Terror in the Air: TACA 110 and China Airlines 006
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On today’s episode, the History Guy tells two stories of harrowing passenger plane incidents in the 80s. First he tells the story of TACA 110, where pilots did everything right only to find themselves in an unprecedented hail storm - and that was just the beginning. Then he tells the story of China Flight 006, when a small technical error quickly cascaded into a disaster.
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