Hard Landings

A Southern Airways DC-9 is on its way from Alabama to Georgia when a storm hits. Find out what caused this plane to lose both engines and land on a highway.

A Southwest Boeing 737 is on its way to Dallas from New York when the plane experiences an explosive decompression. Find out what causes this flight makes an emergency landing in Pennsylvania.

Our Aviation Stories of the Month Episode for October. We read spooky stories from our listeners.

An American Airlines Boeing 767 is about to take off out of O’Hare bound for Miami when something goes wrong. Find out how an unexpected problem reemerges for our one year anniversary episode!

An Air New Zealand flight is doing a sight seeing tour over Antarctica on a Douglas DC-10 when it hits terrain. Find out how weather and pilot error caused this flight to be too low over the snow.

A Grumman G-73T, a sea plane, falls out of the sky when a wing comes off the plane after takeoff from the port of Miami. Find out what made this catastrophic crash occur.

A Fokker F-27 goes down in the sea just miles away from the runway in MacKay, Queensland, Australia. Find out the circumstances that surround this crash and why no one really knows what happened.

Our September listener episode. We read funny aviation stories from our listeners.

We are the Hard Landings Podcast here to give you insights into commercial aviation disasters: how it happened, what was changed, and how it is now safer to fly.

A Fed Ex cargo DC-10 is on its way from Memphis to San Jose when something causes the flight to do many strange flight maneuvers. Find out how a desperate man and a guitar case almost caused this cargo flight to come to an untimely demise.

A Metro Liner (Fairchild Metro III) is on its way to Cork, Ireland when it encounters foggy weather. Find out how weird company procedures, oversight, and bad crew training caused this plane to hit the ground and invert.

A de Havilland Comet 1 (BOAC flight 781) suddenly explodes in midair on its way to London from Rome. Then a few months later another Comet 1 (South African Airways 201), on its way to Cairo from Rome, explodes in a similar fashion to the BOAC flight. Find out how windows and push rivets caused the first jet airliner to explode in flight.

A Qantas Airbus A380, the biggest jet airliner, has a catastrophe on its way to Sydney, Australia from Singapore. Find out how bad quality control caused this plane to almost fall out of the sky.

A USAir Boeing 737-300 is on its decent into LAX when disaster strikes. Find out how over taxed ATC and unfortunate circumstance causes this plane to crash on its landing.

An Air Midwest Beechcraft 1900D crashes into a hangar at Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport right after take off. Find out how mechanical and company failures contributed to this accident.

Two flights, a DC-7 and a Lockheed Super Constellation, depart out of LAX and are on their way to Chicago and Kansas City. Find out how weather, ATC, and timing caused these two airplanes to collide over the Grand Canyon.

A USAir DC-9 is on its way to Charlotte, North Carolina when it crashes miles from the airport. Find out how this flight crashes due to weather in the final part in our weather phenomena series.

A Lockheed L-1011 Tristar is on its way to Los Angeles when disaster hits in Dallas. Find out how Delta Airlines flight 191 crashed just short of the runway at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

A Pan American Boeing 727 is on its first leg of a three leg flight from Miami to San Diego. Find out how weather caused this flight to crash into a neighborhood in New Orleans.

An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into landing lights at JFK International Airport. How did weather cause this flight's landing to go so wrong?

An Air France A330 goes down in the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Paris. Find out how disorientation and equipment caused this plane to crash.

A Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 crashes at the Kathmandu Airport in Nepal. Find out how a huge break down in crew resource management caused this flight to crash.

A United Airlines Douglas DC-6B is on its way from New York to Seattle with stop overs in Chicago, Denver, and Portland. Find out how this plane exploded over Longmont, Colorado.

A CRJ-100 tries to take off out of Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Find out how this plane took off and how that caused it to crash right off the end of the runway.

A Boeing 777-200 crashes on landing at the San Francisco International Airport. Find out how the crew caused this plane to cartwheel on the runway.