Hard Landings
We are a weekly podcast here to give you insights into commercial aviation disasters and how they shape the aviation industry and make it safer to fly! Listen and check out our sources on our website at: www.hardlandingspodcast.com and check out our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/hardlandingspodcast. Please email us at [email protected] with suggestions/feedback.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 68 minutes
- Episodes
- 338
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 18: TWA260
A small flight going from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, New Mexico is climbing out to their cruising altitude. Learn what happens when they cannot see through snow and fog on their climb out.
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Episode 17: AA587
An American Airlines A300 crashes in Queens, New York just months after 9/11. Find out how over flying the aircraft caused this terrible disaster.
Episode 16: PA845
Everything seems fine as a Boeing 747-100 takes off out of the San Francisco airport. Find out how some miscalculations caused there to be a giant hole ripped into this plane on take off.
Episode 15: SGR517
A Boeing 737 has an issue with unexpected yaw and roll on their approach to Richmond, Virginia. Finally find out what had caused the series of rudder hard overs in the final part of this series!
Episode 14: US427
A 737 crashes miles from the Pittsburgh International Airport. Find out about how this flight is very similar to a flight that happened years before and how this investigation stalled leaving investi…
Episode 13: UA585
Episode 12: TAM3054
An A320 runs off the runway and crashes in Sao Paolo, Brazil. How did anxiety cause this plane to veer off the runway?
Episode 11: AA383 (1965)
A 727 crashes on a turn to get to the runway at the Cincinnati airport. Find out how a lack of notification, bad weather, a sense of urgency, and distraction caused this flight to crash into the grou…
Episode 10: GIH141
A Boeing 727 cannot get off the ground and crashes into a small building and beach just beyond the runway. Find out how horrible organization kept this bird from taking off.
Episode 9: SR111
An MD-11 crashed into the ocean near the Canadian shore. Find out how some wiring and unfortunate procedures caused an in flight fire that incapacitated the plane while trying to perform an emergency…
Episode 8: NGA2120
A DC-8 has to return to the Jeddah airport and basically explodes on landing due to an in-flight fire. Find out how a company call caused this plane to catch fire on take off.
Episode 7: CI611
Episode 6: GA152
Episode 5: ASQ2311
An Embraer EMB-120RT crashes on approach to the Glynco Jetport in Brunswick, GA. What caused this plane to suddenly fall from the sky less than two miles from landing.
Episode 4: CO3407
A Bombardier Q400 falls out of the sky over Buffalo, New York just miles from the airport. Find out why this fully functioning air craft plunged out the sky killing everyone on board and one on the g…
Episode 3: EA401
Episode 2: LO16