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The Silent Gauge: Why Flight 389 Vanished Into Lake Michigan
The Silent Gauge: Why Flight 389 Vanished Into Lake Michigan
A new Boeing 727 with a spotless maintenance record and three experienced pilots descended from 35,000 feet and struck Lake Michigan at roughly 200 knots - with no distress call and a final cockpit transmission of a single word: "Roger." How could a perfectly functioning jet and seasoned crew believe they were still safely in the sky until impact?
In this episode, we recount the timeline, the crew credentials, and the physical evidence recovered from the wreckage to explore the one subtle instrument failure investigators found that…
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