5 Things You Didn't Know: Plane Crashes »
Posted By pagey 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsIn 2000, right before Alaska Air Flight 261 went into a second nosedive and slammed into the Pacific, she flew briefly in an inverted position -- upside down. As the final dive began, the cockpit voice recorder captured Captain Ted Thompson’s world-class optimism: “At least upside down we were flying.”
A massive mechanical failure brought down Alaska 261, but frighteningly, such catastrophic mechanical scenarios are rare. Although these have been drastically oversimplified, consider these plane crashes:
* Eastern Flight 401 crashed because the cockpit crew got obsessed over an inoperative light bulb;
* Aeroflot Flight 593 went down after the pilot let his son sit at the controls;
* Two small pieces of overlooked tape brought down Aeroperú Flight 603.
In light of high-profile disasters in Spain and Russia, along with the recent plane crash involving Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein, we saw fit to present five things you didn’t know about plane crashes.
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