Article states the Pennsylvania crash had no answers. Not true, the uncommanded rudder movement was caused by a servo flipping opposite of pilot inputs and suffered this when it was exposed to extreme cold followed by hot hydraulic fluid. The answer is considerably more complicated....Lakotahope
In 1994, U.S. Air Flight 427 crashed in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, after taking off in Chicago, Illinois, en route to West Palm Beach, Florida. While federal officials identified a problem with the rudder but could not explain why the plane suddenly flipped and crashed, not a single clue has revealed why the mechanism failed. All 132 people aboard died.
More recently, South African Airways Flight 295, a Boeing 747 en route to Johannesburg from Taiwan in 1987, crashed into the Indian Ocean shortly after the pilot reported smoke in the cabin. While debris that washed up on the shores of Madagascar was tested, the cause of the crash has never been positively established.
A number of unsolved plane crashes have remained in the public psyche for years:
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