Aircrash investigations

[Mr_B]

Been watching a few of these type of documentaries on YouTube and find them fascinating how they work out the cause, often from just a tiny clue.
Without wishing to dwell on a slightly morbid subject ( although they don't have to be fatal crashes of course, is there a particular investigation that stands out as being exceptional in either the ability of the investigators finding the cause , or the actions of the pilots, ground crew, bean counters, air traffic or others that caused the accident ?

[Mr_B]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Have viewed them all except the helicopter one mentioned ( cant find ) and the last suggestion which I will seek out now.

[Mr_B]

So which would being the most investigative of all these ? Most seem to start with a pretty good idea of the cause , such as engine failures or very early reports of events like the whole vertical stabiliser having fallen off before the aircraft crashed, or in the case of the last one I watched , a 747 taking off on a closed runway. The TWA800 and Commet cases mentioned earlier seems to be just such as case. Any others along those lines ?

[Mr_B]

TVR1 said:

An unbelievable set of lucky circumstances.

Al Haynes lecture at NASA. A decent length but well worth a look, fascinating from many aspects but notably the full communication between ATC and Aircraft at the beginning.



http://youtu.be/mZYHMMMeHic

Edited by TVR1 on Tuesday 23 September 00:18

Thanks for that. Watched that and found it very interesting. The small details he picks out on all areas may it all the more fascinating.