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The broken flight recorder cost them the final seconds to save 45 lives
A United Airlines Boeing 737 approaches Midway with a failed flight recorder and 45 lives at stake - did they make it in time?
The broken flight recorder cost them the final seconds to save 45 lives
In this episode, we follow the routine Chicago-to-Omaha leg that became a catastrophic approach to Midway, and the painstaking reconstruction after the primary flight data source failed. How did a broken recorder, an ARTS-III radar fifty-five miles away, and a nonprecision localizer approach combine to shape the last ninety seconds?
Date: December 8, 1972
Flight: United Airlines Lines Flight 553…
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