The Miracle Landing of TACA 110 | Mayday: Air Disaster

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Resumen

TLDRThe video details the dramatic events of Taka Flight 110, where a Boeing 737 lost engine power while descending into New Orleans during a severe thunderstorm. Captain Carlos Dardo and his crew faced a life-threatening situation as they lost communication and control over the aircraft. In a remarkable display of skill, they executed a successful emergency landing on a levy, avoiding disaster. Investigators later determined that the cause of the engine failure was related to hail and water ingestion, leading to significant safety upgrades in aircraft design. The incident highlights the professionalism and calm under pressure exhibited by Dardo and his crew, ultimately saving the lives of all on board.

Para llevar

  • ✈️ Taka Flight 110 faced severe thunderstorms on approach.
  • ⛈️ Both engines failed due to hail and water ingestion.
  • 🛬 The crew executed a remarkable emergency landing on a levy.
  • ⚠️ All 38 passengers were saved due to the captain's skills.
  • 🔍 Investigators revealed design flaws in the engine.
  • 🔧 Safety upgrades were implemented post-incident.
  • 🌊 It was the first time a 737 landed without engines outside an airport.
  • 🦸‍♂️ Captain Dardo is hailed as a hero in aviation history.

Cronología

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Aboard a Boeing 737, Taka Flight 110 is caught in a severe thunderstorm, leading to a mayday situation. Both engines fail, and passengers face potential crash landing within minutes.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Prior to the storm, Flight 110 had a smooth departure from Biz City, El Salvador. Passengers, including Lee Burmeister, were eager to return to New Orleans after a medical emergency. Suddenly, they encounter black skies and deteriorating weather conditions over the Gulf of Mexico.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Captain Carlos Dardo, an experienced pilot, faces tremendous challenges as hail and heavy rain threaten the aircraft. Previous encounters with violent weather have prepared him for such conditions, but the on-board radar technology has limitations, making navigation perilous.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Reaching final approach, significant turbulence and power loss lead to a near-total blackout in the cockpit. The aircraft drops rapidly without engine power, heightening the crew's urgency to restart the engines and communicate with air traffic control about their dire situation.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Flight 110 drops nearly 1,000 feet, and the crew scrambles to recover the auxiliary power unit to restore essential systems. With the left engine reignited, they gain some thrust but face overheating issues. Meanwhile, communication with control is nearly severed.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    As both engines fail again, the pilots decide to ditch the aircraft. The tension escalates as they aim towards Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, but ultimately opt for a water landing in a canal after identifying an embankment as a potential landing site.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    A successful, albeit risky, emergency landing on the levee occurs despite challenges faced due to the plane's weight and Captain Dardo's impaired vision. Passengers brace for impact while crews manage the landing procedures with seconds to spare.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:45:00

    Post-landing, investigations reveal failures in both engines, primarily attributed to severe weather conditions. Modifications to the engine design follow the incident, enhancing safety protocols entirely and ensuring no similar occurrences arise.

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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas

  • What happened to Taka Flight 110?

    The flight lost engine power while descending into New Orleans due to severe thunderstorms and hail.

  • Who was the captain of Flight 110?

    Captain Carlos Dardo.

  • Where did the plane land?

    The plane made a successful emergency landing on a levy near New Orleans.

  • What caused the engines to fail?

    The engines failed due to a combination of hail and water ingestion during the flight.

  • How many passengers were on the flight?

    There were 38 passengers on board.

  • What modifications were made to the engines after the incident?

    Engine upgrades were made to better deflect hail and improve water drainage.

  • What did investigators find after examining the engines?

    The engines were charred and showed signs of overheating due to a hot start during a restart attempt.

  • What legacy did Captain Dardo leave in aviation?

    Captain Dardo was hailed as a hero for his decisive actions that saved the lives of all on board.

  • Did anyone get injured during the emergency landing?

    There were no major injuries reported; one passenger had recently undergone surgery but was okay.

  • What was unique about this landing?

    It was the first time in history a Boeing 737 landed safely without engine power outside an airport.

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    [Music]
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    it's a rough ride aboard a 737 on
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    descent to New Orleans we are getting
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    tumbled around pretty good A violent
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    thunderstorm has caught the pilots off
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    guard mayday mayday T 110 we are in the
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    middle of a storm we're talking about
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    the equivalent of an atomic bomb going
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    off everything went black all the alarms
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    start sounding in the
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    carpet we lost an engine both engines
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    with no thrust the Lane won't get far I
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    don't think I will make it I don't have
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    any power on the engines 38 passengers
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    suddenly face a terrifying
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    Prospect they will crash in minutes look
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    that's where we're going to go in you
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    got it my friend okay unless the crew of
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    tacka flight 110 can perform one of the
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    greatest Feats in the history of
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    commercial
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    Aviation all right
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    made it made
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    [Music]
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    it a brand new Boeing 737 is making its
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    way through heavy thunderstorms and hail
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    30,000 ft above the Gulf of Mexico
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    taka Airlines is a small family-owned
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    operation based in El
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    Salvador taka flight 110 left Biz City
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    less than 2 hours ago Bound for New
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    Orleans among the 38 pass passers
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    gracias no one is more eager to arrive
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    in the US than Lee
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    Burmeister I've been down to coer for
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    about a month and um my appendix
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    ruptured and had surgery in a small
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    little village it was a scary
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    time I was really ready to get
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    home the heavy weather the crew is now
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    coping with is a big change from earlier
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    in the
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    flight I remember that it was a very
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    sunny day when we left Biz everything
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    was going
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    well it was just like that it it was
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    pretty and then all of a sudden it was
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    the blackest Sky I've ever seen in the
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    afternoon they're flying over the Gulf
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    of Mexico in May at this time of year
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    the weather is
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    unpredictable violent storms can form in
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    a matter of minutes thunderstorms have
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    all types of Hazards in them from the
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    The Heavy Rain hail
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    uh lightning micr burst wind shear
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    severe icing we're talking about the
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    equivalent of an atomic bomb going
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    walk a tremendous amount of
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    energy to avoid dangerous storms the
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    crew tracks the weather with onboard
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    radar but the technology has
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    limitations Airborne weather radar
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    typically uh operates in an
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    xand which is a a certain wavelength and
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    has limited
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    power as a matter of fact hail is not
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    picked up on Airborne radar so we will
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    sometimes get hail blowing off a storm
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    and yet it'll only show up as green or
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    yellow in front of us on the weather
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    radar not as the heart of a red
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    thunderstorm and and unfortunately this
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    is one of the reasons we have to try to
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    stay as far away from thunderstorms as
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    we
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    can Captain Carlos dardo was born to fly
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    at just 29 he is the third generation in
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    a family of Pilots anti ice
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    on since I was a little child I remember
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    that I was dreaming on being a pilot and
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    being around airplanes all the
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    time Captain dardo has had to overcome
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    tremendous obstacles to earn his wings 6
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    years earlier in 1982 he was flying for
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    a small general aviation
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    company I was doing a little air taxi
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    business around the country
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    El Salvador was consumed by a Civil War
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    and dardo found himself caught in the
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    crossfire had a little Grass wrongway
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    Airport I was shot by gorillas in the
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    face badly wounded he managed to fly his
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    passengers to
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    safety we just take off and I stayed
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    really low between priest and I flew 20
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    minutes back to the main airport the
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    brush with death cost him his left eye I
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    was shut over here the bullet went
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    through but dardo did not give up on his
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    dream despite his impaired Vision he
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    went on to become a certified commercial
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    pilot T 110 Runway 28 Final Approach
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    course continue inbound descended pilot
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    supression maintain
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    4,000 thank you sir T 110
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    4,000 first officer dionio Lopez has
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    more than 12,000 flight hours he and
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    dardo have know together many
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    times Captain Arturo SLE is a flight
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    instructor with taker Airlines he's on
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    board today to observe the performance
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    of this new
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    plane a 737 300 series The Jet was
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    delivered to taker Airlines just 2 weeks
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    ago this hill is going to scratch the
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    paint we were really worried about the
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    pain coming off the airplane because
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    this is a brand new airplane in the
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    company the 300 is the latest in the
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    world's most successful line of twin
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    engine passenger
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    Jets it's more aerodynamic than its
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    predecessor it also features a new
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    state-of-the-art engine
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    design when you pick up a new jetliner
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    worth millions and millions and fly at
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    home with a brand new paint job and
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    everything is nice and new it is not
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    just a thrill for the crew it's a thrill
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    for the airl L too especially a smaller
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    one like taka this was a big big deal 50
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    km from the New Orleans airport the
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    plane begins its final
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    descent it feel like you hit a wall
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    there was severe turbulence in the
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    carpet with a lot of uh noise with ice
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    hitting the
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    airplane give us all awful lots of lots
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    of lightning and the the plane was
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    having a pretty rough trip we were we
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    were getting tumbled around pretty
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    good as ofly attendants to take their
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    seats attendant please take your
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    seats suddenly less than 177,000 ft from
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    the ground the flight becomes all the
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    more terrible
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    terrifying it was very strange because
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    it had never happened to me before the
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    lights had never gone off during
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    turbulence everything went black all the
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    alarms start sounding in the CET all the
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    instruments went
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    out so I hit throttles a couple of times
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    trying to just go to Basics control the
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    airplane there lost power on the engines
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    then I find out that we didn't have any
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    power I've got nothing the plane has
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    enough speed to Glide but not for long
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    it will rapidly lose altitude as it does
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    no power also means no electricity for
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    all of the onboard
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    systems in the New Orleans control tower
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    flight 110 disappears from radar taka
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    110 approach say
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    altitude T 110 this is New Orleans
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    approach control how do you hear without
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    power communication with the plane is
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    now
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    impossible it's really
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    quiet there aren't any engine
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    sounds there aren't any
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    lights it feels like you're in a dark
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    room without any power
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    in less than a minute the 737 drops
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    almost 1,000 ft it continues to
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    fall we are dropping at 1,500 ft per
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    minute and without power there is no way
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    to restart the
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    engines well we knew we didn't have much
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    time to try to find out where to land or
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    what kind of emergency landing we're
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    going to have or that we're going to
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    have the engine started again
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    the altimeter and attitude indicator
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    have backup battery power nothing else
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    is working the a
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    started the Apu or auxiliary power unit
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    is a backup generator that provides
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    emergency power to vital
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    systems but starting it takes time
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    and with each passing second taker
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    flight 110 Falls closer and closer to
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    the water
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    below it was very quiet you could hear
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    the hail hitting the
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    plane I was thinking that this was this
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    was it that it's going down and and this
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    is this is my last day
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    buers watch the
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    gauges without power to the engines the
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    state-ofthe-art jetliner has become a 43
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    ton glider we were wondering if we can
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    get the Apu going really fast you know
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    you're gliding down in middle of
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    thunderstorm trying to to get the power
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    going
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    ifuse up and
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    running when the lights came back on I
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    was relieved I thought it was something
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    temporary no big
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    deal the Apu is now providing emergency
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    power to the plane
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    systems but the engines are still not
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    running to fire up the powerful turbo
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    fan engines the crew must follow the
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    procedure for a complete engine restart
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    pass to idle a few L
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    off the Apu can generate the power to
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    restart the engines but it takes
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    time it takes like 30 seconds or so but
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    it feels like your
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    life for on my day to New Orleans get us
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    out of this storm and to our Runway may
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    they may they tuer 110 we uh we are in
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    the middle of the storm sir we need
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    vectors to the runway now sir we lost an
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    engine both engines both engines sir
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    both
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    engines understand both engines T 11
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    Roger the controller knows he needs to
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    get the plane on the ground as soon as
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    possible even if it means sending it to
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    another
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    airport t a 110 Roger turn left heading
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    280 vectors to Navy calendar Runway 22
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    flight 110 is still 32 km from New
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    Orleans the stricken plane has a better
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    chance of landing at a US Naval Base 27
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    km away but the plane will not make it
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    to any airport unless the crew gets the
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    engine started 39 30
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    hit only 5,000 ft from the ground the
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    left engine ignites
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    okay good
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    job start working on the other
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    one the plane can fly with only one
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    engine but both engines would be safer
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    especially in bad weather request a
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    vector back to New
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    Orleans okay we have one engine back on
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    request vectors to New
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    Orleans problem uh t a 110 wico fly
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    heading to ner0 Vector around the
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    thunderstorms to your right meanwhile
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    Captain Cay is taking the steps to fire
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    up the second
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    engine here comes the other one and here
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    comes the other
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    one
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    speed all
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    right and you got both of them with both
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    engines back it appears the crisis is
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    over okay sir we have both engines back
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    now we really appreciate what you've
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    done for us we are going to go down to 3
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    1 0 for the engines to come back on it
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    really didn't make anybody feel that
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    much
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    better we are still in a
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    mess look I don't feel any
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    power why don't I feel any
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    power something's wrong the engines
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    appear to be running but they're not
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    providing any thrust
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    sucker is not
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    stared then the gauges show that the
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    engines are
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    overheating they're burning up from the
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    inside the risk of a catastrophic engine
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    fire now leaves dardo no
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    choice he must do something no pilot
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    would ever want to do shut down both
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    engines for
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    good once again the play plane is
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    without power and falling
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    fast we knew that we don't have any
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    possibility to restart the engines and
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    then we have to start looking for some
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    place to land the plane is quickly
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    closing in on 3,000 ft at the rate it's
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    dropping it won't make it to New Orleans
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    okay where do I put this thing down
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    visibility begins to improve when the
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    plane breaks through the storm clouds
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    but it's still raining and dardo has
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    less than 3 to find a place to land I
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    was seeing just swampy land land all
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    over the
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    place New Orleans is surrounded by
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    canals and lakes the city is protected
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    by a system of levies man-made barriers
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    designed to prevent flooding it's no
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    place to try to land a
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    737 we uh we don't have power on the
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    engines tack 110 I'm going to Vector you
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    to Lakefront Airport you're only 11 M
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    from Lakefront I don't think I will make
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    it I don't have any power in the engines
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    I guess we'll have to go down we're
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    going to declare an emergency we're
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    going to have to decide where to put
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    this thing Taco 110 do you have visual
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    reference to the ground at this
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    time yes sir Tacko 110 there is an
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    interstate highway directly ahead of you
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    at 12:00 and 7 miles let see what it is
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    landing on a highway may be Doo's only
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    option it was probably a possibility but
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    you always know that the free ways are
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    full of
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    cars said no way I going to try to land
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    in the highway because we'll kill many
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    more people so that was not our option
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    really 11 years earlier a southern
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    Airways flight facing a similar
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    emergency was forced to land on a
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    Highway in
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    Georgia the crash landing killed nine
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    people on the ground and 63 people on
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    board the plane
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    I don't think we're going to be able to
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    make it
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    there you're 6 miles away from Lakefront
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    Airport can you make it there no sir
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    we're at 2,000 ft and losing altitude
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    the crew only has one option left I
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    guess I'm going to have to make a
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    ditching here sir they must take their
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    chances and put the plane down on the
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    water tack a 110 Roger whatever you need
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    to do
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    sir and that was about the last
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    communication with the tower then we
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    were like uh 1,500 ft when that was
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    going
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    on this is New Orleans Tower we have an
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    inbound 737 probable ditching 45 Souls
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    on
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    board the Coast Guard is immediately
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    deployed dardo plans to put the plane
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    down in the canal directly ahead of
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    him
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    okay
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    there put it down softly
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    it was kind of the the feeling of
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    everyone on the plane that we weren't
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    going to get out of
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    this it was a doomsday kind of
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    feeling and that's this was
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    it excuse me what's
  • 00:18:22
    going the steward's body language I
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    didn't even have to understand what they
  • 00:18:26
    were saying you could just see them in
  • 00:18:30
    distress the 737 can only stay in the
  • 00:18:33
    air for another
  • 00:18:34
    minute as dardo looks for a safe stretch
  • 00:18:37
    of canal to drop the plane in another
  • 00:18:40
    option appears look look at that one
  • 00:18:42
    over there and then Lopez so the levy
  • 00:18:46
    parallel to the canal that we were
  • 00:18:48
    making the approach on we put it that on
  • 00:18:51
    the grass yes boss the levy is much
  • 00:18:54
    shorter and narrower than a Runway but
  • 00:18:57
    it looks safer than the water
  • 00:18:59
    that's where we're going to go in you
  • 00:19:02
    got it my friend they will have to act
  • 00:19:04
    fast to get there prer to
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    C you don't even have time to think
  • 00:19:12
    about being scared so I can't say I was
  • 00:19:15
    scared we had to start preparing the
  • 00:19:22
    cabin I had to assume crash position and
  • 00:19:26
    it was really difficult for me because
  • 00:19:28
    um I had just had surgery you kidding me
  • 00:19:31
    and I had stitches going up the middle
  • 00:19:34
    of my stomach stitches
  • 00:19:37
    operation passengers only have seconds
  • 00:19:40
    to
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    prepare the passengers had to take off
  • 00:19:46
    their shoes their jewelry they had to
  • 00:19:48
    put their shoes under the seat in front
  • 00:19:50
    of them so we went through the whole
  • 00:19:51
    emergency
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    checklist air traffic control can no
  • 00:19:59
    longer pick up the low flying 737 on
  • 00:20:02
    radar the controller asks other planes
  • 00:20:05
    to look for it 6 tequilo Alpha if you
  • 00:20:08
    could check your East just slightly to
  • 00:20:10
    the sou 3 to 4 miles we lost an aircraft
  • 00:20:12
    down there 737 if you could let me know
  • 00:20:15
    what you see Roger Kil Al the six I'll
  • 00:20:19
    see what I can
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    [Music]
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    do I felt scared when I got back to my
  • 00:20:29
    seat that's the moment when I really got
  • 00:20:35
    scared okay with the gear
  • 00:20:40
    down all right but Captain dardo is
  • 00:20:43
    still flying towards the water well the
  • 00:20:46
    levy was parallel to my right to have
  • 00:20:48
    any hope of landing on the levy he needs
  • 00:20:51
    to make a sudden and dramatic course
  • 00:20:53
    correction that requires a risky
  • 00:20:55
    maneuver known as a s slip so we just
  • 00:20:59
    had to do a little bit side slip to get
  • 00:21:02
    into position to to make a perfect
  • 00:21:04
    Landing it's a move meant for small
  • 00:21:06
    planes and gliders not a 43 ton Boe
  • 00:21:11
    737 but it's a risk he has to
  • 00:21:21
    take I
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    prayed I was in disbelief that this was
  • 00:21:26
    happening
  • 00:21:29
    only 700 ft separate the plane from the
  • 00:21:32
    ground without engines the pilots have
  • 00:21:35
    no thrust reverses to slow the plane
  • 00:21:37
    when it touches down dardo has an
  • 00:21:39
    additional challenge with only one eye
  • 00:21:42
    he's unable to gauge depth as he speeds
  • 00:21:44
    towards the narrow rain soaked strip of
  • 00:21:47
    grass oh God oh God I was prepared for
  • 00:21:51
    the plane to blow up and explode I was
  • 00:21:53
    prepared for a tragic event and mentally
  • 00:21:58
    had said goodbye to my
  • 00:22:00
    family this is it there's a high cement
  • 00:22:04
    wall in front of the levy and a steep
  • 00:22:07
    embankment on the left there may not be
  • 00:22:09
    enough room to
  • 00:22:11
    land out for doing on that side I see
  • 00:22:15
    it come
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    on I'll keep the thingle awayy keep the
  • 00:22:23
    thing
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    we T down with one wheel and the other
  • 00:22:33
    one was it a hard laning yes if the seat
  • 00:22:37
    belt snapped we would have flown through
  • 00:22:38
    the plane for sure on the Soggy grass
  • 00:22:42
    the plane is in danger of skidding off
  • 00:22:43
    the levy into the
  • 00:22:46
    water I was trying just to control the
  • 00:22:49
    airplane not to to hit the brakes and
  • 00:22:51
    not to lose the airplane at the last
  • 00:22:53
    minute you know the spoilers were out so
  • 00:22:56
    we were just just thinking okay we make
  • 00:22:59
    it we make it we make
  • 00:23:09
    it very
  • 00:23:11
    good very good very good Char very my it
  • 00:23:15
    was
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    surprise it was a hard Landing but
  • 00:23:25
    um but it was a nice it was a nice
  • 00:23:28
    landing
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    um just to be
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    alive The Landing was spectacular the
  • 00:23:45
    plane landed so smoothly there wasn't
  • 00:23:48
    even a bit of
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    turbulence A Perfect
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    Landing that was uh I think the most
  • 00:23:57
    beautiful Landing that ever
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    made when I looked out my window there
  • 00:24:05
    was no fire so I immediately opened the
  • 00:24:07
    door and deployed the
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    [Music]
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    slide they told us to get off the plane
  • 00:24:20
    that that the plane was going to blow
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    [Music]
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    up the New Orleans controller has no
  • 00:24:27
    idea what has become of Tacker flight
  • 00:24:29
    110 another aircraft relays the news to
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    the tower k alp to six everything looks
  • 00:24:37
    okay looks like he did a pretty good job
  • 00:24:40
    I made it you're not going to believe
  • 00:24:42
    where they
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    [Music]
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    are for the first time in history a 737
  • 00:24:54
    without any engines has landed safely
  • 00:24:57
    outside of an airport
  • 00:24:59
    now investigators must find out why the
  • 00:25:01
    sophisticated engines on a brand new
  • 00:25:04
    jetliner failed in
  • 00:25:10
    mid-flight Pilots call this a dead stick
  • 00:25:13
    Landing a landing with no engines as it
  • 00:25:16
    turns out taka 110 has landed on NASA
  • 00:25:20
    property this is the Mishu facility
  • 00:25:23
    where they manufacture parts for the
  • 00:25:24
    space shuttle
  • 00:25:29
    the evacuation was quick we got out of
  • 00:25:33
    the plane quickly we slid down those
  • 00:25:38
    shoots I got to the top of the levy and
  • 00:25:41
    there were some nurses that were on the
  • 00:25:43
    plane and they looked at my stitches and
  • 00:25:46
    everything no major injuries just one
  • 00:25:49
    person that has had an operation but
  • 00:25:51
    she's okay you headed New Orleans and
  • 00:25:55
    soon after an ambulance came put me a
  • 00:25:58
    stretcher and and took me to the
  • 00:26:02
    hospital we have to thank gu that's
  • 00:26:04
    right that's right yes and our captain
  • 00:26:07
    because he kept the
  • 00:26:22
    C now that's not something you see every
  • 00:26:25
    day within hours of the emergency in
  • 00:26:28
    investigators arrive and begin examining
  • 00:26:30
    the damaged
  • 00:26:32
    plane to end up with a jetliner sitting
  • 00:26:34
    on a levy having landed there being
  • 00:26:36
    perfectly intact uh is almost an
  • 00:26:39
    unbelievable site it's beyond
  • 00:26:43
    incredible there a couple of questions
  • 00:26:45
    for you but first thing I'd like to say
  • 00:26:47
    is nice
  • 00:26:50
    landing so tell me when did the engine
  • 00:26:52
    trouble start investigators meet with
  • 00:26:55
    the crew right away they want to know
  • 00:26:57
    exactly what was happening happening
  • 00:26:58
    when the engines flamed out we were
  • 00:27:00
    descending through 165 when both our
  • 00:27:04
    engines flam out at the same time that
  • 00:27:07
    both of them coming apart at the same
  • 00:27:08
    time is an infinitesimal possibility
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    this plane was powered by one of the
  • 00:27:13
    most advanced and widely used jet
  • 00:27:15
    engines on Earth the
  • 00:27:19
    cfm56 it Powers not only the Boeing 737
  • 00:27:22
    but airb and military planes as well the
  • 00:27:26
    cfm56 is just a Marvel of current
  • 00:27:28
    engineering aeronautic there thousands
  • 00:27:30
    and thousands of them out there and they
  • 00:27:32
    almost never ever fail but two CFM 56s
  • 00:27:36
    had failed on this one plane
  • 00:27:38
    alone investigators desperately need to
  • 00:27:40
    know why I haven't flown through too
  • 00:27:43
    many storms that
  • 00:27:44
    intense they turn their attention to the
  • 00:27:47
    weather conditions it's considered a
  • 00:27:49
    very rare occurrence for engines to have
  • 00:27:52
    flamed out in
  • 00:27:55
    flight and uh therefore the con
  • 00:27:58
    concentration was on what possibility
  • 00:28:01
    would cause this is there an
  • 00:28:03
    environmental effect since they were
  • 00:28:05
    flying through rain and
  • 00:28:08
    hail tell me about the storm the winds
  • 00:28:11
    were Fierce there was so much rain and
  • 00:28:15
    hail we could barely see Al
  • 00:28:20
    window dense in the fuselage revealed
  • 00:28:22
    that the plane was struck by hail almost
  • 00:28:24
    an inch in
  • 00:28:26
    diameter if the hail was strong enough
  • 00:28:28
    to damage the exterior of the plane
  • 00:28:31
    investigators wonder if it crippled the
  • 00:28:33
    engines as
  • 00:28:35
    well a turbo fan engine is made up of a
  • 00:28:38
    system of fans and Blades a large fan
  • 00:28:42
    brings air into the engine a series of
  • 00:28:45
    blades compresses the incoming air which
  • 00:28:47
    mixes with fuel to ignite spinning the
  • 00:28:50
    turbines deep inside the
  • 00:28:52
    engine the first thing you look for is
  • 00:28:55
    to find the parts and then look in the
  • 00:28:58
    front and the back of the engine to
  • 00:29:00
    determine if there's
  • 00:29:02
    damage that might explain something has
  • 00:29:04
    gone in the engine or something has
  • 00:29:06
    broken inside the
  • 00:29:09
    engine to appearer inside the engine
  • 00:29:12
    they use a
  • 00:29:14
    boroscope this is where you put the
  • 00:29:16
    little TV camera on the end of that
  • 00:29:17
    scope of some sort you can look in the
  • 00:29:19
    internal hot section of the engine and
  • 00:29:21
    see what they could
  • 00:29:23
    see no hell damage to the compressor
  • 00:29:26
    that I can see
  • 00:29:30
    keep going deeper let's see what's at
  • 00:29:31
    the
  • 00:29:33
    center but the turbines deep inside the
  • 00:29:36
    engine are charred
  • 00:29:38
    this turbines are almost completely
  • 00:29:44
    melted when the engine uh
  • 00:29:48
    overheats uh if the overheat is allowed
  • 00:29:51
    to occur long
  • 00:29:54
    enough then it will cause melting of the
  • 00:29:58
    turbine
  • 00:29:59
    blades so when did you get the
  • 00:30:01
    temperature warning the engines started
  • 00:30:03
    to overheat right after we started
  • 00:30:07
    them and the damage to the turbine which
  • 00:30:10
    is the melting of the blades means that
  • 00:30:12
    you can no longer produce Thrust out of
  • 00:30:15
    that engine the charred turbines do not
  • 00:30:18
    explain why the engine stopped working
  • 00:30:20
    in the first
  • 00:30:23
    place for some reason flight 110s
  • 00:30:26
    engines had quit started and only then
  • 00:30:29
    burned
  • 00:30:33
    up but before the search for answers can
  • 00:30:37
    continue investigators are confronted
  • 00:30:39
    with another
  • 00:30:41
    problem the plane is starting to
  • 00:30:47
    sink it can't stay here much longer
  • 00:30:50
    maybe NASA has some
  • 00:30:52
    ideas the levy was never meant to
  • 00:30:54
    support 43,000 kg
  • 00:30:58
    a jetliner has an awful lot of weight on
  • 00:31:00
    a very small footprint you leave a plane
  • 00:31:02
    there for 2 or 3 days you may have it
  • 00:31:04
    mired up to its subc
  • 00:31:06
    caps there was barely enough room to
  • 00:31:08
    land the plane on the levy getting the
  • 00:31:11
    plane off of it could be even more
  • 00:31:14
    challenging you've got really three ways
  • 00:31:16
    to get this airplane out of there one is
  • 00:31:18
    to fly it out secondly to disassemble it
  • 00:31:21
    or third put it on a barge but it's not
  • 00:31:24
    as easy as it sounds
  • 00:31:28
    disassembling the plane could cause more
  • 00:31:31
    damage do you think we can fly it
  • 00:31:34
    off the decision is made they'll attempt
  • 00:31:37
    to take off and fly the plane to New
  • 00:31:39
    Orleans the very first problem of
  • 00:31:41
    getting the airplane ready to fly was
  • 00:31:42
    getting the engines to the point of
  • 00:31:44
    reliability which meant they had to
  • 00:31:45
    replace the right engine it was just
  • 00:31:47
    cooked it was it was too far gone left
  • 00:31:49
    engine was probably going to need to be
  • 00:31:50
    overhauled but they could fly it out
  • 00:31:52
    with
  • 00:31:54
    that after replacing the right engine
  • 00:31:57
    they bring in test pilots to get the
  • 00:31:59
    plane off the ground and to the airport
  • 00:32:01
    24 km away in New
  • 00:32:06
    Orleans it's a it's a good safe
  • 00:32:09
    operation that we're that we're doing
  • 00:32:10
    here today but we can accelerate up
  • 00:32:12
    to virtually to takeoff speed and then
  • 00:32:16
    if we decided to stop why we could stop
  • 00:32:18
    the
  • 00:32:23
    airplane with no passengers and very
  • 00:32:25
    little fuel to weigh the plane down it
  • 00:32:28
    reaches takeoff speed in just 365 M the
  • 00:32:32
    investigation at the emergency landing
  • 00:32:34
    site comes to a dramatic
  • 00:32:37
    end in most scenarios in which an
  • 00:32:40
    airplane comes down in the wrong place
  • 00:32:42
    but is still intact you probably never
  • 00:32:44
    get it out that way this just happened
  • 00:32:45
    to be amazing luck hey
  • 00:32:49
    guys investigators must now try to
  • 00:32:52
    figure out why the engines failed in
  • 00:32:54
    mid-flight if rain caused them to shut
  • 00:32:57
    down
  • 00:32:58
    thousands of other planes are at
  • 00:33:00
    risk this was an incredible situation
  • 00:33:03
    because these engines are just too
  • 00:33:04
    reliable that they go through a
  • 00:33:06
    thunderstorm well that's not supposed to
  • 00:33:07
    do it so what
  • 00:33:09
    happened the cfm56 engines are designed
  • 00:33:12
    to withstand a heavy
  • 00:33:14
    rainstorm most water is diverted away
  • 00:33:17
    from the core while in Flight whatever
  • 00:33:20
    makes it inside should evaporate or
  • 00:33:22
    drain from the
  • 00:33:24
    engine the engines were sent back to the
  • 00:33:26
    GE test facil faity in Ohio where they
  • 00:33:30
    have the Test Facilities that can
  • 00:33:32
    recreate water ingestion
  • 00:33:35
    testing if some hidden design floor
  • 00:33:37
    caused the engines to fail investigators
  • 00:33:40
    need to find it they hope water
  • 00:33:43
    ingestion testing can provide some
  • 00:33:46
    answers once they got these engines in
  • 00:33:48
    the shop and started testing them the
  • 00:33:49
    very first thing was to go to the FAA
  • 00:33:51
    standard the way FAA had tested them in
  • 00:33:53
    the past and what have been approved
  • 00:33:55
    okay let's see what they can handle
  • 00:34:00
    you basically uh spray water from
  • 00:34:03
    nozzles into the inlet of the engine and
  • 00:34:08
    the amount of water you adjust in
  • 00:34:10
    percentage to the amount of air to
  • 00:34:13
    simulate flight conditions despite
  • 00:34:16
    rigorous water testing the engine does
  • 00:34:19
    not flame out like we thought wasn't the
  • 00:34:23
    rain nothing went wrong the engine
  • 00:34:25
    continued to run so obviously something
  • 00:34:27
    else should happen so they needed to
  • 00:34:30
    examine this in much more detail was
  • 00:34:32
    there something more severe about the
  • 00:34:36
    weather we lost an engine both engines
  • 00:34:39
    both engines
  • 00:34:41
    [Music]
  • 00:34:43
    sir investigators study all available
  • 00:34:46
    data on the storm that somehow brought
  • 00:34:48
    down tflight
  • 00:34:51
    110 that was more than a thunderstorm it
  • 00:34:54
    was a hail storm in the case of the uh t
  • 00:34:58
    uh we had uh basically a a frontal
  • 00:35:02
    system to the north some very strong
  • 00:35:05
    winds in a vertical producing several
  • 00:35:07
    hail events and in the southern
  • 00:35:10
    latitudes you don't typically see too
  • 00:35:12
    many hail storms so it was
  • 00:35:17
    abnormal the engines are designed to
  • 00:35:19
    ingest water but investigators are
  • 00:35:22
    unsure if hail acts differently from
  • 00:35:25
    water inside the engine
  • 00:35:28
    they never thought about hail getting
  • 00:35:29
    into the core hail is only created in a
  • 00:35:32
    thunderstorm it basically starts as a
  • 00:35:35
    raindrop it goes up above the freezing
  • 00:35:38
    level freezes becomes a piece of ice
  • 00:35:41
    then as it gets heavier drops back down
  • 00:35:44
    below the freezing level coats another
  • 00:35:47
    layer of water around it and gets back
  • 00:35:49
    into the updraft again brought the
  • 00:35:51
    higher altitudes and refreezes so hail
  • 00:35:55
    is multiple layers of
  • 00:35:58
    ice that forms on a particle
  • 00:36:01
    investigators learned that the engines
  • 00:36:03
    were designed to withstand the impact
  • 00:36:05
    from hailstones of a certain size the
  • 00:36:08
    FAA standards called for a mixture of
  • 00:36:12
    hail sizes of 1 in and 2in diameter
  • 00:36:15
    balls some of the hail Tacker 110
  • 00:36:18
    encountered was smaller than
  • 00:36:21
    that those smaller pieces of hail could
  • 00:36:24
    make their way through the fan and
  • 00:36:25
    compressor blades accumulating deep
  • 00:36:27
    inside the engine where they would
  • 00:36:30
    melt hail was considered to not be a
  • 00:36:33
    factor in the center core but if it had
  • 00:36:35
    been what would it look
  • 00:36:38
    like investigators calculate the amount
  • 00:36:41
    of hail that could have entered the
  • 00:36:42
    engine core they then estimate the
  • 00:36:45
    volume of water the melting ice would
  • 00:36:47
    have
  • 00:36:49
    produced that's substantially more
  • 00:36:51
    water investigators want to know if this
  • 00:36:54
    excess water overwhelmed the engines and
  • 00:36:57
    caused the
  • 00:36:58
    failure okay let's try more water and
  • 00:37:00
    see what
  • 00:37:02
    happens they perform another water
  • 00:37:04
    ingestion test this time adding even
  • 00:37:07
    more water to account for the hail
  • 00:37:09
    inside the engines so if they used
  • 00:37:12
    enough water to emulate that maybe they
  • 00:37:15
    could make it fail well they tried using
  • 00:37:17
    a high speed on the
  • 00:37:20
    engine and still it wouldn't fail
  • 00:37:30
    okay what are we missing or were there's
  • 00:37:32
    something unique about the engine
  • 00:37:35
    operation itself that that might have
  • 00:37:37
    contributed to the engine losing
  • 00:37:41
    power engine performance figures from
  • 00:37:43
    the flight data recorder give
  • 00:37:45
    investigators a new
  • 00:37:47
    [Music]
  • 00:37:50
    lead just before the flame out H power
  • 00:37:53
    is down to 35%
  • 00:37:59
    tack 110 Runway 28 Final Approach course
  • 00:38:02
    continue inbound descended pilot
  • 00:38:04
    supression maintain
  • 00:38:06
    4,000 thank you sir T 41
  • 00:38:11
    4,000 they just started their
  • 00:38:14
    descent thank you sir T 110
  • 00:38:17
    4,000 as the plane began its Final
  • 00:38:20
    Approach to New Orleans the engines
  • 00:38:22
    automatically reduced power to slow down
  • 00:38:24
    for their descent at a lower pass power
  • 00:38:27
    setting the engines may not have been
  • 00:38:29
    able to handle as much
  • 00:38:36
    water we've been testing everything in
  • 00:38:38
    accordance with the normal FAA
  • 00:38:39
    methodologies at high speed on the
  • 00:38:41
    engines but these guys were indecent to
  • 00:38:43
    new
  • 00:38:45
    orlans they repeat the test this time
  • 00:38:48
    with less power to the engines so we
  • 00:38:51
    want to see what happens when we add the
  • 00:38:52
    same amount of water but with the
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    engines powered down to 35% okay
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    the big aha moment was when they
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    realized that it was the speed of the
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    engine that was managing to get the
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    engine through the ingestion of as much
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    water as they could throw at it and
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    presumably as much hail but when the
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    engine went down to idle that's when
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    they managed to find the key that's when
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    the engine couldn't handle
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    it well now we know what
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    happened bad timing and that test gave a
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    completely different result
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    investigators have discovered why the
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    engines flamed out it showed something
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    that no one understood at the time
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    because in all the testing and all the
  • 00:39:49
    logic that had gone into it they hadn't
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    taken into account the slow speeds on
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    the engine on
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    descent at the lower
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    speeds uh the hail having a significant
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    velocity in momentum can actually see an
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    opening between the fan blades and it's
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    able to get through the fan blades and
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    directly into the core the engines
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    filled with hail and water and flamed
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    out for investigators only one mystery
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    remains look don't feel any power what
  • 00:40:20
    went wrong after the Tacker crew
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    restarted their engines the sucker is
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    not started why did they overheat and
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    fail when the engines on the 737 flamed
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    out the crew knew they had to act fast
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    we've lost power on the engines to have
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    any hope of restoring engine power they
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    first needed to get the Apu running get
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    the Apu started since the engines were
  • 00:40:52
    no longer spinning they had stopped
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    ingesting air and water but a success
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    restart was far from guaranteed if you
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    do not have all the proper conditions
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    you can get what's called a hot start
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    which means that you have too much fuel
  • 00:41:08
    for the amount of air going into it and
  • 00:41:10
    the flame will now migrate into the
  • 00:41:12
    turbine where it could overheat
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    it after studying the engine data from
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    the flight recorder investigators
  • 00:41:20
    conclude that the overheating and
  • 00:41:22
    ultimate failure of the engines was in
  • 00:41:24
    fact due to a hot start
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    may they may they T 110 we lost an
  • 00:41:31
    engine both engines both engines sir
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    both engines with his engines flooded
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    with fuel and no time to properly drain
  • 00:41:38
    them dardo hit the ignition
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    switch if it didn't get all the timing
  • 00:41:46
    correctly then this is what's going to
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    happen you're going to get a hot start I
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    can't be critical of a pilot in that
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    condition that aircraft is coming down
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    rain and hail from an intense storm
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    crippled a modern passenger jet and
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    nearly led to
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    disaster investigators must find a way
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    to make sure it never happens
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    again one of the beauties of Aviation
  • 00:42:13
    and Aviation safety is when we find
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    there's a problem everybody works
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    together to solve it and in this case
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    the problem indicated a need for an
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    engine change not not a complete design
  • 00:42:22
    overhaul but just a few tweaks but that
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    was done almost immediately much to the
  • 00:42:26
    credit of everybody involved
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    [Music]
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    the shape of the engine nose cone and
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    the spacing of the fan blades are
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    modified in order to better deflect hail
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    away from the core also additional bleed
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    doors are added to drain more water from
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    the
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    engine that sort of thing hasn't
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    happened again and there are thousands
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    and thousands of these engines flying
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    every day for hours and hours and hours
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    within a year of the incident 737 300s
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    around the world are retrofitted with
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    the upgrades
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    the plane involved in the daring Landing
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    is back in service within a
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    month look look at that one over there
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    that's where we're going to go in you
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    got it my friend the crew's actions on
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    flight 110 are legendary in the aviation
  • 00:43:17
    world the decision making at the very
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    end when they were going to put it in
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    the canal and saw an opportunity to put
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    it on dry ground and did so that was
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    superlative it was the decision Mak
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    investigators credit the calm nerves and
  • 00:43:30
    determination of Captain dardo watch out
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    for doing on that side I see it for
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    avoiding what could have been a fatal
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    disaster Captain Carlos dardo is dubbed
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    a hero in the media passengers that day
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    were
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    overjoyed dardo and his crew kept the
  • 00:43:53
    calm and because of that 45 people who
  • 00:43:56
    rode that plane are alive
  • 00:44:02
    today today the dardo family tradition
  • 00:44:06
    continues Carlos's son and daughter have
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    followed in their Father's Footsteps
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    both becoming
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    [Music]
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    Pilots at the beginning I was met when I
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    was
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    chot I lost part of my vision and then I
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    had this accident that everything went
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    well and 20 years later I have a career
  • 00:44:35
    and have a good life and life is for a
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    reason a reason is for life
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    [Music]
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  • Boeing 737
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  • aviation safety
  • Captain Carlos Dardo
  • engine failure
  • investigation
  • passenger safety
  • dead stick landing