Fatalities on the Safest Airline

Black Box Down

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

One airline has only four fatalities in nearly 50 years. Southwest Airlines has only had four fatal incidents during its entire opertational period. What are the moments that led to these incidents and what did we learn from them? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by The Jordan Harbinger Show (jordanharbinger.com/subscribe) and Fundrise (http://fundrise.com/blackboxdown) BUY OUR SHIRT - U.S. STORE: https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/black-box-down-t-shirt U.K. STORE: https://store.roosterteeth.co.uk/products/black-box-down-t-shirt Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Ruesturzy's production.
0:07.5	Southwest Airlines, a United States-based budget airline has been flying since 1971.
0:13.3	In those nearly 50 years, the airline has only had nine incidents with four fatalities
0:18.0	and only two destroyed aircraft.
0:20.2	With such a stellar safety record, we began wondering what exactly happened that led to a fatal incident with this airline.
0:26.2	We dug into the information, compiled it all for you, find out what we learned on this episode of Black Boxdown.
0:35.4	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Boxdown.
0:37.3	Gus, here with Chris. Hello, Chris.
0:40.0	I'm ready to learn about Southwest Airlines.
0:42.8	Southwest Airlines. Before we get to that, I want to remind everyone to follow us on social media.
0:46.5	I know I always say it. It's because you haven't done it yet.
0:49.5	Go follow us on Twitter or Instagram at Black BoxdownPod.
0:52.9	I've done it, Gus. I did it.
0:54.7	You did it?
0:55.2	It's great. I love it.
0:56.4	Good. We'll definitely have some photos from this episode.
1:00.9	We're doing something a little different in this episode. I'm sure you can tell.
1:03.9	We're not covering just a single incident.
1:06.4	I've always been fascinated with Southwest Airlines.
1:08.6	There are pretty ubiquitous airline here in the United States.
1:11.2	I'm not sure how familiar our international listeners are with them.
1:14.1	But it's a budget airline that's based out of Dallas, not Dallas Fort Worth, a Dallas Love Airport.
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