This is actually the second unbelievably impressive landing of Captain Carlos Dardano's career. About 10 years before this event, when taking off from an airfield in El Salvador, Captain Dardano was shot in the head and managed to fly his plane and passengers safely for about 20 minutes to land at another airfield. It cost him his left eye though it clearly did not affect his ability as a pilot. Nerves of steel that man.
@@kitsune9329 Indeed, He's a superhero! Shot in the head, loss of one eye and he still land that plane a decade before this incident, where he maneuvered a 737 commercial jet to a safe landing with no engine power! That man deserves to have his name known BETTER than sports stars or reality TV celebrities!
It was the first time a 737 was landed anywhere but on a runway. And the pilot, Carlos Dardano, did it with no power. It is considered by many the greatest emergency landing in aviation history.
@phuck ewe i lived in louisiana. those levees arent usually wider than a truck can traverse. I'll be more blunt. FUCK YOU. they never named the levee, but he has more courage than you can ever wish to have. nobody was injured? nobody killed? male or female, yes. VERY heavy balls of steel
Thank you so much for your video! I remember vividly when this incident occurred, it was all over the news back in my home country, El Salvador. I have met captain Carlos Dardano in person, both of my brothers attended his flight school. What makes the story even more interesting, is that in the 80s, during the civil war, captain Dardano was flying as a private pilot, when insurgents attacked while his plane was in a dirt runway out in the country. He was able to get his plane in the air, but unfortunately he was hurt by small arms fire during take off, one round hit his face and he lost one eye. He managed to fly his plane back with its occupants to safety, even after that grievous injury. He later became a successful commercial pilot, despite the fact that he had no depth perception due to having only one eye. In my opinion that makes the fact that years after that incident, he managed to glide a fully loaded commercial jet, and land it without a single casualty, even more extraordinary. Once again, thank you very much for your videos, they are so entertaining, and your detailed and passionate description of the events makes them so fun to watch. Please keep your videos coming, you are an amazing story teller!
Wait what? My Dad wanted to be in the Air Force to be a pilot, and only after investing time into it, did someone inform him that his lack of 20/20 vision was an automatic disqualifier (he wears eyeglasses like many of us, myself included). But this guy was allowed to continue as a commercial airline pilot with ONE eye?!
I actually called Southwest a few times, trying to get this airplane sent to a museum. I ultimately failed, but, through my persistence, I was told that they were giving the flight yoke from the aircraft to the pilot who made the miracle landing. :)
@@singleproppilot I suggest the Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas . Beech Craft and Leer Jet have headquarters in Wichita and Wichita's 1940's era airport , when replaced, has been repurposed as an Aviation Museum. kansasaviationmuseum.org/explore/location-hours
The pilot if I remember correectly was praised for his amazing skill and the story of the recovery of the plane was just as interesting as its original incident. Was nice to hear that the plane continued service for so long did not know that fact. Very good choice, this definitely deserves to be remembered.
“Pilots”. It’s plural. The captain was accompanied by two other very qualified pilots. The first officer saw the grassy knoll and pointed it out to the captain and check pilot. The captain just performed the “soft field” landing (which is impress) but it was still a “crew” effort. *Not preaching
The pilot had excellent stick and rudder skills, some obtained from his own small private plane. He's one of my heroes, though I've sadly never met him.
I am from Guatemala, and because of these I had flown Taca, wich now is Avianca múltiple times. I met the captain, and flew on the glider, as they nicknamed the plane. Amazing story
What those pilots did was nothing short of astounding. Time and time again, similar incidents have led to tragically high death tolls that indiscriminately end the lives of adults and children alike. Such professionalism under crisis situations deserves the highest commendation.
Well, the captain lost an eye to a bullet and still managed to start the plane, fly nearly half an hour and then landed without damages. I don't think there's anything in this world that could stand a chance against this man's balls.
He was a great pilot but he also had a great crew andluck on his side in that he had a perfect place to land available within his flight path and ability. Also saved Taca airlines a ton by landing where he did and not in the canal. It’s just a perfect emergency landing.
I'm a diver who has traveled thru Central and South America a lot. TACA had a past reputation for losing luggage but they seemed to have fixed it. As USAF I always found their crews top notch and their meals better than any US domestic airlines
Yes, great idea!! Our German hero would be Juergen Vietor, young co-pilot of the hijacked Lufthansa „Landshut“ 737 in 1977. He had to stay awake for days, witness how the pilot was shot, manage an emergency landing in Yemen and finally fly to Mogadishu with a damaged plane, very little fuel and limited navigation. Maybe someone can make a video about the hijacked flight from a pilots point of view.
@@bee2k01 This was literally true in the AirFrance flight from Brazil. The inexperienced co-pilot had pulled the nose up causing a stall. One side of the piton tubes had frozen shut and neither of the inexperienced pilots knew which side to believe. When they finally got the captain back and he figured out what was happening it was too late. Same was true for a flight to Buffalo in winter where the wings iced up and the inexperienced pilots failed to notice this and again caused a stall. Experience has so much to say for being a pilot in trying to figure what is wrong and what they can do to try to fix the problem. Sully and his crew is another great example of when everything goes wrong the crew gets everything right. Although they had a bit of luck of stopping where the ferries crossed the river. Talk about everything going right after it had gone wrong.
@@bee2k01 The most likely scenario for pilotless aircraft would be an AI in the cockpit doing the routine, mundane flying in cruise (something which autopilots do well already) while a group of human pilots sit in a room somewhere monitoring the flight’s progress via data link, ready to take over in case of the unexpected. As the flight progresses, the pilot in command could hand off control to another pilot in the same control center, or hand the flight off to another center closer to the aircraft’s destination. It’s not as far-fetched as many would have you believe, though, given the slow and cautious progress of aviation technology, I still think it will take decades to implement. And contrary to popular belief, it will not make pilots obsolete. It will only mean they don’t have to travel with the aircraft.
There is one other factor, relating to how magnificent, this feat of airmanship actually was.. The captain, was a military pilot as well, and had lost an eye previously, though was still able to medically qualify to fly, for his airline.. Add the reduced depth perception that would result, and you see just how good, this pilot really was.. That's the type of guy you want, in the pointy end of your flight, when the crap hits the fan. Just a simply awesome aviator, who just happens to be your pilot that day..
This rates right up there with "the miracle on the Hudson". I like to think that the pilot and co-pilot receive gifts from the passengers every Christmas.
@orangelion03 - I was going to comment that this pilot deserves as much recognition as Sullenberger. The difference being one was caught on video for the world to see.
@@phlodel-Except that there were no damages on TACA 110 and they put it down on the grass. Gimly glider hit the nose on ground and that was an airport before where it landed. And Gimly pilots were not ONE EYED.
@John Kyle Remember TransAsia Airways Flight 235? Two minutes after takeoff, the pilots reported an engine flameout. The other engine was still working and was mistakenly shut down. My brother-in-law is a commercial pilot for China Airlines and he said he's had that happen to him, except he didn't mistakenly shut down the operative engine. I asked him what he think happened and he speculated the pilot may have panicked. Another pilot may have panicked with US Airways Flight 1549 and tried to make it back to the airport. We don't know.
As an airline pilot I have studied this a lot. You covered it well. I had read that the turbulence was so severe, the pilots could barely read their instruments which made dealing with the dual-flameout even more difficult. Also Captain Dardano was blind in one eye. Amazingly he was able to get back his medical certificate to fly. Another tidbit was that after landing, the passengers did an emergency egress onto the levy, and then the storm that had dumped so much rain and hail on the airplane in flight, then moved over the plane on the ground. The passengers motioned for the pilots, who were still in the cockpit, to egress also, but knowing there was no real reason to, and not wanting to get soaked, they elected to stay inside!
"Trying a deadstick landing with a passenger airliner can be described as ... not ideal." LOL! I missed this story in the day but thanks for the great retelling.
You are a treasure. Not just a font of facts, but a real presenter. You get INTO IT. Even your voice "leans in" for favored underscore or exclamation or emotional iteration. Such a joy. So riveting. Thanks for sharing...
I was working at Michaud at the time this happened and remember it well. A couple of guys I worked with were in the area in their service truck and saw the plane coming in. One of the guys was a volunteer EMT and radioed security to roll ambulances while they sped to meet the plane. They were two of the first responders, meeting passengers as they evacuated. The only way the pilot could've picked a better spot would've been to land at an airport. Michaud was equipped with its own fire service and ambulance, as well as its own emergency room with on-staff doctor. The story was that the pilot thought about landing on Saturn Blvd. but didn't as he was worried about crossing powerlines. The other thing that made this landing optimal was that Michaud had aircraft tow trucks used to move the external tanks around. These were used to move the plane around to in front of the pressure test building, where it was parked while being repaired. I was witness to the plane actually taking off from Saturn Blvd. A 737 doesn't need much runway when it's empty of passengers. Quite a sight. Thanks for the great report and trip down memory lane.
In a world that fancies bad news over good... this is a wonderful piece of history that truly deserves to be remembered. It is especially relevant to today (December 2019) , and all the issues Boeing is currently going through.
Many viewers have mentioned that the NASA Michaud assembly facility is pronounced "Mi-shoo." The photo of the Coast Guard helicopter at the end is an HH-60 "Pave Hawk." Actually, the Coast Guard at the time were operating the HH-65 "Dolphin." The three Comet crashes that resulted in the model being temporarily withdrawn from service were in 1954, not 1956. Some viewers were under the impression that the plane took off from the levee itself. That is not the case. After performing an engine replacement in situ, the plane was towed a short distance and took off from a road in front of the NASA Michaud Assembly Facility. This was notable because the plane did not have to be disassembled to get it to a repair facility.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered I remember that being all over the news. The landing is made more impressive by the fact he had only 1 👁 cover 1 one and walk around for a day and you will find your depth perception all but gone. He lost his eye when he was shot during a rescue flight where he flew that plane with his eye hanging out. Truly amazing pilot.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered I’m sorry History guy but they Did Not toe the plane! It was repaired on the levee and took off from where it landed. Piloted by test pilots it lifted of smoothly. The entire event was filmed and is on TH-cam. Thank you good sir and Love The BowTie 👌🏼
Great storytelling. Many N.O names are pronounced unconventionally -- for example, Burgundy Street, which older locals pronounce bur-GUN-dee. Trivia #1 -- when NASA de-mothballed Michoud in the early 1960's, its first engineers (hired by contractor Chrysler) included many from Boeing (this plane's manufacturer) who moved from the Seattle area. Trivia #2 -- the subject levee on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (locally called the "Mister Go") was widened at about the same time Michoud was re-activated in the early 1960's. Later, the MRGO was blamed for funneling floodwaters into the New Orleans Ninth Ward in Hurricane Katrina.
@@redstone51 Maybe, but consider this: Capt. Dardano is blind in one eye. His depth perception is probably below normal, yet he managed a perfect landing from an extremely difficult maneuver that he had ONE chance to perform correctly in an aircraft without engine thrust. Capt. Sully did something amazing. Capt. Dardano did something no one else has EVER done.
Since Capt. Dardano was just 29 years old at the time of this incident, I imagine he had no grey hairs going in. Probably had a few when he came off the flight deck that day, though.
He got shot in the face by an M16 and lost an eye to a bullet; with a bloody face and the left eye hanging on his face and sticky blood on his arms, he flew 25 minutes to another airport and landed the plane with no damages. 5 years later he lost all engines on a 737, he again landed with no damages. Tough guy.
You should look up the Gimli glider (Air Canada 143). It was a B767 that ran out of fuel mid-flight and had to make an emergency landing without power.
On racetrack with people there ,i bet they shit seeing that come in when i was kid a 737 landed at HMB ca. Airport after some malfunction from SFO ,my dad took us to see it next morning it was huge on that small runway
On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 from Toronto to Lisbon with 306 souls onboard ran out of fuel and power 1,000 miles from Europe. The captain, Robert Piché, glided the Airbus A330 104 miles landing at a military base in the Azores. *This remains the world record for glide length of a commercial aircraft in aviation history.*
The comet disasters weren't due to engine problems as suggested here but rather to the design flaw of square window corners (concentrated stresses), cold temperatures and cabin pressurization.
Even that's not completely true square windows aren't ideal but they're not necessarily a lethal flaw and other pressurized planes like the DC-6 used them with no ill effects - more correctly the overall design and manufacturing techniques of the Comet could not withstand the uneven distribution of stress caused by square windows
He's my El Salvadorian Sully. Although Sully's Hudson landing was nearly 20 years after this. They're both my aviation heroes. As well as Kevin Sullivan.
My wife and I love this channel. You make history so fun to hear and learn. There are two channels on TH-cam we refuse to miss this is one of them. Thank you and keep doing the great job.
That was an incredible story. Shared this w/ my brother, a commercial airline capt for last 20+ years. He agreed w/ The History Guy’s assessment, none of that should’ve happened. Excellent flight crew who stuck to their training. Had any one of them faltered, they’d likely not have made it. Brilliant story! Thx History Guy!!
For those interested, planes only have a starter motor on what is called the APU, or auxillary power unit. It is a small jet engine within the tail of the aircraft which is used to provide hudraulic, electric, and bleed air power. It's used on ground to provide this power where ground power is not available. Ground power is literally just plugging a big power cable into a socket but this isn't available everywhere. The bleed air is either used on the ground for the air conditioning packs, or to start the first engine. Basically compressed (bleed) air is used to spin the engine up to a point where its ignition takes over. One that engine is started, the bleed air from *that* engine is used to start the other engine(s). This is why only one engine starts at a time. After this, the APU is shut down in flight. But if there is a problem with one of the engines or it's generators, the APU can be fired up again to provide that redundancy for electric and hydraulic power. It also means that if the engines are both perfectly serviceable but one of the generators is not, they'll just use the APU and the craft is still certified to fly. Aircraft have so many redundancies you'll be amazed at how much *isn't* working when they take off, and you will never know.l
Nice description. One point of difference is that using the first engine to start the other engine (s) is called a cross bleed start and is not normal procedure. While there are procedures for cross bleed start they are rarely used because the running engine is required to be throttled up well above idle thrust to create enough bleed air to start the other engine (s). This creates a safety problem for ramp personnel and ATC as the aircraft must be moved to an area cleared for several hundred feet due to engine intake and exhaust safety zones. The APU is used for all normal engine starts.
You might be interested to know that there is in fact a starter turbine on most aircraft, including all variants of the 737. This air turbine takes the high pressure air output from the APU duct and accelerates it as it begins to turn the high pressure compressor . This starter turbine usually cuts out at 45-50% of that compressor's maximum rotational speed. Without this air turbine starter, it would take much longer to spin the compressor up to it's light off speed, and in some extremely windy ground conditions, APU duct pressure alone could not overcome the rotational inertia of the compressor disk.
Incredible! I lived about 20 minutes from where this happened and it was big news at the time. I’ve been searching for any videos of the takeoff after one of the engines and other minor repairs were completed....but haven’t found any yet.
Storm: you can't do better than me! Pilot: watch me. This story was straight up insane. It really really stresses how training and experience can literally save lives.
I have just discovered your Channel. I am a new subscriber. I am also a Flight Attendant at Southwest. There are a small group of us that are fans of history and we knew about this plane. At TACA the plane had a registry number of N75356. When it ended up at Southwest the tail number became N697SW. Every time I flew on it, I would tell the story of the only "off site" landing of a commercial passenger jet in aviation history to my crew. It was a lot of fun to be on that plane and tell that story. We also had in our fleet the very first 737-300, first 737-700, and most recently the very first 737-8MAX. Thank you for remembering.
Holy Shit!!!!! Having thousands of hours under my belt.....Never heard this story!! (Just the aftermath) Now you know why you are my absolute favourite channel and the only channel I have notifications enabled. Thank you Professor 👍👍 (I am surprised the cockpit had room enough for the huge brass balls of the heroic flight crew)😀
This is one of your best stories. That pilot really does deserve to be remembered that is an incredible piece of flying and a heroic example of someone that just would not give up.
I hadn't heard of this flight and I watch a lot of air accident docs. I was on the edge of my seat when I learned that they landed fine on a levy and it made me so happy!
Fantastic video, but one critical comment about radar at 3:02 - An important distinction between the radar image the pilots see and the radar images from TV is that the aircraft radar is horizontal, not vertical, as if looking at a "wall" of weather instead of a top-down view of it. In addition, at that time all cockpit displays were monochrome CRTs, so they didn't even have the aid of color variations. That's a critical difference in the decision making process since pilots couldn't see past that initial wall of precip and was nothing like TV weather then or now. Fortunately there are other better options now, even for small private planes, such as XM satellite weather which is delivered digitally.
Great video and story. I worked at the Michoud Facility when this happened. You should add a bit to the story and talk about the take-off of that jet on such a short runway. It was amazing to see how quickly they got it off the ground, and at such a steep angle.
@@josejoao7 Not a video but here is a story about the short takeoff www.upi.com/Archives/1988/06/06/Emergency-shortened-flight-is-completed/6569581572800/
I have read about and saw so much about this flight, as I have been in love with aviation since I had my first flight in a DC3 in 1968 and have seen so many great escapes in aircraft. Captain Dardano and his crew, no matter how many times I review it, it deserves a film of their own including Dardano's early career. Sully was a wonderful tribute to a professional crew but there have been many heroic flights over the years. Including United 232.
I'm familiar with this incident. These pilots are amazing aviators and deserve much thanks for their incredible decisions to save the passengers and the plane.
Hi, as a private pilot, I can say the crew of this airliner did an exceptional job at airmanship. The company they fly for should have given these pilots the airline for their service and skills. Top gun!!!
When you hear about air accidents where an aircraft crashes because of a series of events it is great to come across one where a little bit of luck made all the difference.
I would say that luck was part of the great outcome of this flight but also was the skill of the crew, all of them were people with a lot of experience, taking the right decisions at the right moment, the pilot could had choose landing on I-10 wich could had put a lot of people in risk, tried to reach the nearest airport, etc but he choose what he thought was the best option and worked perfectly, greetings.
Truly amazing. 30" per hour rain and a levy deadstick landing. Then continued until 2016 it's mind boggling. Thanks for teaching us history, we are damned to repeat what we don't know.
History Guy, as an retired airline pilot like many these days who flew this aircraft for so many years. I can say you did an excellent job of describing what happened to this airplane and why. I can’t understate enough what a great job you did with both your explanations, diagrams and technical examples. Then there was the pilot’s landing, as a pilot along with all my friends we were all so happy and impressed with how amazing this impromptu landing was performed. Like the old saying, it takes ten Atta Boys to make up for one Oh S%#t! Thank you again for your great History stories. Personally I believe there is more to this story based on the CFM-56 engine air intake design and you covered that wonderfully but as with so many things in history there isn’t enough time and perhaps Boeing and GE would rather we not discuss it. Thank you for your great stories.
A C3 comet, amongst blowing its top off because of windows being too square, and much higher pressurization above 8 psi had major issues with its engines They were built out of magnesium, anyone that knows turbines knows magnesium and water do not mix, and causes the turbine to seize or to shred apart A turbine works on the principal of suck, squeeze, burn, blow Most issues even in today's turbines happen between squeeze and burn, today most commercial turbines are ducted high bypass, meaning some air is routed past the engine core and deflects some hail and rain, and even bird strikes around the core bypass by centrifugal forces I was on the BOAC C3 Comet restoration team at Seattle's museum of flight, very advanced with simple components but nothing like today's complicated machines, truly a joy to restore such an important aircraft of history Thanks for your videos History Guy I Love them
For all those comparing this to the miracle on the Hudson, what sully did was amazing, BUT Carlos accomplished this remarkable feat of airmanship at 29 years old, he was essentially a kid and pulled this off. Sully was much, much older and more experienced.
+The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered; Very well presented, and thoroughly researched. The memory of this flight, was largely supplanted by UAL 232, and its heavily televised "presence", on 19 July 1989, "the miracle in the cornfield". At that time, weather radar systems on aircraft, were for the most part, analog, and utilized CRT's versus the next-gen "Flat Panel", and ultimate successor, 'the glass cockpit' systems we see today. They provided nowhere near the signal definition seen after "interim retrofits with back-lit LCD flat panel display systems", which began in the early-to-mid 1990's. My Air National Guard time was spent, mostly, in KC-135R's with the first (mid 1980's) of the "KC-135 CFM Engine retrofits", which were CFM-56-2 series engines, of somewhat similar design (737's were powered by the 56-3 series engine). The CFM engines were 'light years better' than the original Pratt and Whitney "J-57's", and what was learned in the 'early phases of the NTSB/FAA/Boeing/CFM investigation into TACA 110, resulted in 'interim emergency directives' for restarting the engines, prior to the "Coniptical Spinner Retrofit", and one other "bypass modification" to the 56 series engines. In 1999, Captain Al Haynes, the PIC on UAL 232, toured North America, speaking to airport, airline, private/commercial pilots, and emergency services personnel. While his discussion(s) centered on "the role training, crew resource management, and preparedness played in the emergency landing/crash of UAL 232", at least five minutes of the lecture/discussion referenced TACA 110, and how important effective communications with ATC, a 'seasoned' crew, and CRM were in "a most spectacular outcome". You would probably enjoy visiting the Smithsonian Silver Hill, MD, and Udvar-Hazy (Chantilly, VA) facilities. Both facilities are key in preserving/restoring aircraft, aerospace, and other related items belonging to the National Air and Space Museum.
As always, your narrative is both riveting and accurate. I remember this incident well and your explanation of the dynamics of turbofan water ingestion and the TACA crew's outstanding performance was perfect. Technical accuracy combined with great story telling is a rare gift; please keep these stories coming!
My great uncle was the head of pilot training for that airline for many years. He lived in Picayune, Mississippi and commuted via New Orleans to British Honduras (Belize). He was still working for TACA when this occurred. I never got to ask him about it.
It still blows my mind how these things can even leave the ground. Everytime I see a plane take off, its Star Trek to me. Aviation is something I will never be able to even fumble, none the less grasp.
@Irvine Spiegel: 'When pigs fly' Republic Aviation's answer is thus: With over proportional thrust. You can keep the A10 'Warthog' airborne long after the wings have been sheared clean by anti aircraft fire, then returned to service in NASCAR time. Air show spectators will comment on how ugly this machine is...while the vet reminds the kiddos that plane is why Pops is still here/in 1 piece. BRAAAAPPPP...
"A landing which should not have happened"- there's a whole load of people who are glad it *did* happen though. Hats off to the skill and experience of your flight crews wherever you fly. As passengers, we salute you all. Thank you History Guy for another episode of History which deserves to be remembered.
this is one of my favorite commercial aviation stories and one i bring up frequently around work, which is of course airline maintenance, i was not aware of the captain's much longer story thank you comments section, some of my others are franz stigler and charlie brown's encounter during ww2, the gimli glider and the amazing near recovery of the stricken united 232 a few as mentioned in the comments
You all never fail to amaze me with all these little pieces of history. Thank you for sharing. I hope everyone involved keeps up the awesome work. Thank you 🙏
I'm a flight attendant at Southwest and flew on this plane numerous times before it was retired in 2016. It was a celebrity of our fleet. Employees always wanted to take pictures with this great aircraft.
I adore your presentations of disasters, including air crashes. You give us just enough in the way of background and engineering detail to enjoy the excitement of each story.
Great story, excellent airmanship on the flight crew. Captain was fully certified and at the time of the accident had only one eye! Thanks Southern 242 is a similar accident, only with a sad ending.
H.K. Great point on this pilot only having vision in one eye. Some years prior I believe he landed somewhere in the middle of a Sandinista militant battle (or something similar) and was hit in the face by a stray bullet and that’s how he lost an eye.
I was going to mention the similarities between this and Southern 242? I actually lived in Huntsville,Ala at the time (242 was a flight from Huntsville to Atlanta) and recall it well. 242's problem was compounded by the pilot having to land an airliner on a two lane highway. He actually did land the plane intact.....the problem was he did it just as this road came into the main drag of a small town in Georgia!!!
That is one fact the History Guy missed. NatGeo did a story on this in Air Crash Investigation. The pilot was shot in the eye while taking off with a light airplane. He got away and landed the plane safely. He would not be allowed to get a license in the US because of his vision problem. I think that pilot knows how to fly an airplane just fine.
I am continually amazed at how many truly interesting events of history The History Guy and his team find that deserves to be remembered. I'm never disappointed. Thank you so much.
You produce the most information packed 10-15 minute segments I have found. Not only that, you are very upbeat about the uncommon feats done by common people in their line of work. Brilliant adaptations in an instant are fabulous to behold. Just proves that Miracles happen whenever those involved give 110% and pray 112%. By the way I really like your hat collection.
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This is actually the second unbelievably impressive landing of Captain Carlos Dardano's career. About 10 years before this event, when taking off from an airfield in El Salvador, Captain Dardano was shot in the head and managed to fly his plane and passengers safely for about 20 minutes to land at another airfield. It cost him his left eye though it clearly did not affect his ability as a pilot.
Nerves of steel that man.
Love to hear about this if true thats a better story than this one
@@phoneone1371 it's true, in El Salvador Captain Carlos Dardano is a hero.
@@kitsune9329 Indeed, He's a superhero! Shot in the head, loss of one eye and he still land that plane a decade before this incident, where he maneuvered a 737 commercial jet to a safe landing with no engine power! That man deserves to have his name known BETTER than sports stars or reality TV celebrities!
Amazing! Thank you for sharing that
@@CalTxDude Agreed! There's a song by Rush called "Nobody's Hero," which talks about how we choose the wrong people to be our heroes.
It was the first time a 737 was landed anywhere but on a runway. And the pilot, Carlos Dardano, did it with no power. It is considered by many the greatest emergency landing in aviation history.
And only with one eye.
Gimli glider 767 is in the running. no go-go juice at ceiling height.
@@moaningpheromones Agreed, phenomenal landing.
@@CFITOMAHAWK I should've mentioned it - no small detail landing a plane with one eye at anytime
Let us not forget to praise the builders of the levee whose structure didn't simply collapse under the crushing weight of the pilot's balls of steel.
Amen.
@@puncheex2 yeehaw
@phuck ewe i lived in louisiana. those levees arent usually wider than a truck can traverse. I'll be more blunt. FUCK YOU. they never named the levee, but he has more courage than you can ever wish to have. nobody was injured? nobody killed? male or female, yes. VERY heavy balls of steel
Then we should also commend Boeing for being able to build a machine that was able to lift those incredibly heavy balls into the air.
I thought the pilot used his brain to pick the easiest option to avoid being hurt.
Thank you so much for your video! I remember vividly when this incident occurred, it was all over the news back in my home country, El Salvador.
I have met captain Carlos Dardano in person, both of my brothers attended his flight school.
What makes the story even more interesting, is that in the 80s, during the civil war, captain Dardano was flying as a private pilot, when insurgents attacked while his plane was in a dirt runway out in the country.
He was able to get his plane in the air, but unfortunately he was hurt by small arms fire during take off, one round hit his face and he lost one eye.
He managed to fly his plane back with its occupants to safety, even after that grievous injury.
He later became a successful commercial pilot, despite the fact that he had no depth perception due to having only one eye.
In my opinion that makes the fact that years after that incident, he managed to glide a fully loaded commercial jet, and land it without a single casualty, even more extraordinary.
Once again, thank you very much for your videos, they are so entertaining, and your detailed and passionate description of the events makes them so fun to watch.
Please keep your videos coming, you are an amazing story teller!
That doesn't sound like it could even be real. He got shot in the face and then did all that?
@@VitalityMassage it's real, believe it
@@VitalityMassage The pilot was Badass..Believe it! X
Captain Carlos Dardano must be one hell of a guy.
Wait what? My Dad wanted to be in the Air Force to be a pilot, and only after investing time into it, did someone inform him that his lack of 20/20 vision was an automatic disqualifier (he wears eyeglasses like many of us, myself included).
But this guy was allowed to continue as a commercial airline pilot with ONE eye?!
I actually called Southwest a few times, trying to get this airplane sent to a museum. I ultimately failed, but, through my persistence, I was told that they were giving the flight yoke from the aircraft to the pilot who made the miracle landing. :)
I just saw someone on another video asking if the plane was in a museum, and now I see your answer here. 'Props' to you for your efforts!
Unfortunately, commercial airliners rarely make it to museums. They simply take up too much room and cost too much to maintain.
@@singleproppilot I suggest the Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas .
Beech Craft and Leer Jet have headquarters in Wichita and
Wichita's 1940's era airport , when replaced, has been repurposed as an Aviation Museum.
kansasaviationmuseum.org/explore/location-hours
The best aviation story almost no one knows about.
and for some reason, other attempts on YT to reference TACA110 actually sadly link to other events.
Yay, a plane crash story that doesn't end in grisly death. This history does indeed deserve to be remembered.
Thexsoar the Bearded, the Air Disasters episode on this is a tear-jerker. Happy tears. Those guys are heros.
Amen!
It wasn't a crash, it was just an off-field landing.
an off-field landing in a passenger jet with no engines ;-) HUGE kudo's the aircrew & support teams involved.
Thexsoar the Bearded ikr
We hear the phrase, "Pilot error." This was a case of "Pilot brilliance!"
The pilot if I remember correectly was praised for his amazing skill and the story of the recovery of the plane was just as interesting as its original incident. Was nice to hear that the plane continued service for so long did not know that fact. Very good choice, this definitely deserves to be remembered.
The pilot lost an eye years before. Certainly not a quitter.
He didn't just lose an eye, he was shot in the face by guerrillas during the Salvadorean civil war.
If it's not a Boeing, I'm not going!
He lost an eye to a bullet. He flew and landed the plane with no damages. He lost all engines, he again landed with no damages. Tough guy.
“Pilots”. It’s plural. The captain was accompanied by two other very qualified pilots. The first officer saw the grassy knoll and pointed it out to the captain and check pilot. The captain just performed the “soft field” landing (which is impress) but it was still a “crew” effort.
*Not preaching
Years later, Captain Dardano drinking a cold one and watching the Miracle on the Hudson on the news: "salud, compadre"
The pilot had excellent stick and rudder skills, some obtained from his own small private plane. He's one of my heroes, though I've sadly never met him.
I am from Guatemala, and because of these I had flown Taca, wich now is Avianca múltiple times. I met the captain, and flew on the glider, as they nicknamed the plane. Amazing story
What those pilots did was nothing short of astounding. Time and time again, similar incidents have led to tragically high death tolls that indiscriminately end the lives of adults and children alike. Such professionalism under crisis situations deserves the highest commendation.
Well, the captain lost an eye to a bullet and still managed to start the plane, fly nearly half an hour and then landed without damages. I don't think there's anything in this world that could stand a chance against this man's balls.
He was a great pilot but he also had a great crew andluck on his side in that he had a perfect place to land available within his flight path and ability. Also saved Taca airlines a ton by landing where he did and not in the canal. It’s just a perfect emergency landing.
Thank you. As a Latin American in the United States gives me pride and joy to see , when "we" can contribute back doing our best successfully.
@Fred Flintstone Dardano is El Salvadoran. Take your racism and get out.
@@Neneset You can't fix stupid (Fred Flintstone). Dardano is a true hero in every sense of the word.
I'm a diver who has traveled thru Central and South America a lot.
TACA had a past reputation for losing luggage but they seemed to have fixed it. As USAF I always found their crews top notch and their meals better than any US domestic airlines
I love the energy and vigor in your presentation. Keeps me on the edge of my seat!
JohnAudioTech. Shouldn't you be working on a new video... 😁😎
I too really enjoy his videos.
I made that exact comment without first seeing yours, edge of my seat!
And love the new hair style!
JohnAudioTech : I just always thought he was avid coffee drinker...
Your ass must start to hurt sitting that way.
I've worked in aircraft maintenance for 30 years and you use all the right techo words. Brilliant :)
There should be a "Commercial Pilots Hall of Fame".
Wil Hobbs I agree 100%
Yes, great idea!! Our German hero would be Juergen Vietor, young co-pilot of the hijacked Lufthansa „Landshut“ 737 in 1977. He had to stay awake for days, witness how the pilot was shot, manage an emergency landing in Yemen and finally fly to Mogadishu with a damaged plane, very little fuel and limited navigation. Maybe someone can make a video about the hijacked flight from a pilots point of view.
Its called the National Aviation Hall of Fame
Pilot clutch moments award
@@richardwalter4686
True dat!
When the chips are down, there’s really no substitute for an experienced flight crew in the cockpit.
@Kyle Miller But what would happen if the A.I.'s chip fail? We still need at least someone in the cockpit ready to take over if the machine fails.
@@bee2k01 This was literally true in the AirFrance flight from Brazil. The inexperienced co-pilot had pulled the nose up causing a stall. One side of the piton tubes had frozen shut and neither of the inexperienced pilots knew which side to believe. When they finally got the captain back and he figured out what was happening it was too late.
Same was true for a flight to Buffalo in winter where the wings iced up and the inexperienced pilots failed to notice this and again caused a stall. Experience has so much to say for being a pilot in trying to figure what is wrong and what they can do to try to fix the problem.
Sully and his crew is another great example of when everything goes wrong the crew gets everything right. Although they had a bit of luck of stopping where the ferries crossed the river. Talk about everything going right after it had gone wrong.
@@bee2k01 The most likely scenario for pilotless aircraft would be an AI in the cockpit doing the routine, mundane flying in cruise (something which autopilots do well already) while a group of human pilots sit in a room somewhere monitoring the flight’s progress via data link, ready to take over in case of the unexpected. As the flight progresses, the pilot in command could hand off control to another pilot in the same control center, or hand the flight off to another center closer to the aircraft’s destination. It’s not as far-fetched as many would have you believe, though, given the slow and cautious progress of aviation technology, I still think it will take decades to implement. And contrary to popular belief, it will not make pilots obsolete. It will only mean they don’t have to travel with the aircraft.
My stepdad was worked at Michoud when this happened, he still can’t believe that crew managed to land a 737 right on the levee like that.
What a great story, and a great pilot!
What a great story of airmanship and courage under fire. Thanks for sharing.
There is one other factor, relating to how magnificent, this feat of airmanship actually was..
The captain, was a military pilot as well, and had lost an eye previously, though was still able to medically qualify to fly, for his airline.. Add the reduced depth perception that would result, and you see just how good, this pilot really was.. That's the type of guy you want, in the pointy end of your flight, when the crap hits the fan. Just a simply awesome aviator, who just happens to be your pilot that day..
You know what... this episode did it for me. I became a patron. I hope you are around for a long time History Guy!
Landon Michael thank you!
Me too!!
I remember hearing of this at the time. You said it right - they NAILED it!
This rates right up there with "the miracle on the Hudson". I like to think that the pilot and co-pilot receive gifts from the passengers every Christmas.
@orangelion03 - I was going to comment that this pilot deserves as much recognition as Sullenberger. The difference being one was caught on video for the world to see.
Pretty comparable to the Gimli Glider.
@@phlodel-Except that there were no damages on TACA 110 and they put it down on the grass. Gimly glider hit the nose on ground and that was an airport before where it landed. And Gimly pilots were not ONE EYED.
@John Kyle Remember TransAsia Airways Flight 235? Two minutes after takeoff, the pilots reported an engine flameout. The other engine was still working and was mistakenly shut down. My brother-in-law is a commercial pilot for China Airlines and he said he's had that happen to him, except he didn't mistakenly shut down the operative engine. I asked him what he think happened and he speculated the pilot may have panicked. Another pilot may have panicked with US Airways Flight 1549 and tried to make it back to the airport. We don't know.
John Kyle Yeah,okay-you're as good as Sully. Happy now?
As an airline pilot I have studied this a lot. You covered it well. I had read that the turbulence was so severe, the pilots could barely read their instruments which made dealing with the dual-flameout even more difficult. Also Captain Dardano was blind in one eye. Amazingly he was able to get back his medical certificate to fly. Another tidbit was that after landing, the passengers did an emergency egress onto the levy, and then the storm that had dumped so much rain and hail on the airplane in flight, then moved over the plane on the ground. The passengers motioned for the pilots, who were still in the cockpit, to egress also, but knowing there was no real reason to, and not wanting to get soaked, they elected to stay inside!
"Trying a deadstick landing with a passenger airliner can be described as ... not ideal." LOL! I missed this story in the day but thanks for the great retelling.
"Trying a deadstick landing with a passenger airliner can be described as ... not ideal." Master Of Understatement!
You are a treasure. Not just a font of facts, but a real presenter. You get INTO IT. Even your voice "leans in" for favored underscore or exclamation or emotional iteration. Such a joy. So riveting.
Thanks for sharing...
I was working at Michaud at the time this happened and remember it well. A couple of guys I worked with were in the area in their service truck and saw the plane coming in. One of the guys was a volunteer EMT and radioed security to roll ambulances while they sped to meet the plane. They were two of the first responders, meeting passengers as they evacuated. The only way the pilot could've picked a better spot would've been to land at an airport. Michaud was equipped with its own fire service and ambulance, as well as its own emergency room with on-staff doctor. The story was that the pilot thought about landing on Saturn Blvd. but didn't as he was worried about crossing powerlines. The other thing that made this landing optimal was that Michaud had aircraft tow trucks used to move the external tanks around. These were used to move the plane around to in front of the pressure test building, where it was parked while being repaired. I was witness to the plane actually taking off from Saturn Blvd. A 737 doesn't need much runway when it's empty of passengers. Quite a sight. Thanks for the great report and trip down memory lane.
That's pretty sick that you got to witness it, crazy stuff
In a world that fancies bad news over good... this is a wonderful piece of history that truly deserves to be remembered.
It is especially relevant to today (December 2019) , and all the issues Boeing is currently going through.
Many viewers have mentioned that the NASA Michaud assembly facility is pronounced "Mi-shoo." The photo of the Coast Guard helicopter at the end is an HH-60 "Pave Hawk." Actually, the Coast Guard at the time were operating the HH-65 "Dolphin." The three Comet crashes that resulted in the model being temporarily withdrawn from service were in 1954, not 1956.
Some viewers were under the impression that the plane took off from the levee itself. That is not the case. After performing an engine replacement in situ, the plane was towed a short distance and took off from a road in front of the NASA Michaud Assembly Facility. This was notable because the plane did not have to be disassembled to get it to a repair facility.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered I remember that being all over the news. The landing is made more impressive by the fact he had only 1 👁 cover 1 one and walk around for a day and you will find your depth perception all but gone. He lost his eye when he was shot during a rescue flight where he flew that plane with his eye hanging out. Truly amazing pilot.
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The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered I’m sorry History guy but they Did Not toe the plane! It was repaired on the levee and took off from where it landed. Piloted by test pilots it lifted of smoothly. The entire event was filmed and is on TH-cam. Thank you good sir and Love The BowTie 👌🏼
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Great storytelling. Many N.O names are pronounced unconventionally -- for example, Burgundy Street, which older locals pronounce bur-GUN-dee. Trivia #1 -- when NASA de-mothballed Michoud in the early 1960's, its first engineers (hired by contractor Chrysler) included many from Boeing (this plane's manufacturer) who moved from the Seattle area. Trivia #2 -- the subject levee on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (locally called the "Mister Go") was widened at about the same time Michoud was re-activated in the early 1960's. Later, the MRGO was blamed for funneling floodwaters into the New Orleans Ninth Ward in Hurricane Katrina.
Capt. Sully: "Just landed a plane in a river"
Capt. Dardano: "That's cute"
BOTH were amazing stories of airmanship!!!
@@redstone51 Maybe, but consider this: Capt. Dardano is blind in one eye. His depth perception is probably below normal, yet he managed a perfect landing from an extremely difficult maneuver that he had ONE chance to perform correctly in an aircraft without engine thrust.
Capt. Sully did something amazing. Capt. Dardano did something no one else has EVER done.
TrollBuster That’s what I thought too. Captain Dardano deserves to be remembered as much as Sully.
@@hscollier Right. Both captains did something amazing. Their priority was to safe lives.
Since Capt. Dardano was just 29 years old at the time of this incident, I imagine he had no grey hairs going in. Probably had a few when he came off the flight deck that day, though.
He got shot in the face by an M16 and lost an eye to a bullet; with a bloody face and the left eye hanging on his face and sticky blood on his arms, he flew 25 minutes to another airport and landed the plane with no damages. 5 years later he lost all engines on a 737, he again landed with no damages. Tough guy.
what
Holy crap
Now That's One Tough Son of a Bitch
@ How in hell can you get a pilots license without two eyes?
@@jtkilroy he's from El Salvador maybe they have different standards. Doesn't matter he didn't need it.
Thanks for a story with a happy ending. We need all we can get right now.
WOW! What a flight crew and story. They really do need to be remembered. Thanks for sharing this.
You should look up the Gimli glider (Air Canada 143). It was a B767 that ran out of fuel mid-flight and had to make an emergency landing without power.
On racetrack with people there ,i bet they shit seeing that come in when i was kid a 737 landed at HMB ca. Airport after some malfunction from SFO ,my dad took us to see it next morning it was huge on that small runway
On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 from Toronto to Lisbon with 306 souls onboard ran out of fuel and power 1,000 miles from Europe.
The captain, Robert Piché, glided the Airbus A330 104 miles landing at a military base in the Azores. *This remains the world record for glide length of a commercial aircraft in aviation history.*
@@danstewart2770 if I remember correctly he was partially to blame for the intial problem by not following fuel transfer protocol
Also, lets not forget that my compatriot, the pilot, only had one eye too!! Thank you for the video!
I hope that TACA has taken care of the both of you! Best regards.
@@432b86ed, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
th-cam.com/video/G2y8Sx4B2Sk/w-d-xo.html
Great job, pilots.
Compatriot definition:
/kəmˈpatrɪət,kəmˈpeɪtrɪət/
noun
a fellow citizen or national of a country.
That's my new word for the day!
The comet disasters weren't due to engine problems as suggested here but rather to the design flaw of square window corners (concentrated stresses), cold temperatures and cabin pressurization.
Even that's not completely true square windows aren't ideal but they're not necessarily a lethal flaw and other pressurized planes like the DC-6 used them with no ill effects - more correctly the overall design and manufacturing techniques of the Comet could not withstand the uneven distribution of stress caused by square windows
In addition to reporting the history, your did an excellent technical job of describing the situation!
No matter how many times I hear this story it still makes my heart swell. Lovely.
This pilot did all of this with one eye after being shot through the cockpit window by a guerrilla in the mountains of El Salvador. Absolute mad lad.
With such guys, you have to double-check they really exist
*God Bless these pilots who remembered that Job #1 is.... "Fly The Plane".*
These are REAL aviators and heroes!
Aviate, navigate, communicate. Do not forget to fly the plane.
He's my El Salvadorian Sully. Although Sully's Hudson landing was nearly 20 years after this. They're both my aviation heroes. As well as Kevin Sullivan.
Those pilots were on point. Love it when someone has extraordinary skills and know how to use them.
08:44 Perfect Short Field Landing by Carlos D. Passed the test perfectly..
I brings tears of joy to my eyes when air travel safety can be reevaluated and improved upon without any loss of life.
My wife and I love this channel. You make history so fun to hear and learn. There are two channels on TH-cam we refuse to miss this is one of them. Thank you and keep doing the great job.
byron flynt
What's the other one?
I'm with though. I love The History Guy!
Mark Dice is the other..
th-cam.com/video/Tx3sM62AC7c/w-d-xo.html
I have flown TACA many times, they are a really good airline and have a great safety record.
This history deserves to be remembered and your channel really deserves some more attention. Awesome work.
Agree
That was an incredible story. Shared this w/ my brother, a commercial airline capt for last 20+ years. He agreed w/ The History Guy’s assessment, none of that should’ve happened. Excellent flight crew who stuck to their training. Had any one of them faltered, they’d likely not have made it. Brilliant story! Thx History Guy!!
For those interested, planes only have a starter motor on what is called the APU, or auxillary power unit. It is a small jet engine within the tail of the aircraft which is used to provide hudraulic, electric, and bleed air power. It's used on ground to provide this power where ground power is not available. Ground power is literally just plugging a big power cable into a socket but this isn't available everywhere. The bleed air is either used on the ground for the air conditioning packs, or to start the first engine. Basically compressed (bleed) air is used to spin the engine up to a point where its ignition takes over. One that engine is started, the bleed air from *that* engine is used to start the other engine(s). This is why only one engine starts at a time. After this, the APU is shut down in flight. But if there is a problem with one of the engines or it's generators, the APU can be fired up again to provide that redundancy for electric and hydraulic power. It also means that if the engines are both perfectly serviceable but one of the generators is not, they'll just use the APU and the craft is still certified to fly. Aircraft have so many redundancies you'll be amazed at how much *isn't* working when they take off, and you will never know.l
Nice description. One point of difference is that using the first engine to start the other engine (s) is called a cross bleed start and is not normal procedure. While there are procedures for cross bleed start they are rarely used because the running engine is required to be throttled up well above idle thrust to create enough bleed air to start the other engine (s). This creates a safety problem for ramp personnel and ATC as the aircraft must be moved to an area cleared for several hundred feet due to engine intake and exhaust safety zones. The APU is used for all normal engine starts.
You might be interested to know that there is in fact a starter turbine on most aircraft, including all variants of the 737. This air turbine takes the high pressure air output from the APU duct and accelerates it as it begins to turn the high pressure compressor . This starter turbine usually cuts out at 45-50% of that compressor's maximum rotational speed. Without this air turbine starter, it would take much longer to spin the compressor up to it's light off speed, and in some extremely windy ground conditions, APU duct pressure alone could not overcome the rotational inertia of the compressor disk.
Incredible! I lived about 20 minutes from where this happened and it was big news at the time. I’ve been searching for any videos of the takeoff after one of the engines and other minor repairs were completed....but haven’t found any yet.
Storm: you can't do better than me!
Pilot: watch me.
This story was straight up insane. It really really stresses how training and experience can literally save lives.
I have just discovered your Channel. I am a new subscriber. I am also a Flight Attendant at Southwest. There are a small group of us that are fans of history and we knew about this plane. At TACA the plane had a registry number of N75356. When it ended up at Southwest the tail number became N697SW. Every time I flew on it, I would tell the story of the only "off site" landing of a commercial passenger jet in aviation history to my crew. It was a lot of fun to be on that plane and tell that story. We also had in our fleet the very first 737-300, first 737-700, and most recently the very first 737-8MAX. Thank you for remembering.
Holy Shit!!!!! Having thousands of hours under my belt.....Never heard this story!! (Just the aftermath) Now you know why you are my absolute favourite channel and the only channel I have notifications enabled. Thank you Professor 👍👍 (I am surprised the cockpit had room enough for the huge brass balls of the heroic flight crew)😀
This is one of your best stories. That pilot really does deserve to be remembered that is an incredible piece of flying and a heroic example of someone that just would not give up.
I hadn't heard of this flight and I watch a lot of air accident docs. I was on the edge of my seat when I learned that they landed fine on a levy and it made me so happy!
Can't believe how many details you add to stories we might have heard before, making it captivating. Bravo and thank you, Professor.
Fantastic video, but one critical comment about radar at 3:02 - An important distinction between the radar image the pilots see and the radar images from TV is that the aircraft radar is horizontal, not vertical, as if looking at a "wall" of weather instead of a top-down view of it. In addition, at that time all cockpit displays were monochrome CRTs, so they didn't even have the aid of color variations. That's a critical difference in the decision making process since pilots couldn't see past that initial wall of precip and was nothing like TV weather then or now. Fortunately there are other better options now, even for small private planes, such as XM satellite weather which is delivered digitally.
Thanks for the detail! I could not find a public domain image of an actual cockpit weather radar.
This incident is amazing. Right there with the Gimli Glider, Sully’s Hudson River, and all the other miraculous saves.
I’m flying out to LA next week and despite all my travels, I’m still terrified of flying. Thanks for the morale boost!
I’m going to take you to court!
I can tell The History Guy is an aviation buff as well as a history buff, because the accuracy of his technical explanations are spot on.
Great video and story. I worked at the Michoud Facility when this happened. You should add a bit to the story and talk about the take-off of that jet on such a short runway. It was amazing to see how quickly they got it off the ground, and at such a steep angle.
Tom Wagner it was the last use of a historic runway. It is quite amazing that they were able to recover the plan without having to dismantle it.
Do you know where i can find the video of The airplane taking off, from this facility.
@@josejoao7 Not a video but here is a story about the short takeoff www.upi.com/Archives/1988/06/06/Emergency-shortened-flight-is-completed/6569581572800/
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel They used a light fuel load and no passengers, the Taca 737 was able to takeoff in a very short distance.
I always love hearing stories of extraordinary Airmanship. Respect for Capt. Dardano and his crew.
Never heard of this before. What an amazing story!
I had to "dead stick" a Cessna 175 back in 82. Freaked me out. Barely made it on to Kadena-05. Best advice, do your own pre-flight checks.
"The History Guy " is freaking awesome !!!!
I think you're freaken awesome too !!!!
I have read about and saw so much about this flight, as I have been in love with aviation since I had my first flight in a DC3 in 1968 and have seen so many great escapes in aircraft. Captain Dardano and his crew, no matter how many times I review it, it deserves a film of their own including Dardano's early career. Sully was a wonderful tribute to a professional crew but there have been many heroic flights over the years. Including United 232.
I'm familiar with this incident. These pilots are amazing aviators and deserve much thanks for their incredible decisions to save the passengers and the plane.
I’m going to take you to court!
Hi, as a private pilot, I can say the crew of this airliner did an exceptional job at airmanship. The company they fly for should have given these pilots the airline for their service and skills. Top gun!!!
When you hear about air accidents where an aircraft crashes because of a series of events it is great to come across one where a little bit of luck made all the difference.
I would say that luck was part of the great outcome of this flight but also was the skill of the crew, all of them were people with a lot of experience, taking the right decisions at the right moment, the pilot could had choose landing on I-10 wich could had put a lot of people in risk, tried to reach the nearest airport, etc but he choose what he thought was the best option and worked perfectly, greetings.
Truly amazing. 30" per hour rain and a levy deadstick landing. Then continued until 2016 it's mind boggling. Thanks for teaching us history, we are damned to repeat what we don't know.
History Guy, as an retired airline pilot like many these days who flew this aircraft for so many years. I can say you did an excellent job of describing what happened to this airplane and why. I can’t understate enough what a great job you did with both your explanations, diagrams and technical examples. Then there was the pilot’s landing, as a pilot along with all my friends we were all so happy and impressed with how amazing this impromptu landing was performed. Like the old saying, it takes ten Atta Boys to make up for one Oh S%#t! Thank you again for your great History stories. Personally I believe there is more to this story based on the CFM-56 engine air intake design and you covered that wonderfully but as with so many things in history there isn’t enough time and perhaps Boeing and GE would rather we not discuss it. Thank you for your great stories.
I have always loved history and this channel is fantastic for providing a brief, informative escape while feeding my love for history.
You do such a beautiful job on these aviation videos! I am a retired airline pilot, and am shocked by your level of research. Well done!
A C3 comet, amongst blowing its top off because of windows being too square, and much higher pressurization above 8 psi had major issues with its engines
They were built out of magnesium, anyone that knows turbines knows magnesium and water do not mix, and causes the turbine to seize or to shred apart
A turbine works on the principal of suck, squeeze, burn, blow
Most issues even in today's turbines happen between squeeze and burn, today most commercial turbines are ducted high bypass, meaning some air is routed past the engine core and deflects some hail and rain, and even bird strikes around the core bypass by centrifugal forces
I was on the BOAC C3 Comet restoration team at Seattle's museum of flight, very advanced with simple components but nothing like today's complicated machines, truly a joy to restore such an important aircraft of history
Thanks for your videos History Guy I Love them
Sometimes you do everything right and it still goes to H... these pilots definitely deserve to be remembered
For all those comparing this to the miracle on the Hudson, what sully did was amazing, BUT Carlos accomplished this remarkable feat of airmanship at 29 years old, he was essentially a kid and pulled this off. Sully was much, much older and more experienced.
+The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered; Very well presented, and thoroughly researched. The memory of this flight, was largely supplanted by UAL 232, and its heavily televised "presence", on 19 July 1989, "the miracle in the cornfield".
At that time, weather radar systems on aircraft, were for the most part, analog, and utilized CRT's versus the next-gen "Flat Panel", and ultimate successor, 'the glass cockpit' systems we see today. They provided nowhere near the signal definition seen after "interim retrofits with back-lit LCD flat panel display systems", which began in the early-to-mid 1990's.
My Air National Guard time was spent, mostly, in KC-135R's with the first (mid 1980's) of the "KC-135 CFM Engine retrofits", which were CFM-56-2 series engines, of somewhat similar design (737's were powered by the 56-3 series engine). The CFM engines were 'light years better' than the original Pratt and Whitney "J-57's", and what was learned in the 'early phases of the NTSB/FAA/Boeing/CFM investigation into TACA 110, resulted in 'interim emergency directives' for restarting the engines, prior to the "Coniptical Spinner Retrofit", and one other "bypass modification" to the 56 series engines.
In 1999, Captain Al Haynes, the PIC on UAL 232, toured North America, speaking to airport, airline, private/commercial pilots, and emergency services personnel. While his discussion(s) centered on "the role training, crew resource management, and preparedness played in the emergency landing/crash of UAL 232", at least five minutes of the lecture/discussion referenced TACA 110, and how important effective communications with ATC, a 'seasoned' crew, and CRM were in "a most spectacular outcome".
You would probably enjoy visiting the Smithsonian Silver Hill, MD, and Udvar-Hazy (Chantilly, VA) facilities. Both facilities are key in preserving/restoring aircraft, aerospace, and other related items belonging to the National Air and Space Museum.
Wow, thank you for sharing! 🤗
As always, your narrative is both riveting and accurate. I remember this incident well and your explanation of the dynamics of turbofan
water ingestion and the TACA crew's outstanding performance was perfect. Technical accuracy combined with great story telling is a rare gift;
please keep these stories coming!
When his Mrs did a video last year I thought she was coming out..
Turns out they look Similar... Birds of a Feather flock together. ;)
I quite enjoy the content you create. Especially around aviation and automobile history.
Thank you History Guy!
Jared Eagles mate it is quickly becoming TH-cam 😀
My great uncle was the head of pilot training
for that airline for many years. He lived in
Picayune, Mississippi and commuted via
New Orleans to British Honduras (Belize).
He was still working for TACA when this occurred.
I never got to ask him about it.
It still blows my mind how these things can even leave the ground. Everytime I see a plane take off, its Star Trek to me. Aviation is something I will never be able to even fumble, none the less grasp.
@Irvine Spiegel: 'When pigs fly' Republic Aviation's answer is thus: With over proportional thrust. You can keep the A10 'Warthog' airborne long after the wings have been sheared clean by anti aircraft fire, then returned to service in NASCAR time. Air show spectators will comment on how ugly this machine is...while the vet reminds the kiddos that plane is why Pops is still here/in 1 piece. BRAAAAPPPP...
Just think of it as really really thin water.
"A landing which should not have happened"- there's a whole load of people who are glad it *did* happen though. Hats off to the skill and experience of your flight crews wherever you fly. As passengers, we salute you all.
Thank you History Guy for another episode of History which deserves to be remembered.
this is one of my favorite commercial aviation stories and one i bring up frequently around work, which is of course airline maintenance, i was not aware of the captain's much longer story thank you comments section, some of my others are franz stigler and charlie brown's encounter during ww2, the gimli glider and the amazing near recovery of the stricken united 232 a few as mentioned in the comments
You all never fail to amaze me with all these little pieces of history. Thank you for sharing. I hope everyone involved keeps up the awesome work. Thank you 🙏
"Senior" at 29 years, 13,000 flight hours. Amazing.
I'm a flight attendant at Southwest and flew on this plane numerous times before it was retired in 2016. It was a celebrity of our fleet. Employees always wanted to take pictures with this great aircraft.
Because of this story or something else?
One of my favorite flight stories!
I adore your presentations of disasters, including air crashes. You give us just enough in the way of background and engineering detail to enjoy the excitement of each story.
Interesting the evolution for the avition term "Dead Stick", did not know this...... Big Thank You.............
I absolutely love the production quality and professionalism of these videos, not to mention how informative & entertaining they are. Well done!
This would make a nail biting movie!
Yeah you are right but you don't need hollywierd to make a movie. Latin America have a great movie business. Cheers.
Even that's a miracle, but also he is a super hero.
He deserves to be recognized as one of the best pilots in the world.
Great story, excellent airmanship on the flight crew. Captain was fully certified and at the time of the accident had only one eye!
Thanks
Southern 242 is a similar accident, only with a sad ending.
H.K. Great point on this pilot only having vision in one eye. Some years prior I believe he landed somewhere in the middle of a Sandinista militant battle (or something similar) and was hit in the face by a stray bullet and that’s how he lost an eye.
I was going to mention the similarities between this and Southern 242? I actually lived in Huntsville,Ala at the time (242 was a flight from Huntsville to Atlanta) and recall it well. 242's problem was compounded by the pilot having to land an airliner on a two lane highway. He actually did land the plane intact.....the problem was he did it just as this road came into the main drag of a small town in Georgia!!!
If that fuel station that Southern 242 hit hadn't been there, everyone would have survived.
That is one fact the History Guy missed. NatGeo did a story on this in Air Crash Investigation. The pilot was shot in the eye while taking off with a light airplane. He got away and landed the plane safely. He would not be allowed to get a license in the US because of his vision problem. I think that pilot knows how to fly an airplane just fine.
I am continually amazed at how many truly interesting events of history The History Guy and his team find that deserves to be remembered. I'm never disappointed. Thank you so much.
2:38 “That should not have happened!”
Your delivery of that was golden, got me laughing. Loved the video!
You produce the most information packed 10-15 minute segments I have found. Not only that, you are very upbeat about the uncommon feats done by common people in their line of work. Brilliant adaptations in an instant are fabulous to behold. Just proves that Miracles happen whenever those involved give 110% and pray 112%. By the way I really like your hat collection.
Hey history guy I love each and every one of these I sit and listen by the hour I laughed I cried I live and I learned
Thank you for remembering the good and the bad history. Learning from both is important.