European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october i 1964 Selling tickets not chances the stars and stripes Lockheed s Electra once a 7m9 plane reliable now by Robert j. 8erungwashington up just five year ago an airline crashed into a vegetable Patch on a Small farm near Buffalo Tex. It wac a far reaching air trag Edy. In it Wake there occurred the most intensive Accident investigation in aviation history and the discovery of i Verlou structural flaw in the plane. A bitter feud Between two giants of american Industry. The near wrecking of a government official s career. The ruining of an aircraft reputation so intense and wide spread that thousands of Passen Gers refused to Fly on it. Flight mite plane unit fell into the Texas vegetable Patch was bran Iff airways flight 542-un l-188. Otherwise known As he in Ockhee Electra. If they gave awards for aviation comebacks the Electra would win funds Down. The 1999crash at Buffalo was followed by another disaster at Tell City,ind., the following March when a Northwest airlines Elc Clra Dis integrated in flight. The result was a Cloud Over the Electra s in my thicker and Blacker than Uny the prop Jet Hud flown through. One airline alone american reported nearly 2,300cancelled reservations on elec tra flights Over a 10-Day period with every customer citing a pre Vious electro crush us the specific reason. Anal elect i jokes swept the country such As we Don t i the Electra crash of the month the Federal aviation adminis Trator of that time Elwood r Pete Quisada refused to ground the plane in spite of de mands from Congress and even pressure from the civil aeronautics Board. One of his aides commented that it another Electra crashed Pete might As Well be aboard  what went wrong with the Electra both the Branoff and Northwest planes lost wings in flight. It Cost Lockheed $25 Mil lion to uncover the culprit and modify every Electra flying to Correct the weakness a phenomenon of physics known As whirl Mode. The plane s fault was in the mountings that held the huge out Board engines. Under abnormal stress such As extreme turbulence or a hard Landing the mounts could be weakened. The turbines in the Electra Sallison engines spin at 13,810 revolutions per minute. The big propellers turn at 1.280 rpm. The engine prop package is like huge Gyroscope. Any kind of a Jolt such As turbulence was like giant Finger reaching out to touch this spinning mass of Energy causing it to break stride and wobble on the already weak ened engine mounts. A the agitated engine began to wobble so did the prop with its Normal plane of rotation Dis Turbed. The violently uneven to id tickets on re extras we Sculli chances or have you joined the Lockheed Electra has made a Mcc Essul comeback since a series of  photo Jih rce elect Warren report called most exhaustive Ever " ton was transmitted to the win which in turn began to flex and flutter sending additional Vibra Tion Back to the engines. The Chain reaction of flutter is know Nas whirl Mode. In the Electra s Case the whirl Mode was uncontrolled and tended to slow Down in frequency even As its violence increased. When the conflicting vibrations of Wing and engines reached the same frequency ii was like High note shattering Glass. Only 20 seconds elapsed from the Star of the death Mode to Wing fail ure. Rel Forred Wing  s correction involve adding 1.2 0 pounds of Motul reinforcements to both the Wing Sand the no Coll Structure. I Ock heed blamed Allison for weak Nesses inside the engine that led in whirl Mode. Allison charged that the Electra s wings were marginal in structural strength i court cases found into Compa Nies responsible. Today five years after the Ruffulo crash there Are 195 Elco tras flying throughout the world for 14 airlines. Virtually every Lone reports its Electra a As the most reliable economical and efficient aircraft in us Fleet surpassing on some carriers even the pure jets. There has not been a fatal eur Cru crash my arc oct. 4. 1960. The Best testimony to the Plant almost incredible come Back is its i Ilo value. Usedalo Cloras now nil almost 115 much As the i.3 million  new. At least Len operators have standing orders from other air lines whenever they decide to retire their plane. One major  up Albert e. Jenner jr., an aide to the War Ren commission that investigated the assassination of presiden Kennedy said he believes the commission report released Sun Day night wits the most exhaustive murder investigation eve recorded. Jenner a Chicago Patent at Torney whose division 3" was assigned to explore the life flee Harvey Oswald find a motive for the killing and explorerumor., of a conspiracy said not even in English Legal history which is famous for commis Sion investigations does he re Call anything approaching the Warren report. This is truly a commission re port he said. We did t just compile the findings of staff workers. We went Over every volume of the report suggested changes Here different wording there it is a unanimous report.1 think it should be conclusive Al though there will always be  he said. Every effort1 Jenner a a member of the commission for eight months Laid the group reached its conclusion upon the urging of presi Dent Johnson that every Effort superhuman if possible be made to bring it to a close. To looked for facts we had no preconceived notions he said. We were looking for thin Santl As Well As pro. If you know what i mean. We checked everything that looked suspicious in checking if there was a conspiracy. We d seer mors in newspaper articles. We ran it All Down he said. Jenner said the commission be Gan Over a month ago with Day and night sessions in an Effort to bring the investigation to a speedy close. I Don t see How any open minded person after Reading that report and the Mountain of sup porting evidence can have any reasonable doubt As to us  he said. Of the hundreds interviewed during the investigation Jenner said Only one Robert Allen sur Rey refused to cooperate. He is the Man whom the com paper says 2 Dallas a the Dallas times Herald said in a copy righted Story that the Fri too disciplinary action against two agents who were in charge of the Lee Harvey Oswald Case prior to the assassination of president John f. Kennedy. The times Herald quoted whatsit called unimpeachable sources but did not name the agents. In Washington Fri Headquarters declined comment. The newspaper said one age twas demoted at a loss of 11,000 in annual pay and the other Sta Channel Tunnel study contracted Boston a a Boston fir has received a 11.8 million con tract to study the floor of the English Channel in preparation of an International Tunnel be Neath Tho Channel. The contract has been awarded to Edgerton  and Greer inc., which docs scientific research engineering and electronics work it was  contract awarded by the Channel Tunnel study group a British French United states combination of firms Calls for Survey of the Channel s surface contours and sub surface Struc Ture Between Dover England and Calais  proposed Tunnel beneath the Channel would in 32 Miles longhand Cost 1490 million. Mission finds conceived or a least prepared the text for the wanted for treason Handbill that was distributed on the streets of Dallas on the 20th, 21st or 22ndof november 1913," Jenner said. That in connection with the Lack bordered Welcome or. Kennedy advertisement caused Fri agents Tio cd in new Orleans was or dered transferred but refused the Transfer and , accused As the Assas sin of Kennedy nov. 21 in Dalian once lived in new Orleans where he was Active in a fair play for Cuba organization. Sergeant drowns near it. Knox it. Knox. By. Up the body of an army Veteran of 19 years service was recovered from the Ohio River on this Mili tary Post. Sgt Roy Duckworth son of Robert a Duckworth of Omaha iii., had been missing since sat urday evening. Friends said he drowned while swimming near the Carpenter lest area of the military reservation. The body was floating about 55feet from Shore. . Airlines pc new York up . Air lines have maintained a much higher Standard of safety than foreign airlines for More Laii u decade the Institute of life insurance says. The safely ratios of the .airlines have remained almost unchanged for 15 years now Hie Institute said after studying the actuary result of  1962-63, the fatality rate for passenger was  per Mil a Good Deal of feeling in Dallas at that time.  was an aide of Exma Gen Edwin a Walker Jenner said. I Examinee him. He refused to answer any question with respect to the  proved out the Handbill by other Means fully Jenner said. Disciplined the new Orleans agent had been assigned the Oswald Case while Oswald wus in new or leans. He now works As a private investigator in the Louisiana City. The Dallas Man was on the second level of command in the Dallas Fri office behind the Spe Cial agent in charge und the assistant special  Dallas agent supervised the Section under whose Juris diction Oswald As u returned defector to Russia Tell. He no investigates routine out of the office  actions against the agents both veterans of More than 20years of government service came in Lale Spring the times Herald said. The Fri made no announcement concerning them.1. Gordon shun Kiln. In charge of the Dallas Fri office was out of the City and a representative said the Fri would have no comment. Hind safer thai lion passenger hours and for first pilots Only 12 or million nor Plain hours just about the  15 years ago. The entire . Scheduled air line Industry has Uver used it Tomt five fatal crashes a year during unit period by contrast available  that passenger deaths on All foreign Flag airlines in1959-b2 were 3.6 pit million Pas Senger Miles or Ivi times that Carrier turned Down an offer of nearly 12 million Cash for an Electra. Prejudice gone Antl Ici Citra prejudice Hase Ruthir Ili d so completely that the two major vice presidential candidates sen. Hubert Humph Rey and rep. William Miller reusing chartered Electra a for their Campaign  rude reminder of the Elco Ira s Early troubles occurred Las july when an australian airline grounded its Fleet after a Ray revealed serious cracks in a Wing area. The Federal aviation Agency ordered immediate inspections of All . Electra a then cancelled the order after a series of spot checks revealed no Signor trouble. It hns been reliably reported that the australian a rays were misinterpreted. . Carriers which quietly told their Electra Crews to slow Down during the inspection period Are satisfied that the whole affair was a false alarm. So apparently has ended the legend of the Electra no longer a Jinx plane but a highly regarded Airliner. The owner of the farm where flight 541 crashed five year Ajo Richard e. White still live there with his wife. A few Silv ers of aluminium can be found on a pasture a half mile away the last remainder of one of aviation s most dramatic stories. I foreign firms of the . Lines which for these years was 1.4 per million passenger  s scheduled airlines have an even More impressive safety record than Hose of the United  the 1859-62 period Canada s airlines had a passenger death rate of Only 0.4 per million Pas Senger Miles and a Pilot death rate of 0.8 per million a plane Miles