The Electra Story Author:Robert J. Serling At 11:08 P.M. on the humid night of September 29, 1959, Braniff Flight 542 crashed on a farm near Buffalo, Texas. On a clear mid-afternoon less than six months later, Northwest Flight 710 crashed in a soybean field near Tell City, Indiana. Both planes were Lockheed Electras, and both, for no apparent reason, had lost a wing in mid-air. The co... more »mbined toll of the two crashes was 97 lives. There were no survivors.« less