Near Catastrophe! The Air France Flight that Almost Crashed into a Mountain
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An Air France B777-200 narrowly missed central Africa’s highest mountain in early May. Flight AF953 was travelling from Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Douala, Cameroon’s largest city and commercial capital, when it hit bad weather on 2 May. How did this happen?

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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out!

Sources
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Final Report:
https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_uploa...

Air France HQ: Paolo Riolzi
https://archello.com/project/air-fran...

Aircraft used: Captain Sim 777-200
https://captainsim.net/products/m777/...

CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Intro
00:00:40:30 - The History
00:01:09:10 - The Crew
00:01:51:02 - A Change of Weather
00:03:21:16 - The Flight Plan
00:05:12:59 - Navigation Displays
00:07:36:10 - A change of plan
00:10:23:31 - The Global Terrain Database
00:12:36:33 - Terrain! Terrain!
00:15:06:48 - What Just Happened!?
00:16:01:22 - Level the Wings!
00:17:26:51 - Definitely Shook-Up
00:18:44:36 - Criticisms


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