Airplane Crashes Upside Down on Runway / Propair Flight 420 Loses a Wing

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A Fairchild Metroliner SSA26 flips upside down just before making an emergency landing. Propair Flight 420 has just taken off from Montreal but must turn back due to a warning message. The left wing is overheating and as the pilots try to figure out what's happening, the left engine catches on fire. Seconds before the crew touches down on the runway, the left wing fails and the airplane flips upsisde down. What happened to this airplane? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by Lectric eBikes (http://lectricebikes.com and use code BLACKBOXDOWN) Sunday (http://getsunday.com/blackboxdown) and 30 Morbid Minutes (Subscribe to 30 Morbid Minutes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.) 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 Risturziz production.
0:07.0	June 18, 1998.
0:10.0	Prop air flight 420, a chartered fair child metroliner SSA-26 with 11 people on board,
0:16.0	is taken off from Montreal Quebec, bound for Petersburg, Ontario.
0:20.0	12 minutes after takeoff, the crew notices a decrease in their hydraulic pressure and
0:24.0	requests to return to the airport.
0:26.0	30 seconds after their request, the crew begins to experience control problems.
0:29.0	The plane is wanting to roll to the left, but the crew wrestles it back to the airport.
0:33.0	When nearing the runway threshold, the plane rolls 90 degrees to the left,
0:37.0	fuel spills and ignites. The plane slides for 2,500 feet and comes to Rist,
0:41.0	inverted on the runway. All passengers pass away.
0:44.0	What happened to Prop air flight 420? Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
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