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Episode 143: TWA Flight 800
Disaster Area
English - August 24, 2020 11:37 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB - ★★★★ - 723 ratingsHistory Society & Culture explosions history massshootings tornadoes volcanoes aviationaccidents disaster disasters earthquakes fires Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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You're at a midsummer evening party at a friend's beach house, enjoying a cocktail or two as the sun sets, when a loud noise draw everyone's gaze to the skies above the ocean. Something has exploded up above - a plane, raining down in fiery pieces on the water below. The sight is already terrifying enough until the whispers start. Did anyone else see something arcing up toward the plane before it blew up?