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Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Paraguay to the United States. On January 1, 1985, while descending towards La Paz, Bolivia, for a scheduled stopover, the jetliner struck Mount Illimani at an altitude of 19,600 feet (6,000 m), killing all 29 people on board.

The wreckage was scattered over a large area of a glacier covered with snow. Over the decades, several search expeditions were only able to recover a small amount of debris, and searches for the flight recorders were unsuccessful. The accident remains the highest-altitude controlled flight into terrain in commercial aviation history and the mystery of why it happened as well as where the bodies went, continue to this day.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.

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