As the sunset on 25 May, 2003, a Boeing 727 airliner was stolen from an airport in Angola.
The pilot, Ben Padilla, was an American flight engineer sent to Africa by his company to retrieve the plane and prepare it to make the long flight back to the U.S.
20 years later, the plane and its pilot are still missing, despite a worldwide search by the FBI and ... Show More
Oct 2024
Tim Ballard: Unmasking a Hero
Listen to the new season of Opportunist, out now wherever you listen to podcasts. In the 10th season of "The Opportunist: Tim Ballard," Podcast One will explore controversy surrounding Tim Ballard, the celebrated founder of Operation Underground Railroad, an organization known fo ... Show More
17m 54s
Aug 11
This Flight Got Hijacked - The Hijacking of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked on November 23, 1996, by three Ethiopian men seeking asylum in Australia. Shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, the hijackers—armed with an axe and a fire extinguisher—stormed the cockpit and demanded the Boeing 767 ... Show More
7m 56s
Aug 7
This Psycho Pilot Tries To Crash His Own Plane - The Auburn Calloway Story
Auburn Calloway, a disgruntled FedEx flight engineer facing imminent dismissal over falsified flight hours, attempted a shocking act of disguising a hijacking as an accident. Smuggling hammers, a speargun, and a guitar case aboard as a deadhead passenger, Calloway planned to murd ... Show More
8 m
Aug 27
TWA Flight 800: The Plane That Exploded Mid-Air
On July 17th, 1996, about 13 minutes into a direct flight from New York to Paris, TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air, killing all 230 people on board. An extensive investigation concluded that the most likely culprit was a mechanical issue. But the official story didn’t stop rumo ... Show More
42m 58s
Jul 2020
Ep. 14 - The Disappearance of D.B. Cooper
In 1971, a man boarded flight 305 above the Pacific Northwest, carrying what looked like a bomb. He took full control of the flight, demanding $200,000 in cash and a parachute. Before authorities could diffuse the situation, the mysterious hijacker jumps from the plane into the n ... Show More
55m 28s
Aug 25
The View From Above (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
On a crisp fall morning in 2007, a small airplane took flight over the forested town of Graham, Washington. The pilot was a detective with the Pierce county sheriff’s department, and he was flying a somewhat unusual mission. He wasn’t looking for a lost person, or chasing a fleei ... Show More
40m 44s
Feb 2025
CLASSIC: The Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpaur to Beijing. While public -- and, later, private -- entities from across the region searched for signs of the craft, no one was able to figure out what exactly happened. Join the g ... Show More
54m 38s