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The Pilot Who Landed a Burning Plane - Then Went Back Inside
The Pilot Who Landed a Burning Plane - Then Went Back Inside
Fear of what happens next: a Boeing 707 and a Lockheed Constellation converged over Putnam County, New York on December 4, 1965, separated by exactly 1,000 feet until an optical illusion erased that margin and two airliners collided - who chose to re-enter a burning fuselage after landing, and why?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to impact and the immediate aftermath, tracing the crews, aircraft types, and the cloud phenomenon that led to the disaster. What did the up-slope effect of cloud tops do to…
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