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How could a plane crash be 40 years in the making?

This video reveals how a decades-long history of poor oversight and dangerous flying ultimately led to the crash of Crossair flight 3597 on November 24th, 2001. The Swiss jet involved was a 6-year old Avro RJ100.

The Final Report and other publicly-available sources were used to piece together the causes of this incident, both immediate and distal.

All music licensed through Epidemic Sound

Final Report:
http://www.aaiu.ie/sites/default/file...

Picture of accident aircraft by Ingo Richardt - flugzeugbilder.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Picture of crash site:
Jaques Meursaul, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Other pictures from Final Report (AAIB):
http://www.aaiu.ie/sites/default/file...

Crossair livery Bae-146
https://forum.inibuilds.com/files/fil...

Crossair Livery MD-80
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...

Crossair livery saab 340
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...

Crossair livery for EMB 145
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...

Aircraft:
Just Flight BAE-146 Professional

00:00 Intro
01:21 Approach preparations and descent
03:58 Lining up with Runway
07:28 The Lugano incident
07:57 Final Approach
9:28 Aftermath and Investigation
10:10 The Captain's training history
13:01 Previous incidents
14:23 Recommendations and improvements