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Snow, Signal, Silence: How Pilots Landed Between Runway and Death
Snow, Signal, Silence: How Pilots Landed Between Runway and Death
A buried antenna bent a navigation beam roughly 200 feet off course and six crews flew that same misleading signal for five days-so why did nobody report it before a jet landed in a snow-covered field? What the cockpit voice recorder and NTSB would reveal about fatigue, training, and silence can only be heard by pressing play.
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the human and technical factors at play, and the unresolved questions that followed the March 4, 2019 event. Was it a failure of systems, procedures, or…
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