Captain Continues Banking After Instrument Failure / Korean Air Cargo 8509 Crashes Immediately After Takeoff

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A Boeing 747 crashes immediately after taking off. Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 takes off from London after some frustrating delays. The captain is angry and worried about a piece of equipment on board that appears to not be working properly. Immediately after takeoff the flight engineer tries to get the captain's attention about their bank angle but soon after the airplane crashes into the ground. What series of events led to this crash? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by SoloStove (http://solostove.com and use code BLACKBOXDOWN) Trade Coffee (http://drinktrade.com/blackboxdown) an B d Sunday (http://getsunday.com/blackboxdown) 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.
0:07.7	December 22, 1999.
0:10.4	Korean Air Flight 8509, aboing 747 cargo flight with four people on board, is taken off
0:17.2	from London's Stanssted Airport, bound for Milan, Italy in the evening for its final flight
0:22.0	of the day.
0:23.0	The plane has already flown from Seoul, South Korea to Uzbekistan to London.
0:27.1	The flight is delayed on the ground as there is a mix-up with the flight's paperwork
0:30.0	and a malfunction with the tug that is supposed to push it back from the gate.
0:33.2	Finally, an hour behind schedule, the plane takes off but things immediately go haywire.
0:37.8	The captain is trying to bank the aircraft to the left, but his instruments show that
0:41.1	the plane is refusing to bank.
0:42.8	The flight engineer is calling out bank as alarms are going off in the cockpit.
0:46.9	The plane slams into the ground less than a minute after takeoff, killing all four on board.
0:51.1	What happened to cause this cargo flight to crash?
0:53.2	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:58.7	Hello and welcome to Black Box Down.
1:00.3	It's Gus Enkris.
1:01.3	Hello, Chris.
1:02.3	Hello, Gus.
1:03.3	Here with another episode, a cargo flight.
1:05.0	We normally do passenger flights, but we've done a couple of cargo flights in the past.
1:08.8	Like the one that always sticks out to me is this like the fight that was in the UPS
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