Panic Over The Pacific Part 2 - 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.

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Education

Tags:

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

[Shakimetalmaniac]

@brent6187 No it is the talent of the crew not God !

[seznolixis]

06:29 ladies and gentlemen - this is the captain - we have just had some minor turbulence

[pfeilspitze]

@NFreund Especially since that's the design target for *acrobatic* airplanes...

(Though a plane targetting 6G is designed for 9G, to give a 50% safety envelope, so if the 747 had design target 4G and good construction, surviving the 6G is plausible, if right on the limit.)

[timothymanzella]

This is one very "wanting" video. =p

[MrChuck2221]

@babykevinxoxo Captain Save a Ho?

[toneykk]

so many failures that plane was made in chine :(

[yoshinosakura]

no sound?

[babykevinxoxo]

Captain Ho is SUPERIOR and the best Captain ever.

[spacemermaid2012]

That was a quick astronaut training.