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Skeptoid #231: The Mystery of STENDEC

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

History, Skeptic, Social Sciences, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Skepticism, Paranormal, Science

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2010

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash.

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0:00.0

The history of aviation is full of marvelous mystery stories, but sadly so many of them

0:09.0

have to do with crashes or disappearances.

0:12.4

Today we have one, nifty, and that it includes a mysterious element still not explained to

0:18.4

this day.

0:19.4

It's to do with an undesirable, morse code transmission that was sent, and then carefully

0:25.8

repeated.

0:27.3

Moments before the sender crashed into the AMD's mountains with the loss of all lives.

0:33.0

The mystery of Stendek is coming up next, Unskeptoid.

0:37.5

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