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S10E01: Cockpit Failure (Crossair Flight 3597)

Mayday · Season 10
Aired 27 Feb 2011 at 5:00pm (UTC)
Cockpit Failure (Crossair Flight 3597)

Synopsis

On 25 February 2009, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 is on approach to land at Schiphol in Amsterdam, when it stalls and crashes 1.5 kilometres from the runway. Nine people, including the three cockpit crew members, are killed. A faulty radar altimeter caused the aircraft's flight control computer to automatically reduce engine thrust prematurely, and the flight crew failed to notice the resulting drop in airspeed until it was too late.

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