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One Wrong Dial: How 1,100 Feet Killed Britannia Flight 105
One Wrong Dial: How 1,100 Feet Killed Britannia Flight 105
The clear night, full runway lights and nearly twelve nautical miles visibility should have made this approach routine - yet one incorrect pressure setting put the Britannia 1,100 feet lower than the crew believed. Two different barometric values were transmitted in a single radio call and the required cross-check never happened; how did a standard instrument call lead to ninety-eight fatalities in a Slovenian forest?
In this episode, we follow the final hours of Britannia Flight Flight 105 from London Luton to Ljubljana Brnik and…
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