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On November 12th, 1995, an American Airlines MD-83 carrying 78 passengers and crew is making its final approach to Bradley International airport in Connecticut. It’s running late, and the crew are eager to make it to the airport. The area is blanketed by torrential rain and turbulence, and the two pilots are struggling to keep the aircraft on course. The winds are so strong that the control tower had to be evacuated, and is now occupied by a lone supervisor who hasn’t manned a tower in years.

Fighting severe turbulence, the pilots struggle to see the runway through the rain. A small mistake they made minutes beforehand would now come back to haunt them, as they start to slip below their minimum descent altitude…

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Final Report:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/A...

Picture of accident aircraft: Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

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00:00 Intro
00:53 Blinkist Ad
02:08 Flight background
04:10 Departure and climbout
05:40 Initial Descent
08:39 Bradley's weather and turbulence
10:10 Weather update
12:39 A wrong setting
13:00 Approach chart
17:16 Descent to MDA
19:00 American Airlines Approach Procedures
19:50 Accident sequence
22:30 Aftermath and Investigation
24:06 A positive note