Former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Air Safety Investigator Gregory Feith joins WIRED to answers the internet’s burning questions about aviation accidents. What’s the safest seat on an airplane? How likely are you to be in an aviation accident? At what stage of flight to most accidents occur? Can a flock of birds really bring down a jet? Why don’t planes have parachutes to prevent crashing? What happens if a window on a plane cracks during flight? And what really happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Answers to these questions and many more await on Aviation Accident Support.
0:00 Aviation Accident Support
0:14 Safest seat on a plane
0:49 Uh, this is your captain speaking
1:30 How can birds bring down a plane?
3:30 When do accidents occur?
4:31 Accident investigation reports
5:35 Malaysia airlines flight 370
6:44 Why do planes not have parachutes?
7:09 can planes fly and land during thunderstorms?
8:32 “I was intoxicated. I drank all of those days. I drank—in excess.”
9:23 What happens if a window on a plane cracks?
9:53 Captain Sully
10:31 The probability of getting killed in an airplane accident
11:03 Snakes On A Plane
11:12 Aerophobics
12:15 Falling with style
12:37 ValuJet Flight 592
14:07 The black box and what else?
15:42 The flight data recorder
16:34 EgyptAir Flight 990 and SilkAir Flight 185
17:15 Pilot training
18:22 What’s happened to Boeing?
19:10 GPS Trackers
20:37 Can pilots actually prevent crashes
21:47 Korean Air
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