Synopsis

In the heavy snow of 1987, Denver air traffic controllers battled to maintain departure schedules, but a DC-9 remained delayed on the tarmac. Once cleared for takeoff, the aircraft ascended only twenty feet before abruptly banking and crashing back to earth, a devastating plunge that claimed the lives of 28 of the 82 people aboard. This is the story of the investigators who painstakingly pieced together the circumstances surrounding Continental Airlines Flight 1713’s crash, a tragedy that occurr