Every month, we release exclusive bonus content just for our "Podcrasher" Patreon community, including full-length episodes, Layover episodes, videos, and more. Visit our Patreon page to discover how you can become a Podcrasher!

Here are the episodes we've released exclusively to our Patreon Podcrashers so far:


Patreon Episode: Delta Air Lines Flight 1288
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: For the passengers on Delta Airlines Flight 1288, it was as if there were two realities playing out in a single cabin: for some passengers, their takeoff seemed to be aborted without reason. For others, the flames … Read More

Layover Episode: Heroic Flight Crews: Olympic Airways 411 and the Leeds United Air Crash
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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 … Read More

Patreon Episode: British Airways Flight 38
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: British Airways Flight 38 was going according to plan – until it wasn’t. With less than a minute left before the Boeing 777 was to land at Heathrow Airport on January 17, 2008, both engines rolled back … Read More

Layover Episode: JAT Airways Flight 367 and Vesna Vulović
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: On January 26, 1972, JAT Airways Flight 367 broke up in air and crash landed in a wooded area near the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czechia), killing 27of the 28 people onboard. While it … Read More

Patreon Episode: Thai International Airways Flight 311
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: Nepal has been a beacon to adventuresome travelers for decades, and for 99 passengers on Thai Airways Flight 311 on July 31, 1992, Kathmandu was the entry point to their adventure. In this month’s Patreon-exclusive episode of … Read More

Layover Episode: Amelia Earhart
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: In the world of aviation, there are few people as well-known as Amelia Earhart– and there are even fewer whose legacies are so inspirational. In this month’s Patreon-exclusive layover episode of Take to the Sky: the Air … Read More

Patreon Episode: The Unsolved Bombing of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: On July 8, 1965, 52 people were killed when Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 suffered an inflight explosion and plummeted to the ground. Soon, the Canadian TSB identified the source of the explosion: a bomb had been … Read More

Layover Episode: The 1970 Wichita State Football Team Plane Crash
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: In episode 143, we covered the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932, the worst-ever US sports air disaster. But on October 2, 1970, just six weeks before this crash, the Wichita State football team had lost 31 … Read More

Patreon Episode: Soyuz 11
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: When the Space Race began, the United States and the Soviet Union were quick to use teams and technology in an effort to reach space first. Before long, records were beaten just as quickly as they were … Read More

Layover Episode: Nevada Triangle
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: There are mysteries throughout aviation, but a staggering 2000 of them stem from the little-known Nevada Triangle. In this month’s Patreon-exclusive layover episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Stephanie tells several stories of … Read More

Patreon Episode: Air France Flight 8969
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: When four policemen unexpectedly boarded Air France 8969 on Christmas Eve morning in 1994, not even the flight crew was too concerned at first. But over three days of abject terror, all 220 passengers and 12 crew … Read More

Layover Episode: Ghost Ship: The 1942 Disappearance of a Navy L-8 Blimp
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Exclusive for Podcrashers: It began as a routine surveillance mission on the morning of August 16, 1942, when a Navy L-8 blimp took to the sky to patrol the waters for enemy submarines with two crewmen onboard– and were never … Read More

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