Blackbox - 03 - Crash Detectives - Part 1 of 5

BlackBox - Channel 4 (1996), Taca 767, Valujet DC9, NTSB Go team, British Midland 092, Comet Crashes, DC10 Cargo doors, British Airtours 737

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Blackbox
• crash
• accident
• incident
• investigation
• NTSB
• TACA
• Valujet
• DC9
• British
• Midland
• Airways
• Comet
• Dehavilland
• DC10

[matildawong]

Greg Feith is the man.

[6949paul]

Greg Feith looks young back then in 96!

[Elemarth]

Quit with the "alligator-infested swamp" stuff already! Okay, so swimming in water with alligators isn't really a good idea, but in a boat, or right after a plane crash, the alligators are going to stay away because it's obvious you're too big for them. You can keep alligators away when you're swimming just by splashing a lot. They're not that scary.

[MsYumo]

<3 Greg Feith

[ChristopherSaindon]

Left Left Left Left.. God bless you Al Haynes! "Sully" gets a ton of compliments

and for good reason, but I will never forget how you managed to put a DC10 down

at 250mph and save MANY of your passengers. Sioux City 1989. You are one of my favorite pilots, along with Dennis Fitch, "Sully," and one other Capt. who didn't make it -- Capt. Lux from the DC10 in Chicago in 1979. I REALLY believe he managed to push that hopeless jet over just enough to miss sozens of kids just out of school..

[ChristopherSaindon]

@suelizjohnson Sorry to hear that about your Uncles;

I appreciate the fact that they gave their lives for my freedom..

One other thing about my Grandfather (who I miss more as I

get older) is that he helped nail some REALLY big war criminal in

Germany and had all kinds of medals from WWII. He never told

us about any of it. I found out at his funeral. It was unreal. All three

are together now and we'll all see each other some day :-)

[faffaflunkie]

Amazing 1996 technology.

[flint55]

I take it BlackBox was aired in the U.K. In the U.S. it was aired as Survival in the Skies in 1996. Great series that concentrates on the events and doesn't muddled with recreations and overdone special visual and audio effects.

[mmp3pets]

@6949paul all those crashes take their toll

[suelizjohnson]

There are four commercial pilots in my family (two retired) and none have ever experienced anything other than routine course of events... Two uncles (bomber pilots) lost their lives in WWII... but they were shot down. We have a "token" ATC too (sis in law)... BUT I'm like ChristopherSaindon's grandfather, I prefer being in control of a very dangerous car and just CRINGE to have to fly but fly I must if I want to see MY grandchildren in Europe and down under....

[JetsSuck2008]

A player from the San Diego Chargers was on this flight. He and his wife were killed in the Value Jet.

[ChristopherSaindon]

Funny story (please everyone unsympathetic don't completely torch me :-) -- After that crash I found the NTSB process remarkable as did my sister. We used to build big I mean BIG lego "airliners," put as many people in there as we could then close our eyes and throw it into out basement (about 16 stairs down). It had a concrete floor, and we'd go down there with little toothpick "flags," mark the people, mark the "scars" and try to figure out where it hit, and who survived and died..