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April 4, 1994.

KLM City Hopper Flight 433, a SOB 340B with 24 people on board, is on a flight between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Cardiff Wales.

11 minutes after takeoff, the pilots receive a warning light indicating low oil pressure in the right engine.

The pilots render checklist and conclude the flight is safe to continue.

Three minutes later, as the aircraft is approaching 17,000 feet in altitude, the pilots notice the plane is not climbing like it should be.

Suspecting that their right engine is faulty, the pilots decide to return to Amsterdam just to be safe.

As the plane is approaching the runway, their airspeed drops dangerously low to 115 knots, so at a height of only 45 feet, the captain calls for a go-around.

The aircraft rolls right 80 degrees, and the airspeed drops to 93 knots before the plane impacts the ground, less than 2000 feet to the right of the runway.

Miraculously, only three people on board are killed despite the violent crash.

What happened to cause this flight to crash so close to the runway? Was this accident avoidable? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.

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We appreciate it. It's weird how much podcasts rely on like word of mouth and reviews. I think it isn't stressed enough.

Or maybe it is, but people, I don't know. I feel like at least I always forget. I'll say that. I don't stress it as much as I should.

So thank you, Chris, for stepping in there. No, I just made it in general. I feel like it's like a thing that people say all the time, but it almost becomes white noise.

But it really, yeah, it really does make the difference. So absolutely. So KLM City Hopper 433. This was a very popular route. It actually ran a few times daily between Amsterdam and Cardiff.

Well, so you were meant to Amsterdam or to Wales? I've been to Amsterdam, not Wales. I've never been a well. So I wanted to visit it.

I have been Amsterdam. It's the only say the Netherlands. I've been to I would I would love to see more of the Netherlands, but I have been Amsterdam.

I took a train. So though, so I didn't see skiple airport. So I have no experience with the other port in Amsterdam.

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