Braniff International Airways Flight 250 crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, on August 6, 1966, en route to Omaha from Kansas City, Missouri. Thirty-eight passengers and four crew members were killed i
N1553 pictured at Dallas Love Field in July 1966, several weeks prior to the accident
The Falls City Journal's cover story shortly after the Braniff International Airways flight crashed in Richardson County, Nebraska.
Braniff Flight 250 Memorial in Richardson County
BAC One-Eleven
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The BAC One-Eleven is a retired early jet airliner produced by the British Aircraft Corporation. Conceived by Hunting Aircraft as a 30-seat jet before its merger into BAC in 1960, it was launched as a
Braniff International Airways Flight 250
…on a Saturday night. In-flight structural failure due to extreme turbulence in an avoidable weather hazard was cited as the cause. The aircraft was a BAC 1-11-203AE, registration N1553. It was manufactured by British Aircraft Corporation in December 1965. The cockpit crew consisted of Captain Donald Pauly…
A TAROM One-Eleven in 1995
The selected Rolls-Royce Spey low-bypass turbofan
The first delivery was to British United Airways on 22 January 1965.
Introduced in 1967, the 500 series are stretched by 13.5 ft (4.1 m).