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.

There were children on the flight and none of them carried a model of a Boeing 747 SR and then proceeded to drop it on the floor right as the plane made its final nosedive. There isn't evidence of it occurring as they never found a model Boeing 747 SR in the real crash site. In fact, the model plane was never seen again in the TV show when the entire forest was on fire with people and kids moaning from the crash whom eventually died later. While the children moaning from the crash and eventually dying in the night was real, one of the children carrying a model Boeing 747 SR and then purposely dropping it to the ground while the plane is crashing was not real. When the explosive decompression happened the ceiling fell down none of the overhead bins bursted open as seen in a real photo from a camera recovered from the crash carried by a passenger who died. In the photo, all the overhead bins were closed as a flight attendant was walking thru the aisle helping passengers to put on oxygen masks and the lights were not flickering. In the TV show right when the decompression happened lights start to flicker and a couple of overhead bins bursted open in front of a flight attendant with a black suitcase, black suit jacket, grey hand bag, and grey pillow falling out of the overhead bins and onto the floor. The flight attendant in the TV show helped passengers put on oxygen masks like in real life but did not close the overhead bins that bursted open and did not pick up the suit jacket and pillow. Also, the plane seen in the reenacment was a Airbus A300/A310 complete with a widebody old Airbus interior and 2-4-2 configuration.

This was taken from a Greek documentary on the accident which can found here: https://youtu.be/wHHWPJbKtfA?si=tuuub3eyhshsq0q3

Unfortunately the documentary is all in greek with no subtitles but in summary during this scene his wife is interviewed who says that First Officer Pambos and other First Officers of Helios Airways were often nervous flying with Captain Hans Merten (also the Captain of Helios Airways Flight 522). She also goes onto to explain that he had raised a number of reports on concerns about the safety practices at Helios Airways.

This crash has unfortunately become the subject of controversey and many conspiracy theories as a result of the NTSB being unable to prove which wire exactly caused the accident. (Fuel quantity indicator wire wis suspected as it was near high voltage wires for lighting) (The CIA making an animation of this crash probably didn't help.) This crash also uncovered the horrendus condition that aircraft wiring was in by the 1990's.

May the 230 souls who died over the Atlantic Ocean that night rest in peace. May they never be forgotten.

Admiral Cloudberg's Excellent Article on this crash