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Often described as America's Comet, the Lockheed L-188 Electra was an exceptionally promising turboprop design, tailored rigorously to ensure that the resultant airframe was among the safest and most efficient designs ever built to fly.

Sadly, in the first 14 months of its operation, terrible similarities to the Comet disasters eight years earlier began to appear for the Electra, with three examples being lost in tragic accidents, two of which involved problems with the wings separating from the fuselage, leading to a collapse in public confidence in the L-188, and the premature end of its production run.

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