Air Disasters

[IndyGal65]

Do any of you watch Air Disasters on The Smithsonian Channel?

I don't know why I torture myself and watch these.

 

[forgop]

I've watched several but haven't for a while. I would have really enjoyed being part of an accident investigation team had I stayed in the biz.

 

[88E30M50]

It's amazing what an investigation team can figure out. I remember the 737 that broke up in mid-air over a Central American jungle. They were able to attribute it to a bad crimp in the wiring of an artificial horizon. Amazing stuff.

 

[forgop]

We watched a video about that accident when I was in school. Bodies hanging from trees and just the description of the smells of an accident scene.

 

[IndyGal65]

It is fascinating to watch the investigations unfold, especially with what they have to work with. Honestly though, I avoid this show like the plague if I'm flying in the near future.

 

[kalboy]

Here's one that happened in Indiana, some years back. This was only a few miles from where my family was living at the time, my dad as a member of a volunteer fire dep't helped in the site clean up. I've never watched the program referenced by the op but will, these air disasters have an eerie effect on one but still are interesting.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Trigger Time]

I thought this thread was gonna be about walking through the 1500

 

[printcraft]

I thought this thread was gonna be about walking through the 1500

HA!

 

[IndyGal65]

I thought this thread was gonna be about walking through the 1500

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

The TSA wasn't involved? I am disappoint!

 

[88GT]

Of all the threads to open. Mr88GT is on his way back across the pond as I type this.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I was bummin' around YouTube and found this NatGeo program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig9LE0Vp1YM SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide?

In the end, they concluded that it was not pilot suicide, but a Parker-Hannifin hydraulic control barrel valve in the tail. It was brand new and had some metallic fuzz down in the valleys that clogged the control valve and caused it to spontaneously hard-over the rudder without pilot control inputs. The plane plummetted from 35k ft to nose first into a Sumatran river.

SA 185 was the Malaysian Airlines 370 before MH 370 was MH 370.

Smithsonian Channel's Air Disasters did an episode on it as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z96afaIMovI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_185

 

[rockhopper46038]

I thought it was a good series. It used to be available on Netflix for binge watching.

 

[88E30M50]

I was bummin' around YouTube and found this NatGeo program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig9LE0Vp1YM SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide?

In the end, they concluded that it was not pilot suicide, but a Parker-Hannifin hydraulic control barrel valve in the tail. It was brand new and had some metallic fuzz down in the valleys that clogged the control valve and caused it to spontaneously hard-over the rudder without pilot control inputs. The plane plummetted from 35k ft to nose first into a Sumatran river.

SA 185 was the Malaysian Airlines 370 before MH 370 was MH 370.

Smithsonian Channel's Air Disasters did an episode on it as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z96afaIMovI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_185

Sounds similar to the Colorado Springs and Pittsburgh 737 crashes. Those both happened on approach but in each case, the rudder spontaneously went hard over causing the aircraft to roll inverted and dive into the ground.