Essence Of Safety - Season 1 Launch Trailer

09/08/22 • 2 min

Welcome to the Essence of Safety! Hosted by airline pilot and safety investigator Nicolaus Dmoch, the Essence of Safety podcast takes deep dives into accidents to uncover the real, underlying causes. In the first season, we are going to look at the accidents of a Ju-Air Junkers Ju-52 in the Swiss Alps, a deadly, inadvertent activation of an ejection seat that killed one of the pilots of the famous Red Arrows aerobatics team, and the accident of Rescue 116, an Irish helicopter that was lost during a search-and-rescue missue - and many more.

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The Demise of the Old Aunt

In 2018, a Ju-Air Junkers Ju52 crashed while on a sightseeing flight in the Swiss Alps. The investigation uncovered that the pilots had inadvertently stalled the aircraft and that there was too little altitude left for them to recover from the stall. But what the investigators also found were severe issues with how the aircraft were maintained and how flights were conducted. Could it be that many turned a blind eye so that this epic aircraft could continue flying?