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Wrong Number, Wrong Order: How a Single Radio Call Almost Killed 677
Wrong Number, Wrong Order: How a Single Radio Call Almost Killed 677
A drink cart hit the ceiling at thirty-seven thousand feet and two jets came within one hundred and thirty-five metres of each other - when every safety system was working. Six hundred and seventy-seven people were aboard two Japan Airlines flights that nearly occupied the same point in the sky; how did one wrong radio call create a near-catastrophe?
In this episode, we present the documented record of what unfolded above Suruga Bay on January 31, 2001, and the nine years of legal proceedings that followed. You will hear how…
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