On February 4, 2015, a routine 50-minute flight from Taipei to Kinmen Island turned into a two-minute-and-48-second nightmare captured on dashcam and watched by millions worldwide. Join Alice and Zach to learn how a microscopic circuit board failure triggered a cascade of catastrophic decisions in the cockpit—and how investigators proved that doing nothing would have saved 43 lives. 

Sources:

• Mayday: Air Disasters - Season 17, Episode 7: "Caught on Camera"
• "A Horrible Chain of Mistakes! TransAsia Airways flight 235" by Mentour Pilot (YouTube)
• Taiwan Aviation Safety Council Final Report (ASC-AOR-16-06-001)
• "Review of Medical Response in 2015 TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Aircraft Crash" - NCBI/PMC
• Wikipedia: TransAsia Airways Flight 235
• Aviation Safety Network occurrence report

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Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stem