On April 4, 1979, at or around 948p.m. There were the flight attendants who refused to fly with him because they thought he was dangerous. Formed in 1974 after a split from Yasser Arafat's Fatah, Abu Nidal carried out the Rome and Vienna airport attacks on December 27, 1985. The erroneous, unwarranted assumptionthat an Extended #7 Slat caused the INITIAL upsetfouled each phase of the NTSB investigation from 1979 to June'81. Turkish Airlines Flight 301 was a passenger flight operated by a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship of Turkish Airlines registered as TC-JAO that crashed during takeoff at zmir Cumaovas Airport on 26 January 1974 while en route to Istanbul Yeilky Airport (IST/LTBA), killing 66 of its 73 passengers and crew.. At about 15,000 feet (4,600m) the pilots extended the landing gear in an attempt to slow the aircraft. Later, NTSB assigned L.D. This flight crew was on a 2 day flight package that began in Los Angeles the day before and this package was Hoot's first time Captaining a 727 in 18 months and asked Scott and Gary to keep an eye on him. Anyone can read what you share. The NTSB determined that it could have caused the uncontrollable maneuver. 23May80 -- Heading Gyro testing, on a Tilt/Turn-table at Kansas City. TWA Flight 841 was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota.On April 4, 1979, at or around 9:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (01:48 UTC), while flying over Saginaw, Michigan, the Boeing 727-31 airliner began a sharp, uncommanded roll to the right, and subsequently . The TWA Flight 841 had stopped in Athens for 68 minutes and then departed for Rome. The detonation of the bomb destroyed the systems responsible for operating the plane's . Explosive Proof: Directed by Tim Wolochatiuk. NTSB asked Boeing to correlate their Boeing simulation trials with mishap- FDR data, and asked for answers to dozens of questions, and NTSB then explicitly asked Boeing for their suggestion of the "probable conditions during maneuver that would cause simultaneous/ sequential separation of Slat, Flap Canoe, #10 Spoiler correlation with trajectories to ground locations where parts were found." Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 pm. An event that impacted the dynamics of global politics and inspired the increase in terrorism. FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond inspected crippled plane at Detroit; called it a miracle; NY Times reported "it is agreed that the pilot saved the passengers from certain death " Crew were debriefed by NTSB; "movement of the malfunctioning slat was the apparent cause buffeting and vibration right wing and nose dropped ". Two minutes, 30 seconds later, 274 passengers plus 19 crew members would find themselves standing in an open field . He saw the plane banking right and the autopilot moving the control wheel to the left to level the wings. Barry Werth, 31 Days: Gerald Ford, The Nixon Pardon and a Government in Crisis (New York: Anchor Books). Gibson insisted he had done nothing wrong, and no disciplinary action was ever taken against him, neither by TWA nor by the Federal Aviation Administration. The detonation of the bomb destroyed the systems responsible for operating the plane's . You can also hear and see a portion of the interview I did with Dave in the post overlooked clues. [6] In its final report, published in June 1981, the NTSB concluded the probable cause of the accident was a mechanical failure of a leading-edge slat under inappropriate manipulation and the captain's untimely action. According to an affidavit filed with the petition, the same plane that Gibson flew on Flight 841, N840TW, was used in 1977 on a TWA test flight. The Incredible Boeing 747 Tri-Jet And Why It Failed, Revisiting The JetBlue Nose Gear Incident. Contributing to the captain's untimely use of the flight controls was distraction due probably to his efforts to rectify the source of the control problem. ''It never occurred to me that they would have tested this very same plane and found similar happenings and not tell us about it,'' said Landon Dowdey, a Washington lawyer who represented Gibson during the safety board`s investigation. On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B ( registered N8734 [1]) operating as TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York City via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea, killing all aboard. I've had my Andy Warhol designated 15 minutes of fame. The NTSB never responded to the more thorough Petition For Reconsideration, receipt date Oct'9, 1990. The mother opened her box of memories and the pain and . Ships operating in the area were the first on the scene, and while they reported floating debris, there were no signs of any survivors. The Board's May 4, 1995 denial-of-Reconsideration was a forced response to an impending court decision, a "cover-up": The NTSB's staff had strayed from investigative-err (AAR81-8), into investigative-misconduct and fraud, by falsifying the "facts" previously documented Unwarranted assumptions & investigative misconduct. In June 1981, after the lengthiest investigation in aviation history, the National Transportation Safety Board said it had found nothing structurally wrong with the aircraft and blamed Gibson and the cockpit crew. Friday, 6Apr79 -- Crew were again debriefed by NTSB; " the cockpit voice recorder had nothing on it when it was examined " No system functional testing of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) interfaces was ever accomplished. Barry Werth, 31 Days: Gerald Ford, The Nixon Pardon and a Government in Crisis (New York: Anchor Books). En route stops were scheduled at Athenai Airport in Athens, Greece, (CBS News) All 230 passengers and crew were killed when TWA flight 800, a New York-to-Paris flight, crashed July 17, 1996, shortly after takeoff from John F . Flaps and slats were intended to only be deployed at low speeds during take-off or landing. The extension of the N0. The bomb . One last thing before I hand it over to Dave, I . The aircraft was equipped with a Fairchild Industries Model A-100 cockpit voice recorder (CVR). 25 years later, the wounds are 'still raw.'. He was the one, so the story went, who in 1979 caused a Boeing 727 to fall out of the sky and plunge 34,000 feet in 44 seconds, risking the lives of 82 passengers, by playing around with circuit breakers in the cockpit. This page was last modified on 20 May 2016, at 01:41. The pilots regain control and make an emergency land. [citation needed] The crash occurred about 50 nautical miles west of Cephalonia, Greece.[3]. [1]:24 However, the NTSB ultimately concluded that the flight crew was probably attempting to use 2 of flaps at cruising speed: While cruising at Mach 0.816 and 39,000 feet pressure altitude and with the autopilot controlling the aircraft, an attempt was made to extend 2 of trailing edge flaps independently of the leading edge slats, probably in an effort to improve aircraft performance[1]:32. Le Duc Tan, a ranger in the South Vietnamese army . Letter dated 25May79: 3-page letter from NTSB (Tobiason/ Performance Gp) to Boeing, states these proposed tasks were previously discussed on April 18, and May 79. WALAi J a 1 \ i \j J Ifi ALL i/L F ii. They watched the aircraft execute a steep climb, followed by the separation of an engine from the wing and the death spiral. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Dec'19th, 1980 -- Boeing sends to NTSB data from the Oct flight test, sent to Performance Group Chmn Von Husen . Barbara Merrill was on her way to Minneapolis with Susan, her 14yearold daughter, to rejoin her Army husband. 10May79 -- Structures Group Factual Report completed. A British team of bomb experts confirmed the NTSB's findings after discovering two tiny fragments of metal embedded in a suitcase. When the NTSB asked Glen why the tape had been erased, he said that he always did it after a flight but, in this instance, could not remember having done it. Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 159 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York City to Los Angeles, California, with a stopover in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Kentucky, that crashed after an aborted takeoff from Cincinnati on 6 November 1967.The Boeing 707 attempted to abort takeoff when the copilot . 1Oct80 -- Meeting in Seattle for test-plan. Boeing Operations Manual Bulletin, OMB 75-7, March 10, 1976; Subject: "Leading Edge Slat Actuator Lock Rings"; outlined specific conditions which had previously resulted in a Leading Edge Slat being pulled from the Retracted position (Mach > .8M, with failure of "A" System Hydraulic pressure to the slat actuator, with SpeedBrakes/Spoilers Extended). 7 slat caused the plane to roll and dive. Photo:Richard, The cockpit voice recorder had been erased. But almost a decade later, Gibson is still trying to clear his name. After stopping for 68 minutes in Athens, it departed for Rome. King denying request to remove Kampschror as IIC. The flight crew testified that they had not engaged the flaps, and the NTSB concluded that "if the flightcrew's recollections are accurate," the slat extension must have been caused by a mechanical failure or defect. In 2009, the Associated Press published an article claiming that Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, the man responsible for the 1973 New York City bomb plot, was linked to the bombing of TWA Flight 841. The NTSB initially regarded this mishap as an "incident", and initially assigned their Chicago Field Office to lead their investigation. During a flight from JFK International Airport to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, TWA 841, a Boeing 727, deployed one of its slats while cruising at 39,000 feet.This, as some of you will know, is very bad. As the nation mourns its worst-ever air disaster, investigators face puzzling evidence: The surviving captain of Air China Flight 129 claims that everything on board was normal, but air traffic controllers testify that the crew's radio communications were anything but. Just prior to the upset of TWA 841 there was an uncommanded rudder movement, this precipitated the entire event, quite plausibly causing the. TWA Flight 841 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota.On April 4, 1979, at or around 9:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (01:48 UTC), while flying over Saginaw, Michigan, the Boeing 727-31 airliner began a sharp, uncommanded roll to the right, and . Gibson response to a 1991 Petition for Reconsideration by the Pilot: This NTSB "response" was never reviewed by the investigative community, never disclosed to ALPA. Stewart suggests that the crew would not have been able to erase the CVR as the aircraft had to be completely shut down and on the ground. Despite the Captain and First Officer's best efforts, the plane dove 34,000 feet out of control for 63 seconds. Video grab of hostage aboard TWA flight 847 Allyn Conwell during tv interview from Beirut. Upon departing Columbus, the three-engine jetliner carried 85 passengers and a crew of seven. TWA Flight 841 bombing . Subsequently, Williams said, ''the flight controls became extremely difficult to manipulate'' and the plane became difficult to fly. He now believes the situation was similar to what happened during the TWA test flight, when the autopilot did not properly disconnect. [6], For the 1979 accident with the same flight number, see, N8734, the Boeing 707-331B involved in the accident. 7.". Nor did I observe any other crew member take any action within the cockpit, either intentional or inadvertent, which would have caused the extension.". So when Dave Haase, one of the members of the TWA accident investigative team working on TWA 841, wanted to share his thoughts about the investigation, I was more than happy to give him this forum. The crew responded immediately by disengaging the autopilot and getting the aircraft under control. The board of inquiry shall examine witnesses and secure, in the form of a public record, all known facts pertaining to the accident and surrounding circumstances and conditions ". After stopping for 68 minutes in Athens, it departed for Rome. No one . Williams himself only remembered the incident a few months ago, Rohlfing said, after another TWA jet encountered similar control problems in midflight and was forced to make an emergency landing in Dayton. Although we recognize that habits can cause actions not desired or intended by the actor, we have difficulty accepting the fact that the captain's putative habit of routinely erasing the CVR after each flight was not restrainable after a flight in which disaster was only narrowly averted. Immediately following news of the crash, a Palestinian youth organization claimed it had put a bomb on the plane. After eliminating all other possible options, the NTSB concluded that the flight crew must have manipulated the extension of the slats. All 79 passengers and nine crew members were killed. During these simulator runs in Seattle, the Performance Group had mistakenly accepted Boeing's simulation-modeling, as "using simulator software for the B-727-100". The plane was cruising in cloud at an altitude of 18,000 ft (5,486 m) and was expected to arrive in Cuenca at 8 am. Plane Passengers Prayed But Expected to Be Killed, https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/07/archives/plane-passengers-prayed-but-expected-to-be-killed-a-fall-into-the-a.html. However, a spokesman for TWA said sabotage was "highly unlikely. The Boeing simulation, presented to the NTSB's Performance Group, offered only that single failure condition: a simulation study with the #7 Slat Extended; done by modeling the sudden contribution of the "incremental rolling moment coefficient caused by the extension of the slat No. They also determined that it was "impossible" for the flaps to extend without manipulating the controls. In stormy conditions late in the morning . At no time prior to the incident did I take any action within the cockpit either intentionally or inadvertently, that would have caused the extension of the leading edge slats or trailing edge flaps. The initial investigation was thus limited (no NTSB Go Team was available on scene). 79 passengers and 9 crew members of the TWA Flight 841 on its way from Tel Aviv to New York City died when the plane crashed down due to a bomb explosion on September 8, 1974. TWA Flight 841 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He got on the rudder pedals to apply full left rudder. In its conclusion, the NTSB determined that the cause of the incident was the isolation of the number seven leading-edge slat in the fully or partially extended position after an extension of other leading-edge slats and the subsequent retraction of the additional slats. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the plane had been destroyed by a bomb hidden in the cargo hold. TWA 841 passengers were taken up on the test flights and stated the vibrations by the flaps and slats were inconsistent with what they . In 1995, faced with an impending court decision, the NTSB sent a letter to H.G. The nationalities of 30 other passengers and the nine crew members were not immediately known at the time. On at least one occasion, he said, flight attendants refused to fly with him and he had to take a planeful of passengers back to the gate to drop off the attendants. Thursday mid-day, 5Apr79 -- "Reporters were permitted to inspect the plane" FAA, airline, and NTSB spokesmen hailed the Pilots as heroes. The mishap-Captain was presented with the answer a week lateran FAA employee had reported that it was the captain himself who had made that claim. The plane left Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, with its destination being JFK International Airport in New York City, United States, and a Palestinian youth organization put a guerrilla on the plane with a bomb. The Tilt/Turn-table simulated roll-angles 360-degrees, and pitch angles (previously derived from Boeing Simulator trials]. She, too, was praying. Contributing to the cause was a preexisting misalignment of the No. The crew of the Pan Am Clipper witnessed the TWA plane enter a steep climb, flip over onto its back, and then enter a spiraling dive before crashing in the Ionian Sea 50 nautical miles west of the Greek island of Cephalonia. On April 4, 1979, TWA Flight 841 departed New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) for Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) in Minnesota. [citation needed] The crash occurred about 50 nautical miles west of Cephalonia, Greece. The nationalities of 30 other passengers and the nine crew members were not immediately known at the time. Derickson knew then what was happening. South Lebanon was also referred to as Fatahland, due to the almost complete control of Fatah and other military Palestinian organizations over this officially Lebanese area, which they used to stage attacks against Israel. <p>2006, p. 324-5. During the test flight, the affidavit says, the pilot encountered serious problems controlling the aircraft-problems that were similar to what Gibson encountered two years later on Flight 841 before the plane went into its dive. In trying to correct the turn, Gibson said, he found the controls did not respond properly. Williams, who has been a TWA pilot for 31 years. Gibson believes this caused the controls of the plane to jam; when he was unable to get the controls to respond, the aircraft went into a dive. Just minutes after taking off from NYC JFK Airport, TWA . . About 30 minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed into the Ionian Sea. On take-off, speeding down the runway, Flight 843 would never make it to San Francisco. They also concluded that other slats might have been extended together with the number seven slat. [1]:6The CVR tape can be erased by means of the bulk-erase feature on the CVR control panel located in the cockpit. The crew suggested instead that an actuator on the #7 slat had failed, causing its inadvertent deployment. 7 slat precipitated control problems that culminated in a loss of control.". I mean in the TWA 841 episode, I don't know if any of the investigators interview actually were involved in the investigation but they were still interviewed. On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (registered N8734) operating as TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York City via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea, killing all aboard. Ik*..% j I HV.VWJ u u a u H A fl JMJU . Actor Joe Mantegna (pictured in June last year) pauses each year on the TWA Flight 800 . He suggests that there were other incidents of 727-200s with uncommanded slat extensions in the years prior to and after the accident (page 224). Following a 45-minute delay, the aircraft, a 13-year-old Boeing 727-31 with the registration number N840TW, was just over an hour into the 3hr 10min flight when something went terribly wrong. The flight crew of Pan American Airways Flight 110, also a Boeing 707 en route eastbound from Rome to Beirut, was in the vicinity of the TWA aircraft at a cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. This mismanaged NTSB "depositional proceeding" added to the earlier breakdown of the NTSB's "safety investigation", by mixing-in assertions of crew misconductrather than accomplishing the usual engineering fault-analysis of the pre-existing latent-failures in N840TW's subsystems; latent failures only uncovered after the mishap. In Beirut, it was reported that a Palestinian youth organization claimed it had put a guerrilla on the plane with a bomb. Until at 9.30pm, less than. TWA Flight 841 was a regularly scheduled service between Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) in Israel and John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York, with stops at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport (ATH) in Greece and Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) in Italy. TWA Flight 841. Watch all remaining episodes of the brand new season of Air Crash Investigation, Mondays at 8pm, only on National Geographic. Yorke's paper demonstrated that the physical evidence was clear, the initial upset could not have been caused by an extended #7 Slat. Prezi. The NTSB's investigation, from April 1979 to June 1981, was then the longest and most expensive case in the history of the Safety Board. The board said the crew lost control of the plane because of a series of unauthorized maneuvers in the cockpit. : 1 All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third . Flaps and slats were only intended to be deployed at low speeds during takeoff and landing. Photo: The USS Independence andUSS Biddle were given the job of recovering the bodies and wreckage. Four passengers survived the attack, from whom two were Israeli soldiers, a woman and a five-year old girl - Miri Fristenberg, whose parents were killed in the attack.This is because of the huge massacre happened there as it was the only Jewish state on the earth. Photo: Roland Arhelger via Wikimedia Commons, Sudden Dive: How TWA Flight 841 Came Close To Catastrophe In 1979, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TWA_Boeing_727-100.jpg, Breaking: Lufthansa Makes Offer In Bid To Acquire ITA Airways, Etihad Signs Multi-Year Contrail Prevention And Carbon Credit Agreement. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. When Langhorne Bond, of the Federal Aviation Administration, inspected the crippled plane, parked beside a Detroit runway yesterday, he said: The miracle is that it held together under such extraordinary speed and circumstances. The plane spoilers had been ripped off, the landing gear and undercarriage were damaged, yet somehow it held together. 6Jun79Technical meeting at Boeing. [16], The incident was featured on season 22 of the Canadian documentary series Mayday, in the episode titled "Terror over Michigan". The plane, a Boeing 727 designed to cruise at about 525 miles an hour, had gone out Of control at 39,000 feet, twisted through a complete 360degree barrel roll and plunged 27,000 feet in 10 seconds, almost tearing itself apart before making an emergency landing at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport late Wednesday night. Trans World Airlines Flight 2, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation named Star of the Seine, with Captain Jack Gandy (age 41), First Officer James Ritner (31), and Flight Engineer Forrest Breyfogle (37), departed Los Angeles on Saturday, June 30, 1956, at 9:01 am PST with 64 passengers (including 11 TWA off-duty employees on free tickets) and six crew members (including two . McIntyre (ALPA party coordinator) to NTSB Chairman James King, relating confrontation with IIC Kampschror at the Boeing Meeting. On April 4, 1979, TWA Flight 841 departed New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) for MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) in Minnesota. My lungs wouldn't expand. Rohlfing said the plane is being used for cargo runs. During the week of 20January 1980, ALPA received their first copy of an FAA report form filed shortly after the 4Apr79 mishap. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. 22May79 -- discussion between Boeing and NTSB defining tasks requested of the manufacturer. The investigators believed that Boeing 727 pilots often set the trailing edge flaps to two degrees while cruising as it was rumored to increase lift with no additional drag allowing higher elevation, more speed, or less fuel consumption. [1], The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident, conducting what was at the time the lengthiest accident investigation in NTSB history. Upon hardover recognition, the pilot can disconnect the faulty unit at which time the airplane is readily recoverable." TWA said this was nonsense, but the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation confirmed that a bomb in the cargo hold had destroyed the plane's elevator and rudder system control cables making it uncontrollable. 8:06. Suspicion immediately focused on the Abu Nidal terrorist organization, the most ruthless of all the Palestinian terrorist groups. On Sunday morning, September 8th, 1974, the plane arrived in Athens after an uneventful flight from Tel Aviv. Much later, as the "web" developed, the Investigation Research Roundtable published that NTSB denial of a minor petition from the pilot: That May'95 NTSB "denial" of reconsideration included falsification of the "facts" previously documented by on-scene investigators in April 1979. . Photo: 48 Years Ago Today TWA Flight 841 Was Bombed Over The Ionian Sea, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). But after the safety board`s ruling, there seemed little reason for anyone in the airline industry to believe him. March 1981 -- ALPA submission in response to NTSB's request for analysis: Tuesday, 9 June 1981, NTSB Board Meeting, two of the five Board Members voted to adopt their staff's Probable Cause statement for AAR 81-8: The Probable Cause was adopted at this Board Meeting (the second "Sunshine Meeting"). In studying the Dayton incident, said Rohlfing, Williams remembered the 1977 flight, went back to his log book and discovered it was the same plane Gibson flew in 1979. Afterward, the NTSB's Investigator-in-Charge, L.D. 7 leading edge slat in the fully or partially extended position after an extension of the Nos. 1 History of the Flight Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 841, a Boeing 707-331B, N8734, was a regularly scheduled international passenger and cargo flight from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, to John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, New York. Gibson claimed the incident, the longest dive by a commercial plane in which the plane did not crash, was caused by a mechanical malfunction of the plane. Despite the best efforts of the flight crew, the aircraft spiraled out of control; Gibson shouted, "We're going over!". The pilot Captain Harvey "Hoot" Gibson, said the plane was operating with the autopilot on "Altitude Hold" mode when it began a steep roll to the right. As Derickson approached the two men to see what was happening, one of them kicked her in the chest. Then a third session on May 7, with three members of the investigation's Performance Group (Capt. All 92 aboard, 85 passengers and seven crew members, were killed. [1]:2 Gibson shouted "Get em' up!" Flight history. NTSB refused to correct the errors in AAR81-8, and refused to reply to the 1990 Petition. . . The highjacking of Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight 847. . 0:07. They watched the aircraft execute a steep climb, followed by the separation of an engine from the wing and a death spiral. Since the ousting of the PLO from Jordan, following the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war, the Palestinian military organizations made South Lebanon into headquarters, enlisting militants from Palestinian refugee camps. Investigators of the 1974 flight had only about 2,500 pounds of debris to work with, far less than has already been found from TWA's Flight 800. Recommended. For the last 11 years, ever since the night he captained TWA Flight 841 from New York to the Twin Cities, Gibson`s life has been this way. Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, "Distance Between Cities Places On Map Distance Calculator", "11 Years After Plane Took A Dive, Pilot Tries To Clear His Reputation", "The Plane That Fell From The Sky (Full Version) TWA 841", "FindLaw's United States Ninth Circuit case and opinions", U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, GIBSON v NTSB (appeal dismissed--lack of jurisdiction), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TWA_Flight_841_(1979)&oldid=1133958981. TWA Flight 841 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone anticipated tuning into the largest ever simulcasted concert event, Live Aid. 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