Part 19: North Carolina

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This plane crash takes us to the state of North Carolina, which is located next to the following states: South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash

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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash.

Air Midwest Flight 5481, registered as November 233 Yankee Victor (N233YV), was a Beechcraft 1900D on a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (IATA: CLT, ICAO: KCLT), Charlotte, North Carolina to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (IATA: GSP, ICAO: KGSP), Greer, South Carolina, on the morning of the 8th of January 2003, the Beechcraft stalled while departing Charlotte Douglas International Airport and it crashed into an aircraft hanger, the crash killed all 21 people on board the plane and it injured one person on the ground.

At 08:46am local time, the controller cleared the flight for takeoff and the pilots applied takeoff power and begun their takeoff roll, after the flight got airborne, the planes nose began to pitch up rapidly, the nose pitched up to 20 degrees, despite the pilots trying to lower the nose, the plane continued to pitch nose up, reaching 54 degrees nose up, the stall warning sounded on the plane, the crew declared an emergency to ATC, after climbing to an altitude of 1,150 feet, the plane stalled, it then abruptly pitched down into an uncontrollable descent, about 35 seconds after takeoff, the plane crashed into an aircraft maintenance hanger and burst into flames, all 21 people on board the plane were killed in the crash, a U.S Airways mechanic on the ground was treated for smoke inhalation, no one else on the ground was hurt or killed in the crash.

The summary of the crash was Stalled due to maintenance error, overloading.

Pictured below is the hanger the plane crashed into.

Pictured below is the aftermath of the crash, in the background you can see the smoke from the fire that the crash created

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Pictured below is the aftermath of the crash, in the background you can see the smoke from the fire that the crash created.

Below is a video which explains what happened that morning, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie

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Below is a video which explains what happened that morning, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.

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