Fire Breaks Out During Takeoff Resulting in Major Changes for Airline Safety Procedures

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Chris Demarais and Gustavo Sorola uncover what happened to British Airtours Flight 28M when a fire broke out during the takeoff roll. Find out what happened and how this tragedy changed the safety protocols for the airline industry on this episode of Black Box Down.This episode brought to you by Green Chef, go to http://greenchef.com/blackboxdown60 with code blackboxdown60 for 60% off and free shipping, Express VPN, go to http://expressvpn.com/blackboxdown to get three months free on a one-year package, and Shady Rays, go to http://shadyrays.com and use code BLACKBOXDOWN for 50% off 2 or more pairs of polarized sunglasses. Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to blackboxdownpod.com to support us directly! Download the public audio version https://link.chtbl.com/blackboxdown. 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 Ruestur-Tee's production.
0:07.0	August 22, 1985.
0:10.3	British Air Tours flight 28M, aboing 737 with 137 people on board, is about to embark
0:17.1	on a charter flight from Manchester, England to Kourfu, Greece.
0:21.2	During the takeoff roll, while accelerating through approximately 125 knots, the pilots
0:25.6	here allowed bang, and, assuming that one of their tires has popped, they begin aborting
0:30.0	the takeoff.
0:31.0	The first officer applies the brakes and the plane slows down and then exits onto a taxiway.
0:35.6	Nine seconds after hearing the bang, fire alarms begin sounding in the cockpit.
0:39.6	The tower controller then confirms, right, there's a lot of fire, and suggests that the pilots
0:43.9	evacuate passengers out of the right side of the plane.
0:46.8	The pilots begin their 15-step checklist of which evacuating passengers is the last item.
0:52.2	A fire is now raging in the plane and smoke is filling the cabin.
0:55.5	When all is said and done, 55 people have died in an accident where the plane never even
1:00.0	left the ground.
1:01.4	Why did so many people die in this accident?
1:03.4	What changes have been implemented to make evacuating a plane safer?
1:06.6	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
1:09.6	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down.
1:15.0	It's Gus and Chris.
1:16.0	Hello Chris.
1:17.0	Hi.
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