Boeing 757 Crashes in the Atlantic Ocean Shortly After Takeoff

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Chris Demarais and Gustavo Sorola find out why Birgenair Flight 301, a Boeing 757 with 189 people on board, fell out of the sky and crashed in the Atlantic shortly after taking off from the Dominican Republic. What could have caused the airliner to stall so soon after departure? 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! Already a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: http://bit.ly/FIRSTRSS 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	February 6, 1996.
0:10.4	Bergen Air Flight 301, aboing 757 with 189 people on board, is taking off from Porto
0:17.1	Plata Dominican Republic bound for Frankfurt, Germany, with schedule stops at Gander, Canada
0:22.5	and Berlin, Germany.
0:24.1	Most of the passengers are German at the end of a Caribbean package tour holiday and are
0:28.0	eager to get home.
0:29.4	The plane originally scheduled to take these passengers home was not able to make the trip,
0:33.2	and after a four hour delay, the tour company arranges for this plane, which has been
0:36.8	sat in the Dominican Republic for 20 days to take them home.
0:40.4	While accelerating down the runway during takeoff, the pilots notice that their instruments
0:44.0	are showing them different air speeds.
0:46.0	The captain proceeds with the takeoff and begins climbing away from the airport.
0:49.5	Shortly after takeoff, the instruments light up with various warnings telling the pilots
0:52.9	that the plane is flying too fast and is in danger of being over speed.
0:57.2	The pilots attempt to troubleshoot, but the plane falls out of the air and impacts the
1:00.7	ocean below killing all on board.
1:03.2	What happened to Bergen Air Flight 301 to cause it to crash?
1:06.0	Why did the air speed show different values?
1:08.2	Should the captain have a board of the takeoff?
1:10.2	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
1:13.6	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down.
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