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The Tailfin on Chaperi: Afghanistan's Flight That Vanished Without a Voice
The Tailfin on Chaperi: Afghanistan's Flight That Vanished Without a Voice
A single vertical stabilizer stood upright in the snow at 11,000 feet - the only recognizable fragment of an airplane carrying 105 people - and no one heard from the crew after contact was lost at 16:00 on February 3, 2005. What made a Boeing 737 on approach to Kabul end up striking a ridgeline on an eastward heading when it had been flying west, and why was so little of the aircraft ever found?
In this episode, we tell the story of Kam Air Flight 904 and the sparse, puzzling evidence left behind. You will hear how the…
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