Episode 110: American Airlines Flight 191

Videos:

• Seconds from Disaster: America’s Deadliest Air Crash
• Allec Joshua Ibay: Catastrophe at O’Hare (Just a reminder that if you want to go down a rabbit hole, Allec’s YouTube channel features detailed recreations of plane crashes in Microsoft Flight Simulator and clearly does great research.)

Articles and books:

• American Airlines Flight 191 still haunts
• NTSB report on the crash
• FAA: Lessons Learned

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Episode 109: The journey of the MS St Louis

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Videos:

• The Doomed Voyage of the St Louis Documentary

Articles and books:

• SS St Louis: The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted
• U.S. Policy During the Holocaust: The Tragedy of S.S. St. Louis
• A ship full of refugees fleeing the Nazis once begged the U.S. for entry. They were turned back.
• “The Saddest Ship Afloat”: The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis (Stories of Our Past), by Allison Lawler
• The @stl_manifest Twitter account

Episode 108: The Mont Blanc tunnel fire

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Videos:

• Seconds From Disaster S1E02 Mont Blanc Tunnel Inferno
• The Approach and Journey Through Mont Blanc Tunnel

Articles and books:

• 35 die, 1 Briton missing in Mont Blanc tunnel fire
• Alive at the End of the Tunnel
• Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire Memorial
• Guilty Verdicts in Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire Trial
• Toll Rises to 35 in Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire
• A Deadly Blaze in the Alps Made a Biker a Hero and Tunnels Safer for All

Episode 107: The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire

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Videos:

• Headline act on night of Beverly Hills Supper Club fire recounts event 40 years later
• Beverly Hills Night of Terror Years of Tears Supper Club 10 Year Anniversay Special WKRC TV

Articles and books:

• Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire, by Ron Elliott
• I’m Covering The Beverly Hills Fire Again 40 Years Later
• THE LAST SUPPER

Episode 106: The Dyatlov Pass incident

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Videos:

• The Mystery of the 9 Russian Hikers found Dead

Articles and books:

• Snopes: The Dyatlov Pass incident
• The Dyatlov Pass website
• Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, by Donnie Eichar
• Russia reopens investigation into 60-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery

Episode 105: The 1996 Air Africa crash

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Videos:

• AP: 300 Die as Plane Engulfs Open-Air Market
• Congo and Africa’s World War: Crash Course World History 221

Articles and books:

• Washington Post: DEATH TOLL NEAR 300 IN ZAIRE PLANE CRASH
• Six killed in plane crash in DR Congo election flight
• Zaire crash airline had been officially grounded
• 250 feared killed in Zaire crash
• Disaster at Simba Zikidi: The 1996 Air Africa Crash

Episode 104: The Top Storey Club fire

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Articles and books:

• Top Storey Club fire, Bolton
• The Top Storey Club: The Deadly Fire of 1961
• THE TOP STOREY CLUB DISASTER OF MAY, 1961:19 deaths that shocked a nation
• Lost Pubs of Bolton: The Top Storey Club, Crown Street
• The Top Storey Club Fire – What we can learn 50 years on