Pilots Fight Hardover Rudder to Regain Control of Aircraft

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Gustavo Sorola and Chris Demarais investigate what happened to Northwest Airlines Flight 85 that caused the plane to get stuck in a hard left bank over the Bering Sea. Find out how the flight crew managed to fight an unresponsive rudder and if they managed to make it back to the ground safely on this episode of Black Box Down. This episode is sponsored by Green Chef, go to http://greenchef.com/blackboxdown60 with code blackboxdown60 for 60% off and free shipping, 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 Rooster Zeath production.
0:07.0	October 9th, 2002.
0:09.0	Northwest Airlines Flight 85,
0:11.0	aboing 747 with 404 people on board,
0:14.0	is about 7 hours into their flight
0:16.0	from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
0:19.0	to Tokyo, Narita Airport,
0:21.0	when the junior flight crew takes over
0:23.0	to give the senior pilots a break.
0:25.0	The passengers have just finished dinner service
0:27.0	and are settling in to six more hours of flight time
0:29.0	before reaching Tokyo.
0:31.0	Without warning, while crossing the bearing sea,
0:33.0	the aircraft suddenly enters a 30-40 degree left bank.
0:36.0	The pilot switches off the auto pilot
0:38.0	and begins physically fighting the shaking flight controls
0:40.0	to right the aircraft.
0:42.0	The pilots try to declare an emergency,
0:44.0	but they're too far out to see
0:45.0	and cannot reach air traffic control.
0:47.0	The senior pilots return to the cockpit
0:49.0	and all four pilots now have to figure out
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