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The Prime Minister, the Perfect Plane, and the Silent Crash at Jordan's Wood
The Prime Minister, the Perfect Plane, and the Silent Crash at Jordan's Wood
A sudden blanket of fog swallowed the approach to Gatwick and a nearly new Vickers Viscount hit trees 2.8 nautical miles short of the runway, killing 14 of 24 aboard - including Turkey's Prime Minister - in a crash with no mechanical faults and no distress call. How did reports that visibility was "one to five feet" become the reality of fog reaching 650-700 feet, and what gap between information and sky doomed TC-SEV?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to impact, outline who was on board…
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