Desperate Escape: American 965
Added 2022-04-19 23:54:26 +0000 UTCA few days before Christmas in 1995, the pilots of an American Airlines Boeing 757 wound up lost over the Andes mountains in South America. Under pressure to make it to the airport quickly, they began to make mistakes. What started out as a simple lapse in judgement, quickly snowballed into a series of critical errors, each one compounded by the one before it. In a few short minutes, these mistakes would result in the deaths of nearly everyone onboard.
This is the story of American Airlines flight 965.
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This video was created with reference to publicly available sources, in particular, the Final Report:
https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/bookshelf/1056.pdf
All music licensed through Epidemic Sound
Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.
American Airlines 757 Livery: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/40975-old-american-airlines-for-flight-factor-757-200-v2-professional-extended-xp-11/
Pictures:
787:
Masahiro TAKAGI from Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A320:
Ken Fielding/https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A330:
JetPix (GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html> or GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html), via Wikimedia Commons
A340:
Iberia Airlines, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
AAL965 Crash site pictures:
FAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Comments
Thanks Andrii, I'm delighted your engineer's eye got something out of this :) It's a fascinating topic, the balance between automation and manual control.
2022-04-20 17:47:23 +0000 UTCHey, I really enjoyed the work this time, more than before. It's hard to choose the right superlative. As an engineer, weighing trade offs of automation vs manual control of complicated systems with lots of gotchas and nuance, I really appreciate the concise yet clear explanations you are making in your videos. Thanks!
2022-04-20 17:27:34 +0000 UTCGreat! And I'm glad you're enjoying them. Plenty more on the way.
2022-04-20 00:20:21 +0000 UTCIt is showing up now! Happy to do it, thank you for all the amazing videos ♥️
IT Joey
2022-04-20 00:13:51 +0000 UTC
