Mayday!

The Watergate Crash: United Airlines 553


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The last thing you'd expect on a snowy Chicago day is for a Boeing 737 to crash into your house. Additionally, the last thing you'd expect as a passenger is a captain with 18,000 flight hours to make a series of mistakes that would ultimately kill you. But for Richard Nixon, in the aftermath of Watergate, the crash of United 553 was surprisingly convenient. How are a United Airlines flight and the Watergate scandal related? And was this an accident? Or is there more than meets the eye? Tune into today's episode as Caroline and Trevor find out.

View a complete list of the names of the passengers here, with children and infants noted specially:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15250427/passenger-list-of-flight-553/

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