r/aircrashinvestigation

About a week ago I posted about an airplane accident in France caused by the pilot losing control of his aircraft on landing because he tried to return back to the airport. The accident I'm posting about today is the opposite of the story in France. This is what your supposed to do when you have an engine failure. I will say the situation for the French pilot was more drastic as he had less altitude then pilot here, but still it is a valuable lesson, in my opinion.

On Wednesday August 25th, 2021, a 25 year old pilot with 111 hours on the Cessna 150, the plane she was flying today, took off from Chino Airport, located near San Bernadino, California. The pilot proceeded to fly around the area and while descending to 2,500 feet on her way back to Chino, the engine surged. To counter this the pilot applied carburetor heat to her engine, and every thing went back to normal. However, after a short period of the time, the engine began to surge again, but this time the engine's RPM reduced to around idle thrust, and the pilot was forced to descend. Importantly, in this story instead of attempting to return to the airport, the pilot decided to do an off airport landing, which was successful and luckily the pilot survived.

The NTSB concluded that the probable cause for the engine loss was because of carburetor icing that built up so much that the short burst of carburetor heat applied didn't melt the ice.

Image of the plane after it's forced landing.

Where the aircraft landing. (the orange symbol)

Seriously I swear every video they upload now has either some glaring detail wrong in the title or in the icon, with the latest being an icon of Aloha 243 with an engine on fire?

Hello, when I watch air crash investigation, I'm usually more interested in the second part, where they try to figure out what happened and why. What are your recommendations for best episodes from this perspective?

The Denpasar airport at the time only had an NDB located at the airport and a VOR 6 miles southwest, no radar, no VOR/DME. So when devoid of any landmarks the 2 ADFs and VOR instruments were the only means for the pilots to know where they were. When they were 30 miles north of Denpasar the Captain's ADF swung while the First Officer's remained steady towards the NDB, thus the Captain believed they were over the airport and flew outbound (but were definitely not tracking 263* outbound on his ADF). A reason for the swing could be due to Terrain effect that reflected radio waves and produced an erroneous reading as at that moment they passed over a 4,100 foot mountain. The Captain requested to descend from 12,000 feet down to 2,500 feet, did the procedure turn before crashing. While the CVR was useable, no transcript was published. All of the pilots on the flight deck had flown to Bali at least once before with the Captain and First Officer last flying there almost a year prior, though I don't know if they had ever landed there at night.

For the past decade, Pan Am had been having a series of crashes and serious incidents due to poor CRM and other flight crew members not watching for mistakes and or being inattentive which was a contributing factor in this crash. This was Pan Am's 12th loss of a Boeing jet. Another contributing factor was that the Captain was not very familiar with the Indonesian Aeronautical Information Publication, particularly the approach procedures for landing at Denpasar, however I have not been able to find these. The final report is a quite scanty.

Following this crash and a previous crash 3 months earlier in Pago Pago, the FAA did an inspection of Pan Am which found that many of these crashes involved “substandard airmen”, inadequate training, lack of standardization among crews, and spotty records for very senior and experienced pilots. An early form a Crew Resource Management training was introduced at Pan Am as a result of the crash of flight 812 and they never had another crash due to poor CRM on their end.

A lawsuit was filed against Pan Am on their end for this crash and found liable for negligence but not willful misconduct. The plaintiffs representing 3 of the victims were awarded almost $1 million in damages.

Hello everyone. Does anyone know the release dates for the new season in the U.S. I watch the show on Apple T.V but they haven’t released the season yet. If anyone has any estimations of when it will release that would be appreciated!

Hiiii, so my parents have been asking me about when the new season will be available on Disney+ so I decided to ask y'all here.

I'm aware that the season premieres first in Canada before coming out on Nat Geo. Is the new season premiere done in Canada or still ongoing? From the Philippines here.

Hi everybody, my question is simple : Why is it so hard to find "air crash" episodes on VOD ? I live in France and at the moment, I can watch season 17 and 18 on Disney+, and then 22 and 23 on mycanal (french tv bundle with NAT GEO replay). Please someone here can help me, and tell me where can I find all the other seasons. Of course, I'm okay to pay for that, and I don't care to have to pay multiple VOD subscriptions, but it's a shame to have a tv show, and can't watch it, especially now the old seasons never cast anymore on TV. I can use a VPN, so don't hesitate to tell me if some seasons are available in other countries of mine. Thousand thanks to all of you.

Hello - I have seen an episode about a crash, which happened because airport had system to pair with automatic landing offline, and both pilots had almost none experience how to land without it.

Does anyone know which episode of what is about this?

I never used to mind flying until I got addicted to Air Crash Investigation. Now I spend the entire flight, every flight thinking I'm gonna die in the most horrific way 🤣.

Still a good show though 🤣

I remember watching this footage years ago, and it didn’t scare me at all. I was only slightly astounded to discover that there was a real footage of a Yak-42 overrunning the runway prior to the fatal crash which killed the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl’s members in 2011.

Watching this footage now, this question bothers me. Does it even scare the shit out of people when they watch this?? I mean, it is scary because it is a real footage of a fatal plane crash, but it is not scary like a Five Nights at Freddy jumpscare.

I read the comments on this footage and almost all of them were calling this plane a “plane jumpscare.” I just found out that some YouTube kids even reposted this footage and titled it something like “YAK-Service 9633 jumpscare.” At this point I feel like this is turning into a meme, but I find it quite disrespectful to the victims involved in the crash.

pilots couldn't turn down the engine because fuel dehumidifier on airport tore and powder got into fuel blocking fuel control valves from closing and landed with high speed.

compared to the remakes of Alaska airlines flight 261 and Japan airlines flight 123, United 811s remake is an improvement over them. The dramatic acting, the effects for the explosive decompression, and the new soundtrack really fits the episode.