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The Pilot Who Pulled Back: Inside the 41-Second Crash
The Pilot Who Pulled Back: Inside the 41-Second Crash
Fear of a controlled disaster: a brand-new Bombardier Q400 vanished from radar four miles short of Buffalo Niagara Airport and fifty people were dead within sixty seconds - all because a pilot pulled back when the airplane needed forward input. How did routine procedure, two exhausted pilots, and one overridden automatic correction turn 41 seconds into a fatal descent?
In this episode, we tell what happened on the night of February 12, 2009, how the flight data recorder captured the critical actions in the cockpit, and why the…
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