How Kobe Bryant, Atlas 767 & Others Died - All About Spatial Disorientation - InTheHangar Ep 124

The helicopter pilot in the Kobe Bryant Crash flew into the clouds and got disorientated, resulting in the tragic deaths of all aboard. Spatial Disorientation kills people every year. But what is it? How do our bodies become spatially disoriented? DPE Joe Casey joins Dan (@TakingOffDan) and Christy (@PilotChristy) to talk about what causes Spatial Disorientation and more importantly, how to avoid it. We also hear from Suzy Patey, Mark Patey's wife on a very scary Spatial Disorientation event that almost took her life and the lives of a couple of her children.
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00:00 Intro
00:49 What is Spatial Disorientation?
02:10 Suzy Patey Story
04:22 The Leans Somatogyral
04:45 Semicircular Canals
05:50 How the Cupula work
06:08 Cupula Demonstration
10:21 Coriolis Illusion
11:26 Bryan Turner (@JustPlaneSilly) demonstrates the Coriolis Illusion
13:09 Chair Demonstration
14:00 The Atlas 767 Crash, the Linear Movement, the Otolith Organs
15:34 Ricky Leonard Crash in Piper Meridian
18:00 Practicing in IMC, Instrument Training
19:30 What we can do to avoid SD
25:56 Closing Thoughts
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