Stalling 38,000 Feet Over The Atlantic

Black Box Down

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

An Airbus A330 stalls at 38,000 feet while flying over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Passenger flight Air France Flight 447 begins a routine trip from Brazil to France. A few hours into the flight, the pilots start losing control while the plane stalls and starts falling towards the ocean. What happened to make this flight stall at such a high altitude? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/. Sponsored by The Jordan Harbinger Show. Search for The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also sponsored by ExpressVPN. Visit http://expressvpn.com/BLACKBOXDOWN and get an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	June 1st, 2009 Air France 447 and Airbus A330 is on a regularly scheduled flight between
0:09.1	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Paris France with 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
0:15.0	Just over 3.5 hours into this 10.5 hour flight, the plane is over the middle of the Atlantic
0:18.9	Ocean and entering into some storms.
0:21.2	Without warning, the plane's airspeed indicators become unreliable and the autopilot disengages
0:25.4	as a result.
0:26.4	The pilots take manual control of the plane and begin wrestling with the controls as the
0:29.5	plane rocks left to right and begins plummeting out of the sky.
0:33.0	Just over 4 minutes later, the plane hits the water at over 175 miles an hour, killing
0:37.6	all on board.
0:38.7	How did a 4-year-old state of the art plane end up in this situation?
0:42.0	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:44.8	Hey everyone, welcome to this episode of Black Box Down.
0:48.3	I'm Gus and I'm here with Chris yet again.
0:50.5	Good morning, Chris.
0:51.5	How are you doing?
0:52.5	Good morning.
0:53.5	I'm good.
0:54.5	It's time to record another episode.
0:55.5	I feel like I'm always really bad about reminding people of the beginning of the episode
0:58.6	to follow us on social media so I want to get that out of the way real fast.
1:01.7	You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram at Black Box DownPod.
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