Air Disasters

S2, EP5 "Alarming Silence"

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Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes shortly after take-off in Detroit in 1987; a fatal preflight error caused the second-deadliest plane crash in the U.S. history.

Original Air Date: Jul 15, 2012Smithsonian Channel46m

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