MAYDAY
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.
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.
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
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
Broadcast Details: Saturday 27th April, 6.20pm
On 26th May 1991, a malfunction of the thrust reverser caused Lauda Air Flight 004 to spiral out of control and crash 100 miles North west of Bangkok with no survivors.
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.