Flight 967

by Brad Williams

On the night of November 15, 1959, a DC-7 with 42 persons aboard took off from Tampa International Airport on a regularly scheduled flight to New Orleans. It was a starlit night, and good weather conditions were reported all along the route. At 12:46 a.m. the plane was picked up clearly on the radar at Houma, Louisiana--but within five minutes the blip had veered like a startled bird and vanished abruptly from the screen. This was the moment of death for everyone aboard--and the start of a mystery that has never been officially solved, in part because only nine of the bodies have been recovered, and the plane itself lies embedded in Mississippi mud. But there are many--author Brad Williams among them--who are convinced that the crash of Flight 967 was the climax of an intricately plotted mass murder. Elements: a botched abortion case in California; an air travel insurance policy, purchased less than ten minutes before Flight 967 left Tampa--by a man his family believed to be in Atlanta; a rendezvous in the Arizona desert; and the silence of a man serving a sentence in Alcatraz. In preparation of this book, Brad Williams interviewed in depth all the people connected in any important way with the crash--airline and government officials, families of the victims, even the wife of his suspect. And he tells the story swiftly and surely, a story that is at once a vivid portrayal of the complexities of commercial aviation today and a real-life mystery that comes to a sensational conclusion.--Adapted from book jacket.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1963

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

This plane fell out of the sky in 1959 and although there were many suspicions about the identity of the person responsible and the motives for it, the investigation into the case has never been completed. Reads like a Dragnet episode -- great true crime but has a 1963 copyright so is somewhat dated. i really enjoyed it. Case not solved.