Flying Blind in the Mountains / Texas International Airlines Flight 655

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A Convair CV-600 is flying at low altitudes at night in mountainous terrain. Texas International Airlines Flight 655 tries to fly around a line of thunderstorms at night without a flight plan. The crew goes off course and find themselves in mountainous terrain at night and can't see where they are. What happened to this flight? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by HelloFresh (http://hellofresh.com/blackboxdown14 and use code blackboxdown14) Fundrise (http://fundrise.com/BLACKBOXDOWN) and The Jordan Harbinger Show (http://jordanharbinger.com/start) Take Our Survey!: https://bit.ly/blackboxdownsurvey Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.3	September 27th 1973. Texas International Airlines Flight 655,
1:12.5	a Converged CV 600 Twin Turbo Prop with 11 people on board is prepared to depart from El Dorado
1:19.2	Arkansas, bound for Texarkana, Arkansas. There's a line of thunderstorms to their west,
1:23.6	so they're trying to figure out a safe way they can get past the storms and onto their destination.
1:28.2	At 8.15 pm, they depart for their 60 mile trip. 35 minutes later, the pilots get lost trying
1:33.7	to fly around the storms and are not heard from again. The flight was so off course it took
1:38.1	rescuers three days to find the wreckage. How did these pilots get so lost that they disappeared
1:42.4	and couldn't be found? Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
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