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The Plane That Vanished in Three Minutes and 41 Seconds
The Plane That Vanished in Three Minutes and 41 Seconds
The idea that every person on a burning jet could walk away is both terrifying and impossible-103 people survived an aircraft that “no longer existed” three minutes and 41 seconds after liftoff. Recorded wind readings showed a 20-knot easterly headwind, yet a sudden microburst struck the runway area unseen; how did routine weather data fail the crew and controller at the worst possible moment?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events on July 31, 2018, from the aircraft’s history and crew composition to the sudden storm that…
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