Exclusive for Podcrashers:
Time and time again, the stories we tell are testaments to the professionalism, training, and experience that flight crews bring to the cockpit. Still, there are situations that call for crew resource management, communication, and instinct that can lead a crew to make decisions that aren't found in a manual. In this month's Patreon-exclusive layover episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Stephanie shares the incredible stories of Olympic Airways Flight 411 and the Leeds United Air Crash and the heroic flight crews who chose to break from protocols in order to save the lives of those onboard.Sources consulted for this story:
- Simple Flying: Low Altitude & Speed Over Athens: The Near Miss Involving Olympic Airways Flight 411
- Interview with Captain Migadis
- Athens Magazine: Sifis Migadis: The hero pilot of the Olympic race who saved hundreds of people from certain death!
- Boeing: Performance Analysis of the Olympic Airways Takeoff in Athens on August 9, 1978 with an Engine Failure at Rotation
- IN: Sifis Migadis: The pilot who flew with a damaged engine over Athens
- People News: Sifis Migadis: An Olympic legend pilot who managed to save ... a ""lost"" plane
- 106.9: Sifis Migadis: The pilot-legend of Olympia who saved 418 passengers from certain death
- Kool News: Olympic Aviation flight 411: When the AIRPLANE hit the apartment buildings in Alimos during take off
- Greek Reporter: The Olympic Airways Plane That Almost Crashed Into Athens
- Mentour Pilot: Pilot Heroically Breaks Rules to Save Boeing 747 & Athens from Disaster!
- Yorkshire Post: Pilot who saved Leeds United team 24 years ago said that day 'never leaves my mind'
- Leeds Live: Ex-Leeds United player opens up on counselling following 'terrifying' 1998 crash landing ordeal
- Leeds Live: 'I thought it was a bomb' - Pilot relives the night he saved the entire Leeds United team
- Leeds United Air Crash Memories
- BBC: Pilot recalls Leeds United emergency landing
- Report on the Accident to HS748-Series 2B
- The Irish Times: O'Leary, pilot hailed as heroes after Leeds flight crash
- The Independent: Football: Leeds play on after flight ends in flames
- The Athletic: ‘I saw the sparks as we went down the runway. Then I saw the explosion. We all feared for our lives’
Credits:
Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie HubkaDirected and engineered at: Snow Monster Studios
Sound editor: Podcast Engineers
Producer: Adam Hubka
Music by: Mike Dunn
The plane involved in the Leeds air disaster after the crash. Source: Leeds Live
Profile of the Emerald Airlines plane on the ground. Source: Leeds Live
Sifis Migadis, the captain of Flight 411. Source: Greek Reporter
