Analysis of a Flight Emergency Incident

The plane is flying normally for two hours, right?

And, you know, that's a route, I think there's at least 10 of these

flights a day,

right, back and forth and back and forth.

And most people on that plane have probably been on

that route many times, and you

look down and it's desert pretty much the whole way.

So you're just kinda lulled there, staring into space,

and then it drops more than

20,000 feet in 35 seconds, finally topping out at a speed,

we understand, of

700 miles an hour plus.

Uh, so, so can you just show us what that looks like?

We certainly can. And, uh, Aaron, hello.

Thanks for, uh, inviting us onto the show tonight,

and all your viewers, of course.

Uh, Angelo is going to take us through exactly

that

procedure that happened to the fly Dubai flight.

And we're gonna start that right now.

Let me just change the view and we can take a closer look at

things on the outside of the aircraft and the instrumentation.

I will be trying to give everyone a bit of, uh, a

little bit of information on what's happening on the primary flight display as

we

go along, which is the image you're seeing in the

lower left corner.

Angelo, when you're ready, if you'd like to take us through

a really nasty descent in the MAX 8.

And of course, this is a

737-800, but let's pretend it's a MAX 8.

When you're ready, sir.

Autopilot disconnect,

and down we go.

And if you can give us the external view of the aircraft when you're ready, Angelo.

Thank you.

There we are with the fly Dubai. That's the 800 model right there.

And

right there is the over speed warning, and I'm gonna just get my hand in

here if I can and start pointing a little bit on the screen.

If you can see my hand on the left side of that screen right there, there's the

barber pole indicating an over speed.

We are looking at nothing but ground on the primary flight display

on the attitude

gear. And the jet, if you can take a look in the center of

your

screen, that is approximately what we would've

seen.

We are now recovering at about 18, 17, 16,000 feet.

Perhaps a little more of a dive than the aircraft did today.

I mean-

And Aaron, back to you.

Yeah, so, okay. Uh, just to even imagine what

that's like, I know there were some people, they said they

were sort of standing by

the bathroom, right? They would've fallen immediately.

I mean, it, frankly, it's miraculous with something like

that that, that people,

people didn't get more seriously injured or die.

Um, so then it-

That's correct. And I, I mentioned the stick shaker.

It's the over speed warning that's clicking away in the background,

not the stick

shaker. Stick shaker's at the other end of the

spectrum where you're stalling the

aircraft. So that is still going. We are just coming into about

500 knots. So some of the numbers that we're seeing from the

reporting initially are-

Yeah

... they don't make sense to me because if you're descending that rapidly, the

aircraft would've disintegrated completely.

So the numbers will change when we get the preliminary report,

for sure.

Oh, that's interesting. 'Cause that, uh, the, the, those are, I mean, as, as you

point out, those are only the numbers that we have right now.

But interesting that you said that that could've caused it to break apart

and, and

that maybe some of those are, are a little higher than actually

happened.

We do know there was damage on the rudder, right, from whatever the speeds actually

will turn out to be, and portions of it apparently tore away

during flight.

Now obviously, with serious damage to the rudder,

a plane's gonna crash.

So when you just look at what we know here, how fortunate do you think it

is that this plane was actually even able to safely land?

Well, when I saw the images of the aircraft on

the ground

with the rudder section torn out, uh, I immediately had a

cold chill because the amount of damage that that would

cause the hydraulic systems, the electrical systems,

especially hydraulics.

Once you start ripping apart electronic, or sorry, hydraulics, you

start to bleed electronic fuel. Or hydraulic fuel,

excuse me, I'll get my words right here.

And that would've affected other systems in the airplane.

The saving grace on this one is at the vertical fin.

So you'll see the vertical fin of the aircraft, and then the rudder

is at the rear

potion, the rear portion of that. That rudder was torn away.

The vertical fin was what saved the day because that gave the aircraft

directional stability, and I do not know how much longer they

could've flown it after they landed because of the loss of

hydraulic fluid due to the rudder being removed from the aircraft.

So this is a very incredible story about the MAX 8.

We've seen the MAX 8 in the news before. I've been certainly involved with that.

And to see this aircraft land safely after going, I think it went

supersonic momentarily,

I think that MAX 8 is, uh, fully redeemed.

It's an excellent aircraft. That old airframe, everyone

was questioning how safe

that was, and I think we just got our answer.

The other problems were something else entirely.

Yeah. We talked about that Boeing, as we said,

Boeing 737 took with the MAX 8.

Thank you both very much. Really incredible.

You think of so many levels of,

of just one in a whatever that things would've gone right,

and it did time

after time after time.

Nice.

It's, it's really incredible.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I'm so glad everybody made it out safely.

Yeah.

Thanks for having us.

All right. Thank you both. Angelo, Aaron, thank you.