Talk:TWA Flight 513

Article misnamed; this was not a designated TWA flight.
This article repeatedly refers to "Flight 513", but the flight in question was not designated at all. It was a training flight for the flight crew, and thus it had no number. The confusion may have arisen from the fact that the official accident report refers to the aircraft as "Aircraft 513", referring to the last three digits of its registration number, NC 86513. This may also have been TWA's own designation of the aircraft, but that's quite a different matter from a flight number.

Despite the fact that this was not a passenger-carrying airline flight, it still is worthy of its own article, because the crash investigation uncovered a number of serious safety deficiencies in the early Constellations which posed major fire hazards. As the article states, the entire type had to be grounded in order to rectify these.

--Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 01:12, 9 December 2014 (UTC)