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Pilot Has A Breakdown / US Bangla Airlines Flight 211

Black Box Down

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US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211, a Bombardier Q400 with 71 people on board, is on approach to Kathmandu, Nepal from Dhaka, Bangladesh. The plane comes in banking at an extreme angle and gets one set of landing gear down before going off the runway crashing into a berm killing 50 people. Why did the pilots get lost? Why couldn't they see the runway? What led the captain to execute such dangerous maneuvers? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.

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