A Reset Circuit Breaker Causes Crash / Indonesia AirAisia Flight 8501 Falls to the Sea

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

An Airbus A320 crashes in the ocean near Indonesia. Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 is cruising at 32,000 feet when the pilots receive an error message in the cockpit. The error is a minor problem and the pilots are able to fix it in a quick and easy way. The error message pops up again several times however, and eventaully the pilots try to permanently solve the problem by resetting a circuit breaker. Suddenly the pilots lose control of the airplane and they begin to fall to the ocean below. What exactly went wrong on board this flight? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to https://blackboxdownpod.com to support us directly Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Zeath production.
0:07.0	December 28, 2014.
0:10.0	Indonesia Air Asia Flight 8501, an Airbus A320 with 162 people on board, is cruising at 32,000
0:18.0	feet over the Java Sea during an early morning flight from Surabaya, Indonesia bound for Singapore.
0:24.0	There are storms in the area so the crew requests to climb to 38,000 feet and after a brief delay
0:29.0	Air Traffic Control clears them to 34,000 feet.
0:32.0	Air Traffic Control is not getting any reply from the pilots and notices the plane first climbs past 38,000 feet
0:38.0	then begins plummeting to the sea below.
0:40.0	The plane impacts the ocean killing all on board.
0:43.0	What happened to Indonesia Air Asia Flight 8501?
0:46.0	How does a modern airliner fall out of the sky while at cruising altitude?
0:49.0	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
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