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When Instruments Lied: The 89-Second Crash of TAROM 371
When Instruments Lied: The 89-Second Crash of TAROM 371
The climb from Bucharest lasted just eighty-nine seconds before an Airbus A310 struck the ground at 324 knots and carved a six-metre crater; sixty people were aboard and the flight recorders captured every moment-but the criminal case files later vanished. How did a known engine fault, a captain’s sudden collapse, and instruments that displayed opposite motions combine into a sequence of failures none of the crew could survive?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from takeoff at Otopeni to impact near Balotești, describing…
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