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 […]
Tag Archives: airline crash
Aug
03
2012
The 1977 Crash At Tenerife
The crash of two airliners, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, both 747s, on the island of Tenerife in 1979 has gone down as the deadliest airline catastrophe of all time, with nearly 600 fatalities. Today’s podcast goes into the crash of the two planes, and the eight different pieces of information that, […]
Jul
09
2012
An Update on Air France Flight #447
The findings are out on the crash of Air France flight #447, and it’s not good. Basically, there’re a couple of things that stand out of the article (which you can read here) – one of which scares the hell out of me. The French bureau in charge of investigating the crash (Bureau d’Enquetes et […]
May
25
2012
The Crash of American Airlines Flight #191 at Chicago, May 25th, 1979
I put together today’s podcast with the thought of publishing it today, the 33rd anniversary of the crash of an American Airlines DC10 that left Chicago for Los Angeles. You can download the podcast at the link above (Click Podcast RSS on the upper right hand side of the page), download the podcast by clicking […]
May
04
2012
An Introduction
Greetings, and welcome to CatastropheCast.com I’ve always been interested in catastrophes, both manmade and nature. So if it’s an airline disaster or an earthquake, I’ve been fascinated by it. Not to be too morbid about it, but the subjects have enthralled me my entire life. So I decided to put together a podcast focusing on […]
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