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January 19, 2023 58 mins

It should have been just another landing. But when the pilots of Eastern Airlines Flight 212 have trouble locating a landmark on their final approach to the airport on September 11, 1974, things suddenly go from routine to disastrous. Join Shelly in this episode of Take to the Sky: The Air Disaster Podcast as she tells the story of how this accident shaped one of the most important cockpit rules in aviation.

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