When Lightning Strikes
Send us Fan Mail On December 8, 1963, Pan Am N709PA, a Boeing 707 with the call sign "Clipper 214," exploded in flight just minutes from its final destination. Thunderstorms delayed that landing and ...
12 Mar 202348min
When the C-124 Globemaster Crashed into a Mountain and was Buried Under Snow for 60 Years
Send us Fan Mail This is the tragic tale of an Air Force cargo plane that went un-rescued for 60 years after it crashed in a blinding snowstorm and over some of the harshest terrain that Alaska has to...
30 Jan 202354min
When Delta Flight 191 Crashed Into the Ground One Mile Short of the Runway: Part 2
Send us Fan Mail In the conclusion of "When Delta Flight 191 Crashed into the Ground One Mile Short of the Runway," we will look at the complicated way weather information moves from the air traffic c...
8 Jan 202340min
When Delta Flight 191 Crashed Into the Ground One Mile Short of the Runway: Part 1
Send us Fan Mail On August 2, 1985, a Lockheed-Martin L-1011 - Delta Flight 191 - crashed into the ground just over one mile from the runway at the Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport (DFW). It was...
5 Jan 202351min
When Air Florida Flight 90 Crashed into the 14th Street Bridge
Send us Fan Mail It was a cold and snowy day in Washington, DC as passengers boarded the narrow-body Air Florida 737. The plane was sprayed with de-icing fluid while waiting at the gate, but a series ...
1 Des 202235min
When the B-25 Crashed into the Empire State Building
Send us Fan Mail It was a cloudy, dreary July day in New York City in 1945. What was supposed to be a routine flight from Massachusetts to New Jersey to South Dakota, ended suddenly when a combat pilo...
22 Nov 202245min
