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Black Box Down

Disappearing Off The Ireland Coast

Black Box Down

Black Box Down

Society & Culture, Aviation, True Crime, Leisure, Documentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A Boeing 747 suddenly disappears from radar over the Atlantic Ocean. Air India Flight 182 is operating normally at cruising altitude when the radar scope shows two other aircraft converge with this one. After a few moments only two radar blips remain on the screen and Flight 182 is missing. What happened to this airplane? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by Raycon (http://buyraycon.com/blackboxdown) Feals (http://feals.com/blackboxdown) and FightCamp (http://joinfightcamp.com/blackboxdown) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:00.6

This is a Rooster Teeth production.

1:07.4

June 23, 1985. Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747 with 329 people on board,

1:15.2

is cruising over the Atlantic Ocean 120 miles southwest of Ireland as it flies from Montreal

1:21.1

to London on its way to Bombay. The flight is just checked in with Shannon Air Traffic Control,

1:26.0

then a few minutes later it disappears from Air Traffic Control's radar.

1:29.3

Two other planes have converged near the Air India flight, and the radar scope has merged

1:33.2

all three planes into one blip on the tower's two-dimensional screen.

1:36.6

After a short while, the blips diverge, and only two planes reappear on the scope.

1:41.2

Shannon Air Traffic Control tries to hail the Air India flight, but gets no response.

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