The Night an MD‑82 Stopped Flying: Surviving Flight 255's Silence
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The Night an MD‑82 Stopped Flying: Surviving Flight 255's Silence
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The Night an MD‑82 Stopped Flying: Surviving Flight 255's Silence
In this episode, we follow the moments before and after Northwest Airlines Flight 255’s fatal departure and the puzzling aftermath investigators faced. The episode traces the flight crew’s experience, the airplane’s configuration, and the single routine step that may have mattered most - but did it leave enough warning to stop the crash?
Person: Captain John R. Maus
Person: First Officer David J. Dodds
Date: August 16, 1987
Location: Detroit Metropolitan Airport, runway 3C
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-82, registration N312RC
- The MD-82 lifted off at 20:44 and was airborne for less than ninety seconds before control was lost.
- Flight crew together had nearly 29,000 hours of experience and conversed calmly on the cockpit voice recorder in the final minutes.
- Performance calculations were filed for runways 21L/21R, but the crew was cleared to depart from the shorter runway 3C that night.
- The aircraft’s takeoff weight of 144,046 pounds was within limits only if the airplane was configured correctly for takeoff.
- Investigators found the airplane rolled left immediately after liftoff and no obvious mechanical failure or lightning strike explained why it stopped flying.
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