In 1983, a aircraft takes off from Ottawa with lower than half the required gasoline on board. Because the engines reduce out one after the other, the pilot is left with a ticking clock and an unimaginable activity. However what does a story of an uncommon aircraft crash have in frequent with one a few disappearing canal?
For this particular episode, Tim is joined by colleagues from throughout Pushkin’s podcast community. Heavyweight’s Jonathan Goldstein stops by to muse on the price of errors and whether or not we’re actually in command of what number of we make. Plus, Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova from the podcast Dangerous Enterprise have a gambler’s tackle the unusual science of remorse.
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Additional Studying
On the Chesterfield Canal
The Day they pulled the Plug, Nigel Blundell The World’s Biggest Errors and Stephen Pile The E book of Heroic Failures.
On the Gimli Glider
Humble Pi by Matt Parker. Freefall by William and Marilyn Hoffer, the official investigation report and reporting in Flight Security Australia, Hovering Journal and The Ottowa Citizen.