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A brand-new airplane, two experienced pilots, thirty seconds - and sixty-eight people were gone

A brand-new airplane, two experienced pilots, thirty seconds - and sixty-eight people were gone

Cold, fast, and almost bureaucratic: investigators found sixty-eight people reduced to a compressed layer pressed into frozen soil after an ATR-72 struck the ground nose-down at 375 knots and 38 degrees - an impact described as an erasure. Why did routine procedures and a brand-new aircraft fail to stop a catastrophe that unfolded in just twenty-two minutes and thirty seconds?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Indianapolis departure to the moment of impact and outline the gaps in the…

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