Mayday

Pitch Black (Air Illinois Flight 710)

Aired Mar 27, 2022 · 1:00 PM ET · 42 min

On October 11, 1983, a routine 160 mile (245km) commuter flight from Springfield, Illinois, to Carbondale, Illinois, turns deadly when the Hawker Siddeley HS 748 the pilots were flying loses D.C. electrical power from both aircraft generators.