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Episode 45 - The Pitot-Tube Loving Mud-Dauber Wasp and Birgenair Flight 301
August 14, 2026 · 23 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 · 18 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 · 28 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 · 24 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 36 - The 1971 Aeroflot Antonov twin crashes and the ATR-72’s achilles boot
September 1, 2023 · 27 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 5 – Miss Macao: The first commercial airliner to be hijacked
August 4, 2019 · 18 minI’m your host and pilot, Desmond Latham. Every week we tackle a different area of aviation and this week it’s the history of hijackings. The first ever hijacking of a commercial plane took place on the 16th July 1948. It involved a…
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Episode 2- Air France 447, frozen pitot tubes & confusion on the flight deck
June 25, 2019 · 24 minThis is the series that tracks air disasters through history and how each has led directly to the safety we almost take for granted every time we climb aboard an airliner. Last week it was the story of the first recognized commercial air…
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Episode 1 - An Airship plunges into a Chicago Bank
June 18, 2019 · 20 minThis series called Plane Crash Diaries is really about how safe aviation has become. This sounds like a contradiction, but its through the experience of more than a century of commercial aviation that experts have been able to build an…