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Pilots Under Pressure (Northwest Flight 255) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN

If you found this video to be interesting, be sure to subscribe as there is a new video every Saturday. This video also went out to my Patrons on Patreon 48 hours before going out publicly. Consider joining here from £1 per month: https://www.patreon.com/DisasterBreakdown Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chloe_HowieCB Music/Personal Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOwQGtbF_x7ODL1U_A61IQg Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/chloe_canariabird In the previous video, we looked at a devastating accident in Brazil where the pilots involved lost control of their plane just seconds after take-off. Some of those who investigated that accident, they looked into the possibility of mis-configuration of the aircraft being a possible cause. Of course that was not the case there, but it does begs the questions of, what does “misconfiguration of a plane” mean? And is it implied that such thing has happened before? The answer to the latter being yes, numerous times. And we’ll look at one of those incidents today. The accident of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was devastating for Detroit. Lets breakdown what happened that day and just where things went wrong. The date was August 16th, 1987. Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport is one of the largest airports in the United States. Currently today, it is a hub for Delta Airlines. Prior to their acquisition of Northwest Airlines, they too operated a hub out of Detroit. Northwest Airlines was at one point one of the largest airlines in the country. Sources: https://www.baaa-acro.com/sites/default/files/2020-05/N312RC.pdf https://www.robertankony.com/blog/flight-255 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajccCl6NZxE&ab_channel=Tigerdude3535 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y96f6s_nxmo&ab_channel=ABCNews