When The Metric System Kills - The Baffling Case of Korean Air 6316
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Disaster Breakdown - Korean Air Flight 6316
References and Additional Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g...
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Chapters
00:00 Opening
01:14 Chapter 1 A - The MD-11
05:00 Chapter 1 B - The Flight Crew
09:02 Chapter 1 C - Pre-Flight
13:54 Chapter 2 - China, Meters, y tho
19:59 Chapter 3 - Accident
33:20 Chapter 4 - What They Found
45:25 Chapter 5 - Closing
50:31 Easter Egg
At precisely 4 minutes past 4 and 35 seconds in the afternoon on April 15th, 1999, the Shanghai Seismic Bureau recorded a distinct measurement on their seismographs that appeared to resemble a small 1.6 Magnitude Earthquake in the MingHang district of the city.
At the same time, local Air Traffic Controllers at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport are scrambling to re-establish contact with an airplane that has suddenly disappeared from their radar screens.
They look up from their radars and out of the window they catch a view of a plume of smoke rising above the city. A massive airliner that had been on the ground just three minutes earlier, has crashed into a residential district of Shanghai. When investigators arrived at the scene of the crash, none of them could have expected what they would uncover.
One by one, explanations are dismissed. All possibilities are coming up as dead ends. It’s only when the audio data is extracted from the shattered remains of the Cockpit Voice Recorder, that anything resembling a clear explanation for the accident was pieced together. It’s a sequence of events that stuns the aviation world.
#aviation
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That's... that's why I'm here
I thought it was a Korean airline, so when Chloe mentioned how much younger the co-pilot was, I thought that was where this episode was going.
Also, a descent of 30,000ft/minute is absolutely insane and terrifying. I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be on a plane being pushed to that sort of speed.
And man. 3 hull losses in a single year for a major carrier is really quite something. No wonder Korean Air had such a poor reputation at the time. It is at least great to hear that they really cleaned up their act since then. Aviation has come a long way, that's for sure.
Excellent video Chloe, it's always a great day when one of these pops up in my notifications~
When The Metric System Kills - The Baffling Case of Korean Air 6316
Disaster Breakdown
272,843 views
Disaster Breakdown - Korean Air Flight 6316
References and Additional Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g...
Join my Patreon to support the channel further. All Patrons get Early Access to all new videos before they go out publicly: Patreon: DisasterBreakdown
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Chapters
00:00 Opening
01:14 Chapter 1 A - The MD-11
05:00 Chapter 1 B - The Flight Crew
09:02 Chapter 1 C - Pre-Flight
13:54 Chapter 2 - China, Meters, y tho
19:59 Chapter 3 - Accident
33:20 Chapter 4 - What They Found
45:25 Chapter 5 - Closing
50:31 Easter Egg
At precisely 4 minutes past 4 and 35 seconds in the afternoon on April 15th, 1999, the Shanghai Seismic Bureau recorded a distinct measurement on their seismographs that appeared to resemble a small 1.6 Magnitude Earthquake in the MingHang district of the city.
At the same time, local Air Traffic Controllers at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport are scrambling to re-establish contact with an airplane that has suddenly disappeared from their radar screens.
They look up from their radars and out of the window they catch a view of a plume of smoke rising above the city. A massive airliner that had been on the ground just three minutes earlier, has crashed into a residential district of Shanghai. When investigators arrived at the scene of the crash, none of them could have expected what they would uncover.
One by one, explanations are dismissed. All possibilities are coming up as dead ends. It’s only when the audio data is extracted from the shattered remains of the Cockpit Voice Recorder, that anything resembling a clear explanation for the accident was pieced together. It’s a sequence of events that stuns the aviation world.
#aviation
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