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TACA Flight 110: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Aviation Excellence
Apr 16, 2026
52m 31s
What is Turbulence and Why is Everybody Scared to Death About it?
Feb 9, 2026
55m 35s
When British Cadets Fell from the Oklahoma Sky
Nov 28, 2025
42m 58s
When TWA Flight 6963 Crashed While Trying to Find a Dark Airport
Sep 24, 2025
1h 02m 29s
When UPS Flight 1354 Crashed into the Ground More Than a Mile from the Runway
Aug 7, 2025
1h 03m 48s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/16/26 |  TACA Flight 110: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Aviation Excellence | Send us Fan Mail On Tuesday afternoon, May 24, 1988, Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano (TACA) Flight 110 was painting thunderstorms and rain showers on the cockpit weather radar. The plane was enroute from San Salvador to New Orleans. It was a regularly scheduled flight, and the route across Central America and the Gulf of Mexico was routine. Cruising at about 35,000 feet (or 11,000 meters), no one onboard, not the crew and not the passengers, had any idea of what was about to happe... | 52m 31s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | What is Turbulence and Why is Everybody Scared to Death About it? | Send us Fan Mail On July 30, 2025, Delta Airlines Flight 56, an Airbus A330-900, carrying 275 passengers and 13 crew, was cruising at about 37,000 feet/11,300 meters over the high plains region of south central Wyoming. The evening flight had been underway for about 40 minutes; there were perhaps 9-or-so hours remaining before reaching the destination of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Meal service had begun and passengers were settled in for the long, overnight flight. Looking out to the late ... | 55m 35s | ||||||
| 11/28/25 | When British Cadets Fell from the Oklahoma Sky | Send us Fan Mail It was Saturday morning, February 20, 1943. The morning fog lay thick over the prairie of northern Texas and the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma, clinging to the fields and tree lines like a wet gray blanket. The sun had not yet burned through the mist, and visibility in a few places was little more than a few hundred feet. At this time of year, locals in the area—farmers, mostly—were used to crisp, clear mornings or the bluster of a winter wind. But this morning was d... | 42m 58s | ||||||
| 9/24/25 | When TWA Flight 6963 Crashed While Trying to Find a Dark Airport | Send us Fan Mail On Saturday, December 28, 1946, a Lockheed Constellation airliner, known as the Cairo Skychief, was beginning the landing sequence at Shannon Airport on the western coast of Ireland. It was 2 o’clock in the morning so, naturally, it was dark. But it was also quite cloudy with low ceilings, fog and light rain – the visibility of the crew was restricted quite a bit. But this crew was experienced and the airport, despite being relatively new, was well known amongst international... | 1h 02m 29s | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | When UPS Flight 1354 Crashed into the Ground More Than a Mile from the Runway | Send us Fan Mail It was the early morning hours of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, when a United Parcel Service cargo jet slammed into the ground about one mile short of the runway at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, in Birmingham, Alabama, located in the southeastern United States. Even though the plane was more than a mile from the airport, the crash occurred on undeveloped airport property – the plane did not crash into a neighborhood or a business district, or land on a hig... | 1h 03m 48s | ||||||
| 6/7/25 | When Trans Canada Flight 810-9 Was on Fire, Losing Altitude and Lost Over the Cascade Mountains | Send us Fan Mail The plane at the center of this episode of Radar Contact Lost was in a bad way: One engine was on fire – there were three others, but the plane was struggling to maintain altitude. In addition to the engine fire, it was experiencing turbulence and severe icing, it was crossing the mountains at night, and in the middle of winter storm. As if that wasn’t enough, the plane was also lost. It appears the crew didn’t realize they were lost, but they were well off-course, just the s... | 1h 11m 59s | ||||||
| 4/8/25 | When a Quiet Neighborhood Next to an Airport Became a Scene of Fire, Horror and Devastation | Send us Fan Mail It was a little after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, on Friday, July 9th, 1982, when Pan Am Flight 759, a B-727 carrying 138 passengers and 7 crew members, began to climb from the runway at New Orleans International Airport. In only a moment’s time, the narrow-body airliner slammed back down to the ground, after just barely becoming airborne. It was stormy around the airport, but there were no advisories, watches, warnings or aviation warnings in effect. It was noted by the plan... | 1h 13m 54s | ||||||
| 2/20/25 | 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 runway for takeoff. Within a moment of lifting off the ground, the DC-9 slammed back down onto the runway, rolled over and skidded on its roof. The left wing tore away completely, then the skin of the fuselage ripped away, exposing the passengers to the frigid air, the snow and the horrifying sight o... | 1h 13m 45s | ||||||
| 12/31/24 | 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) from San Antonio. The flight was a relatively short one, from the west side of Houston to the Texas Hill Country town of Kerrville. The focus of the NTSB investigation of the crash was that the plane ran out of fuel, and it did. But why did a seemingly simple item reach up to bite this pilot and... | 1h 05m 45s | ||||||
| 9/8/24 | 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 landing of the Presidential Helicopter, Marine One, in dense fog. On this day, the fog was so dense, that the helicopter had to divert from its destination of the Presidential Retreat, Camp David, and instead land at a nearby high school football field. Our host describes the details of the landing... | 56m 05s | ||||||
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| 7/16/24 | 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 crew members onboard. No debris was ever found, no sign of the crew was ever discovered. The plane seemed to have been swallowed up by the tropical cyclone miles from nowhere. There were no emergency radio calls for help or that indicated any mechanical malfunction. There were no witnesses. To this ... | 47m 39s | ||||||
| 6/1/24 | 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 night at an altitude above 10,000 feet (over 3,000 meters). This was in the midst of a snowstorm, with temperatures well below freezing and winds howling above 30 miles per hour (that’s nearly 50 kilometers per hour). There was only minimal shelter. Some reports estimated the snow to be 8 feet deep a... | 1h 03m 36s | ||||||
| 2/3/24 | 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 plane rolled over and flew into the ground at approximately 170mph – or about 275 kph. The 21-year-old pilot and the three passengers were killed on impact. The injuries to all four were horrific. This small crash, on a cold winter night, would reverberate through history – not only to this day, b... | 1h 00m 16s | ||||||
| 1/14/24 | 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 snowing, it was windy and the pilots had noted the accumulation of ice on the wings and windshield of the 78-seat regional airliner. Still, the pilots were not under undue stress as the cockpit voice recorders indicated a casual, unhurried atmosphere, there was even some unrelated chit-chat on the... | 1h 03m 06s | ||||||
| 12/5/23 | 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 confronted with power lines between the plane and the runway – and the runway was close. The pilot attempted to pull the nose up to avoid the powerlines, but the emergency maneuver was not enough – the plane clipped the power lines and the steel-reinforced cables severed the vertical stabilizer f... | 57m 11s | ||||||
| 10/17/23 | When a Boeing 707 Broke Apart in Mid-air Near Mt. Fuji | Send us Fan Mail 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 Kong, the Boeing 707 broke apart in mid-air, just 15 minutes after departure. The crash left no survivors. The weather conditions were not an issue – at least, nothing obvious: there were no thunderstorms, no typhoons, there was no rain or snow. In fact, it was a sunny, clear, cloud-free day. ... | 1h 01m 14s | ||||||
| 8/23/23 | When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 High Over the Indian Ocean | Send us Fan Mail “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 series, did not crash. However, the world’s largest passenger jet at the time came about as close to a spectacular and deadly crash as it could, before the crew saved the plane and the lives of everyone on board from near-certain destruction. Even after the plane landed safely, the mystery of w... | 57m 57s | ||||||
| 7/10/23 | When a Helicopter Crash Silenced ‘Number One' - The Story Behind the Stevie Ray Vaughan Helicopter Crash | Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the 1990 crash of a Bell JetRanger helicopter that was carrying a pilot and four passengers. The helicopter crashed into a ski slope at night and in the fog, killing all on board. Among the passengers was Stevie Ray Vaughan, the legendary Blues guitarist from Texas. The crash stunned the world with not only the crash that was attributed to pilot error, but the end of an amazing career of a guitarist that had burst onto the scene only seven years before w... | 34m 58s | ||||||
| 6/7/23 | When Eastern Airlines Flight 66 Crashed Moments from Landing at JFK International Airport, Part 2 | Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of 2. On a summer day in 1975, Eastern Airlines Flight 66 crashed just yards away from its intended runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport near New York City. Witnesses at the time, said the plane exploded in midair, but this was not the case. The plane had flown through a thunderstorm and had been shoved to the ground by a microburst. In 1975, thunderstorms were not well understood and their potential for severe damage had not been realized. Upd... | 42m 43s | ||||||
| 6/5/23 | When Eastern Airlines Flight 66 Crashed Moments from Landing at JFK International Airport, Part 1 | Send us Fan Mail Part 1 of 2. On a summer day in 1975, Eastern Airlines Flight 66 crashed just yards away from its intended runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport near New York City. Witnesses at the time, said the plane exploded in midair, but this was not the case. The plane had flown through a thunderstorm and had been shoved to the ground by a microburst. In 1975, thunderstorms were not well understood and their potential for severe damage had not been realized. Updrafts, downdra... | 34m 26s | ||||||
| 5/1/23 | When the B-52 Lost Its Tail and Crashed into Elephant Mountain | Send us Fan Mail In 1963, there was an unusual crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 Bomber. The plane, while attempting to escape severe turbulence, lost its vertical stabilizer and rudder – essentially losing its ability to fly straight. The plane lost control and then crashed into a mountain in north-central Maine, located in the far northeastern corner of the United States. The crash killed seven of the nine crew members. The two who survived – one spent the frigid January night in shoulder-deep... | 32m 38s | ||||||
| 4/8/23 | When the First Tornado Forecast Emerged Amidst Aircraft Destruction | Send us Fan Mail Imagine a world where the word "tornado" is banned from public weather announcements and tornadoes are considered unforecastable. This was not Bizzaro World, but the United States of America in the 1940s. It was thought the the mere word, tornado, would cause panic and the mass hysteria would cause more death than the tornado itself. Meanwhile, U.S. Air Force weather forecasters were laying the ground work for the first tornado forecast after two tornadoes in five days tore a... | 43m 57s | ||||||
| 3/12/23 |  When Lightning Strikes | Send us Fan Mail On December 8, 1963, Pan Am N709PA, a Boeing 707 with the call sign "Clipper 214," exploded in flight just minutes from its final destination. Thunderstorms delayed that landing and frequent lightning around the plane made the passengers uneasy. But lightning doesn't cause airliner crashes, so the crew took no special measures to avoid the lightning. And then the plane exploded, killing all on board. Investigators quickly ruled out lightning, focusing instead on sabotag... | 48m 09s | ||||||
| 1/30/23 | When the C-124 Globemaster Crashed into a Mountain and was Buried Under Snow for 60 Years | Send us Fan Mail This is the tragic tale of an Air Force cargo plane that went un-rescued for 60 years after it crashed in a blinding snowstorm and over some of the harshest terrain that Alaska has to offer. Lost and entombed in a glacier after the large Globemaster II crashed in 1952, it was finally recovered in 2012 thanks to an Air National Guard helicopter crew on a routine training mission. Today, each summer, dedicated members of the Air Force and Army return to the Colony Glacier to se... | 54m 09s | ||||||
| 1/8/23 |  When Delta Flight 191 Crashed Into the Ground One Mile Short of the Runway: Part 2 | Send us Fan Mail In the conclusion of "When Delta Flight 191 Crashed into the Ground One Mile Short of the Runway," we will look at the complicated way weather information moves from the air traffic controllers to the cockpit and the various sources of weather data the pilots have access to - both today and in 1985. We'll also examine some factors that may have been rising frustration levels on the ground and in the cockpit. Other aspects of this episode will examine the emergency response to... | 40m 36s | ||||||
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