I have seen a lots of the episodes in this series and the most disturbing one has to be the one with the passenger killing all of the crew in cockpit with a gun and then crashing the plane.
This was in season-11 ep-10 "I`m the problem"
I find this series very interesting.
I recently watched Air France 447: Vanished. It was so frustrating. I wanted to yell at the muppets in the cockpit: "Pull the nose down, you're in a stall!" The plane was falling for about 3 minutes and moments before the splash in the ocean the captain realized the copilot was keeping the nose up this whole time. By then it was too late. It was scary to know that supposedly good qualified pilots in an airline like Air France are capable of doing such mistake.
shareJAL 123 bothers me. The pilots fought to control the plane for about a half an hour, which must have seemed an eternity to the passengers. And I feel bad for the injured who died on the mountain while waiting for rescue.
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Killing Machine where some terrorists executed a hostage. It was out of syndication rotation for a while.
shareThey executed several passengers. Those guys were scumbags.
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That was so crazy. The "ninjas" storm the plane then when the pilot jumped out the side window and fell about 30 feet flat on his face. I think he broke his arm in several places. Huge gun fight on the plane lasts several minutes. That end could not have been more dramatic. Just unreal.
shareAmerican 965.
"Where are we? Where are we heading? What is going on? Ah, who cares. Let's continue our descent." Seriously, you watch the guys and wonder: what are you thinking?
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Operation Baby Lift was pretty disturbing. "I'm The Problem" was pretty twisted.
shareThe Russian airliner where the pilot puts his kids at the control has a particularly disturbing element to it. Imagine being those kids and thinking you had caused the plane to crash when it was actually your imbecile pilot dad and a fubar auto-pilot system. *Then there was a Japanese (or S Korean) flight that just split apart in the middle of the sky without warning. **The one where the pilots simply forgot to finish their pre-flight check list and extend the wing flaps. I mean, jeez, both of the pilots totally spaced it out. ***The flight to Mecca that was half incinerated before it's unsuccessful crash landing. Burning passengers were pouring out of the sky from the blazing fuselage. ****The one that crashed into the swamp, as a result of a malfunctioning $12 light bulb. ***** And the San Diego crash will always be seared into my memory because of the haunting photographs that were captured of it. It was interesting to learn all of the particulars of that one. ******Tenerife, caused by an airport bombing, and yet not by a bomb. *******The Ghost flight, and it's eerie parallels with the mysterious Malysian flight.
How do you pick just one? The varying degrees of disturbing are pretty tightly clustered when it comes to airline crashes. I guess souls lost is the most rational gauge.
While the pilot was wrong (and violated the law) the people most responsible were the Airbus training staff-- they didn't bring up the aileron disconnect feature and said nothing about the anti-stall mechanism that could easily have saved the flight: releasing the flight controls would have automatically leveled the plane.
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-Li Chen-Sung (Richard Loo) The Outer Limits
A recurring theme in Airbus crashes seems to be "the computer knows best and pilots are idiots. If one of our planes crashes it's obviously the pilot's fault."
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Philo's Law: To learn from your mistakes, you have to realize you're making mistakes.
For me the most frustrating ones are those where you already know someone will make a mistake and you want to shout at them to be more cautious. It's like watching Titanic and every time hoping the ship won't actually sink.
The Tenerife disaster (I just watched the episode) is horrible. I get frustrated by the mistakes being made. Sure it all begun with the terrorist but if everyone involved in the actual crash were attentive nothing bad would have happened. Disclaimer: I'm speaking of a layman here, I have no experience in actual aviation. Anyways, using my layman common sense: Pan Am, just say you're taking C4 instead of vaguely going on about "third"/"first" whatever exit. The taxi-ways have names and numbers, I suppose for a reason, use those or ask if they really want you to take the 3rd one which is in an impossible angle. ATC, make sure you know exactly where Pan Am is and confirm which taxi-way they are aiming for. And KLM, KLM... Wait for permission to take off for f-cks sakes. You just killed all your passengers and plenty of others.
The "Kid in the cock-pit" one gives me rage as well. Ditto Ethiopian Airlines. And the one where they use a passenger jet full of people in an air show, is that wise? There are plenty more but these came from the top of my mind. Bonus rage-mention to the Iran Air one where the Americans shoot down a plane full of civilians and get medals of honor for that.