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Air Crash Chronicles — 144 episodes

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1

Falling From the Sky: The China Airlines 006 Descent

2

Collision in the Amazon: The Legacy of Flight 1907

3

The Bojinka Test: The Bombing of Philippine Airlines 434

4

Tiny Details That Rewrote Aviation Safety

5

Hanging by a Thread: The Miracle of Aloha 243

6

A lost tail and a hammer attack

7

Collision at Hinton: The 1986 Canadian Rail Disaster

8

Fatal confusion between pilots and flight automation

9

Duct tape and a faulty cargo door

10

The Broken Blade: Nine Minutes of Defiance

11

The San Bernardino Runaway Train and Pipeline Disaster

12

When the human mind betrays technology

13

Fatal Blind Spots Behind Aviation Disasters

14

The Fatal Thread: The Investigation of Alaska Flight 261

15

How Corporate Pressure Causes Plane Crashes

16

Surviving the Aloha Blowout and Lightning Strike

17

Why comfort killed on ships and trains

18

Landing Planes Without Engines Or Steering

19

Why Flights 811 and 1420 Really Crashed

20

The Hijacking of Flight 8969: Showdown at Marseille

21

DHL Missile Strike and EgyptAir 990

22

The 12,319th Takeoff: The Final Flight of JAL 123

23

The Lightning Strike of Super Puma 56 Charlie

24

The Fatal Spark: The Investigation of Swissair Flight 111

25

Tiny errors that crashed massive planes

26

The Miracle of Flight 358: Survival in a Toronto Storm

27

The Gliding Miracle of Air Transat Flight 236

28

Flight 593: The Cost of a Fatal Family Outing

29

The Helderberg Disaster: Fire Over the Indian Ocean

30

The Fatal Flaw of Flight 301

31

Storms, terrorists, and the reversed rudder

32

Landing Planes Without Roofs or Hydraulics

33

The Jackscrew Conspiracy: The Tragic Failure of Alaska 261

34

Wrong Bolts Volcanic Ash and Hidden Ice

35

Duct Tape Wasps and Aviation Mysteries

36

How Human Ingenuity Saved Four Flights

37

A Hijacked Plane and a Fuel Crisis

38

The 1991 LAX Runway Collision

39

How Aviation Disasters Rewrote the Rules

40

The forensics of four catastrophic plane crashes

41

The Fatal Flaw of Japan Airlines Flight 123

42

Five Tragic Flights That Saved Aviation

43

How Microscopic Flaws Downed Massive Planes

44

How Tragic Crashes Built Safer Skies

45

Lightning strikes and the EgyptAir mystery

46

The Uberlingen Midair Collision and the Failure of Systems

47

The Bowling Alley: The Crash of American Airlines 1420

48

The Error Chain: The Crash of American Airlines 965

49

The Hidden Fire: The Tragedy of Swissair Flight 111

50

Showdown at Marseille: The Air France 8969 Hijacking

51

The Vincennes Incident: Tragedy Over the Persian Gulf

52

Instruments of Chaos: Lessons from Aviation Disasters

53

Gliding Jets, Nicotine Stains, and Human Error

54

Why Perfectly Good Planes Crash?

55

Safety Regulations Are Written In Blood

56

Why Pilots Fly Into Sucker Holes?

57

Missiles, Ghost Planes, and Silent Killers

58

How Panic and Polite Silence Crash Planes?

59

Cockpit Illusions and Fatal Muscle Memory

60

The Levee Landing and the Unplugged Radar

61

47 Missing Screws and a Loaded Gun

62

Crashing in Slush, Landing on a Levee

63

Frozen Wings and a Bag of Screws

64

Swissair’s Inferno and The Atlantic Glider

65

The Hammer Attack and the Child Pilot

66

Burning Tires and a Cockpit Gunman

67

Stripped Jack Screws and Silent Engines

68

Runaway Freight

69

Wrestling a 747 and Linate's Blind Collision

70

Munich’s Slush and a Rogue 747 Rudder

71

A Snapped Propeller and a Fatal Typo

72

The Sucked-Out Captain and Snapped Propeller

73

The Vincennes Shootdown and Express Samina Sinking

74

Aviation Safety Regulations Written in Blood

75

The Iran Air Shootdown and Project Bojinka

76

Missing Rivets and the Runaway Train

77

How Hierarchy and Grammar Crash Planes?

78

A Deadly Keystroke and a Missing Mayday

79

Fatal Errors: Investigations into Aviation's Darkest Hours

80

Ice Pilot Oversight and Automation

81

The Light Bulb That Crashed Flight 401

82

Critical Failure: The Air Midwest and Southern Airways Tragedies

83

Vanishing Points: The Mechanics of Aviation Disasters

84

Hidden Flaws That Grounded Airplanes

85

The Forgotten Switch and Ghost Plane

86

Why the US Navy Shot Down Flight 655

87

Pilot Sucked Out at 17000 Feet

88

Finding the Tiny Piece That Solved 747 Crashes

89

Mechanical Failures and Fatal Descents: The Fate of Flight 101

90

Vanished in the Clouds: Tragic Lessons in Aviation History

91

Deadliest Aviation Failures of 1985

92

When Automation Fought The Pilots

93

The Ghost in the Machine: Tragedy of the A320

94

Disabled Alarms and Fatal Error Chains

95

Crashes That Built Modern Flight Safety

96

Flight 797 Wires and Aviation Safety Rules

97

Flight 006 and the Ghost Plane Switch

98

The Boeing 737 Rudder Mystery

99

Descent into Chaos: Stories of Aviation Survival and Safety

100

Air France 358 and The Ghost Plane

101

Volcanic Ash to Broken Cockpit Culture

102

Hidden Fires and Automation Blind Spots

103

The decade-long 737 rudder mystery

104

Aviation Safety Forged in Three Tragedies

105

Fatal Distractions: The Lessons of Jumbo Jet Disasters

106

Cargo Doors Wasps And Pilot Error

107

Descent into Disaster: Stories of Aviation Survival and Loss

108

Silent Deep Sea Wreckage Reveals Air Disaster Secrets

109

Missing Grease Killed Alaska Flight 261

110

Swiss Cheese Aviation Failures and Checklists

111

The Crosswind and The Forgotten Switch

112

Fatal Errors: Investigations into Flight 296 and USAir 1493

113

When the Cockpit Fails: The Struggle with Aviation Automation

114

Flight 811 Cargo Door Catastrophe

115

Helios 522 and the 737 Ghost Planes

116

Gimli Glider and the Haunted Autopilot

117

Three Crashes That Changed Aviation Safety

118

Counterfeit Bolts Caused Partnair Tail Loss

119

Counterfeit Bolts and Missing Radar Killed Hundreds

120

Fighting Total Control Loss With Engine Thrust

121

Three Disasters That Wrote Aviation Rules

122

A 22-Year-Old Fatal Patch

123

The Golden Clues That Break Aviation Cases

124

Aviation's Worst Failures and Best Triumphs

125

Counterfeit Bolts and Tiny Maintenance Mistakes

126

Bogus Bolts and the Invisible Flaw

127

Deadliest Midair Collision and Hidden Cracks

128

Double Engine Failure: Hudson and Heathrow

129

Regional Airline Tragedies Crossair and Colgan Air

130

Automation, and Human Error

131

When Automation Fights the Pilot

132

Pilot Error and the Fatal Stall of 3407

133

Egypt Air 990, Air Canada 797, and Flash 604

134

Sully’s Skill Versus The Automation Trap

135

Wrong Parts and Disaster Chains

136

United 811 Cargo Door Disaster Coverup

137

Lying Fuel Gauge Caused Ocean Ditching

138

Gauges Cannibalized Parts Catastrophic Flight Errors

139

Fire and System Failures

140

Crashes That Forced Modern Flight Safety

141

Two Deadly Flaws of the ATR-72

142

Disasters of KAL 007 and Air Ontario 1363

143

Deadly Failure Chains Two Aviation Disasters

144

The Silent Warning and Deadly Ice