[1][2] Thirty-eight passengers and four crew members were killed in the crash, which occurred in a farm field late on a Saturday night.

Flight 250 was operated by Braniff between New Orleans and Minneapolis with stops in between at Shreveport, Fort Smith, Tulsa, Kansas City, and Omaha.

[6] At 23:08, the crew contacted a Braniff flight that had just departed Omaha's Eppley Airfield, which reported moderate to light turbulence.

The plane tumbled down in flames until entering a flat spin before impacting the ground, approximately midway between Kansas City and Omaha.

[6] This was the first fatal crash of a BAC 1-11 in the United States;[11] it occurred in southeast Nebraska in Richardson County on a farm, about seven miles (11 km) north-northeast of Falls City, in a soybean field only 500 feet (150 m) from a farmhouse.

He was interrupted mid-sentence by buffeting so severe that no more dialog could be discerned on the recording, which continued even after the wings and tail separated from the aircraft.

Since the flight data recorder (FDR) was destroyed in the crash,[15] the changes in the buffeting sound would later be used to estimate the airplane's changes in speed and altitude during the accident sequence.

1) by Macarthur Job, illustrated by Matthew Tesch, and also in Deadly Turbulence: The Air Safety Lessons of Braniff Flight 250 and Other Airliners, 1959-1966, by Steve Pollock.