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Pan Am Flight 103 Part 1

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was seven minutes into level cruise over southern Scotland when the cockpit voice recorder captured a single loud sound and stopped. What happened over the next three seconds is one of the most precisely reconstructed events in aviation history — and almost n…

Varig Flight 254

On a clear evening in the Brazilian Amazon, a routine forty-minute hop between two small airports turns into hours of confusion, radio silence, and a jet with a shrinking fuel supply over some of the most remote rainforest on Earth. Join Alice and Zach for the story of the people aboard Varig Fligh…

The Takata Airbag Disaster

What happens when the safety device meant to save your life becomes the weapon that kills you? Discover how a cost-cutting decision to use explosive chemicals, a 15-year corporate cover-up involving destroyed evidence and manipulated test data, and catastrophic regulatory failures turned millions o…

DHL Airbus A300 OO-DLL

A cargo plane climbs out of one of the most dangerous airports on earth, carrying nothing but mail. Somewhere below, armed men are waiting for exactly this kind of target. Join Alice and Zach for the story of the only known case in aviation history where a large airliner lost every hydraulic contro…

SilkAir Flight 185

A brand-new Boeing 737 is thirty-four minutes into a routine flight from Jakarta to Singapore when its cockpit voice recorder goes dark — while the aircraft is flying straight and level in clear skies. Minutes later, the flight data recorder follows. Then the plane leaves cruising altitude entirely…

ValuJet Flight 592

Six minutes after takeoff from Miami, a routine climb turns into a fight for control that lasts less than four minutes. Join Alice and Zach as they trace a chain of small decisions — made in a maintenance hangar weeks earlier — that put something dangerous where nobody expected it, and the regulato…

Qantas Flight 32

The world’s largest passenger jet climbs out of Singapore on a routine training flight. Four minutes later, an explosion inside one engine sends debris tearing through the wing — and for several minutes, a fire burns inside it that not one person flying the plane ever knows about. Join Alice and Za…

Andrea Gail Fishing Boat and The Perfect Storm

A swordfishing boat is three days from home when it sails into a collision of weather systems that meteorologists say happens once every fifty to a hundred years. Six men are aboard. Two hundred miles away, a sailboat crew is about to be pulled from the same ocean by a rescue swimmer running on fum…

This Time Tomorrow: The tender and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here : Emma Straub

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