she will flip over.*At 12,000 feet over Seattle's suburbs, Pilot Berke, flying slowly with flaps down 40 degrees, tried to get the feel of impending trouble by kicking right rudder...
...could not raise his flaps or lower his wheels, for the loss of three power plants had disrupted the hydraulic and electrical systems. As Baum headed for a pasture. Flight Engineer George Hagen worked to get the flaps and landing gear back in operation. Boeing Pilot William Allsop, two Braniff men and a representative from the Federal Aviation Agency headed aft to take seats near the rear of the plane; another
...Braniff man, Pilot Frank Staley, grabbed a seat near the front. Baum made a couple of descending spirals, wove between hills near the town of Oso. He was only 200 yds. from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave up. The fiery wing exploded, and the plane splashed into the Stillaguamish River. The forward section disintegrated on impact, killing Baum, Berke, Engineer Hagen and Frank Staley, The tail section hit a sandbar, and the four men inside crawled to safety...