Failure - Interactions

"Central to the drama   is the persisting dispute   over why  the incident occurred in the first place.    

 What is  undisputed   is that the plane was thrown into its spiraling dive  by a slat . . . ."

[Dick Witkin's  review   of the   CBS Reports   TV-documentary,    New York Times,  July 14, 1983,   p C22.]

This   "THUD" noise,     or   

"a   popping   sound" 

 were mentioned  in several of the earliest reports  from crew and pax describing  their INITIAL upset.

 [These sounds are typical of

        engine compressor-stall,

               during  beta (sideslip angle).]

   "A   buffeting    and  

                     a   THUD  noise . . ."

Screen - Images

Pg-by-Pg

Four excerpts  from "The Flight" section:   PDF-version 843KB

of the _Livingston Award_ winning feature,

Bissinger's   "The Plane that Fell from the Sky"    

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Earliest Reports

Jim McIntyre's   first report  on the  mysterious   upset  - DIVE -  pullout -   Divert to DTW.