Blown Apart Part 3 - Air Crash Investigation/Mayday

[tregino]

being a Brit . i prefer the British narrators voice. but its a good series and the

[ilovetogofast88]

It's amazing how the littlest things can lead to dire consequences

[hctee]

why do both pilots have to push the throttle forward? or at least, one of them does it and one of them seems to cover it, ready to do something.

[alienwareguy]

@hctee One of the other episodes showed the same thing, they said that it is a precautionary measure so that if the pilot has a heart attack or something similar then the co-pilot's hand will stop the pilots hand from pulling the throttle back suddenly... also if it is a rough take-off then this helps having 2 hands.

I'm sure thats what they said but yeah :P

[md65000]

@hctee & @akienwareguy They mentioned this on another one of these programs (AA Flt. 191 I think) and it seemed like it was just a matter of tradition, like a camaraderie in the cockpit sort of thing.

[simpsonfan13]

@hctee this is in case one of the pilots hand slips and on a multi-engine plane, this can lead to accidental push one throttle to far forward and not the other one. look up "asymmetrical thrust" to see why on take off that would be bad..

[tommyrjensen]

Sounds a bit like a Canadian accent?

[lepper24dudes]

I think he is also the Narrator of the fist season of Mayday.

[777jonah888]

Yes he is the usual narrator on Discovery in North America. Different countries have their own narrators. I think this guy is the best. Much better than the English guy.

[9T6Q]

wtf

[NikolitaNiko]

Is it me, or did they use a different narrator than usual for this episode? His voice sound similar to the usual narrator, but slightly different somehow.

[MappyandTwonka]

I think that this episode is from The Discovery channel. I guess they have a different narrator.

[NikolitaNiko]

Could be, but I've heard other episodes on the channel and they had the old narrator. Weird. :o