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Mayday Series 14, Ep 2  - _Ep 110_132_IW Image Name: Mayday Series 14, Ep 2 - _Ep 110_132_IW Description: A test pilot concentrates as he attempts an in flight thrust reverser deployment.
Mayday Series 14, Ep 2 - _Ep 110_101_IW Image Name: Mayday Series 14, Ep 2 - _Ep 110_101_IW Description: Test pilots attempt an in flight thrust reverser deployment during a Boeing 767 certification flight.
Mayday Series 14, Ep 2  - _Ep 110_034_IW Image Name: Mayday Series 14, Ep 2 - _Ep 110_034_IW Description: First Officer Thurner (played by Pierre Simpson) and Captain Welch (played by Michael Rhoades) struggle to control the plane as Lauda Air Flight 004 dives towards the ground. Copyright: Cineflix 2014
Mayday Series 14, Ep 2  - MD14_Ep 110_005_IW Image Name: Mayday Series 14, Ep 2 - MD14_Ep 110_005_IW Description: First Officer Thurner (played by Pierre Simpson) and Captain Welch (played by Michael Rhoades) are at the controls of Lauda Air Flight 004 just before it crashes in Thailand. Copyright: Cineflix 2014

Series 14, Episode 2

On 26 May 1991, the thrust reverser on the number one engine of Lauda Air Flight 004 deploys in flight without being commanded, causing the aircraft to spiral out of control, disintegrate, and crash about 100 miles northwest of Bangkok, with no survivors. Investigators later determined the cause of the false deployment to be a malfunction of an electronically-controlled hydraulic valve.