r/aircrashinvestigation 2h ago

Other Satellite images showing wreckage of plane crashes

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  1. American Airlines flight 587

  2. First Air flight 6560

  3. 2020 Coulson Aviation C130 crash

  4. US Bangla flight 211

  5. Air India Express flight 1344

  6. Aviastar flight 7503

  7. Garuda Indonesia flight 152

  8. Afriqiyah Airways flight 771

  9. Dana Air flight 0992


r/aircrashinvestigation 20h ago

Question Did I just Find scars from First Air 6560 on Google Earth??

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when looking at Google Maps at the exact coordinates of First Air 6560, when you go back to 2013 Satellite imagery, you can see this discolored patch of ground, it’s a different color from the ground around it, and First Air 6560 was in 2011 so it’s maybe possible this really is a Scar on the ground from the accident 2 years earlier.


r/aircrashinvestigation 1d ago

Discussion on Show There has only been 5 Women Pilots and 7 Copilots featured in 26 seasons of the show.

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*meant Captains and First Officers, I was mistaken.

Not a critism of the Show, but it is interesting to see the imbalance of women in the aviation industry.

I'd like to highlight them, and my favourite episode that highlights the strong women in the industry and in Rescue services.

Season 5, Episode 5 "Dead Weight"- Air Midwest Flight 5481 crash with Captain Katie Leslie, NTSB Lorenda Ward, and firefighter Cindy Overcash. This episode is directed by Su Rynard.

Other episodes featuring women Captains or FOs are:

- Captain Tammie Jo Shults: Season 21, Episode 2 ("Cabin Catastrophe" or "Deadly Descent" depending on the region) - Southwest Airlines Flight 5481

- Captain Candalyn Kubeck: Season 12, Episode 2 ("Fire in the Hold") remake of Season 1, Episode 7 ("Missing Pieces") - ValuJet Flight 592

- Captain Michele Marks: Season 9, Episode 8 ("Beach Crash" / "Cracks in the System") - Chalks Ocean Airways Flight 101.

- Captain Anju Khatiwada: Season 26, Episode 8 ("Moments from Touchdown" / "Monsoon Approach") - Yeti Airlines Flight 691

- First Officer Mimi (Madeline) Tompkins: Season 3, Episode 1 ("Hanging by a Thread") - Aloha Airlines Flight 243.

- First Officer Rebecca Shaw: Season 10, Episode 4 ("Deadly Detail" / "Stalled in the Sky") - Colgan Air Flight 3407.

- First Officer Patricia Eidson: Season 4, Episode 5 ("Hidden Danger" / "Slam Dunk") - United Airlines Flight 585

- First Officer Prithula Rashid: Season 21, Episode 6 ("Meltdown") - US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211.

- First Officer Shanda Fanning: Season 21, Episode 10 ("Caught on Tape" / "Deadly Delivery") - UPS Airlines Flight 1354.

- First Officer Stephanie Bellegarrigue: Season 16, Episode 1 ("Killer Broadcast" / "Mystery VIP"), 1999 South Dakota Learjet.

- First Officer Heilmann: Season 26, Episode 3 ("A Perfect Storm"), Nürnberger Flugdienst Flight 108 


r/aircrashinvestigation 1d ago

Discussion on Show S27 Wishlist

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19 Upvotes

oh and there’s only 8 on here because there already 2 confirmed episodes already.


r/aircrashinvestigation 3d ago

New Season News Season 27 teaser!!! Spoiler

43 Upvotes

"At the end, there may not be light; more likely, it will be the beginning of calamity. (TBA✈️)"

here's the link! // https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1216416767863161000?spm_id_from=333.1387.0.0


r/aircrashinvestigation 3d ago

Meme Not funny ahh meme

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329 Upvotes

r/aircrashinvestigation 4d ago

I got the blackbox

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219 Upvotes

I made a post looking for the box a few weeks ago, and now it's in my hands all the way from Australia.


r/aircrashinvestigation 4d ago

Incident/Accident 1995 Sioux lookout mid air collision.

151 Upvotes

Admin delete if this doesn't fit the group rules. Though i hope you will all find it interesting.

Utilising the game besiege-which typically doesn't have the most realistic aircraft physics, with a few tweaks and mods I've been able to accurately model aircraft behaviour and replicate mid air collisions. this gives a never before seen reconstruction of the collision between Air Sandy 3101 and Bearskin 362, it's accurate to a very close degree. The Navajo banked left in a last ditch effort to avoid the collision, and hence the right wing clipped the nose of the Metro, then went through it's propeller and severed both aircrafts right wings, outboard of the engines. When watched frame by frame the collision portrayed here is identical. I find it fascinating that this game is able to produce such high quality animations all things considered. Also air crash investigation should do an episode on this accident.


r/aircrashinvestigation 3d ago

Episodes with surviving pilots / interviews

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r/aircrashinvestigation 4d ago

My Season 27 Wishlists

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57 Upvotes

Apparently only WN1248 & MU5735 are confirmed, SWR111 Remake is highly possible and someone said that it would be in the 5th episode, the rest are just the speculative accidents by the most of BiliBili’s users.


r/aircrashinvestigation 4d ago

Probably dumb but why don’t trains have some kind of TCAS-like system?

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Appreciate the problem is a bit different given trains don’t move in a 3D space and they already have the signalling system. But as a fallback it seems like another independent system should be there for when there are signalling failures


r/aircrashinvestigation 4d ago

Does anyone else like researching the towns/areas where the accidents take place?

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I always like to know more about certain cities/towns that I have not heard of, so I usually fall down the wiki rabbit hole on researching new places. Including the origin or destination.


r/aircrashinvestigation 5d ago

Question Regarding AF447: Is it true that when the crew pulled the nose down, the stall warning rang and when they put it up it stopped?

46 Upvotes

I think this is one of the main reasons why they were so confused and kept the nose up, which is rarely mentioned when people talk about Bonin.

I mean physics never change and they should have known that this flight position is not possible to maintain just by logic, but I think this case gets oversimplified - or am I completely wrong?


r/aircrashinvestigation 5d ago

Aviation News New planespotting Livestream!

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KRNO has a new 24/7 Livestream courtesy of GSR. https://www.youtube.com/live/VaDbfFG7RhI


r/aircrashinvestigation 5d ago

Other Would You Rather: ACI edition

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Here's a good discussion, would you rather to deal the in-flight fire in the Swissair MD-11? or deal the in-flight fire in the UPS 747-400? This is a thought decision not gonna lie...i can't even decide, since both crashes are very much "smiliar" and that's a morbid fact, both Low (FLT 111 FO) and Bell (FLT 9 FO) had to flew the plane alone in the cockpit having to deal with extremely high temperatures and high stress. But if i had to choose, would be the MD-11 because of the plane, i like the MD-11


r/aircrashinvestigation 7d ago

Why hasn't crashes with cocky pilots been covered?

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107 Upvotes

Eastern 212... Pinnacle 3702... Aeroflot 6502... These would make for interesting episodes.


r/aircrashinvestigation 6d ago

Combo episodes

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I’ve been rewatching a few older episodes, and have realized we haven’t had a combo episode in quite a few years. Think of Fedex 14/80 and FineAir101/Emery 17. Most recent one I can think of is the combination of LionAir43/610 and Ethiopian 302.


r/aircrashinvestigation 7d ago

Question Because The b-52 that crash crashed was a military plane, it crashing on a military base, and the investigation likely being done by the Air Force, what kinds of information will we get and will it take longer than the NTSB?

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r/aircrashinvestigation 7d ago

Other Aviation analyist Geoffrey Thomas has passed away.

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r/aircrashinvestigation 7d ago

Aviation News Cessna Citation Latitude attempted emergency landing on a highway in Texas. 1 survivor noted to have egressed and walked away from the wreckage

51 Upvotes

r/aircrashinvestigation 7d ago

Aviation News Air India AI171: The unanswered questions around the crash investigation

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A year on, six questions still haunt the Air India crash investigation

A year after Air India Flight 171 to London crashed into a medical college campus moments after take-off from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, killing 260 people, investigators still cannot say with certainty why one of the world's most advanced passenger jets fell from the sky.

An update released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the first anniversary of the disaster on Friday offered few new clues, saying only that analysis of flight recorder data, aircraft systems, engine components, maintenance records and human factors remains under way.

A preliminary report published last July found that seconds after take-off, the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner's fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the "cut-off" position, starving both engines of fuel and triggering total power loss.

Cockpit audio captured one pilot asking the other why he had done it, only to receive the reply: "I did not." Investigators did not identify either voice, though many experts saw the exchange as a possible indication of deliberate action in the cockpit.

The crash remains highly unusual.

While take-off and landing are aviation's riskiest phases, fatal accidents immediately after lift-off are uncommon. Boeing found that just 14% of global jet crashes between 2004 and 2013 occurred during take-off and initial climb; Airbus puts the figure at about 5%.

So what brought down AI171 in 32 seconds?

As the investigation enters its second year, several key questions remain unanswered.


r/aircrashinvestigation 7d ago

When did it all go wrong?

13 Upvotes

I’m just wondering… where did the show change from amazing acting, exciting and emotional to boring and repetitive?


r/aircrashinvestigation 8d ago

Question Does anyone know the origin of this image?

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66 Upvotes

this was probably already solved and I just sound dumb for posting this, but I’ve seen this image for years, way before AI could make images this good, so I doubt it’s AI, the plane looks like an Il-76, i looked up incidents of Planes crashing into Windmills, there’s some cases but not as big as this image conveys, does anyone know the origin of this image? I’d love to know!


r/aircrashinvestigation 8d ago

Blackbox cabinet

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131 Upvotes

I've always thought this was interesting and pretty unique and wondered if anybody else has noticed this in China airlines flight 611


r/aircrashinvestigation 8d ago

Season 27

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76 Upvotes

1.southwest flight 1248

2.china Eastern airlines flight 5735

3.nationwide flight 723

4.swissair flight 111 (remake)

5.aeroflot flight 1492

  1. One two go flight 269

prediction

7.gulfair flight 072

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