TERRIFYING flight | Engine STUCK on full power! | Cathay 780 (Patreon)

On April 13th, 2010, Cathay Pacific flight 780 began experiencing a series of critical problems with its engines, miles above the South China Sea. This was a situation the pilots of this A330 had never trained for. Would they be able to bring the aircraft to a safe landing in Hong Kong, or would they end up crashing into the sea? The lives of 309 passengers depended on their making the right decisions under immense pressure.

This episode uses the official report to piece together what happened on board Cathay Pacific flight 780, on its flight from Juranda international airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, to Hong Kong.

All music licensed through Epidemic Sound.

Pictures from the official report.

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Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons