Flight Path Animation Air Midwest Flight 5481 accident

This three dimensional animated reconstruction shows the flight of Air Midwest Flight 5481, which crashed at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina on January 8, 2003. The following accident reconstruction displays information from the flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, recorded radar data, and aircraft performance data. This reconstruction does not depict weather or visibility conditions at the time of the accident. The animation shows a three-dimensional model of the airplane and its motion. Selected comments from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcript are superimposed as text at the time they occurred. The time of day (based on the FAA's Air Traffic Control radar data), aircraft altitude in feet, and aircraft speed in knots are depicted as text.

More info: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030108-0

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• plane
• crash
• accident
• Charlotte
• airport
• air
• midwest
• 5481
• animation

[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.

[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?

[plasticspastic201]

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

[ANONONJEWTUBE]

@jmr604 Damn what a stupid question.

[firsak]

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

[jmr604]

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

[ANONONJEWTUBE]

What video game was this?

[demolition000]

O_o god damn my brother >:(

[Mizan215]

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

[emachines34]

yh, thanks mizanur rahman sheikh

[Mizan215]

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