When Marine One Landed on a High School Football Field in Dense Fog
Send a text In what is a podcast series first - and perhaps last - for Radar Contact Lost, this episode does not tell the story of a tragic plane crash, but rather the intricate details of the landing...
8 Sep 202456min
When Typhoon Bess Took an Air Force Hurricane Hunter Crew Over the South China Sea
Send a text On October 12th, 1974, an Air Force weather reconnaissance Hurricane Hunter aircraft crashed into the South China Sea while investigating Typhoon Bess, taking the lives of the six crew mem...
16 Juli 202447min
When Winter Survival Skills and a Little Bit of Luck Overpowered Mountain Wave Turbulence, Severe Icing and a Winter Storm
Send a text On Tuesday morning, December 5, 1978, 22 people were rescued off the side of a high Colorado mountain in the southern regions of the Rocky Mountains. They had survived the frigid night at ...
1 Juni 20241h 3min
When A Snowy Crash Silenced the Voices of Early Rock and Roll, aka "The Day the Music Died"
Send a text On February 3, 1959, a small, single-engine, 4-passenger plane took off from a remote airfield in rural Iowa. It was after midnight. It was snowing. It was windy. Moments later, the plane ...
3 Feb 20241h
When Colgan Air Flight 3407 Fell Out of the Sky in Buffalo, New York
Send a text On the evening of February 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 was on final approach to Runway 23 at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo, New York. It was dark, it was snowin...
14 Jan 20241h 3min
When a Russian Airliner Flew Into Cuban Power Lines
Send a text On final approach to Havana’s José Martí International Airport in 1977, the Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-62M with 69 people on board, descended below the clouds and the pilot immediately was confr...
5 Dec 202357min
When a Boeing 707 Broke Apart in Mid-air Near Mt. Fuji
Send a text At just before 2 o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, March 5, 1966, British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 911, took off from Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport. Bound for Hong Ko...
17 Okt 20231h 1min
When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 High Over the Indian Ocean
Send a text “When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 Over the Indian Ocean," is the heart-stopping tale of a commercial jetliner – a Boeing 747 – that, contrary to every other episode in this podcast ser...
23 Aug 202357min
