It is true about the backwards switches on the TWA aircraft but I have to wonder if the airplane you flew was a former Lufthansa 727-030 which also had that switch configuration. I delievered such an airplanne to the FAA back around 1979 or so and I heard it wound up in the Con-Air fleet?
The Lufthansa config came about becasue TWA did a lot of hands on consulting for Luftansa in the arly fifties and beyond. TWA treated the overhead panels in their aircraft as "vertical" panels much as the FE panel would have been. Not only the landinghts but all the switch logic was back (or up) and on in these aircraft.
Last edited by Spooky 2; 24th Dec 2012 at 21:33.