Southern Storm: The Tragedy Of Flight 242 (air Disasters)
by Samme Chittum /
2018 / English / PDF
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On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie
Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic
stranger running toward her, his clothes ablaze, and, behind him,
the mangled fuselage of a passenger plane that had just crashed in
her yard. The plane, a Southern Airways DC-9-31, had been carrying
eighty-one passengers and four crew members en route to Atlanta
when it entered a massive thunderstorm cell that turned into a
dangerous cocktail of rain, hail, and lightning. Forced down onto a
highway, the plane cut a swath of devastation through the small
town of New Hope, breaking apart and killing bystanders on the
ground before coming to rest in Hurst's front yard. Ultimately,
only twenty-two people survived, and urgent questions immediately
arose: What caused the pilots to fly into the storm instead of away
from it? Could the crash have been prevented? Southern Storm
addresses these issues and more, offering an insider's look at this
disaster and the systemic overha uls that followed it.
On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie
Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic
stranger running toward her, his clothes ablaze, and, behind him,
the mangled fuselage of a passenger plane that had just crashed in
her yard. The plane, a Southern Airways DC-9-31, had been carrying
eighty-one passengers and four crew members en route to Atlanta
when it entered a massive thunderstorm cell that turned into a
dangerous cocktail of rain, hail, and lightning. Forced down onto a
highway, the plane cut a swath of devastation through the small
town of New Hope, breaking apart and killing bystanders on the
ground before coming to rest in Hurst's front yard. Ultimately,
only twenty-two people survived, and urgent questions immediately
arose: What caused the pilots to fly into the storm instead of away
from it? Could the crash have been prevented? Southern Storm
addresses these issues and more, offering an insider's look at this
disaster and the systemic overha uls that followed it.