This week, Madison tells Bailey about an air disaster where a plane turns into a convertible (but not in a fun way). Tune in to learn all about the high-stakes calamity of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources in this episode:

• Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212398.Inviting_Disaster
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6AV9xiw85w 
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/30/and-then-whoosh-she-was-gone/a4da02d6-c8c3-47f7-a4e4-da2097a73b2a/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKs3ov6hFqM&t=1703s 
• https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/maintenance_hf/library/documents/media/human_factors_maintenance/aircraft_accident_report--aloha_airlines.flight_243.boeing_737-200.n73711.near_maui.hawaii.april_28.1988.pdf 

This week, Madison and Bailey talk about the smallpox epidemic. Specifically, the toll it took in the American Revolution, and the disgusting remedies used to save the troops. Seriously, bleh. 

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources in this episode:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775–1782_North_American_smallpox_epidemic 
• https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/09/how_vaccination_helped_win_the_revolutionary_war.html 
• https://www.armyheritage.org/soldier-stories-information/a-deadly-scourge-smallpox-during-the-revolutionary-war/ 

This week, Madison tells Bailey about a recent catastrophe to shake New Zealand: The White Island Volcanic Disaster.  Learn all about the tragic losses, and the unsung heroes of the event in today's episode.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources in this episode:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fndcCyYzXKg 
• https://www.outsideonline.com/2411711/whakaari-white-island-new-zealand-volcano-eruption-2019#close 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_eruption 

This week, Madison tells Bailey about a mountaineering excursion gone wrong: The Cairngorm Plateau Disaster.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources used in this episode:

• https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/nearly-50-years-ago-five-15726762 
• http://www.cairngormclub.org.uk/journals/PDFs/Articles/J095/The%20Cairngorm%20Club%20Journal%20095%20-%20The%20Feith%20Buidhe%20disaster%20WM.pdf 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorms 

This week, Madison tells Bailey all about the  disaster that reinvigorated America's interest in space exploration: The Apollo 13 disaster. 

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources used in this episode:

• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo13.html 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
• https://www.looper.com/286862/the-untold-truth-of-apollo-13-the-movie/ 
• https://www.space.com/8193-caused-apollo-13-accident.html 

This week, Madison tells Bailey about a rough time in human history where things got cold, food got scarce, and ultimately the Roman empire fell! It's the 6th Century Global Climate Catastrophe.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources used in this episode:

• https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/why-global-climatic-cataclysm-sixth-century-virtually-unheard-001360 
• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive 
• https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-caused-a-10-year-winter-starting-in-536-1505213873 
• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive 

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey all about the Idaho Falls nuclear disaster – the first-ever on US soil.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected]

Resources used in this episode:

• https://www.historynet.com/going-nuclear-idaho-falls.htm 
• http://www.environmental-defense-institute.org/publications/SL-1Consequences.pdf 
• https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-january-3-1961-three-men-die-nuclear-reactor-meltdown