Plane Crash That Changed Industry FOREVER | Mayday Air Disaster
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 Published On Apr 10, 2024

Continental Flight 1713 crashes on take-off in Denver amid heavy snow, and what investigators uncover changes commercial flight forever. Airline policy required the crew to be airborne within 20 minutes of de-icing. But Flight 1713 ended up spending 27 minutes waiting in the snow. Investigators now wonder if this seven-minute delay turned a routine take-off into a fatal disaster.

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Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 18 Episode 10 "Dead of Winter": En route to Boise, Idaho, Continental Airlines Flight 1713 is delayed on the tarmac in Denver where controllers struggle to keep departures on schedule amid heavy snow. When the plane is finally cleared for take-off, the DC-9 barely lifts off the ground before its banks sharply and crashes. Investigators find nothing wrong with the aircraft itself, but what they eventually uncover changes commercial flight forever.

Every time a plane crashes, the world takes notice. And so do the experts whose job it is to figure out what happened. Mayday 18 uncovers the truth behind the most legendary aviation disasters, and every episode features eyewitness accounts, captivating reenactments, state-of-the-art CGI, and interviews with the investigators who ultimately determined what went wrong.

This season on Mayday: Malaysia Airlines suffers a second catastrophic headline when Flight 17 is blown out of the sky in Ukrainian airspace; investigators must figure out how Virgin Galactic’s test mission ends up as a 35-mile long debris field in the desert; and, when a DC-8 plows into an auto salvage yard, investigators scour the wreckage and uncover a fatal human error.
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