The airplane disaster that may have happened with Gimli is nothing short of a miracle and luck. The fact the pilot knew the landing area by heart, knowing how to do a slip and was expierienced. The fact that the drag racers were done for the day and having a bbq so the race way was clear of cars and people. The fact that the nose failed and saved those boys from getting squashed. And the weather didnt have any storms or high winds or anything that may disrupt the plane. If any one of these factors were out, the damage and disaster wouldve been massive. Also, the image of those two boys trying to out run a crashing plane is so funny. Imagine racing with your friend on the raceway with your bikes. All of a sudden you hear a noise and glancing behind a MASSIVE PLANE IS SPEEDING TOWARD YOU. And in your panic you start pedaling WHILE STILL ON THE TRACK away as fast as you can. Absolutely no one is going to beat that story
Mayday forgot to mention that Air Canada demoted Captain Pearson for six months, and First Officer Maurice Quintal was suspended for two weeks after the incident. They more or less tried to blame the aircrew, but overall, it was Air Canada's poor training and disrepair of maintaining critical & new equipment for their aircraft.
They saved every single life on that plane, performed a maneuver that was NEVER, EVER successfully even attempted in the history of aviation and the pilot gets demoted and FO suspended! I will never fly Air Canada again!!
This was flying and airman ship of a magnitude where these guys (yes mistakes were made by many here) pretty much did the impossible. Hats off big time to Bob Pearson and Marice Qunitel.
Gimli is an amazing story. What are the chances that the pilot knew how to sideslip flying into an airport he was familiar with (the only airport available) all caused by a poor solder joint and a metrict to imperial conversion snafu. Not to mention the drag racing had finished for the day. Just incredible set of circumstances.
As a Dallas resident, I can tell you that this was one of the hottest summers we had. Even though it's just June on here, it's still 101. However, by July, we had over 110 degrees for over 3 straight weeks. This was a very sad day in Dallas when this accident occurred.
I just translated Freedom units into Canadian celcius:) 110 is 43.3c. Thats insane hot. We had that much heat once in my life of 44 years i believe it was 42c in 2022 in vancouver
Really have to give a shout out to all the people that went head first into storms that were known to wreck planes for the sole reason to figure them out. Selflessness, curiosity, or madness... they deserve all the respect.
Or not. The flip side to this is not to let curiosity get the better of you and you and everyone else will be ok. I aint too keen on giving kudos to pilots who like to explore just to satisfy a deadly curiosity. Theirs and theirs alone at the expenae of the innocent lives they're responsible for.
@robert9495 it's not just to satisfy a curiosity. It's to develop better technology that can be used to detect the storms. This tech can be used to save thousands of lives. It's just like tornado chasers. They follow tornadoes to gather useful data that can be used to develop improve warning systems. Scientists need to take risks to save lives. They absolutely deserve praise.
To be fair, they are doing these tests at altitudes that should give them enough time to recover from any upset. not 500 ft above the ground. Still yeah, its probably a little dangerous. Also test pilots always wear parachutes during their flights while conducting risky tests, and also may be fitted with a tail chute further reducing risk of loss of life. They didnt mention any of that.
I agree with this! Gimli was a few years before Taca 110 and looooong before the Hudson, making them the first crew in modern aviation to successfully land a commercial jet dead stick. I replay this and when I can find it Taca 110 repeatedly.
Yeah there have been aviation miracles greater than Sully's. Aloha Airlines 243, British Airways 5390, and British Airways 009 come to mind. All due respect to Sully, but he had a brief period of stress to get through and some of these other pilots went through a prolonged nightmare.
@@MakerInMotion i think part of it might have been the immediate publicity, like it was in the middle of new york city, there were thousands of witnesses for basically the entire situation, it was caught on security cameras, civilian ferries were some of the first boats to the rescue scene... so i think the involvement of the general public definitely played a part in why it got so much attention. i think part of it was also the fact that it was a water landing, which is a whole different nightmare compared to a runway landing, even one in dire circumstances.
Microbursts ripped out 10 trees on my property. Neighbors on either side were untouched. Oak trees 24" diameter at chest level. Twisted out like toothpicks. This was outside of Chicago. I'll NEVER forget it.
I’m so glad that times have changed and no smoking is allowed at all. I hated sitting in a plane and behind that curtain they were smoking like crazy. Curtains do not hold back any smoke. People can smoke all they want but inhale your smoke on your own.
@@tsw1963 I used to smoke like a champ when I was in the military but I absolutely hated smelling others smoke. It was weird. I once went to a smoking Airport in Georgia while training and I almost threw up in the “smoking room.” I got so nauseous from that smell I could only imagine being on a plane.
A microburst hit our area, it was amazing the type of damage it caused, ripping out trees by their roots yet leaving homes standing. Terrifying. The area of damage (not a path) was viewable similar to a tornado's path yet so different 🤔
One fatality on this plane crash was someone who as a young kid survived and M. U2 crash, that's a twin Turbo prop. He was the only survivor on an M2MU2 turboprop crash. And so I guess the messages surviving 2 air crashes is very unlikely.
I go from Bur to Vegas at least once a year, best believe I'm looking at the full condition of the visible plane every step of that walkway! 😅 ❤safe travels
Not to worry. I flew on United from Honolulu to LAX on February 25, 1989 on a 747 one day after flight UA811 disaster. It made me feel more secure as the chances of two accidents one day apart on same airline were almost nonexistent
I have done the same thing recently going from nyc to las vegas. I like the episodes where people survive. I've pucked up a few safety/survival tips...i.e. wear cotton clothes or natural fiber clothes in case of fire, don't inflate the life preserver when inside the plane since it will keep you inside the plane and you could drown, check the outside of the plane and dont feel embarrassed if you see something strange, I didn't see this but I brought a towel and filled up a water bottle in case of smoke and fire, cover face with jacket and maybe a pillow when you have to brace, know where the exit signs are in relation to your seat. I haven't yet figured out where the best seat on the plane is...lol.
Wow imagine being hit by an airplanes engine, I remember reading a story about a meteorite narrowly missing a woman's head as she sleeps on her bed lol
In 1992 a meteorite crashed into the parked car of a broke young woman in Peekskill, NY. A car she had just bought for $300. She got $50,000 for the meteorite and another $25,000 for the car. As long as it misses you physically, it can be a gift from the heavens.
I was working patrol at the Southwest substation when this accident occurred. We were too far from the airport to help but Northwest substation was closer, so officers were sent to help to collect remains of passengers. I can only imagine what a horrific scene that was.
My husband and I were at Six Flags, only a few miles from the airport, with our children when this happened. The news was passed from person to person like wildfire.
My college professor was in the plane behind this one. She told us about how scary it was. Of course this conversation happened while we were waiting to board our flight to D.C.
Wow, the Gimli story is really a testatement to the pilots knowledge, courage and ability to critically think in a stressful situation. What an absolute gem of a human.
Sure, thats a complete right circle and then an additional 3/4 turn to the right. A lot of oil stockholders in Texas, scope dope must own a lot of shares...
Remember the Ford Pinto? Ford knew how dangerous it was when hit from behind - i.e. it tended to explode - but they calculated the losses if they were sued and decided they'd pay more if they had to fix them. And they were right. It did end up costing less to be sued than to fix them. Most companies will always look at their bottom line when it comes to either fixing dangerous design flaws or getting sued for them afterwards. McDonnell Douglas did the same thing.
@@CuriousMouseExploration Actually the Ford Pinto wasn’t more dangerous than many other cars of the time which were designed pretty much the same way. Just think how many US cars had their fuel intake behind the registration plate in the 70s. It meant the fuel tank was right next to the rear bumper, just like in the Pinto. Nowadays most rear wheel drive cars have their fuel tank above the differential, a progress introduced thanks to the front wheel drive cars.
@@julosx DO you think it's only in the 70s and they learned? Nope. Ford and all other carmakers have willingly killed lots of people. See Still Unsafe at Any Speed by Brian Chase.
I used to fly back and forth from Newark-Liberty to either London Heathrow or Paris Charles de Gaulle, as well as from Newark-Liberty to the Tel Aviv International Airport in Israel quite often each year for my career…Each time we were landing in less-than ideal weather--despite all my years of experience flying--I would be UTTERLY PETRIFIED a micro-burst down-draft was going to hit us,and tho no order from the captain or first officer had been given to do so, i would assume the infamous “crash position,” with my seatbelt tightly secured around my waist; my head down between my knees, and my small pillow placed behind my head and neck, with my hands clasped over it….Probably seriously unnerved some fellow passengers, yet it made ME feel less afraid. Was I silly and absurd to do that throughout my 20s, 30s, and most of my 40s (when my failing health made travel nearly impossible, sadly)???
I hope the poor souls who were lost found their way to their final destination, wherever that may be. I flew in to DFW on a Delta L1011 about 4 weeks after this crash. I remember seeing where the accident happened and feeling a chill. You can call me crazy or delusional, but I swear some of those people were still around that spot at DFW. I know it sounds like a hallucination but it really was chilling to be in that place so soon after something horrible happened. And the memory is still vivid 39 years later.
The main reason for many plane crashes is that instead of actively considering the possibility that something could go very wrong one day and taking steps to prevent it, people tend to wait until there's a problem. Then they react dramatically, saying, "Oops! That went wrong; we should have seen it coming... we need to make sure it doesn’t happen again!" Like that one episode (I forgot which one sorry) with the airport that was one of the busiest in the world. They had the worst radar, which was a contributor to a disaster waiting to happen.
This happened to me when I was younger. The plane crashed with a bird. I jumped out of the plane with my parachute as I thought all 15 people in the plane would crash and die. The pilot managed to make an emergency landing without any injuries. I broke both my legs and had to spend the whole summer in hospital. It would have been better to stay in the plane than to jump out with my parachute as I did. The plane was tilted too much and was at too low an altitude so I came out all wrong.
With much sympathy for the crew and passengers of this star crossed flight, I resolved to never ever fly Delta since this natural disaster. In court settlements with victims, Delta attorneys tried to argue that survivoring families of gay loved ones deserved only half the compensation of straight families, reasoning that most of them would soon have died of AIDS anyway. Talk about sick. I still await an apology for their crass, cynical, and offensive legal argument. Given their HQ in the deep South, I'm not holding my breath.
I have wondered why they always say something about a veteran pilot or having so many hours flown...but the endgame happens to old timers and newbie pilots...the ground doesn't care...anyone who hits a microburst is likely to be damaged
What kind of plane was it that had a cargo door come off out over the Pacific Ocean someplace? I thought it was a McDonnell Douglas also... those people also sued because several died from that event. I saw that film also.
I AM IN AWE OF THE PILOT AND CO-PILOT. WHAT AN AMAZING LANDING. WHAT A PAIR OF LEGENDS, BUT THAT CAPTAIN IS NEXT LEVEL GOOD. AMAZING, SIMPLY AMAZING ❣ CREW AND PASSENGERS..... GREAT JOB!!!. THIS IS THE BEST BECAUSE EVERYONE SURVIVED. CAPTAIN BOB YOU CAN FLY ME ANYWHERE SIR❣
I have seen so many videos of people having to be evacuated from planes on the tarmac, mostly due to fire emergencies, and there will seemingly always be a not insignificant number of people trying to get their luggage and other items out from the overhead compartments that they then attempt to take with them during the evacuation. This slows the evacuation, is extremely dangerous (as taking heavy luggage down the inflatable slide can seriously hurt someone) as well as slowing the evacuation process itself and thus leading to the needles deaths of many innocent passengers due to people’s selfishness, ignorance and stupidity as they are blocking the isle and one of the few paths to escape from a burning death trap. All because these people are truly that self centered and oblivious to the rest of the world, other people and their own surroundings, always having to be the main character in their own life story. A poll was done not too long ago where they questioned airline passengers and, when asked if they would attempt to grab some of their belongings during the emergency evacuation of a plane, 35% of the people questioned said yes…
running out of fuel and one engine working - do you hold altitude for better glide while the engine still works, or bleed off your altitude knowing the engine will probably go out and try to land before it stops?
I heard Honeywell made the board and just knew the deal. I am a maintenance supervisor of a factory and the number of Honeywell burner control components we replace is very high. Sure we have a lot of burners/oven, dry-off, cure, flash, slow bake. 100 ovens or oven sub processes. Although they seem to be more reliable than Omron, Automation Direct, etc. still why have we replaced 22 Honeywell oven control components this year? Not dirty power, we have a million dollar power quality control and monitoring system. Installed to spec. Not heat, we cool all our cabinets. Not dust, we use IP69 rated cabinets. I think its the Gremlins. Either those pesky things or cheap products and poor QC. Probably Gremlins though.
I also remember this day very well. This folks did not die in vain. We learned so much about microburst. And today we are much safer. Little did I know then that my very best friend and his wife and two cousins , would die on TWA flight 800 off Long Island . The pain of that loss was the worst . It was so instantaneous. And I lost all faith in GOD for over ten years.
Why would they slow a heavy down because it was behind a Learjet? Thats like worrying about the turbulence from my Pinto blowing the semi behind me off the road.
Microburst only lasts for 15 minutes at the most, well, that’s an eternity when you consider the planes landing in an hour. Went through one of those in orlando, it felt like a giant sudden force pushed our plane down like a toy, some people hit the roof of the plane that didn’t have their belts fasten. A very close call.
I am 70 years old so the metric system is foreign to me i still have to use conversion charts, but still crews should be properly trained in the metric system
It’s crucial to learn from these tragic crashes to make flying safer, but sometimes it feels like these disasters could have been prevented with better regulations. Are we doing enough to prevent history from repeating itself?
Amazing flying by the captain but he did make the mistake of not deciding to head to Gimli straightaway as soon as he was given the option. Also well done to the purser who took the initiative to order an evacuation without waiting for the captain. Although I can understand his reasoning of wanting to go to an airport with full emergency capabilities it should have been clear to him that the priority was to get the plane on the ground and ATC would have had more time to get ground resources to Gimli and may have avoided the incident of the two boys on bikes. Talking of which, did hey really decide to head back down the runway where the plane was heading instead of going sideways?
@1:59:55 The coffin was sucked out, but the door blew out 'cause the pressure inside was greater? Be consistent, things blow from high pressure to low pressure.
This is not the deadliest crash in aviation history. That belongs to the Tenerife Disaster on 27 March 1977 where 583 people died due to a runway incursion. The largest loss of life in a single place crash was Japan Airlines flight 123 on 12 August 1985. If it held the record for the most people who died in a single place crash, sadly that record was only held for 10 days before the Japan Airlines crash
Can you just imagine flying in the plane at this time not one that was going to crash but I mean at this time like whatever year this was that you could smoke on planes just imagine you’re sitting next to someone in the latest cigarette you’re sitting pretty close to them and there’s no way for them to really blow the smoke away from you. You would be stuck smelling that and what if you were like really sensitive to cigarette smoke I’m pretty sure that’s the reason that they made a rule that you can’t smoke on our class anymore I’m kind of happy about it. I remember when I was a kid anytime I would walk outside while my dad was having a cigarette. I would instantly get a stomach ache and a headache. It would make me nauseous and make my headache just the smell of cigarette smoke
@@Luna_moon_1127 never heard such garbage in a long time, like all control freaks who ban smoking a, it's about CONTROL, nothing more, take COVID as an example WMD another, the list is endless
If the person in charge to tell the pilots was on a meal break then why on earth didn't they have a qualified person fill in when the other is on break, That's insane! There should never be a single minute that someone is not there watching 24/7.
dfw airport is massive we had to switch planes there once, they gave us like 10mins to get to the whole other side of the airport, it took us 20 and we missed our flight. 😂
The airplane disaster that may have happened with Gimli is nothing short of a miracle and luck. The fact the pilot knew the landing area by heart, knowing how to do a slip and was expierienced. The fact that the drag racers were done for the day and having a bbq so the race way was clear of cars and people. The fact that the nose failed and saved those boys from getting squashed. And the weather didnt have any storms or high winds or anything that may disrupt the plane. If any one of these factors were out, the damage and disaster wouldve been massive.
Also, the image of those two boys trying to out run a crashing plane is so funny. Imagine racing with your friend on the raceway with your bikes. All of a sudden you hear a noise and glancing behind a MASSIVE PLANE IS SPEEDING TOWARD YOU. And in your panic you start pedaling WHILE STILL ON THE TRACK away as fast as you can. Absolutely no one is going to beat that story
I was hoped that there will be also interview with boys who could tell how they felt this situation and what they do now.
Mayday forgot to mention that Air Canada demoted Captain Pearson for six months, and First Officer Maurice Quintal was suspended for two weeks after the incident. They more or less tried to blame the aircrew, but overall, it was Air Canada's poor training and disrepair of maintaining critical & new equipment for their aircraft.
Why did they sanction the pilot and first officer?
@@sassytbc7923 because that's what they do to deflect litigation.
They saved every single life on that plane, performed a maneuver that was NEVER, EVER successfully even attempted in the history of aviation and the pilot gets demoted and FO suspended! I will never fly Air Canada again!!
@@SolidAvenger1290 sad to hear about sanctions to the pilots.
This was flying and airman ship of a magnitude where these guys (yes mistakes were made by many here) pretty much did the impossible. Hats off big time to Bob Pearson and Marice Qunitel.
These actors are better than the Hollywood actors .to portray something that serious with utter most seriousness and no drama .
I never thought about that. You are absolutely right!
100% agree
@@7577ia So true. You actually get lost in the story and forget these guys are acting.💯
Gimli is an amazing story. What are the chances that the pilot knew how to sideslip flying into an airport he was familiar with (the only airport available) all caused by a poor solder joint and a metrict to imperial conversion snafu. Not to mention the drag racing had finished for the day. Just incredible set of circumstances.
And no casualties
As a Dallas resident, I can tell you that this was one of the hottest summers we had. Even though it's just June on here, it's still 101. However, by July, we had over 110 degrees for over 3 straight weeks.
This was a very sad day in Dallas when this accident occurred.
I just translated Freedom units into Canadian celcius:) 110 is 43.3c. Thats insane hot. We had that much heat once in my life of 44 years i believe it was 42c in 2022 in vancouver
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@@Candy_Blossom1245 More Upthumbs!
average texas behavior
Those kids who outran the plane on bike’s probably got laughed at until this show came out and proved it. 😊
Is Air canada 143😮
@@richardkranium2944 are you talking about those 2 kids that out ran it on the place where they were about to start raceing
Those two boys went on to write Alien: Covenant.
@@NoahLevine-p8myes. Those kids on bikes
That was the gimli glider
Holy mother of God… this pilot is an absolute LEGEND. That simulated landing was legit.
NO GOD so NO Mother of NO GOD...
Really have to give a shout out to all the people that went head first into storms that were known to wreck planes for the sole reason to figure them out. Selflessness, curiosity, or madness... they deserve all the respect.
Or not. The flip side to this is not to let curiosity get the better of you and you and everyone else will be ok. I aint too keen on giving kudos to pilots who like to explore just to satisfy a deadly curiosity. Theirs and theirs alone at the expenae of the innocent lives they're responsible for.
@robert9495 it's not just to satisfy a curiosity. It's to develop better technology that can be used to detect the storms. This tech can be used to save thousands of lives. It's just like tornado chasers. They follow tornadoes to gather useful data that can be used to develop improve warning systems. Scientists need to take risks to save lives. They absolutely deserve praise.
To be fair, they are doing these tests at altitudes that should give them enough time to recover from any upset. not 500 ft above the ground. Still yeah, its probably a little dangerous. Also test pilots always wear parachutes during their flights while conducting risky tests, and also may be fitted with a tail chute further reducing risk of loss of life. They didnt mention any of that.
The Glimi Glider and Nowhere to land episodes should've gotten their own movie! Like Miracle on the Hudson did...IMO
Gimli Glider was more of a miracle than Sully and the pilot was not a ham
I agree with this! Gimli was a few years before Taca 110 and looooong before the Hudson, making them the first crew in modern aviation to successfully land a commercial jet dead stick. I replay this and when I can find it Taca 110 repeatedly.
Yeah there have been aviation miracles greater than Sully's. Aloha Airlines 243, British Airways 5390, and British Airways 009 come to mind. All due respect to Sully, but he had a brief period of stress to get through and some of these other pilots went through a prolonged nightmare.
@@MakerInMotion i think part of it might have been the immediate publicity, like it was in the middle of new york city, there were thousands of witnesses for basically the entire situation, it was caught on security cameras, civilian ferries were some of the first boats to the rescue scene... so i think the involvement of the general public definitely played a part in why it got so much attention. i think part of it was also the fact that it was a water landing, which is a whole different nightmare compared to a runway landing, even one in dire circumstances.
There is a movie about the gimli glider...
Microbursts ripped out 10 trees on my property. Neighbors on either side were untouched. Oak trees 24" diameter at chest level. Twisted out like toothpicks. This was outside of Chicago. I'll NEVER forget it.
When was this? I've been there over half century.
This is the only time you can say that smoking saves instead of kills 😂.
I’m so glad that times have changed and no smoking is allowed at all. I hated sitting in a plane and behind that curtain they were smoking like crazy. Curtains do not hold back any smoke. People can smoke all they want but inhale your smoke on your own.
@@tsw1963 I used to smoke like a champ when I was in the military but I absolutely hated smelling others smoke. It was weird. I once went to a smoking Airport in Georgia while training and I almost threw up in the “smoking room.” I got so nauseous from that smell I could only imagine being on a plane.
A microburst hit our area, it was amazing the type of damage it caused, ripping out trees by their roots yet leaving homes standing. Terrifying. The area of damage (not a path) was viewable similar to a tornado's path yet so different 🤔
So would it be safe to say microbursts are akin to something like a stationary tornado? Or a sort of mini-tornado, perhaps?
@@michaelcoletta4547 I would say its definitely similar
I've watched this before but it's always amazing. It reminds me of miracle on the Hudson. Absolutely brilliant airmanship
One fatality on this plane crash was someone who as a young kid survived and M. U2 crash, that's a twin Turbo prop. He was the only survivor on an M2MU2 turboprop crash. And so I guess the messages surviving 2 air crashes is very unlikely.
That's pretty wild, if indeed true. A nice little aside. RIP to the fallen.
What about terenife🙂
Where's terenife?
Real spit
I have no idea WHY I’m watching these mayday episodes…I’m flying to Burbank California Sunday 😳 from Az …geez 🙄
Burnbsnk is horrible
I go from Bur to Vegas at least once a year, best believe I'm looking at the full condition of the visible plane every step of that walkway! 😅 ❤safe travels
@JimAllen-Persona and the Frys is gone now so it's just dark and creepy
Not to worry. I flew on United from Honolulu to LAX on February 25, 1989 on a 747 one day after flight UA811 disaster. It made me feel more secure as the chances of two accidents one day apart on same airline were almost nonexistent
I have done the same thing recently going from nyc to las vegas. I like the episodes where people survive. I've pucked up a few safety/survival tips...i.e. wear cotton clothes or natural fiber clothes in case of fire, don't inflate the life preserver when inside the plane since it will keep you inside the plane and you could drown, check the outside of the plane and dont feel embarrassed if you see something strange, I didn't see this but I brought a towel and filled up a water bottle in case of smoke and fire, cover face with jacket and maybe a pillow when you have to brace, know where the exit signs are in relation to your seat. I haven't yet figured out where the best seat on the plane is...lol.
Wow imagine being hit by an airplanes engine, I remember reading a story about a meteorite narrowly missing a woman's head as she sleeps on her bed lol
Bad luck moment
In 1992 a meteorite crashed into the parked car of a broke young woman in Peekskill, NY. A car she had just bought for $300. She got $50,000 for the meteorite and another $25,000 for the car. As long as it misses you physically, it can be a gift from the heavens.
@@MakerInMotionthat’s JUST like what the Sam hill happened on Friday the 13th!
You know, I have been paranoid for years about that...there was another time when a plane lost its blue water from the bathroom...imagine that! 😮😮
Aww geez I wouldn’t get in my bed ever again..
I was working patrol at the Southwest substation when this accident occurred.
We were too far from the airport to help but Northwest substation was closer, so officers were sent to help to collect remains of passengers.
I can only imagine what a horrific scene that was.
I would never want my mortal remains to be picked up by a cop.
They always blame the dead pilot just when they can not speak for themselves anymore.
The Canada Air Flight 143 event has a movie on Amazon Prime. I had just seen it this weekend and now I get to see the true story behind it. So cool!
Really? I’ll watch that after my Dodger game today. Thanks.
My husband and I were at Six Flags, only a few miles from the airport, with our children when this happened. The news was passed from person to person like wildfire.
I was -15 years old
Might be a rerun but I’ve not seen this one yet
@@ladyzapzap9514: I’ve seen it 4 times…. Still? Here I am.
@@TERoss-jk9nysame. I rewatch these. I do have favorites, as morbid as that seems.
@@TERoss-jk9ny You are dedicated.
My college professor was in the plane behind this one. She told us about how scary it was. Of course this conversation happened while we were waiting to board our flight to D.C.
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Watching these videos the innocuous phrase ‘the crew begins their final descent’ gains an ominous new meaning.
Taking off was a theme on the ones I watched.
Wow, the Gimli story is really a testatement to the pilots knowledge, courage and ability to critically think in a stressful situation. What an absolute gem of a human.
137 deaths 27 survivors 25 injured
Wild that smoking kinda saved that dudes life in delta 191
Yep, I bet he's glad he didn't decide to quit a week before the flight. 😄
The Gimli Glider - Captain Bob - a true stick and rudder man! Love that story.
The guy who said he was a medic in the Vietnam war and never saw civilian casualties is having some heavy denial.
>turn right head 620. Im not familiar with that heading, and I train air traffic controllers 💀
💀☠
Sure, thats a complete right circle and then an additional 3/4 turn to the right. A lot of oil stockholders in Texas, scope dope must own a lot of shares...
@@stevenhiggins2544 that is so funny, it made me laugh 😂
@@natehill8069 math doesn't add up, but your explanation sounds good
Turn around once, then turn to a heading of 280.😳
Remember the Ford Pinto? Ford knew how dangerous it was when hit from behind - i.e. it tended to explode - but they calculated the losses if they were sued and decided they'd pay more if they had to fix them. And they were right. It did end up costing less to be sued than to fix them. Most companies will always look at their bottom line when it comes to either fixing dangerous design flaws or getting sued for them afterwards. McDonnell Douglas did the same thing.
@@CuriousMouseExploration Actually the Ford Pinto wasn’t more dangerous than many other cars of the time which were designed pretty much the same way. Just think how many US cars had their fuel intake behind the registration plate in the 70s. It meant the fuel tank was right next to the rear bumper, just like in the Pinto. Nowadays most rear wheel drive cars have their fuel tank above the differential, a progress introduced thanks to the front wheel drive cars.
Rather lose money than lose customers and prestige
@@julosx DO you think it's only in the 70s and they learned? Nope. Ford and all other carmakers have willingly killed lots of people. See Still Unsafe at Any Speed by Brian Chase.
The cameraman is lucky to survive ALL of the instances he was put through in these crashes🙏🙌
I used to fly back and forth from Newark-Liberty to either London Heathrow or Paris Charles de Gaulle, as well as from Newark-Liberty to the Tel Aviv International Airport in Israel quite often each year for my career…Each time we were landing in less-than ideal weather--despite all my years of experience flying--I would be UTTERLY PETRIFIED a micro-burst down-draft was going to hit us,and tho no order from the captain or first officer had been given to do so, i would assume the infamous “crash position,” with my seatbelt tightly secured around my waist; my head down between my knees, and my small pillow placed behind my head and neck, with my hands clasped over it….Probably seriously unnerved some fellow passengers, yet it made ME feel less afraid.
Was I silly and absurd to do that throughout my 20s, 30s, and most of my 40s (when my failing health made travel nearly impossible, sadly)???
Uhh you know the deadliest crash is actually the Tenerife airport disaster and more than 500 people died when two Boeing 747s crashed into each other
That likely happened after this one
Nope! This one happened, Aug 2nd 1985, Tenerife happened March, of 1977!...💁🏻♀️ so much for your guess!..🤷🏻♀️
Yup! 1977, 8 years before this one!..🤷🏻♂️
What about the mid air collision of DhL
They may mean involving one plane possibly tenerife was two planes
The pilot of the Turkish airline played the terrorist in another episode.
@@ericwoy4132 good to see he wasn't type cast 😊
@@ericwoy4132 The Captain no
47:40 "We were at 850, and we just dropped to 750 in no time at all. Lovely." These guys are made of something else.
Microburst and Downburst were discovered by professor Ted Fujita at University of Chicago.
They say smoking kills, but the passenger who smoked was saved by smoking. What a strange world we live in.
I heard of someone who walked out at Cocoanut Grove in 1942, just as the place caught up in a fireball.
Love the words so meaningful. BEAUTIFUL.
This was the crash that killed the IBM employee who led development of the IBM PC. Oh, I see that it is in the video.
That coffin was a spin out, rather glad the occupant didn't have to see the latter ending in life. RIP fellow human.
Gimli glider Tokyo drifted into the runway!! Beast crazy skills that pilot has.❤
That coffin in the DC-10 and the fact that the cargo door flew off is spooky
Talk about a sky burial!
I hope the poor souls who were lost found their way to their final destination, wherever that may be.
I flew in to DFW on a Delta L1011 about 4 weeks after this crash. I remember seeing where the accident happened and feeling a chill. You can call me crazy or delusional, but I swear some of those people were still around that spot at DFW. I know it sounds like a hallucination but it really was chilling to be in that place so soon after something horrible happened. And the memory is still vivid 39 years later.
The plane in the thumbnail has no wings. The engine is just floating there. 😂
Omg I was staring at it wondering why it looked so wonky but couldn't figure it out 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I'm the world of A.I., planes don't need wings...
May all the victims rest in peace.
The alarm in the jammed rudder one is an 80’s alarm clock and it is TRIGGERING 😂😂😂
Time for school!!! GET UP!!!
@@MakerInMotion NO MOM I DON'T WANNA GO
The DC-10, classic American behavior; wait until a tragedy happens, then do something.
The main reason for many plane crashes is that instead of actively considering the possibility that something could go very wrong one day and taking steps to prevent it, people tend to wait until there's a problem. Then they react dramatically, saying, "Oops! That went wrong; we should have seen it coming... we need to make sure it doesn’t happen again!"
Like that one episode (I forgot which one sorry) with the airport that was one of the busiest in the world. They had the worst radar, which was a contributor to a disaster waiting to happen.
Idk but weren’t JAL 123 and The Tenerife-disasters more deadly? Im guessing “on US-soil” is missing
@@augustrnning7823
Plane crash at Ohare airport in Chicago. May 1979
273 people killed. ⚘️
I lived near there.
But, there could have been others.
every airport is one of the busiest and every plane is one of the safest in the sky
This happened to me when I was younger. The plane crashed with a bird. I jumped out of the plane with my parachute as I thought all 15 people in the plane would crash and die. The pilot managed to make an emergency landing without any injuries. I broke both my legs and had to spend the whole summer in hospital. It would have been better to stay in the plane than to jump out with my parachute as I did. The plane was tilted too much and was at too low an altitude so I came out all wrong.
Ok pal
💀
With much sympathy for the crew and passengers of this star crossed flight, I resolved to never ever fly Delta since this natural disaster. In court settlements with victims, Delta attorneys tried to argue that survivoring families of gay loved ones deserved only half the compensation of straight families, reasoning that most of them would soon have died of AIDS anyway. Talk about sick.
I still await an apology for their crass, cynical, and offensive legal argument. Given their HQ in the deep South, I'm not holding my breath.
I have wondered why they always say something about a veteran pilot or having so many hours flown...but the endgame happens to old timers and newbie pilots...the ground doesn't care...anyone who hits a microburst is likely to be damaged
My dad always told me to reserve a seat in the rear section.
What kind of plane was it that had a cargo door come off out over the Pacific Ocean someplace? I thought it was a McDonnell Douglas also... those people also sued because several died from that event. I saw that film also.
I always think about the absolute terror people must feel when they know they are going to crash
I AM IN AWE OF THE PILOT AND CO-PILOT. WHAT AN AMAZING LANDING. WHAT A PAIR OF LEGENDS, BUT THAT CAPTAIN IS NEXT LEVEL GOOD. AMAZING, SIMPLY AMAZING ❣
CREW AND PASSENGERS..... GREAT JOB!!!. THIS IS THE BEST BECAUSE EVERYONE SURVIVED. CAPTAIN BOB YOU CAN FLY ME ANYWHERE SIR❣
There’s absolutely no need to shout!
When was this
this is no deadliest crash, click bait, this is one of the best level of skills displayed by a pilot and i salute him
I have seen so many videos of people having to be evacuated from planes on the tarmac, mostly due to fire emergencies, and there will seemingly always be a not insignificant number of people trying to get their luggage and other items out from the overhead compartments that they then attempt to take with them during the evacuation. This slows the evacuation, is extremely dangerous (as taking heavy luggage down the inflatable slide can seriously hurt someone) as well as slowing the evacuation process itself and thus leading to the needles deaths of many innocent passengers due to people’s selfishness, ignorance and stupidity as they are blocking the isle and one of the few paths to escape from a burning death trap. All because these people are truly that self centered and oblivious to the rest of the world, other people and their own surroundings, always having to be the main character in their own life story. A poll was done not too long ago where they questioned airline passengers and, when asked if they would attempt to grab some of their belongings during the emergency evacuation of a plane, 35% of the people questioned said yes…
running out of fuel and one engine working - do you hold altitude for better glide while the engine still works, or bleed off your altitude knowing the engine will probably go out and try to land before it stops?
I heard Honeywell made the board and just knew the deal. I am a maintenance supervisor of a factory and the number of Honeywell burner control components we replace is very high. Sure we have a lot of burners/oven, dry-off, cure, flash, slow bake. 100 ovens or oven sub processes. Although they seem to be more reliable than Omron, Automation Direct, etc. still why have we replaced 22 Honeywell oven control components this year? Not dirty power, we have a million dollar power quality control and monitoring system. Installed to spec. Not heat, we cool all our cabinets. Not dust, we use IP69 rated cabinets. I think its the Gremlins. Either those pesky things or cheap products and poor QC. Probably Gremlins though.
LOL “check fuel shutoff “!!😂😂😂 Glimly Glider
The DC 10 . It always scared me with this huge engine mounted on the tail plane . Although I did fly on it twice .
Omg! The first episode the Delta one, i had thought they would be alrigth until it was cut in half 😢😢😢
7:44 Dude missed a belt loop.
I also remember this day very well. This folks did not die in vain. We learned so much about microburst. And today we are much safer. Little did I know then that my very best friend and his wife and two cousins , would die on TWA flight 800 off Long Island . The pain of that loss was the worst . It was so instantaneous. And I lost all faith in GOD for over ten years.
The good ol days when you could smoke cigarettes on a plane..
When and where this happened?
@@AL-sj2dx 1985
@@Michael-p2i thank you!
@@AL-sj2dx not a problem.
@@Michael-p2i🙏🙏
Earth. The twentieth century.
Man is alive
18:55 Who ever said smoking was bad for your health. (NOT in this gentleman's case!)
smoking on board? i'd love to have that today 😅
I think the founder of Curtis Matheus TVs was on that flight too.
Why would they slow a heavy down because it was behind a Learjet? Thats like worrying about the turbulence from my Pinto blowing the semi behind me off the road.
Rerun Warning
Doing God's work. We appreciate you! 🙏🏽
They all are.
They all are..youthink its an youtube tv show?. Lmao
Wait are you telling me that this show, from TV, that was uploaded to TH-cam, is not the first release? 😮 I never would have guessed
Wait are you telling me that this show, from TV, that was uploaded to TH-cam, is not the first release? 😮 I never would have guessed
18:20
"I had seen death before as a medic in Vietnam, but it had never been aimed at civilians..."
Bruh
Microburst only lasts for 15 minutes at the most, well, that’s an eternity when you consider the planes landing in an hour. Went through one of those in orlando, it felt like a giant sudden force pushed our plane down like a toy, some people hit the roof of the plane that didn’t have their belts fasten. A very close call.
19:05 "Smoking saved my life." Not something I thought I'd hear
How about not flying during a stormy weather?? 😢
Or not flying at all 😩
Why didn't the Canadian Air Traffic Control call the police and have the runway cleared and have fire equipment etc there ?
When he said this was one of the biggest airport in the world, i had a feeling he'd say its one of the busiest airports, then he said it...
6:10 I like Captain Connors already. I can't imagine this man losing a plane
I am 70 years old so the metric system is foreign to me i still have to use conversion charts, but still crews should be properly trained in the metric system
It’s crucial to learn from these tragic crashes to make flying safer, but sometimes it feels like these disasters could have been prevented with better regulations. Are we doing enough to prevent history from repeating itself?
Amazing flying by the captain but he did make the mistake of not deciding to head to Gimli straightaway as soon as he was given the option. Also well done to the purser who took the initiative to order an evacuation without waiting for the captain. Although I can understand his reasoning of wanting to go to an airport with full emergency capabilities it should have been clear to him that the priority was to get the plane on the ground and ATC would have had more time to get ground resources to Gimli and may have avoided the incident of the two boys on bikes. Talking of which, did hey really decide to head back down the runway where the plane was heading instead of going sideways?
This is a
Good opportunity to reach out❤️
@1:59:55 The coffin was sucked out, but the door blew out 'cause the pressure inside was greater?
Be consistent, things blow from high pressure to low pressure.
This is not the deadliest crash in aviation history. That belongs to the Tenerife Disaster on 27 March 1977 where 583 people died due to a runway incursion. The largest loss of life in a single place crash was Japan Airlines flight 123 on 12 August 1985. If it held the record for the most people who died in a single place crash, sadly that record was only held for 10 days before the Japan Airlines crash
"The runway is no longer a runway"
GOOSEBUMP!
Can you just imagine flying in the plane at this time not one that was going to crash but I mean at this time like whatever year this was that you could smoke on planes just imagine you’re sitting next to someone in the latest cigarette you’re sitting pretty close to them and there’s no way for them to really blow the smoke away from you. You would be stuck smelling that and what if you were like really sensitive to cigarette smoke I’m pretty sure that’s the reason that they made a rule that you can’t smoke on our class anymore I’m kind of happy about it. I remember when I was a kid anytime I would walk outside while my dad was having a cigarette. I would instantly get a stomach ache and a headache. It would make me nauseous and make my headache just the smell of cigarette smoke
@@Luna_moon_1127 never heard such garbage in a long time, like all control freaks who ban smoking a, it's about CONTROL, nothing more, take COVID as an example WMD another, the list is endless
If the person in charge to tell the pilots was on a meal break then why on earth didn't they have a qualified person fill in when the other is on break, That's insane! There should never be a single minute that someone is not there watching 24/7.
The American Dc-10 “ ladies and gentlemen we got a small problem” as descending 1600 feet per minute
"Houston, we have a problem."
This pilot is a genius
What does DC stand for , as in DC 10 ?
It's crazy to think that smoking used to be allowed on planes.
dfw airport is massive we had to switch planes there once, they gave us like 10mins to get to the whole other side of the airport, it took us 20 and we missed our flight. 😂
So the controller who could see the weather cell was on a meal break and didn't have anyone relieve him for break? smh
McDouglas would then proceed to shave off their reputation by “merging” with Boeing.
And in 2024 we had once again door openings mid-flight.
I agree, but on the other hand Boeing doors have opened mid flight too, long before the Douglas merger.
@@cchris874 …someone objecting to my negativity should not make me more depressed.
@@CrowMercury
Well look at it this way. Airbus doors have not come off yet (I think.)
Smoking literally saved his life by being in the seat he was. The irony! 😂
This pilot was smart and didn't want to risk flying through the storm instead he flew around it bless you 🙏 pilot 😊😊😊😊
Theres no way they had that much leg room
Yes, we did back then. You'd get an actual meal in coach also.