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A two-hundred-pound life raft flew upward and dented the ceiling - gravity had stopped working
A two-hundred-pound life raft flew upward and dented the ceiling - gravity had stopped working
Fear of sudden, violent danger: a 200-pound life raft launched off the floor and dented the ceiling inside NOAA 42 as gravity seemed to stop, while the crew unknowingly flew into a Category Five hurricane; how did five minutes of radar data and a failed instrument set the stage for 78 minutes of extreme turbulence and damage?
In this episode, we follow the flight of NOAA 42 on September 15, 1989, and describe the sequence of equipment failures, decision points, and storm behavior that led the crew…
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