Near Catastrophe! The Air France Flight that Almost Crashed into a Mountain

Go to https://blinkist.com/mentourpilot for a 7 DAY FREE TRIAL + 25% OFF Premium Membership An Air France B777-200 narrowly missed central Africa’s highest mountain in early May. Flight AF953 was travelling from Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Douala, Cameroon’s largest city and commercial capital, when it hit bad weather on 2 May. How did this happen? If you want to support the work I do on the channel, join my Patreon crew and get awesome perks and help me move the channel forward! 👇 👉🏻 https://www.patreon.com/mentourpilot 👉🏻 Check out our other channel here: youtube.com/mentournow 📲 Join the Mentour Pilot Discord server here! 👉🏻 https://discord.gg/JntGWdn I have also created an Amazon page with Aviation books, material and flight simulator stuff that I think you will enjoy! 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/shop/mentourpilot Follow my life on instagram and get awesome pictures from the cockpit! 📲 https://www.instagram.com/mentour_pilot To find the right HEADSET for YOU, check out BOSE Aviation 👉🏻 https://boseaviation-emea.aero/headsets Artwork in the studio 👉🏻 https://aeroprints.de/?lang=en Get some Awesome Mentour Pilot merch 👉🏻 https://mentour-crew.creator-spring.com/? Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out! Sources ----------------------------------------------------- Final Report: https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_upload/BEA2015-0190.en.pdf Air France HQ: Paolo Riolzi https://archello.com/project/air-france-klm-new-headquarters Aircraft used: Captain Sim 777-200 https://captainsim.net/products/m777/m772/ CHAPTERS ----------------------------------------------------- 00:00 - Intro 00:00:40:30 - The History 00:01:09:10 - The Crew 00:01:51:02 - A Change of Weather 00:03:21:16 - The Flight Plan 00:05:12:59 - Navigation Displays 00:07:36:10 - A change of plan 00:10:23:31 - The Global Terrain Database 00:12:36:33 - Terrain! Terrain! 00:15:06:48 - What Just Happened!? 00:16:01:22 - Level the Wings! 00:17:26:51 - Definitely Shook-Up 00:18:44:36 - Criticisms Z5CD1N08RBQ4GPSV