Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness

EPISODE 125 | Last Flight: More Airliner Weirdness

While it's totally normal that things break, sometimes there is also some kind of secret or mystery around something as monumental as an airplane crash or disappearance. And so lots of "theories" get spun, some by those who have lost someone dear to them, others by those who seek to profit from the disaster. 

This follow-up episode to our previous one about airplanes, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, is likewise dedicated to my godson, Vova, or Rusty, who just loves, loves, loves, loves commercial aircraft. 

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SECTIONS

1. 02:42 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 - What's going on in Michigan?
2. 05:31 - Swissair Flight 111 - Richard Tomlinson, wayward MI6 agent
3. 09:45 - EgyptAir Flight 990 - The apotheosis of petty revenge, which inspires bin Laden

4. 15:58 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - A disappearance, an investigation, suicide and simulator speculations

5. 22:27 - More MH370 Theories - Fire, ghost plane, cyberattack, hijacking, Freescale Semiconductor and and patent # US8671381B1 
6. 25:49 - Diego Garcia, the Donbas, the old switcheroo, a plot to destroy Malaysian Airlines
7. 30:49 - Meteors, black holes, weird phone calls, aliens, transdimensional rifts

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• 7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
• Planes full of passengers that vanished and could never be traced
• Disappearance Over Lake Michigan: The Story Of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 on Simple Flying
• The Wreck of Northwest Flight 2501 Submerged in Lake Michigan 
• 229 people, 15 000 body parts: pathologists help solve Swissair 111’s grisly puzzles in the Canadian Medical Association Journal
• A Rogue Spy's Cyber-Revenge on CBS News
• Did British intelligence down Swissair Flight 111? by Dean Andromidas
• More mysteries over Swissair Flight 111 by Dean Andromidas
• The Crash of EgyptAir 990 in The Atlantic
• The Tragedy Of EgyptAir Flight 990 on Simple Flying
• EgyptAir Flight 990: A Controversial Aviation Accident on Aviation File
• Text: NTSB Chairman Hall on EgyptAir Flight 990 Crash Investigation
• Flight 990: What Really Happened? on Al Jazeera
• Timeline of MH370 disappearance on CNN
• Timeline of the search for MH370 – a visual guide in The Guardian
• MH370: History's Greatest Unsolved Aviation Mystery video
• Top 10 theories what may have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on RationalWiki