Locked Into Disaster (Dan Air Flight 0034) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN
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Here at Disaster Breakdown we’ve looked at a lot of different plane accidents. Now just because most of our videos involve planes doesn’t necessarily mean that things have go wrong in the air. Planes have been known to crash whilst on the ground. Today we’re going to be looking at one such incident. The case of Dan Air Flight 0034 that occurred on July 31st, 1979. It’s a tale about negligence, botched maintenance and oil.
In 1965, reserves of Natural Gas were discovered off the Coast of East England. For a long time it was long suspected that the North Sea between Scandinavia and the British Isles held large amounts of natural resources. Five years later in 1970, British Petroleum discovered large reserves of oil out here and the North Sea was never the same again. In the following years oil companies from around the world descended upon these waters.
Oil rigs went up, drilling commended, oil and gas were extracted and transported back to one of a number of countries which benefitted from access to the North Sea. The two big, involved countries of which being Norway and the United Kingdom. Such infrastructure to do this meant transporting many people to and from the oil platforms and refineries. The easiest way to do that is by air. One of the main gateways to the North Sea was for the longest time, Sumburgh airport. Located at the southern tip of the Shetland Archipelago, North East of Mainland Scotland.
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Could you do the hinton train collision?
23 people were killed when two trains collide that accident revealed fatal short comings of the railroad safety that put loyalty along with productivity ahead of safety!
Its always a good day when DB uploads :)
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Please can you do a video about the Loganair crash at Machrihanish. I recently moved to Machrihanish and I’m very interested in the incident. 1 person died on impact and the only pilot made it out but died later.
I consider Disaster Breakdown to be the best alongside Mentour Pilot and Green Dot Aviation. Although all 3 are similar, they have different takes and styles. The trouble is, I am addicted to all 3, binge watch, and am now paranoid about flying. I need reassurances if I am going to fly again!
My Grandfather was working for Bristow Helicopters in Sumburgh at the time, he was working on a van and watched this accident unfold, everyone grabbed their Land Rovers and hurried down to help with the rescue, it really scared everyone involved, he still gets emotional speaking about it to this day. A tragic loss of life, the hostess was awarded for her courage and bravery.
Hope he's doing ok, now??
i was a 16 year old just left school went to work in shetland arrived at an an airport that looked like a shed and went to work at faulty towers it was my afternoon off and was out with a friend for a walk as we did split shifts. we saw the plane taking off and i said that planes going to crash and she told me i was mad . i shouted im not joking and within a minute it crashed into the sea thank fully the new airport was being built for refuge and so many poeple rallied round with blankets etc . must have met your granda back then me n mates used to come to bristows dicos in social club wasnt much else to do there lol
Amazing credit to the flight attendant conducting an evacuation of a plane on your own is pretty hard core.
It is always doubly tragic when everyone survives the initial impact, only to have people die subsequently in circumstances such as this. It leaves me with a pit in my stomach. That flight attendant was a true hero. Thank you for continuing to provide your excellent content. I always look forward to your new videos. Cheers from Canada!
Dan-Air ! Wow, takes me back to my childhood, we used them a lot for holiday travel to Spain etc in the 70s. Believe it or not I still have one of their unopened flight cutlery sets
Why not sell it on ebay?🍴
@@tumslucks9781 it's almost like it's a memory or something
@@tumslucks9781 Maybe the memories are worth more than the $30 he'd get.
So I'm not the only one! I've still got an unopened little bar of soap from the Alitalia plane I took on my first flight. (It ended up being a disaster in itself, 24 hours Melbourne to Rome then on to Trieste with delays and delays due to engine trouble. Missed connecting flight, HOURS waiting at the airport. Then when we finally got to Trieste, weather made us divert to Venice where coaches took us to Trieste 😟 Thank God I was 9 and I wasn't expected at an important business meeting 😳. It was all an adventure. If I went through that now, total breakdown!😄)
Apparently the fine for not returning it is one dollar a day you owe them $46,396 for that cutlery set!😂
This is a very poignant video for me as one of my friends from my school days was on this flight. This was a shocking accident at the time, and no one seemed to know what happened to cause the crash. This is the first time I have had the details laid out clearly, and thank you for that.
I can't believe I piloted an HS-748 for a year without ever being taught about the gust-locking system or ever having noticed its lever. Maybe I flew a variant without it?
I like the Cessna solution - a big metal hang tag with a pin that goes through the yoke. It's hard to miss, and pretty resistant to mechanical issues. Flight controls are free and correct once and for the rest of the flight, or they're not. 🙂
Gust locks are hazard that will never go away. The US Navy's high-time F-14 pilot died in a small plane crash in 2021 because he forgot to remove the gust lock. Sad way to go.
The issue is finding a replacement that works better. Both for locking when wanted and not locking when unwanted. Basically like every lock. You want it to stay closed at all times when you don't want it open, and you want it to stay open when you don't want it closed. And both settings have to be stable
One more fact. HS 748 was built in India as well. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) had acquired license to make HS 748 in India. HS 748 primarily was a replacement for Indian Air Force's old C-47 and DC-3 airplanes. However Indian airlines, the domestic air carrier at that time ordered the passenger version of HS-748, making the HS 748 the first airliner to be built in India. Indian air force has now replaced HS-748 with Airbus( CASA) C-295
Wait - did Airbus buy out CASA? The square plane people? Are they still making the CASA commuter planes, like the C212 & related? They were like the super boxy economy cargo & commuter plane of the 80s & early 90s at least. Were they even pressurized? I had a fondness for them because they were just weird.
Yes all true my late farther Frank Wilson went out to India to set up the building of those aircraft under licence in India when I was only 5 years old
I'm not much of a fan of this channel, I'm more like an industrial sized air conditioner! Love your content very much! I learn so much!
Keep of the great work and thank you!
I think Chloe a chick, not a dude
@@bluealice1386 You're right, thank you! I edited my comment. I meant absolutely no disrespect to anyone. I feel bad for making an assumption.
Anyways, thanks you
@@Fenderdfm don’t worry. You’re not the only one!☺️
Chloe does a great job!
if only I could morph into an air conditioner
@@Kaltrademarked I would be a fan of yours if you did😂
I had been under the impression that the gust locks had been left on in error having read previous articles. Well done for righting this impression. Looks like a sleeping fault was waiting to undo some poor crew. Great video as always
Gustlocks caused the crash of the prototype B-17, Boeing Model 299, in 1935.
The pilots weren't used to lockable control surfaces, and left them locked on takeoff. The 299 crashed and burned, killing chief Army test pilot Maj. Pete Hill, and mortally injuring Boeing's chief pilot Les Tower.
The use of checklists, once uncommon in aviation, became standard practice after this accident.
great video as usual, Chloe!! also your voice is really pretty and I'm a lil jelly haha ❤
Thank you! you're too kind, thanks for watching!
It is certainly a voice I aspire to. Great video as always.
Never heard of this before. Great video. Found it interesting as I am from Scotland and have family members working in this industry.
Another incident I was not familiar with. Thank You. I watch a lot of stuff on TH-cam about not just aviation but many things. Your's are among the most thoroughly researched and well presented, even without a lot of production developments.
Agreed, Chloe does a great job! Completely different genres, but Seth from Berm Peak and Mike from That Chapter are equally prepared and well researched. Definitely two of my favorite channels. And I don't know his name, but Green Dot Aviation is great too.
Thanks again for an interesting video. I find the classic aircraft accidents very interesting as they are usually forgotten about.
Wow that is tragic in so many ways.
Also, I have never heard of an airport with a level crossing.
Thanks for another really interesting video Chloe.
Gibraltar airport had a level crossing across the runway because of a major road for over 70 years. The tunnel constructed for vehicle traffic just opened up a few days ago.
Gisborne airport in New Zealand has a railway crossing the runway.
@@get2dachoppa249 Thanks for the info. I was wondering whether I had missed when the tunnel opened.
Brussels airport had a level crossing but it was moved underground before I first landed there.
Sumburgh has had two different level crossings at two separate times. Pre early 70's when it was upgraded for the oil charter work, there was a crossing on the other end of the other runway to where this happened. From then until the 90's it didn't have one, but runway lengthening in the 90's created the one as shown in the video. Its not really across the runway itself, but rather across the safety run off section at the end, whereas the pre 70's crossing did go across part of that actual runway.
there's no proper Saturday without the newest episode of DB haha ❤
Thanks for tuning in every week!
@@GigaChadMain69420 that's obviously sad, but how DB contributes to these accidents which took place in the PAST? lol
At the time of this accident in 1979 I worked in the Chevron Ninian Field - adjacent to the Shell Brent field - and we occasionally traveled through Sumburgh airport. I remember hearing that any uninjured crash survivors on 'regular offshore rotation' were instructed to report for their next offshore trip 'as normal' .
Sensitive industrial relations management was not generally a feature of those early offshore days.
What a tragic accident.Must have been awful when the aircraft wouldnt lift off for all those on board.Sadly many drowned.A very well presented and created video.
Talk about unlucky..😕 No accident is "great", but equipment becoming a danger after checking it just seems really cruel.
Love this Channel love starting my Saturday here 😊
I have a very uneasy feeling about Sumburgh now. First Dan Air Flight 0034, then the helicopter disaster. I'd be interested in seeing a video on Dan Air 1008 as well as one on Kenya Airways Flight 507.
Gibraltar Airport also has a level crossing for Winston Churchill Avenue. If any accidents have happened there, they'll certainly be worth looking into.
I was thinking of making a YT short listing some of the weird airports with level crossings. I think there is a runway in Australia that has a rail crossing or something.
As far as I'm aware for Gibraltar I don't think there have been any incidents there.
It seems the tunnel under the runway opened a few days ago in Gibraltar. However, people can still cross the runway on foot.
They have recently opened a tunnel under the runway in Gibraltar. Pedestrians only can cross the runway now. It also has water at each end. Always a bumpy landing.
@@DisasterBreakdown there is one I can think of, but it's quite old so I don't know if it's any use to you: in 1943, the plane carrying general Sikorsky, then prime minister of the Polish government in exile, crashed soon after takeoff from Gibraltar airport. There's still controversy about it (accident or sabotage). Don't know if the railway crossing existed at the time, though en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Gibraltar_Liberator_AL523_crash
@@DisasterBreakdownGisborne Airport in New Zealand also has a rail crossing in the middle of it's runway.
Wow! The videos have just got better! Great video!
Good to see some coverage on this accident 👍
great video, as always!
Great video as always Chloe. 👍
I have visited that Museum in Scotland! You can check interiors of both Concorde and Comet.
AND A BIG THANK YOU, Chloe!!!
It might be a bit arbitrary, but I couldn't think of a better channel to take my new monitor out for a "test drive" (er... "test flight"??? lolz)... AND I'm happy to finally see and FULLY enjoy your work in true HD... I'll spare most of the details, but with a "sale" on where I found this one, I afforded myself a 27" screen... This thing's literally bigger than the TV my stepdad's watch (or rather, sleeping to)... haha...
Some truly great content to check out the color schemes and refresh rate without too much going on to get the "gritty bits" sorted out... AND of course, another Aviation Crash I wasn't aware of while I was at it... You're still (and always) the BEST, Chloe. Keep being YOU!!! ;o)
Gibraltar has a crossing over the runway too but I understand that a road tunnel has just opened however people on foot can still use the runway crossing.
The museum at East fortune is well worth a visit
"Planes have been known to crash whilst on the ground." Well heck if the US isn't taking this statement like a dare so far this year.
What’s with the US comment😊
@@josephlambe2796 All of the near misses/runway incursions. In my part of the US, they've been on the news. 😅
Can you do a video on TWA Flight 529? It was at one point the deadliest single-plane crash in US history.
RAF Bally Kelly had a literal 'level crossing' going across it's runway for a railway line. And trains had priority over aircraft movements! The Control Tower had a railway signal ground frame in the Visual Control Room to stop trains in the event of an accident blocking the railway line.
Sumburgh is cursed, trapped in a helicopter falling from the sky, and trapped in a sinking metal coffin with no way out.
You're not right, but you're also not wrong. If the engines or gearbox fail, the pilot can disengage the rotors and 'autorotate' to a hopefully safe landing, you deploy the lifeboats and wait for rescue. Even if the helicopter sinks, or even turns upside down, the mandatory offshore BOSIET course trains you in what to do (I've done it three times, it's actually pretty fun in all honesty, but you're doing it in a nice indoor pool rather than the North Sea).
If the chopper can't autorotate it will come down like a lift with the cables cut, which makes the drowning part largely academic, because you'll be killed on impact 😂
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yeah? of the 5 bajillion flights that come out of sumburgh only 2 crash and now its cursed huh😂 confirmation bias
@@idekav. since bajilion isn't a number, I'm assuming you are judging hyperbole as nonexistent while using it?
@@availanila 5 is a number, though, so you're wrong.
Good video - I live locally and was 7 at the time - I remember seeing the scene the following day, with the tail still sticking up. There's a memorial to thise killed at the airport, along with those in the Chinook, Cormorant Alpha and more recent CHC puma accidents.
Great video (as always)!! Two kind of random incidents but I would love to see a video from you on either Pacific Western Airlines flight 314, or Afriqiyah Airways flight 771. Love your videos.
Beautiful narration.
the burnie/wynyard airport has a level crossing too, an the railways and atc would have to coordinate when trains could cross and planes could land. apparently, it wasn't uncommon for either/or to mess up; one anecdote I've read is a train heading through a green signal, only for the drivers to see a plane pulling up at the last second because the atc hadn't checked the schedule. idk the level crossing at sumburgh reminded me of that
There's a darkly funny coincidence that Plainly Difficult uploaded a video about a level crossing collision (Fox River Junction) the same day that you uploaded this one!
Since you did Dan Air 0034, do Dan Air 1008
At some point, possibly!
@@DisasterBreakdown would do airasia flight 8501?
i am a simple woman. i hear my favourite youtube channel mention my home country and i smile.
Your Voice is really the most pleasant and most beautiful of all Airplane Channels across TH-cam.😊
I am sure Southend Airport now known as London Southend had some sort of level crossing before it was turned into an international. I may be wrong but Southend Airport used to be a hub for Logistics and Airfreight . Eddie Stobart I believe did the work and owned it including the rail operation in to the Airport. I believe it is up for sale again now but it has so much potential its a shame its not as busy as it should be.
Alvin Robertson Eglinton airport in Nothern Ireland has a railway line across it but that did not stop a Ryanair aircraft landing there by mistake when approaching Londonderry airport And oddly enough Dan Air actually landed at Langford Lodge airport which is about 6 miles from.from Belfast International Airport After that they were locally known as DAN DARE! !!!
Funny coincidence: I was reading about this crash yesterday as I was reading about the history of Dan-Air :P.
Thanks for this one - I`ve been looking for years! Read about the accident years ago (Look and Learn onto the Dragons`s Teeth?) - When do we get a T Shirt to promote this EXCELLANT Channel?
THIS IS THE BEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam.
that is so strange because in 1979 our local at the time brand-new shopping centre Chirnside Park opened
Hi Chloe! Nice content as always! Have you ever thought of moving away from disaster type videos and make contents like true crime or similar true horror stories? Your narration skill is quite fitting for such contents!
I have certainly been contemplating lately on lending my voice elsewhere, maybe into Audiobooks or something. I think as far as TH-cam content goes, I have found my niche and there are so many True Crime related channels out there I'm not sure if I could stand out even if I tried!
Definitely agree on that one! It feels like that's a niche that is very overpopulated already, and your disaster breakdown vids are so unique.
Perhaps more "disaster averted" vids, with their valuable learnings, might be something to consider if you're keen to keep expanding the channel...?
Those are always really great; even though they are not always without consequence in terms of injury or mental trauma, the prevention of major disaster is a very positive thing, esp. after some of these most tragic incidents... (Just watched your episode on Air India 182 - oh my Gosh, just heartbreaking!! 😢)
you should the flight of Air Illinois flt 710 a calamedy of errors
That’s one problem with low time in type, the captain had his hands full trying to figure out the issue, and was likely the only one that would have thought of the gust lock (the only thing capable of producing the problem after a successful check). Also with tolerances that close, the slip wouldn’t have been blatantly obvious.
God bless all the victims of this terrible accident
My uncle used to fly HS748s for Zambia airways as a captain…..I flew in the jump seat many times
Flew Lusaka - Ndola in the 70’s more times than I care to remember. The 748 was noisy and slow, almost a LandRover of the sky. On one occasion they flew us kids in the 707 as the 748’s were all out. 20mins instead of an hour - best flight ever!
@@paulclose3426 yup
I have flown in and out of Sumburgh, We flew mainly in the SAAB 340. You sit at the end of the runway and the engines rev until the plane literally jumps down the runway with brakes on, THEN, Chocks away, Not sure what the 0-100 is/ was but stuffs you back in your seat.
The landings always made me shut my eyes as I disliked flying 10 foot over the waves,
Many of the older planes also flew between 6 and 10,000 back then so you could see the scenery through Scotland.
Not sure what flys in/ out now as I have not been up there since 1992.
Bedankt
We're pretty accustomed to considering the oil industry as a dangerous one, but I hadn't realised how many people in it had been lost just in traveling to and from their workplaces? 😕 My sympathy to the families of those lost and to those individuals who survived being in this crash. Kudos to the flight attendant!!
Our capital city airport in Wellington is another of these runways with water & pretty steep incline at both ends, which I always find more nervous as a passenger...? As in this incident, it just feels like there's much more limited options for redirecting or stopping if anything goes wrong!
So the neglect and botched maintenance are or involve the Gust Locks?
4:05 ANR, Antwerp Airport / Belgium will celebrate its 100th anniversary this month of May 2023. It's a small international airport. Only in 2016 the construction of a tunnel was realized. Before that, R11, ring road 11, crossed the end of the runway. When an plane landed or took off, a traffic light turned red. There wasn't even a barrier. I don't think there's ever been a runway incursion accident. People obediently waited for the plane to arrive or take off. In 2016, the runway was extended with a safety zone under which the tunnel now passes.
Have a good time at East Fortune air museum. great place to go.
Flow with Dan air twice as a kid from Ireland to England to visit my grandma as a kid great air line
I also used to flight plan our BA fleet of ATPs to sumburgh as a navigation officer from the IOM around 2003…….
So much easier to hear once the background piano music stopped.
whats wierd is when chloe mentions the pilots moving the ailerons and stuff i actually got to do that on a b777
Is that the music from The Thing at 12:58?
4:20 so do school buses have to stop and open their doors? 😂 fun fact my mother used to be a bus driver until she had cancer in 2007.
I was reading the Patreon List and I chuckled a bit because of the Cheetos usernames 😂. All that aside, a really insightful video.
Narrator: So Sunburgh's runway has a crossing
Me: You're kidding
Narrator: I'm not kidding
I'm amazed that there was no PA system tbh, I thought they were standard on planes larger than a Cessna.
The 748 had a PA system but, evidently, it was faulty on the day in question. I am more surprised that there was only one flight attendant. Two was standard on Dan-Air 748s when I ground handled them in 1972-3.
1979 was a terrible year for plane mishaps.
if I saw a control said "gustlock" with an arrow pointing upward-- I would think that upward was the LOCKED position.🤬
Tenerife was the biggest disaster in aviation history and *that* happened on the ground. Disaster definitely doesn't discriminate on location.
Man, that Shell station at 2:50 is at Malaysia. Easily identified. Especially with a MyVi in it 😂
Great video, would it be possible to do Fedex flight 14 ?
I can’t believe my own pedantry but at 1:50 I think that you may have displayed the wrong flag for Scotland 🏴
I am one quarter Scottish and so I am only one quarter offended!😂
I remember this accident on the News. Great episode as always.
its the Shetland flag.
Gibraltar also has a vehicle crossing….
Have you ever thought about doing a video about the air crash that took the lives of 3 members of the band lynyrd skynyrd and I think 3 of their road crew? It would be interesting to find out what caused it as the wikipedia explanation appears to be wrong.
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1:54 iykyk
At 4:23 it said corssing instead of crossing XD
I don’t get it how did they drown ?? Half the plane was out of the water ??? I get the pilots but the passengers?
In fact, nearly all plane crashes take place on the ground
Do the bombing of flight 455
Hi Chloe
Heyyyy!
the worst air disaster happened on the ground..
The oil was to the east of Scotland not England!
"Died by drowning", what a terrible way to perish.
Preflight?
Don't planes often crash on the ground?
Into, not on
Edi has never been the busiest airport in the UK,
The interior cabin shot in this video at 9:45 shows the interior of a Shorts SD3-60.
I thought it was oddly rectangular
@@jaysmith1408 The Shorts SD3-60 fuselage was actually derived from the metal box that BAE used to ship Jetstream 32 fuselages in.
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First time i can hear the music lol
When the hell was that a airline
Self regulation , especially in this industry, allows greed and corrupt practices to flourish unchecked .
I knew a lot of guys in the north of Scotland who were either “scared” to fly to the rigs or had got out the industry completely because the state of the transport put on for them… this was only months before the most recent fatal helicopter accident that involved previous coworkers of the people I knew. Surprisingly, once on the rigs or on dry land, they loved the job and the obvious financial benefits but the journey there was becoming too much of a risk for some
As if the job wasn't hard enough. What a shame.
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Quite late to this video I was out on camp for three days from Friday and I just returned not long ago. (There was no signal where we were) This crash, while some may know I didn't but it's nice showing off accidents that people know or don't know. For me I knew Dan-Air from another catastrophic accident. It was from a bit ago but I still remember it. This involves returning back to Tenerife for Dan-Air Flight 1008 a Boeing 727. This was a very serious and catastrophic accident which I would like to see on the channel. (Dan-Air Flight 1008 happened Just over a year after this accident in 1980)
'1886'? 1986, unless someone beat the Wright brothers to it.
That Dan air didn’t have a great safety record .
Weird tail
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