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00:00Looks like we lost hydraulics.
00:02Air crash investigators discover Propair Flight 420 faced an onslaught of problems.
00:09What's going on? He wants to roll left.
00:12As pilots attempt to return to the airport, their situation becomes critical.
00:17Fire. The left engine's on fire.
00:20Is that a passenger?
00:22If you can't get that airplane on the ground very quickly, it can kill you in as little as five minutes.
00:26Left gear hasn't dropped. No time to sort that out.
00:30Hold on, back there. It's gonna be a rough landing.
00:33Breeze!
00:35They were within a few seconds of everybody being on the ground safe and going home.
00:39That must have been hell.
00:43Me, me, me, me!
00:47Oh, fuck.
01:00For the line check, it's your leg out to Peterborough. I'll take the second.
01:13Roger.
01:15It's the first flight of the day for the crew of Propair Flight 420.
01:19We're holding in position. Runway 2-4 left. Ready for takeoff.
01:32Popair 420. Cleared for takeoff. 2-4 left. Frequency 1-2-4-6-5.
01:38Roger. Popair 420. Cleared for takeoff. 2-4 left.
01:42Captain Jean Provencher is the airline's chief pilot.
01:51Landing by time.
01:54Co-pilot Walter Stricker is an experienced first officer, but is newer to this type of aircraft.
02:02I have patrol. Your control. Yes.
02:05The captain watches Stricker closely.
02:14More right rudder, more right rudder.
02:16Okay, more right rudder.
02:21He's conducting a line check, a crucial testing stage for the first officer.
02:27A line check is required every time a pilot is new on an airplane.
02:32The check pilot wants to make sure that the new pilot knows his standard operation procedures very well,
02:38and his flying skills are good.
02:49Gear up.
02:51Landing gear up.
02:55Laps up.
02:57As a check pilot, it's pretty busy. You're doing your duties, you're monitoring the other guys' duties.
03:03They get in the air just fine.
03:08Flight 420 ascends to its cruising altitude of 16,000 feet.
03:13The pilots are flying a 14-seat Fairchild Metroliner twin turboprop.
03:25The Metroliner was a fast airplane without burning too much fuel.
03:30Having a pressurized cabin, the Metroliner was able to fly at a higher altitude,
03:37so it made it more comfortable for the passengers.
03:39Although it's a modern plane, the Metroliner has no autopilot.
03:46The first officer is flying manually.
03:51For my dad, being a pilot, it was his dream job.
03:54It was his main purpose in life, other than me and my mom, obviously.
04:00But he was always talking about it, and he was really...
04:04It made him really happy.
04:07Today's flight is a 90-minute hop from Dorval to Peterborough, Ontario.
04:13The nine passengers on board are engineers from General Electric,
04:18who are headed to Peterborough for project meetings.
04:21The plane has been in the air for 12 minutes.
04:23Everything has been normal since take-off.
04:27All of a sudden...
04:32Well, what?
04:34What is it?
04:37Looks like we lost hydraulics.
04:38Not only one light, but two, saying that this hydraulic pressure are failing on both sides,
04:51meaning that he will have problems if he keeps proceeding to Peterborough.
04:55Dorval approach, this is Papa 420. We've had dual hydraulic failure. Request clearance to return to Dorval.
05:05The Metroliner has two hydraulic systems. One controls the flaps. The other, the landing gear.
05:12You don't really need the hydraulic systems until you're coming in.
05:15It's not a, we're going to die at this very moment kind of situation.
05:18It's just, we have a problem. We need to turn back, and it's standard operating procedure at that point.
05:22Sorry folks, we have a technical problem. We have to head back to Dorval.
05:27Saying your seat-for-seat belts fasten.
05:29Looks like we're landing without flaps.
05:39With no flaps, the pilots can't reduce their speed without stalling.
05:44They'll have to come in fast.
05:48Not having any flaps, it was not really a problem.
05:52They had a 12,000 foot runway ahead of them.
05:55Time was of the essence.
05:56He had to land the airplane very quickly.
06:01Without hydraulics, the landing gear will have to be lowered manually.
06:06It's going to make everything longer and not much harder for you.
06:08It's going to delay where you're normally used to doing your configuration.
06:14Then, just 30 seconds after losing hydraulics, before they've started back to the airport.
06:21What's going on? What's to hold left?
06:23What's to hold left?
06:25Really?
06:28I'm holding it right.
06:30Something's wrong with the controls.
06:32I need to trim half turn to the right.
06:37That should do it.
06:38If the plane is rolling in one direction, applying trim avoids the need for continuous pilot inputs.
06:52Trimming it right brings the left wing up and levels the plane.
06:55But as Stricker starts to turn towards Dorval.
07:02Still rolling left.
07:04The airplane wants to turn to the left and the first officer has to apply more and more right ailerons, which is not normal. It's getting stiffer.
07:12I'm going to give it a few more ticks of aileron trim to the right.
07:16Roger.
07:20Remember, no autopilot, so that's putting a lot of pressure on this first officer.
07:25And any pilot who has this kind of problem has to ask himself, is it going to get worse?
07:30Still rolling left?
07:38Yes.
07:46Both engines are working. Why do we need so much trim?
07:49The captain has to be racking his brain. He had more than 5,000 hours on the Metro.
07:53He was the chief pilot, a Czech pilot, and he can't seem to make sense of the situation.
07:58They are 12 minutes from Dorval Airport.
08:02As they descend through thick clouds, visibility is near zero.
08:07And they have to fly on instruments.
08:14Rolling to the left. Bang more to the right.
08:18Bang more to the right.
08:23Pulling the approach place for Dorval.
08:25Roger.
08:28As Flight 420 gets halfway back to Dorval.
08:34Fire. The left engine's on fire.
08:37An even bigger problem emerges.
08:39Fire in the left engine. Confirm.
08:42Yes, I see smoke.
08:43The moment that any pilot hears fire, he has to take immediate action.
08:53It's a very serious situation.
08:56It can kill you in as little as five minutes.
09:01Left engine shutdown procedure.
09:03The pilots attempt to extinguish the fire in the left engine.
09:06He's got a plan. What am I going to do? And how much time do I have before I have to land this airplane?
09:18Left power lever.
09:20Confirmed left.
09:22The captain executes the engine shutdown procedure.
09:27Back to idle. Confirmed left shutoff lever.
09:31Confirmed.
09:32Pulling left engine stop lever.
09:33Shutting down the engine also cuts off its fuel supply.
09:38The rationale for shutting that engine down is you don't want the fire spreading.
09:41That's the biggest concern at this point.
09:43This isn't good.
09:44Keep the speed up. Let's get back to Dorval.
09:47Roger.
09:53When you're shutting down an engine, it's a bit of an alarming situation.
09:56It's not a comfortable experience no matter what you're doing.
09:58The airplanes have two engines for a reason and you've cut your redundancy down to one.
10:03It's not a problem.
10:09My controls.
10:11Your controls.
10:13Facing fire, control problems and an engine shutdown, the captain of Prop Air 420 assumes control.
10:19The airplane was descending from 8,000 feet for its approach.
10:25You had altitude that you could trade for airspeed.
10:28So with Captain's Provencher experience shutting down the engine, it was not a problem.
10:31Dorval approach, Prop Air 420. Left engine is on fire. We've shut it down.
10:37Prop Air 420, I see you are returning to Dorval. I can give you direct to Mirabel.
10:43Affirmative. Direct to Mirabel.
10:45Affirmative. Direct to Mirabel.
10:49While Flight 420 is only 11 minutes from Dorval, they reroute to Montreal's other airport, Mirabel, which is closer.
10:56Material approach, Prop Air 420. Requesting ILS. Runway 24, please. What is the frequency?
11:04The long runway at Mirabel will give the crew more room for a high-speed landing.
11:09ILS 24, frequency is 111.7. Inbound course is 240 degrees.
11:20Roger. 111.7. Thank you.
11:26Emergency crews are dispatched to runway 24.
11:31Firefighter Michel Brisson remembers the moment the call came in.
11:35We receive a crash call from the tower control, so we take position.
11:40Mirabel Airport being an international airport, they got ready pretty quickly.
11:45The airport is fully equipped to receive the crippled airplane with their level of experience with the firemen.
11:52Folks, air traffic control has asked us to reroute to Mirabel.
11:57Flight 420 is now seven minutes from touchdown.
12:00At this point, they know that behind them are nine people, and they're going to do everything in their power to get that airplane on the ground as safely and quickly as possible.
12:09I see flames now. Flames from the engine nozzle.
12:14The situation goes from bad to dire. The engine shutdown should have contained the fire. Instead, it's growing.
12:22When the passenger tells the crew that their engine is on fire, they're puzzled.
12:29Let's get this plane on the ground.
12:31Landing checklist.
12:34Flaps.
12:36Zero.
12:37Zero, weaver.
12:38The RPM.
12:40Their main focus is to fly the airplane. Fly the airplane. And fly the airplane.
12:45Fire crews park alongside the runway at Mirabel Airport for the emergency landing of Flight 420.
12:53Michel Brisson is one of the first on the scene.
12:55We were waiting for the aircraft. The weather was not too good. We couldn't see far.
13:04Truth set to max.
13:06Captain Provencher is struggling to maintain control.
13:10He's flying on one engine with no hydraulics, and his plane is on fire.
13:16Now he has to lower the landing gear manually, with no guarantee it will work.
13:22Gear down now!
13:23Gear down!
13:25The nose and right wheels have dropped, but one light stays off.
13:34Left gear hasn't dropped. No time to sort that out.
13:38Provencher has no choice but to put the plane down on only two sets of gear.
13:44If I'm in an airplane fighting fire, an engine that I've shut down, controllability issues, we're not going around.
13:50You're landing that airplane on that runway whether you land gear up or not.
13:54Flight 420 is one kilometre from the runway.
13:58The clock is ticking. You have to get down and get that airplane on the ground now.
14:03300 feet!
14:04The moment it gets to about 280 feet, he sees the threshold. He sees the fire truck. And he thinks that he's made it and saved 11 lives.
14:18Prop air 420 is 20 seconds from touchdown.
14:25There was some smoke coming out of the aircraft and my heart tight a bit there and I said to myself, we've got some business here this morning.
14:34Okay, here we go.
14:37200 feet.
14:40Hold on back there. It's going to be a rough landing.
14:43Freeze!
14:50Rolling left. Not now!
14:52They're just five seconds from being able to touch down.
14:57At this point, the crew would be fighting for every breath they have.
15:03Prop air 420 is almost on the ground at Montreal's Mirabel Airport when disaster strikes.
15:09Within a split second, the aircraft started to go 90 degrees.
15:15And that must have been hell.
15:18Captain Provencher probably thought that he was going to die.
15:22I saw the aircraft flip over 180 degrees.
15:27That was it.
15:28I'll never forget the sound that it made when it touched the ground.
15:36Let's go!
15:43The plane crashes into a watery ditch next to the runway.
15:48My first concern was to go to the fuselage to try to save some lives.
15:52Sylvain Carrière was the fire chief at Mirabel Airport at the time of the incident.
15:56As soon as the aircraft crashed, the firefighters were on the move.
16:01They put out the fire with the foam, and then they got close to the aircraft
16:06trying to get inside to rescue the victims.
16:11It was very tough on the firefighters.
16:14They had to deal with trying to manage water up to their waist.
16:19They had to break the windows to get vital signs.
16:22The aircraft being inside down, and all the seats were dislodged from their footing.
16:29So it was total chaos.
16:35Despite the best efforts of rescue crews, no one makes it out of the plane alive.
16:40We took three people out, took their pulse, and there was nothing.
16:51Everybody was gone.
16:53We're never prepared for that, you know.
16:54I was seven years old when my dad died.
16:56We were really close.
16:57I remember my mom crying.
16:58She said something terrible happened to your dad.
16:59And I was seven years old when my dad died.
17:00We were really close.
17:03I remember my mom crying.
17:11She said something terrible happened to your dad, and it's not coming back.
17:15we were really close I remember my mom crying
17:24she said something terrible happened to your dad and it's not coming back
17:30I thought I was in a dream
17:38this is why we do these investigations it's it's to make sure it doesn't happen
17:42again could you please tell me what you saw as the plane was coming in within
17:51hours of the accident investigators from the transportation safety board of
17:55Canada get to work when it broke through the clouds there was smoke coming off the
18:00plane where was the smoke it was on the left side there was fire coming out of
18:07the left wing and near the motor and then what it exploded yeah and then it
18:17flipped upside down not even 25 feet above the ground the wing folded and the
18:25airplane went to a roll he was just maybe five seconds from landing but it was just
18:31to it because of the breakup they could not do anything to really save the
18:35situation
18:41I see investigators need to determine what caused the left wing to fail just 25
18:48feet from the ground they start by interviewing the door valve flight
18:53controller what was the first sign of trouble 12 minutes into the flight and
18:59they reported hydraulic failure door valve approach this is put by 420 we've had
19:06dual hydraulic failure quest clearance to return to the bar anything else 30
19:12seconds later they call in a flight control problem
19:20we're having control issues
19:23so they're headed back to door valve they're having hydraulic and control problems
19:36they report a fire yes engine fire
19:41investigators realized that the crew was battling multiple system failures the mystery is how they're all
19:53connected door valve approach proper 420 left engine is on fire we've shut it down thank you very
20:00much the Metro liner doesn't have a flight data recorder on board investigators must rely on old-fashioned methods we lay down the full aircraft with all the related components to their relative position the landing gear the hydraulic systems the brake systems the brake components
20:21flaps components I say we start here
20:28since the left wing failed in the middle near the engine investigators decide to tear it down for a full inspection
20:37we looked at the engine before sending it to the manufacturer for a deeper investigation
20:45go a little further in for me please they're looking for any evidence of fire the exterior has plenty of soot but inside
20:57it's clean see any fire damage it's not what they expected we could see the engine had no evidence of any fire or fuel lines in the area of the engine
21:12the engine the engine was running properly as far as we could tell why would the crew report an engine fire when there wasn't one
21:31what what is it looks like we lost hydraulics investigators now turn to the cockpit voice recorder of prop air 420 to
21:42determine why firefighters and the pilots both reported an engine fire stops do they even mention fire no not at all by now they're 12 minutes into the flight
22:01let's go
22:02right
22:02I've got the column halfway to the right I can't believe it's taken this much trip to hold it straight
22:08okay hang on
22:10control problems just 30 seconds after hydraulic failure
22:15the door valve is here they're barely out of the gate for the hydraulics fail here
22:24haven't even begun their turn and the controls start acting up here
22:29okay let's see what happens next
22:31a wing overheat warning sounds when high temperatures are detected by a sensor in
22:46the wheel well the wing overheat light is indicating to you that there's smoke heat
22:51and potentially a fire but the warning mysteriously shuts off 30 seconds later
23:00overheat warning light off good we don't need the checklist before they have a chance to do
23:09anything about it the light goes out so they say ah the problem doesn't exist anymore we don't have
23:13to worry about that several more minutes pass before anyone mentions fire fire the left engines
23:24on fire is that a passenger fire the left engine confirm yes i see smoke sounds like it's coming
23:33from the cabin now they're here finish their turn back to door valve the passenger report of an engine
23:45fire confuses the crew the engine already warning is off left engine shutdown procedure the captain
23:56follows the checklist but it doesn't solve the problem i see flames now flames from the engine
24:03nozzle i don't have a firelight everything in the airplane is telling you the engine isn't on fire but
24:10you have a passenger back telling you the engine is on fire which road you go down it's hard to fault
24:15a pilot for going down either road at this point
24:20the cockpit voice recording provides investigators with their biggest lead yet
24:25the initial wing overheat warning could indicate that something in the wheel well was overheating
24:30maybe the fire started in the wheel well not so close to the engine the crew could have made that
24:40mistake we start zeroing on the fact that this is probably where we should concentrate our efforts
24:48is there something within the wheel well that has the potential to catch fire
24:54check out the left landing gear
24:56the team discovers that pieces of the left landing gear are burned almost beyond recognition
25:03it's an important clue we know there has been an in-flight fire at this point because we have
25:09pieces of metal that tell us that we just don't know how it started what caused it and this is going
25:15to be the big part of this investigation what caused this fire they start by examining the brakes on
25:21the left landing gear at this point in the investigation we knew that we had to look at the brakes because
25:28we thought that the problem probably began in there but we weren't sure we had to find out
25:36is everything
25:39a complete examination of the brake system was performed
25:43each of the components calipers discs we looked at every details of the brakes
25:48some severe damage here
25:54the team finds that several components of the left side brakes show significant heat damage
26:00piston housings are melted cylinders are blackened
26:04the damage of heat that were done to the components along the brake calipers
26:10and the tires and then the wheel well was really the smoking gun
26:14investigators can finally confirm that an in-flight fire aboard prop air 420 began in the left wheel well
26:21but they still don't know what started it this is the left brake disc correct
26:28one component is key thing got pretty hot somehow the grayish blue color stands out
26:35these brake discs would have to get to a temperature of 1100 degrees fahrenheit or 600 degrees celsius
26:43for five or six minutes in order to get to that color could overheated brakes have started the fire that
26:50brought down prop air 420 the landing gear would need a fuel source to ignite but the wheel well is nowhere near
26:59the heavily reinforced tanks
27:07something in here must have caused the brakes to catch fire investigators focus on the tubing inside
27:14the left wheel well called the nacelle hydraulic line there in the design of the left wheel well nacelle
27:23you have the hydraulic lines that run through there to operate the landing gear also for the flaps
27:32dorval approach this is proper 420 we've had dual hydraulic failure request clearance to return to dorval
27:40the melted lines would cause the hydraulics to fail the first problem reported by the crew
27:46so the heat from the brakes melts the line hydraulic fluid pours out everywhere there's a fire right there
28:00it's a good theory but they need evidence to back it up
28:08investigators design a test to determine if hydraulic fluid could ignite when exposed to overheated brakes
28:16it's the same make of brake discs that was used in the metroliner
28:29they heat the disc to 1100 degrees fahrenheit the temperature that would have been needed to give
28:34the left brake discs their grayish blue color
28:37we sprayed a small quantity of hydraulic fluid at a rate of two tablespoon per minute
28:56investigators are able to prove that the left brake disc on board prop air 420 did get hot enough to ignite
29:02the hydraulic fluid and it started the ignition of a flame eight inches high but they still don't know
29:10why the brake discs overheated could there have been a malfunction with the brakes let's have a look
29:18investigators look through old metroliner incident reports
29:22i've got something for you in the united states about 10 years before a metroliner exactly have the same
29:33problem 1988 peninsula airways loss of hydraulic pressure left wing overheat left wheel well fire damage
29:42and that one in winnipeg 1990 perimeter airline exact same thing in both those cases the crews were
29:49able to land the plane safely the history of the metroliner revealed to us you know that the brake system had issues
29:58we combined something like 68 events you know that were involving the brake systems
30:04why does this keep happening
30:08the incident reports reveal a similar culprit in many of these incidents brake dragging
30:13the brakes to have gotten that hot had to have been dragging
30:21brake drag is what happens when the calipers don't fully retract from the disc as the brakes are released
30:29the brake disc overheated because there was probably still some pressure
30:33on them and so the the wheels were not turning freely this dragging of the brakes got the temperature higher and
30:41higher investigators conclude the dragging must have occurred while taxiing at dorval airport
30:48nose wheel steering armed naturally there will be a lot of heat developed on that brake system if
30:54it's dragging as the airplane accelerates but for that kind of heat to develop the left brake had to be
31:00dragging for some period of taxi time to find out how long the left brake might have been dragging the team
31:07talks to the controller overseeing the flight's departure from dorval airport they taxied from
31:13the hangar there to the runway here did the crew report anything unusual in the taxi
31:21this isn't surprising if the brakes were only dragging on one side the way you taxi a metroliner you have a
31:28nose wheel steering but just one dragging brake you can turn the nose wheel steering gear and you won't be able
31:35to notice that the brake is dragging so this is possibly what happened well by 420 we're holding in
31:41position runway 24 left ready for takeoff what about the takeoff it took them a long time to get airborne
31:52really where did they lift off that's more than halfway down the runway
32:07the plane lifted off between the a1 and a2 taxiways which are between 4100 and 5500 feet from the runway
32:16threshold so takeoff distance to rotation should be 1800 feet
32:26this plane took more than 4 000 the problem with the brakes began probably as the airplane
32:34departed the hangar it must have been the brake track
32:37they used 1400 feet to go to the threshold of 24 left so for about 5200 feet the brakes were dragging
32:49and creating a lot of overheating on the disc of the brakes the findings back up their suspicions the
32:58brakes must have been dragging which explains why it took the plane so long to reach takeoff speed
33:04and they went up in the wheel well very very hot 12 minutes in the air is plenty of time for the
33:20overheated brakes to raise the temperature in the wheel well when the landing gear comes up the doors
33:27close and then if you have any heat in there that heat has nowhere to dissipate so the temperature inside
33:33goes up very very quickly but what could have caused the brake drag in the first place
33:41what about the parking brake
33:45just like in your car if you drove away with the parking brake on and you keep driving it's still
33:50going to create friction which there entail creates heat parking brake off roger
33:57investigators wonder if there was an issue when the captain released the parking brake
34:03if the parking brake had been on you would have had both motors overheat only one wheel overheated so
34:10somehow whenever the parking brake was released one of them let go the right side the other one
34:16didn't otherwise you would have had two fires they searched the manufacturer's documentation for
34:22evidence of faulty parking brakes
34:31now here's something a five-year-old newsletter advises pilots to verify the parking brake is fully released
34:39some residual pressure can remain even with the knob in the off position
34:47i'm sad as a pilot to see that this information was through newsletters and not into the aircraft
34:54flight manual it was very deceiving to see this were the pilots unaware of a faulty parking brake
35:01without a flight data recorder and with the pilots deceased they'll never know for sure but it's a solid theory
35:09all right so the brake drag caused the wheel well fire right the team has finally determined how the fire
35:22started but there's one question remaining could the crew have done anything to prevent any of this from happening
35:36so
35:38when you take the controls make sure to make smooth inputs on the nose wheel steering passengers can feel
35:45it we want to give them a nice ride
35:48the investigators return to earlier in the cockpit voice recording to see if the crew of prop air 420
35:54realized their brakes were dragging that's the captain's voice so he's staring right the first
36:00officer takes over on the takeoff roll i have control your controls
36:10the first hint of trouble starts soon after more right rudder more right rudder so the captain's
36:17correcting the first officer must be drifting left of center on the runway probably because the left
36:26brake is dragging it's going left more right rudder the captain starts telling the co-pilot more rudder
36:38more rudder that's when the problem of a brake dragging should have been evident but because he's checking
36:46the co-pilot he's not on the controls himself had he been under controls himself with his experience
36:51he would have known the captain makes no mention of the plane taking longer than usual to lift off
36:59he's doing a line check he's busy he's got to make sure that the first officer is doing the
37:03jobs that he's supposed to do it's an honest mistake investigators finally understand what caused the
37:10crash of prop air flight 420 a dragging left brake gets hot enough to melt the hydraulic lines when the
37:17wheel is retracted after takeoff
37:24dorval approach this is proper 420 we've had dual hydraulic failure request clearance to return to dorval
37:32they're thinking that it's just a hydraulic failure we'll request back to uh the airport and we'll land
37:36there safely dripping hydraulic fluid ignites left wing overheat light on
37:46they have no idea that they've got a brake fire that is starting to rage in the left nacelle
37:55overheat warning light off
37:58good we don't need the checklist what likely happened at that point is that the circuit probably was burnt
38:05through by the fire that is developing in that nacelle the intense heat begins to weaken the
38:11structure of the left wing causing it to lose lift what's going on wants to roll left like any kind of
38:18metal as it superheats it's going to distort and change its shape so they're dealing with an aerodynamics
38:23of the wing you're never going to know if it moves two degrees but you're going to feel it on your control
38:27call fire the left engine's on fire the engine over here warning is off
38:37i don't have a fire light there's definitely fire
38:46pulling left engine stop lever well they did the right thing i had to shut it down
38:51um they were really up against it and all that happened in just five minutes
39:06when we train on board simulators we rarely give more than two problems to a pilot because it's very
39:12unusual that you will have compounding problems like prop air 420 had despite the high level of
39:19experience of captain provincia he probably never trained for all these emergencies at one time
39:26despite everything you don't know they almost made it
39:34left gear hasn't dropped as the situation continued to deteriorate from an investigator's
39:40standpoint he did the perfect job he was coming right at the center and he was coming at a good rate
39:46of descent one final problem is insurmountable the captain doesn't know it but the fire has weakened
39:56the wing's structure if that wing hadn't failed upwards they were within a few seconds of everybody
40:04being on the ground safe and going home at this point if you're a pilot you're along for the ride in that
40:10airplane
40:20they did everything right
40:24they didn't have a chance
40:25i met with the widow of the captain i did mention to her the reason why that airplane crashed was beyond
40:39the cruise control is that they did not have enough information to be able to determine what the real problem was
40:45and i told her that
40:59you meet people like that and you never forget
41:02in its final report the transportation safety board noted that unlike many other planes
41:13the metro liner did not have a break over heat warning in the cockpit and the aircraft flight
41:18manual did not clearly warn pilots that brake dragging could lead to wheel well fires
41:24the first recommendation that the board issued was to make sure that the crew was aware that if
41:29an overheat light came on on that nacelle you probably had a good chance of having a fire
41:35starting or developing in that nacelle
41:40checklists were changed and we were able to make it a lot safer for people going forward
41:46even though my dad has been gone for 22 years he's still helping a lot of people
41:52it makes me really proud of my father i'm gonna be able to tell my children he did everything he could
42:06for the passengers