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I find it really odd how the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 kept flying for years after a slew of incidents (most notable being American Airlines Flight 96, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, American Airlines Flight 191 and United Airlines Flight 232), while a single fatal incident pretty much destroyed the Concorde's reputation for good.
Concorde didn't end operation because of this crash. It obviously played a part but the cost per flight hour, maintenance costs, and diminishing requirement for supersonic all played a bigger part. The DC is superior to the Concorde in every way (speed being the exception of course).
Because not all of the DC-10 crashes had anything to do with the plane itself, but the poor maintenance of it, like AA 191. And once the cargo door was redesigned, the plane was a reliable and safe workhorse. I really feel like it got an undeserved reputation as a death trap.
I remember this crash happening when I was a small kid. I was in love with this plane and the day it crashed I cried. Not for the people but for the poor plane. My 5 yr old brain didn’t PROPERLY register the HORRIFYING loss of human life.
I saw Concorde fly overhead when at LEGOLAND Winsor, the sound was terrific and even a theme park it demanded attention. Soaring over, it was a beautiful plane. I feel fortunate to have seen it. Even now, years later, my Mum and I recall it with excitement.
I saw one land when I was 5. It started my love of planes. It still had clouds on the wingtips. Unfortunately, that was one of the last times it ever flew
One thing I don't miss about the concord is the loud noise it produced, my parents & I (dad still lives there now) lived in the direct flight path of Heathrow Airport in a 12 storey block of flats the noise of the concord was so loud even at the altitude the concord was at the windows in mine & my parents bedroom & the windows & door to the balcony in the living room would rattle. The 747's noise sounded like a fly buzzing by your ear. I always dreamed of buying tickets for my parents to fly on the concord for their 25th anniversary in 2010 sadly that didn't happen.
I was surprised when I learned there were Concords operating as late as 2000. I regret never being able to ride in one - I was still a teenager at the time.
I live near East Midlands Airport. My dad used to take me there every now and again just to watch the planes take off. Concorde was one of those planes. I miss that beautiful machine.
Love your work. There's something morbidly fascinating about this subject that makes it quite addictive viewing. I think perhaps because, of all the forms of transport available to us, you at least have a chance of survival in something like a car crash, a ship sinking or a train derailing. If something goes wrong in a plane however, your chances of making it are slim to zero.
Not entirely true.. I wouldn't want to have a blow out on a motorway at 70mph. What is not mentioned here is the pilot putting excessive fuel in, some other odd decisions that didn't help the planes situation.. I think i know where u are coming from though, most accidents are sudden where as on a plane, if the situation is dyer then you have no escape and time to see imminent death coming. Alaska 261 for example.. horrible.
My pops flew on one, he said the take-off was one of the most exhilarating experiences he has ever had. Flying on the edge of space in pure silence was amazing, only problem was that you were really squished in 😂
@@Mr.Chris.P.Bacon1 South Africa. Never really needed to. We have always been more exploratory in my family. Always took the car. And yes, I am old enough to drink in America.
The engine did not fail or catch fire, it overheated due to the fire caused by the fuel that was pouring from the ruptured tank. The fire ignited due to electrical cables that had severed arcing causing a spark. The flight engineer suspecting an engine fire shut down the engine, this was an error as the engine was still producing some power. Had he not shut down this engine they may have made it to Le Bourget. He shut it down without asking the Captain first which was the second mistake he made.
The internal components of the engine didn't fail, it was the superheated air from the fire which was sucked into the engine that caused its performance to drop drastically as it threw off the pressure ratios
Regardless, the FE responded properly based upon the information he had in those brief seconds; his instrumentation told him #2 had an engine fire and he acted accordingly per procedure. Everyone acted properly with the information available to them at the time, and the FE is not required to ask the pilot what to do; acting per procedure on what he observes on his instruments and notifying the captain and FO was the entire point of having a flight engineer. I do not know the exact situation during this era (or now, for example, on a 747-200) but there was a time when the FE literally owns the throttle quadrant, and actually reached between the two pilots to set the throttles to a level appropriate for that particular takeoff.
Hey, ive been following you for a couple of months and have been binge watching your videos. last week i looked up to see if u had a video on flight 4590 and saw you didnt. Ive been looking for days for a video that talks about it but found none that i wanted to see. Thank you for this video, i legit feel like it was made for me hahahah. Amazing work!
That's horrible. Thanks for uploading! One can't blame British airways or Air France, or the Concorde for this, it's on the maintenance folks in Tel Aviv who did a bad job on the sheet metal on the DC-10 I think it was. The Concorde was doomed due to high operating costs and a lack of enthusiasm over the flying hours saved. I'd love to save four hours flying overseas, but I couldn't justify the ten times higher cost. There are those who can, I'm sadly just not one of them.
Awesome video!! I first discovered you when I needed info on Japan Airlines 123 for a school project and have been watching you ever since (around 7 months), your updates make me extremely happy and watch them before going to bed, thank you so much for all your hardwork!!!
My teacher in aviation maintenance school used to work for continental airlines when this happened. Before any Concorde flight the runways were required to be swept of debris before the Concorde could take off. French airport authorities failed to clean the runway before takeoff and led to the piece of metal being left on the runway.
Its just bad luck that the precedent plane that took off right before the concorde dropped the metal. U can’t expect charles De gaulle to sweep everytime
This is the first I heard of the incident when a tyre burst, flinging debris into the fuel tanks. I would love to know how a passenger noticed the damage underneath the wing, and fuel streaming out below and behind the wing.
I remember what a big deal Concorde was when they were introduced. I was sad that at $10K per ticket, I would never get the chance to fly in one. So when this accident happened, I knew it’s days were numbered. It was a pretty amazing achievement in aviation technology in its day, but its price tag meant it was only for the wealthy.
I watched this all live on CNN. My understanding from reading the accident report is that the 1st officer initiated the fire extinguishers in the right side engines mistakenly instead of the left side as intended. I don’t know if they were able to restart these two good engines, but the adverse yaw caused by the dragging two left engines caused the aircraft to slow and yaw so severely that it struck the hotel tail first, which if you think about it is an amazing aerodynamic occurrence. Terrible day, so awful.
I'll always remember the Concorde if just because of its unique design and the like. Also that I used to be very interested in aircrafts. When I was really young, I had a model Concorde, but at the same time, I never saw it fly ever, let alone even seen it in person. Whenever I asked back then, I was simply told that it didn't fly anymore - some accident occurred. So it's interesting to hear about the happenings that led to its discontinuation years later.
I can tell you are going to get a lot of views for this. I tried to find an incident video like this one a few weeks ago, and couldn't find anything that was not a news report, a music subtitle video, or a documentary out of Nat Geo that was as concise or well made as your videos.
There is one done by mentour pilot on here that is really detailed you should totally check it out if you want to know more about this or other incidents
Loads of stuff missing from this video. The pilot never ordered the engine shutdown. It was overweight, a spacer missing from the left wheel bogey, which caused the plane to literally go off the runway. It rotated at too low a speed in order to avoid another plane to it's left. This wasn't a simple case of running over a metal strip and then crashing. The investigation was a cover up by the French to get the blame and possible payouts shifted to the other airline.
@@lolalenoir3048 I'm not clever enough to put links directly on here but there's absolutely loads of sites out there that go into lots of detail on this accident. One of BA's chief Concorde pilots did a brilliant piece about this on TH-cam. Sorry, I can't remember his name but you should be able to find it. He talks about it while sitting in the actual cockpit of a static Concorde. John Hutchinson is his name.
As french guy who studied aviation. I’m saying that ur claims are a little bit scuffed. Its not the french only who are responsible. Everyone has it’s own part of responsibility. Note that an airline is responsible of the maintenance of its fleet therefore continental airlines are partly responsible for the poor maintenance of the dc10 engine.
Interesting to note, that F-BTSC, the accident aircraft, had a faulty reverse thruster on its number two engine, and it had already replaced one of its sister planes for that flight as that Concorde also had mechanical problems. Ironically, F-BTSC was the oldest aircraft of the seven Concordes that Air France flew.
I love what you guys do here. You should look into and possibly make a video about the two plane crashes at the same airport within 2 weeks of each other in December 1968 and January1969 in Bradford Pennsylvania. I live within an hour of Bradford and I never heard about this until today. - Tom M.
Dude you completely left out because of this Concord accident, all passenger planes now have tires that will not explode if they suffer severe tire damage on takeoff or landing.
"Cost at least $10,000", "A total of 100 passengers would board the accident Concord", "All 109 people on board the Concord plane were killed". As someone who doesn't fly much, really puts things into perspective. That's over $1 million in tickets on the accident plane. I know that's a weird thing to think about in the case, but it's not something that often comes up in these DB videos.
Excellent video! Thank you for uploading for everyone to see. Concorde has always been my favorite plane. Unfortunately high maintenance cost and 911 ended Concorde. For us Concorde fans this was a very sad day.
@Samuel-gc6js I see you trolled everyone who said anything about the accident. It's obvious you hated the Concorde. If you don't think I don't know all about the Concorde, you're wrong. I do know a lot about it. I knew about the gas tanks. I also know Concorde was one of the safest planes to fly in. What's laughable is how ignorant you are. So there's that. Are you late for the video, huh?
I had no idea, that the main reason what started that fire, was due to a plane before dropping metal! Man, my mind is blown! This makes me so sad, to know because we dont have supersonic flight today, is cause of this.
Awful disaster.. And yet, not just because i'm british, i'm annoyed the Concorde was condemned and fell from favour as far more planes of different models go wrong far more often with fatalities...and it wasn't even caused by the Concorde its self, rather a DC10 that left some scrap alloy on the runway! Tragic loss of life, but one incident causing the downfall of Concord, yet other designs still in the air being fatally flawed for decades, can't help but feel bias was the reason.. Though admittedly that point of no return problem is quite scary and being sat with that much jet fuel around would probably worry most people!
The dc10 wasn’t the main cause. It was a convenient scapegoat. Concorde was grounded because airbus withdrew its type approval. Not as a direct consequence of this accident.
@@peteconrad2077 people were questioning its safety right after this incident. The DC10 lost a piece of its engine housing on the runway causing this accident. If it wasn't a concord that hit it, and some other plane like a 737 hit it, would you blame it on the 737? Or on the dc10?
Hey, hold up! What is this casual info dump I see on my screen? Disaster Averted? That is certainly something I think I need in my life. Is that a sister channel to Disaster Breakdown or a sub-series here or...?
I'm confused, how did the rupture of an auxiliary fuel tank immediately shut down both left engines and cut all controls? How did the rupture lead to loss of control so quickly?
Tire debris ingested into #1 caused it to fail and #2 stalled out because of the smoke and hot air (and maybe debris?) sucked into the compressor section. Also, the intense heat and/or flames illuminated the engine fire sensors; since the FE believed they had an engine fire in #2, procedure dictates that engine must be immediately shut down. Meanwhile the impact of debris and the fire ruptured hydraulic lines, making it impossible to control the aircraft; the pilot had no power boost and was only able to use his muscle power to attempt to move the elevons…unsuccessfully. Finally, the fire melted or burned the actual control surfaces and their mounting brackets. In very short order it was impossible to control the aircraft, and only two of the four engines were producing thrust which made it impossible to climb. Also, the extreme asymmetrical thrust line was forcing the aircraft to bank left, ultimately beyond 100 degrees. In fact, the thrust levers on engines 3 & 4 were pulled down to idle in a final, desperate, and futile attempt to right the aircraft…maybe in an attempt to get the plane horizontal again to perform an emergency landing.
Ladies and gentlemen...the plane you'll be flying on this evening has 13 fuel cells full of super high octane jet fuel! Enjoy your flight! Oh..and as always, please no smoking! 😃
The Concorde was moving in the right direction towards development. The issues with the tires could have been resolved. If the plane continued to be developed over time, fuel usage could have been adjusted this bringing the seat prices down resulting in more development. See where I'm going here? Think about the Wright brothers back then and where we are today! I lay NO blame on the pilots. They had no idea there would be FOD on the runway and by/if the time they saw it, they were going too fast to react safely.
Chloe, you it wrong at the start.......... she is THE MOST ICONIC aircraft in history and we've gone backwards in aviation now we no longer have the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly.😢 At the time she was designed, she was way ahead of her time and pretty much had a fly by wire system when all other aircraft had wires and pulleys. What's ironic here is that, after this accident and the announcement that she was going to be retired, she was more profitable than she'd ever been for BA.
I've been binge watching disaster breakdown and my friend is going on a flight for the holidays so I can't talk to him about any of the plane crashes cause he doesn't want to hear about it lol. I told him to tell me what plane he's going to be in so I can look up if it's had any hull losses or not but he didn't say lol.
So many people believe tu coppied the concorde when they actually pulled it of earlier. Imo the tu being much simpler and the ingenious "little wings" is much better
Am i the only one peeved that they called the Concordes safety into question but let the DC10s slide? A DC10 caused the accident and they dont question it. Ontop of DC10s FAR worse safety record. Poor Concordes. They didn't deserve that fate at all
The dc10 didn’t cause the accident. To be fair neither did Concorde. It was a menu of mistakes by Air France that brought it down, mainly due to complacency. And if there’s on Western European airline that has no cause to be complacent…
@@peteconrad2077 how didn't the dc10 cause the crash? It wasn't air France's fault that the dc10 that went before them lost a piece of its engine housing?
The Concorde was in the verge of retirement anyway. Fuel costs were to high and non-efficient. They might possibly retire the plane soon. When it comes to this incident I can’t understand why you guys wanna still give extra flack to the DC10s for it. Like you guys have a bias or something.
Things killed Concorde in order of time: When Built: Range too short, only trans Atlantic flights possible, leading to low demands from Asian Airlines. 1970's Oil Crisis 1970's US ban of supersonic commerical flight over continental United States 1970's Failure of American SST and Soviet Tu-144 1980's Realization that even with only Business class seats, flights barely profitable. 2000 Concorde crash (this video) 2001 9-11 and subsequent recession and drop in air travel demand. 2003 Airbus decision of ending support for Concorde (excessive development cost of retrofitting Concorde after 2000 crash and need of engineering resources to work on other projects such as A380 and A350.
DC-10 engine pylon was such a crappy thing that not only brought down American Airline 191 it was also responsible for the only fatal loss of a concorde and the ultimate doom of the only viable supersonic airliner in history. such a unique legacy.
@@jessejohn7406 no. It was AF fault it ended up at the runway edge to hit it. It was AF fault that the piece of metal was able to bring the aircraft down. Had it been operated correctly, Concorde wound t have hit the fragment or if it had, wouldn’t have been lost as a result.
@@peteconrad2077 so they werent taking off correctly thts wat u sayin? Causeee the last time i was driving and i ran over a piece of metal my tire was gone and so was a chunk of my car tht statement makes no sense what so ever
@@jessejohn7406 thats because you’ve no idea what you’re talking about. They had incorrectly fitted wheels which cause them to veer onto the metal. The metal itself should have caused only minor damage. It would have only caused. Minor damage if the aircraft had to been over fuelled and had been fitted weight new tyres, rather than remoulds and had cow catchers fitted to the wheel bogeys which had been recommended by Airbus.
A comedy of errors produced a sharp band of titanium to puncture a tire, which sent a chunk of rubber and metal to smash the wing, which caused a a shock wave which ruptured the tank, which spilled the fuel which ignited on the hot engines..... for the want of a nail....
With the high lingering after the 1999/2000 New Year's worldwide party, two things scarred the year; The Concorde crash and the loss of the Russian NAVY'S Kursk.
Excessively high take-off and landing speeds are not appropriate for aircraft in airline service. The Concorde was from the beginning a vanity project, and as pretty as it was, it was never a good idea.
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I see what you did there. Give them a little taste of the good stuff 😆
Even when the DC-10 doesn’t crash itself its still out for blood
I shouldn't have laughed at this but I did.
@@gerardcollins80 well at least ur not alone
Yeah, i also laughed way too hard😅
A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT THE DC-10 IS STILL A KILLER.
True, true!
I find it really odd how the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 kept flying for years after a slew of incidents (most notable being American Airlines Flight 96, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, American Airlines Flight 191 and United Airlines Flight 232), while a single fatal incident pretty much destroyed the Concorde's reputation for good.
Because Concorde wasn't American.
Concorde was already on its way out by the 2000s, after all it was still 1970s technology. The spike in oil prices didn't help either.
10 grand per flight in 2000 is a putoff in and of itself, without the added risks
Concorde didn't end operation because of this crash. It obviously played a part but the cost per flight hour, maintenance costs, and diminishing requirement for supersonic all played a bigger part. The DC is superior to the Concorde in every way (speed being the exception of course).
Because not all of the DC-10 crashes had anything to do with the plane itself, but the poor maintenance of it, like AA 191. And once the cargo door was redesigned, the plane was a reliable and safe workhorse. I really feel like it got an undeserved reputation as a death trap.
I love how you can play the piano while talking and changing all these slides so effortlessly
No script either, all from memory.
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I remember this crash happening when I was a small kid. I was in love with this plane and the day it crashed I cried. Not for the people but for the poor plane. My 5 yr old brain didn’t PROPERLY register the HORRIFYING loss of human life.
I saw Concorde fly overhead when at LEGOLAND Winsor, the sound was terrific and even a theme park it demanded attention. Soaring over, it was a beautiful plane. I feel fortunate to have seen it. Even now, years later, my Mum and I recall it with excitement.
I saw one land when I was 5. It started my love of planes. It still had clouds on the wingtips. Unfortunately, that was one of the last times it ever flew
One thing I don't miss about the concord is the loud noise it produced, my parents & I (dad still lives there now) lived in the direct flight path of Heathrow Airport in a 12 storey block of flats the noise of the concord was so loud even at the altitude the concord was at the windows in mine & my parents bedroom & the windows & door to the balcony in the living room would rattle. The 747's noise sounded like a fly buzzing by your ear. I always dreamed of buying tickets for my parents to fly on the concord for their 25th anniversary in 2010 sadly that didn't happen.
Feltham?
I was surprised when I learned there were Concords operating as late as 2000. I regret never being able to ride in one - I was still a teenager at the time.
Consider the cost. You still wouldn't have been able to ride it anyway, unless your family was filthy rich back then.
@@blerst7066 I wish! 😂
@@blerst7066 unlike that poor family who had been saving for over 20 years to fly on it... Horrible
Honestly I would have loved to just see it take off. The sight of one would have been something to see.
I live near East Midlands Airport. My dad used to take me there every now and again just to watch the planes take off. Concorde was one of those planes.
I miss that beautiful machine.
Love your work. There's something morbidly fascinating about this subject that makes it quite addictive viewing. I think perhaps because, of all the forms of transport available to us, you at least have a chance of survival in something like a car crash, a ship sinking or a train derailing. If something goes wrong in a plane however, your chances of making it are slim to zero.
Not entirely true.. I wouldn't want to have a blow out on a motorway at 70mph.
What is not mentioned here is the pilot putting excessive fuel in, some other odd decisions that didn't help the planes situation.. I think i know where u are coming from though, most accidents are sudden where as on a plane, if the situation is dyer then you have no escape and time to see imminent death coming.
Alaska 261 for example.. horrible.
The thing death in the road can be fast and painless. Whereas in a plane, u just feel the terrible fear for 10mns before dying.
Having never flown on a plane, I cannot imagine how amazing an experience it would have been to have flown on one of these exceptional machines.
You’ve never flown AT ALL? How old are you and where do you live?
That’s AMAZING!
My pops flew on one, he said the take-off was one of the most exhilarating experiences he has ever had. Flying on the edge of space in pure silence was amazing, only problem was that you were really squished in 😂
@@Mr.Chris.P.Bacon1 South Africa. Never really needed to. We have always been more exploratory in my family. Always took the car. And yes, I am old enough to drink in America.
South Africa is beautiful. Compared to it, you're not missing much
-American that visited
The engine did not fail or catch fire, it overheated due to the fire caused by the fuel that was pouring from the ruptured tank. The fire ignited due to electrical cables that had severed arcing causing a spark. The flight engineer suspecting an engine fire shut down the engine, this was an error as the engine was still producing some power. Had he not shut down this engine they may have made it to Le Bourget. He shut it down without asking the Captain first which was the second mistake he made.
The internal components of the engine didn't fail, it was the superheated air from the fire which was sucked into the engine that caused its performance to drop drastically as it threw off the pressure ratios
No, according to the official report it was suffocated by fumes and suffered compressor stalls.
Regardless, the FE responded properly based upon the information he had in those brief seconds; his instrumentation told him #2 had an engine fire and he acted accordingly per procedure. Everyone acted properly with the information available to them at the time, and the FE is not required to ask the pilot what to do; acting per procedure on what he observes on his instruments and notifying the captain and FO was the entire point of having a flight engineer. I do not know the exact situation during this era (or now, for example, on a 747-200) but there was a time when the FE literally owns the throttle quadrant, and actually reached between the two pilots to set the throttles to a level appropriate for that particular takeoff.
The captain asked to shut down the engine, the flight engineer does not have the immediate access to the button that does that.
Everyone: "concorde is the safest and fastest jet"!
Dc-10: hold my beer..
*hold my engine
**my engine’s part
Dc-10 is the worst bro boeing and airbus better
Hey, ive been following you for a couple of months and have been binge watching your videos. last week i looked up to see if u had a video on flight 4590 and saw you didnt. Ive been looking for days for a video that talks about it but found none that i wanted to see.
Thank you for this video, i legit feel like it was made for me hahahah. Amazing work!
Awesome! Thank you!
Not mentioned in this video was the fact that the metal strip in question was not a properly manufactured nor properly installed part to the DC-10.
That's horrible. Thanks for uploading! One can't blame British airways or Air France, or the Concorde for this, it's on the maintenance folks in Tel Aviv who did a bad job on the sheet metal on the DC-10 I think it was.
The Concorde was doomed due to high operating costs and a lack of enthusiasm over the flying hours saved. I'd love to save four hours flying overseas, but I couldn't justify the ten times higher cost. There are those who can, I'm sadly just not one of them.
The DC-10 was definitely caused this one but Concorde had terrible tyre issues. It was bound to happen one day, with or without running over the metal
Awesome video!! I first discovered you when I needed info on Japan Airlines 123 for a school project and have been watching you ever since (around 7 months), your updates make me extremely happy and watch them before going to bed, thank you so much for all your hardwork!!!
My teacher in aviation maintenance school used to work for continental airlines when this happened. Before any Concorde flight the runways were required to be swept of debris before the Concorde could take off. French airport authorities failed to clean the runway before takeoff and led to the piece of metal being left on the runway.
No, I don’t think the Concorde required its own FOD walk prior to takeoff , but at the time the runways at de Gaulle were swept twice per day.
Its just bad luck that the precedent plane that took off right before the concorde dropped the metal. U can’t expect charles De gaulle to sweep everytime
This is the first I heard of the incident when a tyre burst, flinging debris into the fuel tanks. I would love to know how a passenger noticed the damage underneath the wing, and fuel streaming out below and behind the wing.
I remember what a big deal Concorde was when they were introduced. I was sad that at $10K per ticket, I would never get the chance to fly in one. So when this accident happened, I knew it’s days were numbered. It was a pretty amazing achievement in aviation technology in its day, but its price tag meant it was only for the wealthy.
I watched this all live on CNN. My understanding from reading the accident report is that the 1st officer initiated the fire extinguishers in the right side engines mistakenly instead of the left side as intended. I don’t know if they were able to restart these two good engines, but the adverse yaw caused by the dragging two left engines caused the aircraft to slow and yaw so severely that it struck the hotel tail first, which if you think about it is an amazing aerodynamic occurrence. Terrible day, so awful.
As always, extremely informative and well made.. keep it up!
Much appreciated!
Glad to see you cover this incident! Keep up the good work!
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I'll always remember the Concorde if just because of its unique design and the like. Also that I used to be very interested in aircrafts.
When I was really young, I had a model Concorde, but at the same time, I never saw it fly ever, let alone even seen it in person. Whenever I asked back then, I was simply told that it didn't fly anymore - some accident occurred.
So it's interesting to hear about the happenings that led to its discontinuation years later.
I can tell you are going to get a lot of views for this. I tried to find an incident video like this one a few weeks ago, and couldn't find anything that was not a news report, a music subtitle video, or a documentary out of Nat Geo that was as concise or well made as your videos.
There is one done by mentour pilot on here that is really detailed you should totally check it out if you want to know more about this or other incidents
Do 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision. It's modern-day British Airways' sole fatal crash, but not a lot of people know about it.
Loads of stuff missing from this video. The pilot never ordered the engine shutdown. It was overweight, a spacer missing from the left wheel bogey, which caused the plane to literally go off the runway. It rotated at too low a speed in order to avoid another plane to it's left. This wasn't a simple case of running over a metal strip and then crashing. The investigation was a cover up by the French to get the blame and possible payouts shifted to the other airline.
Oohhh, really?! That’s interesting! I never heard all of this, but it would make total sense, do you have links that talk in more details about this?
@@lolalenoir3048 I'm not clever enough to put links directly on here but there's absolutely loads of sites out there that go into lots of detail on this accident. One of BA's chief Concorde pilots did a brilliant piece about this on TH-cam. Sorry, I can't remember his name but you should be able to find it. He talks about it while sitting in the actual cockpit of a static Concorde. John Hutchinson is his name.
As french guy who studied aviation. I’m saying that ur claims are a little bit scuffed. Its not the french only who are responsible. Everyone has it’s own part of responsibility. Note that an airline is responsible of the maintenance of its fleet therefore continental airlines are partly responsible for the poor maintenance of the dc10 engine.
Interesting to note, that F-BTSC, the accident aircraft, had a faulty reverse thruster on its number two engine, and it had already replaced one of its sister planes for that flight as that Concorde also had mechanical problems. Ironically, F-BTSC was the oldest aircraft of the seven Concordes that Air France flew.
I love what you guys do here. You should look into and possibly make a video about the two plane crashes at the same airport within 2 weeks of each other in December 1968 and January1969 in Bradford Pennsylvania. I live within an hour of Bradford and I never heard about this until today.
- Tom M.
Dude you completely left out because of this Concord accident, all passenger planes now have tires that will not explode if they suffer severe tire damage on takeoff or landing.
Make a video then
"Cost at least $10,000", "A total of 100 passengers would board the accident Concord", "All 109 people on board the Concord plane were killed". As someone who doesn't fly much, really puts things into perspective. That's over $1 million in tickets on the accident plane.
I know that's a weird thing to think about in the case, but it's not something that often comes up in these DB videos.
The end of the Concorde was the end of an era in more ways than one.
DC-10: *exists*
every aircraft within a continental raduis:
ayo man, watch yo jet- WATCH YO JET-
Very well presented. Thank you for sharing!
well this was a nice surprise to see when i opened youtube! great video as always!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow new video on a Tuesday must be my lucky day. I wait for your upload every Saturday thanks😊
Fastest click in the west, I love these videos
Thoroughly researched and fluently narrated as always.
I had never realized how long Concorde was in service and for the most part without incident
Did the Captain order the shutdown of engine 2? I thought the flight engineer did this off his own bat.
Excellent video! Thank you for uploading for everyone to see. Concorde has always been my favorite plane. Unfortunately high maintenance cost and 911 ended Concorde. For us Concorde fans this was a very sad day.
There were other factors that caused this crash. A single metal strip is laughable
@Samuel-gc6js I see you trolled everyone who said anything about the accident. It's obvious you hated the Concorde. If you don't think I don't know all about the Concorde, you're wrong. I do know a lot about it. I knew about the gas tanks. I also know Concorde was one of the safest planes to fly in. What's laughable is how ignorant you are. So there's that. Are you late for the video, huh?
As always great stuff dude! Keep it up
I remember the French investigators freaking out: "the metal strip!!!"
Thank you for another fantastic video!
Thanks for watching!
I had no idea, that the main reason what started that fire, was due to a plane before dropping metal! Man, my mind is blown! This makes me so sad, to know because we dont have supersonic flight today, is cause of this.
Not its also that concorde was very expensive and was not rentable.
Awful disaster.. And yet, not just because i'm british, i'm annoyed the Concorde was condemned and fell from favour as far more planes of different models go wrong far more often with fatalities...and it wasn't even caused by the Concorde its self, rather a DC10 that left some scrap alloy on the runway! Tragic loss of life, but one incident causing the downfall of Concord, yet other designs still in the air being fatally flawed for decades, can't help but feel bias was the reason.. Though admittedly that point of no return problem is quite scary and being sat with that much jet fuel around would probably worry most people!
The dc10 wasn’t the main cause. It was a convenient scapegoat. Concorde was grounded because airbus withdrew its type approval. Not as a direct consequence of this accident.
@@peteconrad2077 people were questioning its safety right after this incident. The DC10 lost a piece of its engine housing on the runway causing this accident. If it wasn't a concord that hit it, and some other plane like a 737 hit it, would you blame it on the 737? Or on the dc10?
@@JarradBruessel32 it was only unsafe the way AF operated it.
Lol stop being hating on Air France American fanboy American Airlines is way way worse, not to mention the boeing and DC-9 and 10 disasters.
This man's videos are pretty good!
The landing gear/tires should’ve had fail safes are redesigned as the rear landing gear is so close to the engines
The DC-10 is pretty much the pit-bull equivalent of a plane
HELP
I'm not an engineer, but after that first incident, shouldn't they have strengthened the Concorde fuel tanks, or would that add too much weight?
I remember when I was young I went to the movies with my mom to see that terrible terrible movie entitled Concorde.
Sympathies extended to little you.
@@grmpEqweer no need for sympathies. Everything's going to be okay.
@@grapeshot
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Edit: IMDB describes the movie as a "supersonic airborne disaster" 😂
The Concorde used in that Movie from 1979 was the exact same Aircraft that crashed in Paris.
Hey, hold up! What is this casual info dump I see on my screen? Disaster Averted? That is certainly something I think I need in my life. Is that a sister channel to Disaster Breakdown or a sub-series here or...?
I'm confused, how did the rupture of an auxiliary fuel tank immediately shut down both left engines and cut all controls? How did the rupture lead to loss of control so quickly?
Lack of fuel would be my guess. Then if the initial rupture didn't destroy the hydraulics the fire sure did.
Tire debris ingested into #1 caused it to fail and #2 stalled out because of the smoke and hot air (and maybe debris?) sucked into the compressor section. Also, the intense heat and/or flames illuminated the engine fire sensors; since the FE believed they had an engine fire in #2, procedure dictates that engine must be immediately shut down. Meanwhile the impact of debris and the fire ruptured hydraulic lines, making it impossible to control the aircraft; the pilot had no power boost and was only able to use his muscle power to attempt to move the elevons…unsuccessfully. Finally, the fire melted or burned the actual control surfaces and their mounting brackets. In very short order it was impossible to control the aircraft, and only two of the four engines were producing thrust which made it impossible to climb. Also, the extreme asymmetrical thrust line was forcing the aircraft to bank left, ultimately beyond 100 degrees. In fact, the thrust levers on engines 3 & 4 were pulled down to idle in a final, desperate, and futile attempt to right the aircraft…maybe in an attempt to get the plane horizontal again to perform an emergency landing.
Ladies and gentlemen...the plane you'll be flying on this evening has 13 fuel cells full of super high octane jet fuel! Enjoy your flight! Oh..and as always, please no smoking! 😃
Not funny
Who would win?
A supersonic plane made with the best technology available
vs.
One shiny boi
i think Taiwan is a country, am I right?
@@sama847 What is Taiwan?
@@sama847 depends for china its part of china for usa and taiwan (cus they like to spite China) its a country. But in the end it’s ur own opinion
Can you please do Cebu Pacific Flight 387? Thank you!
Great content, but why you spared a few seconds for the actual crash video, I have no idea
The Concorde was moving in the right direction towards development. The issues with the tires could have been resolved. If the plane continued to be developed over time, fuel usage could have been adjusted this bringing the seat prices down resulting in more development. See where I'm going here? Think about the Wright brothers back then and where we are today! I lay NO blame on the pilots. They had no idea there would be FOD on the runway and by/if the time they saw it, they were going too fast to react safely.
Wow a surprise midweek episode!
Chloe, you it wrong at the start.......... she is THE MOST ICONIC aircraft in history and we've gone backwards in aviation now we no longer have the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly.😢
At the time she was designed, she was way ahead of her time and pretty much had a fly by wire system when all other aircraft had wires and pulleys.
What's ironic here is that, after this accident and the announcement that she was going to be retired, she was more profitable than she'd ever been for BA.
Did you put a video bar in the thumbnail lmfao I was confused so bad
Is it any wonder it wasn't a popular plane when it cost $10k for a ticket? Lol
(10:14) You know things are really going wrong when black smoke pours out of your landing gear.
I would be able to visit loved ones and come back in the same day across the world😭. I wish I had a chance to fly in one of these
Here before 200 comments😲 I'm finally early😂 great video as always
A piece of metal like that will mess up any pilot's day, no matter the aircraft.
Merci 🐸
McDonnell-Douglas doesn't just crash their own planes, they destroy planes nearby too 😅
McDonnell-Douglas killed itself, killed a Concorde, and then poisoned Boeing. Truly a horrifying legacy.
I've been binge watching disaster breakdown and my friend is going on a flight for the holidays so I can't talk to him about any of the plane crashes cause he doesn't want to hear about it lol. I told him to tell me what plane he's going to be in so I can look up if it's had any hull losses or not but he didn't say lol.
That’s crazy that a piece of debris on the runway led to this plane going down.
So sad to see the Concord on fire trying to fly when you know it won't make it.
Hey! One suggestion for a video is Reevee Autletian Airways Flight 188!
So many people believe tu coppied the concorde when they actually pulled it of earlier. Imo the tu being much simpler and the ingenious "little wings" is much better
Am i the only one peeved that they called the Concordes safety into question but let the DC10s slide? A DC10 caused the accident and they dont question it. Ontop of DC10s FAR worse safety record. Poor Concordes. They didn't deserve that fate at all
The dc10 didn’t cause the accident. To be fair neither did Concorde. It was a menu of mistakes by Air France that brought it down, mainly due to complacency. And if there’s on Western European airline that has no cause to be complacent…
@@peteconrad2077 how didn't the dc10 cause the crash? It wasn't air France's fault that the dc10 that went before them lost a piece of its engine housing?
@@peteconrad2077 the dc10 that broke wasn't air Frances either. It was continental airlines dc10.
Can we all please stop the narrative that the DC-10 was a death trap. It was a magnificent plane that was the backbone of many airlines for 30 years.
The Concorde was in the verge of retirement anyway. Fuel costs were to high and non-efficient. They might possibly retire the plane soon. When it comes to this incident I can’t understand why you guys wanna still give extra flack to the DC10s for it. Like you guys have a bias or something.
Fantastic!
Things killed Concorde in order of time:
When Built: Range too short, only trans Atlantic flights possible, leading to low demands from Asian Airlines.
1970's Oil Crisis
1970's US ban of supersonic commerical flight over continental United States
1970's Failure of American SST and Soviet Tu-144
1980's Realization that even with only Business class seats, flights barely profitable.
2000 Concorde crash (this video)
2001 9-11 and subsequent recession and drop in air travel demand.
2003 Airbus decision of ending support for Concorde (excessive development cost of retrofitting Concorde after 2000 crash and need of engineering resources to work on other projects such as A380 and A350.
That was a nasty one
I didn’t know SG airline also had Concord.
Sameeee
An airplane just went down in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic this week (12/17/2021.) An entire family was wiped out. Please look into it. Thanks!
DC-10 engine pylon was such a crappy thing that not only brought down American Airline 191 it was also responsible for the only fatal loss of a concorde and the ultimate doom of the only viable supersonic airliner in history. such a unique legacy.
Why was the DC 10 scrapped???
Most airplanes are eventually scrapped when their total lifespan is reached and it's time to retire.
Crazy how a DC-10 cause the Concorde to feel the pinch
It didn’t. Air France incompetence did.
@@peteconrad2077 sooo the metal on the runway tht caused the whole chain of events was Air France fault?
@@jessejohn7406 no. It was AF fault it ended up at the runway edge to hit it. It was AF fault that the piece of metal was able to bring the aircraft down. Had it been operated correctly, Concorde wound t have hit the fragment or if it had, wouldn’t have been lost as a result.
@@peteconrad2077 so they werent taking off correctly thts wat u sayin? Causeee the last time i was driving and i ran over a piece of metal my tire was gone and so was a chunk of my car tht statement makes no sense what so ever
@@jessejohn7406 thats because you’ve no idea what you’re talking about. They had incorrectly fitted wheels which cause them to veer onto the metal. The metal itself should have caused only minor damage. It would have only caused. Minor damage if the aircraft had to been over fuelled and had been fitted weight new tyres, rather than remoulds and had cow catchers fitted to the wheel bogeys which had been recommended by Airbus.
YESSS! I was at school when this was posted so I couldn’t see it when it was posted, but I have always been interested in this accident!
The concorde should come back
Because supersonic flight is super cool
Then again, it eats fuel every second. It is so inneficient
@@TheAviationGuyID ever heard of TU-144 (not TU-144LL)
This accident would’ve never happened if that shitty DC-10 don’t take off at that runway
@@Baer9471 so?
@@TheAviationGuyID yes.
A comedy of errors produced a sharp band of titanium to puncture a tire, which sent a chunk of rubber and metal to smash the wing, which caused a
a shock wave which ruptured the tank, which spilled the fuel which ignited on the hot engines..... for the want of a nail....
This happened in July 25 2000
I don't count 13 tanks in the picture 😢
With the high lingering after the 1999/2000 New Year's worldwide party, two things scarred the year; The Concorde crash and the loss of the Russian NAVY'S Kursk.
AND Alaska Flight 261
...and my dog died...!!
@@sarge6870 rip doggo
Can someone explain to me why in the animations the tires are all smoking?
Nope, was gonna ask the same question. I mean, even the nosewheel was smoking? Whaat??
Great channel but too many long ads which can’t be clicked away…
please make UM Airlines Flight 4230?
Excessively high take-off and landing speeds are not appropriate for aircraft in airline service. The Concorde was from the beginning a vanity project, and as pretty as it was, it was never a good idea.
Such an objective claim, if that’s a way to praise the dc10 and boeing bro u are highly in the wrong.
Hi! is there a chance I can request that you cover a lesser known air plane crash? This was in Honduras and was a pretty big deal. This was the deadliest accident in Central America, Tan-Sahsa 414. 131 deaths. Thanks!
Oh cool, I've been to the example of the Tu-144 you displayed, it's in a town not far from me.
There are only 12 tanks in the schematic. Where’s the 13th?
Hyped!
The maintenance guy who did that shitty work on that Continental DC-10 should have been involuntary immolated.
Lmao I just seen The Smithonian Channel do a video on this
10 minutes in and the video goes down :(((