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They Knew and Stayed Silent: The Night Aeroflot Descended into Fog
They Knew and Stayed Silent: The Night Aeroflot Descended into Fog
Visibility plunged from 3,000 to 800 metres that night, and the people who saw it logged the change - but never told the crew; 64 of 103 aboard died when an Ilyushin Il-18 struck the ground 210 metres right of the runway at 301 km/h. Who decided to cancel vital weather reports and reverse a diversion order, and why was that information withheld until it was too late?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events surrounding Aeroflot Descended 101 on January 4, 1965, and present the documented decisions and omissions that…
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