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Final Boarding Call · June 10 · 46 min

Piedmont Flight 22

On July 19, 1967, Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 collided in midair with a small Cessna over the mountains of North Carolina, killing everyone aboard both aircraft — directly above a children's summer camp at lunchtime. Join Alice and Zach as they trace how a confusing radio clearance, a controller working without radar, and a single misunderstood instruction lined up into catastrophe. Discover the safety technology this disaster helped create, and the questions one investigator was still asking nearly forty years later. Sources: "Aircraft Accident Report AAR 68-AJ" – National Transportation Safety Board "The Crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22: Completing the Record of the 1967 Midair" – Paul D. Houle (McFarland & Company) Asheville Citizen, July 20-22, 1967 Asheville Times, July 19-20, 1967 Times-News (Hendersonville), July 19, 1967 Winston-Salem Journal, July 20, 1967 Twin-City Sentinel, July 19, 1967 "Piedmont Flight 22 and the Midair Collision Over Hendersonville" – Legeros Fire Blog "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" – Robert McNamara The Pentagon Papers Find FINAL BOARDING CALL online: Website: finalboardingcallpodcast.com Email: finalboardingcallpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @FinalBoardingCallPod Facebook: Final Boarding Call Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.

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On July 19, 1967, Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 collided in midair with a small Cessna over the mountains of North Carolina, killing everyone aboard both aircraft — directly above a children's summer camp at lunchtime. Join Alice and Zach as they trace how a confusing radio clearance, a controller working without radar, and a single misunderstood instruction lined up into catastrophe. Discover the safety technology this disaster helped create, and the questions one investigator was still asking nearly forty years later.

Sources:

  • "Aircraft Accident Report AAR 68-AJ" – National Transportation Safety Board
  • "The Crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22: Completing the Record of the 1967 Midair" – Paul D. Houle (McFarland & Company)
  • Asheville Citizen, July 20-22, 1967
  • Asheville Times, July 19-20, 1967
  • Times-News (Hendersonville), July 19, 1967
  • Winston-Salem Journal, July 20, 1967
  • Twin-City Sentinel, July 19, 1967
  • "Piedmont Flight 22 and the Midair Collision Over Hendersonville" – Legeros Fire Blog
  • "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" – Robert McNamara
  • The Pentagon Papers

Find FINAL BOARDING CALL online:


Credits: Final Boarding Call is hosted by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas, researched and written by Alice Stern, produced and edited by Alice Stern and Zach Stemas.

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