A Routine Landing Approach Quickly Turns into a Disaster (Terrifying Moments on Tape)
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- Find out why an Airbus A310 jet airliner operated by Yemenia flying a scheduled service from Yemen to Comoros (Yemenia flight 626) crashed while on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport.
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As a former Navy diver, I can tell you that a 12yr old girl surviving 13hrs in the ocean after a plane crash is nothing less than miracle.
They did better in tytanic
That's what I was thinking. Some kind of super-human strength!
as an active youtube watcher with nothing to do i can tell you that was a miracle
@@jaapjoop1093 lol you beat me to it.
Amen
That airbus tried so hard to not crash, but was ultimately over-ridden by awfully bad pilots.
Honeslty though
@@b.t.356 ??
You can say that again !
RIP to the 152 Souls lost, in Jesus name !
@@psalm2forliberty577 A bit presumptuous to assume they were all Christians... just saying.
HOW were they ALLOWED to become awfully bad pilots?
Religion?
As cabin crew myself, I'm absolutely amazed and shocked at the amount of silence in that cockpit when these alarms are sounding...
Not a peep
I think they were also in shock
@@jimmycline4778 that's why we have procedures. It's suppose to kick you into action 🥹💔😔
ASpiderman no way home
They were probly drugged up to the nines
Im french and i saw this girl, now woman, talking in the french média. She has become this type of "sunshine" person, she really look like well in her body and mind, and her speech about this event really shows maturity and wise. She lost her mother in the crash but she succeed to not be destroyed by this event and rather turn it into an opportunity to become a great person that her mother would be proud of.
This is as much extraordinary than the fact to survive the initial crash. Indeed, a lot of survivors dont on fact really survive.
Any idea when help finally arrived at the crash site? When were the authorities notified? No evidence of a mayday call.
I'm very happy to hear that she not only survived, but went on to live with such a positive attitude.
I lost my own mother about the same age as this girl. But she died due to illness, something not nearly as dramatic but the cause is of little importance, it is simply the loss of a mother for a young girl. I am old now, and I can honestly say that although I have lived a reasonably normal life, one never gets over that loss. Although that girl won't let her tragedy get in the way of living her own life, she suffers everyday the loss of her mother. The pain simply becomes a part of who you are.
Thank you for the update…
@@deepthinker999 13 hours in the sea before rescue
I got anxiety just listening to the hesitation of the ATC, you'd think it was his first day on the job. :-/ But yeah, the pilots forgot the basic principle, aviate, navigate, communicate. They were trying to navigate, and forgot to aviate..
He probably spoke very poor English. which is a common problem in a lot of countries since English is the agreed-upon lingua franca of aviation. The hestiation was him trying to figure out the right English words to say.
stress undeniably made them lost focus.....you might have too
@@tomsmith9011 Oh absolutely I would have. I know Im not cut out for ATC. That being said, 626 was probably (AFAIK) the only flight he was handling that night, but it was a third world airport with minimal equipment and at least one broken item. His job wouldn't have been at all easy.
@@tomsmith9011 I might have, but I'm not a pilot. No pilot should ever, ever, stop flying the plane. There are so many accidents on these channels that could have been avoided if the pilot flying would have just confessed that he wasn't sure what was going on, and set a safe altitude, configuration, and heading, and asked for a new approach.
@@ArchTeryx00 yep and is really shameful how it could happen. I wont fly a third world airline.....between the planes, the airports and the pilots, a lot can go wrong.
God bless ya Brother!
I'm a private pilot with 968 hours TT with both glider and instrument ratings. I have seen every single one of your EXCELLENT videos, and this one is the hardest for me to understand. I most emphatically am not an airline captain, but surely procedure for any type of instrument to visual transition would be for the pilot flying to FLY THE AIRPLANE, on instruments, as if in a black-box simulator... in other words, TRUST YOUR INSTRUMENTS, keep your head down, keep the blue side up and the brown side down and most importantly watch AIRSPEED and ALTITUDE! The OTHER pilot (this is why we have two!) should have eyes eyes outside the airplane looking for the visual references. If I recall correctly, the pilot with the visual reference established then gets the hand off, but this is a dangerous time as the two pilots are working on completely different reference systems. I believe the visual pilot (PNF) gets the controls while the former PF continues to monitor airspeed and altitude until the new PF (the one who made the visual contact and has visual reference) is established. That means that the new PNF still should monitor airspeed and altitude all the way down to insure that the new PF does not have a faulty reference system because of the poor visibility.
It seemed to me that both pilots were looking out the window all the time. How else to explain it? And if this is the complete cockpit voice recording, it is even more astonishing that no one had anything to say about ground proximity warnings not once, but twice before totally losing control?
I understand drunk pilot accidents better than this one.
This is what happens when you have two qualified pilots, but who've never been in any REAL emergency situations. There was none on board, who could control their panic- This is what makes trained men, forget to "fly the plane". And this experience doesn't have to just come from flying- LIFE teaches us this, if we find ourselves in these kinds of situations.. it's just that, many don't, so they've never learned how to control their fear.
And it's getting much, much worse, in the airline industry- which is what I posted about on this one.
@@rickrickard2788 Yes, I wonder about their training. Was this little airline giving them any simulator training? What was their training regime for annual certification?
@@dmorga1The answer is NONE.
They probably passed out from vertigo...that plane was not stable at all so perhaps the pilots were just being tumbled around the cockpit, disoriented and overwhelmed...at that point, you just let go and let Jesus take the wheel.
@@rickrickard2788 You're so right, Rick. On my very first flight lesson in gliders, as we were walking out to the aircraft my flight instructor said to me, "Bill if things really go south up there your reptile brain is going to take over. My job is to make sure that the reptile knows what to do." That's the best single piece of advice I ever heard about flying.
Bahia Bakari is dubbed as "the miracle girl" by the world press after that incident, she stated initially there must have been other survivors, as she could hear them after the crash but later the voices became silent, by the time in the morning she realized she was alone on the rough sea.
Also fun fact: Steven Spielberg wanted to create a movie about her but she turned it down.
SS is a demon - hope you know that
Makes sense that she’d say no. Her mother was onboard with her.
I'm sure a movie will be made about this one day.
Yeah. After all, she lost her mom on the flight. Her dad was in France at the time.
In most aircraft crashes the victims are lucky to be knocked unconscious by the impact. Most will be fully aware of the final few seconds as their bodies are mangled and ripped apart, then what is left of them burning alive in the initial fuel explosion. Survivors are the few who avoided both of those scenarios by chance, but most of the deaths happen in the minutes after the crash, not at the moment of impact.
I am terrified getting on a plane but I can watch these videos in my bed all night 😂
Ok
Same here! 😂
Gurlll, cuz u wak
Same 🤷♀️🤣
@@SFbayArea94121 Feeling better? Now that you tried to insult a stranger online?
I was a Ramp agent with Yemenia Airways. I was loading the baggage and doing inspections of this flight exactly. Everything was going fine with Fight IY626. I remember it took off from Sana’a airport at night exactly at 9:45 PM. The plane took off 15 minutes behind the schedule. The socking news of this accident came to us around 02:00 AM . The thing that I will never forget is the faces of this flight passengers!
Liar
@@bernardcohen3245 aww came from a jew. What an Irony.
Yo momma was a ramp agent with Yemenia Airways
@@bernardcohen3245 Maybe , most this guy comment is a repeated comment is a My Favorite Channel
@@ladislavmichlian9440 Was this really the best thread to mock other countries?
For experienced pilots they made a lot of mistakes and that Atc sounded half asleep or drunk.
Can we all agree that the ATC was incompetent and provided no help with this situation.
If you were ringing a call centre and got someone like that air traffic controller at the other end, you would put the phone down and ring again in the hope of getting someone better. He sounded like a complete idiot.
@@ABC_DEF😂
Wow just wow. Just when you think you've seen the worst examples of airmanship already this video takes it to a whole new level. The passengers would have had a better chance of survival with Daffy Duck at the controls
THIS.
Daffy duck knows how to fly.
honestly!
Or Launchpad McQuack!
I sitll dont get how ONE PERSON SURVIVED
My heart jumped up to my throat when the simulation showed the plane practically pointed STRAIGHT UP and then watching the altimeter descend in a terrifyingly fast rate. I may not be a pilot, but holy shit, did those pilots not even look at their instruments?
I feel like ATC/airport should be partially responsible. Could barely read out numbers, mumbling, giving unreliable info. The lighting wasn't operative? Unacceptable. Did not help the pilot's stress levels.
I was waiting for this comment. sure the pilots made unforgivable mistakes, but the lights on a runaway AT NIGHT ffs... it definitely contributed to the stress level of those pilots
Doesn't make any difference its the pilots job and only them to fly the plane. Thye were making fundamental errors.
The ATC gave no erroneous information. Hesitations from English not being great, but he gave the correct and required info and repeated it when asked to. The beacon may be inoperative but the aircrafts instruments we clear as day. 2 pilots flying and no one monitoring? The stresses came from the pilots own compounding errors. Can't even blame anyone else on this one. They weren't even communicating w each other.
Good thing your feelings don't determine the truth. This crew sucked in ways that I could spend 2 hours writing about. The controller on the other hand, just slow (but requisite) English communication. If you think this contributed to the crash, then I pray you're never on my jury.
@formulaben The stress placed on the pilots due to language and airport lighting contributed to the crash. Indirect correlation. They cannot be held responsible, but they were definitely contributing factors.
How in the world could someone survive a nose dive into the ocean in an airplane? What a miracle she survived.
Bahia wasn't wearing her seatbelt and she assumed that she simply fell out of the plane. She fully expected her mother to scold her for not wearing one as she assumed the plane landed safely. I definitely see it as miraculous that she survived as well.
Read about it. She's not the only one that survived the crash, however she's the only one that lived long enough to be rescued.
@@NETBotic ok that freeked me out more
i think it has to do with the plane nosediving not so high from the sea, it would be totally different story if it was on 7000-10000 feet since it would gain more speed to crash violently.
Bahia herself even stated there have been initially other survivors since she could hear their voices.
The plane actually stalled into the ocean like AF447. It impacted the ocean with its right wing and the tail first.
Those poor passengers, on the first pull up they would have been rattled a bit. The second they'd be wondering just what the hell is going on, the third and stall would have been horrendous for them. RIP to those who died.
At least it didnt last long. Low altitude stalls like that are very often fatal because there's simply no altitude to recover with. You HAVE to point the nose down and increase your airspeed to pull out of a stall, and long before you get enough airspeed to get flying again, you hit the ground. :/
@@ArchTeryx00 Should have never even come close to a stall. As soon as the stick shaker activated they were at max thrust and he could have pointed the nose down slightly and all would have been fine.
I really can't understand how can they possibly "accidentally" set the autopilot to 0 feet. I don't see how you can turn the bottom "accidentally" way too much.
@@2killnspray9 absolutely inexcusable.
@@billyd5749 Inexcusable, unbearable and mind boggling! Indeed !
Those two pilots did so many things wrong and were so incompetent that it's a miracle they accumulated as many hours as they did before finally crashing. It was just a matter of time.
Agree totally it was inevitable
The takeoff was fine but I can't say the same for the landing. Some pilots are just so stupid they don't know how to recover from stalls
@@someone.7303 So they went to the Indiana Jones school of flying.
@@Avocado11more like Trump university.
It's insane I don't even understand how can someone "accidentally" puts the descending altitude to 0.
1. I'm amazed anyone survived this.
2. This entire situation put me on edge since I had no idea how it'd turn out.
3. The pilot panicking and trying to avoid a crash is what sealed their fates when the plane stalled.
4. RIP to all 152 victims.
5. Excellent job as usual, Flight Channel
@@H001_ There was 153 initial passengers....
I seldom become anxious or nervous when watching the videos, but this one gave me the chills and I nearly yelled at the laptop screen for them to look at their instruments. This was a totally preventable crash.
It's insane I don't even understand how can someone "accidentally" puts the descending altitude to 0.
The animation is wrong (not sure whether on purpose for dramatic effect, but that would be really bad for this channel's reputation), the plane didn't hit nose-dive into the water. Here is the correct video how it crashed: th-cam.com/video/HJy0PN4HBIY/w-d-xo.html
Nobody survives a nose-dive hitting the concrete so to say, even in low speed.
What scares me the most is that the capitain had 5000+ hours on that type and ignored ALL of that. How many risk situations he probably had before?
This is so strange. The captain had 20 years experience? Seems like such a senseless tragedy. It's astonishing that the little girl survived. Thank you for another great presentation!
Exactly, I found his attitude so wierd, and he seemed so clueless about how to communicate basic questions with confidence. The communication tower even had to say "speak louder please", I've never heard that before.
I don't know... so so strange
@@johnfox1991 the pilot told the tower to speak louder. Not the other way around.
Pilot incompetence at it’s best….. wow
*its… wow
Do you know about the KLM pilot in Tenerife?
@@martinc.720 lol, spell check changed to it’s, tried again..same
@@deepthinker999 yes, worst ever, sad
You can just hear the trepidation in the ATC's voice and the frustration in the pilots' voices.
The ATC should be also held responsible for giving unreliable data, mumbling and broken English. He really did not help the pilots stress levels.
I don't understand how he didn't attempt to warn the pilot and tell him he was flying too low.
English is supposed to be the language of commercial aviation..it should be GOOD English.
For real though. The ATC employee was grossly negligent in the performance of his duties as well.
@@nicknico4121 No Radar so he had no way of knowing. It's not ATC's job to fly the plane.
@@b.t.356 He did not contribute to this crash - he was marginal but good enough. its the pilots job to fly it.
Did these guys USE the instruments? Holy hell. How can you not react even to the most basic of circumstances? Like wtf, why isn't the artificial horizon paid more attention to?
Indeed. It’s like these two haven’t a clue how to fly, in spite of decades of flight time. How did they ever pass a checkride? Rhetorical question. Turn the damn auto pilot OFF and fly the airplane!! Altitude, airspeed…..yeegads.
How about you pay attention to the altimeter bro?? I kept thinking that through this whole video, wtf are you looking at if your not watching your instruments, especially at night...
@@kewlboss Waaaaaaaaaaaay too much dependence on automation coupled with bad training on the basics of aviating and CRM. A circle-to-land at night really has no business being the procedure to kill everyone yet there they went.
@@Blovi-qd4lh Was there ever a check ride? Perhaps not.
I dont feel this crash can be explained by normal negligence or lack of skill. They made the same potentially career ending (or fatal) error three times in a row but disclosed no mechanical issues on last radio. Then no real attempt to counter a stall in a plane of that size. There was something going on in that cockpit.
No criticism of that totally useless and incompetent ATC? 😮
There is criticism in these comments.
@@deepthinker999 Not prior to my post.
Imagine being that close to landing and then just… :(
If I was watching the flight path and saw that we went way past the airport and kept going really close to the water and back up again I would already be freaking out, knowing something bad was coming. Then going completely vertical straight up before ultimately having your worst fears set in and nosediving straight down. I can’t even imagine the fear. RIP to all the people :(
Ignorance was not bliss in this case.
Madeline, I don't believe it. If you watch these videos, it's more likely that you'd of been shouting to the crew before it got that bad, Tell the pilots to check their instruments, especially the altitude selector!
Sadly well said... 💔
This is literally my worst fear.
@@patriciamariemitchel Calm down, Karen. Not everyone has the same mind-set as you. You're not her.
I can’t even imagine how traumatizing it was for the girl going thru the ordeal
That one girl survived is a Miracle
yeah thanks jesus
I am shocked at this crash with both pilots having so much Airbus experience. One little girl surviving is utterly astounding.
This is the second deadliest accident in which there was a sole survivor and the deadliest sole survivor ocean crash.
Which one is the first deadliest accident with a sole survivor?
@@lauranunez2746 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 with 156 fatalities.
Why were all of those extraneous turns and circling around to end up at the same place even necessary in the first place. I swear, in life and at work we’re forced to do some really stupid things, just because were told to.
@@SFbayArea94121 Because the crew was careless. They didn’t have a proper briefing. They didn’t practice proper CRM and they didn’t distribute the duties.
The single deadliest air crash to involve survivors is Japan Airlines Flight 123, in which 4 people survived, who were seated in the tail section
I am amazed that someone survived this. Amazed...
Water landings tend to the rare case because the plan doesn't burst into a fireball on impact. How anyone stays conscious on impact with water to not drown is the miracle.
I vaguely recall hearing about this accident in 2009 no doubt due to the miraculous survival story of the 13 yr old girl but never knew the cause of the crash until now. Of all the aviation tragedies I have heard or read about, this one shakes me up the most. The actions of the flight crew are not unlike someone who is drunk or under the influence since this approach was not a stressful one; it was textbook and routine. All of the issues that arose came from pure pilot error and incompetence. A terrain proximity alarm and not even a word exchanged between the pilots?
Aeroflot flight 593 enters the chat: th-cam.com/video/y1kPAWVI5UA/w-d-xo.html
Talk about terrifying, unnecessary accidents.
@@jopar024 That one I DO remember as I was a commercial pilot at the time and got the monthly accident reports. Par for the course with Russian airlines. I'd NEVER step foot in one of their planes.
@@majbach1968 This crash animation paired with the CVR really puts it in perspective: th-cam.com/video/RrttTR8e8-4/w-d-xo.html
They were not flying that plane so much as they were wrestling it. The final moments must have been terrifying for the passengers.
Simply incredible that a high time captain could be sat in that Aircraft and ignore warning after warning Alarm TCAS Chime Instruments etc etc, Even with all that Safety Technology he still managed to kill almost everyone onboard WTAF.
that airbus tried so hard not to hit the ground. the level of ignorance and stupidity made it crash
From watching this and other videos on aviation accident investigations, circling approaches (especially at night or in marginal VFR conditions) require the utmost in attention and are often the cause of crashes. Very sad indeed.
utmost
And are banned by most US carriers
What exactly is banned by U.S. carriers?? Please explain? I'm so curious! Thanks! 😳😳
They would have been wise to keep the autopilot in for the maneuver, makes it a lot easier. Also I don’t understand how they were so preoccupied by looking for the runway in the turn, you shouldn’t start that turn until you see the actual runway. Not sure who was flying but it would have made sense for the FO to do it, as the rwy would be on his side…
I was getting seasick watching the plane go up & down!! So I can only imagine the g-force all the passengers must've been feeling. So horrible!
It seems that the division of responsibilities between the Pilot Flying and the Pilot Non-Flying was less than professional and contributed a great deal to the disaster. Why was the PF the person looking for the runway and the sole supervisor of the instruments? Madness... The captain's leadership seems to have been somewhere between woefully inadequate and totally non-existent. Lunacy...
I've known about this crash for a while, but never seen it illustrated... absolutely shocking behaviour from the pilots. Also makes the fact that somebody actually survived even more incredible.
Imagine being those two pilots. Trying to talk to the air traffic controller, whose English is utterly impenetrable.
Mentally impenetrable too.
Imagine being this ignorant, thinking it's anything but unusual.
One of the issues often overlooked is the fact so many alarms going off simultaneously can be confusing and disorienting in an already high stress emergency situation...
I agree but at that point what are you supposed to do, fly UP. Gain altitude, fix the situation then worry about landing.
Those pilots should never have put themselves in such a workload to begin with.
That's not an "Issue", that's part of flying instruments. They couldn't handle the stress of flying a CIR APPR and when things went wrong the problems snowballed. Alarms only indicate the existence of an issue. You have to train your brain to not get stressed and focus on controlling your AC. These guys should have never been put in a cockpit.
@@billyd5749 I only know (very very little) from watching plane videos like this, but I think fly up is not an option when your speed is too low and you are stalling.
@@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra not nose up. Gain altitude. Max thrust fix the angle of attack.
Wow! Looking how brutal the impact i really can't imagine how anyone can survive that! The girl's determination to live is just unbelieveable..
I hope she doesn't suffer survivor's guilt after that..
You can google her, she talked in french media as a grown up woman. Even if you dont understand the langage, just the way she looks, moove and talk will say you how strong she is
@@tomdelage7099 c'est bizarre j'ai l'impression que beaucoup n'avaient pas entendu parler de cet accident ? Peut être que comme nous vivons en France,et que la plupart des passagers venaient de France on en a plus entendu parler ?
@@tarekbahsoun2755 à l'époque ça avait été médiatisé au jt. Puis ça passait de temps en temps, avec notamment l'ouverture du procès (des années après). Je crois d'ailleurs que c'est au moment du verdict que la survivante a été invité dans des médias (type émission canal à 20h, ou les médias internet comme konbini)
Wow. What a flight crew from hell. I think the low altitude may also have been caused
by the crew trying to identify the runway.
Atc controller from hell too
@@donaldsalkovick396 Right. :DD
The deafening silence in that cockpit. How could two pilots remain mute through problem solving? Horrible pilots. RIP passengers.
I think they are not even real pilots
Thank you "FlightChannel" for your amazing, cinematic & quality work. With respectful approach to the facts from the tragedies described. Keep up the good work ❤
Imagine the poor trauma the girl had to go through. Just sad. :(
Interesting sidenote: Bahia Bakari, the French girl who survived but lost her mother on the flight, received an offer from Stephen Spielberg to make a movie about her, which she declined. However, she was featured in the CNN documentary Sole Survivor, along with other sole survivors of major airline crashes George Lamson, Jr. (Galaxy Airlines 203), James Polehinke (Comair 5191), and Cecelia Cichan (Northwest Airlines 255).
Wow… 😢😢😢
I was secretly looking forward to a Yemenia 626 video! Super scary stuff. Lots of negligence all around.
God these stories are as terrifying as they are fascinating
Agreed!
Flying is stressful if you are alert and always considering your options in an emergency. It means you understand the risks that are always present.
Saying "stress" is a contributing factor is like saying "flying" is itself a contributing factor.
This increasingly common notion that stress is a valid explanation as to why pilots mess up and kill everyone is disturbing and I think indicative of the greater infantilization of society at large lately. Don't become a pilot if you can't handle stress.
I think that a good invention would be a very strong light that points downward about 45 degree when the plane is flying level. If they are maybe 1000 m above water or ground, they can use it for reference. Of course it should not be on all the time, but when pilots get disoriented.
As soon as ATC is asking how many people on board you get the impression it's not gonna end well.
I would NEVER fly on a third world aircraft. It's 2023, and they don't seem to be able to mentally keep up with technology.
The maintenance and training is often substandard and human life hangs in the balance.
I've watched every last one of your videos and this was the very first one I actually had to take a break during the mid-end just to regather my nerves. That ATC seemed to start the confusion and stress, not seeming to either communicate properly or understand what was needed from him, Nonchalant. The 3 or 4 incidences afterward set the beginning of the end for this aircraft. Deepest condolences to all who lost their lives and loved ones, and the sole survivor who must know by now she's something pretty special. Incredible video. Thank you again TFC. 💫✈✈💫
Literally flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean 🌊
I wonder if the alarms can be heard from the front passenger rows. I think they can. This must be absolute hell to experience.
They can, i have heard all sorts of bells and whistles from Row 1.
I was wondering that too. To hear "PULL UP, PULL UP" twice was I'm sure unnerving as well.
In an airliner they can't, the cabin is soundproofed.
It's incredible that someone was able to survive that kind of crash. What horrible luck for them to have accidentally set "0 ft" for the target altitude.
Absolutely shocking. Seems they totally ignored crew resource management. They both appeared to be experienced pilot who had flown this particular route dozens of times. What in the world was going on in their minds? This is so bewildering to me. The fact that anyone survived this is at all is a miracle. Was there something wrong with the plane? Were the pilots overtired, is that why they were stressed? This one for me is a real puzzler. If anyone can break it'd own for me, I'd be grateful.
No puzzle at all for Me.....low circling approaches are difficult and dangerous............Paul
I really believe either chemical sedation or some sort of suicidal struggle had to be involved. No matter how bad a pilot, "forgetting" the plane into an uncontrolled sink 3x in a row then making no attempt to avert a stall in a plane that size is beyond the issue of skill. A child functioning purely on instinct would have flown closer to protocol. One of the most baffling aviation accidents ever, for me.
There was nothing wrong with that plane. That was the worst piloting ever.
@@lukeduke6693 That has been how I have felt, completely confused. I just couldn't fathom how a pilot could commit such an enormous blunder, especially considering hs was very experienced. My mind just can't wrap itself around it.
There had to be intention behind this. One of the pilots was suicidal for sure.
Geez, can you imagine how terrifying that must have been in the cabin for the passengers? 😢
rollercoaster :D
thanks TFC, mind blowing production as always x
Great job TFC!!!
These crashes are always so sad. One failure to respond after another caused such a loss of life.
Could be called, Miracle child survives ocean plane crash. Or it could be called, Set your Altitude to 0 ft and see what happens.
Setting the altitude to 0 wasn't what caused the crash, it was caused by them trying to correct themselves after realizing they set the altitude to 0.
I don't understand how the pilots weren't talking to each other at all (it seems like), leading up to the fatal stall.
That is a true miracle that someone survived.
I love your videos, but I have a suggestion. Can you please leave the parts where you say at the end "In memory of the (how many lives were lost)" up long enough for us to be able to read it?
This is a repeated request.
Great job with the map! I liked it! It gave much better look at how the plane moved
It's amazing how with all the functions that display alarms & warnings airplanes are equipped with, there are individuals who still manage to crash them.
This is so sad. Easy to say , but bring the aircraft to a safe altitude when all hell is breaking loose in the cockpit. Forget about the landing approach. Gain composure, then figure out how to proceed.
I feel so bad when i watch this crash that our airlines made. I'm a subscriber from Yemen.
Im not sure you can even call these guys Pilots with the amount of complacency showed here.. They seemed to have no clue how to navigate or hand fly the airplane
AWESOME VIDEO, THANKS MAN!
Hello TheFlightChannel. It’s worth mentioning there was believed to be a Flight Engineer on Yemenia Flight 626. I’m unsure about the name because it does state their name but nothing in terms of them as a pilot like flight experience, their age just their name.
Thanks, excellent quality video as always, horrible for all the people on board, and of course the 12 year old surviving in the water for so long. Pilot error from a very experienced crew appears to be the conclusion.
Unbelievable lack of Airmanship & CRM. Considering both pilots were at the airline for 20-29 years, their hours seems very low. No understanding how Alt Hld & Heading Select could help reduce the PF's workload. Meanwhile the PNF provided zero support. So thankful for the many, many, simulated engine out, night circles we practiced and flew in the USAF! Definitely saw that as a weak area among most, purely civilian pilots in the airlines, through no fault of their own. Comes down to training & crew discipline.
These are always so heartbreaking to watch, but of vital importance from a learning perspective. One can only hope that something positive might come from these disasters.
It's amazing how all these trained pilots do the exact opposite thing they should be doing during a stall.
On one side it is a miracle that one girl survived 😮but on the other side 152 people died 😢
Isn't the whole point of two pilots that one monitors instruments while the other flies? They weren't even talking to each other in the middle of a difficult situation. I also would have thought stall recovery to be the most critical training a pilot requires. Seems to be so many escalations from poor response to stall warnings. This poor plane was like... "beep, beep, warn, warn, TO/GA, stick-shake..., I'm really trying hard to keep you alive here, wtf, you have one job!
These pilots, for whatever reason, forgot the basic axiom all pilots learn: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Stabilize the plane first, then figure out where you are, THEN talk to ATC. In that order. They were so busy trying to figure out where they were that they forgot to fly the plane, a quickly fatal mistake.
Piloting 101 and this crew failed it, resulting in 157 deaths. Needless, tragic and outrageous.
I was muttering - apply power - stabilise and climb away. Then work out the rest!
@@rgbaal Yeah, exactly. I'm as green as can be and I know enough to fly the bloody plane before I worry about anything else, including exactly where I am. Altitude is life. At such a remote and quiet airport, pick a waypoint, set up your own racetrack pattern at a safe altitude, and then have your co-pilot let the tower know what is going on while you figure out where exactly you are and plot a safe route in.
Imagine the sheer terror those passengers must have felt.
Imagine caring
Well, in simplistic laymen's terms the crew made a right old feck up of that, and how the hell did that controller get his job? Several times he seemed to struggle with his English.
Good old fashioned politics. Its everywhere !
@@deepthinker999 What's "political" about an incompetent crew and a controller who struggles with English? They're facts not politics.
@@WayneM1961 The politics is how they got their jobs.
@@deepthinker999 Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I can't argue with that point.
I cannot at present continue watching this sequence. I don't yet know why because I've watched lots of these incidents on this channel right until the end. But this particular one has me on edge, really edgy and I don't know why. Will hopefully come back and watch until the end later.
Keep up the good work👍
I am amazed at the total lack of communication of the crew!! Not a even word of comment about the alarms. From watching several of your programmes and TV documentaries I think they had become totally disorientated. Perhaps the one thing that may have saved them was the failed beacon. I am not familiar with this story, but I am glad to learn that a sole survivor went on to be a fulfilled young lady. She is truly blessed 🙏. 👍👍👍👍
Nah, the beacon was the least of these cockamamie pilots' problems. Their inability to fly a plane in slightly less than absolutely perfect conditions was the main issue.
Stupid pilot and crew
In my opinion the plane was out of control and the pilots did not know what to do to regain control. An argument could be made that the flight should not have even taken off at night with the problems that awaited them at the destination.
@@curbyourshi1056 Being unable to turn correctly on instruments - that's like the second thing you learn for night flying
@@rgbaal 😂😂🤣
Another great retelling TFC, thanks a lot.
I can't help thinking of the sole survivor, the 12 yo girl, clinging to wreckage afloat in the sea for 12 hours...!🤯😲
I have read the other comments, but my days....how did that 12 year old child survive ?. Not only did she survive the crash...she somehow survived in the sea for 13 hours. If that doesn't bring a lump to your throat......nothing will.
Setting the autopilot altitude to 0ft . . . gee, what could possibly go wrong? Other factors of course, but the most intriguing was not responding as the stall shaker was indicating immanent stall condition, but instead just kept proceeding with the nose up even steeper, which of course, led to a stall. That part is still mysterious . . . Amazing that the 12yr old girl did survive, I hope she goes on to have a good life.
I know nothing of flying but I'm surprised there isn't some kind of confirmation prompt to set it for 0 ft. I have to click the different places just to shut off my computer, but these controls let them just set the altitude for sea level without a second thought?
I know nothing of flying but I'm surprised there isn't some kind of confirmation prompt to set it for 0 ft. I have to click three different places just to shut off my computer, but these controls let them just set the altitude for sea level without a second thought?
The pilot was denied his beacon and as a result, did what he did. Unbelievable.
Good video. Excellent presentation. Good that you used daylight even though it was night. The 12 year old surviving was a miracle especially not being rescued for 13 HOURS !!.
Great job as usual.
That's so sad! Completely unavoidable! A true miracle for that 12 year old girl!!!
🙄U mean AVOIDABLE, not UNavoidable---right?🤔🤦♀️
I’m wondering if even experienced pilots start to lose basic flying skills due to these modern aircraft and all the bells and whistles designed to fly the plane for them. Also, if they were disoriented due to lack of visuals, why didn’t they request vectors from ATC? I’m not a pilot but I’ve watched enough of these videos to believe they could have done that.
maybe he was drunk or had less sleep.. so many things
Damn man. Some of this stuff is heavy but reality can be harsh. 😞
Very impressive production. Well done to all.
Well to me seems the lack of working runway lights triggered the entire cascade of dreadful events.
Right. That should have taken a lot of the blame here.
@@RPG-oh1yf exactly - final report made no mention of that and how the ATC mumbled when he spoke making all hard to comprehend - then add the stress......sad to watch this one knowing those souls were lost. God bless the sole survivor and how remarkable she did not try to capitalize on the backs of all those lost souls.
That cockpit was so silent. What were those two pilots doing? Sad.
Just abandon the approach and do it all over. That airbus tried really hard to not crash. But the pilots had different intentions. 🥺🙄🥺
Long story short is the cockpit crew screwed up royally. They completely lost it. Stunning.
How could pilots with nearly 30 years of experience do this? Like I could see this happening to a lone pilot with like two weeks of experience
Such a blessing that little girl was able to survive. To all who perished, rest peacefully. God is good. Oh, please save the offensive remarks. I know it’s coming and I won’t read it.
You do an excelent job. Thank you very much
Imagine all the bodies the Sole Survivor Saw. I hope she is okay and is Seeking Regular Counseling!