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Early Access - When The Metric System Kills (Korean Air Flight 6316) (Patreon)

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2025-04-07 00:15:51

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Hello Patrons.

I am so thrilled to bring you Disaster Breakdown 171 (That's how many videos we're up to now omg!) This time covering the astounding case of Flight 6316.

I'd like to thank you all for your patience during the time it took to make this. It's been a hard one to make. Despite all the troubling I had putting this one together but I am thrilled with how it turned out in the end. I hope you think so too and enjoy the video. Please hit me with all of your comments on this post.

This should be the final version that goes out publicly, I just need to make a few more thumbnails. As always this video will be up for Patrons for around two days before release. I'd like it to be a Tuesday evening public release but this video is taking ages to upload ;-;

From Tuesday in fact I'll be heading back to Denmark to spend time with my girlfriend (and also begin work on the next video), so I will be away for a while but will still be around for messages and stuff.

Thank you all so much for your continued support.

Chloe <3

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When The Metric System Kills - Korean Air 6316

Disaster Breakdown - Korean Air Flight 6316 References and Additional Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gAbK4OtPZ8SYUzeSbV_dFyPROiBkE3kNex3RylqfSzA/edit?usp=sharing Join my Patreon to support the channel further. All Patrons get Early Access to all new videos before they go out publicly: https://www.patreon.com/c/DisasterBreakdown Twitter: https://x.com/Chloe_HowieCB BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/chloehowie.bsky.social Chapters 00:00 Opening 01:14 Chapter 1 A - The MD-11 05:00 Chapter 1 B - The Flight Crew 09:02 Chapter 1 C - Pre-Flight 13:54 Chapter 2 - China, Meters, y tho 19:59 Chapter 3 - Accident 33:20 Chapter 4 - What They Found 45:25 Chapter 5 - Closing 50:31 Easter Egg At precisely 4 minutes past 4 and 35 seconds in the afternoon on April 15th, 1999, the Shanghai Seismic Bureau recorded a distinct measurement on their seismographs that appeared to resemble a small 1.6 Magnitude Earthquake in the MingHang district of the city. At the same time, local Air Traffic Controllers at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport are scrambling to re-establish contact with an airplane that has suddenly disappeared from their radar screens. They look up from their radars and out of the window they catch a view of a plume of smoke rising above the city. A massive airliner that had been on the ground just three minutes earlier, has crashed into a residential district of Shanghai. When investigators arrived at the scene of the crash, none of them could have expected what they would uncover. One by one, explanations are dismissed. All possibilities are coming up as dead ends. It’s only when the audio data is extracted from the shattered remains of the Cockpit Voice Recorder, that anything resembling a clear explanation for the accident was pieced together. It’s a sequence of events that stuns the aviation world. #aviation