Kenya Airways Flight Fails to Recover From Hard Bank Roll

Black Box Down

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

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Gustavo Sorola and Chris Demarais investigate what happened to Kenya Airways Flight 507 after the pilots failed to recover from a hard bank roll that fatally ended in the tragic loss of all 114 people on board. Find out what happened on this episode of Black Box Down. This episode is sponsored by by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/blackboxdown to get 10% off your first month; Rocket Money, go to http://rocketmoney.com/blackboxdown to cancel unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money; and RTX, go to http://rtxaustin.com to buy your badge! 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	May 5, 2007 Kenya Airways Flight 507, abowing 737 with 114 people on board, is taking
0:11.0	off from Duwala International Airport from Duwala, Cameroon, bound for Nairobi, Kenya.
0:16.4	The flight is on a stopover after having departed from Abidjan Ivory Coast and has been
0:21.0	delayed over an hour as bad weather has been moving through the area.
0:24.5	The captain sees a potential break in the weather and decides to begin the four hour long
0:28.2	flight just after midnight local time.
0:30.5	The plane accelerates, takes to the air, and the pilots begin banking to the right to get
0:34.5	around the storms.
0:35.8	Only one minute into the flight, the bank angle alert sounds at 2,800 feet as the plane
0:40.4	banks pass 35 degrees.
0:42.5	The pilots fight to level out the aircraft but are unsuccessful.
0:45.4	The plane slams it to a swamp killing all on board.
0:48.4	What happened to cause Kenya Flight 507 to lose control?
0:51.2	Was there a problem with this brand new six-month-old plane?
0:54.3	Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
0:58.7	Hello, everyone.
0:59.7	Welcome to Black Boxdown.
1:00.7	It's Gus and Chris.
1:01.7	Hello, Chris.
1:02.7	Hi, Gus.
1:03.7	And people listening.
1:04.7	Before we really dive into this, of course, I want to remind everyone to check out social
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