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Frozen Engines, Fateful Choices: The Potomac Miracle and the Man Who Gave It Up
Frozen Engines, Fateful Choices: The Potomac Miracle and the Man Who Gave It Up
A tail stuck out of the Potomac at 4:04 p.m. on January 13, 1982, with seventy-nine people aboard and water near freezing - and one man quietly passed his only chance at survival to a stranger beneath the surface. How did a routine winter flight turn into a chain of small decisions that made catastrophe almost inevitable?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events on the ground and in the air that morning, introduce the crew and passengers, and follow what the official record preserved - including the…
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