[Full] Turning Point [Northwest Airlines Flight 85] - Mayday [Air Crash Investigation]

On 9 October 2002, Northwest Airlines Flight 85 is cruising 35,000 feet above the Bering Sea before the lower rudder deflects to the left and the four pilots must make an emergency landing in Anchorage, Alaska.

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[OpTicTwist]

Great pilots I was on this flight very scary

[Ravage001]

Why do I have a nagging feeling in my mind that if this had been an Airbus with one of those ridiculous joysticks rather than a yoke the plane would have crashed?

[vxracing16]

@OpTicTwist How did you get to Tokyo in the end? was a replacement aircraft sent?

[Xplaneflight]

@Ravage001 It would probably have, because it's harder to control.

[Newcoolguy678]

great pilots!!!

[Newcoolguy678]

great episode!!

[racygal427]

I love this show. Just wondering if they'll ever do an episode on Lauda Air back in 1991?

[BrianBtrolled]

jeez imagine if it DID crash. then we'd had the 3rd worst crash in the world!

good job on the pilots

[sbergman27]

@trainandplanes The 747 has been involved in 124 accidents or incidents, including 49 hull loss incidents, in its 43 yrs in service. About 3 accident/incidents per yr, & over 1 hull loss per yr. The A380 has been flying 4.5 yrs with exactly 1 incident. An engine failure, resulting in no loss of life, no injuries, and no hull loss.

[sbergman27]

@robert12547 Except for the fatal fueling incident. Though the 777 has suffered 2 hull loss incidents involving 47 injuries in the last 4 yrs. The A380 has experienced exactly 1 incident, an engine failure, with no injuries or hull loss. Still, the 777 is a solid airliner. But you were inviting comparison between this plane, a 747, and Airbus' more modern fly by wire models. I see no basis for the claim you make, & suspect this failure might be less likely to have occurred at all on the A380.

[trainandplanes]

Of course the A380 had nit had any deaths yet, it just started flying dumbass. The 747 had been flying for years.

[robert12547]

@sbergman27 Thats about 30 years between them. In the "new" Boeing 777 there hasn't been any fatalities either.