Air Disasters
Pitch Black
S17 E8:
The pilots of Air Illinois Flight 710 get a warning light less two minutes into their short hop from Springfield to Carbondale. One of the plane's two generators has failed, but the captain decides it's safe to continue the flight. Just a half hour later, however, the turboprop crashes 25 miles from the destination, killing all ten people aboard. NTSB investigators wonder why an aircraft with one perfectly functioning generator could fall out of the sky. An astonishing statement heard on the cockpit voice recording may point to the reason.