Admiral CloudbergA Shot in the Dark: The Untold Story of Korean Air Lines flight 007Revisiting the day the Soviet Union shot down an airliner, and how amid Cold War passions, the world misremembered it.103 min read·4 days ago--25--25
Admiral CloudbergDesigned to Crash: The bizarre story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demiseNobody was killed when a Soviet-built Antonov An-28 crashed in England in 1993. But the accident did reveal a truly “shocking” design flaw…28 min read·May 4, 2024--26--26
Admiral CloudbergFire in the Fog: The crash of Swissair flight 306In 1963, a Swissair jet caught fire and crashed near Zürich, killing 80 people. Was the fire caused by a botched attempt to disperse fog?31 min read·Apr 13, 2024--9--9
Admiral CloudbergPowerless over London: The crash of British Airways flight 38When a British Airways Boeing 777 crash-landed at Heathrow Airport in 2008, investigators went to extraordinary lengths to solve the case.35 min read·Apr 6, 2024--32--32
Admiral CloudbergInsanity in the Air: The crash of Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303“We can make it, inshallah”: How gross negligence on multiple levels led to one of the most bizarre and needless plane crashes of all time54 min read·Mar 17, 2024--57--57
Admiral CloudbergDown in Deep Water: The ditching of ALM Antillean Airlines flight 980In 1970, after running out of fuel over the Caribbean, the passengers and crew of a DC-9 faced an unthinkable ditching on the open ocean.47 min read·Feb 28, 2024--19--19
Admiral CloudbergThe Fall of the Viscount: The crash of Capital Airlines flight 20How investigators unraveled a terrifying sequence of events that brought down the world’s first turboprop airliner, claiming 50 lives.30 min read·Feb 17, 2024--20--20
Admiral CloudbergMyths, Men, and the Minority Report: The crash of Arrow Air flight 1285Unraveling the story behind the 1985 disaster that killed 250 US servicemen, and the bureaucratic drama that obscured the truth.60 min read·Feb 10, 2024--30--30
Admiral CloudbergWarnings Unheard, Warnings Unheeded: The story of the 2019 Alaska mid-air collisionA tale of a mid-air disaster that killed 6, a hero pilot who saved 10 more, and the reasons it could happen again.27 min read·Jan 27, 2024--17--17
Admiral CloudbergAlone in the Inferno: The crash of UPS Airlines flight 6How a lithium battery fire brought down a 747 cargo plane, how one man fought desperately to save it, and how flying changed as a result.47 min read·Jan 14, 2024--21--21