The Mystery of Flight 980

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Eastern Airlines Flight 980 crashes in the Andes. No one can figure out why it crashed. Stranger still, no one can find the passengers' bodies. What happened to Flight 980?

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.9	This is The Shocking Details.
0:14.5	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
0:18.7	I'm Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni. And of course,
0:23.7	we've got another fascinating little story for you this week. This one's a mystery. It's actually
0:28.1	considered one of the great air mysteries of all time. It doesn't date back that far,
0:33.7	1985. And, you know, it's actually not that unusual plane crash but was what's really weird about it is
0:42.5	that the plane crashed in the Andes in Bolivia and when search teams got up there to have a look at it
0:49.7	they did find it they found a lot of wreckage it a bad crash. What they didn't find was any bodies
0:55.2	or blood, which is weird because there were people on the plane. It was a commercial airliner.
1:00.8	And so that was really unusual. And also, it's not, it's really not known why the plane crashed.
1:05.8	It's not known what happened with it. Was it just pilot error? Was there a bomb on board or what the hell happened?
1:12.9	So, yeah, it's a strange little mystery. And people have been trying to go up there and look at the wreckage.
1:18.0	The black box never turned up. Never. Never did.
1:21.4	So let's go back. Let's go back to the very beginning. It's New Year's Day, 1985.
1:27.6	Eastern Airlines Flight 980 is carrying 29 passengers as it crashes into the side of a mountain high in the Bolivian Andes.
1:35.4	Yes.
1:36.2	Okay.
1:36.3	Let's talk about how it got there.
1:38.1	It's carrying 29 people, 29 passengers, and it's preparing to land at El Alto, which is one of the trickiest landings
1:44.5	of any major airport in the world.
1:46.8	Yeah, I don't know how tricky it is.
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