On this scary Halloween in 1994, severe icing caused American Eagle Flight 4184, which was traveling from Indianapolis to Chicago, to crash into a soybean field, sadly taking 68 lives.
The NTSB’s inquiry identified the unanticipated inversion of the aileron hinge moment and an inadequate reaction to frozen rainfall as the cause. The Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996 is one of the major aviation safety measures that resulted from this tragic event.
Both the Lincoln Township Fire Department and Calumet Park Cemetery include memorials to the deceased sculpted into stone. In the wake, humanism was just as important as legislation.
Families had to put up with misidentification, unofficial funerals, and inadequate cleanup. Two nonprofit organizations that support the ethical management of aviation disaster aftermaths were founded as a result of their suffering.
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