Southern Air 242 doomed in a Storm | ATC

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Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoas, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia., with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama. On April 4, 1977, it executed a forced landing on Georgia State Route 381 in New Hope, Georgia. United States, after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm. 

At the time of the accident, the Southern Airways aircraft was flying from Huntsville-Madison County Airport to Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Intl. Airport.  Sixty-three people on the aircraft (including both pilots) and nine people on the ground died; twenty passengers survived, as well as the two flight attendants.

This is the only fragments of ATC that was found from that fateful day.

ATC frequencies and Sectors found in the NTSB Final Report.

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