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Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

An Airbus A330 loses engine power while over the Atlantic Ocean. Air Transat Flight 236 is at cruising atltitude when the pilots realize something is wrong with the plane. As they are working out the problem, they lose thrust in both engines. The closest place to land is an island 65 miles away. What happened to this flight? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by HelloFresh (http://hellofresh.com/blackboxdown14 and use code BLACKBOXDOWN14) Raycon (http://buyraycon.com/blackboxdown) and The Jordan Harbinger Show (http://jordanharbinger.com/start) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.6	August 24, 2001. Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus A330 with 306 people on board,
1:15.3	is flying over the Atlantic Ocean and route from Toronto, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal.
1:20.4	Just over five hours into the flight and 170 miles from land, engine number two flames out.
1:26.0	The pilots descend to a lower altitude to fly on one engine, and then 13 minutes later,
1:30.2	their only remaining engine flames out as well. The rat deploys and the pilots know they can only
1:34.7	glide for about 15 minutes before needing to ditch in the ocean. What happened to Air Transat Flight 236?
1:40.0	Are they able to make it to land in time? And why did the engines flame out? Find out on this
1:44.4	episode of Black Box Down.
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