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The Night Samantha Smith Never Came Home: Inside Flight 1808's Fatal Approach
The Night Samantha Smith Never Came Home: Inside Flight 1808's Fatal Approach
The night air over central Maine felt routine until a commuter plane descended through just 300 feet of cloud and never climbed again - the wreckage stopped exactly 4,007 feet from the end of Runway Four. Eight people aboard Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 died, including thirteen-year-old Samantha Smith, once called "America's youngest ambassador"; why, when the crew needed to pull up, did no one do it?
In this episode, we tell the story of the flight, the decisions that added an unscheduled flag stop, and the…
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