{"id":26881,"date":"2024-04-11T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/braniff-flight-542-disintegration-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:00:12","slug":"the-unknown-inflight-disintegration-that-downed-braniff-flight-542-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=26881","title":{"rendered":"The Unknown Inflight Disintegration That Downed Braniff Flight 542"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On September 29th, 1959, a Braniff Airways<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/electra\/\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lockheed Electra<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Model L-188A, crashed about 3.19 miles east-southeast of Buffalo, Texas, killing all 34 people onboard. The aircraft involved in the tragedy was brand new, leaving investigators with many questions about the probable cause. It disintegrated mid-flight and was further destroyed by ground impact and the post-crash fire. Let us take a look at the events that transpired on the day.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crash of Braniff International Airways Flight 542 led to a lengthy and complicated investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1032,6775,7698,1542,408,627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircrash","category-braniff","category-crash-investigation","category-electra","category-history","category-lockheed-martin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26884,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions\/26884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}