Mayday

Dead of Winter (Continental Airlines Flight 1713)

Aired Jul 4, 2018 · 1:00 PM ET · 45 min

On 15 November 1987, Continental Airlines Flight 1713 stalls and crashes off the right side of the runway shortly after taking off in a snowstorm from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on a scheduled flight to Boise, Idaho, killing 28 of the 82 people on board.