Air Crash Investigator Answers Aviation Accident Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Air Safety Investigator Gregory Feith joins WIRED to answers the internet’s burning questions about aviation accidents. What’s the safest seat on an airplane? How likely are you to be in an aviation accident? At what stage of flight to most accidents occur? Can a flock of birds really bring down a jet? Why don’t planes have parachutes to prevent crashing? What happens if a window on a plane cracks during flight? And what really happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Answers to these questions and many more await on Aviation Accident Support. 0:00 Aviation Accident Support 0:14 Safest seat on a plane 0:49 Uh, this is your captain speaking 1:30 How can birds bring down a plane? 3:30 When do accidents occur? 4:31 Accident investigation reports 5:35 Malaysia airlines flight 370 6:44 Why do planes not have parachutes? 7:09 can planes fly and land during thunderstorms? 8:32 “I was intoxicated. I drank all of those days. I drank—in excess.” 9:23 What happens if a window on a plane cracks? 9:53 Captain Sully 10:31 The probability of getting killed in an airplane accident 11:03 Snakes On A Plane 11:12 Aerophobics 12:15 Falling with style 12:37 ValuJet Flight 592 14:07 The black box and what else? 15:42 The flight data recorder 16:34 EgyptAir Flight 990 and SilkAir Flight 185 17:15 Pilot training 18:22 What’s happened to Boeing? 19:10 GPS Trackers 20:37 Can pilots actually prevent crashes 21:47 Korean Air Flight 801 22:22 Airplane Mode on phones 22:54 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Director: Anna O'Donohue Director of Photography: Ben Dewey Editor: Richard Trammell Expert: Gregory Feith Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi Associate Producer: Jasmine Breinburg; Brandon White Production Manager: Peter Brunette Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post P