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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150817:01:58:00

structural failures, how common is it it s repair or maintenance related. we re finding more and more where it s repair related. there were at least two suicides in the wake of this incident. a japan airlines employee who was working with victims families and an inspection engineer who issued a certificate of air worthiness for the doomed plane after the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we ve seen the disastrous results of airplanes not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123. american flight 191. aloha flight 242. we ve also seen what can happen when a plane has a design flaw but those flights are the exception, not the rule. every day, 3 million passengers

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150817:01:46:00

20,000 feet, which is where airplanes experience the most pressure on the vessel itself. at that point, they received a door warning, that a door was ajar, which turned out not to be the case. we ve already seen how an airplane s fuselage expands as the plane goes up and contracts as the plane comes down. the altitude with the greatest pressure differential between the pressurized inside of an aircraft and the unpressurized atmosphere outside is right around 24,000 feet. that s where jal 123 experiences an explosive shock. a massive decompression for reasons that they didn t know. but the crew did not realize the amount of damage they had sustained until very quickly, the airplane became less and less controllable to the point that it was no longer controllable at all. that would be a nightmare scenario for a pilot. what the pilots don t know is a critical piece of the 737

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150817:01:47:00

structure has cracks that have expanded to the breaking point and snapped. it s the aft pressure bulkhead, an umbrella-shaped structure toward the back of the plane. it is the device that keeps the pressure in the back part of the airplane contained properly. without that aft pressure bulkhead, you can t pressurize the tube, and you wouldn t be able to breathe at 35,000 feet without the use of pressurized supplemental oxygen. the back of the airplane is getting a considerable amount of stress, not only from the pressurization, but also from the tail and all the stresses of flight. so, that bulkhead is very, very robust. it is a serious piece of structure. at the moment of the decompression, all the pressurized air from the cabin needs somewhere to go. it blasts back through the cracked bulkhead. and unbeknownst to the pilot,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150817:01:26:00

deadly incident in the sky. i had just completed working extensively on northwest 255, a crash in detroit, michigan. i was about to get started on a new case, continental 1713 in denver, colorado, and i had a three-week break in between those two cases. this was going to be a vacation that i would really remember. february 24th, 1989, 2:00 a.m., united airlines flight 811 is en route from honolulu to auckland, new zealand. 355 people are on board for the night flight over the pacific. takeoff and initial climb are normal. we were settling in for a restful flight and the aircraft was climbing. but as the boeing 747 approaches 23,000 feet, the shock of a lifetime. there was an explosion. everything that wasn t tied down was airborne. these dramatic animations put you next to the plane as the forward right cargo door rips open in flight, slams upward

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150817:01:54:00

makeshift morning that was not the case. translator: she only had a scare here on the chin. there was no damage to the rest of the body. i recognize her right away. testimony from those who did survive will later prove valuable but in the meantime, there are countless other clues to pursue. we had a catastrophic scene. we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside. but the flight recorder and witness statements, all these sources of information helped investigators put the puzzle together. within days, two important clues turn up. a photograph taken by an armature photographer as the plane passed over village reveals president plane flying with part of the tail section missing and part of the missing tail section including the vertical fin that keeps the plane stable is fished out of a

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