Flight Path Animation of the American Flight 587 accident

This three-dimensional animated accident reconstruction shows most of the flight for American Airlines flight 587, which crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK International airport on November 12, 2001. The reconstruction exhibits information selected from the flight data recorder, excerpts from the cockpit voice recorder transcript, recorded radar data, and aircraft performance data. This reconstruction does not depict the weather or visibility conditions at the time of the accident.

The animation shows a three-dimensional model of the airplane and its motion in the upper portion of the view. Selected comments from the cockpit voice recorder transcript or other annotations are superimposed as text in this area at the time they occurred.

The lower portion of the view depicts a set of instruments and indicators, which display selected parameters from the flight data recorder.
The animation starts with the airplane on the ground, taxiing to runway 31L. It shows the airplane's taxi, takeoff, climbout, and initial turn to the left. The rudder parameters are blanked out at the time the tail section separates from the airplane. The screen turns black at the point in time when the flight data recorder information ends (only cockpit voice recorder text or annotations are shown after this point).

This animation does not include sound.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• plane
• crash
• accident
• New
• York
• AA587

[bodybager]

They mentioned how close the last aircraft was when they began their roll. They blamed the crew, but if they had 15 more of the airports precious seconds between operations, the wake turbulence wouldn't have been as bad and they wouldn't have even attempted sudden control inputs... This is about pressuring pilots to fly NOW whether it's safe or not so the airlines can get their profits and the airport can get theirs... more operations = more money for the airport.

[Xorthis]

Basically, the F/O was found to have used over aggressive and unnecessary rudder inputs which caused the tail to snap. If he had done nothing the aircraft would have stabilized after passing through the wake of the larger jet.

[MyAccount4TrollingU]

If it ain't Boeing, I'm not going.

[Silicondoc]

No, the reverse engine thrust (left) was engaging in flight, so the pilot was compensating, and as the left engine was reaching full RT, the call for full power had the right engine thrusting rearward, and the left engine thrusting forward, spinning the plane on it CoG vertical AXIS, thus shredding off the vertical rudder and tail and turning it into a "frisbee".

[2129261184]

@encinobalboa None, AF 447 lost its rudder after impact with the water.

[plasticspastic201]

@Xorthis yeh he was a jerk off amateur for sure

[gratefuldead42022]

I've seen a show on tv about this.

[encinobalboa]

The rudder ripped off too easily. Any similarities to AF447 here?

[theflop]

bodybage -> Idiotic comments. The pressure was not on the airport. Wake turbulence was dealt with wrong which caused the crash. Pilot error. BTW, The # of scheduled flights dictated what the airport was making no matter what. The same amount of flights DAILY took off and landed. It's not like the AIRPORT could squeeze in another flight by hurrying a flight you idiot. Flights are all pre-scheduled. The airlines force the schedule issue... to be on time not the control tower. IDIOT.

[GovWillKillU]

@TonyMcGriffles damn. yeah i understand too those fuckin indots... everyone died.

[phillyslasher]

Did ATC draw any heat from this accident? I mean, they could have held the American until it was safer to depart.

[zigaretos]

you miscalculated captain !