The Catasrophic Tragedy Over The Holiday Season! | December Disasters | Mayday: Air Disaster

December 1995 - It’s the Holiday Season, and the skies are full. Airlines are straining to keep on schedule. Harried and frayed passengers, anxious to get home, are only serving to ratchet up the tension. In the middle of it all is American Airlines Flight 965. The plane is carrying 164 passengers and crew en route to Cali, Columbia from Miami.

Are you able to work out what caused this disaster?

From Season 2 Episode 5 "Lost": The plane is late, held on the tarmac in Miami for two hours, and the mood on board and in the cockpit is not one of Christmas cheer. To make up for a lost time, two of American Airlines’ most experienced pilots are pushing the plane to the limit.

The aircraft is a state-of-the-art Boeing 757. When the plane is descending into the Cali airport a mechanical voice sounds out in the cockpit “Pull up, pull up”. The plane is about to crash. Somehow they have strayed 12 miles off course and are heading straight for a mountain. Desperately the flight crew struggles to get the 757’s nose up. Just as they are succeeding, the huge aircraft slams into the top of one of the mountains surrounding Cali, disintegrating on contact. Only four people survive after a night on the freezing mountaintop.

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