Air France Flight 296Q Crashes at Airshow / Airbus Crashes in Front of Hundreds of Spectators

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A brand new Airbus A320 crashes while performing at an airshow. Air France Flight 296Q is being flown by the brand new Airbus A320 and is full of contest winners and journalists. The crew are told they will be part of an airshow and are supposed to fly over the runway at just 100 feet above the ground. While performing this maneuver, something goes wrong and the airplane flies into a forest and crashes into the trees. What series of events led to this crash? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/blackboxdown) HelloFresh (http://hellofresh.com/BLACKBOXDOWN16 or use code BLACKBOXDOWN16 at checkout) and The Jordan Harbinger Show (http://jordanharbinger.com/start) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to 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 Teeth production.
0:07.0	June 26, 1988 Air France flight 296Q, a brand new 3-day-old Airbus A320 with 136 people
0:16.7	on board, is on a special flight.
0:18.8	The plane is going to take part in an air show, and overfly an audience while just 100 feet
0:23.2	above the ground.
0:24.5	The crew makes last minute adjustments to fly just above the crowd, but something goes wrong.
0:28.6	The pilots realize that there are trees at the end of the runway, and they apply maximum
0:32.2	thrust, but the engines do not respond.
0:34.5	The captain pulls back on a side-stick, but it is too late.
0:37.2	The brand new aircraft flies into the trees at the end of the runway and erupts in flames.
0:41.4	What happened to cause this flight to go so wrong?
0:43.5	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:49.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down.
0:50.6	It's Gus and Chris.
0:51.6	Hello Chris.
0:52.6	Hi Gus, that sounds nuts.
0:54.7	It sounds nuts.
0:56.2	We have not done an air show incident before.
1:00.9	Just air shows have their own things going on, right?
1:04.6	It's a lot of acrobatics and things that are out of the ordinary.
1:08.3	This one is unusual because it's a commercial airplane with passengers on board doing a fly
1:14.2	by at an air show and things go wrong.
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