Episode 3: Incredible Causes

12th December, 1985. Arrow Air Flight 1285 takes off from Gander airport in Canada for the US. Carrying US troops returning from a peacekeeping mission in Egypt, about a mile from the runway, the aircraft crashes. All 256 six passengers perish. An investigation by the Canadian Air Safety Board blames overloading and ice on the wing. But many questions continue to hang over Flight 1285. So was the tragedy of Arrow Air an act of god, or an act of terror?

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