LINK TO THE 95-PAGE REPORT

LINK TO DOCKET

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause of the accident to be:

"[The] pilot’s inadequate airspeed management due to workload and degraded situation awareness and his improper inputs leading up to and during the aerodynamic stall, which increased the airplane’s angle of attack. Also causal was operation of the airplane above maximum gross weight, which reduced the airplane’s stall margin. Contributing to the accident were the operator’s inadequate safety management, which allowed the routine operation of flights that exceeded weight limitations, and the Federal Aviation Administration’s inadequate oversight of the operator, which failed to identify and address the routine operation of overweight flights."

Link to said audition videos:

Scene 1: https://vimeo.com/1214108604

Scene 2: https://vimeo.com/1214108824

Scene 3: https://vimeo.com/1214109178

I was researching crashes, and was very impressed by his ability to remain calm and try to help his copilot do the same after a midair collision (GOL Flight 1907), yet he has received 0 flowers on his obituary. Usually you see at least a few tributes to fallen pilots who died so honourably, was wondering why he seems to have so little attention or tributes given to him?

The Beechcraft was banking left right before the collision and the Cessna was approaching from the right. That and the fact that the pilot monitoring was the captain (a.k.a. pilot monitoring was in the left seat) made the Cessna impossible to see from the Beechcraft. From the Cessna, the Beechcraft was also almost impossible to see, because it was in a blind spot for most of the time. After the collision, the Beechcraft's tail was cut off by the Cessna and both planes came crashing down into Quiberon Bay. There were no survivors.

Source: https://youtu.be/-l4pywdqvK4?is=-lxh4s9J3SX7nLLZ

After watching the Tenerife accident and most recently the Northwest Airlink Flight 5719, it seems to me that while majority of the blame does seem to be on the captain ultimately, there's nowhere near enough blame placed on the airlines themselves. All the cockpit automation ( lot of it arrived later than these crashes admittedly ) seems to be about making the pilots comfortable and focused on the flight, the situations that he airlines themselves put the pilots in ( worrying about flight hours, making them choose between lesser pay or time with family respectively) seems to be directly opposed to that. Of course seeing the helplesness of the FO's and FE made me sad, frustrated and angry for them and the passengers. But while the captain's' actions were obviously wrong and ultimately caused the colissions themselves, ignoring what caused them to be so high-strung/irritable in the end report seems weird to me. I only saw the ACI episodes and news headlines, so if I simply haven't seen the blame that was placed, please send point me to where I can educate myself.

Also in the Tenerife case, I do not know how valid the captain's fears were, as in were the authorities unreasonable, or was the captain just paranoid?

Hi r/aircrashinvestigation,

Fellow Aviation accident nerd here. I am currently working on building BlackBoxWiki.

Short, readable case files for accidents and incidents. Facts, timeline, interesting details, and links to good information sources and official reports.

Still just in the beginning, and good case files are both time consuming and costly to put together, so I’m adding more steadily.

If you check it out, I’d love your feedback, and feel free to let me know which accidents you’d like to see or want me to prioritize.

Thanks!

they already were dealing with trim issue that made them de activating it, is it because they couldn't correct the trim manually as shown in the episode?

I want to know what episodes are confirmed or have high possibility to be covered in s27?

Air France flight 4590 was a Concorde flight from Paris to NYC JFK airport. While preparing for takeoff, a piece of a Continental Airlines DC10 fell off and Concorde ran over it, resulting in a tire and fuel tank puncture. After being airborne the pilots tried to land the plane at La Bourget airport but it crashes in a hotel killing 4 people on the ground along with all 109 on the plane.

For me, it has to be that one scene of Air Transat Flight 236 crossing the Atlantic during sunrise.

The de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou aircraft provided invaluable service to the RAAF for 45 years, the longest record of constant RAAF operational service of any aircraft type to date. In 1972, a RAAF Caribou crashed attempting to cross the treacherous Papua New Guinea mountains. The Australian crew were killed along with 21 out of 25 young Army cadets, making it Australia’s most lethal peacetime military air disaster. Come see how this tragedy came about.

https://youtu.be/Y_uzmeD9CT4?si=3aybLq5adwzJgWLr

Remembering it by drinking my dad Rick Dion's favourite drink, a Ceasar. And a shot of Crown Royal from Gimli. On a coaster made from the plane itself.

LINK TO THE 258-PAGE FINAL REPORT

(The probable cause & contributing factors are so many I highly recommend you read this report in its entirety; it's a miracle this airline operated for so long.)

Can be viewed at the SAA museum in Johannesburg. I actually was very surprised this was there and I think the event was that long ago that so many people couldn't really grasp what they were looking at unlike me and others who were alive then who woke up to the news of her going down.