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Mayday · S09E04

Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493)

Still from Mayday S09E04

Summary

On 1 February 1991, USAir Flight 1493 collides with a waiting SkyWest Airlines aircraft on the runway, killing 34 people. An air traffic controller mistakenly assigned the inbound Flight 1493 to land on a runway where SkyWest Flight 5569 was waiting to take off.

Guest stars

  • Art Hindle as Captain Shaw
  • Seann Gallagher as First Officer Kelly
  • David Bronfman as SkyWest Captain
  • Julia Lefebvre as Rosa Reynoso
  • Jacqueline Pillon as Robin Wascher
  • Kris Ryan as Bob MacIntosh
  • Phillip MacKenzie as Richard Wentworth