The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

A thunderstorm led to a deadly crash just short of the DFW Airport runway on Aug. 2, 1985. Delta Air Lines Flight 191 from Fort Lauderdale was on its way to Los Angeles when it stopped at DFW.

No one was injured, but a passenger on one of the planes described “violent shaking” and a “really loud crunching sound.” ...