Name: Why Takeoff And Landing Are So Dangerous
Uploaded: 2020-10-28T18:10:59.000Z
Duration: 4 min 47 s
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Takeoff and landing are widely considered

one-and-a-half-hour flight into eight phases.

Starting at the beginning, the takeoff and initial climb.

This phase takes up only 2% of the entire flight,

but it accounts for 14% of fatal accidents.

but only 11% of fatal accidents happen during this chunk.

So that leaves the final descent and landing.

They take up about 4% of the average flight,

lasting twice as long as takeoff and initial climb.

Anthony Brickhouse: Typically on takeoff and typically

you don't have a lot of time to actually react.

Narrator: When they're cruising at 36,000 feet,

a pilot has the luxury of time and space to course correct.

the plane won't just fall out of the sky.

giving the pilot a little over eight minutes

But if something goes wrong on the ground,

If an engine fails or the landing gear jams,

Brickhouse: Because when you're blasting down that runway

at over 100 mph, things are happening really quickly.

because you have to do it below a certain speed,

Narrator: If the plane hasn't taken off or stopped

by this point, it's going off the end of the runway.

or off a literal cliff, like at Colorado's

An EMAS is a bed of materials at the end of a runway

designed to collapse under the weight of an airplane,

gripping its tires and ideally bringing it to a stop

before it plummets 1,000 feet off a ledge.

It works similarly for a landing gone wrong.

that makes it so much more dangerous than taking off?

Oversimplified, it's easier to make a plane fly

Brickhouse: We're slowing down, and we're getting

the pilot is communicating with air traffic control,

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Why Takeoff And Landing Are So Dangerous

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