Cloudberg - Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804

As an extra bonus: another non-ACOUP upload, this time sticking to accessible deep dives of niche, academic subjects rather than silly video game horror stories: I am narrating one of the posts of aviation writer, Admiral Cloudberg.

For those unfamiliar, Admiral Cloudberg (aka Kyra Dempsey) writes essays covering the technical, logistical, and systemic reasons for specific aviation disasters. Her writing, like Bret’s, is highly accessible despite tackling a very technical subject with useful images, photos, maps, and diagrams as visual aids to assist in understanding the material. She condenses large amounts of information into informative and engaging narratives to explain what went wrong in and what, if anything, could be learned from these incidents.

For this post, I will be narrating her coverage of the crash of EgyptAir flight 804 and the strange journey the investigation into the crash took. This will be something of an abnormal example of Dempsey’s style, but, given the amount of research she undertook on a truly unique case and the work in making those findings accessible and comprehensible, I felt this the ideal place to start for those unfamiliar with her work.

A note: Kyra cites frequently through this essay from her large bibliography of sources. As I usually do, I originally intended to include these citation references in my narration. On editing, however, I found them to make the narration difficult to follow and decided it would simply be easier for interested researchers to look at Kyra’s essay directly for citations. Since I assume no one is rewinding my audio to jot down reference notes when they could just look at the source! So if you are interested in deeper reading, see below.

Anyone wishing to engage with Kyra, check out these links:

Original post for this recording - https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/masks-smoke-and-mirrors-the-untold-story-of-egyptair-flight-804-42c788fcac2d
Kyra’s blog, Admiral Cloudberg - https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
Kyra’s Twitter - https://x.com/KyraCloudy
Kyra’s Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/kyracloudy.bsky.social
Kyra’s Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Admiral_Cloudberg
Narrations on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0QwqosVQjvXWKovUxdSGpQ

 

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0:00 – Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors
3:03 - Foreword
5:20 - Part 1: Flight 804 is Missing
30:07 - Part 2: Cold Case
43:10 - Part 3: Explosive Evidence
1:33:40 - Part 4: Inferno
2:25:49 - Part 5: I Ask Forgiveness from God
2:38:24 - Part 6: A Legacy to Be Written
2:52:53 - Credits