What is Turbulence and Why is Everybody Scared to Death About it?
Send a text 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 south ce...
9 Feb 55min
When British Cadets Fell from the Oklahoma Sky
Send a text It was Saturday morning, February 20, 1943. The morning fog lay thick over the prairie of northern Texas and the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma, clinging to the fields and tree lin...
28 Nov 202542min
When TWA Flight 6963 Crashed While Trying to Find a Dark Airport
Send a text 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. It wa...
24 Sep 20251h 2min
When UPS Flight 1354 Crashed into the Ground More Than a Mile from the Runway
Send a text 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-Shuttleswo...
7 Aug 20251h 3min
When Trans Canada Flight 810-9 Was on Fire, Losing Altitude and Lost Over the Cascade Mountains
Send a text 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 addi...
7 Juni 20251h 11min
When a Quiet Neighborhood Next to an Airport Became a Scene of Fire, Horror and Devastation
Send a text 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 at N...
8 Apr 20251h 13min
When Confusion, Complacency and Bad Decisions Took 28 Lives
Send a text The first significant snowfall of the season had just begun in central Colorado. At Denver's Stapleton International Airport, Continental Flight 1713 began to accelerate down the runway fo...
20 Feb 20251h 13min
When Weather Wasn’t Even Mentioned in the NTSB Investigation Report
Send a text This episode is about the crash of a small, twin-engine plane: a Beechcraft Baron 58. This crash occurred on April 22, 2019 in the Texas Hill Country, about an hour northwest (by car) from...
31 Dec 20241h 5min
