US Airways Express 6470

The flight departs at night and climbs normally through four thousand feet, autopilot engaged, nothing out of the ordinary. Then, without warning, the aircraft rolls hard and stops responding to control inputs. The crew fights to recover for nearly two minutes as the aircraft spirals lower, passing over the coastline, the city skyline, and open farmland while both engines begin trailing smoke. This video reconstructs that descent using recovered flight data recorder readouts and cockpit voice recorder audio — altitude, airspeed, and the crew's attempts to regain control, right up until the recording cuts out.