Today, before every commercial flight, cabin crew are required to outline where a plane’s exits are, as well as the location of life vests and how to inflate them.
“Every time you step onboard an airplane today, you are safer because of what happened to Clipper Endeavor and her passengers three-quarters of a century ago,” said Expedition Unknown host Josh Gates.
Matthews, a maritime explorer and historian, first became interested in the crash in 2019, after reading about a luggage tag from the flight that had washed ashore in Florida.
He said in a statement that he had been “astonished that such an important story had largely faded from public memory”.
He then began piecing together the aircraft’s final moments using reports from the Civil Aeronautics Board, the predecessor to the US Federal Aviation Administration.
