Hard Landings

A Lockheed Super Electra is making a series of flights from Minneapolis to Seattle in the late 1930’s when something goes wrong. Find out how this flight crashes in Miles City, Montana after taking o…

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 car…

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 t…

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…

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 …

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 Air…

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.