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When Sky Turned Silent: The Dual-Engine Disaster Over Georgia
A seasoned DC-9 crew flies toward a radar corridor over Georgia and, trusting the storm radar, suddenly lose both engines - did they make it in time?
When Sky Turned Silent: The Dual-Engine Disaster Over Georgia
In this episode, we lay out the sequence that led a Southern Airways DC-9 from routine flight to catastrophe over Paulding County, Georgia. We track the decisions, the instruments, and the gaps in procedures that set the crew on a course into the storm and ask whether different information or actions could have changed what happened.
Date: April 4, 1977
Aircraft: Douglas DC-9-31…
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