Download or read book Flight 427 written by Gerry Byrne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Boeing 737 airliner focuses on US Airways Flight 427, which crashed in March 1994, near Pittsburgh, killing all 132 aboard. The author relates how that crash kicked off years of painstaking research by the NTSB, the FAA, and Boeing that finally uncovered a minor, yet lethal flaw that had been designed into the aircraft.