Flight Path Animation Air Midwest Flight 5481 accident

[bigbattenberg]

i am very surprised that the plane reacted in this way by a relatively small overweight and a 5% rearward CG shift. Especially because the plane had made a number of succesful flights after the last (improperly done) maintenance one would still wonder what these pilots did differently from the other ones?

[firsak]

NTSB animations are shit. There is no sound and they don't even let you watch it to the end.

[plasticspastic201]

@firsak ntsb are fucking shit anyway. there are ways of getting the good stuff though. oh yes.

[ANONONJEWTUBE]

What video game was this?

[jmr604]

@ANONONJEWTUBE It is an animation of a real accident that really happened.

[ANONONJEWTUBE]

@jmr604 Damn what a stupid question.

[Mizan215]

@demolition000 no, the weight was to far back making it unstable and causeing it to pitch up all the time which is an unstable position for the CG to be because if it keeps pitching up, it will eventually stall, then pilot has no control and that happens

[demolition000]

O_o god damn my brother >:(

[SCWarkos]

21 with the 2 pilotes.

[flyeroftheyear4444]

what happened to the rest of the recording?

[msgann]

19 people i think. no survive.

[westindude]

Anyone know if there were survivors? Or how many passangers perished?

[kwehbe]

The airplane has just got out of maintenance and apparently the electric pitch trim was working in a reverse order. So the pilots kept trimming nose down but in fact the airplane was pitching up the opposite way till it stalled and crashed. Very sad and scary indeed.

[gastonyt]

uh no. dead weight. too much baggage+wrong calculations

[RunTheRockers]

no.

they used estimation.

they "Estimated" that each person is about 120 pounds although some may be way over it. and they estimated that each baggage is about 40 pounds although some are over. but now they weigh each passenger before boarding.

[honghong1977]

The elevators are manually controlled by the pilots for Beechcraft. If the cables were oppositely screwed, the plane could not climb up while the pilot actually pulled the steeling wheel to get the nose up, the plane could continue to run on the runway without taking off. Please check about this from the "Dead Weight" video of Discovery channel.

[AdamJLemon]

Nope...plane was 600 pounds too heavy for takeoff, the CoG was too far arrears, and the elevator trim was working in a limited range due to improper maintainence.

[emachines34]

why does the aircraft being too heavy make the CoG go back,

[Mizan215]

@emachines34 it's not that, it's that everything got pushed to the back, wasn't balanced properly

[emachines34]

yh, thanks mizanur rahman sheikh

[Mizan215]

@emachines34 ok, thats wierd, how did you know my name

[cloedoll]

Nineteen passengers, two crew memebrs and no survivors.

[AZLAN210396]

Just watched Nat Geo Air Crash Investigation

[Speedster159]

Me too 12 times same story

[thatcameraguy85]

my boss tells me the plane had just under gone maintenence and something with the elevator trim wasnt done right. he was booked on that flight to greenville but didnt get on bc of the wieght issues.

[MMSband737]

Actually wasn't it a us air plane?

[MMSband737]

never mind its air midwest to =)

[ReverendOleson]

As you can see the fault was not with the plain, but with the plane..G

[ReverendOleson]

Jtimberlake blames the plain, but as you can see the plain was fine..nice and flat as plains usually are. The problem was with the plane.

[djmontag]

The crew used an industry standard calculation to work out the weight of the passengers and luggage.The figures the industry used at the time were wrong therfore the plane took off way over designed weight, combined with the other mechanical defects they couldnt control the pitch.Not the crews fault

[melaniestevens]

Thank you for the explanation

[jbird38]

I'm not exactly sure that the elevator trim was set properly either

[jtimberlakeLOVE]

my dad was on that plane and i blame the airline for not checking the plain properly

[RunTheRockers]

um.

i pretty sure air midwest isnt responsible for the plain.

[jtimberlakeLOVE]

my dad was on that plane and i blame the airline for not checking the plain properly

[tucker568]

is this like from Flight Simulator X

[tootoo50]

lol no

[MMSband737]

No retard....

[JRattlesnake]

There were several bags in the rear cargo area that were so heavy that they had already contacted the destination to warn them to use caution when unloading.There was uncertainty about the weights. This from news reports that I remember.

[erimtuna]

pilot mistake

[sjemiel]

uncleluck

Iam sure you have an impacable checklist discipline. i sure would love to have you chuck yeagers in my sim just once..

Off course you should look at it and check what you see. However don't be so quick to judge from your lazy seat.

[uncleluck]

Pilot error will bite ya in the arse every time. Checklists are made for Checking. Visually point to the correct instument look at it and ask yourself is it right, instead of repeating "check" to quickly.

[feedboy]

It wasn't pilot error. The accident was caused by a contract facility not properly adjusting the stab.

[LauraLinger]

My husband flies on those little airplanes all the time for his business and this crash scares me probably more than any other.

[DJSomerfield]

Where do you get the videos from? And where can you see the full video somewhere?

[pritarama]

WoW

[Learjetjock]

RIP to all those who perished including a former classmates father. That was a horible accident. We have a memorial behind the training center for this crash in CLT now.

[732lover]

aviation is life or death and Scence i am a pilot i know that first hand!

[SteveHoffman92]

I thought it might be an inappropriate amount of elevator trim. Nevertheless that sucks.

[ScaredPilot]

I guess it was an elevator problem,or too many BIG GUYs sat behind.

[ScytheKing]

Crap.

[ProfBarabas]

Loss of pitch control due to incorrect rigging of the elevator control system. Also, the center of gravity of the plane was too far aft. In short, the latter was caused because wrong assumptions were made about the average weight of passengers and bags. It appeared that the average weight used in by airlines did not account for certain flights with many heavy bags and for the increasing average weight of U.S. adults.

[nnycc]

I swear I'm not being facetious...but are you saying one of the reason's this plane crashed was because there were too many obese people on one side?

[GreekTrajedy]

So what made her pitch up like that?

[YOOPERNEWSMAN]

Scary.

I pray for victims and their families. Thank goodness these videos are made to investigate tragedies and hopefully prevent them from happening again in future.

Accidently stumbled on this video during google web alert on our project.