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Silence Before Impact: How Flight 5601 Vanished into Mount Puntang
Silence Before Impact: How Flight 5601 Vanished into Mount Puntang
A brand-new CN-235 smashed into Mount Puntang at 420 km/h with no distress call and every radar and radio contact dropping simultaneously-31 people died and the last radio was just 16 minutes before impact; how did a captain with over 6,000 flight hours end up 21 degrees off course into a mountain she could not see?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from takeoff to wreckage, describe the crew and aircraft, and follow the official investigation that recovered both flight recorders and mapped the deviation-what…
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