What happened to Flight 212’s survivors after the crash, and a full list of the deceased
Of the 10 original survivors of the Flight 212 plane crash in Charlotte on Sept. 11, 1974, three are still alive. Here’s what ...
What led to this deadly disaster? It started with a casual conversation in the cockpit
In the final minutes before Eastern Flight 212 crashed in Charlotte, the pilots were engaged in small talk that mostly had ...
‘I’m human,’ the pilot said, ‘and I made a mistake.’ But somebody was going to have to pay
The man who was flying Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 when it crashed makes a case for getting his pilot’s license back. And ...
Stephen Colbert lost 3 family members in Flight 212 crash. He rarely talks about it.
Colbert was 10 years old and living in Charleston, S.C., at the time of the 1974 crash. Now, at 60, he says he has trouble ...
Raleigh News & Observer14d
Dozens of passengers died on impact. The rest faced another deadly threat: ‘Dante’s Inferno’
For the passengers of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 — headed from Charleston, S.C., to Charlotte on Sept. 11, 1974 — nothing seemed wrong at 7:33 a.m. By 7:34, all hell had broken loose.
Raleigh News & Observer10d
What led to this deadly disaster? It started with a casual conversation in the cockpit
The skies were cloudy and the ground was covered by a patchy blanket of fog in Charlotte on the morning of September 11th, 1974. But it wasn’t bad weather or poor visibility that led to the ...