The Incredible Story Of TACA 110 - DISASTER AVERTED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- This A flight on a Boeing 737 takes a peculiar turn. TACA flight 110 suffers a dual engine flameout while on descent to new Orleans, Louisiana. The pilots can not get the engines to power back up again and the plane needs to make a forced landing. Incredibly, Captain Carlos Dardano and his flight crew landed their plane on a wet grassy levee just outside of New Orleans.
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@Star Impressions You are right with Northumberland just about. I'm from North Eat England :)
@@DisasterBreakdown Oh same! And great video, I enjoyed it as always :D
hey i’d love to see a video about the flight mh370 disaster, or at least whats know about it
737 MAX maybe
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This pilot is amazing. He has had 3 major incidents in his career and he got away from all 3 unscathed. One of which he was shot in the face by a sniper while waiting for a passengers son to relieve himself. This pilot deserves a movie. A real hero. He did this landing with one eye!
Getting shot in the face is not getting away unscathed tho.
@@KoRnBulleT 'Tis but a scratch.
@@KoRnBulleT If you can still see and still have a fully functioning brain i'd say it is.
American aviation never recognized dardano as a hero as other pilots were recognized for less☝🏻
Agreed
Imagine reading a transcript of this, with no knowledge of the outcome. You might think "I guess we gotta go down" was the pilot giving up, reserved to an unavoidable fate. But we know what it actually means is "watch me safely land this 737 with no engines on 5000 feet of pitched grass with one eye kids, start taking notes".
Carlos Dardano is a hero to disabled pilots worldwide. He managed to save all his passengers despite having only one functioning eye. Hes an inspiration to all pilots. Captain Sullenberger was taking notes.
@RoadhogTime13 *Pearson.
143 was a two man effort, Both men were the reason that plane survived, Pearson's glider skills and Quintal using quick thinking to choose Gimli.
American aviation never recognized dardano as a hero as other pilots were recognized for less☝🏻
Um I have only one eye. I don't consider that disabled you people are rude. While I can't fly a plane I am in no way disabled.
@@edwhite7078 erm.
I have a few conditions both psychological and medical. Wheres your pride in being who you are?
Not only disabled pilots. He is a hero to all pilots. Him and his crew used quick decision making and pure skill to save many lives.
Mr. Dardano is consider a hero here in El Salvador. I'm glad that all passengers and crew survived this incident.
As they should! Dardano saved countless lives along with the FO! Aún no comprendo cómo es que tienen los cojones para permanecer tranquilos en una situación así, pero doy gracias porque existen pilotos chingones como ellos ❤️
He is considered a hero by any pilot or aviation person who has heard of him!!!!❤
What great pilot skills. One of the most impressive emergency landings without engine power I’ve ever heard of.
He did it half blind too💯
You should watch "Air Crash Investigation" they did an episode on this incident and the Captain of that flight is in it explaining how he landed the 737. He said after losing his eye he had little trouble getting a pilot job until few doctors approved, most airlines were scared to take him because in case of emergency he might have trouble seeing things and instead he proved them all wrong and preformed the most amazing emergency landing ever, becoming a hero in his country.
Beyond incredible story of Captain Carlos Dardano's ability as a pilot. Other than the fact that he had definitively proven that even with only 1 eye he is a better and more competent pilot than most others, the most incredible feat in my opinion is by the tender age of just 29 he had already amassed nearly 13,500 flight hours with more than 11,000 of those as pilot in command. He had his own "Sully" story more than 30 years before the Miracle on the Hudson. He currently owns and operates a pilot training school El Salvador named Dardano Aeroservicios.
Thank you for the update on Cpt. Dardano, that's awesome! Suoer-cool that he seems to be passing on those incredible skills to new generations of pilots. Don't know if he would welcome the hype tbh, but I DO wish his incredible piloting achievements were better known internationally? Not just the TACA landing but the story of how he lost his eye, & how he managed to stay an active pilot regardless. Definitely one in a million, El Salvador should be proud!
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 I've seen a lot of posts here about how he hasn't had the recognition he deserves. But I also see a ton of videos about him and this flight. Maybe his recognition is delayed, but his story is all over YT at least. I also suspect you're right, that he probably never wanted the hype.
@@beenaplumber8379 That's one of the things I really appreciate about YT, and even more so about Nebula - these platforms do seem to be providing a good arena for smaller documentary-makers, esp. in various fields of historical study? Allows them to give greater profile to stories that have seemed to get overlooked in other media, as well as challenging some fairly entrenched 'historical' myths. Kudos to the creators who put in hours of solid research, fact-checking and story-telling to bring us such episodes!
Did that dude just Tokyo Drift everyone to safety?
Style: 10/10
Execution: 10/10
Lives Lost: 0
Ranking: S
The other flight he mentioned that landed without engines (known as the Gimli Glider) did a side slip maneuver too, actually. AND he landed on a drag strip at a raceway, so he was really flexing on those drivers. Literally drifted a jumbo jet right into the track.
*Running in the 90s starts blasting*
That's one talented pilot. He was able to stay calm enough to think quickly and managed to prevent the loss of passengers. He's definitely a hero. I think its cool that he was still this skilled with vision in only one eye.
it’s amazing how the human body can compensate for things when something is lost.
@@hannahtanski3911 I don't think his vision was an issue at all. His ability to remain calm, keep flying the plane, maintain excellent CRM, and keep looking for options, both him and his FO, were what saved that plane. Absolute professionalism.
I lived in New Orleans when this happened, and worked as an industrial supplier for the facility where the landing took place. Since the facility included multiple government agencies, just delivering a bi-weekly pallet of fasteners would entail a very thorough security inspection of the vehicle and the driver. Having a plane full of passengers land in the backyard must have made for some interesting paperwork from whoever was in charge of security 😉
Never thought of that and it’s hilarious!
Probably why the pilot wasn't hailed as a great pilot in the US media.They would have drawn too much attention to that place.
Edit: Also, the captain wasn't American.
Although the Mayday episode years later did give him props.
They would have given him the appropriate praise on an episode of Mayday/ACI, it’s a Canadian production.
I can’t imagine why the US would not acknowledge and extoll absolute praise and admiration for this skilled pilot's extraordinary accomplishment.
Sad that the US aviation community ignored this event.
As aircrew, our colleagues are borderless, we mourn the loss of crews irrespective of their airline or nation, and celebrate with great admiration the incredible achievements of other crew as a consequence of their exemplary skills and excellent decision making. Particularly with the exceptional application of CRM's dynamic principles.
@@sydyidanton5873 Very true about that CRM. I'm surprised Chloe didn't mention it. One possible factor for not trotting him out for public recognition is that he might not have wanted it, not in the US anyway. I worked for DynAir for a very short time dispatching TACA flights out of Dulles 3 years after this happened. (TACA contracted DynAir for dispatch services.) I learned the hard way (by being fired) that their pilots had excellent aviation English competency, but not conversational fluency, and they were real uncomfortable with an English-speaking dispatcher. So they let me go. (Odd, I didn't speak Spanish when they hired me.) I've since learned that's quite common in Spanish-speaking countries - a serious reluctance to speak another language unless their fluency is really good. Imagine how uncomfortable he'd be at a press conference.
the captain posted something on his instagram to commemorate 33 years since the incident yesterday.
Amazing airmanship to bring this 'glider' down safely. I am speaking as a retired RAF pilot and have the utmost respect for these guys!
I am astonished by how well that bird was able to glide given that it had to be nose-heavy due to the contents of Captain Dardano's pants.
Nice one! Cojones de hierro!
You can automate all you like, but the only way you get a landing like that is pure skill and experience. The balls of steel and steely determination of this man...amazing, and all with only one eye.
Real proud to be Central American watching this. We hear so little about heroes like this and so much about the horrible things that happen and it’s a shame
That sideslip got me 👁️👄👁️
That's so impressive
And they had no time to prepare for it, because they only saw that levy very late. Just amazing
Actual quote from the pilot "And I was gonna do a little a slide slip" like it's nothing
The levee where TACA Flight 110 was on NASA property believe it or not. It landed right next to NASA Michoud Assembly facility near New Orleans, Louisiana. What shocks me about this incident is the fact that the captain had only one eye which means he had no depth perception at all and the fact he did a dead stick landing to the aircraft with minimal time to spare. This made for a extraordinary landing on a grassy levee which was an complete miracle. Also, the plane landed completely intact like the hand of God simply placed it there. Upon arriving on the scene, the sight even shocked the most seasoned NTSB agents investigating the incident. It was so intact that Boeing test pilots, and engineers were able to fly it off of NASA property to New Orleans international airport. After the incident, the plane was eventually acquired by Southwest airlines, and stayed in service until December 2, 2016 when it was retired. It is currently in storage at Pinal Airpark, and will forever be a reminder of one of the most incredible stories in aviation history.
I'm so glad the plane body has survived to museum status! Very few of these historic craft seem to be preserved, just due to the high recycling value of their materials?
what I find funny is that it was in such good condition that all it needed was new engines and was perfectly airworthy other than the first engines
This is why we need to first study from the heroes of the flight to become future and amazing pilots.
Yes study the good and the bad 🙏❤️ Our lives are in your hands.
I heard of this guy when I was little because of when my grandpa watched the news when it happened. We are from El Salvador. This event should get a movie
Captain Dardano's whole piloting story feels like perfect movie fodder! What a dude. Honestly, the only thing that might impede that would be how incredible it all is - feels like a series of events that movie producers would say was too bizarre & epic to be believable! 😅
It's good to know this story is known to the Salvadoran public at least. Captain Dardano and First Officer Lopez should be national heroes, in El Salvador and in the US, which is where they saved so many lives. If it had been captured on video, he would have been everybody's hero, like Sully Sullenberger. But maybe he doesn't want the attention.
The moment you said the pilot was one-eyed and still flying planes, I knew there was no way this was going to end up bad.
I think I would send flowers and Christmas presents to that flight crew for the rest of my life if I was on this flight. What a legend.
beyond the amazing piloting skills it took to land the plane, I'm also amazed by the fact that they flew it off the levee again because there really was no other option to get it off.
Makes me wonder if there are other cases of big commercial airplanes landing on something other than a runway with the plane suffering no structural damage.
I was thinking about how they managed to get off there as well. They must have prepared a temporary runway. I’d love to see how that side of things was pulled off.
The plane landed in East New Orleans on the levee near the Michoud Assembly Facility, now used by NASA contractors. During WWII it was used by the Higgins Company to build aircraft and boats. Most of the old Michoud WWII runway had been paved over, but in 1988 remnants of the runway remained. The TACA plane was towed to the Michoud Facility, starboard engine was replaced, and it was then flown to Moisant Airport (Now New Orleans Louis Armstrong Intl). The plane remained in service for many years and and subsequent pilots were always aware of its “celebrity “ status. An aside note: The Higgins Company was owned by Andrew Higgins of New Orleans. He designed the landing craft boats which were used on D-Day at Normandy and other coastal invasions. His design was based on the flat-bottom boats used to navigate Louisiana swamps. General Eisenhower credited Higgins’ boat design as making a significant contribution to the success of Normandy and other WWII operations.
American aviation never recognized dardano as a hero as other pilots were recognized for less☝🏻
Nope
Yes Air Canada 767 confusion with the metric system and us Pounds .
Great video! It's such a shame that these incidents don't get nearly the attention and recognition as 1549.
NYC is the center of the universe.
If u didn’t know that
Just ask, they will tell u
I could not agree with you more.
Undeniably Sully did a great job with a favourable outcome.
But there have been pilots under far more trying conditions that have achieved just as incredible achievements, if not more so.
Pan Am flight 6, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser that ditched in the Pacific Ocean in 1956,
The hijacked Ethiopian B767 off the Comoros Islands would have had a better outcome if one of the hijackers wasn’t continuously bashing the captain over the head while he was attempting to level out the aircraft.
More would have survived had they not inflated their life vests inside the cabin.
Many other examples also of incredible airmanship not just confined to ditchings.
Agreed!! I've always found it odd that the Hudson ditching was the one which made it to the big screen when Dardano's whole piloting story was so much more insanely epic? No shade at all to Cpt. Sully & his crew! But it does feel as if some pretty strong tunnel-focus on USA stories was at work here. Even general awareness of the TACA incident seems to be bizarrely low, given how incredible it was.
I had never heard of this before and that's coming from someone who's family used to fly on TACA to visit relatives in El Salvador and vise versa...The pilots should get the same accolades as the ones from The Miracle on the Hudson.
And this side slip at the end! I don‘t know much about flying, but this looks so impressive. Not to mention that quick decision making, because they only saw that levy shortly before the landing and switched their plans. From what I understand, they were going to do a water landing and were on course to land on the water, and then they quickly decided to land on the grass. Just amazing
Me before learning this story: A one-eyed Captain? Maybe I'll take another flight...
Me Afterwards: A one-eyed Captain?! Thank f#@k, I'm in good hands
The story of how he lost his eye is also interesting, During a stop and waiting for a vehicle to pick up a businessman and his family, he sensed danger and thought it was time to leave, but the wife of the businessman asked him to wait just a little more because their little boy needed to pee, he accepted but soon after a bullet from a Guerrilla sniper landed on Dardano's face but he didn't noticed he had lost his eye until he was in mid flight, the businessman that hired him for that particular flight went crazy and tried to take control of the plane, but Dardano hit him with his elbow and yelled him to remain calm.
@@agentepolaris4914 that’s based
@@agentepolaris4914 Wow! I've never heard those details. Pilots often have to pay their dues as flight instructors before getting the nice corporate and airline jobs, and flight instructors have to know when and how to apply elbow to ribs. If a student gets scared during some kind of maneuver (stall or spin, whatever), they might freeze up and keep a death grip on the controls. Instructors have one really effective way of recovering that situation.
One thing surprises me - he didn't notice he had no sight in that eye, ok, but he must have known he'd been shot, or somehow wounded and bleeding. He also would surely have noticed a hole in the plane. I want to say it was a bad idea to proceed with the flight, but then I suppose there were people on the ground shooting at him, and the plane was their escape. What an awful situation to be in, and again, Captain Carlos was the right guy to have at the controls when it happened.
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee had a plane on it 😐
That's the difference between a pilot with hand flying skills and pilots with push button skills.
I love this happy endings, Delta 1080 also should get some attention in the future.
I lived in El Salvador for 27 years as my mother was born there. We flew so many times through TACA for many years. It was my favorite airline when I was a kid. So many good memories!
Too bad it merged with a Colombian company and now it's bankrupt
I think it's also cool to note that they just happened to emergency land on a NASA property. Literally thier backyard.
Since they landed next to a NASA facility, they accidently landed next to a retired airstrip which was transformed into a public road when testing ended at that facility. That airstrip is now called Saturn Boulevard. When the plane was towed from the levy and fixed at location to be airworthy again, the takeoff took place at Saturn Boulevard. So without knowing it, they landed the plane next to a road they were able to use for takeoff.
I've seen a couple of vids regarding this event, but no one has explained issues like the hail and the type of landing in such detail. I always learn something new from you, Anthony. Well done!
Mentour has a great breakdown of this from a pilots point of view. Its another very well done piece
@@topiasr628 Thanks!
We’ll use that side-slip maneuver to drop altitude quick. You basically make the plane a barn door, I’m assuming that’s really why he side-slipped cause when you have no power and find a clear space to land you can’t mess around, if you gotta place that plane there you gotta get it there.
I know it's considered quite dangerous to slip a large jet, but I thought that was because it can disrupt the airflow into the engines. If that's all there is to it, since the engines were both already flamed out, the slip itself isn't hard to do, unless there's something else I don't know, some swept-wing weirdness.
Seeing the flight nr I right away knew it was the levee-landing. Incredible airmanship and luck there!
The injury was a girl flying home who just had an appendicitis and I believe her stitches burst wide open on the landing.
Was it on the landing or during the storm turbulence?
We NEED a movie on this guy and this flight!
There have been 9 dead stick landings of a commercial passenger airliner and it's very difficult to make comparisons among these amazing pilots because circumstances were different for each one (aircraft type, weather, geographic location, altitude at the time of the emergency, etc.) But there is a common link for everyone: they lost both engines and had to make a power off landing. They faced the initial panic and fear (natural reaction in humans when life is threatened), but managed to stay cool, calm and collected to manage the emergency. They are quick-thinkers who made the right decision under great pressure.
What sets Capt. Carlos Dardano apart is his ability to fly with only one eye. So in my opinion he would be number ONE in any comparison, should be awarded top honors, and a film/movie should be made about his extraordinary skill and achievement.
Dead stick (engines shutdown) landings in chronological order:
1. Capt. Victor Mostovoy (27-yrs-old), Aeroflot Airlines Tupolev Tu-124, Aug. 21, 1963, ditched in the
Neva River, near Leningrad (now St. Peterburg), Russia
2. Capt. Balsey DeWitt, Overseas National Airways DC-9, May 2, 1970, ditched in the ocean, near St. Croix, Caribbean Sea
3. Capt. Robert Pearson: Air Canada B767-200, flight 143, July 23, 1983. Manitoba, Canada
4. Capt. Carlos Dardano (29-yrs-old), Taca Airlines B737-300, flight 110, May 24, 1988. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
5. Capt. Stefan G. Rasmussen: Scandinavian Airlines DC-9, flight 751, Dec 26, 1992. Stockholm, Sweden
6. Capt. Robert Piché: Air Transat A330-200, flight 236, Aug. 24, 2001, Lajes Air Base, Azores Islands, Atlantic Ocean
7. Captain Abdul Rozaq: Garuda Indonesia, Boeing 737-300, Flight 421, 16 January 2002, ditched in Solo River,
Bengawan, Indonesia .
8. Capt. Chesley Sullenberger: US Airways A320, flight 1549, Jan 15, 2009. New York city, USA
9. Capt. Damir Yusupov: Ural Airlines A320, flight 178, Aug. 15, 2019. Moscow, Russia
the pilot of Air Canada flight 143 also did a Sideslip. knowing how to pilot small airplanes and learning aerodynamics at the very raw level helped a lot. these pilots deserve the praise.
I have watched this episode of yours 9 or 10 times between my other account, making people watch it with me and watching it on their phone with them, and this account. I think it's my favorite because the captain persevered which is a nice reminder that things in life can feel overwhelming but I have the tools and know how to get by and will be fine. A little beat up but fine.
I have been a huge fan of Captain Dardano for many years; ever since I saw the re-enactment on Air Crash Investigation on TV a number of years ago.❤❤❤
Nice video. The only thing is I don’t believe this particular aircraft had the glass(EFIS) cockpit. At least it didn’t when it was with Southwest. As a ramp agent for Southwest I used to see this aircraft(N697SW) often and I would go in the cockpit and give the pilots the fun little fact 😁
8:15 I live near to where the Air Canada flight had to glide down. The airfield in question wasn't derelict, but had actually been converted to a drag racetrack, and was in fact hosting a race the very same day, so there was emergency support already at the site. The nose of the plane caught fire after impacting with the ground (the front landing gear failed to lock into place), but some of the race crews were able to extinguish it almost immediately. Unbelievably lucky
Captain Dárdano just retired at the beginning of September. What a career!
That gives a whole new meaning to the term 'glide time.'
📻🎶Land the heavy on the levee where the levee is dry.🎶 That seasoned crewww kept everybody alive. Sayin this won't be the daaay that we diiie. 🎶 Oh no this won't be the 🎶daaaay that we diiie.🎶🤘👊
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Haha fantastic
Captain Carlos just retired from flying!! What a career!!
As much as Dardano is an aviation God (and the one injury was a woman three days removed from an appendectomy who, due to the rough landing, was hospitalized as a precaution
...in the Air Disasters episode, she grins ear to ear at her memory of going in 15 seconds from preparing for her imminent death to realizing she was very much alive), FO Lopez deserves a shitload of credit for pointing out the levee as an option for them to land on.
I may be two years late, but I would like to echo the sentiments shared below. Fantastic crew and calm, professional pilot. Reading he was also partially blind just increases my admiration.
The Brass Set this man showed in such circumstances; I tip my hat to you sir.
Beyond love this channel! Always looking forward to seeing a new video!
Thanks. I am happy you like them!
You need to do a video on Captain Carlos. He's had a very interesting life.
The forgotten sully (hudson river landing) is what some people called this accident, i think. It's a shame that the outstanding pilots didn't get much attention
Happy to see more videos of this pilot who actually knows how to fly!
I LOVE these Disaster Averted videos, especially when the people involved did nothing wrong to get themselves into the bad situation, and they did everything right (in this case heroically) to save the situation.
Bravo to the pilot & flight crew!!! Just incredible skill! I believe the pilot mentioned for also landing without engines, also used sideslip to drop faster so he wouldn't overshoot the former military runway that had been coverted to a drag racing strip. I'm blown away they were able to take that TACA plane off from the grass!
The One Eyed Aviator saved the plane and the passengers.
Let's side slip an airliner says nobody ever.
AMAZING, FANTASTIC Pilot! I hope he gets the recognition he deserves!
3 years late to this video, but another fun thing to note, Captain Dardano made a lot of the moves he did in relation to his studying of the other flight you mentioned, Air canada 143. Air Canada 143 was the first Jet powered passenger aircraft in history to land safely with no engines and have everyone on board survive. This incredible feat of flying interested Dardano, and he studied it deeply, and when he was eventually thrust into the same situation, he used his memory of how flight 143s crew dealt with the situation, even using the sideslip manuever, which was also used by flight 143.
Me after you said the plane landed perfectly and no one died: 😮😮😮😮😊
LEGEND!
i had watched the air disaster episode on this and they noted that at one point the hail was severe enough to set off the gpws
So the pilots driffted in the air? Legend!
This one is great. There was another one in South America that was what I like the Miracle on the Hudson where he landed in a river but almost everyone ended up Surviving just like the Hudson. I can never remember the airline or the flight number. But I remember one of air crash investigation episodes is about it
You might be thinking about one that happened in Indonesia, not South America. The Mayday episode was called "River Runway"
@@OwlRTA you are probably right I'm not 100% sure I just remember it being a water landing on a river.
These are the best episodes. Where expert piloting, a bit of good luck, and divine providence all work hand in hand to save lives. Even the plane was saved 👍
You're starting to pick up some subscribers! Keep up the good work!
that is some seriously sick livery. good job!
11:12 Flown off the grass? That’s amazing shame no footage of that.
in the Mayday episode on this, there's footage of the plane taking off. But it didn't take off from the levee. The plane happened to land at one of NASA's facilities, which used to make planes during WWII, which had a runway. The runway was now "Saturn Boulevard", but, with an engine replacement, minimal fuel, test pilots, and clearance from the FAA, the plane was towed to Saturn Boulevard, and took off from it.
5:30 Hail cannot more easily enter the fan system in the engines as water is even smaller... The Hail stays inside and cause a decrease in the vacuum function of the engine.
yes it can. that is how hail works
Pilots did a wonderful job. I used to LOVE practising slips, ON A TINY SINGLE ENGINE PLANE! Honestly, that was an inspired landing.
Absolutely incredible job by that flight crew. Great video as usual!
I wonder if the pilot was still worried that he scratched the new paint. The nose of the plane didn't look good.
I think he actually commented on how he scratched the new paint lmao
Fantastic CRM with all the crew on board this accident aircraft and gonads of steel belonging to the pilot who made that landing. We need more pilots like this.. 👍
If I remember the air crash investigation ep of this , they also did get engines started but due to huge amount of fuel they both set on fire so they had to pull the fire handles which shut down both engines as well. Also about the battery I believe if i remember that new one of faulty and couldn't give enough charge on the ignitors why they need to turn on he ApU. This is all off the top of my head so I could be wrong ! Still great video nice work of FSX or Xplane show the landing :-)
The battery was actually replaced the day before, so the battery was actually fresh.
@@OwlRTA really ? Ill have to have a read of the report on it. It was a long time ago I did see so I could be mistaken
YEES! NEW VIDEO!!! I love your channel :)
This is the original “Sully”, and he not only saved the passengers, but also the plane. They literally just changed one of the engine , off loaded luggage and flew it out from the embankment.
As always a great pleasure watching your contents :)
Thanks, I'm thrilled you enjoy the videos
An idol as a captain!!❤
What a talented pilot!!!! I can’t believe he landed with one eye…that’s absolutely incredible
That is great airmanship. Holy hannah....
Great piloting makes all the difference.
Love that calm.
The fact that the airline went with TACA when they could have finessed it into TACO is criminal.
TACA meant Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano or "Aerial Transports of the American Continent". And it was a Salvadoran Company, and since Salvadorans don't like Mexicans at all, it would have been criminal to them to name their company "TACO"
Love your videos! Keep it up!
I think in a lot of incidents, the pilot panics or over-reacts, to the detriment of the plane and passengers. Here, the pilot was cool as a cucumber and did all the right things.
The test pilots reminds me of maersk airs 737 pilots flying to and from the faroe islands. When the runway was 1250m.
The best pilot ever
Grade A pilotage. Well done, Captain Dardano.
Captain López passed away on 2016
Rest in peace
mans straight up DRIFTED a plane. Give him a medal or sum
You need to do a video about Flight 232, it is one hell of a story
Great format, thanks for making these videos. Greetings from Berlin.
You should do a video on the mircle on the Hudson.
This is my new favourite story
Waiting for airline to arrange parachute for each passenger instead of f..king life saving jacket 😬
Spectacular piloting.
Appreciate the upload!
Great history, and great account in a professionally produced video. How about a video on SAS flight 751?
I wonder if Taca got rid of it because of the events that had happened.
Also, kinda odd to see a boeing painted in a dead ringer for Airbus' old factory livery.
the captain has balls of steel
Amazing video as always. Thank you!
BET HE EARNS THE POLARIS AWARD!
Amazing story, great pilots!
Impressive how the plane did not fall with the weight of massive balls the crew had