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Braniff Flight 542[edit]

Braniff International Airways Flight 542, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, registration N9705C, was a scheduled domestic flight from Houston, Texas, bound for New York with scheduled stops in Dallas and Washington, D.C. On September 29, 1959, 23 minutes into the 41-minute flight from Houston to Dallas Love Field, the aircraft disintegrated in mid-air approximately 3.8 miles (6.1 km) southeast of Buffalo, Texas, killing everyone on board.

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Date 29 Sep 1959
Pilot Wilson Elza Stone [1]
First officer Dan Hollowall [1]
Second officer Roland Longhill [1]
Braniff Airways VP Operations R. V. Carleton [2][3]
Braniff station manager from Houston Homer Young [4]
Braniff station manager from Waco H.E. Carlton [4]
CAB Investigator in charge John E. Cyrocki from CAB office in Miami [3][5][6]
CAB Investigator B.H. Jackson [2]
CAB Investigator Joseph Zamuda [7]
CAB Investigator C.E. Searle [7]
CAB Investigator Alan Brunstein [7]
CAB Vice Chairman Robert T. Murphy [1]
CAB Member and CAB safety board director Chan Gurney [1][7]
CAB Member G. Joseph Minetti [1]
CAB Member Whitney Gillilland [1]
CAB hearings and reports division director Robert W. Chrisp [7]
CAB bureau of safety investigator in charge of reassembling the plane John S. Leak [8]
CAB Chairman Alan S. Boyd [1]
FAA control office in Fort Worth Bruce Chambers [2][3]
Owner of the farm where the crash landed R. E. White [2][3]
Witness Mrs. Billy Webb [2]
Witness W.S. Webb [9]
Witness Bill Guyton [9]
Witness Barney Pickens [3]
Witness R.E. White [10]
Witness J.J. Cox [9]
Head of four-man Department of Public Safety identification team J.D. Chastain [4]
Senator who wants all Electas Grounded Vance Hartke (D-Ind)

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