24 Season
219 Episode
Mayday - Season 5 Episode 3 Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242)
On 4 April 1977, Southern Airways Flight 242, a flight from Huntsville, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, flies through a severe thunderstorm and is hit by large hailstones. Both engines of the DC-9-31 fail, and the aircraft makes an emergency landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia. However, it collides with a gas station and explodes, killing 62 people on board and eight on the ground. Two more die later of injuries sustained during the crash.
- Year : 2024
- Country : Canada
- Genre : Documentary, Drama, Crime
- Studio : Channel 5, Discovery, Sky History, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic
- Keyword : airplane accident, airplane wreck, airplane crash, crash landing, exploding airplane, plane crash, plane
- Director : André Barro, Bernard Vaillot
- Cast : Stephen Bogaert, Jonathan Aris
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