Accidents and Incidents
The following involved flights departing or arriving at the airport:
- 1959: Braniff Flight 542 crashed in Buffalo, Texas, on September 29, 1959. It was en route to Dallas, Texas, from Houston, Texas. Twenty-nine passengers and five crew members died in the crash. The plane, a turboprop Lockheed L-188 Electra with the registration number N9705C, was eleven days old when it crashed. The Civil Aeronautics Board stated that the probable cause was "structural failure of the left wing resulting from forces generated by undampened propeller whirl mode."
- 1968: Braniff Flight 352: Broke into pieces during flight in a thunderstorm on Houston-Dallas route
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Those undreamt accidents that have made me
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