Mayday S9E4 · Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493)

Mayday

Season 9 · Episode 4 · Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493) · 45 min

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.