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This is the story of Malaysian airlines flight 124. It was 5:03 pm on the first of august 2005, a malaysian airlines boeing 777 was flying from perth australia to kuala lumpur malaysia. As the plane climbed through 38,000 feet the pilots got a low airspeed warning on the Engine indication and crew alerting system or the EICAS. Then they noticed that the slip / skid indicator was deflected all the way to the right. The slip / skid indicator shows the amount of lateral acceleration on the plane, in very simple terms if the plane is skidding through the air the slip / skid indicator will deflect to one side. In the cockpit, things were getting weirder by the second, The primary flight display now told the pilots that they were approaching the overspeed limit and the stall speed limit at the same time! Then things took a turn for the worse, the plane pitched up and started to climb, it climbed all the way from 38,000 feet to 41,000 feet, as they climbed the 777 started shedding some speed, it went from 270 knots to 158 knots. At this point the stick shaker and the stall warning went off telling letting the pilots know that they were dangerously close to a stall.

In response to all of this the pilot disengaged the autopilot and pushed the nose of the plane down in an attempt to pick up some airspeed thereby avoiding the stall. But the 777 had a mind of its own, the nose pitched up again and the plane went into another climb. The crew contacted ATC and requested an immediate descent, they also requested for radar vectors back to perth, they needed to get this plane on the ground as soon as possible. The air traffic controller helped the crew verify a few basic instrument readings like altitude and ground speed, with that they began their descent.

As they passed through 22,000 feet the pilot in command noticed that the primary flight display readouts looked normal, so he turned on the left hand autopilot, as soon as he did that the plane pitched down and banked to the right. He instantly turned the autopilot off. He then turned on the right hand autopilot and something similar happened, with that the pilots decided to hand fly the plane. ON their way back the pilots tried to disconnect the autothrottle, but for some reason it stayed armed.

A while later the pilots were cleared to land on runway 03 at perth, when they were 3000 feet above the ground they got a low airspeed popup , on the Primary flight display, the autothrottle in response to this commanded more power from the engines. This made the landing a bit more difficult, making matters worse for the crew there was some moderate turbulence below 3000 feet, the winds were at 25 knots gusting to 30 knots, As they flew the approach the windshear warning system went off but the crew stuck with the approach. Soon after that the 777 landed safely and all aboard were safe.

The story of flight 124 might not be as flashy or as dramatic as some of the other incidents that weve talked about on this channel, I suggest you watch the video about British airways 888, the 747 that flew through a forest if you want something a bit more dramatic but how this happened is very interesting to me , tiny little things had to go wrong in just the right way for this to happen, Kind of like a final destination movie so let's dive into that.