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Mayday · S5 E4

Dead Weight (Air Midwest Flight 5481)

2008-04-30 · 45 min

On 8 January 2003, Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes into an aircraft hangar at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport seconds after takeoff on a flight to Greenville. All 21 people on board die, and one person on the ground is injured. Investigation showed that the pilots' controls had been improperly adjusted during maintenance, and that the aircraft was overloaded due to outdated formula for calculation of passenger weights.

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Season 5 Episodes

  • E1Explosive Evidence (Air India Flight 182)
  • E2Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)
  • E3Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242)
  • E4Dead Weight (Air Midwest Flight 5481)
  • E5Invisible Killer (Delta Air Lines Flight 191)
  • E6Gimli Glider (Air Canada Flight 143)
  • E7Fanning the Flames (South African Airways Flight 295)
  • E8Fatal Distraction (Eastern Airlines Flight 401)
  • E9Mixed Signals (Birgenair Flight 301)
  • E10Phantom Strike (Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907)