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NW001

November 10, 2020

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!

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In Mechanical Failures Tags Northwest Airlines, Lockheed Super Electra, In-flight fire, Montana
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SOU242

November 3, 2020

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.

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In Weather Tags Southern Airways, Weather, DC-9, Atlanta, Georgia
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SWA1380

October 27, 2020

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.

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In Mechanical Failures Tags Southwest Airlines, SWA1380, Boeing 737, Uncontained Engine Failure, LaGuardia, Pennsylvania, Philly
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AA383 (2016)

October 20, 2020

An American Airlines Boeing 767 is about to take off from O’Hare bound for Miami when something goes wrong. Find out how an unexpected problem reemerges for our one year anniversary episode!

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In Mechanical Failures Tags American Airlines, 767-300 ER, Chicago, O'Hare, Uncontained engine failure
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NZ901 The Mount Erebus Disaster

October 13, 2020

An Air New Zealand flight is doing a sightseeing 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.

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In Pilot Failures, Company Failures Tags New Zealand, Mt. Erebus, CFIT, Controlled Flight into Terrain, Antarctica, Air New Zealand Flight 901
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CHK101

October 6, 2020

A Grumman G-73T, a sea plane, falls out of the sky when a wing comes off the plane after take off from the port of Miami. Find out what made this catastrophic crash occur.

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In Mechanical Failures Tags Fatigue, Chalk Ocean Airways, Mallard, Trumman G-73T, Miami, Florida
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September 29, 2020

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.

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In Pilot Failures, Unknown Tags TAA538, Fokker F-27, Controlled Flight into Terrain, Unknown cause, Australia, MacKay Queensland
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September 22, 2020

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.

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In Intentional Incidents Tags Fed Ex, Fed Ex 705, Auburn Calloway, Hammer, Speargun, Intentional, Murder
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NM7100

September 15, 2020

A MetroLiner (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.

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In Pilot Failures, Company Failures, Weather Tags Cork, Ireland, Manx2, NM1700, Weather, Company Error
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The Comet Crashes BOAC781/ SA201

September 8, 2020

A de Havilland Comet 1 (BOAC flight 781) suddenly exploded 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, exploded in a similar fashion to the BOAC flight. Find out how windows and push rivets caused the first jet airliner to explode in flight.

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In Mechanical Failures Tags Comet, Fatigue, BOAC781, SA201, UK, Square Windows, Rivpts
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