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I love your explanations, it tells us how it should have been and explanations on what is wrong with the flights. It is so simplified for me and I thank you for that. Wonderful knowledge you have stored up.
Wow, fascinating. I really enjoyed your (Graham) explanation on planes and how some of them work. As a complete non-pilot I really found this teaching moment very informative.
You remind me of my father! He flew Lancasters from 1941 to the end of the war. He joined the RAF at 17 in 1938, did his pilot training and qualified at 20. He stayed in the RAF until 1964, flying Hornets in Malayia in the early 50's. He then went on to become a Flying Instructor at Oxford Air Training School and became Chief Instructor. He had so many stories to tell he kept us enthralled for hours, often illustrated with stick men drawings! Thanks, for a bit of nostalgia.
Dear Graham, u r so good at explaining. Much appreciated. If u don't know already, do look up Prince William of Gloucester, after whom PW was named. He sadly died in aircrash - competitive flying a yellow & white paper arrow cherokee, aged 30yrs & fell in love with a stunning ex-model in Argentina. He's buried in Frogmore. Fiona would love their romance story. A film came out. So tragic - soul mates. V sad. He had interesting progressive ideas. I wonder if he could be confined to strict protocols of The Firm/BRF, back then. Someone should write a biography of him. Fascinating man.
Fabulous chat Graham ,really interesting, you explain things so naturally . Your life experiences are never ending fascinating, genuinly would love to hear more flying stories.
Graham thanks , you have a Special talent to explain things so easy for subscribers to understand 👍🏻. Looking forward to further videos from you and Fiona, let’s hope the jealous idiots who keep attacking the Hesketh family get a conscience and STOP the constant attacks.
This was fascinating, Graham. Yes, I agree with you; speculation about the cause of an aircraft crash before an investigation's outcome is human nature, particularly with the benefit of your flying training and experience.
Thank you Graham for sharing you knowledge on these stories. These airlines should be listening to you!!! You know from knowing and experience!!!! Maybe you will get the chance to be in instructor one of these days ♥️♥️♥️
There's a true film - the title escapes me - where the new passenger plane was under-fuelled because they confused all the numbers due to changing to metric, and they ran out of fuel in the air. The pilot flew gliders for fun, so he flew this big jet like a glider, and landed it safely at a closed field called Gimli, but unfortunately the nose-leg collapsed, so there was some fire that they put out, and everyone escaped unharmed. But when other pilots tried it on the sim, they all crashed, and said it was impossible. - - - I know it's not the same thing, but I always teach my pupils to land their r/c model planes dead-stick, so they get used to how far they will go with no power, and they still have full control, the aircraft doesn't drop like a shot duck! I started teaching a new pupil today - as I said to him, my last one for this year, and the first one for next! (and by chance, three of my previous pupils were all at the field together, today - and they all learned on the same model!)
I was hoping you would cover this topic ... my youngest and four of her friends are flying to South Korea next year and after seeing this, I’ve gone into mum panic mode ... my sincerest condolences go out to all those families of the beautiful people who lost their lives 🙏🏼
Thank you for explaining Graham, you make it easy to understand. It looked scary. Glad I listened to you. All the very best to you and your family for a wonderful happy healthy and prosperous 2025 ❤
Thank you, Graham. That was really interesting. When I lived in Salfords in Surrey, there were small aircrafts (& big airpassenger buses as we were directly under the Gatwick Flight Path!🫣) flying over head, and I really wanted to be in light aircraft! I eventually did a trip in a small one from Canarvern airport all over Angelsey and Snowden. The views were breathtaking! Xxx❤
There were 2 more Airplane accidents after the South Korean disaster. 1 In Canada, same type of landing in Nova Scotia. No Deaths. Then a KLM emergency landing in Norway, No Deaths. Both belly landings, No Birds, No Walls. Both on You Tube.
So glad you got your channel back. I saw the crash, unbelievable. Those poor people. Thanks for your perspective Graham. We are lucky to have your experience & you explain things so we can understand. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸♥️♥️♥️from Leeisa
Great video Graham. I have been wondering what might have happened. You often talk about landings in your flight sim videos. Many times you have talked about landing without flaps and coming in too fast. You have very good explanations about this very thing .
It would be really intetesting to see you land the plane on the flight simulator, Graham. Thank you for your excellent explanation of events in Korea. You're a born teacher.
I loved this video. I have a macabre interest in plane crashes - Air Crash Investigation is one of my favourites. Please do the simulation landing - would be interesting to understand how this happened in the end. Very tragic when there are lives lost and must be so frightening. As a frequent flyer the events of the past few days are very disturbing. XX
I follow a guy called Dan Gryder, he's a pilot and has a channel called 'Probable Cause' where he looks into causes of aircraft crashes. He did a brief talk about this crash yesterday (and will discuss more when more details emerge). His initial thought is that it appears the pilot needed to get the plane down fast and that there is a possibility that the landing gear wasn't working, that there could possibly have been a fire/smoke in the cabin. Take a look - he's got a good channel.
Good explanation Graham. I am not a good flyer. Once we're up I am okay, unless there are a lot of turbulents. That scares me. I'm pretty okay with taking off too. Landing is when I do most of my praying. It's amazing to me that they're able to touch down on what seems to me to be very small tires and stop that plane. I always thank the pilots when we're getting off the plane. Again, it is all just totally amazing to me and anyone brave enough to be a pilot has my respect. My second flight ever was when I was twelve years old and we flew from Alabama to Germany (my stepdad was in the army and we got stationed in Ansbach, Germany). That was a trip! Literally! We were flying over the Atlantic at night with very clear skies and a moon that must have been close to full. Not sure if it was my imagination or not, but I swear I could see the water down there.
Hello Graham, thank you for this well explained story. Enjoyed it and learned somethings. I had swore i would never get on a plane again, ,at 57 years old, now 71, if you were the pilot, i probably would! i would be hanging on to Fiona's arm for dear life, but i would soon relax!! stay well and be blessed, Merci beaucoup! 👍☕🥧 ☮ 😘 RIP to all peoples on that plane.
I saw the footage of the crash. At first I thought the pilot did well and that they’d be okay. I assumed he landed on the numbers and had plenty of runway. Then BAM! He hit the wall. Crazy! Altitude may be your friend but so is lots of runway! Sad.
Fascinating...I remember when the airport near me had a plane over shoot the runway and Finnished up on the motorway...reports said runway to short or plane to big be interesting to hear your opinion..
Hi Graham , I have heard that that plane had a similar forced emergency landing two days prior? There are rumours of a bird strike? But would that affect the landing just having one engine out? I did note here, on your previous video, that the plane was coming far too fast. Terribly sad.
Interesting & logical analysis Graham 🤔 I somehow feel that the bird striking the plain might have had some input to the catastrophe 😞 But I’m no pilot nor expert with experience like you , just a gut feeling that it contributed to the domino scenario ?! 🤔 So tragic for all , the families aswell of coarse 😰 😓 Shocking 🥺 RIP 🙏
It does indeed look like pilot error. Almost all aircraft can land on their bellies, without landing gear. There’s something far wrong with whatever the pilot or copilot did. Why ON EARTH didn’t he use his TOGA??? Tragic. Absolutely avoidable, in my honest opinion. 😢
Exactly my thots about that wall. Why shouldnt there be a wall at the end? There were roads beyond that and maybe other houses or buildings? That wall would've saved any civilian vehicle plying down the road beyond the runway. Thanks for this analysis. :)
Im a v fearful traveller by plane esp turbulence. I hve to take a valium! I know BA runs courses on simulated cock pits. Graham on another post, Id like u to explain what causes turbulence & how plane is designed to weather them. Apparently with rise of climate change, weather will become more erratic, prone 2 more turbulence! Can u also explain "the black box" which always manages to remain intact.
Agreed.RIP. Since we were not in the cockpit and don't have all the facts we won't know until the results of the investigation are finalised. What I do know is a flapless wheelless belly landing only requires half the runway length.
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You’re a good story teller, Graham.
My dad flew Captain with Eastern Airlines for 50 years. You would have loved to talk to him. He had stories about everything.
Thanks Graham enjoyed your story. Sad about the crash.
You are a good story teller and help understand some of the complexities of flying. This terrifies me. Thank you
Excellent explanation Graham! Well done! Have a wonderful day. Much love to family and prayers for health. 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇺🇲
I love your explanations, it tells us how it should have been and explanations on what is wrong with the flights. It is so simplified for me and I thank you for that. Wonderful knowledge you have stored up.
I like your flight stories 😊 I hope for you and your family a Happy Newyear and may your health be better 🤗
Wow, fascinating. I really enjoyed your (Graham) explanation on planes and how some of them work. As a complete non-pilot I really found this teaching moment very informative.
You remind me of my father! He flew Lancasters from 1941 to the end of the war. He joined the RAF at 17 in 1938, did his pilot training and qualified at 20. He stayed in the RAF until 1964, flying Hornets in Malayia in the early 50's. He then went on to become a Flying Instructor at Oxford Air Training School and became Chief Instructor. He had so many stories to tell he kept us enthralled for hours, often illustrated with stick men drawings! Thanks, for a bit of nostalgia.
As someone with not much interest in aviation, I really enjoyed this Graham, thank you!
Well interesting that Grahame. Thanks. 👍
Thanks for explaining Graham - the crash looked frighteningly fast
Pilot error? That’s so sad 🌟🌟🌟😥
Your wisdom is exceptional Graham 🏴💙
Love your stories of your flying days. Thanks for sharing Graham. Hugss from Lady Kate.
Hi graham my father was in the RAF so I’ve grown up with aircraft stories like you dad used always say sit at the back 😅
Dear Graham, u r so good at explaining. Much appreciated. If u don't know already, do look up Prince William of Gloucester, after whom PW was named. He sadly died in aircrash - competitive flying a yellow & white paper arrow cherokee, aged 30yrs & fell in love with a stunning ex-model in Argentina. He's buried in Frogmore. Fiona would love their romance story. A film came out. So tragic - soul mates. V sad. He had interesting progressive ideas. I wonder if he could be confined to strict protocols of The Firm/BRF, back then. Someone should write a biography of him. Fascinating man.
Yes he was air racing at low level at the time.
Fabulous chat Graham ,really interesting, you explain things so naturally . Your life experiences are never ending fascinating, genuinly would love to hear more flying stories.
Graham thanks , you have a Special talent to explain things so easy for subscribers to understand 👍🏻. Looking forward to further videos from you and Fiona, let’s hope the jealous idiots who keep attacking the Hesketh family get a conscience and STOP the constant attacks.
This was fascinating, Graham. Yes, I agree with you; speculation about the cause of an aircraft crash before an investigation's outcome is human nature, particularly with the benefit of your flying training and experience.
Graham for your immune health start eating shiitake mushrooms
Thank you Graham for sharing you knowledge on these stories. These airlines should be listening to you!!! You know from knowing and experience!!!! Maybe you will get the chance to be in instructor one of these days ♥️♥️♥️
Your analysis is really interesting, you know what you are talking about and explain things clearly.Thank you.
Boeing Line Manager: “Hey!…Landing-Gear Group-7, did you guys remember to put the Wheels on Plane Z5-274-B11?”
LGG-7: “(gulp….)”
There's a true film - the title escapes me - where the new passenger plane was under-fuelled because they confused all the numbers due to changing to metric, and they ran out of fuel in the air. The pilot flew gliders for fun, so he flew this big jet like a glider, and landed it safely at a closed field called Gimli, but unfortunately the nose-leg collapsed, so there was some fire that they put out, and everyone escaped unharmed. But when other pilots tried it on the sim, they all crashed, and said it was impossible. - - - I know it's not the same thing, but I always teach my pupils to land their r/c model planes dead-stick, so they get used to how far they will go with no power, and they still have full control, the aircraft doesn't drop like a shot duck! I started teaching a new pupil today - as I said to him, my last one for this year, and the first one for next! (and by chance, three of my previous pupils were all at the field together, today - and they all learned on the same model!)
I was hoping you would cover this topic ... my youngest and four of her friends are flying to South Korea next year and after seeing this, I’ve gone into mum panic mode ... my sincerest condolences go out to all those families of the beautiful people who lost their lives 🙏🏼
Thank you Graham that was fascinating x
Thank you for explaining Graham, you make it easy to understand. It looked scary. Glad I listened to you. All the very best to you and your family for a wonderful happy healthy and prosperous 2025 ❤
My thoughts and prayers go out to the families at this horrendous time. Thanks for explaining it to us Graham and I agree it was pilot error
Thank you, Graham. That was really interesting.
When I lived in Salfords in Surrey, there were small aircrafts (& big airpassenger buses as we were directly under the Gatwick Flight Path!🫣) flying over head, and I really wanted to be in light aircraft! I eventually did a trip in a small one from Canarvern airport all over Angelsey and Snowden. The views were breathtaking!
Xxx❤
There were 2 more Airplane accidents after the South Korean disaster. 1 In Canada, same type of landing in Nova Scotia. No Deaths. Then a KLM emergency landing in Norway, No Deaths. Both belly landings, No Birds, No Walls. Both on You Tube.
Would love to see you fly your simulator. Hope you get it working soon!
So glad you got your channel back. I saw the crash, unbelievable. Those poor people. Thanks for your perspective Graham. We are lucky to have your experience & you explain things so we can understand.
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Thank you for the explanation.
It certainly shocking, families will wait years if not decades for compensation or the truth!!
Thank you Graham! That was a very good explanation of what probably happened. Let’s see what the insurance companies see about their version. ❤
Great video Graham. I have been wondering what might have happened.
You often talk about landings in your flight sim videos. Many times you have talked about landing without flaps and coming in too fast. You have very good explanations about this very thing .
Some aircraft are not even fitted with flaps.
@ I will be curious to find out if it was a less experienced pilot
It would be really intetesting to see you land the plane on the flight simulator, Graham. Thank you for your excellent explanation of events in Korea. You're a born teacher.
I loved this video. I have a macabre interest in plane crashes - Air Crash Investigation is one of my favourites. Please do the simulation landing - would be interesting to understand how this happened in the end. Very tragic when there are lives lost and must be so frightening. As a frequent flyer the events of the past few days are very disturbing. XX
Crash investigation is so important to prevent the same mistakes being made.
So interesting ❤from NZ
Our ex air ambulance pilots here in Australia are bloody awesome and now A380 skippers
I follow a guy called Dan Gryder, he's a pilot and has a channel called 'Probable Cause' where he looks into causes of aircraft crashes. He did a brief talk about this crash yesterday (and will discuss more when more details emerge). His initial thought is that it appears the pilot needed to get the plane down fast and that there is a possibility that the landing gear wasn't working, that there could possibly have been a fire/smoke in the cabin. Take a look - he's got a good channel.
Yes indeed we are just guessing at this stage.
Good explanation Graham. I am not a good flyer. Once we're up I am okay, unless there are a lot of turbulents. That scares me. I'm pretty okay with taking off too. Landing is when I do most of my praying. It's amazing to me that they're able to touch down on what seems to me to be very small tires and stop that plane. I always thank the pilots when we're getting off the plane. Again, it is all just totally amazing to me and anyone brave enough to be a pilot has my respect. My second flight ever was when I was twelve years old and we flew from Alabama to Germany (my stepdad was in the army and we got stationed in Ansbach, Germany). That was a trip! Literally! We were flying over the Atlantic at night with very clear skies and a moon that must have been close to full. Not sure if it was my imagination or not, but I swear I could see the water down there.
Hello Graham, thank you for this well explained story. Enjoyed it and learned somethings. I had swore i would never get on a plane again, ,at 57 years old, now 71, if you were the pilot, i probably would! i would be hanging on to Fiona's arm for dear life, but i would soon relax!! stay well and be blessed, Merci beaucoup! 👍☕🥧 ☮ 😘 RIP to all peoples on that plane.
Thank you for that Graham.
I saw the footage of the crash. At first I thought the pilot did well and that they’d be okay. I assumed he landed on the numbers and had plenty of runway. Then BAM! He hit the wall. Crazy! Altitude may be your friend but so is lots of runway! Sad.
So sad about the crash and loss of many lives 😢 prayers for all the families affected 🙏🙏
Indeed
The landing gear was not working. If it’s a Boeing, I am not going.
Fascinating...I remember when the airport near me had a plane over shoot the runway and Finnished up on the motorway...reports said runway to short or plane to big be interesting to hear your opinion..
Love to listen to you Graham.
like the flight stories
Thank you for the explanation. Very interesting.🤨
Thanks Graham for explaining it
Having been a hostie for 30 years QF and crew member of qf30……..
Could the hydraulics have been disabled due to the bird strike? Would that have affected the pilots' ability to control the plane during landing?
This is a very good question and we will have to wait for the answers.
The birds are being falsely blamed for the Korean airplane crash.. IMO
also, Graham, it was pilot error.
So is the pilots error the main cause!
That is my initial opinion but I do not have all the facts.
thanks
Where is the best survival seats in a plane?
In the back in my opinion
Wonder how much experience the pilot had hour wise? Thanks Graham
Loads I am sure most on autopilot
Hi Graham , I have heard that that plane had a similar forced emergency landing two days prior? There are rumours of a bird strike? But would that affect the landing just having one engine out? I did note here, on your previous video, that the plane was coming far too fast. Terribly sad.
It is very difficult to get the speed right without a lot of practice without flaps.
Interesting & logical analysis Graham 🤔
I somehow feel that the bird striking the plain might have had some input to the catastrophe 😞
But I’m no pilot nor expert with experience like you , just a gut feeling that it contributed to the domino scenario ?! 🤔
So tragic for all , the families aswell of coarse 😰 😓
Shocking 🥺
RIP 🙏
I have seen some footage of a puff of smoke coming out of the right engine. Consistent with a bird strike.
He didn’t put the landing gear down?
It does indeed look like pilot error. Almost all aircraft can land on their bellies, without landing gear. There’s something far wrong with whatever the pilot or copilot did. Why ON EARTH didn’t he use his TOGA??? Tragic. Absolutely avoidable, in my honest opinion. 😢
Won’t the black box have details of what happened ?
Yes
Was it comakazi?
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Exactly my thots about that wall. Why shouldnt there be a wall at the end? There were roads beyond that and maybe other houses or buildings? That wall would've saved any civilian vehicle plying down the road beyond the runway. Thanks for this analysis. :)
Im a v fearful traveller by plane esp turbulence. I hve to take a valium! I know BA runs courses on simulated cock pits. Graham on another post, Id like u to explain what causes turbulence & how plane is designed to weather them. Apparently with rise of climate change, weather will become more erratic, prone 2 more turbulence! Can u also explain "the black box" which always manages to remain intact.
Bit harsh without full facts of what the crew actions were etc.RIP.Ex 747.
Agreed.RIP. Since we were not in the cockpit and don't have all the facts we won't know until the results of the investigation are finalised. What I do know is a flapless wheelless belly landing only requires half the runway length.
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757 crash??? Looked like a 737-800.
That's the one.
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