Aviation Stories of the Month Dec 2020
We read/ react to listener holiday aviation stories and we tell some of our holiday stories as well.
Dec 18, 2020•51 min
Hard Landings
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Episodes
Episode 60: PAR394
A Partniar Convair 580 is on its way to Hamburg, Germany for its passengers to christen a ship when they plummet from the sky. What caused this flight to crash into the ocean?
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 60
Episode 59: NW255
A Northwest Airlines MD-80 is about to take off out of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport when something goes wrong. Find out how this flight crew caused this flight to become unstable.
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 59
Episode 58: AC797
An Air Canada DC-9 is on its way to Toronto, Canada when an emergency causes the plane to make an emergency landing in Cincinnati, Kentucky. Find out the mysterious circumstances behind the emergency descent.
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 58
Aviation Stories of the Month Nov 2020
Our Aviation Stories of the Month Episode for November. We read thank god/thank goodness stories from our listeners like you.
Nov 26, 2020•53 min
Episode 57: EB017
A DC-8 Cargo Plane is on its climb out of Sacramento when something unexpected happens. What caused this plane to crash into a selvedge yard.
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 57
Episode 56: AA331
An American Airlines 737 is landing at the airport in Kingston, Jamaica when something goes wrong. Find out how weather, a lack of information, and bad crew resource management caused this plane to over run the runway almost landing in the ocean. Link to L-1011 Project: https://www.facebook.com/groups/598644850868032/?ref=pages_group_cta
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 56
Episode 55: NW001
A Lockheed Super Electra is making a series of flights from Minneapolis to Seattle in the late 1930’s when something goes wrong. Find out how this flight crashes in Miles City, Montana after taking off in our oldest reported crash yet!
Nov 10, 2020•41 min•Ep. 55
Episode 54: SOU242
A Southern Airways DC-9 is on its way from Alabama to Georgia when a storm hits. Find out what caused this plane to lose both engines and land on a highway.
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 54
Episode 53: SWA1380
A Southwest Boeing 737 is on its way to Dallas from New York when the plane experiences an explosive decompression. Find out what causes this flight makes an emergency landing in Pennsylvania.
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 53
Aviation Stories of the Month Oct 2020
Our Aviation Stories of the Month Episode for October. We read spooky stories from our listeners.
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Episode 52: AA383 (2016)
An American Airlines Boeing 767 is about to take off out of O’Hare bound for Miami when something goes wrong. Find out how an unexpected problem reemerges for our one year anniversary episode!
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 52
Episode 51: NZ901
An Air New Zealand flight is doing a sight seeing tour over Antarctica on a Douglas DC-10 when it hits terrain. Find out how weather and pilot error caused this flight to be too low over the snow.
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 51
Episode 50: CHK101
A Grumman G-73T, a sea plane, falls out of the sky when a wing comes off the plane after takeoff from the port of Miami. Find out what made this catastrophic crash occur.
Oct 06, 2020•49 min•Ep. 50
Episode 49: TAA538
A Fokker F-27 goes down in the sea just miles away from the runway in MacKay, Queensland, Australia. Find out the circumstances that surround this crash and why no one really knows what happened.
Sep 29, 2020•36 min•Ep. 49
Aviation Stories of the Month Sep 2020
Our September listener episode. We read funny aviation stories from our listeners.
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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Sep 25, 2020•21 sec
Episode 48: FX705
A Fed Ex cargo DC-10 is on its way from Memphis to San Jose when something causes the flight to do many strange flight maneuvers. Find out how a desperate man and a guitar case almost caused this cargo flight to come to an untimely demise.
Sep 22, 2020•46 min•Ep. 48
Episode 47: NM7100
A Metro Liner (Fairchild Metro III) is on its way to Cork, Ireland when it encounters foggy weather. Find out how weird company procedures, oversight, and bad crew training caused this plane to hit the ground and invert.
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 47
Episode 46: The Comet Crashes BOAC781 / SA201
A de Havilland Comet 1 (BOAC flight 781) suddenly explodes in midair on its way to London from Rome. Then a few months later another Comet 1 (South African Airways 201), on its way to Cairo from Rome, explodes in a similar fashion to the BOAC flight. Find out how windows and push rivets caused the first jet airliner to explode in flight.
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 46
Episode 45: QF32
A Qantas Airbus A380, the biggest jet airliner, has a catastrophe on its way to Sydney, Australia from Singapore. Find out how bad quality control caused this plane to almost fall out of the sky.
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 45
Episode 44: US1493/ SKW5569 The LA Runway Disaster
A USAir Boeing 737-300 is on its decent into LAX when disaster strikes. Find out how over taxed ATC and unfortunate circumstance causes this plane to crash on its landing.
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 44
Episode 43: AMW5481
An Air Midwest Beechcraft 1900D crashes into a hangar at Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport right after take off. Find out how mechanical and company failures contributed to this accident.
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 43
Episode 42: The Grand Canyon Disaster
Two flights, a DC-7 and a Lockheed Super Constellation, depart out of LAX and are on their way to Chicago and Kansas City. Find out how weather, ATC, and timing caused these two airplanes to collide over the Grand Canyon.
Aug 11, 2020•57 min•Ep. 42
Episode 41: US1016
A USAir DC-9 is on its way to Charlotte, North Carolina when it crashes miles from the airport. Find out how this flight crashes due to weather in the final part in our weather phenomena series.
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 41
Episode 40: DL191
A Lockheed L-1011 Tristar is on its way to Los Angeles when disaster hits in Dallas. Find out how Delta Airlines flight 191 crashed just short of the runway at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
Jul 28, 2020•55 min•Ep. 40
Episode 39: PA759
A Pan American Boeing 727 is on its first leg of a three leg flight from Miami to San Diego. Find out how weather caused this flight to crash into a neighborhood in New Orleans.
Jul 21, 2020•44 min•Ep. 39
Episode 38: EA66
An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into landing lights at JFK International Airport. How did weather cause this flight's landing to go so wrong?
Jul 14, 2020•48 min•Ep. 38
Episode 37: AF447
An Air France A330 goes down in the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Paris. Find out how disorientation and equipment caused this plane to crash.
Jul 07, 2020•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 37
Episode 36: BS211
A Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 crashes at the Kathmandu Airport in Nepal. Find out how a huge break down in crew resource management caused this flight to crash.
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 36
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