9/11/1974: "It Should Have Been An Easy Flight To Charlotte, N.C." 

Well, hmmm. This was a rather abbreviated reminder of what happened, but not bad. Was living not far away, so I remember this crash. I became a flight attendant for EAL in 1978, and I flew with the only surviving F/A on occasion. Lovely woman. Talk show host Steven Colbert lost his father and brother in this crash. Oddly after EAL folded, I began flying with AA, and was based in Boston. On 9/11 2001 I lost 11 friends/crew members on flight 11. I was actually scheduled to take the same flight to 5 days later. Small horrible world. Please never forget.

This is the crash that killed Stephen Colbert’s father and his two brothers.

I worked at a steel mill in SC and we received pieces of burned mail from this flight that crashed short of the runway. I still have that mail.

Wait this was 9/11 Decades before the twin tower attacks

Always makes me think the compiler knows nothing about planes when they are discussing a DC-9 accident and show a DC-6 taking off and a Boeing 707 flying. Then again, I assume this is from a Newspaper, so don't expect them to know anything about planes.

How can two experienced pilots get totally "sidetracked" on the approach of all things? They apparently didn't know they were too low on their glideslope and crashed their airplane into a wooded area. I can't imagine how they squabbled their approach to the runway when the tower already provided them accurate information for the landing to take place. The DC-9's descent was way lower than what the tower had given the crew. Unfortunately this was an accident that didn't need to happen and many people died. There was nothing wrong with that airplane, so this was in fact classified as pilot error. RIP to all the deceased.🙏✝️

Don't forget to link to the final NTSB report...

A little before my time, but Eastern was our family airline in the late 70s through the 80s... Flew them everywhere out of ORF.

So what happened to cause the crash? And when you get to it: why certain seat positions Survivable, others not. Having hooked us on the human story, very well done, please tell us/promote /indicate when the other installments will be shown~ I'm watching this on You Tube: I have no natural pre-existing connection to Charlotte. I do have a brother and sister in law in Durham, NC. =Without promotion I will not know or come across Episode 2,3,4,5.

1:20 Were there still DC-6s flying into Charlotte in 1974?

Charolotte seems to have a cloud bank a lot.

210 miles