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Demo Flight Collides with ‘Airplane Graveyard’ Mount Salak
November 10, 2022·1 hr 4 min·5 clips
The pilot ignored seven terrain alerts, thinking the system was faulty as the plane headed toward Mount Salak.
As heard by us
A sobering reconstruction of a VIP demo flight lost to cloud, terrain, and silence.
Black Box Down follows a Sukhoi Superjet 100 on a VIP demonstration flight over West Java and turns the accident into a clear, sobering account of how thick cloud cover and mountainous terrain can leave a crew with little room to recover.
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You want a crisp reconstruction of a demo flight that ends in tragedy over Mount Salak.
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