This Plane Was About To Break (BKS Air Transport Flight C.6845) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN
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The film you just bared witness to was captured on July 3rd, 1968. It was filmed by an amateur film maker by the name of Frank Mills. The site, London Heathrow Airport. This plane photographed here had crashed at one of the busiest airports in the entire world. The accident involved the ill-fated plane crashing into a terminal building and damaging three other planes in the process.
The curious case of BKS Air Transport Flight C.6845 involves the breakdown in the relationship between the pilot and a key aspect of controllability when flying an aircraft. This is a plane crash that is not all that known about even the United Kingdom, despite the fact that it crashed into an airport building killing most of its occupants. So what went wrong here? Well to begin with lets establish the nature of this flight. As Flight C.6845 was what you could consider to be an unusual one given what was actually on board the plane, and some people, especially some in the United Kingdom may already be familiar with one name attached to this disaster.
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Hello I love your videos! I really will donate, erm, as soon as the financial situation soothes a little I am so sorry not to do so immediately. I read a comment below that someone wrote about an emergency landing on a race course. I think that you could make a WONDERFUL series on "Close Calls" apart from accidents. I would love a whole series not on crashes, but on close calls! We never hear about close calls because it's chiefly crashes that make the head lines and some of these close calls would be just as interesting mechanically and psychologically. Not that you're not probably busy enough, but if you are ever wondering what you might like to do next. And thank you again!
I second the proposal to do close calls on your channel instead of only focusing on the crashes - there must be a lot of near disasters that changed aviation and its procedures for the better, most likely saving many lives. That is something I’m sure that we all would love to hear more about!
@@charlotteinnocent8752 Only if he gets, some decent freeware, or pay ware planes, and gets current with MSFS 2020
Fascinating story and very well researched.
Anyone find it weird that the trident that had been hit in the crash, only had the tail piece taken off, and when the trident had its fatal crash, pretty much the only piece of the the plane that was still in tact was the replaced tail section
wow yeah I hadn't noticed that myself
That is odd
bizarre
I can't believe I never considered that before. It's really creepy.
That's the first thing that I noticed! 😥
Hearing that the plane that survived and was repaired became the Staines crash? That just sent chills down my spine.
the hair on the back of my neck stood up
Flying might be safer than driving in a car etc., but there’s still a lot of plane crashes when you dive into it :-/
And it looks like only the tail survived...
@@6yjjk you know when my flatmate watched this video with me this morning he said the EXACT same thing
@@6yjjk Exactly what I thought. The first crash. Only the tail was demolished. The second crash, only the tail survived.
It shocks me when I heard that one of the 3 planes, which were damaged by this crash, was later repaired but crashed few years later as BEA Flight 548.
shocking if the damaged/repaired plane hadn't crashed few years later
The crash of BEA Flight 548 was entirely due to pilot error, a heart attack and negative CRM. Many lessons were learned, although it took many more accidents for crew resource management to become hugely important.
Another Airspeed Ambassador was involved in the Manchester United,Munich Air Disaster of 1958 with the sad loss of the Busby Babes Team Members!!!
The tail was the part damaged but in BEA548 The tail was intact..🤨🤨📸📸
@@awuma Agreed 100%, and I watched that one a few hours ago, and it was sad that the pilot of 548 got into a fight about politics (he was against the BEA employee fair wage protest/strikes). Personally, I support fair wages, and peaceful actions, but the pilot of flight 548 didn't listen to the younger generation. It always seems that these tragic events lead to safer planes, but sometimes, and sadly it takes too many tragedies before people decide to change. The silver lining is that cockpit resource management and actual automation systems have made planes safer from the late 20th century into the 21st century (The 2020s have been much safer for flying compared to the 1970s for instance).
The horses… 😰💔
I almost changed to a different video when I heard horses were on board. Glad I stuck it out.
Tragedy aside, can we agree that the Airspeed Ambassador is an utterly beautiful aircraft?!
In the same sense that Princess Margaret was an utterly beautiful woman...except that both had rather prominent noses and tended to make unfortunate headlines.
no it was a ugly ass plane with a very poor safty record
I’d never heard of this disaster before, thank you Chloe for explaining it so eloquently. Quite how anyone survived that impact is beyond me. Remarkable when you see the impact and subsequent explosion.
So I’ve mentioned before that I live in Ireland; and my town has actually just celebrated the 40 year anniversary of a planes emergency landing! You should check it out, it’s a cute story.
A Mexican private jet was to land in Shannon Airport to refuel. However, due to poor weather, they were suddenly diverted to Cork Airport. They weren’t able to make it and made a fantastic landing at our local racecourse!
Check out the Ocana Mallow Racecourse landing
Thanks for this - I spent the last 2 hours reading and have updated the Cork Racecourse Wikipedia with information about this fantastic story, along with a mention of Ocaña Fest and his daughter spreading his ashes. That is genuinely one of the most heartwarming stories I’ve ever read
@@ZombieSazza Awww thanks for looking into my little town and this story. It’s one of the legacies they have.
My sister lives in Ireland... I will tell her to find out about that story.... Definitely interesting 😁
I hope she does make a video on that! I would love a whole series not on crashes, but on close calls! We never hear about close calls because it's chiefly crashes that make the head lines and some of these close calls would be just as interesting mechanically and psychologically.
I thought that I was familiar with every UK air accident, yet here's one that I knew nothing about. Thank you for this splendid presentation.
Thanks for tuning in :)
I'm British, in my 40s, yet never heard of this event! 😯 Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Great vid, as always. 👍
Thanks for watching!
I’ve seen this plane crash footage before but never knew more about this accident. Since you have covered on this accident, I will watch the whole video. I love your videos, Chloe. I do like to see you covering on the accidents and incidents of Malaysia Airlines flights.
That footage hits hard. Seeing the nose tilt up especially...Thank you for sharing this incident with us. Fantastic work as always.
Watching the clip, I can see the nose very high, the a/c struggling for power to gain height but it simply stalls, just falling out of the air.
The final second of the footage was too difficult to see, so the best course of action for me was to turn away during that few second period near the end. No airline in my opinion should have been using late 1940s (well, 1950) aircraft with faulty parts in the late 1960s, when more modern technology was available. Well sometimes, it could be expensive for an airline to replace a 15-20 year old aircraft with a newer plane, so it is understandable. But the designers of the plane should have made the flap rod redundant or out of steel or titanium, but I'm no engineer. Thankfully nowadays in the 2020s, metal fatigue is better understood, and planes are much safer.
This could've been soooooo much worse in terms of lives lost - one of the few accidents that unfortunately veered a plane into a terminal. You had a near empty terminal building at Heathrow in the 60s, 2 completely empty planes where 1 of them was unrecoverably destroyed, the original plane without many passengers as it was a cargo plane, and even on top of that 2 people and a horse survived. I shudder to imagine how bad it would be if the accident happened today on a busy day at the busiest terminal in Heathrow with a full passenger plane hitting multiple other full passenger planes. And there would probably be more planes too, some waiting to enter or exit from the terminal or taxiing. It's less likely due to checks and balances, but any issue causing a plane to uncontrollably veer into the terminal area is terrifying.
That was where my thoughts went immediately as well - incredibly lucky!! I actually breathed a huge sigh of relief when I heard that there were ZERO fatalities on the ground. Seeing the footage in the beginning of the video, I was positive that this crash left little to no survivors.
I was a six year old spotter who, with my dad, left the Queens Building viewing area overlooking that line of Tridents literally five minutes before it happened. So glad I didn't see it. Even so as I got older it naturally drew my interest into why it occurred so can say that this is excellent video explanation of the event.
Liked and subscribed.!
I remember way back in the early 70s, as a young teenager, seeing a BBC documentary featuring this tragic incident. Titled the Air Crash Investigators it looked at the work of the UK CAA Air Accident Investigation Branch. I was fascinated by the intricate investigation and reconstruction of the aircraft remains, which eventually led to the discovery of the cause of the crash.
Excellent presentation 👍🏻 Thank you.
Wow what an interesting story. Expertly told as always. I never dreamed of a plane completely renovated to just carry horses, but it does sound like some crazy rich guy thing
Thanks for this light on a not well remembered crash. I was only 13 at the time and COULD have been at Heathrow when it happened as I was an inveterate plane spotter and habitual inhabitant of the spotters enclosure. But I was at school and missed it. My mum also worked for BEA at that time and I well remember the fuss around Papa-India's fate in Staines. Even so I was shocked when you mentioned the recommissioning of the damaged aircraft and, 50 years later, the callsign Papa India rose unbidden into my mind even before the sequence zoomed in to highlight it!
Great Video, as always, Chloe!!! Only even more awesome of you to find footage of the incident, itself... You might find it interesting that there's some footage (largely archival from the USCG of the time, but I've seen several clips online) from the Pan Am Flight 6 Ocean Ditching in 1956. Whether or not you were inclined to include any or all footage of it, I'd be interested in your take on the matters. It's kinda famous for being the first ever oceanic ditching where EVERYBODY lived. It also concerns a prop-driven Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, so a bit of an obscure plane to hunt down, BUT I'm sure we'd understand a bit of a shift in visual aids, and you might have some fun finding whatever you can. It's a neat old plane.
IN any case, this disaster reminded me of that one... mostly from the few odd clips I've seen shot from a nearby Coast Guard vessel and kept all these years. You always do such a great job hunting down the details and researching to truly understand the incidents you choose. Good hunting!!! ;o)
A very good report on yet another less known accident. And as a double whammy, this is the first I’ve heard about the Trident that crashed being the same one that was damaged by this episodes aircraft!
Great work!!👍🇨🇦
Holy hell, the ending of the video blew my mind. Great video as always and thank you for enlightening us plane nerds
Another great video as always Chloe! A quick question for you, do you only make videos about incidents where the plane crashes/has fatalities, or do you cover incidents the situation is resolved and the aircraft land safely?
Last week we did a Disaster Averted video, death count or fatalities had no bearing on whether or not I make a video on it. if I find it to be an interesting case and people want to see it then i can put it on my list to get made
Really appreciate the inclusion of your Disaster Averted vids! It helps psychologically balance the tragedy of the worst disasters, but IMO near misses can also be just a valuable source of learnings, especially as the flight crews are able to provide first-person testimony of their experiences, actions, & thoughts/decisions?
@@DisasterBreakdown ok, cool. My suggestion would be the 1978 Cessna 188 pacific rescue. A Cessna 188 was on a delivery journey from the USA to Australia. On one leg of the journey the pilot got lost flying over the pacific due to a piece of navigation equipment failing and was eventually located and saved by an Air New Zealand DC-10, fight 103. The Cessna landed safely on Norfolk Island after flying for over 23 hours. Another interesting thing about this incident was the Flight Engineer on flight 103, Gordon Brooks, who was unfortunately killed less than a year later in the crash of Air New Zealand flight 901 on Mount Erebus.
1968! Looked like ancient history, and I was alive then, just. Damn
Great video as always. Being a racing fan, are the names of the 8 racehorses recorded anywhere? I would like to know who they were and what the loss was to racing and breeding. I looked online but haven’t found anything. Thanks
Fantastic video once again. That was a very sad accident
I could tell you so much more about BKS/Northeast, which was an excellent airline using, certainly in the early days, mostly ex RAF pilots. The pilot of the plane in question, Ernie Hand, was one of those and a well above average pilot, and I would also note that his 'clearance' of not being in any way to blame for the crash was just about the fastest clearance ever by the CAA. I might also point out that when taken over by BEA, for the first few weeks the Northeast pilots regularly had issues over signing for the aircraft becasue they were not up to the maintenance standards they were used to! But, it was all a long time ago and just about all those pilots and 1st officers are long gone now and flying for a much safer airline 🙂.
i sort of peripherally knew about this (or, more specifically that william hill was related to a plane crash) but it's interesting to get the full details! great video, as always :)
This haunted me as a 10 year old when I saw it on the night time news and I'll never forget it. We lived near Glasgow Airport and about a year before this I had witnessed a BEA Viscount accident when it over ran the runway and crashed into a field with no loss of life. Ambassadors were common at Glasgow , Autair , BKS , Dan Air etc so to see this really shook me up knowing there had been fatalities.
thanks for uploading this video.
i have had not heard about this accident .
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Your narrative is very good btw
I have not heard of this accident before. I remember the Manchester United crash which was an Airspeed Ambassador. I was coming home from school when I saw the headlines in the evening papers. I am eighty years old and love aviation. I flew to Majorca on an Ambassador in 1959, 1961, 62, 63, and 64. Dan Air mainly. I could have flown on this one! A very noisy plane inside.
I remember it used to fly around the Pyrenees Mountains instead of over them. I have been to see the Dan Air one at Duxford and it brought back some great memories.
It sucks that anyone/horses died in this crash but it was somewhat of a silver lining that no one on the ground including the construction workers were not further casualties in such a horrible accident
.....my wife was looking into getting me a ride on a vintage WW2 aircraft for a present. I thanked her, but said no thanks for this very reason.
I well remember this disaster along with details of the failure of the port flap actuator due to metal fatigue. Thank you for reminding me.
I was an Air Scout in Newcastle, where BKS were the main commercial operator at the as-then Woolsington Airport. Most of my weekends were spent there and we would trade doing small jobs in exchange for flights or simply visiting aircraft or other facilities. Once, we helped carry new seats out, which were being replaced on G-AMAD, when it was mainly flying the Heathrow to Newcastle route. I was quite shocked when I learned that an aeroplane which I saw almost weekly, had crashed. I recall that BKS had two more ex-BEA Ambassadors in service back then.
A neighbour worked for this Airline i am sure the names were Berkeley,Kerr and Stevens and at least of the Directors were ex RAF our neighbour soon lost his job and another neighbour was BEA Chief Pilot got him a post with BEA that is all i remember as i was in the Army since 1967.
Ah well memory plays tricks the Founder/Directors were James Barnby,Thomas Keegan and M Stevens so slap on wrist for being 2/3rds wrong!
the one trident has cheated death, but death came back to get it years later
I have flown in G-AMAD several times with the Captain E. Hand who was tragically killed in this accident.
Great video again chloe.
Thank you!
'The failure occurred only just a few moments from when they were expected to touch down, it couldn't have occurred at a worst point in the flight.' The left side landing gear touched the grass and the pilots decided to execute a go around. I don't agree, I think it was the best moment for this failure to occur. It was a normal reaction to execute a go around, they are trained to do so. But chances are everybody would have survived if the pilots had accepted a hard landing and a damaged airplane and slammed the brakes. It probably would have come to a complete stop without crashing.
As mentioned in the video, the pilots were caught off-guard ,were under heavy pressure, and couldn't properly think of it the same way we're able to think about this incident 50 years after it happened,
@@X_mezo_X It's a "what if" question.
Well seeing in the comment that some people say the viscount involved in this accident also gotten into another accident, is freaking me out. that 2 aircraft involved in this accident (trident and viscount) gotten in to another accident that kill lot people
As someone who was born and lived not far from Heathrow airport, i have never heard about that crash before, when the trident went down, i was fishing with friends near Staines and only found out about that one when i got home.
The Viscount was also lost in 1975 in a crash at Phnom Penh International Airport. The pilot was unqualified to fly the plane, having forged his credentials. He ended up losing control of the aircraft during a landing. The crash killed all four occupants of the aircraft and ended up damaging a parked Cessna 172 beyond repair.
Interesting information, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent Video! Thanks!
I remember this BKS accident and the subsequent BEA Trident crass in Staines.
Quick correction. The high lift devices that extended from the leading edge of a wing are not flaps, they are slats. Flaps are only on the trailing edge.
I saw this aircraft on the approach from my parents' house in Kingston. I was also listening to the Tower on 118.2 - aircraft landing 28L or 28R went out of my sight at the outer marker. Then I heard the next aircraft to land seeing mention smoke on the ground ahead...
excellent job on this! what a plot twist too😮
13:00 The sad part is, the pilot made the correct choice here, given what the pilot knew.
If you can't stabilize your approach with the aircraft at the right speed, in the correct position and configured for landing, or if the approach should become unstable at some point the pilot is trained to abandon the approach and go around.
The most common cause for what the pilot is experiencing is wake turbulence. Wake turbulence can induce an uncommented bank. I would bet good money that the pilot believed he had hit wake turbulence and died still thinking that.
Informative comment, cheers.
It's crazy how G-ARPI, one of the Tridents impacted by the crash had crashed years later with no survivors.
I actually said “Oh NO” out loud when you said the mechanics borrowed from the left side
The poor horses 😢
I enjoy your movies very much: they are authoritative, clear, impartial, balanced and intelligent, and beautifully narrated. I admire you for your trans journey and I offer you my best wishes. Stay true to yourself, and keep producing quality videos.
Thanks for detailing this event. Do you think you could do a video on the Trident (G-ARPY) test flight crash in 1966?
Beautiful aircraft! Corrosion probably played a part o this disaster? Similar to Lockheed Constellation 🇺🇸
They were being tested during my first holiday at Fairlight, c. 1949 or 1950. I never liked the 'plane; there was something about the design that just seemed wrong. There was a Tyne Ambassador but turboprops were not generally fitted tho' Handley-Page's Herald had the Dart to upgrade it. Strangely enough, though I was living under one of Heathrow's stacking areas and we also took the London Evening News (as it then was) I do not recall this crash..
I can't help but think of the horse auction of Max Zorin, visited by that gent James St. John-Smythe
This reminds me of BEA411 at Manchester Airport(Ringway) that you did a video on a year or so ago.
Irish people remember William Hill for another reason. He was one of the "Black-and Tan" special forces sent to Ireland by Winston Churchill to quell the IRA during our War of Independence from the British empire....
The novelist, Nevil Shute ( Norway)was a founder of Airspeed. He was a volunteer stretcher-bearer in Dublin in easter 1916, when the rebellion that led to Irish Independence broke out.
Thanks for the content warning at the start. By the way, can you do a video on Mexicana flight 940 PLEASE?
hmmm i've never heard of that, I'll look into it for you
@@DisasterBreakdown Can You Also Cover The Lion Air Crash Landing At Ngurah Rai Bali (i think it was Lion Air Flight 904)
A case of “an unstable, stable!”
The Airspeed Ambassador was the same type involved in the February 1958 Munich Air Disaster involving the Manchester United Football Team. A fine piece of engineering, kind of the Boeing Max of its day.
04:30 WYE AYE NEWCASTLE REPRESENTED!
That Airspeed Ambassador wasn't a half bad looking airplane. I daresay if an intact frame could be sourced, a pair of high efficiency turboprop engines and matching props, and a complete modernization of the avionics, perhaps pressurization added as well and this would be a fine cargo plane.
As for the accident, no pilot ever wants to see a plane "burning in" and considering the little time the crew had to try to respond to this, they look like they genuinely tried to keep the plane away from other aircraft and impressively managed to keep the plane somewhat flying. If only they had a precious few more seconds, or the failure had occured earlier in the flight. Hats off to them for trying RIP.
This plane looks like a mini Lockheed Constellation.
So one of the Trident’s that got hit during this accident was actually the ill-fated Trident that crashed by Staines Bypass? Wow.
So sad to think that, had the pilot not followed the appropriate procedure upon touching the left wheel down the first and attempted to go around, he may well have had a better outcome. But sadly they were not to know this.
Wow... I've heard of pilots surviving one crash only to die in another. Now here's a plane, the Trident, which 'survived' the BKS crash, only to be lost while flying BEA 548. Very interesting...
The past tense of "bear witness" is "BORE witness" rather than "beared witness." 😊
This report mentions John Moody as part of the air crew at some time …I wonder if he’s the same John Moody who was the 747 Captain that flew into a Volcano ash while flying to Australia back in 1980. An aviation story told on another TH-cam page🤔
The timing was unfortunate but predictable. Max force on the faulty part.
This was very interesting because that crash is little known today for some reason, and I don't think the Mayday/Air Accident Investigation series has covered it.
I worked with a guy who was in the control tower that day, they thought it eas going to hit them.
Now I understand why the plane became...un"stable"
This is the only story of asymmetrical flaps I have ever seen, I flew the KC130 for years and we were always warned asymmetrical flaps was a killer
Shocking footage 😢
everyone that worked at or had any association with cargo at LHR knew this story, it was horrific, especially the aftermath
All I can say about this is when an aircraft gets part of its fuselage destroyed, it is not worth rebuilding it.
the bea plane: oh im fine yay
*BEA FLIGHT 548*
A horse on a plane is a fish on a bicycle...with a bazooka.
It seems obvious but I never thought a plane could carry horses. You cant drive everywhere so It does make sense but I just never thought of the idea of transporting horses through the air.
It's fairly common! TH-cam search horse transport by plane and you'll find a lot of interesting videos showing how they get transported 😊
It should be made clear that the Trident crash at Staines was due to pilot error, not any mechanical reason.
My heart breaks for the horses 😥😥💔Poor beautiful creatures who should never have been on that plane in the first place but for the whim of a person. The day horse racing is banned cannot come soon enough - these majestic animals shouldn't have to pay with their pain and lives just for other human's gambling and money greed
Wow ,the trident crashed because of the wrong configuration of the flaps too!
Makes total sense, the workload was commanded by the left, so was always under more stress.
Note the crashed repaired Trident had 3 rego numbers the same as the subject aircraft, freaky!
02:52 In 1915?
Υοur νιdeοs are really interesting
Thank you!
So what happened to the First Officer?
I don't realy understand the accident of BOAC 781 Chole please do a video on it
I will be soon! Thats the comet right? Its on my list and I'll be getting round to it soon, possibly in May
BOAC 781 was basically metal fatigue, caused by the rivets of the square windows of the Comet
15:14 bye bye horses😮
That was very interesting. Thank you. I would be interested to know however if the accident had something to do with the repair that was made to the aircraft. It was obvious to me that the whole airplane should have been Is scrapped. Aviation is simply an unforgiving Endeavor.
It's rather interesting that G-ARPI (The Accident Aircraft for BEA 548) the image shown. I have that image myself and it's rather scary that the plane was involved in this accident and then just disintegrated in BEA 548 not far from Heathrow in Stains-Upon Thames.
In reference to Dan Air Flight 0034 in 1979
It's about time we return to Tenerife. This is because, this accident was quite shadowed considering what happened 3 years prior.
I would like to see Dan Air Flight 1008 a Boeing 727 that crashed a few days from the day of that fateful afternoon. April 25th, 1980. It is a shocking and shadowy accident. Considering what happened on that fateful day in 3 years prior at the same airport. This was the 2nd most fatal accident at Dan Air Services LTD in 10 years. With all 146 passengers and crew (138 Passengers and 8 crew) killed.
It is nice if the cameraman had a better quality camera for 1968 but it's ok . Pls can you do a video about the Martin air Holland DC 8 crash in the Sri Lankan mountains .
There's a high probability I flew on the same plane, Seattle to Gatwick via Montreal in 1973. Student charter.
Good thing: footage of the accident was there. Bad thing: can’t see the impact with the building the 3 aircrafts. Also what simulator is this? Cause I’m surprised on how you mostly get the accurate aircraft and accurate livery.
This is x-plane. The Airspeed Ambassador in this is not that great, its very basic and doesn't even have a 3d cockpit
@@DisasterBreakdown And its completely transparent behind the windows ;-)
does anyone know what injuries the surviving horse sustained?
can you do a vid on swiss air 330 (bombing)
Somehow this is the second plane crash where the cargo was livestock....what the fu-
So the tail was taken off in the first accident, but there was essentially nothing left but the tail after the second. That is really interesting.