1974 жылғы Вирджиния штатындағы TWA 514 рейсінің апаты

1974 plane crash in Virginia, US

Trans World Airlines Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727 231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 92 people aboard, 85 passengers and seven crew members, were killed. In stormy conditions late in the morning, the aircraft was in controlled flight and impacted a low mountain northwest of its revised destination. The accident was one of two crashes involving Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States that day, the other being the crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 later that evening near Haverstraw, New York.

The accident investigation board was split in its decision as to whether the flight crew or Air Traffic Control were [[human error The majority absolved the controllers as the plane was not on a published approach segment; the dissenting opinion was that the flight had been radar nowrap|vectored. which was the linchpin of plans implemented by the federal government to ensure continuity in the event of a nuclear war. The crash did not damage the facility, since most of its features were underground. Only its underground main phone line was severed, with service to the complex being restored by C&P Telephone within 2 1/2 hours after the crash.

The crash, its aftermath, and its repercussions are the subject of the 1977 book Sound of Impact: The Legacy of TWA Flight 514 by Adam Shaw. TWA Flight 514 is also mentioned in the closing of the second chapter of Mark Oliver Everett's book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and in F. Lee Bailey's book Cleared for the Approach: In Defense of Flying. In 2015, a documentary entitled Diverted: TWA 514 was released. This was one of two Boeing 727s to crash in the U. S. that day; the other was Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 in New York state, on its way to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo. Roscoe Cartwright, one of the U. S. Army's first black generals, was killed in the crash; he had retired from active duty several months earlier and was accompanied by his wife.