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National Geographic has been running an excellent Air Disasters series. Caught the one yesterday on AA1420 at LIT.

This is training quality stuff. Cockpit re-enacted from the CVR and excellent digital graphics. The LIT crash is one I've studied extensively, and NG got it spot on.

You really understand from the program just how determined the captain was to land, no matter what the weather was, a decision he had made in DFW before takeoff apparently.

Also good lesson on CRM. One of the last things the co-pilot said was "going right into that crap", but never once pressed the captain to consider a go-around or diversion.

I"ve been impressed by the relative lack of emotional hype, as opposed to some other programs. They are respectful and give the victims and families plenty of air time, and they point blame, but are not melodramatic.

I'm definitely setting the TIVO for this series.
 
Don't let your captain kill ya! Even if you're on probation. I think the FO was on probation, wasn't he?
 
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Don't let your captain kill ya! Even if you're on probation. I think the FO was on probation, wasn't he?

[/ QUOTE ]Anyone know what happened to the FO? Did he get fired or "retrained" or anything?
 
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Don't let your captain kill ya! Even if you're on probation. I think the FO was on probation, wasn't he?

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FO was on probation, fresh out of school, and captain was a management type. (So that's at least 2 strikes, maybe more). Don't know current status of FO. Captain was DRT (dead right there).

On my cable it comes on the National Geographic channel. They also did the Alaska MD-80 crash near LAX. That one will send chills up your spine. Also have done one on the BAC 1-11 captain who got sucked out the window and held on with his toes. Coming up tomorrow (on my cable) is one on the Tenerife crash.

I don't usually care for most of these "crash" shows, but again these National Geographic ones are excellent from a technical standpoint.

Some info here:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/seconds/episodes.html
 
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is it that "Seconds from Disaster" show?

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Yeah, I think that's one of them, about the Concorde crash. If you look down the list you'll also see "Collision on the Runway" which is about Tenerife.

I think if you just keep an eye on the National Geographic channel they will be showing these periodically. It's a new series they are doing.
 
National Geographic Channel has a running series entitled "Air Emergency" which runs weekly and intensly covers aviation disasters.
 
okay that's right cause the "seconds from disaster" deals with other situations as well.

i'll need to check it out then, time to go veg
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