Actually the show I saw was about a more recent plane crash. It was a cessna or beechcraft type of small turbo prop where a flight trainer and 2 pilots died. The NTSB wrote the accident off as pilot error. The flight trainer's wife didn't concurr and did some investigations, and thanks to computer analysis of the cockpit voice recorder, where the 4th channel eerily recorded in a round about way the power of the engine, let investigators to deduce that the right engine had suffered catastrophic flutter.

The right engine shredded off the right wing, and took of part of the tail with it. The pilots never had a chance to recover. Then Discovery showed some flutter problems on model airplanes as well as long wing span gliders. It was incredible to see a model just shred itself to pieces in the space of a few seconds.

I'm normally not too bothered by turbulence, but I didn't know about flutter. It's good to know that flutter is minimized these days by good design...