Panic Over The Pacific Part 4 - Air Crash Investigation/Mayday

China Airlines Flight 006 encounters turbulence while flying to Los Angeles. The No. 4 engine flames out and the crew tries to restart the engine at too high an altitude. The aircraft banks slowly to the right but the crew do not notice the autopilot can no longer hold the aircraft straight and level. The captain disconnects the autopilot and immediately loses control, sending the aircraft into a spiralling nosedive. The Flight Engineer mistakes readings on the gauges for total engine failures on all engines rather than the Captain setting the throttles to idle. The extreme forces rip the undercarriage doors off and parts of the horizontal stabilizers rip off as well. The Boeing 747SP clears the clouds and the pilot can once again see the horizon. The crew recover the aircraft from the dive and the it lands safely at San Francisco despite control problems associated with the tailplane damage. Two people are hurt, but everyone is alive.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• China
• Airlines
• Flight
• 006
• February
• 19
• 1985
• Boeing
• 747SP
• Engine
• failure
• pilot
• error
• jet
• lag
• spatial
• disorientation

[jaydogla]

it's always easier to blame pilots from the ground. they're not the ones in the nose dive with hundreads of souls on board. just like it's easier to blame a game contestant for missing an easy answer from the comfort of your own home.

they're not the one in front of millions of viewers on camera.

[Kohdok]

5:03 - A light bulb. He had to mention the fricken light bulb, didn't he?

For the famous lightbulb incident, look up flight 401.

[jaydogla]

@soco13466 the pilots did pretty damn good. they survived. its easy to point fingers and say they didnt do this they didnt do that

[soco13466]

@jaydogla Apparently you didn't follow the end of the video, and this wasn't a TV show. No comparison.

[SeHouMusic]

China...cheap products,cheap pilots.

[B13553D]

I'm no pilot but if my plane was falling out the sky, the last thing I'd do is reduce the trottles to idle!!

[zzzthaoster]

looks like pilot, otherwise they've would have never been able control the plane again.

[Ichristian96]

@njattack Too true..

[chinaispro]

@njattack actually, you should never fly an American airline, there's been way more accidents in American airlines than any Asian airlines. Get your facts right

[mkarnerfors]

@njattack Lesson learned from you: people will eagerly use even the slightest anekdote - no matter how insignificant it is in the grand picture of things - to fuel their preconceptions and prejudices.

[myrandomspaces]

AA Flight 587 too much rudder China Airlines Flight 006 too little rudder