Still enjoy this video! Brings back memories, some good, some not so good. The main entry was via stairs in the rear but was blocked due to debris jammed in there. The right side was on fire from tail to cockpit , the slide was right side so wasn't available to use. There were 2 exits over right wing unavailable as well. All passengers and flight stewards went out over left wing. Cockpit flight crew went out through the windows. Right side fuel tank blew up as we where going through the jungle, escaping. Again, Vic thank you for filming this video.
Hi Jeff, I just happened to find this video of your plane crash. Still remember Mom waking me up before you called telling me something had happened to you. As soon as, she picked up the phone you called. Did you send Vic your photos of the plane blowing up? Thinking of them still gives me chills. By the way, you have not been fun to fly with after this. Love ya, your little sis Laynee
@@VicStefanu Vic if I ever do find those photos, I will upload them to you. As my little sister suggested. Thank you for videos. Mayvyou bring us many more in the years to come.
I guess my comments on this video of the Air Micronesia (Continental) B727 pranged on Yap were removed? It seems so, or perhaps I missed them in a read-thru. I arrived on Yap a couple days before Christmas, 1980, to salvage this airplane for a company that purchased the airplane from the insurance company. The video depicts the airplane aft fuselage lying on its left side in the jungle. I pushed it there with the help of Yap's Land Management personnel and their bulldozer after I had salvaged all commercial value from that portion of the wreck. The village that owned the property adjacent to the final resting place requested that I do that. The airline was none too happy to see it removed from the side of the runway as well. The salvage operation personnel included me and a Yapese mechanic who worked at the missionary aviation concern across the runway at a hangar. I also had a room in the back of that hangar for most of the salvage duration. I left the island in early April, 1981. I was 25 years old at the time. The cause of the accident is a matter of record but the path the airplane took and events from the moment of impact to the immediate period after it came to rest are not as available. The right gear was severed and the moment of the impact veered the nose to the right causing a sideways skid. That skid snapped the nose and left main gear legs off. The airplane's right wing contacted the raised dirt berm on the right side of the skid path turning it further to the right into a skid 90° to the runway center line and up the berm. As it slid sideways various structural and system components were torn away and left embedded in the skid path. It continued to skid until in fell into a drainage ditch that was dug 90° to the runway center line and off to the right side of the skid path. The airplane had turned past 90° by the time it reached the drainage ditch causing the nose to fall into the ditch and impact the left side of the ditch in a whiplash movement with a good amount of force. As told to me by the flight engineer who was aboard the plane when pranged, the pilot suffered ankle injuries when he was thrown into the side wall of the airplane. As the fuselage fell into the ditch the outer wing panels broke away and rose vertically causing fuel to spill into the ditch. The aft fuselage broke away from the fuselage just forward of the aft pressure bulkhead because it was not over the ditch and remained there on high ground untouched by the blaze that ultimately consumed the fuselage after the fuel was sparked off. The passengers and crew evacuated immediately and avoided the fire. Most of the passenger injuries were minor and sustained when fleeing through the jungle undergrowth consisting of sawgrass and rope-like vines with thorns. Also, there were various bomb craters left from the WWII Allied bombing of the island that could not be readily seen due to the jungle undergrowth. These craters were about 15 feet in diameter, 6 to 7 feet deep and filled with nasty water. Pretty sure the fleeing occupants from the plane discovered that first hand. I fell into a couple myself when booney stomping the jungle during the monsoons. The fire department of Yap had poor equipment and no access to the airplane's location (or so it claimed). I was told the firetruck had a leaking water tank and was all but empty by the time it arrived from the main town of Colonia. No fire equipment was maintained at the airport. The remains of the aft fuselage in the video were left to the village to salvage the stainless steel tubing and various cables and pulleys for use on their fishing boats.
Hi and thank you for sharing with us these absolutely incredible details of this plane crash accident. I am not sure what happened to your original comments... I had a very difficult time finding the remains of the fuselage since no one that I asked seemed to know where it was.. Finally I found a young man (around 20 years old) and lived in his grandmother's house at the end of the runway and he agreed to take me there.. the place was still littered with left over parts.. I remember the bomb craters that you are mentioning.. What an incredible experience for me to be there and to see this site.. Thank you again!
The fire truck did arrive but they applied the water in a stream instead of fog thus spreading the fire and depleting the water supply quickly. I informed them to open the nozzle further to fog which immediately suppressed the fire till they ran out of water. They left to refill and got stuck, they came back around 45 minutes later to what you basically found. The island ambulance showed up to take one of my female dive partners to the hospital. They couldn't open the rear doors so they had to load her in from the side. The co pilot landed the aircraft in Guam to pick us up because the the landing earlier in Japan was extremely rough. Co pilot wasn't qualified for that run and the pilot was minimally qualified. Still amazes me that we all made it off alive! Thank you for filling in details I hadn't heard. Especially about the ditch and the reason for it being on its side. I was 19 when that accident happened.
727 has NO engines under the wing; there are one on each side of the far aft fuselage (behind the last row of seats) and one in the tail whose intake is at the base of the vertical stabilizer.
You're not correct in your description at the 4:46 point of the video. That is NOT the intake for the #3 engine nacelle and if the plane had been upright....wouldn't be on the left. You're filming the S-duct #2 engine intake and its on the top of the fuselage.
Amazing to see this video. I was there when it happened.... Assigned to the LORAN station there in 1980. No one was killed. If it went the other way down the west side of the runway, many would have died at the terminal area and Missionary Aviation base of operation. 55 gallon drums of AVGAS stacked right next to the terminal would have gone up. As it happened it just went backwards into the jungle and split into three main pieces.
Thank you for viewing my videos and for sharing with us this incredible information!! It must have been quite an experience being there when this horrible incident took place!!
Angus MacFeeley I flew into Yap twice on Air Force C-130 resupply flights out of Guam in 1976-77. The Coasties both times had a nice hot lunch for us when we landed. I remember how remote Yap was, but I liked it there. I am a WW2 history buff, so I would loved to had a week or two to just explore.
This was a simple accident of the plane landing short of the runway and losing any susequent control. I recall reading that the airport had only one fire truck with a single attendant at the time who upon breakout of fire was supposed to mix several chemicals into the water tank to assist in fighting the fire. Once those and the available water in the tank was expended he had to rely on refilling it with sea water nearby which he made several valient attempts to bring the fire under control. Fortunately everyone got out and cleared the burning area which might not have started until the aircraft came to a stop broken into several pieces. If the captain had been flying DC-10s and transitioned back to the 727 the change would have been substantial and the runway at the time was less than 5000 feet considered the minimum necessary. It was essential to land in the first quarter of the runway so it could be brought to a stop in the available space.
"Contributing to the accident were the Captain's lack of recent experience in the B-727 aircraft and a transfer of his DC-10 aircraft landing habits and techniques to the operation of the B-727 aircraft."
Co pilot wasnt qualified at all, original copilot was injured day b4 in motorcycle acc. Had pilot not flown he would have had to re-qualify for the run
Hi Michael, thanks for the info... When I got there, for the life of me, even though I had flown in both, the 707 and the 727, I could not remember the configuration of each and ended up confusing them.. thanks for the clarification..
I used to fly on that 727 for years while on Guam to visit friends on Saipan and Yap. Great video. Sad ending! I remember one time that plane was getting its required service check in Indonesia, I believe. and Continental Air Micronesia used a 727 from Alaska Airlines. It looked odd with the giant Eskimo painted on the AA 's tail landing on Yap in the tropics. Thanks, again for the video. Well done!!
I love it when I can explore the world and never leave home. Good presentation my friend, I concur with Chuck. "They hate ya, cause they ain't ya". Carry on.
My Dad was waiting in Koror Palau for that same aircraft to arrive from Yap. He was flying back to Guam on the return journey. They never said it had crashed, only delayed (a bit of an understatement). He flew the next day. A couple weeks later I flew into Yap as well and saw it on the side of the runway as we taxied past. What a sight! No effect had been made to clean up the sight or paint over the livery.
robert maher Thank you for watching my videos!! Finding this site is a story in itself, no one seemed to know where it was (from the locals). I knew about it from a very old edition (the first actually) of Lonely Planet for Micronesia and looked for it for 2 days. The last day I was there, I was approached by a young man (around 20 years old) driving a beat-up car, which he was using as a taxi, asking me if I wanted a ride. I asked him if he knew where the crash site was, he said his grandmother's house was next to it and that he could take me there for $2!! I promised to give him $10 (USD) if he took me there, then waited for one hour and then take me back to Colonia. You can imagine my surprise and amazement when I first saw it, you can hear it in my voice.. Your story is amazing as well...
I was at this site today, interestingly it's easy to get to, it's right on top of a signposted WWII relic in the form of a Mitsubishi 'Betsy' - It is literally 15 metres from it which confused the life out of me. Still looks the same as in this video, it'll be there for some time as the tourists regularly trek through to see the WWII site.
Hi Stuart, when I was there (2015) there were no signs whatsoever and it was very difficult to find the site.. Enjoy your stay in Yap, I am going back in 2020!
Gosh,the site got bushy then.. We had a boys club that cleans those sites.that one and the ones close by.which are the crash sites of airforce from WWll.Did you go check those out too?
@@abeliever4023 Yes, the site is very bushy indeed, I had to ask for assistance form a local young man in order to find the aircraft, you cannot see it from the runway.. Yes, i did find the aircraft from WW2, they are in a different video!!
Aircraft engines are usually numbered from left to right, so what you call the 'third engine', the one in the rear of the aircraft, is in fact engine number 2.
I like the version i heard. The pilot was talking smack about the yapese. Then as they were approaching, the engineer told the pilot he was coming in to low. Then the yapese magic crashed the plane. At the very end of the runway is a berm sticking up. The wheel hit that burm first. No proof to any of this. But dont mess with yapese magic.
Thank you for this hard-to-fine wreck! The aircraft involved was N18479, one of the short-bodied versions originally built for Southern Air Transport in 1966. Pilot error was the primary cause of the crash, both due to a too-slow landing approach speed and the captain's lack of experience in flying the type. By the way, the view under the tail shows the old Continental black meatball logo against the gold background - yes, I'm old enough to remember that!
#2 was finicky is a few ways to the the S-duct. For example, if you had a good crosswind on the ground before takeoff, and if you pushed all three levers up at the same time, #2 had a tendency to have a compressor stall. That's why you'd find that power was added to #1 and #3, and powers wasn't added to #2 until you had some forward movement. If you did push the power up on all three from at the beginning of the roll with a crosswind, and #2 stalled, it'd trip the packs and give all sorts of nasty lights in the cockpit. Funny though to hear the FA's in the back panic and hit the chime repeatedly in a panic. Not so much fun when you reset the packs having the entire worlds atmosphere rush into the cabin popping everyone's ears!
I am amazed that everyone made it out alive from this aircraft. Boeing 727's were great planes but there was a few accidents because pilots used to land them to slow for 40 degrees of flaps setting and the aircraft would stall and crash before getting to the runway. Boeing and airlines later forbid pilots from using 40 degree flap setting, a lot of airlines simply disabled 40 degree flap setting because of to many crashes.
This pilot touched down 13 feet short because he was minimally trained for the run plus had been on vacation for almost a month and needed to re-qualify if he didn't fly that day. His co-pilot scheduled to fly had an accident the day before, and the one he took wasn't qualified at all. Pilot had been flying DC 10's for years and was switching over to the 727. Made for an interesting landing to be sure! LOL. Nobody killed but sure messed a few up.
Well done. Very good documentary. I must say, I'm from Yap and I've heard about the site and what happened there, but never have I been there to really see it for myself. I should go check it out my next visit home.
Excellent video and presentation. I really admire your passion for the subject. Seeing the old Continental 'Meatball' logo on the tail, resting where it fell all those years ago reminded me of the scene where Charlton Heston stumbled upon the upper part of the statue of Liberty poking out of the sand on the beach in Planet of the apes. Man made icons subsumed by nature.The Boeing 727 was an every day part of my life back in 1970's Dublin...............Iberia, TAP and Lufthansa. Loud, dirty and totally eco unfriendly. I miss 'em. Even cargo operators of the 90's and early to mid 2000's had to bid them farewell. Once again...........wonderful video. Thank you. I really enjoyed it.
Back in 1982 a VASP 727-200 has crashed in similar circumstances on the jungles near Fortaleza, Brazil. The plane turned into small pieces spread for acres, people have their bodies fused with the metal pieces, just horrible.
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It took my 3 days to find it.. Lots of people knew about the plane but very few knew of its exact location, I found it the last day I was there and just a couple of hours before my flight out..
Great footage! I did some research on this - if you search the web for "N18479 crash" you'll find some earlier pictures of the wreckage, showing the tail section in a still upright position. Also, there still was some reckognizable debris of the cockpit and the right side of the fuselage after the fire. Did they finally flatten the wreck by using a bulldozer or try to drag it further into the jungle? Furthermore: What happened to the engines? They appear to have been removed after the crash - probably as part of the following investigations?
Hi, thank you for watching my videos! It seemed to me that the debris was pushed into a ravine next to the runway and I read somewhere that the FAA removed the engines (and other equipment) as part of investigating the crash..
I used to fly regularly to Yap from Guam on that plane in the 1970. Once thtaplane was due for refurbishing and we flew an Alaska Airlines 737. The Eskimo on the tail contrasted with the bare breasted women on the ground. The landing strip was ground coral at that time with Japanese Zeros strafed by Marine Corsairs during WWII at the aside of the runway. .
Upon landing short of the runway threshold a main landing gear was sheared off and the aircraft slid down the runway. It did not break apart and came to rest in one piece. My good friend James H. flight attendant) was the last person out.
No engines under the wings. Just sayin. And the 3rd engine you’re mentioning is actually engine no. 2. Details, details, etc.. Nice video though. Thanks for posting. Just came across this video in 2020.
+skycruiser50 All the information presented in this video was acquired through extensive research. If there is a point that needs correction, let us know and I will be happy to correct it. But by saying that it is 'full of misinformation' you discount everything presented here without offering any evidence why the info is not accurate PLUS you claim that the existing documentation published at the time (or later) of the accident was inaccurate as well...
727 didn’t have engines on the wings. They were at the rear of the aircraft similar to a DC-9 but with a third engine right below the vertical stabilizer.
There are no snakes in Yap. The most scariest thing you will probably see is a very territorial monitor lizard. A great video be the way. I actually have some very rare forage of that crash. I hope to get permission one day to post it up here on TH-cam.
Vuelo 614 de Continental Micronesia ( Air Micronesia) 21 de noviembre de 1980 09:52hs. Boeing 727-92C matricula N18479. 6 tripulantes y 67 pasajeros. Todos sobrevivieron al accidente.
Great vid but the 727s engine configuration was not 1 in the tail and 1 under each wing. There's 2 engines in the back l on either side of the back of the fuselage and 1 in the tail of the aircraft. Awesome vid though. 👍
Fascinating! I found you by chance looking at the UNITED Boeing down today off Oahu (I’m a grad of UH) & friends from MARIANAS IS., YAP, ROTA, Micronesia etc. THIS was awesome - would love to do this! Maybe I will after I make fortune in stock market 📈 thanks to my math 🧮 genus teen son ‼️lol 😂 THANK U‼️😃
I was there and saw the whole incident. I was a boy by that time. There is a video taken that day and have the whole incident captured. The video shot by a Norway guy by the name Hurbi.
HI VIC -- THANK YOU MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO ,, SAD THAT PEOPLE DIED IN THIS CRASH ,,. INTERESTING ABOUT THE PARTS REMAINING I DIDNT SEE NO RUN WAY IN SIGHT ITS GONE .. THANKS,,.
The official NTSB aircraft accident report (November 21, 1980) states what happened to the tail section: “The empennage escaped major fire damage. The aft pressure bulkhead door and airstair assemblies remained intact although damaged by fire. The airstair was found ajar with the aft portion down about 5 inches. The aft airstair emergency pneumatic extension system handle was found in the stowed position with the access cover in place. The actuators were found charged and in the retract position.” “After the aircraft came to rest, the flight attendant seated on the left aft entry door jumpseat attempted to open the aft pressure bulkhead door leading to the aft airstair exit. She said two passengers interfered with the opening of the door because it opens inward. When she got the door open, she attempted to open the airstair with the normal handle, but it did not operate. She did not attempt to use the emergency extension handle for the pneumatic system because she was not aware of the system. She stated that the cabin began to fill with smoke, so she shouted at the passengers attempting to use the aft airstair exit telling them to go forward.”
I used to fly regularly to Yap from Guam on that plane in the 1970. Once that plane was due for refurbishing and we flew an Alaska Airlines 737. The Eskimo on the tail contrasted with the bare breasted women on the ground. The landing strip was ground coral at that time with Japanese Zeros strafed by Marine Corsairs during WWII at the aside of the runway! Another case of pilot error! Sadly!
this video shows a logo on the 727's tail that doesn't match up with continental's "meatball" logo from that era. continental's "micronesia" aircraft were painted in the same livery as domestic continental jets; gold tail with red or black "meatball" logo and formal stripes of gold, red, and orange(ish) along the fuselage. The plane in this video looks like parts of a 727, but the remaining paint colors and tail logo aren't consistent with continental. Was this a newly leased aircraft that had not yet been painted in continental colors? Very curious about this....hope someone knows the true story.
+bestpilot98 INteresting point.. The logo of the tail section is consistent with that used by Continental Micronesia in the 70s and 80s, of you go to Google Images and type 'continental micronesia aircraft' on the 7th and 8th row of results you will see exactly what I have videotaped here..
Great video……but…….. I am sorry your information is 90% incorrect but that is well known and easy to look up with the NTSB report. Major errors…… aircraft description. Look up the plane on the internet. 727-100. The plane touched down slightly short of the runway and one main gear leg was ripped off by the lip of the concrete causing the plane to drift off the runway into the jungle.
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This was 100% the best video Ive watched on youtube. Remarkable. Well narrated too with interesting facts and explanations. Well done sir
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@@VicStefanu So where the engines removed from the crash site?
@@cindysue5474 Yes, by the FAA investigation team..
you are a old man for this project and how many people were killed.
now almost 44 years but I appreciate your perseverance.
Very interesting, thank you for these comments!! 😊😊😊
Still enjoy this video! Brings back memories, some good, some not so good. The main entry was via stairs in the rear but was blocked due to debris jammed in there. The right side was on fire from tail to cockpit , the slide was right side so wasn't available to use. There were 2 exits over right wing unavailable as well. All passengers and flight stewards went out over left wing. Cockpit flight crew went out through the windows. Right side fuel tank blew up as we where going through the jungle, escaping. Again, Vic thank you for filming this video.
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Hi Jeff, I just happened to find this video of your plane crash. Still remember Mom waking me up before you called telling me something had happened to you. As soon as, she picked up the phone you called. Did you send Vic your photos of the plane blowing up? Thinking of them still gives me chills. By the way, you have not been fun to fly with after this. Love ya, your little sis Laynee
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Vic if I ever do find those photos, I will upload them to you. As my little sister suggested. Thank you for videos. Mayvyou bring us many more in the years to come.
@@jeffrains9569 Hello my friend, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 😊😊😊I would love to see those photos one day...
I guess my comments on this video of the Air Micronesia (Continental) B727 pranged on Yap were removed? It seems so, or perhaps I missed them in a read-thru. I arrived on Yap a couple days before Christmas, 1980, to salvage this airplane for a company that purchased the airplane from the insurance company. The video depicts the airplane aft fuselage lying on its left side in the jungle. I pushed it there with the help of Yap's Land Management personnel and their bulldozer after I had salvaged all commercial value from that portion of the wreck. The village that owned the property adjacent to the final resting place requested that I do that. The airline was none too happy to see it removed from the side of the runway as well. The salvage operation personnel included me and a Yapese mechanic who worked at the missionary aviation concern across the runway at a hangar. I also had a room in the back of that hangar for most of the salvage duration. I left the island in early April, 1981. I was 25 years old at the time. The cause of the accident is a matter of record but the path the airplane took and events from the moment of impact to the immediate period after it came to rest are not as available. The right gear was severed and the moment of the impact veered the nose to the right causing a sideways skid. That skid snapped the nose and left main gear legs off. The airplane's right wing contacted the raised dirt berm on the right side of the skid path turning it further to the right into a skid 90° to the runway center line and up the berm. As it slid sideways various structural and system components were torn away and left embedded in the skid path. It continued to skid until in fell into a drainage ditch that was dug 90° to the runway center line and off to the right side of the skid path. The airplane had turned past 90° by the time it reached the drainage ditch causing the nose to fall into the ditch and impact the left side of the ditch in a whiplash movement with a good amount of force. As told to me by the flight engineer who was aboard the plane when pranged, the pilot suffered ankle injuries when he was thrown into the side wall of the airplane. As the fuselage fell into the ditch the outer wing panels broke away and rose vertically causing fuel to spill into the ditch. The aft fuselage broke away from the fuselage just forward of the aft pressure bulkhead because it was not over the ditch and remained there on high ground untouched by the blaze that ultimately consumed the fuselage after the fuel was sparked off. The passengers and crew evacuated immediately and avoided the fire. Most of the passenger injuries were minor and sustained when fleeing through the jungle undergrowth consisting of sawgrass and rope-like vines with thorns. Also, there were various bomb craters left from the WWII Allied bombing of the island that could not be readily seen due to the jungle undergrowth. These craters were about 15 feet in diameter, 6 to 7 feet deep and filled with nasty water. Pretty sure the fleeing occupants from the plane discovered that first hand. I fell into a couple myself when booney stomping the jungle during the monsoons. The fire department of Yap had poor equipment and no access to the airplane's location (or so it claimed). I was told the firetruck had a leaking water tank and was all but empty by the time it arrived from the main town of Colonia. No fire equipment was maintained at the airport. The remains of the aft fuselage in the video were left to the village to salvage the stainless steel tubing and various cables and pulleys for use on their fishing boats.
Hi and thank you for sharing with us these absolutely incredible details of this plane crash accident. I am not sure what happened to your original comments... I had a very difficult time finding the remains of the fuselage since no one that I asked seemed to know where it was.. Finally I found a young man (around 20 years old) and lived in his grandmother's house at the end of the runway and he agreed to take me there.. the place was still littered with left over parts.. I remember the bomb craters that you are mentioning.. What an incredible experience for me to be there and to see this site.. Thank you again!
The fire truck did arrive but they applied the water in a stream instead of fog thus spreading the fire and depleting the water supply quickly. I informed them to open the nozzle further to fog which immediately suppressed the fire till they ran out of water. They left to refill and got stuck, they came back around 45 minutes later to what you basically found. The island ambulance showed up to take one of my female dive partners to the hospital. They couldn't open the rear doors so they had to load her in from the side. The co pilot landed the aircraft in Guam to pick us up because the the landing earlier in Japan was extremely rough. Co pilot wasn't qualified for that run and the pilot was minimally qualified. Still amazes me that we all made it off alive! Thank you for filling in details I hadn't heard. Especially about the ditch and the reason for it being on its side. I was 19 when that accident happened.
Ok guys, it is not the 'jungles' of Yap, it is the tropical forests of Yap..
You didn't bump into Dan Gryder while you were there, did you?
No... I did not...
My brother was on this flight. He has photos of the plane as it blew up.
Very interesting, thank you! It took a lot of effort to find the plane next to the abandoned runway, I am so glad I persisted in looking for it!!
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727 has three engines on the tail section, none are under the wings
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727 has NO engines under the wing; there are one on each side of the far aft fuselage (behind the last row of seats) and one in the tail whose intake is at the base of the vertical stabilizer.
You're not correct in your description at the 4:46 point of the video. That is NOT the intake for the #3 engine nacelle and if the plane had been upright....wouldn't be on the left. You're filming the S-duct #2 engine intake and its on the top of the fuselage.
Thank you for the clarification..
He was correct in his description that it's an tail engine intake, he simply made a mistake saying it's the 3rd engine instead of number 2 engine.
Amazing to see this video. I was there when it happened.... Assigned to the LORAN station there in 1980. No one was killed. If it went the other way down the west side of the runway, many would have died at the terminal area and Missionary Aviation base of operation. 55 gallon drums of AVGAS stacked right next to the terminal would have gone up. As it happened it just went backwards into the jungle and split into three main pieces.
Thank you for viewing my videos and for sharing with us this incredible information!! It must have been quite an experience being there when this horrible incident took place!!
Angus MacFeeley I flew into Yap twice on Air Force C-130 resupply flights out of Guam in 1976-77.
The Coasties both times had a nice hot lunch for us when we landed.
I remember how remote Yap was, but I liked it there. I am a WW2 history buff, so I would loved to had a week or two to just explore.
You were on the island then? I guarantee it was a wild ride.
were you able to find any trace of the nose section if not was it destroyed by the inferno or was it buried in the vegetation?
Nothing had been left from the nose section...
This was a simple accident of the plane landing short of the runway and losing any susequent control. I recall reading that the airport had only one fire truck with a single attendant at the time who upon breakout of fire was supposed to mix several chemicals into the water tank to assist in fighting the fire. Once those and the available water in the tank was expended he had to rely on refilling it with sea water nearby which he made several valient attempts to bring the fire under control. Fortunately everyone got out and cleared the burning area which might not have started until the aircraft came to a stop broken into several pieces. If the captain had been flying DC-10s and transitioned back to the 727 the change would have been substantial and the runway at the time was less than 5000 feet considered the minimum necessary. It was essential to land in the first quarter of the runway so it could be brought to a stop in the available space.
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The heat and humidity destroyed the foam before it could be used. Thus only straight water was used
Great job on this video...Keep up the good work!
Thank you!!
"Contributing to the accident were the Captain's lack of recent experience in the B-727 aircraft and a transfer of his DC-10 aircraft landing habits and techniques to the operation of the B-727 aircraft."
Thanks for the information...
Co pilot wasnt qualified at all, original copilot was injured day b4 in motorcycle acc. Had pilot not flown he would have had to re-qualify for the run
The B727 had no engines under the wings, it had three engines mounted in the aft of the plane.
Hi Michael, thanks for the info... When I got there, for the life of me, even though I had flown in both, the 707 and the 727, I could not remember the configuration of each and ended up confusing them.. thanks for the clarification..
I used to fly on that 727 for years while on Guam to visit friends on Saipan and Yap. Great video. Sad ending! I remember one time that plane was getting its required service check in Indonesia, I believe. and Continental Air Micronesia used a 727 from Alaska Airlines. It looked odd with the giant Eskimo painted on the AA 's tail landing on Yap in the tropics. Thanks, again for the video. Well done!!
How interesting, thank you for your wonderful comments!!
How did anyone survive much less everyone! That is a true miracle!
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I love it when I can explore the world and never leave home. Good presentation my friend, I concur with Chuck. "They hate ya, cause they ain't ya". Carry on.
Thank you my friend, thank you!!
My Dad was waiting in Koror Palau for that same aircraft to arrive from Yap. He was flying back to Guam on the return journey. They never said it had crashed, only delayed (a bit of an understatement). He flew the next day. A couple weeks later I flew into Yap as well and saw it on the side of the runway as we taxied past. What a sight! No effect had been made to clean up the sight or paint over the livery.
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Amazing video,great job.
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Excellent excellent video!!! Thanks for sharing this with us!!!
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What runway was it trying to land on - Runway 7 or 25???
An incredible video. Thanks Vic!
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Amazing the Continental logo still visable.
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rode Air Mic(Boeing 727) so many times back in the 70s/80s, when I was just a kid. I never knew about the accident. Thanks for sharing.
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Another great video Sir.. a big salute to you.. great..
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Great video. Thank you for posting.
I love the way the remains have been covered in plants. Nature will always triumph over machinery.
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I was at this site today, interestingly it's easy to get to, it's right on top of a signposted WWII relic in the form of a Mitsubishi 'Betsy' - It is literally 15 metres from it which confused the life out of me. Still looks the same as in this video, it'll be there for some time as the tourists regularly trek through to see the WWII site.
Hi Stuart, when I was there (2015) there were no signs whatsoever and it was very difficult to find the site.. Enjoy your stay in Yap, I am going back in 2020!
Sir,is that near the old airport?
Great video by the way.
Yes, it is, right next to the old airport..
Gosh,the site got bushy then..
We had a boys club that cleans those sites.that one and the ones close by.which are the crash sites of airforce from WWll.Did you go check those out too?
@@abeliever4023 Yes, the site is very bushy indeed, I had to ask for assistance form a local young man in order to find the aircraft, you cannot see it from the runway.. Yes, i did find the aircraft from WW2, they are in a different video!!
Aircraft engines are usually numbered from left to right, so what you call the 'third engine', the one in the rear of the aircraft, is in fact engine number 2.
Great information, I will remember that, thank you.
Good for you, i noticed mistake as well.
I like the version i heard. The pilot was talking smack about the yapese. Then as they were approaching, the engineer told the pilot he was coming in to low. Then the yapese magic crashed the plane. At the very end of the runway is a berm sticking up. The wheel hit that burm first. No proof to any of this. But dont mess with yapese magic.
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THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO AMAZING....Thanks for giving me the goose bumps... Well done, my friend.
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Vic thanks for taking the time to film this for us aviation buffs!
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thanks for vid !
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Thank you .... Be safe ! Bobby
Thank you for this hard-to-fine wreck! The aircraft involved was N18479, one of the short-bodied versions originally built for Southern Air Transport in 1966. Pilot error was the primary cause of the crash, both due to a too-slow landing approach speed and the captain's lack of experience in flying the type. By the way, the view under the tail shows the old Continental black meatball logo against the gold background - yes, I'm old enough to remember that!
Thank you, I have described in my video similar events and have given the same description of the tail sign..
the -100 had a tendency to lose power in number two if you pitched up to high at slow power settings due to the air intake design.
sounds like a classic stall situation
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#2 was finicky is a few ways to the the S-duct. For example, if you had a good crosswind on the ground before takeoff, and if you pushed all three levers up at the same time, #2 had a tendency to have a compressor stall. That's why you'd find that power was added to #1 and #3, and powers wasn't added to #2 until you had some forward movement. If you did push the power up on all three from at the beginning of the roll with a crosswind, and #2 stalled, it'd trip the packs and give all sorts of nasty lights in the cockpit. Funny though to hear the FA's in the back panic and hit the chime repeatedly in a panic. Not so much fun when you reset the packs having the entire worlds atmosphere rush into the cabin popping everyone's ears!
when i worked for an airline a mechanic gave me a tour of the inside of a tail one time, really interesting how much room is in there.
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Great video. Thanks for sharing this remarkable experience...
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Good video. Very rarely do you see wreckage this close up.
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Very cool vídeo! Interesting! How do you find the plane? Congratulations, amazing!
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I am amazed that everyone made it out alive from this aircraft. Boeing 727's were great planes but there was a few accidents because pilots used to land them to slow for 40 degrees of flaps setting and the aircraft would stall and crash before getting to the runway. Boeing and airlines later forbid pilots from using 40 degree flap setting, a lot of airlines simply disabled 40 degree flap setting because of to many crashes.
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That is not the case. 40 remains in use today. Read more here: www.pprune.org/tech-log/334159-727-early-high-sink-rate-crashes.html
Very interesting, thank you
Itapirkanmaa2: Correct. We used 40 routinely when weight permitted.
This pilot touched down 13 feet short because he was minimally trained for the run plus had been on vacation for almost a month and needed to re-qualify if he didn't fly that day. His co-pilot scheduled to fly had an accident the day before, and the one he took wasn't qualified at all. Pilot had been flying DC 10's for years and was switching over to the 727. Made for an interesting landing to be sure! LOL. Nobody killed but sure messed a few up.
Well done. Very good documentary. I must say, I'm from Yap and I've heard about the site and what happened there, but never have I been there to really see it for myself. I should go check it out my next visit home.
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Vic is that where the plane originally landed or was it pushed into that ravine? Great video! thanks
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Glad all lived, I think is your first explore a crase site 😀 you have done a good job. I guess all the inside of the plane is gone
You are right!
Great 👍 video friend. Amen 🙏🏻 for the survivors.
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Excellent video and presentation. I really admire your passion for the subject. Seeing the old Continental 'Meatball' logo on the tail, resting where it fell all those years ago reminded me of the scene where Charlton Heston stumbled upon the upper part of the statue of Liberty poking out of the sand on the beach in Planet of the apes. Man made icons subsumed by nature.The Boeing 727 was an every day part of my life back in 1970's Dublin...............Iberia, TAP and Lufthansa. Loud, dirty and totally eco unfriendly. I miss 'em. Even cargo operators of the 90's and early to mid 2000's had to bid them farewell. Once again...........wonderful video. Thank you. I really enjoyed it.
No cockpit?
I will subscribe because you went to my country
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727 has engines at the rear NOT under the wings...
Big deal, you know what he meant - why don't you leave your mother's basement and head out to Yap? This was an excellent video.
Where's "Yap?"
Google maps...
He meant the tail
Wild
I actually was on a boeing 727 flight
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Back in 1982 a VASP 727-200 has crashed in similar circumstances on the jungles near Fortaleza, Brazil. The plane turned into small pieces spread for acres, people have their bodies fused with the metal pieces, just horrible.
+Marzziooo Wow, thank you for letting us know...
The 727 has no engines under the wing. All 3 are in or attached to the empenage.
Thank you for this.. I have already inserted a correction in the video..
This point was clearly addressed in the video.
Awesome, intriguing video!
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To see the Continental logo on that tail is something else. How easy is this site to access? Great footage.
It took my 3 days to find it.. Lots of people knew about the plane but very few knew of its exact location, I found it the last day I was there and just a couple of hours before my flight out..
Great footage! I did some research on this - if you search the web for "N18479 crash" you'll find some earlier pictures of the wreckage, showing the tail section in a still upright position. Also, there still was some reckognizable debris of the cockpit and the right side of the fuselage after the fire. Did they finally flatten the wreck by using a bulldozer or try to drag it further into the jungle? Furthermore: What happened to the engines? They appear to have been removed after the crash - probably as part of the following investigations?
Hi, thank you for watching my videos! It seemed to me that the debris was pushed into a ravine next to the runway and I read somewhere that the FAA removed the engines (and other equipment) as part of investigating the crash..
They probably pushed it farther in as it was partially on the runway. It was angled in.
Great vid!
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Amazing, Vic!
"One under each wing and another one in the back"
...ok, red flags flying!
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I used to fly regularly to Yap from Guam on that plane in the 1970. Once thtaplane was due for refurbishing and we flew an Alaska Airlines 737. The Eskimo on the tail contrasted with the bare breasted women on the ground. The landing strip was ground coral at that time with Japanese Zeros strafed by Marine Corsairs during WWII at the aside of the runway. .
727 doesn't have engines on the wings like you said they are on the rear fuselage.
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Thank you for posting. It's clear that you put a lot of thought and effort into this. Fascinating video!
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Looking at the state of that wreck,it's a wonder anyone survived let alone all of them.Very interesting clip
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Upon landing short of the runway threshold a main landing gear was sheared off and the aircraft slid down the runway. It did not break apart and came to rest in one piece. My good friend James H. flight attendant) was the last person out.
@@charlescanton4740he was right behind me as we exited!
Yessir best vid ever
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I really mean it
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No engines under the wings. Just sayin. And the 3rd engine you’re mentioning is actually engine no. 2. Details, details, etc.. Nice video though. Thanks for posting. Just came across this video in 2020.
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I'm tired of all you know it alls.
Also, this was not in the news because a plane crashed in Manila the same day.
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I fly with United but was with Continental in Guam for years.
Great job on this video. Don't let the naysayers bring you down... you did a good job.
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+Chuck Cummins Chuck, you got to be kidding! This video is full of misinformation!
+skycruiser50 All the information presented in this video was acquired through extensive research. If there is a point that needs correction, let us know and I will be happy to correct it. But by saying that it is 'full of misinformation' you discount everything presented here without offering any evidence why the info is not accurate PLUS you claim that the existing documentation published at the time (or later) of the accident was inaccurate as well...
great video
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Wait what a boeing 727 in that crash site
What do you mean??
As if like how did it get there ofc a crash but why did random parts come off?
Amazing - thank you!
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Nice video documentary. Gives a very good impression of just how violent a commercial jet crash is. Thanks for posting it.
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PRETTY CREEPY.....BUT REALLY COOL THAT IT IS STILL THERE! GLAD MANY SURVIVED.
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Where did he say the tailsection was??
Do you know if anyone lived? Or died?
No one died, I think I mentioned this in the video..
727 didn’t have engines on the wings.
They were at the rear of the aircraft similar to a DC-9 but with a third engine right below the vertical stabilizer.
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any dangerous creatures near the wreckage, like snakes? if so, you are a very brave man.
I do not think there are snakes there, at least I did not see any!! Thank God for that... lol...
There are no snakes in Yap. The most scariest thing you will probably see is a very territorial monitor lizard. A great video be the way. I actually have some very rare forage of that crash. I hope to get permission one day to post it up here on TH-cam.
Vuelo 614 de Continental Micronesia ( Air Micronesia) 21 de noviembre de 1980 09:52hs. Boeing 727-92C matricula N18479.
6 tripulantes y 67 pasajeros. Todos sobrevivieron al accidente.
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Great vid but the 727s engine configuration was not 1 in the tail and 1 under each wing. There's 2 engines in the back l on either side of the back of the fuselage and 1 in the tail of the aircraft. Awesome vid though. 👍
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Was on that plane! Plane is pointing backwards to way we came in
Wow, thank you!
Looks like a wrecked aircraft.. Not sure what type
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Fascinating! I found you by chance looking at the UNITED Boeing down today off Oahu (I’m a grad of UH) & friends from MARIANAS IS., YAP, ROTA, Micronesia etc. THIS was awesome - would love to do this! Maybe I will after I make fortune in stock market 📈 thanks to my math 🧮 genus teen son ‼️lol 😂 THANK U‼️😃
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wow a very interesting video.
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727 has 3 engines in the rear, none under the wings. Nonetheless, a fascinating video!!!
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I was there and saw the whole incident. I was a boy by that time. There is a video taken that day and have the whole incident captured. The video shot by a Norway guy by the name Hurbi.
wow.. that must be an incredible memory...
Now hurbi was a u.n. agent staying with my family and we went to the airport to video the landing and takeoff of the plane, and that happened.
@@edmundpasan529 Wow, this is absolutely amazing, thank you!
Amazing find, my friend! Glory be to God for No loss of life.
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HI VIC -- THANK YOU MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO ,, SAD THAT PEOPLE DIED IN THIS CRASH ,,. INTERESTING ABOUT THE PARTS REMAINING I DIDNT SEE NO RUN WAY IN SIGHT ITS GONE .. THANKS,,.
Parts of the original runway are still visible, I should have videotaped it as part of this video... :((
Your actually wrong the boeing 727 Has all 3 engines at the tail section The plane you said was the dc 10
This is actually a Boing 727.. The DC-10 was much larger..
The official NTSB aircraft accident report (November 21, 1980) states what happened to the tail section:
“The empennage escaped major fire damage. The aft pressure bulkhead door and airstair assemblies remained intact although damaged by fire. The airstair was found ajar with the aft portion down about 5 inches. The aft airstair emergency pneumatic extension system handle was found in the stowed position with the access cover in place. The actuators were found charged and in the retract position.”
“After the aircraft came to rest, the flight attendant seated on the left aft entry door jumpseat attempted to open the aft pressure bulkhead door leading to the aft airstair exit. She said two passengers interfered with the opening of the door because it opens inward. When she got the door open, she attempted to open the airstair with the normal handle, but it did not operate. She did not attempt to use the emergency extension handle for the pneumatic system because she was not aware of the system. She stated that the cabin began to fill with smoke, so she shouted at the passengers attempting to use the aft airstair exit telling them to go forward.”
Hi Rod, this is very interesting information, thank you!
The 727 does not have engines under t he wings, they have them on the rear of the airplane, the DC-10 has two under the wing and one on the tail
+nightfox Thank you for this information, I have included corrections on the video about this matter..
Why don't have a crash test into the Flo
Crash test
How
The pilot leds
Only that was in the desert
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Why don't remove the aircraft
Damaged from the crash site
For better investigation
I think one needs to ask the government that..
All aboard survived? Does anybody else believe in miracles?
It does seem like a miracle that everyone survived!
I used to fly regularly to Yap from Guam on that plane in the 1970. Once that plane was due for refurbishing and we flew an Alaska Airlines 737. The Eskimo on the tail contrasted with the bare breasted women on the ground. The landing strip was ground coral at that time with Japanese Zeros strafed by Marine Corsairs during WWII at the aside of the runway! Another case of pilot error! Sadly!
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Wow, gave me the willies. Wonder where those big engines are. I didn't see any or maybe the NTSB confiscated them.
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this video shows a logo on the 727's tail that doesn't match up with continental's
"meatball" logo from that era. continental's "micronesia" aircraft were painted in the same livery as domestic continental jets; gold tail with red or black "meatball" logo and formal stripes of gold, red, and orange(ish) along the fuselage. The plane in this video looks like parts of a 727, but the remaining paint colors and tail logo aren't consistent with continental. Was this a newly leased aircraft that had not yet been painted in continental colors?
Very curious about this....hope someone knows the true story.
+bestpilot98 INteresting point.. The logo of the tail section is consistent with that used by Continental Micronesia in the 70s and 80s, of you go to Google Images and type 'continental micronesia aircraft' on the 7th and 8th row of results you will see exactly what I have videotaped here..
is all the luggage there?
No, all the pieces of luggage were removed long time ago..
Dommage..pas de commentaire en français.
Vous pouvez activer les sous-titres lorsque vous regardez la vidéo
ure wrong vic thez are on the rear fuselage sides abnd one inside the tail
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Great video……but…….. I am sorry your information is 90% incorrect but that is well known and easy to look up with the NTSB report. Major errors…… aircraft description. Look up the plane on the internet. 727-100. The plane touched down slightly short of the runway and one main gear leg was ripped off by the lip of the concrete causing the plane to drift off the runway into the jungle.
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