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- 13 - lights were off. They further stated that the engines appeared to be operating normally. The witnesses said the plane did not fly through or above any lower scattered clouds after it became visible to them. The estimates by these six witnesses of the altitude of the plane as it crossed the airport ranged from 300 to 350 feet. However, from the reactions of five of these witnesses who observed simulated flights made four days after the accident, it appears that the altitude of Trip 6 as it crossed the airport was no more then 200 feet. Although the TWA personnel on the ramp lost sight of the airplane as it passed beyond the Robertson Hangar on the west side of the airport, the navigation lights were still clearly visible to the operators in the control tower.

Immediately after passing the west boundary of the airport, Captain Scott started a left turn, apparently for the purpose of making a landing from south to north on No. 6 runway. The sequence of events