Grand Canyon Disaster Wreckage Recovery.jpg

TWA2/UAL718 The Grand Canyon Disaster

August 11, 2020

Thanks to David Robinson for recommending this episode and to our friend Aaron for guesting on this episode!

Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision

https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/how-a-terrible-plane-crash-over-the-grand-canyon-changed-history/81463/

https://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=2&LLID=50&LLTypeID=2

Research Sources:

https://www.webcitation.org/6SbtbFVvz?url=http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/UAL718/CAB_accident_report.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision

“Grand Canyon .” Air Disasters, season 4, episode 6, Smithsonian Channel, 8 June 2014.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_C...

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