The world’s largest passenger jet climbs out of Singapore on a routine training flight. Four minutes later, an explosion inside one engine sends debris tearing through the wing — and for several minutes, a fire burns inside it that not one person flying the plane ever knows about. Join Alice and Zach for the story of five pilots, one badly damaged A380, and the manufacturing flaw the size of a few sheets of paper that started it all.

Sources:

• In-flight uncontained engine failure, Airbus A380-842, VH-OQA (AO-2010-089) - Australian Transport Safety Bureau
• Lessons Learned from Transport Airplane Accidents, Airbus A380-842 case study - Federal Aviation Administration
• QF32 - Richard Champion de Crespigny (2012)
• Mayday: Air Disasters, Season 13, Episode 10
• Crippled Airbus A380, saved by Pros! | Qantas flight 32 - Mentour Pilot

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Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.

Six minutes after takeoff from Miami, a routine climb turns into a fight for control that lasts less than four minutes. Join Alice and Zach as they trace a chain of small decisions — made in a maintenance hangar weeks earlier — that put something dangerous where nobody expected it, and the regulator that had been warned about exactly this kind of failure eight years before it happened.

Sources

• Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Fire and Impact with Terrain, ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, NTSB/AAR-97/06 - National Transportation Safety Board (August 1997)
• United States v. SabreTech, Inc., 271 F.3d 1018 - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (October 31, 2001)
• "Flight crew shared love of aviation" - St. Petersburg Times, May 14, 1996
• "Enough Blame To Go Around In ValuJet Crash" by Mark Sherman, Cox News Service - The Spokesman-Review, August 19, 1997
• "ValuJet Flight 592" original crash coverage - The Miami Herald, May 12, 1996
• "There was another tragedy in Miami after Eastern Flight 401. What happened with ValuJet" by Grethel Aguila - The Miami Herald, December 21, 2022
• "FBI offers $10,000 reward for fugitive mechanic wanted in 1996 fatal airline crash" by Carli Teproff - The Miami Herald, April 6, 2018
• "$250 Million to Families of Passengers who Died in the May 1996 ValuJet crash" - Podhurst Orseck firm landmark cases page
• "Mishandled Hazardous Materials Results in Commercial Airplane Crash Lawsuit: Hyatt v. ValuJet Flight 592" - Slack Davis case summary
• "We're Losing EVERYTHING…" Valujet 592 - Mentour Pilot YouTube channel

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Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.

A brand-new Boeing 737 is thirty-four minutes into a routine flight from Jakarta to Singapore when its cockpit voice recorder goes dark — while the aircraft is flying straight and level in clear skies. Minutes later, the flight data recorder follows. Then the plane leaves cruising altitude entirely. Two official investigations examined the same wreckage. They did not agree on what happened, or why. Join Alice and Zach for the story of SilkAir Flight 185.

Sources:

• Final Report: Investigation of Aircraft Accident SilkAir Flight MI 185 — National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC), Indonesia
• NTSB Letter to the NTSC Regarding SilkAir Flight 185 — National Transportation Safety Board
• "Pushed to the Limit" (also broadcast as "Pilot Under Pressure") — Mayday: Air Disasters, Season 12, Episode 4
• Crash of SilkAir Flight MI 185 — Singapore Infopedia, National Library Board Singapore
• SilkAir Flight 185 Case Summary — Wisner Law Firm
• SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide? — National Geographic Documentary (2006)
• Airworthiness Directives; Boeing Model 737 Series Airplanes — FAA, Federal Register (2002)

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Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.