Stalling at the Speed of Sound

Black Box Down

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A Boeing 727 approaches the speed of sound as it climbs to cruising altitude. Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 is on its way to pick up the Baltimore Colts. The indicated airspeed continues to rise as the plane climb, but eventually stalls anyway. Find out what happened to this plane on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod and https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by Dollar Shave Club. Go to http://dollarshaveclub.com/BLACKBOXDOWN to try the Ultimate Shave Started Set today for just $5 plus free shipping Also sponsored by The Jordan Harbinger Show. Go to http://jordanharbinger.com/subscribe to check out the Jordan Harbinger Show today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	December 1, 1974. Northwest Airlines flight 6231 is a chartered plane that is empty
0:09.5	besides the crew in route to Buffalo, New York to pick up the Baltimore Colts NFL
0:13.9	football team. After taking off in icy wintery conditions from New York's JFK
0:18.4	airport, this Boeing 727 is climbing to its cruising altitude. Several minutes
0:23.6	later, the crew is in distress. The plane is indicating its speed is approaching
0:27.7	the speed of sound and the controls are starting to vibrate in the pilot's
0:31.0	hands. Twelve minutes after takeoff, the plane slams into the ground with
0:34.4	vertical acceleration forces in excess of 5G killing all three crew members on
0:39.8	board. How did a routine charter flight end up so far over speed? Could anything
0:44.2	have been done to save this plane? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:49.2	Hey everyone, welcome to Black Box Down. It's Gus and Chris. We're back again.
0:54.3	They couldn't stop us Chris. We're still here. We're still making podcasts.
0:57.1	Yeah. They tried to, the man tried to keep us down. I don't know who's trying to
1:02.6	stop us. But we're here with another episode. As always, I want to remind people,
1:08.1	you can follow us on social on Twitter and Instagram at Black Box Down Pod. We
1:13.5	post images and videos and other things that we can't necessarily express. We
1:18.1	can't show you anything in an audio podcast. So check us out on social if you
1:21.5	want to see some supplemental material. And I guess it doesn't hurt to remind
1:24.7	people that neither of us are pilots. I'm just an enthusiast when it comes to
1:29.1	aviation and aviation incidents. And I'm here to explain what's going on to
1:33.9	Chris and Chris is here to ask questions and point out things that maybe I don't
1:38.4	think about, which happens quite a bit. This episode we're covering Northwest
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