Take to the Sky Episode 088: Operation Babylift
On April 4, 1975, the first of 30 flights that operated as part of Operation Babylift left Saigon with a single mission: to carry some of the youngest and most vulnerable of those impacted by the Viet...
6 Jan 20221h 12min
Take to the Sky Episode 087: Pan Am Flight 103 Part 2
Air disasters are never soulless or faceless, and we believe that air disasters are best understood and remembered through the stories of those who lived, those who died, those who were left behind. I...
23 Des 20211h 8min
Take to the Sky Episode 087: Pan Am Flight 103 Part 1
In part one of this special two-part episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, we explore the bombing of Pan Am 103, which claimed the lives of 270 people, as well as the complex and compl...
16 Des 20211h 16min
Take to the Sky Episode 086: Flash Airlines Flight 604
As Flash Airlines Flight 604 climbed into the air on its way to a quick layover stop in Cairo, the plane began to bank sharply to the right. In this week's episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster...
9 Des 20211h 10min
Take to the Sky Episode 085: NOAA 42 Hurricane Hunters
In September 1989, a group of scientists and pilots known as the Hurricane Hunters took off in NOAA 42, a government research plane, to gather important information on the rapidly growing hurricane Hu...
2 Des 20211h 5min
Take to the Sky Episode 084: Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701
On October 14, 2004, a standard repositioning flight from Little Rock to Minneapolis went wildly out of control-- but why? In this week's episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Stephani...
18 Nov 20211h 18min
Take to the Sky Episode 083: China Airlines Flight 006
On February 19, 1985, China Airlines Flight 006, with 274 people onboard, experienced a malfunction of its number four engine while cruising at almost forty thousand feet. Suddenly, the plane entered ...
11 Nov 20211h 8min
Take to the Sky Episode 082: Philippine Airlines Flight 434
On December 11, 1994, Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was more than halfway to its destination when a shocking explosion led to chaos onboard. In this week's episode, Stephanie tells the story of the d...
4 Nov 20211h 3min
