Episode 12 - The 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak & its effect on the global airline business
We are deviating from our flight plan – last episode I said we would be covering Ukraine Air flight 752 shot out of the air by Iranian missiles killing all 176 on board. However, there is now a major ...
2 Feb 202017min
Episode 11 - Fires on board commercial airliners and the mystery of the SAA Helderberg
This episode covers the terrifying examples of fire on board commercial airliners. One of the first was the Imperial Airways Armstrong Argosy II incident in Dixmude Belgium in 1933 where a fire thou...
29 Des 201920min
Episode 10 - In-Air break ups, the miracle of Juliane Koepcke & the Comet Catastrophe
In this episode we’ll look at in-air breakups of aeroplanes – caused by poor flying, poor design, or poor maintenance and bad weather. In some cases all four of these together. However as with all th...
8 Des 201918min
Episode 9 - Boeing MAX 8 accidents & the failure of governance
This week it’s the terrible crashes involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8 – one in October 2018 and the other in March 2019. In both cases an automated trim called the Movement Characteristics Augmentation S...
1 Nov 201928min
Episode 8 – Japan Airlines JAL Flight 123 & the dangers of shoddy aeroplane maintenance
This episode features an air crash in 1985 is the deadliest single-aircraft plane crash in history where 520 of the 524 passengers and crew died. Remarkably, 4 survived - all women. But this is also ...
21 Sep 201919min
Episode 7 – The Lovettsville Air Disaster and lightning strikes on planes
Strap in this week, because its all about lightning. We’re looking at one crash in particular, the Lovettsville Air Disaster which took place on August 31 1940 near the town of Lovettsville in Virgin...
30 Aug 201916min
Episode 6 – The 1946 Mistberget & Gauli Glacier Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) crashes
It’s time for that terrible acronym – CFIT – which means Controlled Flight into Terrain. That’s where the pilot is unable to see the terrain for whatever reason, and believes that he or she is higher ...
15 Aug 201921min
Episode 5 – Miss Macao: The first commercial airliner to be hijacked
I’m your host and pilot, Desmond Latham. Every week we tackle a different area of aviation and this week it’s the history of hijackings. The first ever hijacking of a commercial plane took place on...
4 Aug 201918min
