UE - Texas International Airlines Flight 655 Wreckage

On September 27, 1973 Texas International Airlines Flight 655 crashed into the north slope of Black Fork Mountain, Arkansas. The aircraft was a 1948 Convair CV-600 (N94230) equipped with two Rolls-Royce Dart 542-4 turbo-prop engines. The flight entailed a round trip flight from Dallas, Texas to Memphis, Tennessee with stops at Texarkana, El Dorado, and Pine Bluff. On the night-time trip from El Dorado to Texarkana, the crew deviated 100 miles from the flight path to bypass a storm front. The flight was conducted under visual flight rules in instrument meteorological conditions, meaning the crew attempted to navigate by visual geographical cues at night. The aircraft flew at approximately 2000 ft in order to stay below storm clouds and to navigate via city lights. The pilot believed "The highest point out here is about 1,200 ft, and we're not even where that is, I don't believe." In truth, they were over the Ouachita Mountains where the highest point is approximately 2,680 ft. The aircraft crashed into Black Fork Mountain at 216 mph 600 ft below the peak. All 11 people on board were killed. It took three days for search teams to find the crash site, and 3 National Guard members were killed in a helicopter crash in the process. The crash site was never cleaned up due to its geographical inaccessibility. Access to this site requires an 8 mile round trip hike up the side of the mountain.
Full crash report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7404.pdf
Accident description: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730927-1

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