Airplane Crashes In A Mall Parking Lot / Fine Air Flight 101 Crashes in a Mall Parking Lot

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A McDonnell Douglas DC-8 crashes in a busy Miami parking lot. Fine Air Flight 101 is packed with cargo bound for the Dominican Republic. Just after take off, the airplane pitches up sharply and starts to stall. The pilots don't have enough time to react to this unexpected pitch and are not able to get control. The plane crashes onto a busy Miami street and slides into a parking lot, crashing into several cars. What caused this flight to go so wrong? 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 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.
0:04.4	August 7th, 1997.
0:09.9	Finair Flight 101, a McDonald Douglas DC-8 cargo flight with four people on board is preparing
0:15.4	to take off from Miami, Florida bound for San Diego Dominican Republic.
0:19.4	The crew completes all their pre-flight checks and begins accelerating down the runway for
0:22.8	takeoff.
0:23.8	As soon as the plane becomes airborne, the crew begins fighting to try and keep the aircraft
0:27.4	from pitching up too far.
0:29.4	All on the ground report seems flames coming out of one of the engines.
0:32.6	The crew struggles against the controls in vain, and less than a minute later, the plane
0:36.1	crashes into a busy intersection next to the airport.
0:39.4	Everyone on board the plane and one person in a car on the ground are killed.
0:43.0	Will it cause this flight to go wrong so quickly?
0:45.7	Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
0:48.7	Hello everyone, what can a Black Boxdown?
0:53.3	It's me, Gus, and it's you, Chris.
0:55.8	Oh, yeah, and that, yes.
0:58.7	You changed it up and it threw me for a loop.
1:01.4	Yeah, it was like, I did something different this time.
1:03.0	Got to mix it up.
1:04.0	I talked a few episodes ago about how I always say the same thing.
1:06.6	Got me, it was a while ago.
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