Airplane Stalls 1 Mile Before Runway / Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 Falls Out of the Sky

Black Box Down

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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A Boeing 737 on final stalls a few hundred feet in the air. Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 is descending when the airplane determins it is time to land. The throttle automatically goes to idle and the crew doesn't realize until they are about to stall. What led the airplane to carry out landing procedures on its own? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by SoloStove (http://solostove.com and use code BLACKBOXDOWN) Native (http://nativedeo.com/blackboxdown and use code BLACKBOXDOWN) and Coinbase (http://coinbase.com/BLACKBOXDOWN) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Insidious Inspirations: https://podcasts.bloody-disgusting.com/#insidiousinspirations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Ruestur-Z's production.
0:08.0	February 25, 2009.
0:10.0	Turkish Airlines Flight 1951,
0:12.0	abowing 737 with 135 people on board,
0:16.0	is about to land at Amsterdam's Skippel Airport
0:18.0	after an uneventful flight from Istanbul, Turkey.
0:21.0	The crew will be performing a slam dunk approach
0:23.0	in the Skippel Airport and is intercepting the ILS from above.
0:26.0	The pilots must decelerate the plane
0:28.0	and have it descend at the same time in order to intercept the ILS.
0:31.0	Only a mile from the runway and add an altitude of 460 feet,
0:35.0	the stick shaker activates and the captain realizes his airspeed
0:38.0	is dangerously low.
0:39.0	The captain takes control of the airplane but it is too late.
0:42.0	The plane collides with the ground killing nine people on board.
0:45.0	Why did Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 fall out of the sky?
0:48.0	Was there an ongoing issue that needed to be addressed?
0:51.0	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:58.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down. It's Gus and Chris.
1:00.0	Hi Chris.
1:01.0	Hello Gus.
1:02.0	And people listening.
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