Byron Acohido, a writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, in his November 12, 1995, articled: "USAir's Dive Still a Mystery" tells us of a chilling discover.
This is his story:
"Why USAir Flight 427 suddenly flipped upside down and screamed to earth in 1994 remains one of aviation's most disturbing mysteries.
Authorities think that the Boeing 737-300 jetliners rudder swung to the extreme left and froze, tossing the plane into a tumbling, high speed dive.
The accident unfolded in clear, calm skies as Flight 426 descended routinely into Pittsburgh on September 8, 1994.
The crash killed all 132 people on board.
Despite 40,000 investigative man hours and millions of dollars spent on lab and flight tests, investigators stills can't explain why the rudder moved.
Since the first NTSB hearing last January, pilots of 737s have continued reporting instances of their flight controls malfunctioning in flight, often making uncomfortable movements.
It turns out that microscopic impurities in the plane's hydraulic system could be the culprit.
Authorities have learned that microscopic debris in the plane's hydraulic fluid could jam the rudder in a number of different ways.
Under certain conditions a rudder could reserve itself, or it could swing to an extreme position under a slight command.
Hydraulic fluids from the crashes USAir contained a "level 10" concentration of contaminants.
Level 3 is considered very clean fluid, and the level of contamination doubles at each higher level.
This would explain the reason why the plane suddenly nose dived and crashed rendering it one of the worst aviation tragedies ever to happen.
Just as the microscopic particles may have contaminated the aircraft's hydraulic system and precipitated the disaster, contamination in our lives places us at a very dangerous position of experiencing personal disaster in our family as well as career."
I will in a van driven by one of the top executives working for our country's biggest food processing company.
The night before that, he heard the message on integrity in the business matters seminar held in his city.
As we were talking, this battle scarred successful career person who would be going into retirement in two more years made a confession.
He said that he had done some foolish things in his life.
He has worked hard and provided a decent life and good education to all his three children.
And now that a company was interested in a hiring him as a consultant, he found himself doing business over wine with a company of women.
He said that deep in his heart he knew that what he was doing was wrong, yet he couldn't stop it.
He enjoyed the temporary pleasure that the world's kind of entertainment could bring but now that he is sane and sober, he realized that the tiny harmless forms of enjoyment would have been big enough to destroy him.
He shuddered at the through of catching a sexually transmitted disease, or the possibility of his wife discovering his unfaithfulness, or the disaster of having a serious relationship with someone younger than he was, someone prettier than his wife.
It was only then that I told him how God has been good to him, protecting him all this time.
For this he was so thankful.
But not too many people are as fortunate.
Think of the many who started out flirting with that new secretary/receptionist the boss has just hired.
Think of the many who started bringing home paper clips, pencils and office stationers which later graduated into a few bucks from the office petty cash fund, until the habit of stealing has become so deeply ingrained that there's no other way to go but into bigger schemes of embezzlement.
CAREFUL!
No big sin begins big.
Each one of them began as small things.
This is why the Word of God tells us to be on alert at all times.
There is no such thing as a Spiritual Superman.
As a matter of fact, the Bible shows us that those who fell were usually those who were gifted and talented and too confident of their own spirituality.
So the next time we flirting with anything, remember USAir Flight 427 and why it crashed
No One Survive.
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