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It should have been an easy flight to Charlotte. But then something went horribly wrong.

It should have been an easy flight to Charlotte. But then something went horribly wrong.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 1974, 78 passengers and four crew members departed from Charleston’s airport in a DC-9 airplane that was doomed to crash.

Updated August 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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‘I’m human,’ the pilot said, ‘and I made a mistake.’ But somebody was going to have to pay

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9/11/74: The untold story of Charlotte’s deadliest plane crash.

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Dozens of passengers died on impact. The rest faced another deadly threat: ‘Dante’s Inferno’

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Coming Wednesday: Our 5-part series details harrowing legacy of Eastern Flight 212 disaster

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