Episode 208: The 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
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4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Ah, flying in the 1950s. Fancy clothes, good food, smoking in the airplane, and the chance to see sights you’d never get to see otherwise. Two planes flying over the Grand Canyon on a summer day in 1956 should have passed by perfectly fine, and probably would have on any other day. But tragedy would strike over one of the most beautiful places on Earth, changing the aviation industry in one horrifying moment.
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| 1:38.8 | Episode 208, the 1956 Grand Canyon Mid-Air Collision, June 30th, 1956, 1956, 128 deceased. |
| 1:53.8 | Back when I was learning how to drive before smartphones and GPS, my dad taught me how to drive |
| 1:59.0 | out in rural Pennsylvania, where I was more likely to run into a |
| 2:02.5 | ditch than hit another car. Without Apple or Google Maps to help me, if I needed to get around |
| 2:07.9 | and I didn't have a map, I would invariably follow my dad's lead, which was simple. I know the town |
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