Скачать или смотреть National Airlines Flight 967 News Report | 16 November 1959 Gulf of Mexico

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𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟵𝟲𝟳 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tampa to New Orleans, operated by a Douglas DC-7 (Reg. N4891C) on 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲, 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵.

The plane departed Tampa at 23:32 on November 15. At 00:55, while cruising at an altitude of 14,000 feet by night and approaching the Louisiana Coast, the plane disappeared from radar screens and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico about 30 miles east of Pilottown. Intensive sea and air searches resulted in finding ten floating bodies and a small amount of floating debris the following morning. The main wreckage has not been located despite several well placed searches. There is speculation that a con man by the name of Robert Vernon Spears had sabotaged the plane.

He had taken an air travel policy of $100,000 and gave his ticket to William Allen Taylor, of Tampa, Florida. After the accident, Spears disappeared and was later apprehended in Phoenix, Arizona. He supposedly disappeared to avoid prosecution for abortion. The Civil Aeronautics Board, with the aid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), thoroughly investigated Mr. Spears' activities in order to determine whether they might have had a bearing upon the accident. They were unable to find any such relationship.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲:
"Because of the lack of physical evidence, the probable cause of this accident remains unknown."