Episode 131: Eastern Airlines Flight 212

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Summary:

It should have been just another landing. But when the pilots of Eastern Airlines Flight 212 have trouble locating a landmark on their final approach to the airport on September 11, 1974, things suddenly go from routine to disastrous. Join Shelly in this episode of Take to the Sky: The Air Disaster Podcast as she tells the story of how this accident shaped one of the most important cockpit rules in aviation.



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Credits:

Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie Hubka
Directed and engineered at: Snow Monster Studios
Sound editor: Podcast Engineers
Producer: Adam Hubka
Music by: Mike Dunn

Source: Wikipedia

After the crash of Eastern Airlines 212, the Steele Creek Volunteer Fire Department got the fire under control in a matter of minutes. Source: North Carolina collection, UNC-Chapel Hill Library