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Music It's October 4, 1960, on the tarmac of Boston's Logan Airport.

On board a departing plane, Eastern Airlines flight attendant Joan Barry Hale completes a safety demonstration for the aircraft's 67 passengers.

She walks toward the lounge area and the rear in the plane and takes her seat as the pilot

taxis to the runway. It's all just a routine flight on a routine day. As the pilot throttles

up the plane's four propeller engines, the plane lifts off,

and Joan feels the familiar sensation of becoming airport.

But just six seconds after takeoff, everything changes.

The plane shudders with an unusual vibration.

Joan knows immediately something is wrong.

The engines don't sound synced up, and the plane seems to be taking a left turn, even

though they have only just taken off. It's clear the pilots have no control over the plane

and have no time to react. The plane dramatically slows down. Then, as fast as it ascended

into the sky, the aircraft begins to hurtle back down. Joan and her

fellow crew members try to brace for impact, but they only have seconds before the plane

crashes into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Joan Barry Hale is one of only

10 who will survive the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 375.

In the ensuing investigation, dead birds would be found clogging three of the plane's

propeller engines and the bodies of other birds will be found littering the runway in Boston.

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