Football Team Crashes on Approach

Black Box Down

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Marshall University football team crashes just before landing. Southern Airways Flight 932 was bringing Marshall University's football team home after a game when the plane descends too early and crashes into a hillside. What caused the pilots to descend early? 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 Gabi (gabi.com/BLACKBOXDOWN) and Public Rec (Go to http://publicrec.com/blackboxdown and use promo code 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 Check out Good Morning From Hell: https://link.chtbl.com/gmfh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Teeth production.
0:07.0	November 14th, 1970.
0:10.0	Marshall University's football team has just finished playing in a way game against East Carolina.
0:14.0	The team boards Southern Airways Flight 932, their only flight of the season to head home.
0:20.0	75 people are on board for the quick 52-minute flight home on a DC-9 aircraft.
0:25.0	On final approach, less than two miles from the airport, the crew has trouble seeing the runway.
0:30.0	The first officer suddenly calls out altitude readings for the panic in his voice.
0:34.0	126, 100, then the plane collides with trees, dips to the right, and almost inverts and slams into the ground nose first.
0:42.0	All on board Parish.
0:44.0	What happened that caused the routine charter flight to crash so close to its destination?
0:48.0	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:51.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down.
0:55.0	It's Chris Angus, and we are back with another episode here for you guys to listen to.
1:01.0	How you doing, Chris?
1:02.0	I'm doing good.
1:03.0	I don't know. It might get cut, but in the intro, I guess.
1:06.0	You're like all on board Parish.
1:09.0	Yeah, it's a tough one.
1:11.0	This incident is fairly well known.
1:14.0	There's been a couple of movies about this incident and the aftermath.
1:17.0	I'm going to say up front, I have actually not seen any of the movies about this.
1:21.0	I've only looked into the incident reports and the investigation side of things.
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