The Miracle In Brest | Brit Air Flight 5672

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Help Support The Channel!: https://www.patreon.com/miniaci Join My Discord: https://discord.gg/rhDgbc9 Image Credit: christian hanuise This is the story of brit air flight 5672, now brit air might not be a carrier that you might have heard a lot about, but on the 22nd of june 2003 the airline was operating a CRJ 100er for air france from the city of Nantes france to brest also in france. The plane took off from nantes at 9:16 pm with just 21 people on board. The first flight of the day had been delayed and so this flight was delayed about 50 minutes as well. Once in the air as the plane made its way towards brest, the pilots re routed the plane around weather formations , keeping the plane away from the worst of the weather. As flight 5672 was in the air the weather at brest was not the best, the visibility hovered at around 800 meters or about 2600 feet. As time went on the plane was allowed to descend down to 15000 feet and then 7000 feet. As they made their way down to 7000 feet the pilots were aiming to get the plane to a waypoint known as bodil, this was the initial approach fix for the approach to runway 26 and as they did this they avoided storms to the left and right of them. As the plane made its way towards brest it looked like the controller would put the plane into a hold so that a plane ahead of the CRJ could land safely but just as they were about to start the hold the plane infront of them landed and the landing on runway 26 for flight 5672 was a go. In the cockpit the heading and vertical speed modes were activated and the displays displayed the VOR frequencies for runway 26. With the approach underway the pilots brought the flaps out slowly as the strong winds pummled the airplane from the left. With that the controller cleared the plane for landing and told the pilots that the cloud base was 100 feet this meant that the pilots would only see the runway at the very end of their approach. With everything looking okay the plane began the final descent that would take it all the way to the runway.at 9:50 pm the captain said “"Approach selected, LOC and Glide". Then the automated voice in the cockpit called out 500 indicating that they were just 500 feet from the ground, this call out was more or less expected but the next one caught them off guard, it said glideslope sink rate. The plane was basically telling them that they were not on the glideslope and that they were descending too fast. Basically in simple terms if they kept this up they would not land on the runway but instead they would fly their plane into the french countryside. In response to these warnings the plane was put into a right bank but the rate of descent wasn't really addressed. As the autonated systems continued to call out gidelsope glideslope it also let them know that they were just 300 feet off of the ground. The first officer was saying come right come right to the captain in an attempt to get the plane lined up with the runway. That didnt really work and the plane continued to lose altitude. 100 said the automated voice but the time to do something about the state of the plane was starting to run out, the runway did not materialize and the pilots were confused the first officer said I got nothing in front, the captain now realising the gravity of the situation called for a go around, he said “go around go around”. As the call for

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