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The Night Ice Killed Flight 5017: How Instruments Lied and 116 Died
The Night Ice Killed Flight 5017: How Instruments Lied and 116 Died
A chill of helplessness: invisible ice crystals silently fooled instruments and, according to investigators, triggered systems that slowly throttled a fully crewed MD-83 until it plunged nose-first into the Malian desert. How did ordinary sensors and an autothrottle become the mechanisms of a catastrophe that left 116 people dead?
In this episode, you will hear the timeline of Air Algérie Flight 5017 from takeoff to impact, the crew and aircraft details, and how weather and system logic combined to hide danger - could a…
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