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Episode 45 - The Pitot-Tube Loving Mud-Dauber Wasp and Birgenair Flight 301
August 14, 2026 · 24 min. This is episode 45 – the Pitot-Tube Loving Mud-Dauber Wasp and Birgenair Flight 301, an episode that follows an email from one of my listeners, Dr Athayde Tonhasca. HE is a Brazilian entomologist working for Scottish Heritage in the…
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Episode 44 - The Curious Case of Captain Button and the Pink Porn Kamikaze Pilot
May 1, 2026 · 20 minWelcome back to Plane Crash Diaries with me, your host and pilot, Des Latham. Episode 44 and we’re exploring more bizarre stories of pilot suicide with the tragedy of A10 Captain Craig Button and the Kamikaze Pink Porn Pilot, Mitsuyatsu…
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Episode 43 - Lithium on Board: UPS Flight 6 and the Battery Threat Airlines Fear Most
February 9, 2026 · 29 minThis is episode 43, and I thought instead of taking a closer look at the plethora of pilot suicides, another topic is heating up fast. The dangers of lithium-based batteries, lithium polymers, now playing probably on your wrist theatre, or…
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Episode 42 - General Aviation Training Accidents BC/AC (Before Covid/After Covid)
August 9, 2025 · 25 minThis is episode 42, and we’re diving into a particular category of aviation accidents — those that happen right at the beginning of a pilot’s journey. We’re talking about ab initio training mishaps. Ab initio, Latin for “from the…
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Episode 41 - Dangerous Dalliances: EgyptAir 804 nicotine addiction & Aeroflot 821 intoxication
December 23, 2024 · 29 minEpisode 41 is about substance abuse, technocrats behaving badly, sub-standard crew training and fatal attractions to nicotine and C H 3 C H 2 OH — methylethyl alcohol, otherwise known as hootch, or in South Africa, dop. This is an…
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Episode 40 - Shoddy Maintenance and blown screens
August 22, 2024 · 25 minEpisode 40 is about maintenance blunders. Aviation is littered with a long list of these, sometimes it the failure of unofficial parts, sometimes its poor management, sometimes engineers who cut corners - and believe it or not, all three…
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Episode 39 - Deadly delays during Ramadan as Saudia Airlines Flight 163 crew dawdles
June 19, 2024 · 16 minThis is episode 39 and we’re looking at a horrendous accident, Saudia Airlines Flight 163, a Lockheed TriStar which was gutted in a blaze on the ground on 19th August 1980 - all 301 aboard died. The plane was registered in Saudi Arabia…
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Episode 38 - Newark Airport’s “umbrella of death” and Jimmy Doolittle’s clear ways
February 6, 2024 · 22 minThis episode we’re going to take a look at commercial airliners that have hit obstacles near runways and how three accidents in the small town of Elizabeth New Jersey in 1951 and 1952 led to rules about clear ways and re-zoning. It’s…
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Episode 37 - Sharing the skies: A short history of bird strikes and improved safety
December 4, 2023 · 24 minThis is episode 37 and we’re dealing with bird strikes. The most famous of these was US Airways flight 1549 from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte. Pilot Sully Sullenberger and first officer Jeffrey Skiles ditched the Airbus…
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Episode 36 - The 1971 Aeroflot Antonov twin crashes and the ATR-72’s achilles boot
September 1, 2023 · 29 minThis is episode 36 and its icy cold out there - it’s time to check out the incidents involving icing - starting with a short list and general description of the causes, then focusing on the two Aeroflot Atonovs accidents in 1971 and a…
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Episode 35 - The 1986 Aeromexico collision over L.A. that changed aviation
May 1, 2023 · 28 minEpisode 35 - The 1986 Aeromexico collision over L.A. that changed aviation by Desmond Latham
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Episode 34 - The British Airship accident that was deadlier than The Hindenburg
April 25, 2023 · 27 minThe British government was focused on making dirigibles the transport of choice in the 1930s - competing with the Germans to produce the largest, most luxurious and most convenient way to travel across its empire. In the summer of 1930 two…
About the show
I'm a pilot obsessed with flying and all things aviation. This podcast series covers more than a century of commercial aviation and how its shaped the world. Aviation is now safer than its ever been, but it took one hundred years of learning and often through accidents and incidents to reduce the risk of flying.