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Plane Crash Diaries

I'm a pilot obsessed with flying and all things aviation. This podcast series covers more than a century of commercial aviation and how its shaped the world. Aviation is now safer than its ever been, ... Read more

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Episode 35 - The 1986 Aeromexico collision over L.A. that changed aviation

Episode 35 - The 1986 Aeromexico collision over L.A. that changed aviation

Episode 35 - The 1986 Aeromexico collision over L.A. that changed aviation by Desmond Latham

1 May 2023

27mins

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Episode 34 - The British Airship accident that was deadlier than The Hindenburg

Episode 34 - The British Airship accident that was deadlier than The Hindenburg

The British government was focused on making dirigibles the transport of choice in the 1930s - competing with the German... Read more

25 Apr 2023

25mins

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Episode 33 - The 1948 Gatow Air Disaster and other military blunders

Episode 33 - The 1948 Gatow Air Disaster and other military blunders

We’re going to look at a few examples of trigger happy pilots and missile operators, starting with the 5th April 1948 Ga... Read more

16 Jan 2023

24mins

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Episode 32 – Payne Stewart’s Learjet decompression death and missing maintenance logs

Episode 32 – Payne Stewart’s Learjet decompression death and missing maintenance logs

A listener asked me to take a closer look at the crash of a Lear jet in 1999 that was carrying golfer Payne Stewart so h... Read more

30 Nov 2022

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Episode 31 - The 1983 Air Canada Flight 797 toilet fire that changed global aviation

Episode 31 - The 1983 Air Canada Flight 797 toilet fire that changed global aviation

We’re focusing on Air Canada Flight 797 that developed and in-flight fire that turned into a conflagration after it land... Read more

7 Nov 2022

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Episode 30 - Up up & Astray with Jim Spaeth: TWA behind the scenes shenanigans

Episode 30 - Up up & Astray with Jim Spaeth: TWA behind the scenes shenanigans

This is episode 30 and I am delighted to have special guest Jim Spaeth join us for this episode to talk about his experi... Read more

22 Sep 2022

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Episode 29 - The 2019 TOGA switch Amazon Air First Officer panic and a Texas bay death dive

Episode 29 - The 2019 TOGA switch Amazon Air First Officer panic and a Texas bay death dive

We’re going to cover an example of what happens at low altitude when pilots activate the Take Off/Go Around or TOGA swit... Read more

9 Aug 2022

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Episode 28 - The Lockerbie Bombing of 1988 and how airline security improved

Episode 28 - The Lockerbie Bombing of 1988 and how airline security improved

It was some trepidation that I’ve decided to eventually cover the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster over Lockerbie, Scotland, i... Read more

4 May 2022

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Episode 27 - Emotional distress and the 2018 US-Bangla Airlines crash that killed 51

Episode 27 - Emotional distress and the 2018 US-Bangla Airlines crash that killed 51

We’re focusing on the US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 that came in too high and fast at Kathmandu Airport on 12th March 2... Read more

11 Mar 2022

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Episode 26 - VOR confusion in 1986: The Tupolev crash that killed Mozambique President Samora Machel

Episode 26 - VOR confusion in 1986: The Tupolev crash that killed Mozambique President Samora Machel

This is episode 26 and we’re focusing on one of the most conspiracy-theory speckled accidents in history, the October 19... Read more

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