TWA Flight 514 was a routine diversion that turned into a fatal controlled-flight-into-terrain crash near Washington. A ...

Question: In ground school we’re learning about controlled flight into terrain. I get it if you are flying at night or accidentally go into a cloud, but we learned [it] can happen in VFR conditions.

Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) is a significant cause of fatal aviation accidents, ranking nearly as high as stalls or loss of control, where a functioning aircraft is flown into the ground or ...