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They Thought They Were at 11,500 Feet - Christmas Eve Crash Mystery
They Thought They Were at 11,500 Feet - Christmas Eve Crash Mystery
Fear of being inches from death in plain daylight: a Bristol Britannia 312 on a routine test flight descended believing it had 11,500 feet beneath it when it actually had 1,500 - a ten-thousand-foot error that left nine dead and snapped telegraph poles like matchsticks. How could two trained crew, working instruments that functioned correctly, misread a single dial with such catastrophic consequences?
In this episode, we tell the story of that Christmas Eve flight and the chain of ordinary events - fog, a diversion to Hurn, a…
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