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One Second From Landing: How Flight 834 Fell Into Silence
One Second From Landing: How Flight 834 Fell Into Silence
A single second separated a routine farewell from annihilation: at 13:56:30 on April 4, 2011, Georgian Airways Flight 834 never landed and thirty-two people were dead before the minute ended. How did a Bombardier CRJ100ER on a familiar two-hour milk run, with an experienced-surface record on paper, collapse in roughly forty seconds into the deadliest aviation accident in United Nations history?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the people on board, and the institutional gaps that preceded the crash, and ask whether…
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