The Story of the 1202 Alarm

Gene Krantz made an emotionally powerful address to his flight controllers not long before the 13 minutes of final descent. He said that no one stood alone, that the team was far more than the sum of its parts. Even after 50 years, talking about Gene Krantz's message moved Steve deeply. We'll come back to the story of the 1202 alarm in later episodes because it continued to plague the descent almost all the way to the landing. The critical computer controlling the flight was struggling and we'll explore why that was.