Episode 95: Human Error

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Eastern Airline's Flight 401 from New York to Miami was about to touch down, when their landing gear malfunctioned. The crew promptly engaged autopilot and climbed back to 2000 feet to try and fix the problem. Eventually, after failing to fix the gear immediately, they had to send someone down underneath the plane to manually check. Unbeknownst to the crew, the autopilot had been disengaged, and the plane was slowly losing altitude. The descent was so gradual that no one had noticed, until it was too late.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph. I'm live. Hello, how are you I am good how are you I'm fantastic I'm
0:27.8	riding high off the fried rice right now oh sure fried rice little broccoli I have a question for you.
0:34.4	Mm-hmm. Have you seen those videos recently where it's like 147 days to Christmas and
0:41.9	it's like banging like
0:43.9	Jingle bell rock and they're making Christmas cookies. Have you seen those? No, I'm not a Tiktock. It's freaking August guys
0:50.3	But I do bring this up because obviously we love Christmas. But anyway, it's kind of relevant because this story takes place in December of 1972.
1:01.0	So not the year, not that the year has anything to do with it but the our story starts on
1:08.0	December 29th 1972 so it's around Christmas time and it just made me think of those videos where they're like
1:15.7	N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N.
1:17.6	It's August. But anyway, let's jump in, shall we?
1:25.0	How far out do these people start to make those videos?
1:31.0	Probably like half a year away.
1:33.0	Literally. Huh? Yeah. Oh my God. It's crazy. People are obsessed. I mean I get it. Christmas is banging, but it's August. Yeah. Anyway. Maybe enjoy the summer.
1:47.7	Well yeah enjoy the summer. There's so many things until Christmas. There's like
1:52.3	Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. There's like Thanksgiving.
1:53.0	Thanksgiving, Halloween, Thanksgiving, then Christmas. And every other holiday that other people
2:00.0	celebrate that I'm ignorant about, but I'm sure there's other ones.
2:04.4	Anyway, this is so unimportant.
2:06.2	Why don't we jump into the story?
2:08.4	Let's do it.
2:09.4	Okay, so our story takes place.
2:11.6	Like I said, on December 29th 1972 Eastern Airlines flight
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