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Cash Intact, Passengers Gone: The Dorothy Hunt Midway Mystery
Cash Intact, Passengers Gone: The Dorothy Hunt Midway Mystery
An envelope with $10,000 in hundred-dollar bills survived the impact intact while the woman carrying it, Dorothy Hunt, did not - a single, strange detail that sparked Watergate rumors within days. Why did a functioning stick shaker scream for six seconds before the Boeing 737 hit trees one minute and forty seconds from Midway, and what did a broken flight data recorder and intact cash really mean?
In this episode, we tell what happened on United Air Lines Flight 553 on December 8, 1972, how the final approach unfolded, and why a…
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