A System That Confused Pilots | Season 5 Episode 8 | Mayday: Air Disaster

As Birgenair's Boeing 757 begins to accelerate during takeoff, the captain notices that the airspeed indication does not match that of the first officer. After he engages the autopilot, an alarm indicates that the aircraft is flying too fast. After he reduces the power slightly, another alarm goes off - the plane is flying too slow.

How could the failure of a single instrument cause the crash of one of the world's most advanced commercial aircraft?

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Mayday: Air Disaster - from Season 5 Episode 8 "Mixed Signals": Birgenair Flight 301 (Boeing 757-225)

Moments after takeoff, the pilots of Birgenair Flight 301 are bombarded by confusing alarms — one says the plane is flying too fast. The other warns the plane is traveling too slowly, and is about to stall. Completely bewildered, the pilots of the Boeing 757 struggle to regain control. But within five minutes of taking off, the airplane slams into the ocean, killing everyone on board. Investigators comb the wreckage for clues and are eventually faced with a mystery — how could the failure of a single instrument cause the crash of one of the world’s most sophisticated jetliners?

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