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This moment-by-moment bank account of a major airplane crash on a beautiful and treacherous mountainside puts the audience at the pilot's aspect, describing the air travel, its catastrophic stopping, and the aftermath. At 7:05 a.m. on February 19, 1955, TWA Airfare 260 became popular from the Albuquerque air-port for a short air travel to Santa Fe. To avoid flying within the Sandia Mountains, the plane's approved air route was a dogleg working north-northwest from Albuquerque, then east-northeast into Santa Fe. But at 7:08 a.m. Airfare 260 was headed straight toward Sandia Ridge, almost totally obscured by surprise clouds. An area resident who noticed Flight 260 overhead observed that if the plane was eastbound, it was too low; if it was northbound, it was off course. At 7:12 a.m. the plane's terrain-warning bell sounded its alarm. Both pilots noticed the sheer western world face of the Sandias just beyond the right wingtip--an appalling surprise considering they should have been ten mls further west. Reacting instantly, they rolled the plane steeply left, pulled its nasal up, and began to level the wings. It was their final function. Hidden by the surprise, another cliffside lay directly ahead. When they struck it, these were still in a remaining bank, nasal high. Charles Williams was main men on the picture of the horrific crash. His unraveling of TWA Airfare 260's final air travel is an account of times, minutes, and moments spread out within the span of half a century. His publication resolves some of the controversies surrounding the crash, like the Civil Aeronautics Board's over-swift conviction that the pilots were responsible.
