Break Up Over Texas (Continental Express Flight 2574) Mayday : Season 11 Episode 4
TV-14 National Geographic 45m int(0)
Aired: December 29th, 2011 @ 8:00 PM EST on National Geographic
On 11 September 1991, Continental Express Flight 2574 is nearing the end of its intra-state flight from Laredo, Texas, to Houston. As the pilots are preparing to land, the aircraft tips into a dive and falls out of the sky as the left wing tears apart. All 14 people on board die. Improper maintenance caused a section of the horizontal stabilizer to break loose during flight, after which the pilots had no control.