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Get a 7-day free trial and 25% off your Blinkist membership! https://www.blinkist.com/greendot Thanks to Blinkist for sponsoring this video! ------------- Join the Green Dot Patreon for exclusive perks 😎 https://www.patreon.com/GreenDotAviation Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/mFKTvgNMvP Become a YouTube member 📺 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCNU6LWB66VR48V58d2KOg/join ------- On April 5th, 2022, an Air France Boeing 777 on approach to Paris’ Charles DeGaulle airport encountered serious flight control difficulties. The fate of all 192 people on board rested on the pilots’ ability to regain control of their apparently deranged aircraft. The ordeal was transmitted to ATC over the radio as alarms blared in the cockpit, and the plane rocked from side to side. How did the pilots get into this situation? And, more importantly, how would they get out of it? ------- Report Excerpt: https://aviationsourcenews.com/news/af11-report-aircraft-lost-control-suggesting-pilot-error/ All music licensed through Epidemic Sound Pictures: AF 447: Pawel Kierzkowski, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Foto: Roberto Maltchik Repórter da TV Brasil, CC BY 3.0 BR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons Valter Campanato/ABr, CC BY 3.0 BR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons Air France 777: JacobAviation, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ------ 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Blinkist 01:49 Flight Background 02:39 Boeing 777 03:20 Descent 04:00 Cleared to land 04:46 A problem occurs 05:37 Fight for control 07:10 Traffic avoidance 07:26 Control problems 07:54 Contacting ATC 09:30 Attempt 2 10:03 Investigation 10:26 A strange finding 11:26 Tête-à-tête 12:31 Decoupling 13:05 Repeat of AF447?