I read somewhere in a Popular Science that a Boeing 737 did a barrel roll n the 1970's not intentional eithe?

I remember reading about a plane either a Boeing 737 or similar passenger plane that had a flight control problem and did a barrel roll and made it out of the roll and landed safely with passengers on board. I remember that this happened in the late 1970's early 1980's but don't know if this was a true story or not. The article was in either Popular Mechanics or Popular Science of the mid 1980's of this incident. Also there was an episode about this on TV show like Dateline or 20/20 or Prime Time in the 1980's and they put blame on the pilot and co-pilot for hot dogging in a commercial aircraft but the charges have since been dropped. IS this a true story or a hoax? If it is true were can I find information on this incident? I know of the 2 plane that crashes in San Diego in the early 1980's and these are not what I am asking about.I read somewhere in a Popular Science that a Boeing 737 did a barrel roll n the 1970's not intentional eithe?
That was a TWA 727. Flight crew found that they could deploy only a bit of flaps at cruise and get some sort of advantageous performance of some kind. In order to do so, they would pull the cb for the leading edge devices. At some point, somebody had a brain fart and saw the pulled cb and decided that it should be reset. The LE devices deployed asymmetrically and the plane rolled.

It's been quite awhile and I've forgotten most of the details, but the upshot is that ya don't want to be creating brand new ways of doing things that the engineers and procedures don't have you doing. The only time that you should be wandering off the reservation is when an you have an emergency or non-normal that isn't covered with a checklist.

There are stories out there about guys rolling airliners on empty and reposition legs. I do know of a crew that got caught. They pretty much didn't know what they were doing. The lav juice splattered all over the ceiling in all of the lavs gave them away.
It is true.I read somewhere in a Popular Science that a Boeing 737 did a barrel roll n the 1970's not intentional eithe?
737? L-1011? Which?I read somewhere in a Popular Science that a Boeing 737 did a barrel roll n the 1970's not intentional eithe?
I'm kind of at a loss here. The famous roll by Tex Johnson was done with the 707 prototype, probably in the mid 1950's I've met him and been on that aircraft. TWA had L1011's Can't ever remember seeing a TWA 737. I don't know what an airliner doing a roll has to do with the PSA crash over North Park in San Diego, when a light plane hit our 727. I rolled our company's 737 simulator and damned near lost my simulator privileges. The techs said I damaged every gyro instrument on the simulator. I'd think that similar damage would occur if you rolled the airplane.



TV news and feature programs are not the most reliable source of information.