Air crash investigation Some of the interesting things from Air Crash Investigations:

Volcanic ash shuts down all engines of British Airways 747
Gimli glider: out of fuel due to miscalculation of quantity of fuel
TCAS: collision avoidance system failed on the Embarer legacy midair collision
Microburst: downward column of air pushing aircraft down
Excessive input destroys flight control in an Airbus
Pilot tubes covered with tape, leading to crash
Pilots disabling irritating warnings and skipping checklists
Kid in the cockpit flying the plane
Controllers going easy and overloaded with work: midair collision
Tenerife: 747s runway collision: superior officer intimidating junior
Pilots understanding poor English
Ice formation on wings disturbs airflow
Debris on runway: Concorde crash
Overloaded plane: miscalculation of passenger/luggage weight
Bogus parts leading to crash
Pilots losing situational awareness
Crew not arming spoilers during landing
Captain blown out of cockpit windshield
Pilot deliberately crashing into ocean?
Incorrect cabin pressurization causing hypoxia
Running out of fuel waiting to land
Wrong fuel quantity indicators due to incompatible fuel gauge; plane runs out of fuel
Pilot taking off from wrong runway Singapore airlines Flight 006
Quantas Airbus A380 turbine disk failure
British Midlands Flight 92, pilot shuts down working engine (instead of the damaged one) by mistake  ¶ 8:21 AM 0 Comments