Into the Abyss
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and a criminal find themselves enduring freezing temperatures in the remote wilderness after their plane crashes in Northern Canada.
A huge thank you to Erik Vogel, the late Larry Shaben, and his daughter Carol Shaben for sharing this story with Snap!
There is so much more we are not able to share with you about Erik and Larry’s experience. To find out more about what transpired with Wapiti Flight 402, checkout Carol Shaben’s book, “Into the Abyss,” from Grand Central Publishing.
Special thanks to Nikka Singh for his help with this story.
Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 14 - Episode 4
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios |
| 0:18.0 | If you're lucky, very, very lucky, you get to grow up with siblings that you um |
| 0:26.9 | for lack of a better word, you love and growing up I didn't say hey hey |
| 0:34.8 | knucklehead brothers I love you but in time I've come to realize that I do in |
| 0:43.1 | fact love them more than love them and there are lots of horrors associated with |
| 0:52.4 | trauma I know this but the gift of trauma at an early age is that it forges a |
| 0:59.3 | type of sibling relationship that sometimes I don't see from families that |
| 1:05.7 | had an easier go of it I've witnessed brothers grown men who grew up |
| 1:12.3 | together in the same home after a long time apart greet each other by |
| 1:17.7 | shaking hands by nodding hello what those of us that emerged from trauma |
| 1:27.0 | household we greet each other with bear hugs jumping on each others back |
| 1:32.1 | suplexes and atomic wedgies every touch every smack upside to head a |
| 1:37.3 | reminder a celebration that we made it through and my brothers they both passed |
| 1:46.5 | on too early far far too early but if I get to see them again the next life one |
| 1:58.1 | thing I can absolutely guarantee is that day that day they won't be no |
| 2:04.0 | shaking hands no polite nods no way they will be joy and for everyone that has |
| 2:12.6 | been to the edge and looked over today and snap judgment we proudly present |
| 2:20.4 | into the abyss my name is Lamar Washington and if you've never dipped your |
| 2:28.4 | siblings hands in hot sauce while they were sleeping you should you really |
| 2:35.8 | should you're listening to step judgment we begin by taking you back to the |
| 2:49.6 | year 1988 since the listeners should know that today's episode doesn't |
| 2:54.9 | involve a plane crash and what six lives were lost in 1988 a young journalist |
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