Air Crash Investigations: Unlocking Disaster (S01E01)

The team investigates how delays in fixing known design faults can have tragic consequences. Follow the survivors and family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigations as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major air accidents. The program highlights the latest developments in computerised flight technology and examines the debate they inspire. Also, return to the scene when, just out of Honolulu, the cargo door of United Airlines Flight 811 opened at an altitude of 33,000 feet, ripping a huge hole in the 747 and taking out five rows of seats and nine passengers with it.

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[FLT111]

R.I.P Captain Dave Cronin

1929 - 2010!

[unpracticalrunway]

49:30 > sums up perfectly why people will keep dying in planes (bold of ACI to lay it out clearly in their film)

[jaffacake1578]

@maharajyuvrajsinghji what do you mean "on the part of Boeing!!!!" ?

[judyjudy51]

Excellent episode.

I have such admiration for the Campbells. All that they did, and still the report wasn't changed for years. Beyond disgusting.

And 20/ 30 year old wiring is never replaced??

[JEnokokame]

thanks for uploading these episodes.

But you have the episodes in the wrong order, 'Unlocking Disaster' is actually episode 2 of season 1, and 'Racing the storm' was ep 1.

[maharajyuvrajsinghji]

HOW DISGUSTING!! ON THE PART OF BOEING!!!!

[StollandSon]

One thing to note is that United ran several crews through a simulator with the exact same problem as UA 811 and were never able to land the plane.

Dave Cronin was indeed a formidable pilot. It was his second to last flight (penultimate for those who are too dumb to actually know the meaning of the word yet use it all the time). He had been with UA since the 50's. My guess is that today's pilots who spend a solid 15 minutes at best per flight in control would not be able to handle this.

[StollandSon]

This pretty well describes how our gov't works in a nutshell. industry X (in this case the aviation industry) finds a serious safety risk that will cost too much to fix immediately or at all and has lobbyists go to congress as well as the relavant federal agency and have them vote to ignore the safety risk in exchange for cash, dinners, women, drugs, you name it. Then after the law of large numbers catches up with them, innocent people die. Big Pharma, aviation, builders, wall street all do it.

[xxeberdtxx]

Its episode 2

[goodkarma33]

The Campbells know "TRUTH IS GOOD FOOD". glad they served it down the throats of the NTSB. Your son's death was not in vain.

[barefooboy17]

Boeing sucks!

[TheMarlinspike]

@Lndmk227 Everybody else in the English-speaking world (including the English) says aluminium.