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Mayday
Season 9 · Episode 4
Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493)
8.045mSeptember 29, 2010
On 1 February 1991, USAir Flight 1493 collides with a waiting SkyWest Airlines aircraft on the runway, killing 34 people. An air traffic controller mistakenly assigned the inbound Flight 1493 to land on a runway where SkyWest Flight 5569 was waiting to take off.
Episodes
- Episode 1Panic on the Runway (British Airtours Flight 28M)
- Episode 2Pilot vs Plane (Air France Flight 296)
- Episode 3Alarming Silence (Northwest Airlines Flight 255)
- Episode 4Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493)
- Episode 5Target Is Destroyed (Korean Air Lines Flight 007)
- Episode 6Cold Case (Air Ontario 1363 and USAir 405)
- Episode 7The Final Blow (Air Inter Flight 148)
- Episode 8Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)