If you read up on the accident, there were like a dozen things which if they'd been done slightly differently, there wouldn't have been an accident. Off the top of my head: - Only one controller was working, and was overburdened - Tower's collision warning system was turned off for maintenance, without informing the controller - Controller was distracted for a long time by a problem with another flight. - Both BAL 2937 and DHL 611 requested flight level 360. Controller granted it, probably due to the above distraction. - Controller mistakenly told BAL that DHL was on their right, when it was on their left - Controller realized the danger shortly before the collision and told BAL to descend to try to resolve it. A few seconds later, TCAS advised DHL to dive and BAL to climb. You're supposed to obey TCAS if the controller's instructions conflict. But TCAS was new and not everyone fully understood it. So BAL obeyed the controller, resulting in both planes diving. - DHL initially didn't take the TCAS warning that seriously, and performed a moderate dive instead of the recommended steep dive. They didn't increase their dive rate until 2 seconds before the collision, by which time it was too late. Just a really sad accident in all. So many little things could have prevented it.
@@cnplaza6737 Another strange and sad and heartbreaking event.. the school children from Russia were brought to the wrong airport the day before by the trip’s charter company.... they waited and finally got this flight for the next day.. they were never meant to be on that flight. 😪
@@cnplaza6737 The phones were also down, which made it impossible for another ATC in another tower, who did have working equipment and thus saw the danger, to warn Nielsen. So many little problems which aligned perfectly to lead to this disaster...
A fire broke out in the cabin after they hit the vehicle so he was screaming because he was being burnt alive. I heard this from another comment so if you see this im crediting you
"Im so sorry. Were going to crash" Last words were spent on the lives of his passengers...not family, not himself. Just his passengers and his remorse. Heavy shit.
I don't think that's what was said.... I could be wrong but researching it it looks like that was the tower and another aircraft communicating, hence the muffled nature.
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
@@ElliottMoreno-nd2hh The last one is actually incorrect and already being proven wrong, that's actually lifeguard speaking to the Detroit Tower which read as: "Metro tower, lifeguard copter one zero two Uniform Mike is, ah..." The transcript of the cvr doesn't mention anything about those last words, so clearly either it's misunderstanding or the channel just made it up. Like the other one Martinair Flight 495 actually have all the pilots survived so technically those aren't their last words..
As for the Uberlingen - I personally saw the DHL aircraft that day and had a brief radio conversation with the pilots. They were #1 for departure out of Bahrain, in the hammerhead, when I landed there. They complimented my landing right on tower frequency. I remember them saying “Awww Reach, that was beautiful” right as I touched my C-5 down. We exchanged brief pleasantries. They said they were going to Italy and then Belgium. We then wished each other well. The tower controller casually let us finish our brief chit chat before clearing them for takeoff. To this day, having over 15,000 flight hours of combined military and civilian aviation, I have never had a conversation with another aircraft on an operational ATC frequency the way that I did that day! We left Bahrain, flew to Germany, and were all shocked to hear the news of what had happened after landing there.
@@joshthomson3948 I sure was! I had two “small world” things happen to me in 2002 that just about left me keeled over in shock. This was one of them. But the other one was non-aviation related and was even more stunning than this - so much so that as I look back at it, I can still hardly believe it myself (it had to do with the DC sniper killings). No idea why 2002 was my year of small-world stuff.
The fact that everyone on DHL plane were still alive trying to recover, and half of the Tupolev including the pilots were alive as well, suffocating and maybe in pain because of eardrum damage, but very aware they were done. So creepy.
Delta 191 is rather infamous in aviation history. Other than the hint of lightning in the recording, you don't get a clear idea as to what happened, but they flew into a microburst that essentially pushed the plane into the ground. It was thanks to this flight that windshear alerts became a thing.
The thing with that is, the captain *did* know what flying into that was going to do to the aircraft. 2:38: “Watch your speed. You’re going to lose it all of a sudden….’there’ it is.”
@@SpanielRacing2 definitely had some familiarity but didn't know nearly enough to understand just how dangerous it could really be, especially at that altitude. Back then was a very different time and we've learned far more since.
I live near DFW. Delta 191 is why, if at all possible, I book my seat in the back of the plane. (Plus, you can sometimes get served first, and you're close to the toilets)
When I was a pilot for Delta, they used to replicate that microburst for us in the sim from the L1011 crash in Dallas. The technology has improved exponentially since the crash, but that scenario is still a handful even with the new equipment.
I took a class back in the 90s about management teams & Delta 191 (Dallas) & United 232 (Souix City) were discussed on teamwork & responsibility. *I REMEMBER THE "REQUIRED" WEATHER OBSERVER AT DFW TO HAVE AN "OPEN" ATC OPERATIONS WAS AT DINNER* during the time Delta 191's approach & that ATC missed calling the wind shear warnings.
@@rickpat-x9u This is what I know from the pilot side. The technology is way better than it was when DAL 191 crashed. However, that windshear was a monster and came out of the blue. No telling if they would have survived had the current technology been onboard. Here’s what I will tell you. I ALWAYS trusted the technology we had after I experienced the scenario in the sim, and it also worked on the ground. I witnessed a windshear warning prior to takeoff in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina once the storm had passed but the feeder bands were still around. Other airplanes were going around and the windshear warning was painting it. Many of us are alive today because of the newer technology, but awareness has also been key.
Wasn’t this crash investigation also instrumental in the implementation of Doppler systems at all major airports? For wind shear and severe weather detection?
@@DanSimerl I do not recall, but likely so. I was a USAF pilot when this happened and was not flying into commercial fields much. There were different standards for the military and commercial fields back then but they are probably the same now.
Yes, it was. At the busier airports, TDWR replaced the old LLWAS. TDWR (doppler radar) is superior to the old LLWAS. LLWAS was just wind anometers set around the airport perimeter; not nearly as good as a doppler scanning the airport arrival and departure corridors. I was a controller for a long time and used both systems. TDWR was one piece of equipment that the FAA got its money's worth. It was accurate and gave warning in plenty of time. When I issued a TDWR microburst alert, pilots knew it was the real deal and treated it accordingly. The old LLWAS was a crap shoot, at best.
Scariest thing about a plane crash is knowing that death will probably not come unexpectedly and you'll have to sit there as the plane falls for seconds or even minutes and think about how you are certainly about to die.
That's the thing. When people say flying is very safe they're 100% correct but if you're unlucky enough to be in a plane crash from altitude it has to be the absolute worst way to die
I think of the passengers on the Titanic. They had 2 hours and 40 minutes from impact to sinking. That had to be one of the most devastating ways to die.
The Uberlingen is sad because the controller was on two far apart screens because his partner was on break. The phones were down and radar was slow. An airbus a310 was having problems so the controller took care of that and then they collided. He then was murdered by a guy who lost his family on the Bashkirian airlines plane
Nielsen had been in therapy after the incident and had just come home to his wife and kids when the Russian guy surprised him and stabbed him to death in front of his family. As a tragironic twist, the killer succesfully pleaded down to manslaughter due to temporary insanity, then after being released after less than four years he went on TV and declared he was never insane and regretted nothing. Because the air crash was at the same time being used for anti-Western propaganda due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Georgia, he was made a media hero, showered in awards and eventually made a regional government minister.
Reminds me of the man who called first responders from up high in the North or South tower on nine eleven and stayed on the line until it literally fell. His cut off scream and the few milliseconds of building starting to give way is insane to me
That one was a bad one... the plane had actually landed but for whatever reason they didn't apply enough brakes, and they were running out of runway quick so the Captain attempted a Go Around but wasn't able to build up enough speed before the runway ran out and one of the wings clipped a wire tower, which caused plane to flip and crash. That's why you can hear an audible gasp from everyone. The sad thing is if they had just continued braking and overan the runway a little bit, they probably would have got bumped around a little and the plane a little beat up, but they would have all survived.
@@stephenmystery8313not at all, retrying a landing is actually rather common. In fact, you can even hear pilots in this video refer to “going around” (TOGA as it’s called).
man these are brutal. for a while it seemed like the full recordings were never going to be available to the public and I wish it stayed that way! You aren't just hearing fear and a quick death in a lot of these...some of them are the cockpit breaking apart and crushing the pilots while still alive. Rest in peace aviators
@jessicaregina1956 well I don't see how that would matter, but if a citizen did have a concern about a flight, just call 911/999/112 etc and they will be talking to that plane in minutes. but if you're purposefully wrong and just trying to inconcenience them then there would be massive penalties.
I listened to a CVR years ago that still haunts me. The first officer had blundered on the landing. They attempted to gain altitude to fly around and attempt to land again but the damage was done. The last thing the captain said was “you’ve killed us all.” The copilot said: “I know.”
That was the Air Canada DC8 crash I believe. F/O deployed spoilers before plane was on the ground resulting in an extreme hard landing causing a fuel leak and fire. Eventually the plane exploded in the air.
@@samuelm3766 couldn't be. F/O just apologized to CA "sorry Pete" before declaring "we've lost a wing" and the impact happened. Only transcripts are available, It was a 1970's crash too so CRV's were very new, and I don't think the audio was ever leaked to the public 😅
I might have heard this one too on TH-cam. I can't remember the flight number or airlines, but I am 99% certain it was in the 1990's, it happened in Asia, the pilot was American but the co-pilot wasn't, I remember the pilot saying "you're gonna kill us all" or something around those lines. Also I remember that the pilots survived. I don't know if this was a passenger plane and if anyone died. Does this match what you are describing or is this some other very similar CVR?
Alright I actually found the CVR I was mentioning and It was quite different than I remembered, so it may not be the one you mentioned. The one I mentioned was Korean Air 2033 which had a runway over-run in 1994, the pilot was actually Canadian, and co-pilot was Korean, there were 160 people on-board, all survived.
@@clarenceghammjr1326 Pretty sure most of the errors with Boeing's are human error, like not being inspected properly or something, I could be wrong though all I did was look it up on Google, I'm no expert
No joke, I was at Midway in the mid 2000s and they used to have these CNN Airport Network monitors at all the gates. I guess someone at Southwest wanted to tune in a soap opera, so anyway, it was feeding live from a local transmitter. Anyway, coverage was interrupted to announce breaking news of a plane crash. That was on every monitor through the entire airport. I swear, you can't make up stuff like this. I was there and never before did I wish so much that I hadn't left my camera behind.
I flew into Dallas the week after the Delta crash. As we came in to land, we could see the remnants of the aircraft scattered across a field, with the tail sitting almost upright. A very sobering sight.
I have seen the ACI episode Regarding the mid air collision over Uberlingen. This is the very first time that I’ve heard the cockpit voice recorder. I can’t help but send my heart out to the Russians. They were alive all the way until they hit the ground. All the children who died. And of course, I cannot forget the heroics of the DHL crew. They fought to keep their airplane airborne for as long as they could. The number of lives they saved on the ground because they fought back.
I recently watched that episode of ACI, and I've seen it quite a few times and yet, I learned of a detail that I had somehow missed: The children were not even supposed to be on that particular flight. Because 2 days before, the tour group accidentally took them to the wrong airport and missed their original flight. If the tour group had not made that mistake, they would have made their original flight, and they would likely still be alive today.
And all that because of the dumb aviation bueraucrats who could't decide whose orders take priority - tcas or controller's. Despite a near miss in Japan months before that
@@jon590the co pilot was literally telling him "get it up Charlie" while the captain was losing his mind. I'm not going to sit here and judge the captain though because nobody knows how they'd react in that situation
i had no idea the CVR for the überlingen disaster was even publicly released. that's actually probably the most disturbing CVR i think i've heard. you have to realise that after impact, the russian plane's nose (and cockpit) was severed from the rest of the aircraft as the wreckage plummeted to the ground. the whooshing sound is the open air behind the pilots. the passengers - CHILDREN - were torn from their seats and launched into the sky, freefalling. the grunts and groans coming from the CVR are the pilots either struggling to breathe the thin air of high altitudes, or struggling to deal with the insane G forces they were experiencing, or both at once.
What makes the second recording even more disturbing is that the Russian passenger plane was split in half during the collision with the DHL plane and you can hear the pilots frantically gasping for air
The amount of suffering the average person goes through in their lifetime will never get even CLOSE to what the Bashkirian pilots endured in 73 seconds.
@@Percykitty Just imagine, cruising at 36000ft. All of a sudden, ATC yells at you too descent, gives you all the information you need. Information which couldn't be further from the truth. The other plane also descends. Your plane is screaming at you to climb, yet you're unsure if you should follow ATC or the alarms. By the time you see the plane, you've already sealed your fate. All you can think about is all the children in the cabin, who you've failed to protect on this flight. The other plane slices your plane's hull in half. Whatever's left of it is plummeting down at 20000ft per minute, with you and your colleagues inside. You start gasping for air, lack thereof. You feel your ears and lungs explode, as they start filling up with blood. You can't even scream in pain, just faintly gasp. Power goes out, you look at the ground and accept your fate as you crash full speed into a field. That, all of it, happened in 73 seconds.
@@Cekkkko21212 was it a "clean" cut (as in, with bits of the plane still intact and people still strapped to their sits in a metal cylinder free falling to the ground) or was the cockpit the only part of the plane that remained whole?
@@treesome3979 It was more or less sliced in half. It broke apart more and more in the air. If you've seen that one James Cameron animation of the Titanic sinking (2012, I believe), the breakup was similar.
@@LSR1980Can you please be a bit more sensitive? Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine that you are piloting a plane that you know is going to end your, and hundreds of passengers life in a matter of seconds, and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do. It is the worst nightmare of any pilot. So get your insensitive ass out of this comment section if you can’t have the maturity of a 13-year-old.
Me and several people from Ufa (Bashkortostan, Russia) had a chance to fly on this Bashkirian Airlines plane that crashed on 1st July 2002 (0:26 in this video). Back in early 2000s UNESCO in Ufa organized vacation for notable talented young people from Bashkortostan as an award. I was studying music in musical school (piano), getting some achievements here and playing some concerts, my family and my relatives in Bashkortostan were notable people here and so I was offered to get into one of those vacations. In summer, 2001 me, my brother (cousin) and a lot of kids (around 50 kids if I recall correctly) flew to Bulgaria (directly, not via Moscow), near Varna and had a good time there. Next year (2002) UNESCO organized those holidays again, now with flights to Barcelona. Me, my brother (cousin) and a lot of kids and families from first flight were offered to fly again, now from Ufa to Moscow (via train if I recall correctly) and to Barcelona via this fateful plane. For different reasons a lot of people from first flight in 2001 didn't accept this offer - me and my teacher just arrived from little piano competition in Italy so our family was kinda out of money at the moment, my brother (cousin) actually wanted to go here, but his dad (my uncle) was too late to apply documents for this. Other friends of our family successfully went from Ufa to Moscow but they were declined from flight to Barcelona for some unknown reasons (to their unbelievable luck). Other people all went to fateful flight. They arrived at Moscow and driver brought them to wrong airport (to Sheremetievo airport instead of Domodedovo airport), so BTC 2937 Moscow-Barcelona wasn't the part of travel originally, it was a replacement for the flight they missed because of driver. And now the news about the crash came. Total shock and disbelief. My father's and mother's friends lost their children in this flight. Some time after the crash they brought all identified corpses in coffins to farewell at Soviet Square in Russia, I was here, another unbelievable scene of my life. Later, in the Autumn of 2002, Alexander Degtiaryov, father of Kirill who died in this crash, organized a concert and exhibition in Ufa in memory of his son - Kirill was talented painter. I've participated in this concert and all of the kids were granted with different plushies (I was 12 at the moment). Somehow I was the only one didn't get any plushie. Organizers of the concert corrected that mistake and I've got silly Tom plushie (from Tom and Jerry cartoon series that I loved). I still keep this toy in my house until this day. Two years ago I've visited a graveyard somewhere near Ufa where all kids from this flight are buried. There were still some fresh flowers there. It's very sad and weird at the same time to think that I had a chance to be buried there as well. Condolences to any victims of any air crush. Take care of yourselves and close ones. Sorry for my kinda bad English.
I remember reading about Delta 191. Downed by a microburst, a weather phenomenon that was unknown at the time. Might as well have been a ghost to them.
I trained as an ATC but all of my jobs were as a ground controller. I did have to learn the correct procedures for when there is an emergency, a Mayday or a Pan Pan Pan or anything of that nature. Glad I never had to deal with something as horrendous as these calls. I had a couple of small fires and once a crew member just died in his seat. The captain was very professional about it but by the time we got them off the runway and back to the gate he was hysterical.
My Dad, best friend & I were working in Dallas. We took my friend to DFW to put him on a plane because his grandfather died. My Dad & I had just left the airport when Delta 191 crashed. It was so violent it picked our truck up & slammed it down hard enough to break the transmission in half. Horrible weather & HORRIBLE sight.
The Uberlingen collision has to be one of the saddest air crashes I’ve heard, and when you’re talking about mass tragedies like this that’s saying something. One crew followed ATC instructions while the other crew followed TCAS(traffic collision avoidance system), which meant they both ended up at the same altitude and on a collision course. The Russian aircraft was pretty much all children on a field trip, except for one mother and her two kids. The father was not onboard and lost his whole family. He was so distraught that located and shot and killed ATC who was on duty at the time of the accident(who wasn’t really at fault), at his home, in front of his wife and kids.
I remember the first one well. My Mom worked for the Pilot Charles Gilbert and his wife Helen. My parents were worried it was him when the story broke. I remember my Mom crying on the phone when Helen called her.
Überlingen was an absolute disaster through and through. And knowing that the Air Controller, Peter Nielsen, was murdered afterwards despite it never being his fault....man, awful all around.
@@BenHuynh-us4stthe text says indi gulf 88 but I have no idea what that is. The actual flight is East Coast Jets 81. It was a private jet that crashed during a failed go-around as they overshot the runway. They made the decision to do the go-around too late and there was not enough time to get in the air.
We hail the ones that keep their cool in such a moment, but damn, I sympathize with the first guy shrieking his lungs out. I can totally see myself going through the strict training to become a pilot and still reacting like that facing the end. Rest in piece man.
I don't know how I would react from a pilot's perspective, but as a passenger, I always prepare myself before I get onboard.. I say my prayers and tell myself if this is it, I hope it's quick and instantaneous.
That was the first impact. Rough, not on the runway, but on the wheels. Delta was fast enough to regain some lift though, and it was the second impact that killed her.
I was living 10km away from the Überlingen disaster. I was in my bathroom and looked out the window in the sky. I looked exactly into the direction of the crash. Suddenly there was a fireball and burning debris was going into several directions. I immediately knew that just two airplanes collided. I will never forget it.
Wow thank you for sharing, can’t believe you witnessed it during all that while the audio was going on during that time…so trippy to think about in that moment that plane was crashing and you can hear the audio, you were not even that far off.
@@r.i7654 I could only hear the sound from the crash about half a minute after the crash. I hear the normal airplane noise slightly in the background. I was used to that because Friedrichshafen airport was right around the corner and the airplanes departing from there were noticeable throughout the day. The disturbing part with the crash was that the airplane noise gave way to a very audible crash noise. Then lots of hissing noises and then it went quiet I couldn't hear the part crashing into the ground. Most of the area was blocked off the next day for evidence recovery.
I’m no pilot, but I’ve always agreed with this. In an emergency, I’d rather overrun the runway than risk doing a go-around at low speed in a potentially damaged aircraft. Both are dangerous, but one is significantly more risky.
I have so much respect for that last pilot. I always wondered if pilots warned passengers. I’d want to know. I expect the captain to say something during turbulence so i cant even fathom falling outta the sky & the pilot is silent.
This reminds me why I'm so scared of flying. While the risk is extremely low, once something happens, you have no control over you and your family's fate. When driving a car or being in a boat, there always feels like something can be done to affect your chance of survival, even if you're seemingly skidding out of control or sinking in the middle of the ocean, but once you're in that plane and the speed and/or altitude reaches that certain point, that's it.
Yeah I think it's a very rational fear, I'll never make fun of anyone for voicing something like you just did. A lot of aviation is very safe but that shouldn't be taken as gospel. Especially with certain airlines or certain corruption/malfeasance
That last crash happened when I was 10 years old in 1987. The soul survivor was 4 years old. Cecelia Cichan. Not sure if that is still her name as she has married and living life away from media attention the last I knew. They found her in her mother's arms.
She is married with a child now. What I find wonderful is that the person who took her to the hospital attended her wedding. In my opinion that shows how much her survival meant to him. ❤
All 3 pilots actually survived the Martinair 495 flight (3:15), 56 of the 340 occupants sadly died however link to the wiki if anyone wants it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinair_Flight_495
I guess as a passenger you are hopefully unaware of your impending doom, in some cases anyway. All the better you’re not hearing the gpws and other warnings telling you death isn’t far way.
Rest in peace to Northwest flight 255, ive learned a lot about it the wreck is hidden behind the bushes of the hill it smashed into, the bushes also block it when you try to get on I 94, its a terrible wreck, it shocked michigan, its the only type of commercial airliner that crashed in michigan, the place where it now rests is in taylor or allen park off I 94, you can still see the airport that it took off from on I 94, it still scars michigan about the crash, most people near the crash sight probably remember this incident, may those rest in peace, may that 1 survivor be ok from this crash.
The sole survivor was a 4 year old girl at the time of the crash named Cecelia Cichan. She did an interview last year on the 35th anniversary of the crash and also a documentary about 9 years prior called "Sole Survivor". Despite losing her mother, father, and brother in the crash, she seems surprisingly well adjusted. She was raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who shielded her from the media throughout her childhood until she was an adult. She says she stayed in touch with many of the families of the victims, including maintaining a close friendship with the firefighter that found and rescued her. He's a captain now in the same department and even attended her wedding.
The third radio message had my blood go cold my heart skipped a beat sent chill's down my spine i feel bad for them RIP to the pilots and passengers i would name all of the pilots name if i could
The second to last one is East Coast Jet Flight 81. Still though this one is so horrifying to me even with how preventable it was. “Flaps…FUCK’ captain knew he screwed up bad. I can’t imagine being on a jet that small and hearing your captain saying “it’s not motherfucking flying!” RIP
A crash that wasn't even a crash. It was a bad landing but they would have stopped well within safety margins, or likely still been fine even if they overran the runway. By attempting a go-around so late, they killed everyone.
@@kkjjqrysdgadff7782 Panicked into the wrong decision, I wonder what the training is as when TOGA just is not the correct option. crashing at the end of a runway at 30-40knots compared to clattering trees/cables/structures and at much higher speed in the air seems to be far more likely to bring about a far worse outcome!
I think we should think of the Air Accident Investigators, who have to listen to some awful things on the CVRs. Look up the TNFlygirl/Jenny Blalock crash & imagine what it must have been lie to, not only listen to her crash, but also watch the footage from her GoPros.
I've been watching quite a bit of documentation of airplane crashes recently. When an incident regarding of compression caught my attention, I immediately did some research and found out that there are three types of decompression (explosive, fast and slow). How sad and tragicomic it is that human beings are still so helpless, thinking that they have achieved the best of the best. We are nothing but losers, we human beings who are thrown into this big, mysterious world. And a few of the surviving members of the human race, torn to pieces in these accidents and mixed into the earth's mass of nitrogen and oxygen, might be able to say in the comments that “the airplane is the world's safest mode of transportation”. This is how mentally ill and hypocritical the human being is. If that very same human being were to lose a family member or a loved one, he would surely sue the company, pursue it, and make a fuss. When “others” die, their death means nothing to him. This is how the human being can degrade to such a low level.
I would add the 1987 Las Kabacki crash in Poland, it was caused by faulty design of Soviet plane, the pilot's last words were just "Cześć, giniemy" (Bye, we're dying).
One missed was Varig 254 in Brazil, where the pilots misread the degrees set for their trip, from 27.0º to 270º because the dot was missing from the paper, and they flew until they ran out of fuel. "Dear passengers, we ran into a problem with our compass systems, currently running out of fuel. We want to clarify this is something very uncommon in any plane and this doesnt normally happen. Thank you and have a good end." That is both sad and creepy. (Translation may be wrong)
that mid air collision with the recorder still working and the pilot telling the other hes sorry is so horrifying.
If you read up on the accident, there were like a dozen things which if they'd been done slightly differently, there wouldn't have been an accident. Off the top of my head:
- Only one controller was working, and was overburdened
- Tower's collision warning system was turned off for maintenance, without informing the controller
- Controller was distracted for a long time by a problem with another flight.
- Both BAL 2937 and DHL 611 requested flight level 360. Controller granted it, probably due to the above distraction.
- Controller mistakenly told BAL that DHL was on their right, when it was on their left
- Controller realized the danger shortly before the collision and told BAL to descend to try to resolve it. A few seconds later, TCAS advised DHL to dive and BAL to climb. You're supposed to obey TCAS if the controller's instructions conflict. But TCAS was new and not everyone fully understood it. So BAL obeyed the controller, resulting in both planes diving.
- DHL initially didn't take the TCAS warning that seriously, and performed a moderate dive instead of the recommended steep dive. They didn't increase their dive rate until 2 seconds before the collision, by which time it was too late.
Just a really sad accident in all. So many little things could have prevented it.
@@cnplaza6737 Indeed, a perfect example of the swiss cheese model, unfortunately...
@@cnplaza6737 Another strange and sad and heartbreaking event.. the school children from Russia were brought to the wrong airport the day before by the trip’s charter company.... they waited and finally got this flight for the next day.. they were never meant to be on that flight. 😪
@@cnplaza6737 The phones were also down, which made it impossible for another ATC in another tower, who did have working equipment and thus saw the danger, to warn Nielsen. So many little problems which aligned perfectly to lead to this disaster...
A Russian father/husband of his wife/kids who were killed in the Ueberlingen incident murdered one of the air traffic controllers years later
When the pilot is verbally panicking you are really screwed
Yes indeed
must be on all people
if the engine is one fire you might be thinking that youll be fine
you arent if the captain is screaming in fear
A fire broke out in the cabin after they hit the vehicle so he was screaming because he was being burnt alive. I heard this from another comment so if you see this im crediting you
"Im so sorry. Were going to crash"
Last words were spent on the lives of his passengers...not family, not himself. Just his passengers and his remorse. Heavy shit.
I don't think that's what was said.... I could be wrong but researching it it looks like that was the tower and another aircraft communicating, hence the muffled nature.
If i was a passenger i would shout i want my ticket refund!
@@Teefs69If so if you went on the flight you would probably be dead
@@DC10_AV but still i want my refund!
@@Teefs69stfu you’re so cringe
That one pilot howling. it just terrible! He knew what was going to happen and could not do anything about it.
It’s so sad 😞
@@alternateName600 what are you on about
Which crash
@@alternateName600and you’re here providing them.
@@alternateName600providing a publicly available recording (which you also voluntarily listened to) is hardly exploitative
In the last example, there was only 1 survivor - a 4 year old girl. It has the record for the deadliest plane crash ever with a sibgle survivor.
I wanna be 4 yrs old now
A child would NOT survive in the wild..
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
In the northwest one?
Hearing the Western Airlines 2605 captain scream for his life makes my stomach turn, blood run cold, and heart shatter substantially.
idk, the 1st and the last hearing the pilot say "i'm so sorry" was gut-wrenching
His scream shocked me but thinking about it I would definitely of been screaming the same as him if I was in his situation.
@@ElliottMoreno-nd2hh The last one is actually incorrect and already being proven wrong, that's actually lifeguard speaking to the Detroit Tower which read as: "Metro tower, lifeguard copter one zero two Uniform Mike is, ah..."
The transcript of the cvr doesn't mention anything about those last words, so clearly either it's misunderstanding or the channel just made it up.
Like the other one Martinair Flight 495 actually have all the pilots survived so technically those aren't their last words..
Crying like a little girl. Obviously lacked the right stuff.
You will never forget the sheer terror and desperation in his voice...I'm so sorry anyone experiences such a traumatizing end.
As for the Uberlingen - I personally saw the DHL aircraft that day and had a brief radio conversation with the pilots. They were #1 for departure out of Bahrain, in the hammerhead, when I landed there.
They complimented my landing right on tower frequency. I remember them saying “Awww Reach, that was beautiful” right as I touched my C-5 down. We exchanged brief pleasantries. They said they were going to Italy and then Belgium. We then wished each other well. The tower controller casually let us finish our brief chit chat before clearing them for takeoff.
To this day, having over 15,000 flight hours of combined military and civilian aviation, I have never had a conversation with another aircraft on an operational ATC frequency the way that I did that day!
We left Bahrain, flew to Germany, and were all shocked to hear the news of what had happened after landing there.
Wow you must of been shocked.
@@joshthomson3948 I sure was! I had two “small world” things happen to me in 2002 that just about left me keeled over in shock. This was one of them. But the other one was non-aviation related and was even more stunning than this - so much so that as I look back at it, I can still hardly believe it myself (it had to do with the DC sniper killings). No idea why 2002 was my year of small-world stuff.
@@jumboJetPilot Wow. That gave me chills. Thanks for sharing.
@@wintercame anytime! Happy 2024!
My dog was your flight instructor, so THANK HIM.
The fact that everyone on DHL plane were still alive trying to recover, and half of the Tupolev including the pilots were alive as well, suffocating and maybe in pain because of eardrum damage, but very aware they were done. So creepy.
Watch “Aftermath.” It’ll really up set you.
Delta 191 is rather infamous in aviation history. Other than the hint of lightning in the recording, you don't get a clear idea as to what happened, but they flew into a microburst that essentially pushed the plane into the ground. It was thanks to this flight that windshear alerts became a thing.
The thing with that is, the captain *did* know what flying into that was going to do to the aircraft. 2:38: “Watch your speed. You’re going to lose it all of a sudden….’there’ it is.”
@@SpanielRacing2 definitely had some familiarity but didn't know nearly enough to understand just how dangerous it could really be, especially at that altitude. Back then was a very different time and we've learned far more since.
It was described by the ATSC as a bad case of 'getthereitis'. A simple go around would have saved everyone.
I remember flying over the crash site while flying out of Dallas a week later it was eerie
I live near DFW. Delta 191 is why, if at all possible, I book my seat in the back of the plane. (Plus, you can sometimes get served first, and you're close to the toilets)
When I was a pilot for Delta, they used to replicate that microburst for us in the sim from the L1011 crash in Dallas. The technology has improved exponentially since the crash, but that scenario is still a handful even with the new equipment.
I took a class back in the 90s about management teams & Delta 191 (Dallas) & United 232 (Souix City) were discussed on teamwork & responsibility. *I REMEMBER THE "REQUIRED" WEATHER OBSERVER AT DFW TO HAVE AN "OPEN" ATC OPERATIONS WAS AT DINNER* during the time Delta 191's approach & that ATC missed calling the wind shear warnings.
@@rickpat-x9u This is what I know from the pilot side. The technology is way better than it was when DAL 191 crashed. However, that windshear was a monster and came out of the blue. No telling if they would have survived had the current technology been onboard. Here’s what I will tell you. I ALWAYS trusted the technology we had after I experienced the scenario in the sim, and it also worked on the ground. I witnessed a windshear warning prior to takeoff in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina once the storm had passed but the feeder bands were still around. Other airplanes were going around and the windshear warning was painting it. Many of us are alive today because of the newer technology, but awareness has also been key.
Wasn’t this crash investigation also instrumental in the implementation of Doppler systems at all major airports? For wind shear and severe weather detection?
@@DanSimerl I do not recall, but likely so. I was a USAF pilot when this happened and was not flying into commercial fields much. There were different standards for the military and commercial fields back then but they are probably the same now.
Yes, it was. At the busier airports, TDWR replaced the old LLWAS. TDWR (doppler radar) is superior to the old LLWAS. LLWAS was just wind anometers set around the airport perimeter; not nearly as good as a doppler scanning the airport arrival and departure corridors. I was a controller for a long time and used both systems. TDWR was one piece of equipment that the FAA got its money's worth. It was accurate and gave warning in plenty of time. When I issued a TDWR microburst alert, pilots knew it was the real deal and treated it accordingly. The old LLWAS was a crap shoot, at best.
Scariest thing about a plane crash is knowing that death will probably not come unexpectedly and you'll have to sit there as the plane falls for seconds or even minutes and think about how you are certainly about to die.
That's the thing. When people say flying is very safe they're 100% correct but if you're unlucky enough to be in a plane crash from altitude it has to be the absolute worst way to die
as you usually die suddenly when it happens
@@-Osiris-it depends. If it's a massive crash u won't even notice it as death is instantaneously
@@NicotineRosbergthey say the g force knocks most people unconscious in high speed crashes at least.
Even the shuttle astronauts only had to wait 2 minutes and 45 seconds until they hit the sea. The first shuttle crash, you understand.
"I TOLD YOU IT WAS ON THE LEFT" "sorry you were right:("
That’s actually sad tho
Do you know the name of that flight?
@@jambalayajones5504 Bashkirian-Airlines-Flug 2937
@@jambalayajones5504 it was the BAL flight 2937, in 2002.
*no pun intended*
No feeling can be worse than witnessing your inevitable fate and being completely helpless and hopeless about it.
Like just after you say your wedding vows
That’s what life is. These moments are just a microcosm.
I think of the passengers on the Titanic. They had 2 hours and 40 minutes from impact to sinking. That had to be one of the most devastating ways to die.
Thats called peace, not hopless or helpless.
@@Oliepolie wdym? How is that a feeling of peace?
The Uberlingen is sad because the controller was on two far apart screens because his partner was on break. The phones were down and radar was slow. An airbus a310 was having problems so the controller took care of that and then they collided. He then was murdered by a guy who lost his family on the Bashkirian airlines plane
Flight controller's name was Peter Nielsen and the man who killed him, Kaloev Vytaly, indeed lost his wife and both sons in that catastrophe.
@@KbIMbIFbIMPA yes it really was sad, Peter didn’t deserve that
@@KbIMbIFbIMPA also it was a son and daughter
There is a movie about it. I don't remember the title but Arnold Schwarzenegger played the man that lost his family. It was well done.
Nielsen had been in therapy after the incident and had just come home to his wife and kids when the Russian guy surprised him and stabbed him to death in front of his family. As a tragironic twist, the killer succesfully pleaded down to manslaughter due to temporary insanity, then after being released after less than four years he went on TV and declared he was never insane and regretted nothing. Because the air crash was at the same time being used for anti-Western propaganda due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Georgia, he was made a media hero, showered in awards and eventually made a regional government minister.
The first audio is genuinely some of the most terrifying I've heard and I've been around on the internet for a long time.
Reminds me of the man who called first responders from up high in the North or South tower on nine eleven and stayed on the line until it literally fell. His cut off scream and the few milliseconds of building starting to give way is insane to me
@@subconscioussabotage
Truly shows how powerful and serious aviation can get
@@subconscioussabotage Me too. Both of these are recordings I wish I hadn't listened to -- Kevin Cosgrove on 9/11 and the Western Airlines crash.
Probably have seen a few cats?
1 year is not a long time.
“Not motherfucking flying!” Thats is the last words you’d EVER wanna hear your pilot scream
That one was a bad one... the plane had actually landed but for whatever reason they didn't apply enough brakes, and they were running out of runway quick so the Captain attempted a Go Around but wasn't able to build up enough speed before the runway ran out and one of the wings clipped a wire tower, which caused plane to flip and crash. That's why you can hear an audible gasp from everyone.
The sad thing is if they had just continued braking and overan the runway a little bit, they probably would have got bumped around a little and the plane a little beat up, but they would have all survived.
@@jamesb1988 He was a selfish jerk. He was more afraid of his reputation being tarnished!
@@stephenmystery8313not at all, retrying a landing is actually rather common. In fact, you can even hear pilots in this video refer to “going around” (TOGA as it’s called).
@@Zildawolf Yes, a go around is very common.
But with the amount of runway he had left, it was ridiculously irresponsible.
@@stephenmystery8313 wrong. he was a lot more interested, as they all are, in saving his own fanny
man these are brutal. for a while it seemed like the full recordings were never going to be available to the public and I wish it stayed that way! You aren't just hearing fear and a quick death in a lot of these...some of them are the cockpit breaking apart and crushing the pilots while still alive. Rest in peace aviators
All concerned citizens should be able to make transmissions to planes at any time!
@jessicaregina1956 well I don't see how that would matter, but if a citizen did have a concern about a flight, just call 911/999/112 etc and they will be talking to that plane in minutes. but if you're purposefully wrong and just trying to inconcenience them then there would be massive penalties.
I listened to a CVR years ago that still haunts me. The first officer had blundered on the landing. They attempted to gain altitude to fly around and attempt to land again but the damage was done. The last thing the captain said was “you’ve killed us all.” The copilot said: “I know.”
American Eagle?
That was the Air Canada DC8 crash I believe. F/O deployed spoilers before plane was on the ground resulting in an extreme hard landing causing a fuel leak and fire. Eventually the plane exploded in the air.
@@samuelm3766 couldn't be. F/O just apologized to CA "sorry Pete" before declaring "we've lost a wing" and the impact happened. Only transcripts are available, It was a 1970's crash too so CRV's were very new, and I don't think the audio was ever leaked to the public 😅
I might have heard this one too on TH-cam. I can't remember the flight number or airlines, but I am 99% certain it was in the 1990's, it happened in Asia, the pilot was American but the co-pilot wasn't, I remember the pilot saying "you're gonna kill us all" or something around those lines. Also I remember that the pilots survived. I don't know if this was a passenger plane and if anyone died. Does this match what you are describing or is this some other very similar CVR?
Alright I actually found the CVR I was mentioning and It was quite different than I remembered, so it may not be the one you mentioned. The one I mentioned was Korean Air 2033 which had a runway over-run in 1994, the pilot was actually Canadian, and co-pilot was Korean, there were 160 people on-board, all survived.
What a great video to recommend as I wait at my gate
I only fear this if I see a Boeing at my gate😂😂😂
@@clarenceghammjr1326 Pretty sure most of the errors with Boeing's are human error, like not being inspected properly or something, I could be wrong though all I did was look it up on Google, I'm no expert
@@clarenceghammjr1326Boeing 737 max 9 and 8
@@clarenceghammjr1326which is like 50/50.
No joke, I was at Midway in the mid 2000s and they used to have these CNN Airport Network monitors at all the gates. I guess someone at Southwest wanted to tune in a soap opera, so anyway, it was feeding live from a local transmitter. Anyway, coverage was interrupted to announce breaking news of a plane crash. That was on every monitor through the entire airport. I swear, you can't make up stuff like this. I was there and never before did I wish so much that I hadn't left my camera behind.
I flew into Dallas the week after the Delta crash. As we came in to land, we could see the remnants of the aircraft scattered across a field, with the tail sitting almost upright. A very sobering sight.
The scream of agony is just heartbreaking.
I have seen the ACI episode Regarding the mid air collision over Uberlingen. This is the very first time that I’ve heard the cockpit voice recorder. I can’t help but send my heart out to the Russians. They were alive all the way until they hit the ground. All the children who died. And of course, I cannot forget the heroics of the DHL crew. They fought to keep their airplane airborne for as long as they could. The number of lives they saved on the ground because they fought back.
I recently watched that episode of ACI, and I've seen it quite a few times and yet, I learned of a detail that I had somehow missed:
The children were not even supposed to be on that particular flight. Because 2 days before, the tour group accidentally took them to the wrong airport and missed their original flight. If the tour group had not made that mistake, they would have made their original flight, and they would likely still be alive today.
@@SAUBER_KH7 that is true. I had completely forgotten about that detail.
And all that because of the dumb aviation bueraucrats who could't decide whose orders take priority - tcas or controller's. Despite a near miss in Japan months before that
in the first record the scream of pilot was realy sad
Indeed
Not the response you want from ya pilot, keep composed till the end
@@tomdonis4315 you would do the same if you were in that pilots position 🤦🏻♂️
@@tomdonis4315I mean… that was the end… why else scream like that unless you know you’re about to die?
@@jon590the co pilot was literally telling him "get it up Charlie" while the captain was losing his mind. I'm not going to sit here and judge the captain though because nobody knows how they'd react in that situation
The 2nd Crash is the most shocking to me. I listen to a lot of documentaries about crashes but the 2nd is just so intense filled with suspense.
Read the transcript on one crash, and the pilot's last words were "Tell my wife I love her."
i had no idea the CVR for the überlingen disaster was even publicly released. that's actually probably the most disturbing CVR i think i've heard. you have to realise that after impact, the russian plane's nose (and cockpit) was severed from the rest of the aircraft as the wreckage plummeted to the ground. the whooshing sound is the open air behind the pilots. the passengers - CHILDREN - were torn from their seats and launched into the sky, freefalling. the grunts and groans coming from the CVR are the pilots either struggling to breathe the thin air of high altitudes, or struggling to deal with the insane G forces they were experiencing, or both at once.
For me, the scariest CVR is the Gold Transportes crash.
Which flight? @@Doommaster1994
@@achikkun6352 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
@@achikkun6352 Though I will admit, it's downright frightening and disturbing hearing the pilots gasping for air/suffocating in the Uberlingen flight.
At those speeds, your clothes literally get torn right off your body and you're left practically naked... It's a terrible way to go.
*_WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP_*
Probably one of the most terrifying sounds to hear.
What makes the second recording even more disturbing is that the Russian passenger plane was split in half during the collision with the DHL plane and you can hear the pilots frantically gasping for air
The amount of suffering the average person goes through in their lifetime will never get even CLOSE to what the Bashkirian pilots endured in 73 seconds.
What exactly happened to them?
@@Percykitty Just imagine, cruising at 36000ft. All of a sudden, ATC yells at you too descent, gives you all the information you need. Information which couldn't be further from the truth. The other plane also descends. Your plane is screaming at you to climb, yet you're unsure if you should follow ATC or the alarms. By the time you see the plane, you've already sealed your fate. All you can think about is all the children in the cabin, who you've failed to protect on this flight. The other plane slices your plane's hull in half. Whatever's left of it is plummeting down at 20000ft per minute, with you and your colleagues inside. You start gasping for air, lack thereof. You feel your ears and lungs explode, as they start filling up with blood. You can't even scream in pain, just faintly gasp. Power goes out, you look at the ground and accept your fate as you crash full speed into a field. That, all of it, happened in 73 seconds.
@@Cekkkko21212 that!s so sad :(
@@Cekkkko21212 was it a "clean" cut (as in, with bits of the plane still intact and people still strapped to their sits in a metal cylinder free falling to the ground) or was the cockpit the only part of the plane that remained whole?
@@treesome3979 It was more or less sliced in half. It broke apart more and more in the air. If you've seen that one James Cameron animation of the Titanic sinking (2012, I believe), the breakup was similar.
im crying i feel bad for the pilots who died in the first one , there fear in the audio! grace to the ones that died out there!
Should of never been a pilot. Weak
@@LSR1980Can you please be a bit more sensitive? Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine that you are piloting a plane that you know is going to end your, and hundreds of passengers life in a matter of seconds, and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do. It is the worst nightmare of any pilot. So get your insensitive ass out of this comment section if you can’t have the maturity of a 13-year-old.
@@LSR1980obvious rage bait
@@sidwayelson Nah honest talk. The pilot should be strong till the end
@@LSR1980 🧌
🌹 I love aviation, and although I watch a lot of aviation related content, the loss of life behind these stories is not lost on me.
The pilot gasping is horrific
Northwest Flight 255 ---- 154 passengers died and a four year old girl was the lone survivor. Incredible.
Me and several people from Ufa (Bashkortostan, Russia) had a chance to fly on this Bashkirian Airlines plane that crashed on 1st July 2002 (0:26 in this video). Back in early 2000s UNESCO in Ufa organized vacation for notable talented young people from Bashkortostan as an award. I was studying music in musical school (piano), getting some achievements here and playing some concerts, my family and my relatives in Bashkortostan were notable people here and so I was offered to get into one of those vacations. In summer, 2001 me, my brother (cousin) and a lot of kids (around 50 kids if I recall correctly) flew to Bulgaria (directly, not via Moscow), near Varna and had a good time there.
Next year (2002) UNESCO organized those holidays again, now with flights to Barcelona. Me, my brother (cousin) and a lot of kids and families from first flight were offered to fly again, now from Ufa to Moscow (via train if I recall correctly) and to Barcelona via this fateful plane. For different reasons a lot of people from first flight in 2001 didn't accept this offer - me and my teacher just arrived from little piano competition in Italy so our family was kinda out of money at the moment, my brother (cousin) actually wanted to go here, but his dad (my uncle) was too late to apply documents for this. Other friends of our family successfully went from Ufa to Moscow but they were declined from flight to Barcelona for some unknown reasons (to their unbelievable luck).
Other people all went to fateful flight. They arrived at Moscow and driver brought them to wrong airport (to Sheremetievo airport instead of Domodedovo airport), so BTC 2937 Moscow-Barcelona wasn't the part of travel originally, it was a replacement for the flight they missed because of driver.
And now the news about the crash came. Total shock and disbelief. My father's and mother's friends lost their children in this flight. Some time after the crash they brought all identified corpses in coffins to farewell at Soviet Square in Russia, I was here, another unbelievable scene of my life.
Later, in the Autumn of 2002, Alexander Degtiaryov, father of Kirill who died in this crash, organized a concert and exhibition in Ufa in memory of his son - Kirill was talented painter. I've participated in this concert and all of the kids were granted with different plushies (I was 12 at the moment). Somehow I was the only one didn't get any plushie. Organizers of the concert corrected that mistake and I've got silly Tom plushie (from Tom and Jerry cartoon series that I loved). I still keep this toy in my house until this day.
Two years ago I've visited a graveyard somewhere near Ufa where all kids from this flight are buried. There were still some fresh flowers there. It's very sad and weird at the same time to think that I had a chance to be buried there as well.
Condolences to any victims of any air crush. Take care of yourselves and close ones. Sorry for my kinda bad English.
Hey, man. Just wanted to let you know that we're glad you're still here. Яңы йыл менән to you and yours from America.
@@maitele Thank you!!! Happy (upcoming) New Year too! 👍
As my Mom always said: "by the Grace of God go I". May they all rest in peace.
What ever!
there BUT for the grace of God go I is the correct term ,
So she was misquoting it every time.😅😅😅
I was probably "mis-hearing it"...
That’s not how it goes
I remember reading about Delta 191. Downed by a microburst, a weather phenomenon that was unknown at the time. Might as well have been a ghost to them.
I trained as an ATC but all of my jobs were as a ground controller. I did have to learn the correct procedures for when there is an emergency, a Mayday or a Pan Pan Pan or anything of that nature. Glad I never had to deal with something as horrendous as these calls. I had a couple of small fires and once a crew member just died in his seat. The captain was very professional about it but by the time we got them off the runway and back to the gate he was hysterical.
Stuff like this is far more terrifying than any horror movie
Exactly
And people keep asking, "how come we don't have flying cars by now?" Yup, I'm good on that.
the way in the 2nd crash when the other pilot says sorry is so sad
ATC says he's sorry
@@advanceromance2656it’s not the atc,it’s one of the pilots
It’s so sad :(
My Dad, best friend & I were working in Dallas. We took my friend to DFW to put him on a plane because his grandfather died. My Dad & I had just left the airport when Delta 191 crashed. It was so violent it picked our truck up & slammed it down hard enough to break the transmission in half. Horrible weather & HORRIBLE sight.
The Uberlingen collision has to be one of the saddest air crashes I’ve heard, and when you’re talking about mass tragedies like this that’s saying something. One crew followed ATC instructions while the other crew followed TCAS(traffic collision avoidance system), which meant they both ended up at the same altitude and on a collision course. The Russian aircraft was pretty much all children on a field trip, except for one mother and her two kids. The father was not onboard and lost his whole family. He was so distraught that located and shot and killed ATC who was on duty at the time of the accident(who wasn’t really at fault), at his home, in front of his wife and kids.
I remember the first one well. My Mom worked for the Pilot Charles Gilbert and his wife Helen. My parents were worried it was him when the story broke. I remember my Mom crying on the phone when Helen called her.
Überlingen was an absolute disaster through and through. And knowing that the Air Controller, Peter Nielsen, was murdered afterwards despite it never being his fault....man, awful all around.
This shows me pilots know when there is nothing they can do.
If you're a decent driver I think you get the same feeling if you're driving and you know you're about to wrap it up
@@treesome3979There are no decent drivers on bald tires or ice... when you lose control of the road, that's it.
0:02 Western airlines 2605
0:27 uberlingen mid air collision
1:24 Delta Airlines 191
3:27 Martinair flight 495
3:47 East Coast jets 81 (not sure)
4:27 Northwest Flight 255
3:47 indi gulf 88 (I used slow motion)
@@BenHuynh-us4stthe text says indi gulf 88 but I have no idea what that is. The actual flight is East Coast Jets 81. It was a private jet that crashed during a failed go-around as they overshot the runway. They made the decision to do the go-around too late and there was not enough time to get in the air.
@@BenHuynh-us4st No, it's definitely ECJ81.
Unmistakable stupidity / audio.
That mid air collision is horrifying, they are gasping for air while fainting while one of them is apologizing.
We hail the ones that keep their cool in such a moment, but damn, I sympathize with the first guy shrieking his lungs out. I can totally see myself going through the strict training to become a pilot and still reacting like that facing the end. Rest in piece man.
I don't know how I would react from a pilot's perspective, but as a passenger, I always prepare myself before I get onboard.. I say my prayers and tell myself if this is it, I hope it's quick and instantaneous.
number 4 was so calm they even gave the calmest "shit" after crashing the aircraft, i would've probably screamed my lungs out
That was the first impact. Rough, not on the runway, but on the wheels. Delta was fast enough to regain some lift though, and it was the second impact that killed her.
I will be traveling by horse and wagon from now on. This is horrifying. Never flying again.
0:12 CHARLIE GET IT UP that voice haunts me every replay
I was living 10km away from the Überlingen disaster. I was in my bathroom and looked out the window in the sky. I looked exactly into the direction of the crash. Suddenly there was a fireball and burning debris was going into several directions. I immediately knew that just two airplanes collided. I will never forget it.
Wow thank you for sharing, can’t believe you witnessed it during all that while the audio was going on during that time…so trippy to think about in that moment that plane was crashing and you can hear the audio, you were not even that far off.
@@r.i7654 I could only hear the sound from the crash about half a minute after the crash. I hear the normal airplane noise slightly in the background. I was used to that because Friedrichshafen airport was right around the corner and the airplanes departing from there were noticeable throughout the day.
The disturbing part with the crash was that the airplane noise gave way to a very audible crash noise. Then lots of hissing noises and then it went quiet I couldn't hear the part crashing into the ground.
Most of the area was blocked off the next day for evidence recovery.
@ oh my goodness how eerie to witness 😭💔 I just think about the children that fatally passed away on that flight😭💔
this makes me sad... knowing people died its just... sad....
0:21 Soo sad 😔 poor guy
about the last one northwest 255, out of 149 passengers, there were only 1 survivor, a 4 year old child.
They know why she lived, yet you don't see larger, safer seats for normal people...
The dumbest one is Northwest 255, there was a cockpit alarm for slats that was disabled by pilots regularly by pulling a fuse.
The first one was the most horrifying to me. That was the scream of primal fear and horror.
“Not flying! Not mother effin flying!” Once a plane is on the ground, it’s better to overrun the runway than to chance another takeoff at low speed.
I’m no pilot, but I’ve always agreed with this. In an emergency, I’d rather overrun the runway than risk doing a go-around at low speed in a potentially damaged aircraft. Both are dangerous, but one is significantly more risky.
@@Just_Another_TH-cam_User-i6kAfter V2 they have to take off, they don't have a choice.
@@ac.7724 Yeah but they made a conscious and unnecessary decision to attain V2. They had a plethora of better options.
@@ac.7724They were landing, not taking off.
From an raf pilot with 2 crashes it’s easier than you think too forget basics
August 2nd 1985. I lived about 10 miles from dfw airport. Remember it well. Terrible day.
I have so much respect for that last pilot. I always wondered if pilots warned passengers. I’d want to know. I expect the captain to say something during turbulence so i cant even fathom falling outta the sky & the pilot is silent.
This makes you grateful 4 life.
2nd one is basically kids when a fight breaks out
Western 2605: haunting
Überlingen collishon: sad
Delta 191: escalated
Martinair 495: mysterious
Indiana gulf 88: chilling
Northwest 225: unique
This reminds me why I'm so scared of flying. While the risk is extremely low, once something happens, you have no control over you and your family's fate. When driving a car or being in a boat, there always feels like something can be done to affect your chance of survival, even if you're seemingly skidding out of control or sinking in the middle of the ocean, but once you're in that plane and the speed and/or altitude reaches that certain point, that's it.
Yeah I think it's a very rational fear, I'll never make fun of anyone for voicing something like you just did. A lot of aviation is very safe but that shouldn't be taken as gospel. Especially with certain airlines or certain corruption/malfeasance
That last crash happened when I was 10 years old in 1987.
The soul survivor was 4 years old. Cecelia Cichan. Not sure if that is still her name as she has married and living life away from media attention the last I knew.
They found her in her mother's arms.
She is married with a child now. What I find wonderful is that the person who took her to the hospital attended her wedding. In my opinion that shows how much her survival meant to him. ❤
*sole.
@@b.t.356wholesome
Is it a coincidence that this was suggested to me after a visit to an aerospace museum? 😓
I know they are available elsewhere, but I think that a notation of what is happening would be beneficial to understanding what we are hearing.
All 3 pilots actually survived the Martinair 495 flight (3:15), 56 of the 340 occupants sadly died however
link to the wiki if anyone wants it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinair_Flight_495
I guess as a passenger you are hopefully unaware of your impending doom, in some cases anyway. All the better you’re not hearing the gpws and other warnings telling you death isn’t far way.
Unaware of your impending doom! Good one.
If you are crashing you will be very aware of it.
3:33
Imagine hearing that sound before you crash that is terrifying…
i love how youtube recommends me this right before my trip 💀
And I thought it was bad for me that I'm watching this at 2AM 😂
@@amazinhaydz2032 nahh on the flight it started shaking and i lost it
The one where the captain says he is sorry to the passengers 😭💔
Rest in peace to Northwest flight 255, ive learned a lot about it the wreck is hidden behind the bushes of the hill it smashed into, the bushes also block it when you try to get on I 94, its a terrible wreck, it shocked michigan, its the only type of commercial airliner that crashed in michigan, the place where it now rests is in taylor or allen park off I 94, you can still see the airport that it took off from on I 94, it still scars michigan about the crash, most people near the crash sight probably remember this incident, may those rest in peace, may that 1 survivor be ok from this crash.
Northwest* 🤓 ☝️
@@Mancity-1989 thanks ill fix it, but was it necesarry?
@@joshuasmith1724 idk?
The sole survivor was a 4 year old girl at the time of the crash named Cecelia Cichan. She did an interview last year on the 35th anniversary of the crash and also a documentary about 9 years prior called "Sole Survivor". Despite losing her mother, father, and brother in the crash, she seems surprisingly well adjusted. She was raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who shielded her from the media throughout her childhood until she was an adult. She says she stayed in touch with many of the families of the victims, including maintaining a close friendship with the firefighter that found and rescued her. He's a captain now in the same department and even attended her wedding.
Everytime ive gone by there I try to respect that so many people died right there in such a horrible way, it was terrible.
western airlines pilot’s screaming is infamous. imagine how his passengers felt. This guy is screaming and he’s our only hope!
0:29 they both said "Fuck" on different languages, but it had the same meaning, they all knew something might happen...
The third radio message had my blood go cold my heart skipped a beat sent chill's down my spine i feel bad for them RIP to the pilots and passengers i would name all of the pilots name if i could
"Oh Jesus christ" heartbreaking:(
Dear god the first video the screams got me. I felt it. May their souls rest in peace
Wow, that was very sad.
😢😢 my heart aches for the lives lost and for the families of those killed
0:01 Western 2606
0:24 Uberlingen
1:22 Delta 191
3:15 Martanair 495
3:45 Indi gulf 88
4:25 Northwest 255
Thank you
The first crash is the reason why TCAS now outranks ATC.
That’s western,not the Mid air collision
Number 2 is a classic. That captain was pissed.
My cousin was a mail carrier pilot who died in a crash. I feel for all of these pilots’ families.
I saw Western airlines 2605 Happen It was horrific the plane was Destroyed😢
In Mexico?
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Two saddest last words of piloto for me: Gol 1907, TAM 3054 and United 232
The second to last one is East Coast Jet Flight 81. Still though this one is so horrifying to me even with how preventable it was. “Flaps…FUCK’ captain knew he screwed up bad. I can’t imagine being on a jet that small and hearing your captain saying “it’s not motherfucking flying!” RIP
Thanks, I was trying to search for that one, but the name in the video gave me nothing.
A crash that wasn't even a crash. It was a bad landing but they would have stopped well within safety margins, or likely still been fine even if they overran the runway. By attempting a go-around so late, they killed everyone.
@@kkjjqrysdgadff7782 Panicked into the wrong decision, I wonder what the training is as when TOGA just is not the correct option. crashing at the end of a runway at 30-40knots compared to clattering trees/cables/structures and at much higher speed in the air seems to be far more likely to bring about a far worse outcome!
I think we should think of the Air Accident Investigators, who have to listen to some awful things on the CVRs. Look up the TNFlygirl/Jenny Blalock crash & imagine what it must have been lie to, not only listen to her crash, but also watch the footage from her GoPros.
I've been watching quite a bit of documentation of airplane crashes recently. When an incident regarding of compression caught my attention, I immediately did some research and found out that there are three types of decompression (explosive, fast and slow). How sad and tragicomic it is that human beings are still so helpless, thinking that they have achieved the best of the best. We are nothing but losers, we human beings who are thrown into this big, mysterious world. And a few of the surviving members of the human race, torn to pieces in these accidents and mixed into the earth's mass of nitrogen and oxygen, might be able to say in the comments that “the airplane is the world's safest mode of transportation”. This is how mentally ill and hypocritical the human being is. If that very same human being were to lose a family member or a loved one, he would surely sue the company, pursue it, and make a fuss. When “others” die, their death means nothing to him. This is how the human being can degrade to such a low level.
3:46 Thats east coast jets flight 81, not indi gulf 88
BAL captain was straight up chillin
No idea what "Indi Gulf 88" was supposed to be but it is "East Coast Jets Flight 81"
My mistake
That first one, if my friend had been the co-pilot, would have retorted "that's what she said."
How about some back story on these, just a little intro for context or even something in the description. So sad to hear the final terrified moments.
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In the delta 191 record or they seem way more calm then in the mayday episode
All of these are terrifying.
the western one was so sad and terrifying, the screams felt like their bodys soul leaving
I would add the 1987 Las Kabacki crash in Poland, it was caused by faulty design of Soviet plane, the pilot's last words were just "Cześć, giniemy" (Bye, we're dying).
you can just call it LOT Flight 5505
This definitely feels like a bad thing to watch on my way to the airport
One missed was Varig 254 in Brazil, where the pilots misread the degrees set for their trip, from 27.0º to 270º because the dot was missing from the paper, and they flew until they ran out of fuel.
"Dear passengers, we ran into a problem with our compass systems, currently running out of fuel. We want to clarify this is something very uncommon in any plane and this doesnt normally happen. Thank you and have a good end." That is both sad and creepy. (Translation may be wrong)
As fkd up as the pilots were on NW255, he saved the little girl by calmly telling them all to brace.