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S13E04 Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)
On November 12, 2001, merely two months post-September 11 attacks, American Airlines Flight 587 departs from John F. Kennedy Airport but quickly loses control. The plane tragically crashes in the Queens neighborhood, resulting in the deaths of all 260 passengers and crew members aboard, as well as five individuals on the ground. The disaster is attributed to the first officer's incorrect use of the rudder, which caused the vertical stabilizer to detach after the aircraft encountered wake turbulence from a Boeing 747-400 that had taken off shortly before.
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Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)
Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)
Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest Flight 706)
Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)
Lost in Translation (Crossair Flight 498)
Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870)
Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea Flight 1121)
Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)
Into the Eye of the Storm (Hurricane Hunters NOAA42)
Titanic in the Sky (Qantas Flight 32)