Airplane Does a Barrel Roll with Passengers on Board / American Eagle Flight 4184 Loses Control

Black Box Down

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

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

An ATR-72 starts to violently bank right on its own. American Eagle Flight 4184 is flying to Chicago when it gets placed in a holding pattern. After 45 minutes the crew start receiving further clearance but as they make their way down the controls suddenly whip all the way to the right. The plane does a full roll before the pilots can regain control, but soon the controls whip to the right again, causing the plane to crash. What went wrong on this flight? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by Credit Karma (http://creditkarma.com) 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 Ristarty's production.
0:07.0	October 31, 1994.
0:10.0	American Eagle Flight 4184, an ATR-72 with 68 people on board, has taken off from Indianapolis
0:17.4	Indiana and is in a holding pattern at 10,000 feet while waiting to land at Chicago's
0:22.1	O'Hare Airport.
0:23.4	The weather is cold and wet, which is slowing down operations at the airport.
0:27.0	The crew is initially optimistic that their hold won't take too long, but ends up circling
0:30.4	for 45 minutes.
0:31.9	Without warning, the control column whips to the right and the aircraft is in a stall.
0:35.8	The pilots try to pull the plane to a wings level and out of the stall, but they run out
0:39.0	of time.
0:40.0	The plane collides with the ground, killing all on board.
0:42.8	What happens seemingly out of the blue that caused the plane to lose control?
0:45.8	Could the crew have done anything to save the plane?
0:48.1	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
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0:56.6	Hello Gus.
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