Air Midwest Flight 5481 Crash Summary #shorts #aviation #explained
For those interested, here is a breakdown of what happened:
Accident Summary:
Date: January 8, 2003
Location: Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Aircraft: Beechcraft 1900D operated by Air Midwest d/b/a US Airways Express
Flight Number: Air Midwest Flight 5481
Fatalities: 21 (2 crew members, 19 passengers)
Survivors: 0
Cause: The crash was attributed to a stall resulting from a maintenance error combined with overloading. Maintenance work on the elevator control cable, performed by a mechanic inexperienced with the aircraft type, led to insufficient elevator travel, impairing pitch control. Additionally, the aircraft was overloaded and out of balance due to incorrect passenger weight estimates approved by the FAA. These factors caused the aircraft to climb steeply after takeoff, leading to a stall and subsequent crash into an aircraft hangar.
Aftermath: The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued 21 safety recommendations following the crash. The FAA planned to investigate and potentially revise passenger weight estimation methods. Air Midwest publicly apologized for the incident, and the airline ceased operations in 2008. A memorial for the victims is located outside Charlotte, North Carolina.
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I'm always paranoid about weight which seems to be a major factor here. I ask my two pilots keep a scale for people and a separate scale for luggage by each of planes/jets.
One of my pilots always says "If you are not comfortable getting on a scale, I'm not comfortable flying you". I (really the pilots) won't take more than 3 friends on any of the single engine planes. Actually we don't even like to take more than 6 people on our Falcon 2000 and it should (technicall) be fine with 10 plus luggage. Something I didn't realize that one of our pilots told me is that even if you are within the weight limits, flying close to the weight limit changes almost everything… From handling to performance to stress on an aircraft. And also "a nose heavy plane flies poorly, a tail heavy plane flies once".
Also, if you think women (especially the onlyfans 'models' and adult film stars on my flights) lie about their weight, just ask them what their luggage weighs and then put it on the scale.
"Flight five thousand four hundred and eighty one"?? – An AI voice over. 😀
FAA regs are written in blood. Follow them.
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For those interested, here is a breakdown of what happened:
Accident Summary:
Date: January 8, 2003
Location: Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Aircraft: Beechcraft 1900D operated by Air Midwest d/b/a US Airways Express
Flight Number: Air Midwest Flight 5481
Fatalities: 21 (2 crew members, 19 passengers)
Survivors: 0
Cause: The crash was attributed to a stall resulting from a maintenance error combined with overloading. Maintenance work on the elevator control cable, performed by a mechanic inexperienced with the aircraft type, led to insufficient elevator travel, impairing pitch control. Additionally, the aircraft was overloaded and out of balance due to incorrect passenger weight estimates approved by the FAA. These factors caused the aircraft to climb steeply after takeoff, leading to a stall and subsequent crash into an aircraft hangar.
Aftermath: The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued 21 safety recommendations following the crash. The FAA planned to investigate and potentially revise passenger weight estimation methods. Air Midwest publicly apologized for the incident, and the airline ceased operations in 2008. A memorial for the victims is located outside Charlotte, North Carolina.
Source: ChatGPT (based on Wikipedia)
Credit (scenes in this video): Air Crash Investigation
Music: 🔻 "Darren Curtis – It's In The Fog" is under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0). / darrencurtismusic Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/b-in-the-fog 🔺
Voice: ElevenLabs: AI Voice Generator and Text to Speech
Video edited in CapCut
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For more information you can search about Air Midwest Flight 5481.
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