Radar Contact Lost: The Podcast

When a Hero Let His Guard Down

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’ll examine the crash and death of naval fighter pilot, civilian test pilot and recreational pilot Scott Crossfield – we’ll talk abou

When the Mysterious Crash of Northwest Orient Flight 293 left No Survivors and No Airplane

Send us Fan Mail On a pleasant Monday morning in June, 1963, a Douglas DC-7C departed from McCord Air Force Base in Washington state. The plane was loaded with military

TACA Flight 110: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Aviation Excellence

Send us Fan Mail On Tuesday afternoon, May 24, 1988, Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano (TACA) Flight 110 was painting thunderstorms and rain showers on the coc

What is Turbulence and Why is Everybody Scared to Death About it?

Send us Fan Mail On July 30, 2025, Delta Airlines Flight 56, an Airbus A330-900, carrying 275 passengers and 13 crew, was cruising at about 37,000 feet/11,300 meters ove

When British Cadets Fell from the Oklahoma Sky

Send us Fan Mail It was Saturday morning, February 20, 1943. The morning fog lay thick over the prairie of northern Texas and the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma,

When TWA Flight 6963 Crashed While Trying to Find a Dark Airport

Send us Fan Mail On Saturday, December 28, 1946, a Lockheed Constellation airliner, known as the Cairo Skychief, was beginning the landing sequence at Shannon Airport on

When UPS Flight 1354 Crashed into the Ground More Than a Mile from the Runway

Send us Fan Mail It was the early morning hours of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, when a United Parcel Service cargo jet slammed into the ground about one mile short of the

When Trans Canada Flight 810-9 Was on Fire, Losing Altitude and Lost Over the Cascade Mountains

Send us Fan Mail The plane at the center of this episode of Radar Contact Lost was in a bad way: One engine was on fire – there were three others, but the plane was stru

When a Quiet Neighborhood Next to an Airport Became a Scene of Fire, Horror and Devastation

Send us Fan Mail It was a little after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, on Friday, July 9th, 1982, when Pan Am Flight 759, a B-727 carrying 138 passengers and 7 crew members,

When Confusion, Complacency and Bad Decisions Took 28 Lives

Send us Fan Mail The first significant snowfall of the season had just begun in central Colorado. At Denver's Stapleton International Airport, Continental Flight 17

When Weather Wasn’t Even Mentioned in the NTSB Investigation Report

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the crash of a small, twin-engine plane: a Beechcraft Baron 58. This crash occurred on April 22, 2019 in the Texas Hill Country, a

When Marine One Landed on a High School Football Field in Dense Fog

Send us Fan Mail In what is a podcast series first - and perhaps last - for Radar Contact Lost, this episode does not tell the story of a tragic plane crash, but rather

When Typhoon Bess Took an Air Force Hurricane Hunter Crew Over the South China Sea

Send us Fan Mail On October 12th, 1974, an Air Force weather reconnaissance Hurricane Hunter aircraft crashed into the South China Sea while investigating Typhoon Bess,

When Winter Survival Skills and a Little Bit of Luck Overpowered Mountain Wave Turbulence, Severe Icing and a Winter Storm

Send us Fan Mail On Tuesday morning, December 5, 1978, 22 people were rescued off the side of a high Colorado mountain in the southern regions of the Rocky Mountains. Th

When A Snowy Crash Silenced the Voices of Early Rock and Roll, aka "The Day the Music Died"

Send us Fan Mail On February 3, 1959, a small, single-engine, 4-passenger plane took off from a remote airfield in rural Iowa. It was after midnight. It was snowing. It

When Colgan Air Flight 3407 Fell Out of the Sky in Buffalo, New York

Send us Fan Mail On the evening of February 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 was on final approach to Runway 23 at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo,

When a Russian Airliner Flew Into Cuban Power Lines

Send us Fan Mail On final approach to Havana’s José Martí International Airport in 1977, the Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-62M with 69 people on board, descended below the clouds

When a Boeing 707 Broke Apart in Mid-air Near Mt. Fuji

Send us Fan Mail At just before 2 o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, March 5, 1966, British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 911, took off from Tokyo’s Haneda Inte

When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 High Over the Indian Ocean

Send us Fan Mail “When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 Over the Indian Ocean," is the heart-stopping tale of a commercial jetliner – a Boeing 747 – that, contrary to eve

When a Helicopter Crash Silenced ‘Number One' - The Story Behind the Stevie Ray Vaughan Helicopter Crash

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the 1990 crash of a Bell JetRanger helicopter that was carrying a pilot and four passengers. The helicopter crashed into a ski slo