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The Night a Single Coordinate Killed 257 Souls
The Night a Single Coordinate Killed 257 Souls
A single changed set of numbers - entered into a navigation database at 1:40 a.m. - redirected a sightseeing DC‑10 straight toward a 12,448‑foot volcano and ended 257 lives. How did one small coordinate swap, invisible to a prepared captain, turn a routine Antarctic flight into a catastrophe?
In this episode, we tell what happened on Air New Zealand Flight 901 and how navigation data, crew briefing materials, and a late-night amendment shaped the fatal flight path. You’ll hear the sequence of events that led to the silence on the cockpit voice…
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