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S13E08 Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)
On November 27, 2008, XL Airways Germany Flight 888T, conducting a post-maintenance test flight, tragically plunged into the Mediterranean Sea near the French coast, resulting in the deaths of all seven individuals aboard. Investigators found that inadequate maintenance procedures had permitted water to infiltrate the aircraft's angle of attack (AOA) sensors. When the water froze during the flight, it rendered the sensors inoperative. As the crew attempted to evaluate the stall warning system mid-flight, the aircraft ultimately entered a dangerous low-speed stall.
Season 13 Episodes
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Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)
Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)
Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest Flight 706)
Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)
Lost in Translation (Crossair Flight 498)
Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870)
Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea Flight 1121)
Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)
Into the Eye of the Storm (Hurricane Hunters NOAA42)
Titanic in the Sky (Qantas Flight 32)