Plane Crash Diaries

By Desmond Latham

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Subscribers: 76
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 38

Giles
 Aug 2, 2022
excellent podcast with great detail and methodical explanation. I loved the missing air Malaysia episode.

Christian LiberA
 Mar 6, 2021
Excellent

Description

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, but it took one hundred years of learning and often through accidents and incidents to reduce the risk of flying.

Episode Date
Episode 38 - Newark Airport’s “umbrella of death” and Jimmy Doolittle’s clear ways
Feb 06, 2024
Episode 37 - Sharing the skies: A short history of bird strikes and improved safety
Dec 04, 2023
Episode 36 - The 1971 Aeroflot Antonov twin crashes and the ATR-72’s achilles boot
Sep 01, 2023
Episode 35 - The 1986 Aeromexico collision over L.A. that changed aviation
May 01, 2023
Episode 34 - The British Airship accident that was deadlier than The Hindenburg
Apr 25, 2023
Episode 33 - The 1948 Gatow Air Disaster and other military blunders
Jan 16, 2023
Episode 32 – Payne Stewart’s Learjet decompression death and missing maintenance logs
Nov 30, 2022
Episode 31 - The 1983 Air Canada Flight 797 toilet fire that changed global aviation
Nov 07, 2022
Episode 30 - Up up & Astray with Jim Spaeth: TWA behind the scenes shenanigans
Sep 22, 2022
Episode 29 - The 2019 TOGA switch Amazon Air First Officer panic and a Texas bay death dive
Aug 09, 2022
Episode 28 - The Lockerbie Bombing of 1988 and how airline security improved
May 04, 2022
Episode 27 - Emotional distress and the 2018 US-Bangla Airlines crash that killed 51
Mar 11, 2022
Episode 26 - VOR confusion in 1986: The Tupolev crash that killed Mozambique President Samora Machel
Feb 05, 2022
Episode 25 - Two mountains and four CFITs: Air India, Pakistan & Thai Airlines
Dec 26, 2021
Episode 24 - Alaskan Flight 1866, American Airlines Flight 965 and Don Bateman’s brilliant EGPWS
Sep 25, 2021
Episode 23 - Imperial Airways and the link between flying boats and passenger briefings
Jul 20, 2021
Episode 22 - – A History of Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems
Jun 01, 2021
Episode 21 - “An orchestrated litany of lies" the Mount Erebus disaster and a tainted investigation
Feb 01, 2021
Episode 20 - A catastrophic Chinook gearbox failure and a mysterious RAF crash in 1994
Dec 22, 2020
Episode 19 - Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR) and Flight Data Recorders (FDR)
Nov 04, 2020
Episode 18 - The Tenerife disaster, CRM part two & the introduction of read back procedures
Sep 22, 2020
Episode 17 - United Airlines Flight 173 flameout as pilots dither & the May 2020 Karachi crash
Jul 30, 2020
Episode 16 - The mystery of MH370 & Malaysia’s hapless response
Jun 25, 2020
Episode 15 - The first jetliner crash, Comair flight 5191 on the wrong runway & a crocodile in a bag
May 11, 2020
Episode 14 - Covid-19 crashes Global Aviation but here are the likely future scenarios
Apr 15, 2020
Episode 13 - How Iran downed Ukraine Air SR752 & Social Media helped uncover the truth
Mar 02, 2020
Episode 12 - The 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak & its effect on the global airline business
Feb 02, 2020
Episode 11 - Fires on board commercial airliners and the mystery of the SAA Helderberg
Dec 29, 2019
Episode 10 - In-Air break ups, the miracle of Juliane Koepcke & the Comet Catastrophe
Dec 08, 2019
Episode 9 - Boeing MAX 8 accidents & the failure of governance
Nov 01, 2019
Episode 8 – Japan Airlines JAL Flight 123 & the dangers of shoddy aeroplane maintenance
Sep 21, 2019
Episode 7 – The Lovettsville Air Disaster and lightning strikes on planes
Aug 30, 2019
Episode 6 – The 1946 Mistberget & Gauli Glacier Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) crashes
Aug 15, 2019
Episode 5 – Miss Macao: The first commercial airliner to be hijacked
Aug 04, 2019
Episode 4 – A mid-air collision involving a De Havilland in 1922 leads to the fly to the right rule
Jul 20, 2019
Episode 3 – Malaysian Airlines MH 17 and how it was shot down by a Russian BUK missile
Jul 05, 2019
Episode 2- Air France 447, frozen pitot tubes & confusion on the flight deck
Jun 25, 2019
Episode 1 - An Airship plunges into a Chicago Bank
Jun 18, 2019