in a awful weather day in 1990 in the northeast of the us atc bosses force new york to handle too many flights one of which an avianca 707 from medeilin columbia is forced to circle endlessly due to no visibillity and heavy wind with 157 people onboard. they are eventually cleared to approach jfk as boston their alternate is too far now due to the endless circuling (they had 2 hours spare of fuel but evne that was barely enough to get one approach in the high traffic weather). and the approach nearly crashes the plane due to the windshear forcing them to nearly crash by the time they get a 2nd approach clearence its too late they run out of fuel and crash into long island killing 73 people (all but one of the crew and 61 passengers). the cause was mostly atc error but the work load was ridicilous weather also meant they couldn’t land on their only attempt the pilots not saying emergency is blamed but i think thats a stretch to say that caused the crash nor the captains lack of english proficency.
next time season 3 a roof and a 39 year veteran goes missing on a 737.
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