There was a news story out recently about Cecelia Crocker, the sole survivor of a Northwest Airlines crash in 1987. The first thing that struck me was that she put a tattoo of an airplane on her wrist, as a constant reminder of that night back in 1987 that took 154 souls, leaving her as […]
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Mar
06
2013
News coming late?
So there’s an article that came across my desk just now that’s titled, “The Mystery of the Hindenburg Disaster Finally Solved?“. It delves into the disaster itself, and how studies have now pretty much concluded that the airship was brought down by a leak in one of the hydrogen tanks, a buildup of static electricity, […]
Jan
18
2013
The Crash of UPS Flight 006
Today we focus on the crash of UPS – yes, United Parcel Service of the “What can brown do for you?” fame – Airways Flight 006 in September, 2010, which crashed less than an hour after taking off from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, en route to Cologne, Germany. The crash, which is not all that […]
Dec
14
2012
The Crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Our latest podcast is finally here! Apologies for the delay, but life has been a bit crazy. Today we focus on the ill-fated flight of Alaska Airlines flight #261, a flight from Puerto Vallarta to San Francisco and continuing on to Seattle, that crashed into the ocean off of Los Angeles. This subject is quite […]
Oct
23
2012
Predicting Disaster?
So the last time I checked, we couldn’t predict earthquakes. But that didn’t stop a court in Italy in convicting some scientists of manslaughter! This is beyond bullcrap. Prosecutors wanted to lay blame for a natural disaster, and somehow they let it lie on scientists. There were a few smaller earthquakes, and the prosecution – […]
Oct
23
2012
An Update on an Old Crash
Sometimes you just have to realize how small the world is. I was in a cab heading to Portland International Airport on Monday morning, and ended up talking to the cabdriver about a few dozen subjects. For some reason, we started talking about airliner crashes, and I brought up the United Airlines crash that’d happened […]
Oct
15
2012
The Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Sinking
The sinking of the Costa Concordia was a big, ugly thing – with most of the blame sitting squarely on Captain Francesco Schettino. If you saw the Discovery Channel special on the catastrophe, you probably know most of it. (If you missed it, someone has it uploaded to YouTube in 3 parts here, here, and here […]
Oct
12
2012
OLD – What Do You Want To Hear? Let Us Know!
So fascinations with natural and man-made catastrophes have resonated for me my entire life. What about you? Drop me a note to let me know what you’d like to see covered in an upcoming podcast!
Oct
12
2012
The Hijacking of Etheopian Airlines Flight 961
Up until the hijackings of September 11th, 2001, the hijacking of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 was probably one of the biggest and well known hijackings of all time. Today’s podcast delves into the background of the hijacking itself, the bad luck of inflating a life vest inside an airplane, and the good luck of crashing […]
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