Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493) Mayday : Season 9 Episode 4
TV-14 National Geographic 45m int(0)
Aired: September 29th, 2010 @ 8:00 PM EST on National Geographic
On 1 February 1991, USAir Flight 1493 collides with a waiting SkyWest Airlines aircraft on the runway, killing 34 people. An air traffic controller mistakenly assigned the inbound Flight 1493 to land on a runway where SkyWest Flight 5569 was waiting to take off.