How they Stole this Massive Jet and Disappeared Without A Trace | Aviation's Greatest Mystery
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- On 25 May 2003, a former American Airlines Boeing 727 was stolen at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola, prompting a worldwide search by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). No trace of the aircraft has since been found. Find out what might have happened.
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@@theflightchannel I'm so confused how people know what's happen to plane crash Mysterys? Like Mystery of MH370 And SJ182 And Another Accident
I totally agree with you...
Never leave your 727 parked and unattended. Great video.
I always lock our company's 727's...... hehehe
They should have installed a couple Clubs on the steering wheels!
Forgot to turn on the alarm, must've had in the valet mode.
😂😂😂😂
GTA V RP mission 😂
I'd get nervous stealing a candy bar at the local gas station. Can't imagine the adrenaline rush stealing an airliner!
I can't imagine the feeling I'd be shaking and be goofing up up the flows and check list
walk in the park for these guys...
@@racheljennings8548 There was no check list, he was stealing a plane lol
@tx2sturgis
Check out 'Airplane Repo', there's clips on here, sure, it's dramatised for TV, but it's great entertainment and it's basically just people stealing planes and yachts legally from under the 'owners' noses, lol 🤙🏻
@Bengali In Platforms
There's always a checklist, even if it's hurried, and in this case they had permission to be onboard the aircraft before they departed, so they had all the time in the world to carry out a full and proper check.
I mean, it's not like you just turn the key and get going, it's a passenger jet, they take time to prepare before you've even spun-up the engines, lol 🍻
Respect for taking the time to make/implement a decommissioned version of old American Airlines livery.
The old livery looks better than the new one lol
@@doublewoodwang agreed
Indeed, that was a nice touch.
@@doublewoodwang agreed
@James yup… they’re all gone now
[Season Finale] Just like in Season 3, we are ending Season 5 with yet another aviation mystery. Comment with what you think happened to N844AA.
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Very hard to determine what happened to plane😢🙏🏻
i love your videos
Probably those who stole it sold the engines and the airframe metals for a profit
Great video as always. THanks!
It still amazes me how a big metal bird can just disappear without a trace and won‘t be seen again... It‘s terrifying to think about it...
*birb
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It crashed in the middle of the Atlantic. Without transponders, most planes that crash would never been seen again.
Terrifying is right....like MH370.
@@spitfiremkiv339 We think alike brother
Meanwhile, padilla is reading all these comments...
Are you Padilla?
He's like guys guys guys... this...is how it went down.
And posting here...
you are padilla?!
Somewhere Padilla and DB Cooper are drinking a pint and clinking bottles.
And Zaharie Shah
Fuckin DB cooper!
Well I don't know about THAT, but I did like the "only worth the price of it's engines" foreshadow..
well coopers' stolen cash was found by accident by a kid in 1980 none of the bills ever turned up in circulations so all was for not
Dan Cooper was the name he used. DB cooper was someone else, a man they initially suspected.
Stuff like this has always fascinated me. This isn't a single person that just vanished, it's *an entire commercial jet aircraft.*
There's an answer to the mystery, and man may never know what it is. And *that's* what I love.
yes
Africa is a huge mass of land with not many people. Not exactly surprising if no one found it.
Everyone Gangsta till MH 370 comes
@@piyushkanthak1087 MH 370 case has very little to do with this one.
@@julosx he's talking about 'disappearance' case of planes.
The worst about it, is that there's at least one person out there, alive or dead, that knows exactly what happened.
Or dead ::: if dead then that doesn't make any sense
Very intriguing. I wonder what REALLY occurred. Great script for a movie I say.
of all the awful things covered in this channel.. this "worst" thing, stealing a clapped out aircraft.. who cares.
@@HandFromCoffin
You watched it... It's still very intriguing!
@@j.whiteoak6408 exactly. Flight Channel can make any video an incredible video.
There is no greater talent on this platform.
Aviation rules: “It takes 3 trained crew members to operate the 727”
Ben Charles Padilla: “NAH watch this”
🤣🤣
When you are stealing things there are no rules.
@@jamiecrouch6387 truee but how the hell 2 people can fly a massive 3 personal operational Boeing 727?
@@neerajsonawane320 Please tell me what happens when anyone of the crew becomes unable to perform their duties inflight? There are emergency procedures to operate aircraft when they lose a crew member inflight.
@@jamiecrouch6387 so the stealers were well trained of the aircrafts control system nigga...
Outstanding job making this video.
Hi
no foot locking at 5:48 when walking up the stair.
You would think in 2021 people would know how to do this
@@xl000 huh
Skip to 0:51 to avoid the balls-aching intro.
Yeah, outstanding job making a video on an outstanding theft...
Having actually flown a 727, I believe it's entirely possible that a pilot who has only a private certificate plus extensive knowledge of the 727 could indeed perform a successful takeoff and landing though it's quite likely that the aircraft would be damaged upon landing.
Once it's in the air, almost any pilot could fly it but landing it without any formal training would most likely not end well. They could have gotten lucky though.
My opinion is that they landed somewhere and scrapped the aircraft. In this case, it wouldn't matter if it was intact or damaged.
There's also a fair chance that the 2 persons on board were killed after delivering the plane.
yea but where does one land a stolen 727 without tons of people knowing about it, this isn't a Miata for Christs' sake, a mystery 727 making a landing anywhere in the world would've been witnessed by somebody, one would think
@@BlacKnightRising When I flew them, about 1/3 of my flights were to uncontrolled airports, at night, many of them were unmanned except for the people needed for the flight.
It would be easy to pick one of these and land there completely unnoticed.
@@rrknl5187 even so where are you going to dismantle this plane and then ship out the parts, where was Padillas' helper by the way, how'd he manage to vanish off the face of the earth along with the plane,
I mean who's going to take plane parts from a stolen plane and/or with the serial numbers removed? this entire thing makes no sense, somebody would've reported a mystery plane landing or taking off and somebody's radar would've picked it up, even though Padillia disabled the transponder
even for an insurance scam it was way too much trouble to be worth it at any price so I don't know what Padillia got paid but it wasn't enough in my book hehe
most likely the plane crashed in the ocean, by the way that was some stellar security at that airport that just anybody could fly off in a 727
One of the theories is that he flew it to Malawi and the plane was dismantled for parts. Another theory is that it became one of the "dark 727s" (unregistered) who fly coke from Venezuela to Europe via North Africa. A few years ago one crashed in Mauritania with a cargo of 10 tons of coke (you can see the pics online). They set the plane on fire and for a while it was thought that 727 was the Angolan one.
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Wow. What a legendary tale that I never even knew existed. Thanks again TFC for educating me
Absolutely love your videos
Same here brother
@@ReeceyBoy_4 same
Where is the damn narration? Do I have to read it all?
Oh hell yeah! Better than vodka
Definitely no compromise in that!
Padilla probably changed his name and identity since he sold/dismantled the 727.
possibly
Or was killed after landing. Boom free 727!
I think he lost while flying and crashed probably.
@@gazorpazorp9798 YEP! Move to the head of the class...this clown Padilla was paid to fly the craft to the destination.....then was murdered along with his colleague.....the people running the operation got their money back....I do wonder what what they paid this idiot to do this......I think future thieves should be a careful as the usual thought is sometimes a deal can be too good to be true.....lets say they were going to pay $1 million...LOL!....whatever...
i think he probably crashed, it would be night soon after taking off, he was not instrument rated, and even if he was, navigating and landing to a dirt strip at night, solo and in a multicrew jet... good luck trying to get out of that one alive...
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I literally just got to know about this yesterday, what a coincidence
Not a coincidence, your phone was listening to your conversation😉
You can thank your robot phone for that
Me too. Did you watch this doc? th-cam.com/video/DBCxt8z05Js/w-d-xo.html
Acording to UK newspaper The Guardian, a pilot called Ben Strouther saw the 727, re-registered as 3XGOM in Guinea, with part of the n84AA still showing. (28th June that year, in Conakry Guinea's capital.)
I have had a brief look and there was a Boeng 727 registered with UTA in Guinea but it is registered 3X-GDO which actually crashed in Dec 2003 and was written off. According to the website (ASN) this aircraft was ex-American Airlines. If the pilot Ben Strouther clearly saw the old US registration N84AA, then this would be the same plane. A lot of skuldedgerie going on in the diamond regions of Africa and in the end they all loose.
@@mohabatkhanmalak1161 According to the final report of the accident, 3X-GDO was used to be N865AA, not N844AA.
Because it's that part of the world, it's rather easy for me to accept that as a factual report.
A few years ago, a pilot friend of mine took a job in Africa. He was there for two years. He was carrying, basically whatever they could get on the plane. People, drums of fuel, livestock, parts of cars, trucks, farm implements, furniture, lumber and building materials . . .
He flew in and out of countries I've never heard of. Standard flight deck equipment included a pistol and a shot gun for each pilot. Some flights, there would be armed guards that flew with the load. They had him flying a bunch of different planes, Cessna Caravan, de Havilland Twin Otter, Cessna Citation, DC-3, Pilatus Porter, An Antonov of some sort, and a 727 that was built in 1966. He told me he knew that there were parts of at least three different 727s that made up that plane.
There were a few other 727s and DC-9s around that flew for different "companies". There was a DC-9 that he would see pretty regularly at one of the destinations he went every week or so. He flew in there one day, and as he slowing down after touch down, he saw the tail of a DC-9 sticking up out of the trees about a 1/4 mile past the end of the (dirt) runway.
They'd overloaded the plane. It had got airborne, the gear up, cleared about 20 or 30 yards of 15-20 foot tall trees, then stalled into the forest beyond.
There had been a minor, post crash fire, it consumed most of one wing and part of the fuselage were the wing was joined, and a small section of the adjacent forest. There had been two or three passenger fatalities, and a few semi-serious injuries, the passengers had just been sitting on the floor, there were no passenger seats. Somehow, the crew and about a dozen others had survived.
The crash had happened the day before. He said the area still smelled of jet fuel and burnt human.
Already, the doors and emergency window exists were removed, and the cockpit was almost gutted. What was left was the overhead panels, about half of the throttle pedestal, and the captain's control column.
When he flew in the following week it was just a hulk. The stabilator (T-tail) and both engines were gone, the interior and cockpit had been stripped down to the outer skin. The floor just behind the cockpit had cut open and pulled up, and the air stair had been removed. The rear air stair had also been removed. The floor over the main landing gear well had been cut open and most of the pumps and systems that lived there were gone. Parts of the landing gear were also missing.
A week after that, the local residents had started cutting up the fuselage and what was left of the wings. They were using the sheet metal to roof the huts and shacks they lived in.
What was left of the hulk is still in the forest. There was enough left that you could just almost tell it had once been an airplane.
He said that after 4 or 5 months when you flew over the field, there was no visible evidence that a plane had crashed there.
Based on this, it isn't difficult for me to understand how the plane in this video could be made to disappear.
Though I still think there's a possibility that it was hidden away somewhere, waiting to make it's last one-way flight as a WMD.
@@bob2161 Cool story, beautifully told.
@@bob2161 wow, what a story!!!
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Last time I was this early 727s were outnumbering 737s
and 737's outnumbered A320's
@@senabecool7232 Touche
Hats off to Padilla and Co. for making an entire aircraft vanish. If indeed the aircraft was in the bad state of the repair Padilla did a great job of repairing a big commercial plane. How did he manage to get the jet refuelled without the knowledge of the ATC and the airport authorities will be a mystery. On the flip side were all the local people party to the scam.
not hard to make it vanish with no transpo0nder
Quite possibly there was involvement from inside the airport authorities otherwise it's just not possible to get your airliner fuelled with zero paper work
Well, when the British Empire runs our ATC's, anything is possible. They are not our friends, and never were.
@@saqibawan8764 : Especially where it was sitting. Africa is a tough place. They all want their fees.
It was scheduled to fly the next day, not hard to pass it off as getting things ready ahead of time. If he was there a lot and known to be working on it, and said he was doing final engine runs and getting ready for the flight, no one would have questioned it. I am an Aircraft mechanic on commercial airlines, if I call for fuel on a plane, i just get told how long it will be till they get there, never even think about asking me why for.
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So basically, it was stolen and went to an aviation chop shop. I'll go with that premise because it has the happy "Everyone Survived" ending. BTW, that mine sim is awesome.
It is unknown that the pilot is live or not, but I guess that both pilot perished because the plane had run out of fuel(My guess)
How easy is it to sell used 727 engines?
Seems as though he did have something planned out...and went for it.
I dont think the mine thing was a sim
Everybody except the poor 727 😢 I sure did love those old birds!
Padilla could be watching this video as we speak!
The key figure is Padilla who obviously was not seen anymore when that plane took off. Where did the plane go? Obviously, it stayed in Africa probably just went to the next airport one hundred miles away. Since Padilla is an aircraft mechanic he replaced the transponder with that from an airplane that is not used anymore. Transponder code (often called a squawk code) is assigned to identify an aircraft uniquely in a flight information region. They made a paint job and voila started their own Timbuktu airline company. Remember, when owning an aircraft worth millions you easily get a bank loan to buy more planes.
@@lenny108 You don't have to change the transponder to squawk a different code, just turn the knobs on the unit. Your squawk code may change several times during a flight.
I still think Malaysia Flight 370 is the greatest mystery.
It's hard to beat that disappearance.
Agreed! I hope the world will never forget MH 370. 239 souls disappeared without a trace.
@@suyen4999
We will never forget them. And I was thinking - - - When Swissair Flight 111 sustained a fire in mid-flight it slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia at an estimated 350G's and disintegrated into millions of tiny particles..of 229 souls there was only one body, the rest were body parts.. But the facts are that ATC knew where it went down, and it was only 8 miles off the coast, in only 55m of water, and it left a fuel slick, and boats reached it quickly, and could therefore identify its position quickly and effectively - all assistances which the Malaysian flight didn't have. And while there is still speculation as to whether the pilot intended a controlled landing on the water (which he couldn't have as the seas in the Sthn Indian Ocean that night were 3m-5m, the captain clearly wished to commit suicide... So why would he try to land hundreds of miles out to sea?
I think it far more likely that it ran out of fuel and descended at great speed into the Indian Ocean and also disintegrated into millions of pieces... I doubt it will ever be found as the largest intact pieces are likely to be the landing gear which would have been neatly tucked up inside the fuselage - the rest is most likely in millions of bits far too small to ever detect. I know it's terrible for the families, who probably think that their loved ones' bodies are down there, so I don't like to say it, but these would have been reduced to body parts, spread over a very wide area, which would have sunk within days and the bones dissolved under such massive pressure at those depths within 2 - 5 years. At least, that's what many scientists believe what happened to the approx 1150 souls (those whose bodies were never found, like those recovered from the water who were wearing life-preservers) who went down with Titanic, where there are still to this day hundreds of PAIRS of boots, scattered all over the debris field of the wreck-site, indicating exactly where bodies came to rest, the bones and flesh long ago dissolved into the deep Atlantic. Morbid, perhaps - but still very interesting. And for the families of the loved ones on board Flight MH-370, any expectations of finding anything at all, much less intact, that could be 'laid to rest' after 7 years at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is...unrealistic. I can't imagine the pain that they must suffer - the not knowing what happened to them, or how they died - it must be truly "unsurvivable" grief. But I would hazard an educated guess that they all died very peacefully from hypoxia as the result of low to no oxygen at 35,000 feet above sea level - HOURS BEFORE its engines flamed out and it plunged into the Indian Ocean. At least, based on the evidence that's available that's certainly what I believe happened, and what I would hope for all of those poor people that were taken away from those who loved them by a sick-minded Captain.
"May God rest all 239 souls in Peace. Amen".
@@j.whiteoak6408 have you heard of the Silkair crash in the 1990s? It was also believed to be pilot suicide. It crashed into the Musi river in Indonesia at the speed of sound and there was not even a single body part to be found. Every single body disintegrated completely. But at least it was known where it crashed and families could visit the crash site and lay flowers. MH 370 is utterly tragic if not for the fact that hundreds of family members will never have closure or any answers to why, who, what and where.
Yes ur correct
The fact that they took off without lights and radar off tells me everything i need to know
Loved this story! Never heard of it, enjoyed it completely. Fantastic job of telling it. Thank u!
I hadn't heard of it either. How did this not get more press at the time? I guess because of the location and only 2 on board and no longer belonging to an airline?
TheFlightChannel has become one of my favorite TH-cam channels of all time. The simulations are amazing.
I don't know much about this incident, but it would seem almost anything is plausible here in terms of what happened to the aircraft. I would have never thought a plane could just disappear in modern times until Malaysian Air 370 disappeared and we're still looking for that aircraft.
Fascinating stuff.
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$4 million in airport fees was a complete rip-off, so I would not blame the owner for wanting to hijack the plane out of that airport. But it’s subsequent disappearance sounds like fraud on somebody’s part, if the aircraft did not simply crash into the ocean.
The western border of Tanzania is 2,000 kilometers from Luanda. So, the chopshop scenario the friends of Padilla offer makes sense since Padilla took on enough fuel to fly 2400km. And really, those folks should know.
We.. you and I and the hundreds of millions of other HUMANS are people, singular people.
4mil is a lot of money to you.. and or to I. But to a large operation like an Airport, or a Plane MFR or a Plane Leasing CO like ILM (like Plane Leasing Company owned by Steven Udvar Hazy)... 4mil is a walk in the park. Theres hundreds of thousands of entities that are in charge of the Legalities of Landing, Taking Off, Taxing to a Spot, taking on Paying Passengers.. and all of the other Types of Fees.. for having a Plane in a Public Airport...
Id say.. pretty standard. The rest of the Airlines pay similiar amounts to their respective Airports... for Operating out of.
Not your average TFC video! So bizarre, and incredibly captivating. Great job TFC, always excited to see you post!
FYI: I believe it was in 1971 or 1972 that a Crew Chief (Aircraft Mechanic) single handedly stole his C-130 from Mildenhall RAFB in England. His squadron was there on a 75 day TDY Rotation from his home base in the states. He had a commercial pilots license, and as the Crew Chief, a vast knowledge of the C-130’s systems. As this guy did that they believe stole the 727.
I was a C-130 Crew Chief at the time the C-130 was stolen, and have been on two 75 day TDY Rotations to Mildenhall RAFB. One in the fall of 1969 and the other in the summer of 1972 after the C-130 was stolen. I also have a commercial pilots license since 1970, and believe I could fly the C-130 solo. The engineer’s panel is located on the cockpit’s ceiling between the two pilots and accessible from the pilots seats with a little stretching. I did get to fly my C-130 several times from clime out after the gear and flaps were up to decent prior to configuring for landing. One of the instructor pilots that was a crew member on my aircraft was going to the same flight school I was to get his civilian commercial license. The aircraft was rather easy to fly.
Our understanding was that he had received a Dear John letter from his wife in the states, and his squadron commander would not let him return home. So he stole his C-130. We heard two stories about what happened after he got airborne. One was that he crashed in the English Channel, the other one was that he was shot down over the English Channel.
My point here is that those two guys could have successfully stolen the 727 and landed it at an abandoned airport or a makeshift runway in some out of the way area. The second guy could have operated the engineer’s panel as it is located on the right side behind the copilot.
After the Crew Chief stole his C-130 it changed several of our procedures. Crew Chiefs could no longer taxi their aircraft, We had to chain and lock the nose gear to the ramp, and lock the entrance and paratroop doors. We could still run up the engines but had to call the tower before starting them and they sent fire trucks to station them selves behind and in front of the aircraft. We also had to give the tower a code number that they had assigned to our maintenance officer for the run up.
I still work for AA and I have worked on and ground taxied N844AA many times until their retirement. Suspicious end to a great plane.
I'm from Luanda- Angola and I never heard about this incident because when it happened in 2003 I was like 10 years old. However in 2014 when I went to Visit my uncle who was in a Diplomatic Mission with the Angolan Embassy in Singapore, in a conversation one day he told us that the Angolan Air Force had shot an airplane in Cunene(a province in Southern Angola). I didn't believe in it and my cousins(his children) didn't believe too because he use to tell us very old stories, unbelievable stories. One of the Stories he told us is that when the first President of Angola was going for medical treatment in Russia(he later died there) he gave him a bag like suitcase with some documents, those documents explained that the one would succeed him is José Eduardo dos Santos. ..We didn't believe in it. But at the same time before he became a diplomat he worked as military air traffic controler and his duty as a Diplomatic is to work with local air traffic controlers when the Flight of the President or the Flight of the vice President is flying over the country where he's, in this case Singapore. So with this video I'm trying to think that he was probably talking about this flight, and if so he might be correct. We are too young and distracted to understand certain things.
Insanely mesmerizing and enormously entertaining and disturbing. You've captured the element of emotion in your format and it's addictive.
Maury: Ive got a proposition for you.
Padilla: Hold my cerveza
I think that’s racist
@@andrewcruz1931 everything is racist now.
doesn’t sound racist to me
@@andrewcruz1931 let me get you a box of tissues and a copy of the notebook. My fiancé is Honduran.
Ben didn't drink.
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Jeez the graphic is beyond awesome! Great, splendid job TFC!
I am just mesmerized at some of these videos so very well made. I am a retired person so I have the time to read/listen and remember; go back in time "yeah I remember that airplane accident" and fully grasp at what really happened. Congratulations excellent research great work put into your videos and I like the music along with it.
That pilot be looking through that windscreen the whole time to avoid air collision 😅
Air collision... Its air.. there is 1 in million chances of colliding in air😂
@@jamworthy14 well yes but if you are flying blind out there then the chances increase. Its the role of ATC that avoids it. And even then air collision has occurred.
@@Dr.Faran.Ophthalmology okay dude here is the thing... ATC has logically nth to do,, see bro u can only collide under atc ... If ur flying free .. u will never collide.... Atc is the reason why planes collide because they can assign plane to a certain height and similarly advice the other planes too
@@jamworthy14 bro then according to your opinion, the pilots must be vigilant 24/7. Its going to be a tough job then. Whereas with ATC, you can relax after you have set the altitude.
@@jamworthy14 what about take off and landings? You also think ATC ain’t required there? 😅
Or you referring just to air?
I am not a pilot, but what I have learnt from this channel is awesome. The videos are well-edited, you really put your all in this. Keep up the good work!
Can we just appreciate the fact that he can fly all types of aircraft!
OMG
Willie McCool was the pilot of the space shuttle that crashed in 2003. He had 24 different aircraft
Certificates or License
@@PInk77W1 whoa !
Wow, what a crazy story. I have to think they made it. A lot more likely debris would wash up somewhere that could be identified than actually finding serialized parts on the black market.
I wouldn't be surprised if the two crewmembers were "accidentally" lost in the middle of nowhere, though.
Seems to me that Padilla accomplished his mission and everything went as planned
It’s really impressive
indeed
I doubt it. Flying in the dusk, without type licence, on a barely-airworthy aircraft, with only 2 instead of 3 aircrew? So many chances for things to go horribly wrong.
@@carlramirez6339 Padilla could’ve trained on simulators for months without anyone knowing.
I thought MH370 is the only plane vanished without a sign 🥺 now I realized there’s another one. TFC gives me more interesting stories than a Hollywood movie.
Dear friend - there are many, many planes that have simply disappeared. Most over water but some on known flight paths over land. For instance, in the early 1950's a USAF C-54 transport with 50+ soldiers and civilians went missing on a flight over Alaska/Canada and has never been found. In 1962 a Flying Tiger Constellation with 106 onboard disappeared on the way from Manila to Saigon. No trace was ever found.
@@trimule thanks. I didn’t know these stories. Surely will read.
Maybe it was a precursor to the new,
"Grand Theft Aviation" game...
Your videos are so amazing. Visually so crisp and clear. The take off sounds amazing, the bumps as you speed down the runway, the roaring engines! I love it. You are the greatest!
Disappeared off radar,plane nor Padilla ever seen again.
Also the fact that it was in disrepair,leads me to conclude it crashed in the ocean
More likely: They landed in bumfuck nowhere outside radar contact and scraped the bitch.
Hard to image no debris every being found after crashing into the sea.
The western border of Tanzania is 2,000 kilometers from Luanda. So, the chopshop scenario the friends of Padilla offer makes sense since Padilla took on enough fuel to fly 2400km. And really, those folks should know.
Respect for my man that succeeded in make the plane vanish. 👏👏👏🤳
The biggest attempted theft in this story is the 4 million they wanted for an idle plane sitting for 14 months.
does this really mean they had the engines idleing for 14 months and they just keep filling it?
@@andredornier It means what I wrote. I didn't write "idling" (nor idleing).
I hope English is your second language, Andre.
@@AEM-le7uy I really didnt know if that was a thing or not, 4 mill doesnt seem right just to have a jet sitting i agree
Cant get over the Animation in these Videos..Top Quality..
Beautiful seamless report where animation fades into actual footage. Very lovely report with appreciation from a new subscriber.
WOW! You have done it again...
I fought on the Angola-Zaire border for just over 3 years, and I have a lot of lived-in experience of what is possible in Nigeria, (almost anything), and what is impossible in Nigeria, (almost nothing), so this was quite a trip down Memory Lane. Thank you.
The Nigerian hypothesis seems more than likely. There are clapped-out 727s all over West Africa, even today, so selling parts of "unknown origin" is not a particular problem. Buyers just need to allow for bribing their way to airworthiness for the flying trashcans with which they are about to imperil folk in the air and folk not in the air.
What a mystery! Amazing video, as always!
i think i come here for the music more than anything! its just so cool, paired with the art work n such its a bad ass little aura
Legend has it that Padilla is still flying the plane ..
I just love the way you have brought out this video and not only this video but other videos as well...you bring out the most smallest of details and the accuracy is fantastic!! I just love watching your videos..❤❤👍
*Me seeing the thumbnail.* Oh this probably happened in the 70s or 80s. *Happens in 2003* That’s a surprise.
HI TFC
LOVE YOUR CHANNEL
Stunning, thrilling video as always. Insanely beautiful editing, keep up the good work.
I am just amazed about the materials you used in you videos. Great quality
I have flown a great deal however during Covid and still now it’s all stopped. It’s nice to see your videos as they are well made and compelling. So much junk on YT so it’s refreshing to see someone make the effort and produce quality content. I was at DXB BTW when the 777 crashed, I liked your coverage of that one.
Best landing you've ever done ! I don't know how many times you did it until you got that one in the can, but it's sweet. : )
Just a touch of power at the right time.
Your content is honestly so amazing I'm always invested into watching it. Yesterday when my exams ended I binge watched a massive chunk of your videos while eating pizza 😍
For what it is, this was an excellent presentation of the 'believed' actual events leading to disappearance of this craft, unlike some bogus channels with poorly arranged 'facts'. Watched every second. Thanks.
No Angolan general is going to authorize to waste an expensive missile to shoot down a 727 that has not demonstrated any threat. The military has limited resources. Those engines are working in Iran or Cuba today.
If Padilla was able to take-off, navigate and land safely elsewhere to sell parts with NO formal pilot training on type, than he most certainly deserves the money he received from the parts. Job well done.
Its not as hard as you might think
There was a 727-200 of an unknown Cambodia airline in an airport in Vietnam. Just no one knows why the hell was it in the airport or how old is it. The airport removed the plane about 1 year ago so we cant see it anymore.
Any link about it?
@@hvegaval maybe just type: Boeing 727 in Ha noi/noi bai airport
2:35 And here we are, jumping back to exactly 2 years before I was born...
i’m surprised you can upload almost daily and putting lots of effort into your work. Really appreciate you
I love your channel ❤️❤️❤️ Ur efforts are clearly shown in ur vids✨✨
That simulation of that open cast mine operation was fantastic.
You really go the extra mile with your presentation.
Wonderful work.
I am always inspired by excellence! ❤
When the pilots say “My plane, my controls” during take off, they surely mean them.
This is creepy but very good job flight channel I am looking foreword to season 6!
I don’t blame them, the 727 is a beautiful classic
So was the 707. Nowadays, everything is boring and looks the same.
You always amazed with new video . I m waiting for upcoming season .
OK, I've got my eye on this 747 lying for many months at this airport where I work...
dont forget to turn off the transponder. nobody will notice you. also, please record everything with a gopro and upload it here so we can appreciate your adventure. ps: i would be interested to buy some parts, for instance my hotas is broken and cannot play DCS without it
I lack sufficient vocabulary to express my absolute astonishment at the sheer quality of your productions!
Best video ever. Never heard of something like this. Really an out of the ordinary incident. Thank you.
Great channel. Appreciate your hard work so future pilots can know better and do better ❤
I could see this getting solved some time in the future if a plane containing a stolen part has an accident, and investigators trace the part based on serial numbers or something - that would be a surprise to turn up while investigating a seemingly unrelated crash!
I love ur videos, the graphics, the view,how u recreated the whole disaster back. I know this is hard but u pushed through. I also love ur Season 6 trailer. It’s amazing and that is the best trailer I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Trust me. Also, adding audios really made it realistic. Keep on the good work, I’ll wait for ur new videos 😉
Great video, as usual! Well done, very enjoyable, and this story in particular is very interesting.
One technical note: you mention the aircraft uplifted 53000liters of fuel for a range of 2400kms. This can hardly be correct. I suspect a mix-up between lbs for mass or NM for range. With a 727 burning approx 5000kgs of fuel p.h., an uplift of 53000l (approx 42500kgs) would offer an endurance of 8,5 hours (equal to close to 8000kms in a straight line or 7000kms with reserves).
Great video as always!
The PERFECT crime.... Except one thing. I DOUBT this guy lived too long after he landed it to collect reward. I subscribe to the theory dead men tell no tales.
I doubt it....professional criminals commit acts for money all the time yet are rarely killed. They stole a junk 727...this isn’t the Kennedy assassination.
@@33moneyball Are you a professional criminal? Is that how you know this?
Never heard about this until your video today. All I can respond with is just "wow". Intriguing real story and beautifully done video☆☆☆ I'm hoping that it did land somewhere and got sold for parts so that other planes fly on...
That was impression, I mean, the thief Is way to skilled or there's some useless people in that particular event there, but it amazes me how that happened.
Awesome video!!
Always so constructive!
It didn't even disappear off radar, because Luanda didn't have any radar then lol. I flew out of Luanda the summer of 2012 (still no radar even then) and worked off the air force base. I befriended a colonel there who was there and who who told me the story; although they wanted to scramble jets...it was over an hour after they took off...with know idea what direction they even went or even where to look for them. Plus...after seeing first hand the Angolan air force...pretty sure the 727 was in better shape! Great story though, really good video.
Imagine if the 727 reappears and lands in your backyard
i wouldn't be surpised
@@Interdictiondeltawing so you often see vanishing planes reappear and land in your backyard huh
I'd be like 😨😨
Then you pay over and above 4 million 🥶
@@yusyusoff2239 no
That Padilla is some next gen dude...fixed broken airliner in record time, took of with it and left everyone puzzled...while chewing bubble gum..
New season
I: yes new season thank you the flight channel
what?
It is the season finale of season 5
I helped steal a 727 and helped make it disappear, it was being used for new avonics, sent to Seattle to be recertified, and they over charged us $100K so we stole it back with one test pilot and a couple first officiers, landed it in PDX and refueled it, toped off the tanks for over seas flight to some shick, now he has a custom plane to fly his sheep in, and its never been heard of since, it was out of our air space before anyone could stop it with a small crew. I thought we would probably go to jail or be arrested, but no one ever figured it out and it was gone before anyone could do anything about it, while I was waiting at work for the phones to light up or FBI to come in and arrest us, it was also the test pilots last flight, and it cost us a fortune for the gas from Seattle to PDX like $5K all on many bank cards, I gas company thought that funny, I toted it out, put the tote back, crawled back on, was in the cockpit when we got a cleareance for a runway, shoved the throttles down and left, tower asked for a destination and flight plane, click, shut the DME down, no insurance, landed in PDX turned it over to an international flight crew, they fueled it up and told them get it out of the country quick1! About 20 hours latter landed in Jordan, plane numbers got changed, never seen since, but the shick is rich and the plane has rich new interior I hear and he flies his friends and family around. Plus he has new avonics and certification for a year or so. He had a lot of money, probably no one would question him or he paid for it not being questioned. Much easier to keep it flying in remote areas with a good crew and no crashes. There is the shict, There goes the schict. Especially when you have billions of dollars. I hear it still flying once and awhile. FBI never contacted us that I know of about what happen, but I think the president of company settled with them on bill for much less.
This channel releases content that is high in quality and done out of a love of aviation and pride in the work. Once again great work whoever you are. Ha
These videos look like movies, good content :)
A really well-produced short documentary. Congratulations once again.
Considering the state of the aircraft and that with all of those government agencies looking for them and that they have never surfaced after all these years leads me to believe they went down in the Atlantic due to mechanic failure or controlled flight into terrain.
This is extremely awesome. It should happen more often.
In 2008-2009 I did a lot of consulting work at LAD to try and get it into conformance with ICAO standards. Heard about this event there. The theft scenario appears to be the most plausible as there are many African aircraft operators that use old 727s that are held together by baling wire and chewing gum. Also, if I was going to steal an airplane, LAD would be the place to do it from.