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Paint markings on the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 gives CAB Investigator Jack Pashall (played by Michael Copeman) his first clue as to why two passenger planes collided over the Grand Canyon on June 30, 1956. With the help of scale models of the plane, the paint transfer markings tell Parshall that the L-1049 Super Constellation was hit from behind by the DC-7. Now Parhsall has to determine why the DC-7 crew wasn't able to see a plane that should have been clearly visible in their path.
Paint markings on the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 gives CAB Investigator Jack Pashall (played by Michael Copeman) his first clue as to why two passenger planes collided over the Grand Canyon on June 30, 1956. With the help of scale models of the plane, the paint transfer markings tell Parshall that the L-1049 Super Constellation was hit from behind by the DC-7. Now Parhsall has to determine why the DC-7 crew wasn't able to see a plane that should have been clearly visible in their path.
After two planes collide mid-air over the Grand Canyon on June 30, 1956, investigators bring pieces of the wreckage into a hanger in Arizona. The investigators have few tools to help them reconstruct the final few minutes of each flight. They can only hope that there are clues in the wreckage that can help explain the tragic disaster that killed 128 people.
A bird's eye view of TWA flight 2 and United Airlines Flight 718 moments before they collide in mid air, when they accidentally cross paths while both aircrafts attempt to avoid a severe storm looming over the Grand Canyon.
In an attempt to avoid a severe thunderstorm, United Airlines flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 both climb to 21,000 feet while flying over the Grand Canyon. The two planes approach the same cloud formation from different directions and crash mid air.
TWA Flight 2 departs Los Angeles International Airport just past 9:00 AM. A few minutes later United Airlines Flight 718, bound for Chicago, takes off from the same airport. To avoid a serious storm, both planes take the same flight path and crash mid air into the Grand Canyon.
Investigators looking into the crash of two passengers planes over the Grand Canyon have only been able to retrieve a few select pieces of wreckage from the Canyon floor. They study the fragments closely for any clues that could help them understand how United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 collided at 21,000 feet over the canyon on June 30, 1956. What they discover will lead to a massive overhaul of the system designed to keep planes apart over U-S airspace.