The grief and lessons of a Nebraska plane crash

(CN) — It was supposed to be a short hop from Kansas City to Omaha. It was 1966, and one imagines the passengers dressed in suits and skirts in those early glamorous days of air travel. They were likely buckled up for the turbulent flight. The pilots of Braniff Flight 250 knew they would have to contend with storms, but they didn’t know how bad conditions would be. In the cockpit, the onboard radar showed what appeared to be a gap in the storm.