Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Plane Crash podcast?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to doomed to fail. My name is Taylor, and along with my best friend Fars, we tell you stories about historical disasters and failures. And it's kind of turned into anything we find interesting. We're learning a ton and we're weaving a web to tell a story about human history. Today, I want to focus on some of our plain stories. So I am doing better, but I went to a lot of therapy, very serious. a lot of therapy to be able to get on an airplane and not have a panic attack and not feel

Starting point is 00:00:34 extremely nervous. I think there is a part of it that I will always sort of blame on being in New York on September 11th and knowing someone who died in the plane that hit the Pentagon. My German teacher from high school, her name was Barbara Edwards. She was a lovely, hilarious old German woman. We played pranks on her. We watched far and away in her class like four times. We made donuts. Like she was just an absolute trip and her son got married in Boston and she was on her way home. And I think she even like maybe stayed an extra day. I don't know if that's the rumor, but her plane hit the Pentagon. And I think about her all the time. She wore lovely broaches of animals and I don't know. So I feel scared of being on a plane, but I go. I've never not gone. And I'm doing much better now

Starting point is 00:01:26 as I get older and as I work on it, but I understand it's like a real thing, but also I think about historically how insane it is that we have not been flying for very long. So anyway, back to the stories. Some episodes that I want to share with you. Episode 68 is on the Tenerife crash, which is the worst crash in history, I think, until September 11th. We put those together, about 538 people died on the tarmac. And it's so interesting because one of the KLM pilots who was like the KLM pilot was involved in it and it's a business story as well, I think. Ben on episode 77, Forrest talks about clouds and there's some times where there's a man who has plane, I don't know, broke and he was like hanging in a cloud on a parachute for a long

Starting point is 00:02:13 time. And it's interesting the things he saw. It's just like not a thing. There is episode 80 on the SR 71 Blackbird. It's about like a very stealth plane the United States made. Episode 90 is about our deal, dear, dear, dear Amelia Earhart. We love her. Also, don't forget, Frank Noonan, who, Fred Noonan, who died with her in her, in her plane. There is episode 116 on little mistakes that kind of messed up space travel, so there's in that. Episode 138, considering more space travel is about the Challenger. I know it's not a plane, but also, like, how freaking far we've come from the Bright Brothers to the Challenger to today. It's insane.

Starting point is 00:02:52 episode 140 i did episode on times when planes hit buildings in new york city obviously not september 11th because i'm not talking about that but other times there's not just one there's several episode 161 is on the locker bee bombing when a plane exploded over ireland it was a terrorist attack episode 170 is on the uberlingen disaster where two planes collided mid-air episode 190 is of the german wings flight that was pretty recent where the pilot crashed the plane into a mountain. Episode 192 is about a New Zealand flight that crashed in the Antarctic. They hit a mountain, and they didn't know that it was there, and it's actually super interesting. And then Flight 123 is about Japan Airlines. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Episode 205 is about Japan Airlines Flight 123, which was the worst single aircraft crash in history. So maybe that came after.

Starting point is 00:03:49 Come back. Listen to all of them. we have plenty of episodes on planes oh and also i think i forgot to add i have an episode about sarlah the call who is the amelia airport of india so on her too as well as in our women's history stories there's a lot it's a lot and it and i feel like we are very lucky to be able to do that because a lot of the stories we tell are about people who traversed mountains and lands to find other people like can you imagine being a Roman when the Celts walked across the fucking mountains into your land and you saw these

Starting point is 00:04:27 people who were, you know, inches taller than you, big red-haired peoples that you'd never seen before. If you were in the Mediterranean or in Africa, places like you didn't know there was snow unless you were near a mountain, like the things that we've learned that we're able to see because of how quickly we can get from place to place, we take it for granted. We, you know, let it be a joke but we're very lucky that we get to do this because in the past you would get to maybe drive your horse a mile away or you always had to walk and all the things so anyway it's scary but it's a fucking miracle I'm very lucky and please listen to our plane episodes if you have a plain story email us dupilpod at gmail.com thank you

Starting point is 00:05:19 Thank you.

Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Plane Crash podcast?

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