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1938 Northwest Arline Flight 2 disaster...
1938 Northwest Arline Flight 2 disaster...
Item # 722672
January 11, 1938
THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 11, 1938
* Northwest Airlines Flight 2 disaster
* Lockheed Super Electra airplane
* Bridger Mountains - Montana
The top of the front page has a two column heading: "10 Killed as Airliner Hits Peak of Montana Mountain" with subhead. (see images)
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete with all 48 pages, rag edition in nice condition.
background: Northwest Airlines Flight 2 crashed on January 10, 1938, while operating a Lockheed Model 14H Super Electra on a transcontinental route from Seattle to Chicago with multiple stops; after departing Butte, Montana, the aircraft was climbing through mountainous terrain near the Bridger Mountains northeast of Bozeman when it encountered strong turbulence and rapidly lost control, descending into the mountains and killing all 10 people on board (8 passengers and 2 crew). The subsequent investigation determined that the most probable cause was structural failure of the tail due to aeroelastic flutter, a then-poorly understood vibration phenomenon that could cause parts of an aircraft to fail under certain speed and airflow conditions. The accident was historically significant as the first fatal crash involving both Northwest Airlines and the Lockheed Super Electra, leading to the immediate grounding of all Super Electras worldwide and prompting Lockheed to redesign structural components and improve vibration testing methods, changes that contributed to major advances in aircraft safety engineering.
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