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January 29th, 2025, American Airlines regional jet crashes into the Potomac. Now tell me, was the pilot in this video wrong?

DEI pilot suicide?

This video is really poorly edited. About a minute of audio is clipped. The location of the airplane does not line up with the atc audio. You show the crash twice and play completely different atc audio leading up to it. Perhaps a more minor detail but there is no ils on runway 33.

Notice how the female ATC operator panicked and handed over to the male. Theres plans aput ensuring that kind of thing doesn't happen again.

Never forget to get tower number when you're going in or out, always good to have. This pilot would know how to find it before he took off. Also those Bose a20/a30 or any other headset with bluetooth are phenomenal. Lot of money, but I get a lot of extra piece of mind knowing I can call in and just use my headset as normal if I run into an electrical failure. Plus bluetooth music, I mean what pilot doesn't want that for cross countries in the middle of nowhere? Also unless it's specifically in your checklist please don't cut your perfectly good engine on final, if you need to go around you're totally screwed. You aren't turning that engine back on without electric for your starter.

He accepted his fate and pulled a rabbit out of his ass

Incredible controller. Gives me shivers. Excellent communication.

Engine fire and he wants to fly 20+ mile to FXE?? I75 is right below.. wide and straight!

Dead stick? What a joke. Electrical failure doesn't mean SHT.

That was intense, had a gear down failure in my VodoChody L39 , keeping a clear head is the key . I freaking panicked for a minute and was about to eject . Thankfully that was the only issue and had plenty of time to go over the checklist , reset and gear down .

I like this pilot and ATC. Kept a cool head. Good communication too. Edit: For those wondering: dead stick landing to save the engine in case the gear collapsed. When the gear collapses, the propeller will touch the runway and come to a sudden halt, which turns the engines into huge paper weights.

To answer the person who didn’t think the controller knew what dead stick landing was, he probably wanted that pilot to describe what he was going to do. And that was the easiest way to get the mayday pilot to describe his intentions. I hope that controller is recognized for being cool and collected.

Surprised how good celphone reception was 😊

Do you have date on this?

This hits differently today....

Air Traffic Control....... saving lives every day. What else can you say. ?

Great work by the pilot and ATC! Must admit I'm a little surprised the controller didn't know what deadstick meant, I know most controllers understand aviation lingo, but great work nonetheless.

Absolutely Brilliant work!!!!!

Thanks for the video. There were so many so-called experts on TV news just plain lying to the public because they actually have no idea what they are talking about. And you can see by the replies here, more idiots who know nothing at all.

Great work by ATC, brilliant controller!

Did that moron even have a license? It is obvious he had zero training or airmanship sense.

Great team work, so glad he landed ok. 🙏🏆

Probably had to tow it off. With no electrical power he wouldn't be able to restart.

For those who would like a little more understanding of the medical terminology here: CPR- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is being performed. Baby’s heart has stopped and the medical team are performing chest compressions to try to maintain some circulatroy effort of the blood and maintain blood pressure. Medicines given: Dopamine 2mcg/kg given over 1 min Epinephrine 0.2mcg/kg given over 1 min Both basically to stimulate the heart to contract and also increase blood pressure. Normal saline bolus 10ml/kg - fluid with similar water/salt ratio as blood. Bolus is giving the fluid all at once to add to the circulating volume and try to boost the blood pressure. Blood gas- a blood test measuring acidity of blood along with oxygen and carbon dioxide, basically gives an idea of how well a body is performing basic functions of life. pH 7.13 = very low and too acidic (normal pH of blood is 7.35-7.45), basically the lack of oxygen has caused all the cells in the body to switch to anaerobic metabolism and this is causing a build up of lactic acid. This is the same thing that makes muscles burn during exercise, but this baby has no way of clearing that acid so the acidic blood is damaging to tissues and organs it passes through. pCO2 36 = normal (35-45), in you or I an acidosis in the blood would make us breathe heavier to blow off carbon dioxide which is acidic to try to improve the pH and so in this situation you would want this number to be low. Baby is not able to do this so number is incorrectly normal. pO2 50 = very low (normal 75-100), a measure of oxygen in the blood pretty self explanatory why this is not good HCO3 12 = very low (normal 22-26), measure of bicarbonate, works as a buffer in blood, if there’s too much acid this tries to mop up the extra hydrogen to produce carbon dioxide and water to regulate pH (as discussed above). Here we see low levels indicating body has tried to do this practically exhausting its bicarbonate stores but the pH is still profoundly acidotic BEB -16 = Base excess, basically another measure of how much acid is in the blood (normal = 0). A positive number mean more alkalotic (lots of excess base) and a very negative number like this shows blood is too acidic. Vent IMV 35 = ventilator is delivering 35 breaths per minute PIP 20/5 = pressure used the deliver the oxygen and try to keep the lumgs open FiO2 70% = percentage of the gas going into baby’s lungs that is set to pure oxygen. In normal air FiO2= 21% Calcium 0.9 = very low, calcium is needed in conduction and contraction of muscles including the heart Vitals: Heart rate 161 - upper end of normal, I assume if CPR is still ongoing this is the rate of compressions given Blood pressure 23/11 (19) - for a newborn normal BP is around 70/40, too low a BP and you are not adequately perfusing the brain, again pretty self explanatory that this is very bad. Sats 88% (normal 94+ in air, slightly lower can be tolerated but bear in mind this is with 70% oxygen going in so only normal sats here would be 100%) Doctors advice - turn up oxygen to max (FiO2 100%) and give further bicarbonate to try to reduce the acidosis.

Why are these Rambos training over a large metro area?

Once again, as a vision impaired subscriber to your channel, I request that you use audible descriptions to tell us what is going on. Typed or written descriptions does not work for people with a vision disability. Also, at least Victor over on Bas aviation provided us with the full ATC audio so I was able to get a better Understanding of what took place. If I have to keep requesting you to use audible to improve the interaction with your subscribers I may have to unsubscribe from the channel. I will see what happens with future content. Music does not cut it.

Rainbow pilots?

Made my hair stand on end...and I'm bald! Great work pilot and ATC!!

And even if you think you can make it through, you don’t always know what’s hiding behind the weather, that the radar has returned. Very sad. There are far too many GA crashes and families wiped out.

Settle down lady, everyone is trying their best to do things properly.

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Just happened again in washington. On scanner

Christine of the skys...

Leaving a trainee alone in such a busy mixed airspace seems like a recipe for disaster to me.

Sounds like the errors began long before he left the ground. Hopefully the pilot took the airlines home, for the safety of everyone.

This is why i dont believe anything I read from armchair experts....everytime the subject of ejection comes up the 14 year old experts all claim it will break your neck, back, that you cant eject without going unconcious, and all this stuff, yet never once have i seen a video or audio where that did happen. Of course ejection is last resort its a jet worth a hundred million.

Over water should have headed for shore first unless they knew that had the glide to make the airport.

On time was more important than safety for this Captain. Aviation is a tough teacher. We have to learn off the lives of others!

I am not a pilot, but if they had a closer airport that they were heading towards, why would they turn around to go to a farther away airport? I would assume when gliding, making a turn, you are losing airspeed and altitude.

What airspace was the Cessna operating in? Since NTSB is not pointing fingers at the Cessna, I'd assume they were in an airspace legal to fly without ATC communication. So my guess is that the Cessna did not do anything wrong here (at least legally). If that is the case, I am surprised that the airspace structure was not part of the contributing factors.

I done the same thing I few years ago without thinking. My girl sat next to me slapped it out of my mouth after a few puffs. Also done it multiple time at bars and pubs without thinking while talking once even directly to the landlord of a pub while ordering a pint each time as shocked as the person in front of me 😂.

BEST ATC channel on YT by a mile and a half. No stupid voiceover/promotional filler, high-quality accurate pilot POVs, and straight-to-the-point relevant information. You deserve 100x the subs.

I almost went to Spartan. I went to Flight Safety in Vero Beach. Liked it better than Tulsa. Spartan is a really good school. Dont think this guy was ready to solo yet. Was a cfi for a while long ago.

Now that is a great controller

Holy shit

The pilot was clueless about altitudes. Appeared to not understand the concept of maintaining a level until established on the localiser.

If that controller doesn't get an award of some kind, something's wrong. He literally kept that man alive. Through exhaustion, exasperation and confusion (well justified), he sounded resigned to die, but that controller coached him. The pilot sounded exceptionally competent, but he was out of ideas.

Worst Captain Phillips ever.

Great atc

There have been accounts of pilots experiencing a overtake of controls from somtimes another "craft" this seems similar minus a "craft". or pilot error 🤔 😂 To this day a mystery?