


This includes five Science of Disaster specials, each examining multiple crashes with similar causes. The programs use re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, cockpit voice recordings, and official reports to reconstruct the sequences of events.Īs of 6 June 2021, 190 episodes of Mayday have aired. It reveals the events that led to each crisis or disaster, their causes as determined by the official investigating body or bodies, and the measures they recommended to prevent a similar incident from happening again. The cockpit voice recorder, which may hold vital clues, remains elusive.Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Air Emergency or Air Disasters ( Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. So far, only the flight data recorder has been recovered. Investigations into the cause of the crash remain ongoing, with Boeing, General Electric and the US National Transportation Safety Board joining the FAA and Indonesian investigators in assessing the evidence. Pilots are trained to notice this and prevent loss of control.” “I am not satisfied that this accident could be that simple.
He noted that it was simple to turn off the autothrottle and that crew should have been able to make a recovery. Jakarta-based aviation analyst Gerry Soejatman told PTI that the throttle problem alone should not have caused the aircraft to crash. Data from the ‘black box’ has given vital clues, but the cockpit voice recorder still remains elusive. This indicates that a good deal more investigation will be undertaken before the crash is conclusively assessed. He noted that there are as many as 13 other components of the plane linked to the autothrottle system. “So far, we don’t know if the engine’s throttle was broken or not, but it’s an anomaly since the left throttle moved far back and the right did not.” As reported by the Press Trust of India (PTI), he said, Lead investigator, Nurcahyo Utomo, said that the evidence so far did not conclusively point to an issue with the throttle. The flight data recorder stopped responding just seconds later. The pilot reportedly made attempts to bring the plane up, but it was in vain.

The aircraft had rolled to the left more than 45 degrees. At this point, the autothrottle was disengaged, but it was too late to regain control. The aircraft only reached an altitude of 10,900 feet before it began descending.
