When the Mysterious Crash of Northwest Orient Flight 293 left No Survivors and No Airplane
Send us Fan Mail On a pleasant Monday morning in June, 1963, a Douglas DC-7C departed from McCord Air Force Base in Washington state. The plane was loaded with military members of the United States Ar...
21 Jun 1h 30min
TACA Flight 110: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Aviation Excellence
Send us Fan Mail On Tuesday afternoon, May 24, 1988, Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano (TACA) Flight 110 was painting thunderstorms and rain showers on the cockpit weather radar. The plane w...
16 Apr 52min
What is Turbulence and Why is Everybody Scared to Death About it?
Send us Fan Mail On July 30, 2025, Delta Airlines Flight 56, an Airbus A330-900, carrying 275 passengers and 13 crew, was cruising at about 37,000 feet/11,300 meters over the high plains region of sou...
9 Feb 55min
When TWA Flight 6963 Crashed While Trying to Find a Dark Airport
Send us Fan Mail On Saturday, December 28, 1946, a Lockheed Constellation airliner, known as the Cairo Skychief, was beginning the landing sequence at Shannon Airport on the western coast of Ireland. ...
24 Sep 20251h 2min
When UPS Flight 1354 Crashed into the Ground More Than a Mile from the Runway
Send us Fan Mail It was the early morning hours of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, when a United Parcel Service cargo jet slammed into the ground about one mile short of the runway at the Birmingham-Shutt...
7 Aug 20251h 3min
When Trans Canada Flight 810-9 Was on Fire, Losing Altitude and Lost Over the Cascade Mountains
Send us Fan Mail The plane at the center of this episode of Radar Contact Lost was in a bad way: One engine was on fire – there were three others, but the plane was struggling to maintain altitude. In...
7 Jun 20251h 11min
When a Quiet Neighborhood Next to an Airport Became a Scene of Fire, Horror and Devastation
Send us Fan Mail It was a little after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, on Friday, July 9th, 1982, when Pan Am Flight 759, a B-727 carrying 138 passengers and 7 crew members, began to climb from the runway...
8 Apr 20251h 13min
