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Seconds Over Gander: The Unfinished Mystery of Flight 1285R
Seconds Over Gander: The Unfinished Mystery of Flight 1285R
A cold December morning, a DC-8 carrying 256 people failed to climb after a 51-second takeoff roll and crashed 3,500 feet beyond Gander runway end - leaving a scar visible from satellite decades later. Why did an aircraft that should have climbed instead cross the Trans-Canada Highway at low altitude with witnesses reporting a bright glow - and why did investigators split without a definitive cause?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the people on board, the limited flight-recording evidence, and the divided official…
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