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>> the noise of the disintegration of the airplane was so huge, i didnt hear anything else. >> january 20th, 1992, 6:20 p.m. airinter flight 5148 runs down and takes off from lyon, france, on a short commuter flight to strasbourg. 90 passengers are on board, most of them business travelers and 6 crew members. graduate student nicolas is in the last row of seats. >> i was visiting my girlfriend who was living in strasbourg. >> captain christian hekay and joel sherabin are in the cockpit of the re...

The effectiveness of the ground proximity warning equipment to provide pilots with an earlier warning than the 12 second they had on flight 965. >> the cali accident was one of the true industry game changers. after this accident the recognition of the critical need for predictive technology revolutionized aviation safety and the control rate accident type went down dramatically. >> out of all of the planes that were in the sky that day, why, why our plane? why us? >> mercedes ramirez still stru...

Vertical speed setting would be displayed as a four-digit number, preventing confusion with the units flight path angle mode. airinter also increased pilot training for the a320. >> after this, you cant compose a crew with two persons with less than 300 hours of flight on airbus a-320. >> translator: i am heartbroken. >> the sadness endures for hubert who lost his son hue, a flight attendant in the crash. he still cant accept the moment that took down flight 5148, the turn of a knob that began t...

A320, the worlds first commercial airliner to have completely computerized controls. its bold advertisements declare a superior intelligence has arrived. >> similar to what you have on your home computer when youre trying to fly a flight simulator with the joystick. its all computer controlled. youre never physically moving the flight controller. >> airinter was a regional sort of airline. so this was a bit of an upstart carrier. but they were a highly motivated group that wanted the airline to ...

Mountaineer keith woodford has his own ideas how new zealands deadliest aviation disaster could have been avoided. >> if they had reacted 10 seconds earlier, there was a reasonable chance that the plane could have been able to climb out of it. so close. >> but why was the plane flying so close to the volcano? investigators discover that on the morning of november 28th, air new zealand flight ops changed 901s final flight coordinate. instead of flying their usual route down the middle mcmurdo sou...

Then, once flight computers have gotten the airbus into position, hell go manual and circle to land at the new runway, runway 5. flight 5148 begins its descent. they plan to land in 15 minutes, but theres growing tension and a growing problem in the cockpit. captain hekay is getting behind his breakthrough jet. >> getting behind the airplane is a widely used statement to say that the pilots thinking of whats going on is behind where the airplane actually is. >> at 7:13, the captain switches to m...

Goforth asag he pumped gas. now back it our msnbc special. december 20th, 1995, american airlines flight 965 is about to begin its descent to cali, colombia. the boeing 757s approach is through a narrow corridor, in between one of the tallest mountain ranges, the andes. 155 passengers are on board, including mercedes ramirez and both of their parents. theyre eager to be reunited with relatives waiting for them at the airport. >> you can tell everybody was excited because this was a christmas b...

Critical phase of the flight. colombian investigators also cite the crewss fail your to retract the speed brakes which prevented it from gaining enough altitude during the escape maneuver. >> out of this accident came a design change that if you called for maximum power for an escape maneuver, that if the speed brakes were deployed, that they would automatically retract. >> american airlines agrees pilot error led to the crash but is disappointed investigators did not also fault flight managemen...

Pretty hard to say much when you cant see anything. >> still sure of his safe position over the sound, captain collins continues his descent. then at 1500 feet, the captains confidence is shattered. collins tells his crew that conditions, quote, dont look good at all and that hell have to climb out of it. ominously, a minute later all transmission from flight 901 stops. >> then i started calling the field parties that were still on our listening watch to see if they had heard anything over the a...

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