| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | August 28, 1973 |
| Time: | 2050 |
| Location: | Thirty-five miles west of Los Angeles, California |
| Operator: | Trans World Airlines |
| Flight #: | 742 |
| Route: | Honolulu - Los Angeles |
| AC Type: | Boeing B-707-331B |
| Registration: | N8705T |
| cn / ln: | 18916/455 |
| Aboard: | 149 (passengers:141 crew:8) |
| Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The plane porpoised while descending to LAX. The aircraft was subjected to 2 minutes of peak acceleration forces of 2.4 g. A combination of design tolerances in the aircraft's longitudinal control system which, under certain conditions, produced a critical relationship between control forces and aircraft response. |
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