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One Hundred Hours Missing: How Rank Sent 119 Into Cerro Bashún
One Hundred Hours Missing: How Rank Sent 119 Into Cerro Bashún
The thought that rank could outweigh safety still chills: a Boeing 737 with registration HC-BIG carried exactly thirty hours on type in its captain’s log while the agreement required one hundred, and one hundred and nineteen people never reached Cuenca. How did a political deal, a dead president, and a military rank combine to put a general in the left seat minutes before impact?
In this episode, we present the facts of the accident and the training agreement behind the aircraft, the deviations from that agreement, and the final…
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