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The Night the Constellation Flew Into Invisible Mountains
The Night the Constellation Flew Into Invisible Mountains
The idea of a decorated captain guiding a state-of-the-art airliner into invisible obstacles grabs the mind: fifteen thousand pounds of diamonds and sixteen thousand pounds of watches lay intact while forty people vanished; how could maps, weather and rules all fail at once? What single missing detail turned a routine approach into a catastrophe?
In this episode, we tell the story of KLM Flight PH-TEN and its captain Koene Dirk Parmentier, the flight’s planned route and the faulty maps and forecasts that shaped the final minutes - and…
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