NOVA

Why Planes Crash

TV-PG
S14 • E3    Feb 2, 1987    55m
8.3
Between 60 and 80 percent of all commercial airplane accidents are attributable to pilot error. NOVA looks at some shocking instances of pilot negligence and what airlines are doing to solve the problem.

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Cast of Why Planes Crash

  • Berton BeachSelf - Manager, Flight Training, Eastern Airlines
  • Roger BrooksSelf - Frontier Airlines
  • Jerry ChandlerSelf - Journalist
  • Jim DamronSelf - Airline Pilots Association
  • Harold DonnerSelf - Air Safety Investigator, N.T.S.B.
  • James EwingSelf - Director, Delta Airlines National Media Relations
  • Del FaddenSelf - Manager, Flight Deck Integration, Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company
  • Charlie FinchSelf - Delta Airlines
  • Clay FousheeSelf - Manager, NASA Aerospace Human Factors Division
  • Rudolf KapustinSelf - Investigator, National Transportation Safety Board
  • John LauberSelf - Member, National Transportation Safety Board
  • John McCarthySelf - Scientist, Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Mike McMullenSelf - Air Safety Investigator, N.T.S.B.
  • John J. NanceSelf - Author and Pilot
  • Joe OliverSelf - Delta Airlines
  • Bill ReynaudSelf - Director, NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System
  • Gregory SalottoloSelf - Air Safety Investigator, N.T.S.B.
  • Richard StoneSelf - Safety Investigator, Delta Airlines
  • Frank TulloSelf - Training Instructor, Continental Airlines
  • Paul TurnerSelf - Laboratory Technician, National Transportation Safety Board
  • Mel VolzSelf - Senior Safety Consultant, United Airlines
  • Earl WienerSelf - Professor, Human Engineering, University of Miami

 

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