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  • When a DC-9 crashed into a seawall on approach to Boston in 1973. An investigation began, trying to show how the pilots made a succession of errors which lead to the crash. But it also exposed the fundamental flaws in accident investigations before the CRM era.
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    CREDITS
    Voice Actors
    Captain - Michael Neeb
    First Officer - Joe Louison
    Observer - Jeffrey Coburn
    Air Traffic Control - Joe Louison
    Music
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    Sim Footage
    Prepar3D
    Camera System - ChasePlane
    Ground Services - GSX
    DC-9 - Sky Simulations
    0:00 Intro
    0:22 Flight Details
    3:14 CVR Simulation
    12:44 Aftermath
    13:33 Investigation
    15:09 Human Factors Questions
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ความคิดเห็น • 102

  • @jamescollier3
    @jamescollier3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    That observer's pilot life: 6 years sick and then this

    • @eucliduschaumeau8813
      @eucliduschaumeau8813 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He must have been quite ill to be out for six years. He must have been very "rusty" at that point.

    • @andy-bandy
      @andy-bandy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eucliduschaumeau8813 He has had retraining to make sure he is still fit to fly :)

  • @tonk4967
    @tonk4967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    There's a lot more to this accident than is depicted in the video. Delta and Northeast merged in 1972 and both airlines had DC-9s, but they were considerably different. They had different auto-pilots made by different manufacturers, and different flight directors. One airline had single cue flight directors (bat wings, depicted in the video), and the other had dual cue flight directors (cross hair needles). For a period of time after the merger, the two pilot groups only flew the DC-9s that they were familiar with at their previous airline. Delta gave the pilots a list of differences between the 2 aircraft types, but no other training, assuming "pilots are pilots" and "DC-9s are DC-9s" and they'll "figure it out". I'm pretty sure that the day of the accident was the first day that the 2 pilot groups were integrated and this was the first time the accident pilots had seen a Delta DC-9. They were unfamiliar with the auto-pilot and the flight director. The short flight, allowing the jump seat rider to participate in the operation of the aircraft, much confusion, not sure what the flight director was depicting, and the marginal weather was a recipe for disaster.

    • @sct913
      @sct913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      As I understand it, the DC-9 involved in this crash was a ex-Northeast plane that had had the flight director and other instruments replaced with ones similar to those in Delta DC9s. I also recall that, apart from the display, the basic difference between the Northeast and Delta flight directors was in the operation of the selector control. Basically, the flight crew (ex-Northeast except for the observer) moved the switch as they would for the older unit. As a result, the reading they got misled them, as noted in the video.

    • @derrickharris6291
      @derrickharris6291 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😊

  • @sct913
    @sct913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you for covering this. Living just north of Boston, I still remember this crash very well. My friends and I were playing in their back yard when their mother stuck her head out of the kitchen window and said "Hey, there's been a plane crash at Logan." We then went inside and watched the coverage on the local TV station (Channel 5 - WCVB) for a couple of hours. Many years later, the magazine Airliners featured a very good article about the crash. Note that the full NTSB report, which was quoted several times in the Airliners article, has never been made available to the public on the NTSB web site.

  • @3Greens
    @3Greens  2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    It's funny how you only notice the mistakes just after going live. In the crew intro the Captain and FO labels should be the other way round 🤦.

    • @CRS-zw8rm
      @CRS-zw8rm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Had it been a 747, you'd have crashed it.

  • @ronaldkuhlmann5332
    @ronaldkuhlmann5332 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was working at Logan that day, awaiting the arrival of our SR flight and we heard the communications on our office radio. We knew an employee who was on that flight. Also there when the IB DC-10 went down.

  • @gerardmoran9560
    @gerardmoran9560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video! I was hired by Delta in '88, not long after the Western merger. Started as an FE on the 727 and they spent a lot of time on "differences training" for the 727-232 (Delta) and 727-247 (Western). Years later as an FO we acquired 727-221s (Pan Am) and 727-225s (Eastern) and again we had "differences training". Things have changed a lot- for the better.

  • @EmeraldWoodArchives
    @EmeraldWoodArchives 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My aunt Janice Wilson of Houston, Texas was a stewardess on this flight. I never got to meet her.

  • @gabe-po9yi
    @gabe-po9yi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic video. As a lay person, your explanations and the images (such as the glide slope depiction) really helped me understand what was going on and also terminology. With other channels, I constantly have to pause the video to look something up.

  • @optician53
    @optician53 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember it well. One of those pea soup humid summer days here in the northeast. Ten years later I happened to fly with a gal, whose Grandma had died in that crash. We were delayed at Logan, by engine troubles, which we had no problem with them delaying as long as needed to fix the problem ... :-/

  • @secretplanet6393
    @secretplanet6393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    How about the businessman who deboarded before the flight? Lucky man!

  • @tdestroyer1882
    @tdestroyer1882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Take your time with these! The quality blows me away every time

  • @apackwestbound5946
    @apackwestbound5946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Short flights in jet airline operations add significant demands on flight crews. I spent a month last summer flying two trips a day, four days a week, with those two flights being 20 minutes (sometimes less) between lift off to touch down. In the month we had everything (weather) from clear skies and unlimited visibility down to minimum acceptable visibility necessary to conduct the published instrument approach. By the end of the month we were really good at it-but I spent a lot of time studying for this flight sequence before the first time we flew it as it is a summertime only (seasonal) flight sequence. Getting "behind the jet" is always bad, on a short flight it is even worse. As the saying goes: don't ever let the jet get someplace that your mind hasn't already been before.

    • @EFFEZE
      @EFFEZE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No you didn't

  • @andrewgkorol
    @andrewgkorol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Daaaaamn these graphics are phenomenal! Another brilliant production and I'm stoked to see how much traction you're gaining 😊

  • @pikachu6031
    @pikachu6031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    With your “Three Greens” LOGO. The Nose Gear Green Light should be at the Top of the other two. This indicates the position of the nose wheel relative to the other two Main Gear! Only a small observation Sir!

    • @myadagmaayadam7282
      @myadagmaayadam7282 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      SAKUA 3 SAKURA SAKURA

    • @kdawson020279
      @kdawson020279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      737 aft overhead panel has the lights in the mains over nose gear configuration. Many planes have their own indicators that aren't the standard primary in passenger jets by Boeing and Airbus. 3 green lights in a horizontal line would also be accurate. Standardization is a rather modern concept.

    • @pikachu6031
      @pikachu6031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kdawson020279 I only flew the 737 for 3500 hours, and the 747-400 for 9000 hours! Standardisation is what keeps people Alive in the air!

    • @kdawson020279
      @kdawson020279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pikachu6031 Absolutely. You were 6 times more likely to die on a commercial flight at the beginning of the jet age than today.

    • @eucliduschaumeau8813
      @eucliduschaumeau8813 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@myadagmaayadam7282
      Sakura, Sakura, blossoms waving everywhere.
      Clouds of glory fill the sky.
      Mist of beauty in the air,
      lovely colors floating by.
      Sakura, Sakura,
      Let all come singing.

  • @kcindc5539
    @kcindc5539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I still contend the FO and Observer had switched seats for this particular segment, as the checklist flow and the captain’s momentary slip in acknowledging the first officer’s name suggest a conscious altering of normal cockpit verbal pattern. Bear in mind too, that the FO and Observer also had very similar last names, further obscuring a clear identification who was actually in the right hand seat. This was a particularly opportune moment to do a little switcheroo with minimal risk of getting caught. What better time to let the returning pilot anxious to get back in the game a little innocent stick time on a 10 minute 4,000 altitude puddle jump? The comment by the captain “just fly the airplane” to my ears sounds like something you’d say to a newbie getting reacquainted with hand-flying muscle memory vs a seasoned FO who is accustomed hand flying approaches while also monitoring instruments etc. A seasoned FO doesn’t need reminders to focus. A six-years-rusty newly returning pilot, on the other hand, most likely would.

    • @majorvonhapenallthetime8602
      @majorvonhapenallthetime8602 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Keep in mind that the F/O only had just over 200hrs in the aircraft type, whilst the Capt had nearly 1,500, so it may have been quite innocent to address him like a newbie and being old enough to be his father could've been a factor in attitude too.

  • @BillPalmer
    @BillPalmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Indeed. We’ve learned a lot about human factors and accident-preventing procedures and conduct since the 70’s. Additionally, ground proximity warning systems (now several generations since) would have alerted to being below the glide slope.

    • @232K7
      @232K7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not to mention the automated ra callouts.. it shocked the crap out me the way it just silently flew into the ground like that.
      I get they had altimeters but damn...

  • @anonymausfighter1702
    @anonymausfighter1702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I like seeing this channel grow,and I’m trying to contribute to it as much as possible by liking all your videos!!great quality content!!!!

    • @andrewgkorol
      @andrewgkorol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Always leave a comment for the algorithm 😗

    • @donlackey7110
      @donlackey7110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love aviation. I almost goty polit licenses but the us at sent me for duty on South Korea for service and I only had only had only one hour to go before my solo. That's life I guess. Don lackey bonneau,s.c.😀😀🤔🤔

  • @geoffedmonds6507
    @geoffedmonds6507 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow all I thought about was the man who de-planed. So so sad for those lost. So many people have had to die for the airlines to get to where they are today.

  • @tommybrain4204
    @tommybrain4204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    idk about anyone else, but every time I see the thumbnail of this video it takes me a second to find the wings of the plane.

    • @hunterlong1820
      @hunterlong1820 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao me too i thought it was a space shuttle when i first scrolled past it

  • @itchitrigger8185
    @itchitrigger8185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great job putting us in the situation in real time, amazing how fast you can get behind the aircraft. 👍

  • @VirginiaMan
    @VirginiaMan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The DC-9's Livery is the livery which is new, 73' Delta had the new livery? Damn, i didn't know that.

  • @benwhitty41
    @benwhitty41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    been watching since your first man, keep it up

  • @giggiddy
    @giggiddy ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos stand out from the others. The CVR is a huge plus. Thank you for putting these together.

  • @JohannesSebastian
    @JohannesSebastian ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos are incredible.
    I now realize how bad everything else is.
    More commentary, but the graphics and communication are great, thanks

  • @josephconnor2310
    @josephconnor2310 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hadn't heard of this crash before thank you for your excellent presentation.

  • @James_hehe
    @James_hehe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was waiting for this

  • @sludge4125
    @sludge4125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Three Greens means left, right, and nose gear is down.

    • @3Greens
      @3Greens  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correct!

    • @Bren39
      @Bren39 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@3Greens Except you got the logo upside down :(

    • @sludge4125
      @sludge4125 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bren39 😦

  • @timothystockman7533
    @timothystockman7533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Descent on the ILS with no valid glide slope indication? Scary!

  • @billcallahan9303
    @billcallahan9303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Glad I never had to fly with a crew.

  • @shenzo2000
    @shenzo2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    another great video.

  • @vjfeefeecat586
    @vjfeefeecat586 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video and for a change one I have never heard of before - most of the videos done are great but why do the same crashes over again and again? I love your narrations and explanations also this is a great new - to me - channel

  • @heraldtim
    @heraldtim ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It strikes me how lacksidaisical the comms were-- hardly any readbacks or use of the callsign. The ATC thought they taxied off, but there was no handoff to ground control?

    • @232K7
      @232K7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right? I kept thinking " is he talking to me" lol

  • @dodoubleg2356
    @dodoubleg2356 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm glad you pointed out that much of their convo. would've violated the sterile cockpit rule today. I thought the same thing. Enjoyed the vid. 😉👍✌️

  • @paulp6909
    @paulp6909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great video! I really look forward to new ones and rewatch old ones. In my opinion, entertainment and educational value is on par with Aircrash Investigations.

    • @3Greens
      @3Greens  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you sir. I really do appreciate all of you who come back for each video 🙂

    • @paulp6909
      @paulp6909 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@3Greens Thank you for producing great content. Must take a tremendous amount of time. Not too early to start a Patreon! :)

  • @TheRedRaven_
    @TheRedRaven_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh wow, I wonder how that business passenger felt after he heard the news….I probably wouldn’t fly again tbh.

  • @barryaiello3127
    @barryaiello3127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice job, 1st vid of yours watched, won't be the last!.

  • @asdf3568
    @asdf3568 ปีที่แล้ว

    A 10 min flight? That's insane

  • @cturdo
    @cturdo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Not a stabilized approach - go around. Basic airmanship is completely ignored.

  • @sludge4125
    @sludge4125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wikipedia places partial blame on ATC, although the final report may not have.
    The pilots are flying the plane, and are doing so incredibly incompetently.
    Approach clearance was delayed slightly, but ATC isn’t flying the plane. The pilots are, and are doing a terrible job of it.
    Sad. Very sad.

    • @BritishBeachcomber
      @BritishBeachcomber 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were not flying the plane.

    • @sct913
      @sct913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As I remember the excepts from the NTSB report contained in the Airliners article about the crash, the NTSB determined that ATC's communications were potentially confusing, but there was no direct evidence to show they may have led to the crash.

  • @peacemaker2988
    @peacemaker2988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    never heard of a 10 minute flight before is it worth it lol...

    • @sludge4125
      @sludge4125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      While flying into Orlando, our plane diverted to another airport due to storms.
      Some people DID get off, presumably driving to Orlando.
      The delay wasn’t long, and the trip to Orlando took about ten minutes.

  • @BritishBeachcomber
    @BritishBeachcomber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They should have intercepted the glideslope from below, to avoid a false glideslope due to lobes/reflections. They were too focussed on landing. A go around would have lost speed and altitude safely.

  • @vasilijspetrovs9454
    @vasilijspetrovs9454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you make the video of Trans world airline flight 800?

  • @vgrof2315
    @vgrof2315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where do they get these narrators with thick accents for American accident reports? Well done, anyway. Thanks.

    • @gilbertfranklin1537
      @gilbertfranklin1537 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I also noticed the crew's voices sounded unnatural also. 🙄

    • @BillPalmer
      @BillPalmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gilbertfranklin1537 Naturally. Actual cockpit voice recordings are not released to the public. The transcript was reenacted for the video. I real life, I’m sure it would have sounded a lot more natural, but also probably quicker and harder for the video’s audience to understand.

  • @rogermarcoux4467
    @rogermarcoux4467 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two of my classmates were on this flight.

  • @emil8679
    @emil8679 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why didn't the GPWS sound? Because it was in approach mode?

  • @robr9905
    @robr9905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I guess they put the Captain in the left seat sometime after 1973.

  • @alec_s18
    @alec_s18 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wait… did you say *10 minute* flight? How was that ever economical for Delta?

  • @vincent3family
    @vincent3family 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the video. Vincentfam

  • @EFFEZE
    @EFFEZE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes yes one on the bennffffatron

  • @kenclark9888
    @kenclark9888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why in the view did you have an arrow showing the captain sitting on the right and first officer on the left? That’s incorrect. Also that approach light system looks like a British Calvert system and that’s not used in the US

  • @DudeBro571
    @DudeBro571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Capitan sits on the left. Bru

  • @cjswa6473
    @cjswa6473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poor radio read back.. Very poor

  • @stuartlee6622
    @stuartlee6622 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Northeast yellowbird.

  • @moiraatkinson
    @moiraatkinson 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For some reason, I can’t get this video to play, which is disappointing as it looks very interesting. It’ll play for a few seconds, then stop. I can advance it manually, but the same thing just happens again 🤷‍♀️

    • @sludge4125
      @sludge4125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Internet connection, most likely.

  • @afreightdogslife
    @afreightdogslife 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The captain check airman and his sidekick observer were both acting like Joe Cool instead of doing their jobs as professional crewmembers. Sucks for the passengers having to die because of the captain was acting like a jackass.

  • @aixaburlison4
    @aixaburlison4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pilot is on the left

  • @brucespurier7535
    @brucespurier7535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope flight crews today are a lot more professional and competent than these guys were.

  • @curtisblake6423
    @curtisblake6423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love tuning in! You desperately need Promo'SM!!!

  • @isbestlizard
    @isbestlizard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol they talk like npcs in a video game

  • @TomTremayne
    @TomTremayne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3 Greens....your videos are good & well put-together but the in-flight stuff when they talk to the tower could be much better. To be honest, It sounds like something out of a 'Thunderbirds' episode! Why not just buy two cheap walkie-talkies & record your voice-overs thru' them....needs to be crackly & almost hard to follow if it's to be realistic. I mean, you use subtitles anyway so why does it have to sound so unrealistically clear?

  • @James_hehe
    @James_hehe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yay

  • @edcew8236
    @edcew8236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Accent is pretty thick... technical inaccuracies and non-idiomatic language.

  • @chrisantoniscountryman-pur9954
    @chrisantoniscountryman-pur9954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The livery on the aircraft is incorrect for the time period.
    Much of the flight deck graphics are incorrect.
    Jet bridges and airport graphics at Manchester are not correct.
    The approach was to rwy 4R and the graphics show runway 14/32.
    And so on and so on. Much wrong with this video and is a poor representation of the actual accident.

    • @BillPalmer
      @BillPalmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sure looks like 4R to me in multiple places.
      Not surprising that the simulation software doesn’t have a full historical database of liveries.
      The point of the crew missing the GS intercept, being fast and unstable on final, being off the localizer and high on the GS (until the passed through it) were pointed out, as well as the irregular conduct of checklists by a jump seater.

    • @N1120A
      @N1120A 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is also an MD80 and not a DC9

    • @BillPalmer
      @BillPalmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@N1120A if you looked on his pilot certificate at the type ratings, guess what it would say :-)

    • @232K7
      @232K7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bro were you there ffs