Episode 36: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The harrowing video aired on a loop around the world -- a passenger airliner gliding down toward the sea near a tourist-filled beach, then tumbling over and over as it struck the water. What happened in Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 in the hours prior to its crash into the sea near the Comoros Islands required bravery, quick patience, and resourcefulness out of pilot Leul Abate -- and more than a little bit of luck. (My apologies for any audio issues. I had some microphone problems this week.)

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise, and let's just get the usual housekeeping out of the way first.
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0:44.3	all times are in coordinated universal time, which is basically Greenwich Mean Time.
0:51.3	And before I start, I just want to preemptively apologize for any name or place name
0:57.8	that I might pronounce, or mispronounce, I should say. There are a couple of names in here
1:03.8	that I really didn't get a chance to practice. So if I screw it up, my apologies. And with all of that taken care of, thank you very much for listening and welcome to disaster area.
1:20.7	Episode 36.
1:25.3	Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, November 23rd, 1996, 125 deceased, 46 injured.
1:37.3	Hijackings have been a reality of manned flight almost since its very inception.
1:42.3	In 1928, Clarence Frischett attacked pilot Harry Anderson with a ball peen hammer and
1:47.9	struggled with him over control of the plane, causing it to crash over Detroit.
1:53.6	Most hijackings are politically motivated, terroristic, or in the cases like the infamous D.B. Cooper, simple demands for money.
2:05.6	Prior to 9-11, only a handful of hijackings resulted in crashes and high casualty counts.
2:11.6	However, the deadliest hijacking before the events of September 11, 2001 has one major thing in common
2:19.8	with that day.
2:21.2	You have all seen video of the end result, though you may need to be reminded of which
2:27.0	video that is.
2:29.6	The Flight 961 airplane was nicknamed Zulu.
2:35.3	It was $40 million airplane, and the reason that it was nicknamed Zulu was after the final
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