TWA Flight 260

TWA Flight 260

Infobox Airliner accident
name=TWA Flight 260
Crash

Date=February 19 1955
Type=Deviation from prescribed flight path for reasons unknown
Site=Sandia Mountains, New Mexico
Fatalities=16 (passengers:13 crew:3)
Injuries=0
Aircraft Type=Martin 4-0-4
Origin=Albuquerque International Airport, NM (ABQ/KABQ)
Destination=Santa Fe Municipal Airport, NM (SAF/KSAF)
Operator=Trans World Airlines
Tail Number=N40416
Passengers=13
Crew=3
Survivors=0

TWA Flight 260 was the Trans World Airlines (TWA) designation for a flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the 1950s. On February 19, 1955, the 40 passenger, Martin 4-0-4 prop plane used by TWA for that route crashed into the Sandia Mountains. Initially believed to be the result of pilot error, the cause was revised to imply that the crash was the result of instrument failure.

History

On February 19, 1955 at 7:31 am, TWA flight 260 en route from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Santa Fe, New Mexico crashed into the Sandia Mountains shortly after take off killing all 13 passengers and three crew members on board. Due to the complex mountainous terrain a day after several members of the New Mexico Mountain Club, along with other volunteers assisted the New Mexico State Police were assembled to assist in the recovery efforts leading to the formation of the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council, a voluntary organization still active today. Wreckage from the craft still remains, and is still visible - on brightly lit days - to riders on the Sandia Tram, a popular tourist attraction active since 1965. Originally the cause was believed to be that the pilots “intentionally flying the plane into the mountain” but, five years later changed the probable cause to “deviation from course for reasons unknown” with speculation that the fluxgate compass may have malfunctioned.

External links

* [http://www.abqmountainrescue.org/ Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council]
* [http://www.sandiapeak.com/ Sandia Peak]
* [http://www.walenz.org/bri/19991024-Hike-TWACanyon/ Photographs of TWA Canyon in the Cibola National Forest, Sandia Mountains]


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