an aeromexico dc-9 is heading for la on a busy atc morning with the controller handling an intruder aircraft when the dc-9 hits a piper aircraft killing all on board the cause was an inexpericend controller not doing his job properally and the piper cheroke pilot getting lost and not obying rules.
a china airlines flight encounters weird clear air turballance heading for america causing engine failure and a nose dive they barely recover the 747 and land safely in san fran instead of la their original destination the cause was pilot error in handling confusing instruments and fatiguee in the pilots.
a united 737 crashes on approach to colorado springs originally the weird winds are believd to have caused the crash but they can’t prove it and suspect the rudder failure but can’t prove that either and the ntsb gives up two years later a us air 737 crashes in earily similar circumstances and the investigation is a similar dead end despite wake turbullance might have been a suspect no one survives on the first two but an east wind plane lands safely in a similar circumsatnce and they find a rudder can freeze in spot causing the plane to swerve in one direction causing the incidents.
a 747 approaches guam with a tired crew which is not an easy approach with safety equipemtn disabled on purpose and they can’t see the runway after a turbulant flight they crash 5kms short of the runway only 26 survive of about 300 the death toll was made worse by a fire caused by duty free alcohol and seat design. the cause of the crash was tired and confused crew and lack of safety equipemnt at the airport lead to a lack of warning they were too low.
a air canada dc-9 out of dallas bound for toronto on a dc-9 with 41 passengers and 5 crew on board when it has a washroom fire and divert to clinciatti and even move passengers forward due to the smoke they land safely but than 90 seconds later with only 18 passengers and the crew out it bursts into flames killing the remaining 23 passengers who couldn’t navigate out in the smoke.
a 747 is crusing over indonesia on its way to perth when it encounters a weird electrical storm which is what they think it is but its volcanic ash and it destroys the engines they try and head back to jarkata but can’t glide that far but at the last minute they get the engines restarted one fails again during a climb from the volcanic ash but they land safely. the cause was obviosuly flying throug htte volnaic ash that was unavoidable.
a heavily loaded a340 approaches toronto from paris in the middle of a storm the crew end up approaching the airports shortest runway despite this and holding delay they keep going and not divert to ottawa but they overrun the runway on landing but amazingly no one dies even the captain whose badly hurt all escaping in 90 seconds the cause was the crew not activating reverse thrust right away on landing so the breaks weren’t effective enough.
a 767 leaves addis addaba for narobi when it is hijacked by 3 men who force the fo out of the cockpit and try and force the captain to fly to australia which is too far on 3 hours fuel but the captain is in the middle of his 3rd hijacking in his carrer and tries to defy them and eventually wants to land in the comoros islands but can’t convince them and only one passenger stands up to the hijackers to try and save the plane (a famous camera man). the plane runs out of fuel and is forced to ditch just off the coast of the commoros somehow 50 people including a already injured fo and the captain survive the crash but 125 inclduing the 3 hijackers and the camera man are killed it is unclear what there intentions were other than seeking aslyum in australia.
an a310 departs moscow for hong kong with the pilots children flying as passengers (well the crew are a bit unclear whose what he is captain at the time of crisis but starts as fo but the captain isn’t in the cockpit at the time). half way through the flight the kids visit the cockpit and the pilot lets his daughter first than his son control the plane shortly after the plane starts turning on its own leading to control difficulites for the plane the son and the other pilot try and save the plane but even when the dad is back at the controls the relief fo has already stalled the plane despite the pilots almost recovering its too late and no one survives the monutain impact. the cause was imept pilots letting a child use the controls and also some of the fos actions in trying to save the plane with the controls rasing the nose too high were factors the design of the a310 is also considered to blame without the auto pilot disconnect warning.
next time a 767 hijacking, ditching, fuel run out.
a 767 leaves cairo for new york for egypt air when 30 minutes after take off over the ocean the relief fo whose not supposed to be at the controls yet is left alone while the captain goes to the washroom and than does some unusual things to the controls leading to the plane to fly out of control the captain gets back into the cockpit and tries to save the plane but the relief fo gamel albituty has done his damage and the plane crashes into the sea killing everyone on board. the investigation figures out that it was a delibreate act by albituty who had mental health issues and also had been harrasing woman several times in the us when he visited and was told it would be his last flight from the us that night so he wanted to kill the chief pilot as well (who was a passenger on the flight). egypt denies it was a deliberate act and questions the us report but several egypt air pilots agree that it was deliberate and the airline even admited it to the pilots.
a terroist boards a plane in manila for cebu and leaves something under seat 26k and than leaves the plane before it flies to tokyo with 290 people on board what they don’t know is he left a bomb on board and it goes off 2 hours after leaving cebu leading to control problems and the death of the new passenger in the seat and several injuries the crew decide to divert to okinawa which they struggle to get there but do land safely they eventually figure out the terroist is ramsay useff who is eventually arrested for sevearl terroist attacks.
next time i am skipping episode 7 which is a helicopter crash (i am not redoing write ups for helicopter or pure millitary ones) the next one is lead to international issues for egypt and the us.
this gospel has two parts to it the first is about giving to the poor and not having more than you need which is good thing as in heaven you don’t need earthly possesions or wealth. the 2nd part is more relevant to advent and it is john the baptist proclaiming that jesus is coming to baptise you in a more powerful way then he ever could which is true and interestingly john the baptist is the one who eventually baptises jesus which will we cover in a few weeks i think as baptism of the lord is only proclaimed if the sunday after the epithany is before the 13th of january which it is this year. i will also be doing a special gospel reflection on the christmas day gospel (christmas day is a wenesday this year) As well as the sunday ones.
an us millitary ship is fighting iranian gun boats in the persian gulf when they find a plane heading towards them and they think its millitary but not really act supicisiosly in fact its a normal iran air a300 doing nothing wrong at all but they shoot it down illegally killing all 290 on board (worse pre mh17 shootdown even worse than the korean air shootdown in 83 this was 88). the cause was the us milliatry ship looking for combat and not following procedure at all in checkiong if it was civillian iran had no direct part in the accident and the plane is innocent but america doesn’t punish the ship crew instead consider them heroes for their war effort no jail time or anything which is a disgrace and takes years to even componsate the victims by america.
a fed ex flight to california from memphis has the pilots attacked by a off duty pilot in the jump seat the fo struggles to get the plane back to memphis and at one point no one is flying the plane but the captain takes over and gets the dc-10 back to memphis safely with no deaths despite the fligth engineer being the worse injured the cause was mental issues with the off duty pilot who was facing losing his job and marriage break up.
next time american millitary murders nearly 300 people.
a 747 flying from tokyo to osaka with 509 passengers and 15 crew on board suddenly has an explosvie decompression forcing the crew to try and return to tokyo but the hydrollics are all gone and the plane is out of contorl with oxygen failing in the back of the plane and the crew thinknig it s better to return to tokyo than fly to nagoya or yokota millitary air base eventually they end up heading towards the monutains of centreal japan despite flying for just over 30 minutes they eventually crash into a mountain after a nose dive. the japanese don’t get to the site till the next day due to laziness disagreements and falsely thinking no one survived leading to the biggest death toll of a single crash 520 but amaazingly 4 including an off duty flight attendant who was a passenegr survive the night on the mountain. the cause was a tail strike 7 years earlier wasn’t fixed properally and the plane was lucky not to have crashed already the pilots did well to keep the plane flying for 32 minutes but they could never have saved the plane.
a dhl a300 departs baghdad for bahrain when a group of terrroists fire a missle at it on climb out not only has no plane landed after being hit by a missile they lose all hydrolics right away which also no crew has landed safely from in 2003 the cargo pilots are against the odds as they try and return to baghdad barely missing a 2nd missile a french journalist didn’t intervene while filimg the terroistss for her magazine in a slightly selifsh way. the a300 is too high on its first attempt and has to go around again but somehow get the a300 to land safely. there was anti missile equipment that exists but too expensive so it wasn’t installed there was also another thing that would have stopped the hydrolic leak destryoying the controllers but same problem as why its not used.
a 737 flying accross the isalnds of hawaii from hilo to honolulu when at curising height the roof comes off taking with it a 39 year veteran flight attendant (not a 39 year old one one who had been a flight attendant for 39 years) the crew try and divert to maui (this is the first air crash ep with a female pilot in this case the first officer) and lands safely with only the flight attendant missing and dead the roof came off because of the age of the plane meant it wasn’t maintained properally with coorosion a lucky landing indeed.
next time a a300 in a war zone faces enormorus odds.
lika trains her pokemon and comes up with a strategy to beat miltank thats unique with ash’s help but than the area is attacked but stopped quickly but in doing so some of her pokemon are hurt and are told it will take a coouple of days before they can battle so the gym battle is delayed 3 days.
lika battles whitney and gets an early lead with cyndaquil being too strong for clafairy and nidorina but miltank proves again too tough for her team desipte misdreavus and pikachu all battling well and decides to prepare for a rematch with advise.
Donald trump has a good idea abolishing daylight savings as it’s unnatural and the sun ends up too late for a lot of people. Ex liberal minister Kevin Andrews has passed away aged 69 with cancer. Liverpool drew with Fulham 2-2 in a major shock
in a awful weather day in 1990 in the northeast of the us atc bosses force new york to handle too many flights one of which an avianca 707 from medeilin columbia is forced to circle endlessly due to no visibillity and heavy wind with 157 people onboard. they are eventually cleared to approach jfk as boston their alternate is too far now due to the endless circuling (they had 2 hours spare of fuel but evne that was barely enough to get one approach in the high traffic weather). and the approach nearly crashes the plane due to the windshear forcing them to nearly crash by the time they get a 2nd approach clearence its too late they run out of fuel and crash into long island killing 73 people (all but one of the crew and 61 passengers). the cause was mostly atc error but the work load was ridicilous weather also meant they couldn’t land on their only attempt the pilots not saying emergency is blamed but i think thats a stretch to say that caused the crash nor the captains lack of english proficency.
next time season 3 a roof and a 39 year veteran goes missing on a 737.
in the lead up to christams 1995 (december 20) a american 757 departs miami for cali columbia with 164 people on board two hours late due to seasonal traffic it is one of the passengers 21st birthday as well. the 757 is pretty automated a few seat swaps just before decent including th birthday girl acctually makes a difference interestingly in saving a few lives as well as witihni a family. cali doesn’t have radar in the 90s due to millitants so they need to report a lot to th econtroller but when they are cleared direct to cali they delete the way points from the computer so they don’t exacty know where they are and leads to more confusion with a runway change forcing them to rush but would have made up time if they were succesful eventually heading to the 2nd way point but accidently turn towards bogota by the time they realise they are lost and head back towards the airport they are too low and hit a mountain killing all but 5 people (the birthday girl the man who her parents embarrased her talking to (the parents die) and the dad and two kids (the son dies later the mom was killed in the crash). the cause was pilot error with the speed breaks the final straw in what sealed their fate.
next itme how long can a 707 circle answer not forever.
a bunch of russian school children from the town of ufa are flying to barcelona from moscow on a baskerian airlines tu-154 flown by 5 russian pilots and it wasn’t their original flight due to a error from the travel agency meanwhile a dhl 757 prepares to depart bergamo italy for brussells with just two pilots onboard. zurich atc is under the control of peter nelisen that night but maitence shuts down a lot of safety features inclduing the phone lines and colision avoidance equipemnt which should be illeagel when aircraft are flying. the russians are at 36000 feet while the dhl is cleared to the same altitude meanwhile the controller than has to handle an unscheduled flight to fredicsharven which he can’t hand off to due to the matience people this becomes a big probolem and after a thai flight is handed over to munich they are the only 3 planes under his control even another controller can’t get through due to the maitence people messing with the phone line. the russians find out about the dhl first from tcas and are told to climb by tcas while the dhl is told to decend by tcas but the russians are told by neilsen to decend which he didn’t know that call means the dhl couldn’t get their message of decent to him the russian plane hits the dhl the russian plane is destroyed and crashes the dhl pretty much has the same fate with no survivors. the blame is on the russian pilots for disobeying tcas and the maitences effect as well as bad management leaving a lone controller in command but the controller neilsen who did not have a direct part in causing the colision is stabbed by a man who lost his family in the colision (not part of the school group but on that plane) and the stabber gets away with murder litterally only spends a few monuths in jail shows no remorse (this isn’t shown in the show) and goes to his soviet home (only say soviet because i can’t verify if its still part of russia or part of a southern automonius region that might be its own country) and he has done things for his community but he should not have been let out of jail at all.
an air france a300 ends up being boarded by terroists claiming to be police hijack the plane and request to fly to paris from algeria but algeria won’t co operate at all and it takes 3 civilians to be shot for the plane to fly to france but only say marsielle where they won’t refuel the plane for paris and the special forces storm the plane killing the hijackers and no one else amazingly the plane was to attack the eifel tower but is never confirmed.
next time an innocent controller is killed by a mad soviet parent who loses his kids in a crash.
a communter plane leaves atlanta for gulfport missipi on a brasila aircraft for asa with 29 people on board slightly late on climb out though the left engine fails causing the plane to swerve to the left causing the crew to struggle to keep the plane under control and try to return to atlanta but without much control and falling they wouldn’t make it and decide to head for west georgia regional airport which is closer and even try a visial but even though thats too far and the crew finally realise its not just a engine/propeller failure its completly destroyed they crash land a field without landing gear everyone initally survives but the post crash fire seals the captains fate and a few passengers die the fo is the last out of the plane alive and survives his ordeal with help from a passenger who also makes it. the cause was the propellers corrosion damage caused the crash the pilots were lucky to keep flying for 9 minutes in this situation.
a crew who mostly know each other are preparing to operate a bac one eleveen to malaga from biringham except the first officer whose come from manchester to operate the flight with 81 passengers on board. on climb out the windscreen comes off all of a sudden leading to a fog control difficulities and the captain is sucked out but a flight attedant holds on to him to save his life while the first officer tries to land the plane in southhampton against the odds an airport hes not familar with but does so succesfully with no deaths even the captain survives his ordeal. the investigation figures out that the night before maitence had put the wrong sized bolts into the windscreen which leads to a controversal investigation as ba doesn’t like the technique of using a human psychologist to figure out what happened it is still an amazing story 20 years later though.
next time propeller failure 9 minutes to save a plane.
an a330 leaves toronto for lisbon with about 300 people on board for air transat luckily in the end they are south of their original route the first sign of trouble is in oil warning they than get a fuel imballance warning which the crew try and fix by using the crossfeed vales which you should not do in a leek but it is a fuel leak causing both enginges to fail and they need to glide to azores for a emergency landing which they should make but end up landing fast blowing tires but saefly with no deaths the cause of the leak was falty part in the fuel system that had been rubbing for 5 days before t broke the cross feed vale decision was the other cause of the accident as it was only the rigth engine that had the problem.
an md-80 leaves mexico for san fransisco for alaska airlines when they have problems with the horizonal stabillizer and try and fix it with the controls only making it worse they want to divert to lax but the airline says no due to the flow but they try anyway and head over water to fix the problem but eventually the plane loses control completly and nose dives into the ocean killing all 88 people on board. the cause was too long between repairs and falty maitence which a whistle blower had reported to the faa and lost his job as a result and the plane only needed to make it two more mounths to the fix when the crash happened. the fault was in the tail with the horizonal stabilizer.
one of the craziest crashes of 1996 is an aeroperu 757 from lima to santiago with 70 people on board with experienced pilots the fo david fernadezs uncule will investigate the accident stranegly. almost immediately after take off the altitude and speed indications fail which confuses the crew and they head out over water before requesting return to lima but get a lot of false warnings and can’t work the auto pilot due to the instruments not working including ruder ratio, mach speed trim, overspeed, stall, over speed and stall at the same time which at this point the fo decides to get help from another plane a 707 the altitude is never right but they get the groundd speed from atc and the plane is controable but it is a crazy emergency and the crew were right saying ground crew could have mishandeld the plane not realising they had been decending even when the gpws goes off which is the only correct alarm they get as its powered seperately so even when they think they are near 10000 feet with breaks on which makes no sense the crew try and stay aloft but suddenly one of the wings hits the ocean after 20 seconds of battling to save the 757 it sinks killing all on board. the cause was a peice of tape on the pitot tubes left by ground crew by accident due to cleaning the guy is charged with man slaughter which is harsh and ends the airlines operations 3 years later after a long battle to see whose responsible which is hard to say but proably the airline more than the manufacturor boeing.
an md-11 leaves new york for geneva for swiss air with 229 pepole on board after a bit of radio silence they contact atc in canada it was also one of the first planes to have personal tvs. just after 1010pm the first sign of smoke is an odd smell behind the fo which doesn’t lead to much but a fa also notices the smell when she visits the cockpit but until it comes back it doesn’t change anything but they than declare pan pan pan and request decent and diversion to boston but change to halifax when they find out they are a lot closer to halifax. the crew follow checklists and decend quite slowly which isn’t going to help them at all there is no smoke in the cabin at any point. the crew are told runway 06 is expecteed. than they realise they are way too high too fast and too heavy to land in 30 miles which as close they get to the runway due to the fuel ammonut is too much and they make the fateful decision to dump over the water which takes them away from the airport even though the fos whants to avoid dumping fuel they decide to. the cabin power is than turned off which seals the fate of the plane as it deactivates the fans that were keeping the fire out of the cockpit and than the autopilot fails followed by all instruments and the cvr and fdr all within 60 seconds and than communication is lost at 1025pm they somehow stay in the air for 6 minutes but it is assumed the captain is dead as he wasn’t in his seat and was fighting the fire the fo was alive as he shut down engine no 2 1 minute before impact there emergency decleartion was missed due to atc distractions they hit the ocean with no survivors. the plane is in 3 million pieces and only 1 body intact. the cause of the fire was a arched wire behind the cockpit in the attic of the plane. they also say the crew could never have made it to safety which is disputed as if they decended at a reasonable rate dumped fuel earlier and kept cabin power on they might have made it the enteratiment system was related to the wires that caused the fire.
next time a piece of tape 70 lives a late night flight.
an american airlines flight crew prepares to depart dallas for little rock late and know with the weather and crew hours means they need a plane quickly which they get and their md-80 with 139 passengers and crew on board leaves for a late night flight in bad storms the weather is inialally ok but they are warned about two thunderstorms in the area and a bolwing alley type approach to get through but it will get worse and they already see lightning. the winds are also dnagerous that night and even though the crew disagree with each other on the crosswind limit its already out of range for wet runways and wouldn’t be legal on a dry runway well before they attempt to land. the controller doesn’t have good radar in little rock either and suggests runway 22 left for landing which is ok until a windshear alert forces them to change to land in the opposite direction runway 4 right which delays landing and lose strack of the storm the first officer has an easier time spotting the runway then the captain who can’t see it at all they don’t abandon the landing even switching to an ils approach and visibillity is out of limits as well with heavy rain as well. they somehow land on the runway but than immediately slide right off it at high speed into a wooden fence 10 passengers and the captain are killed in the crash and fire. the ntsb lead by greg feith investigate the crash and figure out pilot error involving landing in a dangerous storm but more importantly forgetting to arm the spoilers which meant they had no chance of slowing down at all. the fos evidence is contradictory to the cvr which doesn’t help the investigation the crews get there itis also meant they wouldn’t divert or returning to dallas.
due to the fact that season 25 premiers in the new year i am doing air crash episode recaps again.
on febuary 24 1989 a united airlines boeing 747-100 prepares to depart honolulu for auckland nz with the crew a bit more on alert due to being two mounths after lockerbie. the flight departs in the middle of the night from hawaii and avoids storms on its climb to 33000 feet not that it makes that altitude as it passes 23000 feet a sound is heard by passengers near the cargo door described as a grinding noise and than a thud followed by an explosion as the cargo door leaves the aircraft a flight attendant is hanging onto the stairwell people missing or injured and the number 3 engine is damaged 9 passengers are already gone and the oxygen supply is gone so they have to decend fast for brievable air and try and return to honolulu the crew have to shut down engine no 3. contorl problems and damage to the numbr 4 engine combined with losing altitude makes it difficult to attempt to get back as well as dumping fuel as they are still 60 miles from the airport as the flight enginneer goes and has a look at the damage which is crazy the pilots than go to full power which destroys the number 4 engine as it catches fire and they shut it down meaning they only have the left side engines working its a massive juggling act but they do get close to the airport but thant hey realise the flaps won’t fully extend and even consider a ditching but they land safely on runway 8 left with only the 9 earlier deaths the crew than see the hole in the cabin which shocks the pilots how big it was. the ntsb investigate the accident but either to protect boeing or lack of real evidence they come up with the wrong cause of the cargo door failure. leigh cambell one of the deads parents decide to their own investigation and come to the conclusion which is right that the cargo doors electircal system and design was the cause as to make money they desinged it in a way that had caused probelms on the similar dc-10 in the 70s and a pan am flight two years earlier the ntsb only change it after a similar incident in 1992 that it was a design flaw not ground crew mishandling that caused the accident.
next time weather delays and spoilers doom an md-80
lyra enters the contest and gets through the first ronud using a new technique with her pokemon the final battle is a lot tougher and nearly loses uses chikorita against a ivysaur but pulls off a comeback win and her 2nd ribbon. lika prepares to battle whitney.
they sign up lyra for the contest and are told about the department store which they have a look at and run into some tough trainers as well as whitney the gym leader who is taking a few days off due to the contest and says she is still tough. they grab a few battle items and than have a practice battle before the contest.
The coalition have announced their neclurar costings but I think there off in terms of cost and safety risks. Centreal coasts title defence took a hit in a 4-0 loss to adeliade. Illawarra won in the nbl.
it takes a bit of an effort to protect the daycare center from the theives again but are able to minimize the damage as well it is. zacariah turns up with information about the theives are after an emense poewr to recreate the world but not sure what yet the group arrives in goldenrod city.
they visit the pokemon daycare on the way to goldenrod city and ask quesitons about what they do and find out they create pokemon eggs which is how pokemon are born they than see some baby pokemon including a pichu which is interested in pikachu but than the place is attacked.
clive palmer wants to restart the uap to stop the laws that labor introduced to limit his spending on campaigns (labors laws are good and are trying to stop people like him rigging elections so no wonder he wants to stop it after he cost australia everytihng in 2019). chelsea beat astana 3-1 in european soccer. taking sides in the middle east is a mistake other than the innocent civilians. saudia arabia should not be hosting the 2034 world cup and should be boycotted until they get out of yemen.
hawks beat roos by 124 to make finals for the first time since 2018 and the roos are off the bottom by a game for the first time since 2019. hawthorn (14-9) play bulldogs. north (3-20)
the battle continues against the theives but it gets destroyed the shrine so lyra is stuck in the past until its fixed while the theives lose it takes a big effort to fix it but it works and lyra returns to the present and tells them a little bit.
lyra finds out from celebi the fact that some pokemon trainers were secretly arceus that look familiar to her and that years ago it was set into motion a plan lyra can’t interact with anything. the others continue to look for her but couldn’t find them at all and are stopped by the theives who attempt to destroy the celebi shrine.
it is interesting that the people who want to allow raical discrimation want to also protect jews from anti semitism. hawaian to launch seattle to tokyo and seoul flights for alaska.
they are stopped on the way out by mazzie and kurt who reveal that they need to have an eye out for celebi a mythical which has randomly being following them the katchems take that note but are than stopped by the theives who they are able to beat with misdreavus and chikorita but lyra is suddenly sent back in time by celebi and is stunned at what she sees. ash and lika look for her.
lika battles bugsy for her 2nd badge and uses cyndaquil which is too strong for metapod and kakuna than rests it for scyther unil pikacuu and todotile go down before winning the match they are told the next gym and contest is goldenrod and to head for ilex forest.
Air France launches Manila flights. The liberals won’t appear in front of the aboriginal flag in press conferences not good. Rupert Murdoch’s empire may finally become centralist which is thr fight thing for media after he failed to keep his right wing son in charge.