When Confusion, Complacency and Bad Decisions Took 28 Lives
Send us Fan Mail 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 runw...
20 Feb 20251h 13min
When Weather Wasn’t Even Mentioned in the NTSB Investigation Report
Send us Fan Mail 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)...
31 Dec 20241h 5min
When Marine One Landed on a High School Football Field in Dense Fog
Send us Fan Mail 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 la...
8 Sep 202456min
When Typhoon Bess Took an Air Force Hurricane Hunter Crew Over the South China Sea
Send us Fan Mail 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 cre...
16 Juli 202447min
When Winter Survival Skills and a Little Bit of Luck Overpowered Mountain Wave Turbulence, Severe Icing and a Winter Storm
Send us Fan Mail 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 nigh...
1 Juni 20241h 3min
When A Snowy Crash Silenced the Voices of Early Rock and Roll, aka "The Day the Music Died"
Send us Fan Mail 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 p...
3 Feb 20241h
When Colgan Air Flight 3407 Fell Out of the Sky in Buffalo, New York
Send us Fan Mail 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 s...
14 Jan 20241h 3min
When a Russian Airliner Flew Into Cuban Power Lines
Send us Fan Mail 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 ...
5 Dec 202357min
