Amazon Air Jet Crashes Just Before Landing in Houston (With Real Audio and Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 20 окт 2021
  • Find out why the Boeing 767 operating as Atlas Air Flight 3591 for Amazon Air crashed into Trinity Bay during its approach into Houston.
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  • @nelsonperez208
    @nelsonperez208 2 года назад +1756

    If I ever go down on a plane crash, I have the comfort of knowing that my death will one day be explained on this channel.

    • @petepeter1857
      @petepeter1857 2 года назад +114

      Interesting. Let's hope not.

    • @AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible
      @AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible 2 года назад +187

      I am waiting for a cockpit voice recorder to have "See you on The Flight Channel" as the last words spoken.

    • @mangos2888
      @mangos2888 2 года назад +23

      I feel the same as long as it’s a commercial flight. He has yet to do the Aaliyah plane crash of ‘01 - a chartered plane.

    • @aislingconnolly5823
      @aislingconnolly5823 2 года назад +9

      @@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible 🤣🤣

    • @joshdavis73
      @joshdavis73 2 года назад +5

      @@petepeter1857 😎😂

  • @kobzster06
    @kobzster06 2 года назад +3223

    Despite flying being one of the safest modes of transportation as compared to other modes (car, etc.), the fact that TheFlighChannel will never be short of crashes to highlight is a sobering thought.

    • @Browhoisyou
      @Browhoisyou 2 года назад +298

      @Bzake your wrong" they are very safe, planes have a lower chance to crash than a car, and it usually comes down pilot error to crash a plane. Planes are one of the safest forms of transportation.

    • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
      @MichaelClark-uw7ex 2 года назад +201

      @Bzake Per mile travelled, planes are many times safer than cars.

    • @33moneyball
      @33moneyball 2 года назад +132

      @Bzake nonsense...it’s because they’re far safer objectively. Statistics are adjusted for numbers/miles/hours etc. You are more likely to die on the way to work today than you are on a commercial flight. FULL STOP.

    • @33moneyball
      @33moneyball 2 года назад +200

      @Bzake walking across the street is more dangerous...you’re delusional. You watch videos about plane disasters so you substitute that emotion for logic. More people died in the last hour on the roads in the US than have died in the last 12 years in commercial jets. Literally.

    • @33moneyball
      @33moneyball 2 года назад +87

      Really? Name anything with any risk element involving billions of people over 100 plus years where this isn’t the case. He does 1 video a week. He could just do car crashes from TODAY and never run out of content.

  • @pwdrhound4648
    @pwdrhound4648 2 года назад +286

    I am a 767 captain. On the 767-300 (not sure about other types), when you press the "Go Around button(s)" on the back of the thrust levers the following happens when the aircraft is flying on the autopilot: The autopilot smoothly pitches the aircraft up to a go around nose high pitch attitude while simultaneously adding enough power to attain a 2000 foot/min climb rate at the present airspeed. The auto thrust system does not add full power, merely enough power to attain a 2000 foot/min climb. The FMAs (flight mode annunciators on the top of the PFDs (primary flight displays) in front of of each pilot will display "GA/GA/GA" indicating that the speed / lateral navigation (LNAV) / vertical navigation (VNAV) modes are now in Go Around (GA) status. The video here did not accurately indicate that in the simulation of the Prime crash. There is no aural warning indicating that the GA mode has been activated, only visual cues on the PFDs and naturally tactile cues. The only way to exit the GA mode is to reselect other LNAV or VNAV modes on the flight control panel or by turning off both flight director switches. Selecting a Go Around mode on the 767-300 does NOT disconnect the autopilot as erroneously stated by numerous people. I flew the Airbus 300--600 for 17 years prior to the 767 and the go around logic was similar with the main exception that the Airbus went to full power on a go around. The autopilot also remained engaged during the go around without any aural warning. Hope this sheds some light and clears up a lot of the false information propagated here.

    • @naknaksdadn572
      @naknaksdadn572 2 года назад +39

      Thank you on the clarification on the 767 not going into full thrust on GA. It is always great to have pilots comment on these videos.

    • @nyc-007
      @nyc-007 Год назад +6

      Thank you. I'm not a pilot. But I could not understand from the video how a plane's configuration could be changed by pressing the GA switch and the crew don't receive confirmation or an alert of some kind. Also, as another commenter wrote, apparently the pilot and FO both had spotty records; so, if true, their competency in avoiding this crash was not addressed in the video either.

    • @danielrn133
      @danielrn133 Год назад +6

      @@nyc-007 Define "spotty records". People say crap on here with absolutely zero context.

    • @TheLvGordo
      @TheLvGordo Год назад +12

      You ever see a UFO?

    • @mjleger4555
      @mjleger4555 Год назад +3

      Interesting and excellent explanation-- Thank you! If I ever fly a 767-300, I'll remember that. (I'm a GA pilot!) But it's valuable info for pilots who are flying that aircraft.

  • @daltonharris6793
    @daltonharris6793 Год назад +20

    As a pilot in training, one of the things we’re taught is to NEVER trust what your bodily senses are telling you without cross checking your instruments first. I’m IMC, sense serve more to deceive you than to help you and it’s almost always a better idea to look at your instrument panel than to trust the sensations you’re feeling.

  • @IamCaleum
    @IamCaleum 2 года назад +1172

    It is crazy to me just how many of these accidents where pilots got lost in space could have been solved at any time by looking at the Altitude Indicator.

    • @GJLCreativeStudios
      @GJLCreativeStudios 2 года назад +34

      thats what I'm saying!

    • @HAPPYFUNTIMEx2
      @HAPPYFUNTIMEx2 2 года назад +127

      Its one word and it is extremely dangerous in all hazardous working environments . COMPLACENCY.

    • @tomc.5704
      @tomc.5704 2 года назад +117

      Most of the time, potential accidents ARE solved by looking at their instruments.
      What the hell was he looking at when flying IMC and said "we're stalling" and pushed the aircraft over 30 degrees nose down with Go Around power set.

    • @LunaticFringeHunter
      @LunaticFringeHunter 2 года назад +112

      IMO, too much automation = less piloting and more technicians controlling the airplane.

    • @namename6866
      @namename6866 2 года назад +1

      @Nicki Bluhm💝 💖

  • @ytlongbeach
    @ytlongbeach 2 года назад +489

    Regardless of the Go-Around mode, the fact the pilots ignored the instruments over their physical senses is horrible.

    • @arkhsm
      @arkhsm 2 года назад +14

      One instrument playing up could be disconcerting, or more than one very disconcerting, but in this case NO main instruments were telling the pilots any other than what was going on !!

    • @ketchup901
      @ketchup901 2 года назад +3

      Crashes have been caused by malfunctioning instruments having the pilots believe that they are nosediving, causing them to pitch up, which causes the plane to stall and fall out of the air.

    • @Flyingbrickyard
      @Flyingbrickyard 2 года назад +24

      That's why you cross-check. For example, for a given pitch, power setting (and trim), a specific airspeed will result. Physics demands it. If you haven't touched the power but the airspeed starts radically changing, and you've confirmed the engines are still operating as expected and any drag inducing devices aren't deployed, you probably have a failed artificial horizon.
      Even in hard IFR it's possible to at least keep an aircraft flying roughly straight and level with nothing but airspeed (for pitch) and the mag compass (turn).
      Initial confusion can certainly result at the moment of an instrument failure in IFR (I've personally experienced it twice for real and numerous times in various simulators), but you can generally work out what's gone wrong fairly quickly with a few cross-checks.
      The main things to remember are: 1. Trust the instruments - especially when one has failed or is suspected to have failed, and 2. Never forget that the instruments themselves do not make the aircraft fly - physics does. Pitch plus power will always equal performance. Hold to that however you can, work the problem, and you'll likely live long enough to sort out what's going on.
      Personally I've always found the most 'disorienting' moments of IFR flight are the result of 'breaking out' back into visual conditions after you've spent a period of time 'desynced' from what your ears (vestibular system) have been telling you. That moment of transition and reintegration between what you see and what you feel is an odd one. Getting "the leans" while IFR is unpleasant, but (IME) not too difficult to ignore as long as you remain focused on the instruments and maintain a proper scan.

    • @philo5096
      @philo5096 2 года назад +5

      Even for a pro like that captain, flying in the soup can be deadly.

    • @simrdownmon6431
      @simrdownmon6431 2 года назад +7

      Amazon has two planes and one of them crashes. Good thing Jeff Bezos isn't running the world....
      Oh wait, we're fk'd.

  • @GenghisCohen257
    @GenghisCohen257 2 года назад +436

    I'm surprised these "awful piloting" events don't happen more often. When you think of how bad people are with their cars. It's a credit to how professional pilots are.

    • @fgrau7376
      @fgrau7376 2 года назад +68

      A pilot’s riskiest part of the day is his drive to the airport. An old flight instructor told me that years ago.

    • @krusty1974
      @krusty1974 2 года назад +10

      Or it’s otherwise a credit to automation. It makes both flying easier and crew inadequate (as they lose their skills by over-relying on it). Prevent the problem (most often) and causes the mishaps (when the shit hits the fan).

    • @GenghisCohen257
      @GenghisCohen257 2 года назад +1

      @@krusty1974 great stuff

    • @fgrau7376
      @fgrau7376 2 года назад +7

      @@krusty1974 I absolutely Agree !!! Hand flying a 767 or a-330 uses the same basic characteristics of the Cessna 152. We all were “stick and rudder” pilots but at some point some of us have lost that “skill” so as we’ve seen many times before when it’s reliant a “pilot” takes over after the aircrafts systems fail us, it’s often confusion in thr cockpit.
      I still enjoy hand flying my fathers J-3 cub and renting single engine aircraft at my local FBOs just to stay real to myself.

    • @krusty1974
      @krusty1974 2 года назад +5

      @@fgrau7376 I wish to add a layer to your agreeable comment. We are now deep into the 2nd or 3rd generation of “Children of the Magenta” (see video on RUclips). This means chances are today’s pilots have been trained by one (Children of the magenta) already so it is no longer the case of loosing skills but rather of pilots who never had them at all. This is a catastrophe. No way to recover what you never had. There is no “falling back into something i once new”.. and it’s not “some of us”, to me it looks more like “most of us” which sometimes looks like “all of us”. A world of impostors disguised as pilots hiding inside a uniform.

  • @thomaswayneward
    @thomaswayneward Год назад +70

    My dad was a WWII pilot and when I started flying he told me to always depend on the instruments and not on what I felt. I remembered that advice the first time I had to descend through the clouds.

    • @servantofthelivinggod6192
      @servantofthelivinggod6192 Год назад +6

      Sounds like a very loving dad. Yet there is one who loves you more than your dad ever did, God Almighty. He offers the free gift of salvation and his only begotten Son Lord Jesus Christ, who died for The remission of all our sins then was raised up on the third day. The Creator did not intend for men to Fly through the sky and machines. Did you know that the Bible refers to the devil as the prince of the powers of the air? He is the main reason why planes fall out of the sky. Men are not living the way they are supposed to live. As long as you fly a plane, you are putting yourself at risk. That’s why my advice to you is to repent and come to the Lord Jesus. He loves you and wants you to be safe my friend. As I love you and want you to be safe as well. As for me, God willing the only times that I will fly will be during the days of great tribulation and the second coming of Messiah Jesus.
      God bless you.

    • @californiadreaming9216
      @californiadreaming9216 Год назад +3

      Randy Ward thank you for your comment. It is one of the few here worth reading. My late dad, God rest his soul, was a pilot also.Your dad gave you good advice.
      BTW it is weird that your excellent comment has garnered only 3 likes, whereas other insidious comments like:
      " Oh geez, this is do horrific, I can't imagine....I mean can you just...huzzah wuzza blah blah babba booboo crappy nonsense "
      comments collect 800 likes. Real sign of the degradation of human intelligence I guess.

    • @Endmomrntsbestrong
      @Endmomrntsbestrong Год назад +2

      @@servantofthelivinggod6192 please pray for me if possible thank you

    • @servantofthelivinggod6192
      @servantofthelivinggod6192 Год назад

      @@Endmomrntsbestrong Yes of course I will. May the Lord God bless you, keep you, and give you peace. Much love and blessings to you and your household.

    • @vladikuz
      @vladikuz Год назад +2

      "Trust the Force, Luke!"

  • @Taladar2003
    @Taladar2003 2 года назад +982

    It feels like Go Around mode is such an important change to everything else the pilots are doing that there should be a computer call out "Go Around activated" or something similar.

    • @richardjenkins4182
      @richardjenkins4182 2 года назад +67

      In most airplanes pressing a Go-Around switch disconnects the autopilot(s), generating a loud aural warning.

    • @alanbo32
      @alanbo32 2 года назад +49

      This was an older aircraft, it probably wasn’t on this one, but is on the newer ones

    • @scottfranco1962
      @scottfranco1962 2 года назад +18

      @@richardjenkins4182 No, go around is an instruction to the autopilot to immediately climb.

    • @trevorregay9283
      @trevorregay9283 2 года назад +64

      totally agree.....something to make the pilots aware that a "Go Around" was activated.....the NTSB can say this is benign, but....its NOT that benign.....obviously...... : (

    • @hubriswonk
      @hubriswonk 2 года назад +32

      The go around was the least of their problems. Read up on this to find out what really happened. This video does not tell the whole story.

  • @markmaki4460
    @markmaki4460 2 года назад +635

    You left out the facts that the first officer was of manifestly (documented) questionable competence, that the first officer had lied his way into getting hired, and that Atlas Air did not adequately check the first officer's background before or after hiring him. These are serious omissions.

    • @hubriswonk
      @hubriswonk 2 года назад +132

      There is so much more to this crash than what this video presents. And the F/O's family has the audacity to sue the company because they claim he had not been trained well enough.

    • @Hedgeflexlfz
      @Hedgeflexlfz 2 года назад +131

      @@hubriswonk Yep the family sued for "racial discrimination" even though he lied about his checkride failures on this application to the airline.

    • @markmaki4460
      @markmaki4460 2 года назад +35

      @@Hedgeflexlfz Yes i would almost characterize this video report as a "whitewash" were i to be temporarily possessed by the spirit of Norm Macdonald as he wanders through the land.
      Seriously though, I was sad to have to give a thumbs-down, but the glaring omissions in this video report make me wonder how many important pieces of information are omitted from other video reports on this channel.

    • @isobel64
      @isobel64 2 года назад +28

      Doesnt change the fact that the captain did nothing

    • @hubriswonk
      @hubriswonk 2 года назад +63

      @@isobel64 You know nothing about this. The captain's yoke was pulled all the way back in an effort to pull the plane out of the dive. The incompetent F/O pushed his yoke all the way forward and was diving the plane. The Captain is a hero who was fighting this idiot F/O.

  • @montefisto
    @montefisto 2 года назад +13

    That really is crazy. They ignored every indication of what the plane was doing, what all the instruments were reading.

  • @someone3187
    @someone3187 Год назад +27

    Oh no, how could they not notice? This is incredibly sad. Of course it's easy to judge afterwards. I'm just feeling frustrated and very sorry for them.

  • @gary1961
    @gary1961 2 года назад +644

    That actual film of the flight nosediving to the ground was simply horrific. They had no chance.

    • @78StinkinLincoln
      @78StinkinLincoln 2 года назад +7

      Actual film? Do you have a link?

    • @r0cketplumber
      @r0cketplumber 2 года назад +43

      @@78StinkinLincoln Ground video at 12:13

    • @MicroSoftner
      @MicroSoftner 2 года назад +9

      Maybe another 1000ft they could have pulled out of it?

    • @davidhood6967
      @davidhood6967 2 года назад +57

      @@MicroSoftner if this had all started just a little higher, they might have pulled out of it. It didn't help that the first officer decided to have a religious experience rather than try to regain control of the aircraft.

    • @mickeydoolittle2057
      @mickeydoolittle2057 2 года назад +52

      The FO was a diversity hire. He was the weakest link. I feel bad for the jumpseater….

  • @skinnerhound2660
    @skinnerhound2660 2 года назад +447

    The 32yo who was hitching a ride in the jump seat was the one I feel bad about. Finally had a ticket to the majors after much work and sacrifice and has the misfortune of picking a ride with these two clowns. He had the sense to call out to pull up and he wasn't a crew member. Very sad.

  • @TheGospelQuartetParadise
    @TheGospelQuartetParadise 2 года назад +34

    Rest in peace to the flight crews who lost their lives, and condolences to the families they left behind.

    • @Rubalix
      @Rubalix Год назад +1

      Although it was pilot error Rest In Peace to them to.

    • @SunofYork
      @SunofYork 11 месяцев назад +1

      Was your god taking a coffee break ?

  • @timhalstead9790
    @timhalstead9790 2 года назад +43

    It almost seems impossible for pilots with this much experience to not notice and correct the pitch and altitude changes in this situation

    • @freshfritz4649
      @freshfritz4649 2 года назад +1

      There's no shortage of these types of situations where pilots are in the clouds. The mechanisms of our inner ear, that help us keep our balance while walking about on the face of the earth, can betray us when deprived of alternate sensory input (sight.) They said in this video, the FO truly believed they were stalling when the nose pitched down and speed was increasing. (Virtually impossible to stall in this configuration.)

    • @timhalstead9790
      @timhalstead9790 2 года назад +6

      I never got IFR rated but what little IFR training I had, I learned that you definitely have to depend on your instruments

    • @Tori-di2cf
      @Tori-di2cf Год назад +1

      Problem is when one reacts out of panic. And Anka the FO failed out of several flight schools 😬

  • @robbieleach8418
    @robbieleach8418 2 года назад +767

    The captain was my dads good friend who he flew with often.. RIP Rick :(

  • @finalascent
    @finalascent 2 года назад +134

    Flight Channel: more compelling than "Air Disasters" with 1/3 to 1/4 the running time.

    • @Meh4991z
      @Meh4991z 2 года назад +16

      They’re both good channels , no need to lower someone to lift someone.

    • @macman975
      @macman975 2 года назад +9

      @@Meh4991z It's obviously the OP's opinion. No need to tell someone what they should think.

    • @finalascent
      @finalascent 2 года назад +12

      @@Meh4991z Air Disasters isn't a channel. It's a Canadian TV production. And I actually enjoy both. I'm simply saying that Flight Channel does the same or better job of conveying what happened in less time.

    • @CassassinCatto
      @CassassinCatto 2 года назад

      I watch both thanks to Disney+

    • @dannyadams2211
      @dannyadams2211 2 года назад +8

      @@CassassinCatto don't need to pay a monthly fee to search things on youtube lol

  • @ual737ret
    @ual737ret Год назад +13

    I flew the 767 in my career as an airline pilot. I have got to say that this is one of the strangest accidents I have ever seen. How that go around switch got activated and the failure of the flight crew to disconnect the autopilot is beyond me.

  • @david1731048
    @david1731048 2 года назад +3

    The number of stories on this channel featuring pilots crashing perfectly serviceable planes is frightening.

  • @loyal2thegame96
    @loyal2thegame96 2 года назад +263

    If somebody thinks that flying is dangerous because this great channel is not running out of the content, just remember that there's 100k flights a day all over the globe and none of them crashes

    • @tr4ncy99
      @tr4ncy99 2 года назад +33

      Indeed, one bad day among thousands good days.

    • @Mariazellerbahn
      @Mariazellerbahn 2 года назад +23

      "none of those crash".

    • @user-mp2qj6rs9c
      @user-mp2qj6rs9c 2 года назад +23

      Once again, commercial air travel is safer than commercial based land travel, but not by much. If you use private air travel compared to private land travel and make the numbers line up by basing the statistics on car owners vs. plane owners, private planes lose hands down. This is the only stat I can find that compares small planes to private autos:
      In 2013, traffic accidents killed 32,719 people, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The fatality rate was 1.1 deaths per 100 million vehicle-miles traveled. Assuming an average vehicle speed of 50 miles per hour (a big assumption), the fatality rate for automobiles translates to 1.1 per every 2 million hours.
      Taking the preliminary 2013 fatality rate in general aviation of 1.05 fatalities for every 100,000 hours of flight time and scaling it up to 2 million hours gives a comparison rate of 21 general aviation fatalities per every 2 million hours. This suggests that stepping on a private plane is about 19 times more dangerous than getting into the family sedan.
      This year alone the number of small plane fatalities is alarming. Kathryn's report is a great place to stay up to date on this kind of information. I agree commercial air travel is the safest form of public transportation statistically but there is always the fact that if I lose the method of propulsion in a bus, on a train, or in a car, I just coast to the side or let it stop.

    • @joshuahymer15
      @joshuahymer15 2 года назад +6

      @@Mariazellerbahn do you always correct grammar?? Is that your job??

    • @kamX-rz4uy
      @kamX-rz4uy 2 года назад +5

      @The Truth sets free Lots of people survive airline crashes and mishaps and many people die in car wrecks. What you said is meaningless. Statistically commercial airlines travel is much safer that cars. From best to worst is commercial airlines, railroad, buses, passenger vehicles, general aviation. This is based on fatalities per mile traveled. (Guessing from your username and the typical god bless comment you are probably trolling or someone who likes conspiracy theories. Either way the facts are what they are).

  • @James-oo1yq
    @James-oo1yq 2 года назад +484

    An automated "going around" call-out would alert pilots to the switch being pressed?

    • @DomDeDom
      @DomDeDom 2 года назад +23

      That's what I was thinking

    • @alessandromini9299
      @alessandromini9299 2 года назад +12

      There are such of those callouts only in the last RAAS systems and in the Airbus A350 runway awareness system

    • @fgrau7376
      @fgrau7376 2 года назад +1

      If it was working

    • @anjou6497
      @anjou6497 2 года назад +9

      Yes, it still annoys me that there are several ways to stop various catastrophes in an aeroplane. I love the scientists simple logic. But, hey ! , then here we go with the cost of it all ... cost/v lives. Jeez. , i mean the airlines execs budgets bla blah. In the future, when planes cant fly anymore due to volcanic ash, and toxic atmosphere...then we're back to donkey & cart peeps. Do the math. 😎💖

    • @wrbowcalifyrobertson5087
      @wrbowcalifyrobertson5087 2 года назад +14

      You would think, not just a click if go around is deployed.

  • @nenblom
    @nenblom 2 года назад +22

    I remember, when I worked at Amazon, we had a fatality at one of our fulfillment centers in Germany. It was like our entire Amazon family was grieving. May the crew of flight 3591 rest in peace.

    • @conqueringlion420
      @conqueringlion420 Год назад +6

      Yes your "family" untill you get fired. They will Keep selling you that family line untill you wake up

    • @hansblitz7770
      @hansblitz7770 Год назад +3

      Never buy into that soul devouring corporate cult talk.
      I could see a small business feeling like a family, but NOT Amazon!

    • @nenblom
      @nenblom 10 месяцев назад +1

      I quit because of medical reasons, but they told me that I was always rehirable. AMAZON was hard work but it was great pay and great benefits. I’m not knocking that company. Yes, the rates were a pain in the ass but I made it.

    • @nenblom
      @nenblom 2 месяца назад

      @@hansblitz7770Have you ever worked for Amazon?

  • @jahnkaplank8626
    @jahnkaplank8626 2 года назад +6

    I think the captain was giving the control to the F/O as a learning experience; telling the f/o he has the controls all the way to the gate, basically, and then withdrew to monitor the performance of the pilot, without monitoring the performance of the aircraft adequately. His question "what's going on" is proof of that; he was simply sitting back and letting the young guy do his thing.
    It's a common practice routine: sitting back and letting the student learn through his own mistakes, except this time, the captain was behind the curve, too, or perhaps put too much faith in the f/o. The fact that the person riding along was the first to yell "pull up" might indicate that he was the only one looking out the windows at the time.

  • @WestAirAviation
    @WestAirAviation 2 года назад +477

    The number of pilots who are afraid of flying, but still fly, sometimes boggles my mind.
    This FO had a tendency to freak out and start "pressing buttons" whenever he lost situational awareness. That Citation crew who crashed a perfectly good plane in Jersey a few years back had the same tendency. Just because you love planes doesn't mean you have to be the one flying. If you're failing checkrides and just not "getting it", make some changes.

    • @sam383planespotting
      @sam383planespotting 2 года назад +23

      Speaking facts

    • @littleferrhis
      @littleferrhis 2 года назад +26

      IDK, so far I’ve failed two checkrides, both over steep turns(for different reasons), but I worked to fix them. I’m definitely not a type A pilot type, and I have been told I’m not a natural pilot, but I’ve been able to prove myself and make friends and be an acceptable instructor and pilot. I have ADHD and Anxiety which got me through 1.5 years of having to prove to CAMI I could function as a pilot, but I got through it and got that happy letter. I’m also a pretty cruddy driver. I worked through a lot of adversity and now I’m developing aviation curriculum that will be most likely the template for the community college system of an entire state as a 22 yo fresh CFI. More than anything though, I feel at home in an airline cockpit. I’ve been messing with flight sims since I was 11 and work well in rigid environments. That being said I have caught myself being impulsive in airline cockpits(but even then in the training environment, I did make correct decisions for the situation I thought I was in), but I’ve learned and gotten better and used the QRH for the remainder of that time. IDK though, maybe I just can’t take a hint.

    • @WestAirAviation
      @WestAirAviation 2 года назад +38

      @@littleferrhis I used to be a CFI and based off your wall of text you're not one of the guys I would have ever been concerned about.
      Just don't ever let bad habits form and don't be afraid to say no to ATC, Ops, Crew or Dispatch

    • @nathanielgirma8265
      @nathanielgirma8265 2 года назад +3

      I'm confused. Where in the video was there a mention of the FO "freak[ing] out and pressing buttons"? I didn't find any commentary on the FO's tendency to freak out. There was however a mention of Somatogravic Illusion; a documented psychomotor response in complete IFR conditions that occur upon rapid and sudden acceleration.
      Your comment contains inaccuracies and I'd suggest you take it down out of respect. That first office did in fact die after all, and can't defend himself.
      If you are however trying to construct a point on your original thesis regarding "the number of pilots who are afraid of flying", I'd implore you to provide some relevant data.
      Otherwise, thanks and cheerio. Lol.

    • @WestAirAviation
      @WestAirAviation 2 года назад +95

      @@nathanielgirma8265 Hi Nathan,
      This video left out a lot of the NTSB's findings regarding this crash. (I can't link the 3,000 page docket because RUclips deletes comments with external links).
      Conrad, the FO, had lied to Atlas on his application, hiding a long history of failed check rides and work history from previous carriers. One of those carriers, Mesa, was where he failed two checkout sessions and left the company. His evaluator told NTSB "He'd make frantic mistakes [and] start pushing a lot of buttons without thinking about what he was pushing."
      Conrad went on to flunk out of Commuterair and Air Wisconsin due to failing to satisfactorily complete his training.
      At Atlas he failed his 767 type rating, but was given another chance because his (false) work history showed a lot of vacancies that convinced the Check Airman that his poor performance was due to a gap in flying, not skill, despite having failed 5 sim sessions and an oral. During his 2nd attempt at qualifying, his examiner noted that he had a "tendency to panic when faced with an unexpected event." They awarded Conrad his type rating anyway.
      NTSB board member Michael Graham, after reviewing Conrad's history, went on record to state "I'm miffed why this pilot was allowed to continue in the cockpit." The answer is because he lied about his history and hid his multiple failures. When presented with unexpected thrust, his instinct was to nose a perfectly good airplane into the ground, ignoring 3 working artificial horizons and airspeed indicators to do it.
      The video also left out the fact that the Captain pulled full aft on the yoke almost immediately after the dive began. There are rumors he pulled so hard he broke his wrist or the yoke. I mention it because some commentators here have tried to blame the Captain for not "responding fast enough" or whatever, but he did all he could trying to over-power Conrad, who was dead-set on nose-diving his plane with all his might.
      Hope that provides a bit more clarity than what the video provided! Cheers and good night.

  • @sealwhiskerz
    @sealwhiskerz 2 года назад +125

    Thank you for the video. According to his obituary, Captain Sean Archuleta was 36 years old (not 32). He left behind a wife, 6 month old son & a stepdaughter.

    • @sarahalbers5555
      @sarahalbers5555 2 года назад +45

      So sad. I'm sure he was happily envisioning his new career at United. Prayers to Sean's family and friends. This was a nightmare.

    • @B3Band
      @B3Band 2 года назад +7

      And KHOU says he was 37. I guess nobody knows lol

    • @vernonsmithee792
      @vernonsmithee792 2 года назад +6

      @@B3Band But one thing is certain: No fortieth b'day cake 🎂

    • @honestreviews5680
      @honestreviews5680 2 года назад +14

      The family should sue for this ! Captain Sean Archuleta children will grow up with out a father and his children will never remember him they are to little 😓 I can't imagine the pain his wife and children are experiencing that is heartbreaking :(

    • @sarahalbers5555
      @sarahalbers5555 2 года назад +11

      @@honestreviews5680 I hope they get a huge settlement, not that makes up for the loss

  • @LivingWaterEternal
    @LivingWaterEternal 9 месяцев назад +3

    As a pilot your videos are so helpful to learn from. Sad to watch a tragedy see the error and cannot fix it, but definitely helps to always maintain CRM and safety awareness.

  • @jiaconis
    @jiaconis 2 года назад +5

    I’m surprised the ATC didn’t discuss their decreasing altitude with them; as soon as their landing profile went below the minimum altitude they needed to be alerted! It’s surprising to say the least...

  • @aszteroidt
    @aszteroidt 2 года назад +104

    From the sounds of things this FO wasn't qualified to wash a plane, let alone fly one...scary that such an inept pilot can slip through the cracks...

    • @vladracul40
      @vladracul40 2 года назад +3

      That is called Amazon incentive bonus.

    • @kevincole2484
      @kevincole2484 2 года назад +11

      @@vladracul40 bruh Amazon doesn't hire the pilots... other third parties like Atlas in this case do. So Amazon has nothing to do with this

    • @marcleblanc3602
      @marcleblanc3602 2 года назад

      Yeah but the pilot is supposed to monitor, he had no idea what was going on..... just chilling looks like.

    • @yingnyang2889
      @yingnyang2889 2 года назад +11

      Well if you’re woke - skill, knowledge or training doesn’t matter….just your gender/color. Forgot the lady’s name on CNN who was stating that none of those qualifications mattered to be a pilot. The other speaker asked her if she be okay if a surgeon was cutting on her and and her only qualifications as a surgeon was her looks and color…… lame

    • @kevincole2484
      @kevincole2484 2 года назад +3

      @@yingnyang2889 Bruh you're really using CNN as a credible source?? WTF

  • @badweetabix
    @badweetabix 2 года назад +264

    You failed to mention that both the captain and f/o both had training difficulties on the 767 and had to re-test. This was even more so for the f/o Aska who actually concealed his spotty training record when he applied for employment at Atlas Air. He had failed 5 flight simulator sessions such that his partner complained he was being held back because of Aska's failures. Captain Blakely also was placed on proficiency watch program (PWP) by Atlas.

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 2 года назад +55

      Well that is an interesting part that would have been useful to know and help with understanding the resulting crash.
      I wonder why it was left out of the video.

    • @Mechaneer
      @Mechaneer 2 года назад +26

      This does seem pertinent, as the FO is the most culpable for the tragedy.

    • @rdspam
      @rdspam 2 года назад +39

      Findings - airline “failed to address the first officer's aptitude-related deficiencies and maladaptive stress response. “Aska's first checkride on the aircraft ended in failure due to poor crew resource management (CRM) and improper aircraft control. His examiner described him as stressed and lacking situational awareness”.
      “Captain Blakely experienced difficulties during training for his type rating on the 767. On October 31, 2015, he was declared unfit for a checkride”. Atlas Air placed him in the pilot proficiency watch program (PWP) due to his training issues.

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 года назад +3

      @@rdspam Ahah! TX.

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 года назад +1

      Ahah. Thanks.

  • @bonkykong9442
    @bonkykong9442 2 года назад +11

    What do you even say when you realize you can't pull up enough and you're about to contact? I can't even imagine...you have a perfectly normal flight, 15 min later you're 500 feet from the ground going 300mph straight towards it. Thank you to all of the brave pilots out there, and to all who are still flying, bless you and I hope this never happens to you

  • @fgrau7376
    @fgrau7376 2 года назад +5

    I’d really love to hear the cockpit voice recording the final 30 seconds

  • @luschmiedt1071
    @luschmiedt1071 2 года назад +205

    I'm always astonished by accidents like this. Even when I fly VFR I keep my eyes on the instruments, that some private IR pilot might be overwhelmed or not proficient enough to realize an upset like this is understandable while not acceptable, but a crew of two ATPL pilots in a sterile cockpit below 10.000ft not realizing any of the indications and then also misinterpreting all the signs is crazy to me. This just shows why upset recovery training has become so important in airline training and I'm glad that it is pushed even more.

    • @scottparis6355
      @scottparis6355 2 года назад +14

      Yeah, it's hard to imagine no one noticing when the attitude indicator goes all brown, but it seems to happen a lot.

    • @neoberi2611
      @neoberi2611 2 года назад +16

      The pilot monitoring didn't even monitor. The pilot flying didn't look at his gauges or instruments when his visual was impaired in the clouds. There's only so much a plane and automation can do, the rest is up to the human pilots.

    • @twostroke5104
      @twostroke5104 2 года назад +8

      I only have a VFR rating and while watching the video and the pilot thought he was stalling but the instruments said otherwise... Unbelievable...

    • @luschmiedt1071
      @luschmiedt1071 2 года назад +7

      I looked a little further into it, there is a good video from the NTSB on RUclips showing how quickly it happened. The FO was just incompetent (failed multiple checks and should not have been in the cockpit), the Capt. Had maybe 5 seconds before it was to late. Look at the NTSB video, it is astonishing.

    • @KarlH1980
      @KarlH1980 2 года назад +4

      Crazy. That is a great word for this if this is what happened. What caused the pilot to think stall? He looked at the attitude indicator saw brown and thought stall instead of dive? It couldn't have been that he glanced at the airspeed indicator and thought stall. Same with the rate of decent but not quite as clearly. The only thing I can think of is horrific skills or the HSI was active instead of an attitude indicator and he got his cue from somewhere else. **
      Can you imagine if they throttled up and pitched down like you would in a Cessna. OMG. I think the stall procedure on large a/c is significantly different though. Seems to me that I was told it is just throttle, nose level.
      ** The NTSB report indicates both the attitude indicator and the HSI were being displayed each on different screens at the pilots 12 o'clock position on the panel. www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR2002.pdf P 8-11

  • @julzb7165
    @julzb7165 2 года назад +107

    The first officer is someone who should never have slipped through the net. RIP to the 3 crew.

    • @The_Original_forresttrump
      @The_Original_forresttrump 2 года назад +5

      The Captain was supposed to be monitoring the instruments so I call bs.

    • @neoberi2611
      @neoberi2611 2 года назад +2

      @@The_Original_forresttrump Even in times of CRM, the captain has the ultimate responsibility. He was supposed to be monitoring. The main responsibility ultimately rests on him.

    • @The_Original_forresttrump
      @The_Original_forresttrump 2 года назад

      @@neoberi2611 That’s just what I said, I was disagreeing with Julz , if the Captain was doing his job this need not end as it did.

    • @neoberi2611
      @neoberi2611 2 года назад

      @@The_Original_forresttrump Yes I'm agreeing with you and adding on to your comment

    • @HappyPenguin75034
      @HappyPenguin75034 2 года назад

      I'm not a pilot but bad weather, going around it while descending and low hour f/o - the captain is the problem here. He took control and gave it back (due to issue).. should have kept it and landed the plane!!

  • @s2knott
    @s2knott 2 года назад +3

    How did i find these videos? How did i become obsessed? This is great quality and im learning quite a bit, thank you. - Airfield/Runway fire dispatcher

  • @beezlebub3955
    @beezlebub3955 2 года назад +6

    That’s super scary, and sad, and as other people say “flying is the safest” and while that being statistically true, I personally have developed the mindset that once I’m off the ground, that’s it, I no longer have control of getting myself out of what to me is one of the most horrible situations that you could be in, other than getting into a head on crash or being burned alive

    • @ChrisGugliuzza
      @ChrisGugliuzza Год назад

      what exactly is your point. and why are you putting flying is the safest in quotes when it's true?

  • @trashhauller
    @trashhauller 2 года назад +172

    I'm at a total loss to understand what exactly the pilots were monitoring. In IMC I was trained to watch, and crosscheck, the flight instruments like a hawk. They even had a 3rd pilot in the Jump Seat. Hitting GA would not just cause the engines to spool up, the thrust levers would advance giving another visual clue that something radical had changed from a normal approach profile. Unless CVR was not available to TheFlightChannel, there seem to be very little communication between the pilots. A tragic and avoidable incident.

    • @Hallands.
      @Hallands. 2 года назад +7

      Yes, you get the feeling something is missing from the story. 3 well qualified pilots should be plenty, and why did the captain or first pilot not advice tower of the go-around? Or did I misunderstand? They never intended any go-around at all?

    • @darrinsteven7002
      @darrinsteven7002 2 года назад +12

      @@Hallands. there was no intention of a go around.
      The go around button placement is fine.
      The devil is in the simplest of the pilots hand placement detail.

    • @Hallands.
      @Hallands. 2 года назад +14

      @@darrinsteven7002 Yeah. I read the cockpit transcripts and the investigation. Both pilots were having difficulties passing the routine tests and both frankly sound unreasonably stressed, unfocused and insecure during approach. First pilot can’t decide if there’s an emergency or his evaluation is wrong, so he doesn’t communicate his worries to the captain, then begins a pitch down maneuver even though they’re already 2000 feet below the beacon corridor, which he erroneously reports as 2000 above. The captains says nothing and does nothing in the last 20 seconds…

    • @losttale1
      @losttale1 2 года назад

      @@plane_guy6051 NO THE PILOTS DON'T GET ENOUGH DISCRIMINATION there should be no redos and morons liek this should be detected and banned in the process!

    • @ufanisoneetze
      @ufanisoneetze 2 года назад +3

      Tiredness and vertigo can change behavior.

  • @Dobermanator
    @Dobermanator 2 года назад +79

    There should be an audio alert warning: "You just pushed the go-around switch thousands of feet up, you dummy!"

    • @eddyriley2055
      @eddyriley2055 2 года назад +2

      here,here.

    • @norbert.kiszka
      @norbert.kiszka 2 года назад +1

      ​@scripteaze TO/GA button must be easy to access. When sh*t happens at low altitude, then You must act very quick - quick as possible.

    • @kc8ppo
      @kc8ppo 2 года назад

      Seems like that could be written into the programming. If the switch is pressed above a certain altitude an audible alarm would sound.

  • @astridvvv9662
    @astridvvv9662 2 года назад +1

    It's always so nice how they always tell each other to have a good day.

  • @francismallard5892
    @francismallard5892 2 года назад +5

    LOVE these videos. One request: although it looks cool, the text in all caps makes it difficult to read. Especially when it’s synced to the voice recordings and it goes by faster. Consider using proper case (upper and lower as appropriate) and a serif font for easier readability. It’s also easier to read and view the images on the screen if the text is at the bottom like traditional subtitles.

  • @cming9423
    @cming9423 2 года назад +24

    HUGE thank you for highlighting the instruments and levers/switches involved. It helps really put me in the cockpit and understand how things could have contributed to the accident.

  • @DeputyBurbank
    @DeputyBurbank 2 года назад +140

    Not sure why with every activation of a setting there would not be an audible feedback voice: GO AROUND MODE ACTIVATED…. Too many of these crashes on this Chanel seem to be due to a inadvertent switch being turned on or off and not noted by the crew. The cockpit is chalk full of lights and buzzes and clicks but for certain things there should be a clear voice announcing something has been turned in or off.

    • @Polentaccio
      @Polentaccio 2 года назад +11

      Totally. I am noticing this as well. How has this not dawned on them? Very possible they want the pilot to focus on the instruments in an emergency but this is a no brainer. Especially when there are passengers on board.

    • @rohitnijhawan5281
      @rohitnijhawan5281 2 года назад +2

      With all this automation, why can't the controls "automate" themselves to the configuration that is - if not most optimal - but the safest? Tons of videos are about "the position of control x was showing y setting". the entire MCAS debacle was activating nose down when it wasn't even safe.

    • @millomweb
      @millomweb 2 года назад +5

      @@Polentaccio Pilot monitoring as usual, was asleep. So many pilot error crashes not 'detected' by the PM.....Hadn't realised the thrust levers were still....[not set right]

    • @millomweb
      @millomweb 2 года назад +8

      @@rohitnijhawan5281 Ever heard the expression "Too many cooks spoil the broth" ? Exact same applies here - 2 pilots & numerous automated systems. Not one person really knows what's going on. Is he doing it or am I supposed to be doing it ? Oh, somebody's doing it - is it him or the AP ? Cockpits are a bad environment of confusion.
      Confusion of who is doing what
      Confusion of instrumentation (too complex)
      Confusion of switch type controls - there's masses of them
      Confusion due to lack of instrument simplification (i.e. make the correct reading on an instrument be when the pointer points vertically up. A quick scan of the instruments would reveal if any pointers were not pointing up.
      Set AP to descend. Press 'Landing' button - and that should configure the aircraft during the descent to the runway. But no, it has to be a complex routine on top of complex and distracting radio calls.

    • @shaunstanton5283
      @shaunstanton5283 2 года назад +10

      Newer planes do have more systems alerts. This is an older model 767 with some the first generation automation. There is generally a que, the thrust levers advancing and the sound of the engines spooling up to go around thrust should have been noticeable. Why both pilots failed to recognize that, we will never know. I have to assume the Captain acting as PM was diverting attention to other duties. The FO was not paying attention to what he was doing. Clearly the FO had some attention diverted for whatever reason and was not scanning the instruments to ensure the plane was flying in parameters.

  • @hadencowdrey9829
    @hadencowdrey9829 2 года назад +2

    I was over the Trinity Bay at the exact same time in a Piper Cherokee working on my instrument rating. Departed Baytown KHPY and getting bounced around pretty good by the weather. Crazy how a 767 was coming down in relatively the same airspace.

  • @thesheepdog1974
    @thesheepdog1974 2 года назад +11

    This plane landed in the bay right behind my office. I was off that day or I would have no doubt seen it. I always watch the planes coming through Anahuac. I’ve seen planes fly so low you could actually see what shades are open. This is a sad and avoidable tragedy.

    • @paschallhouston
      @paschallhouston Год назад

      My friends dad is a pilot at Bush Intercontinental Airport. I was praying it was not him because just heard a plan went down headed towards Houston did not know till later it was an Amazon plane. It was not him thankfully. We use to go fishing and crabbing over in Anahuac off I-10 and could not believe a plane went down there.

  • @Mandy7D7
    @Mandy7D7 2 года назад +43

    She had nearly hours 100,000 of flight time. I really like when companies buy these old planes, update the cockpit and keep them in the air. Besides the tragic loss of life, of course, it's sad the plane's service ended in this way too.

    • @raviarjuna9839
      @raviarjuna9839 2 года назад +3

      Airplanes are not like other transports.They received airworthiness certificate before allowed to fly.

    • @whothis2338
      @whothis2338 2 года назад +13

      All planes are female in aviation language

    • @1greenMitsi
      @1greenMitsi 2 года назад +11

      what about all those undelivered packages

    • @Jetup24
      @Jetup24 Год назад +2

      @@whothis2338 it's 2022 we use gender neutral pronouns now

    • @bauTom
      @bauTom Год назад +1

      @@whothis2338 in normal people’s English, inanimate objects are “it”. Of course, chronically single lunatic nerds can see a female everywhere, even in something as phallic and powerful as a jetliner. 🤦🏼‍♀️

  • @hubriswonk
    @hubriswonk 2 года назад +146

    From what I understand the F/O should have never been allowed right seat much less on airport property. He was a known flight hazard. There is a lot more to this if anyone would like to research and have a better understanding as to why this plane crashed. This video does not tell the entire story as to why this happened.

    • @bradjohnson482
      @bradjohnson482 2 года назад +42

      On your recommendation, I did some research on Aska. If he wouldn't have covered up his training failures during his Atlas interview, this accident probably never happens. So sad.

    • @carloscain1027
      @carloscain1027 2 года назад +5

      I heard he intentionally crashed "suicide"

    • @ZeroSpawn
      @ZeroSpawn 2 года назад +46

      Yes correct. The F/O had issues in training, when he became stressed or dealt with a difficult scenario in the simulator he would start pushing buttons randomly. Clearly showing his lack of knowledge. But some how he got checked off to fly a real plane ✈! 💁🏻

    • @apointtomake1517
      @apointtomake1517 2 года назад +3

      Thank you for the heads up.

    • @Passions
      @Passions 2 года назад +24

      @@ZeroSpawn WTF!??? That's insane this guy was allowed to fly at all.

  • @kamyagupta4030
    @kamyagupta4030 2 года назад +1

    Great analysis as always 👍👍
    This is tragic!
    RIP to those on board 🙏

  • @paulkasden9758
    @paulkasden9758 2 года назад

    I must say, this had me on the edge of my seat. Very well done my friend

  • @Kemjisuper
    @Kemjisuper 2 года назад +46

    The Trainee Pilot in the Jump Seat being the first one to scream "Pull Up" says a whole lot about the Captain and his First Officer's lack of concentration and focus in what is supposed to be the most intense part of the whole flight operation. Sad...

    • @PorkChopJones
      @PorkChopJones 2 года назад +5

      Yes brother Kem, you hit the nail on the head! The guy just along for the ride, the non revenue guy is yelling at them! This makes a person wonder....

    • @tonk4967
      @tonk4967 2 года назад +2

      I would say not so much a lack of concentration but more a lack of situational awareness.

    • @NicolaW72
      @NicolaW72 2 года назад

      Yes, unfortunately.

    • @xhuynh23
      @xhuynh23 2 года назад

      Both Pilots in flying seat failed; however, I would say the Captain failure to monitor add the most significant impact to the end. His job was Comm & monitor & assist with check lists....biggest one is simply MONITOR, but failing to see the throttle levers being automatically push forward is really bad, airspeed, altitude??. I'm not suprise that the jumpseat pilot was the first to see what's going on, he was not under stress and only thing he could do was observe and without any responsibility.

    • @CammyjOfficial
      @CammyjOfficial 2 года назад

      Yeah. Seemed like he had way more situational awareness than the ones actually flying.

  • @sgreen0000
    @sgreen0000 2 года назад +24

    I remember the day that this crash occurred since I live south of the crash site. I immediately called a pilot friend & asked him what he thought. He would not speculate & I thank the Flight Channel for letting us know. RIP to all 3 pilots who lost their lives. 💔😢🙏🏻❤️

    • @pvtdipwad2944
      @pvtdipwad2944 2 года назад +9

      This was a routine flight that ended up in a disaster because of one accidental button push. Some pilots would've looked at this video and thought it was a suicide, others would think extreme loss of control. Unless you were in the cockpit when it happened, you won't know what happened until the NTSB report comes out. Not a lot of pilots like to comment on cases like these for that reason.

    • @chendaforest
      @chendaforest 2 года назад +4

      It your interested Sheryl Mentour Pilot did a video on this crash which goes into much more detail

    • @billiebobbienorton2556
      @billiebobbienorton2556 2 года назад +1

      @@chendaforest Not really intersted in her cradle adoption story. Really.

    • @chendaforest
      @chendaforest 2 года назад +5

      @@billiebobbienorton2556 not sure what you mean but for the record Mentour Pilot is a he...

    • @hubriswonk
      @hubriswonk 2 года назад +3

      There is a lot more to this story than what this video presents.

  • @roeydaz
    @roeydaz 2 года назад +4

    Astounding….how a Capt with a life time of flight experience couldn’t figure what was happening. I feel especially bad for the jump seat pilot. May they RIP.

  • @aaronpeople101
    @aaronpeople101 2 года назад +1

    I really like these videos and you do an awesome job. It would be great if they were narrated though!

  • @Stone_624
    @Stone_624 2 года назад +71

    'Pilots with limited instrument flight proficiency have a well-documented tendency to disregard flight instruments and act instinctively in reaction to this illusion'
    Wow that's fascinating and terrifying.

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 года назад +4

      Like a Dunning-Kruger effect, sort-of.

    • @tomc.5704
      @tomc.5704 2 года назад +7

      Yep. There are so many sensory illusions that your body can trick you with. Flying at night or in the clouds? Trust your instruments.

    • @TheZombieGAGA
      @TheZombieGAGA 2 года назад +5

      Even well-trained instruments IFR pilots are prone to spatial disorientation. RIP Kobe Bryant helicopter crash (The pilot was also an instructor)

    • @xn6963
      @xn6963 2 года назад

      It makes sense tho. I think most of us would instinctively trust our own body rather than trusting an instrument. I know I would.

    • @christymoran7308
      @christymoran7308 2 года назад +3

      @@TheZombieGAGA In the case of the Bryant crash, the pilot was flying under VFR in IMC and should never have left the ground .

  • @shaunstanton5283
    @shaunstanton5283 2 года назад +378

    The FO was a bad pilot. That came out of the investigation that he had numerous training failures at previous companies. He failed twice to upgrade to Captain at his previous company. Not only was he a poor pilot, he refused to acknowledge his deficiencies which means he was never going to accept how to correct for them.
    As for the pilot monitoring who was the plane's captain missing it; I have to assume the captain had his attention averted doing something else like sequencing the approach. There are periods of vulnerability where one crew member is performing another function. Clearly the FO who was the pilot flying also was not paying attention. For whatever reason the FO dropped out his instrument scan, which means the FO was simply along for the ride. Had the FO been keeping the proper instrument scan even with the autopilot flying he would have caught the change in attitude and been aware of his airspeed and if he had aviation sense he would have known if the plane was in a bad configuration or not and been able to make a more rational change. Again this FO was not a very good stick, so he lacked the ability to rationalize what was going on. Below 10,000 feet, the FO should have been following through the autopilot and scanning the instruments as if he was manually flying. If he was doing those things he would have caught the error.

    • @joelt4416
      @joelt4416 2 года назад +68

      his race made him keep his job and get his certificates

    • @robbflynn4325
      @robbflynn4325 2 года назад +50

      I don't blame the black FO. I blame the people at the airline who indulged him despite it being clear he was not up to the job of being a pilot.

    • @gg-vv6iz
      @gg-vv6iz 2 года назад +12

      The only acceptable response the white captain could've made in this situation is to accept suicide. SAD! Many such cases.

    • @shanec.7105
      @shanec.7105 2 года назад +37

      It seem as many people are solely blaming the FO. Yes, he might be bad at his skills or maybe not experienced or having a bad day. Yet, no one is looking at the conduct of the Captain. bad PM duties or what? The airplane goes into a nuclear strike thundering unusual attitude and he say- what is going on? I have flown with many different crews and if the plane gets out of hand, it rarely goes past a few seconds before the Captain takes back the control to right itself. How do you as Captain not act when he parameters are beyond normal flight? or the other half of the crew set to act and correct.

    • @Kimberly_Sparkles
      @Kimberly_Sparkles 2 года назад +19

      @@shanec.7105 Yep, they were a duo. The FO initiated it but the Capt did nothing to stop it.

  • @driftingintoretirement
    @driftingintoretirement Год назад

    Great video and content. Thanks for sharing.

  • @virginiafascetto3223
    @virginiafascetto3223 Год назад

    Wowwww you are amazing!!
    The videos are too realistic its incredible

  • @OlesonMD
    @OlesonMD 2 года назад +27

    That person riding in the jumpseat was a pilot just hired by United. His class date was to be a few days later. He was making a routine commute back to Houston. He had the good sense to say "Pull up!".
    This was pilot error. Flying a perfectly good airplane into the water.

    • @lonemaus562
      @lonemaus562 2 года назад +2

      Damn poor guy.

    • @nickybritain4900
      @nickybritain4900 2 года назад +1

      After ‘shouting’ Pull Up! There didn’t seem to be any response from the other two on the flight deck. Something like ‘Are you mad’ or ‘OK, I’ve got this’ would have been appropriate. It looked as though no one took any notice.

    • @OlesonMD
      @OlesonMD 2 года назад +3

      @@lonemaus562 And United actually kept his seat in the new hire class. With his name tag, all of his class materials, sitting on the table where his empty chair was. In memory of the deceased pilot.

  • @jdaniel3068
    @jdaniel3068 2 года назад +40

    I kept staring at the flight display showing the extreme steep descent. It just seems unfathomable that neither of them looked to see the orientation of the plane for the entire episode.

    • @BrooklynBalla
      @BrooklynBalla 2 года назад +1

      Absolutely.It’s highly suspicious.Makes me think that one of the crew members possibly did this intentionally.Who knows.

    • @NicolaW72
      @NicolaW72 2 года назад +3

      @@BrooklynBalla Such conspiracy myths are BS - the CVR Data´s are fully available in the internet. The FO was totally incompetent and the wrong man at the wrong place at the wrong time - but not a murderer.

    • @BrooklynBalla
      @BrooklynBalla 2 года назад

      @@NicolaW72 So how come while the plane was diving the FO was pushing the stick forward while the Captain was pulling the stick back?That makes absolutely no sense.

    • @garyschraa7947
      @garyschraa7947 2 года назад +1

      Ten things need to go wrong for a crash } All three of them didn't really want to be there +3 All three of them zzz mind wandered +3 = 6 two of them lacked high grade skill 2 + 6 = 8 One of them bumped the knob and didn't know it 1 + 8 = 9 The other ones mind was still wandering 1 + 9 = 10

    • @ketchup901
      @ketchup901 2 года назад +1

      Crashes have been caused by malfunctioning instruments having the pilots believe that they are nosediving, causing them to pitch up, which causes the plane to stall and fall out of the air.

  • @j.d.9648
    @j.d.9648 Год назад +2

    Working for a major oil refiner for my entire career, it was widely known that ALL operating procedures and safety policies were the end result of a safety situation or near miss. Sadly, in some cases, this did involve injuries and even death.

  • @unbearifiedbear1885
    @unbearifiedbear1885 8 месяцев назад

    Given the dangers an unintended "Go Around" activation can introduce at practically _any_ point during flight, I'm surprised there isn't a distinct and obvious audible/visual announcement of its activation

  • @shaunstanton5283
    @shaunstanton5283 2 года назад +90

    From what I understand from this mishap, is that not only did the FO pitch the nose down, he slammed the nose down abruptly. When the Captain realized what was going on he tried to counter it, but the FO was in death grip on the yoke. The plane was put in an abrupt nose dive and was overspeeding faster than what is shown on the video. This was probably causing some mach tuck issues where it becomes even more difficult to pull out of a high dive.

    • @gearhead000TV
      @gearhead000TV 2 года назад +1

      Well, we can actually see how fast and steep the plane is diving at 12:12 security camera video.

    • @sarashepard7504
      @sarashepard7504 2 года назад +2

      Sounds like a suicide

    • @timwilson7326
      @timwilson7326 2 года назад

      I thought mach tuck was only a thing on high tails

    • @dannicatzer305
      @dannicatzer305 2 года назад +2

      No expert but does the capt have an override,,, some button he pushes that switches control from the FO to him whether the FO likes it or not... If not why not

    • @Bikewithlove
      @Bikewithlove 2 года назад

      @@sarashepard7504 - I’m thinking that too.

  • @Powerranger-le4up
    @Powerranger-le4up 2 года назад +63

    There have been two crashes of an Airbus that involved not understanding the go-around. China Airlines Flight 140 which killed 264 people and Gulf Air Flight 072 which killed 143 people.

    • @tomstravels520
      @tomstravels520 2 года назад +7

      Gulf Air 072 was an intentional go around, not accidental like this and 140 so not sure how you mean by “not understanding the go around”

    • @mercator79
      @mercator79 2 года назад +2

      This was a 767. Layout is a bit different

    • @cameronbooker445
      @cameronbooker445 2 года назад +3

      This is a Boeing..

    • @raphaeldynamos9738
      @raphaeldynamos9738 2 года назад

      @@SimuProChannel Aa
      P
      P1

    • @luichinplaystation610
      @luichinplaystation610 2 года назад +2

      Why go around is a computer thing now?

  • @austingunn734
    @austingunn734 2 года назад

    Incredible video. Very well done

  • @autonomoussensorytoprespon2619
    @autonomoussensorytoprespon2619 2 года назад

    This is the best flight channel so far

  • @Bore_Punch
    @Bore_Punch 2 года назад +24

    As an a&p mechanic, the animation and attention to detail is outstanding. Down to the skydrol on the wing to body panels aft of the wheel well

    • @stephenmelnick9257
      @stephenmelnick9257 2 года назад +2

      You're right an excellent video. Except for one detail that was incorrect. The aircraft was parked at Cargo City ( Prime Air ramp) as referenced in the audio when they called for pushback. The video however shows them at the Western Union ramp ( Atlas Air ramp) and pushing back from there for runway 9. A small detail yes but given the accuracy of their videos they should have gotten that correct.

    • @K1OIK
      @K1OIK 2 года назад

      a&p?

    • @I_Died_2_Weeks_Ago
      @I_Died_2_Weeks_Ago 2 года назад +1

      @@K1OIK Aviation & Peewee? No? 😂

    • @hawaiiboysz
      @hawaiiboysz 2 года назад

      Some one forgot to set the brakes on that stand too that sucker was rolling free off the left wing.

  • @t.p.mckenna
    @t.p.mckenna 2 года назад +47

    I'm a dim layman, but in these cases of disorientation I always fail to understand how the altimeter is not the size of a briefcase and screaming at the pilot ... trust only me, you're heading for the ground!!!

    • @tonyppe
      @tonyppe 2 года назад +5

      exactly, or why the pilot didnt think to look there in the first instance. If I am driving and my car does something weird, I look straight at the dash for clues. I didnt need any special training for that. If I think I'm upside down or falling, I would look at the instruments that show exactly that in the cockpit.

    • @NelsonCattabriga
      @NelsonCattabriga 2 года назад +15

      It’s difficult to appreciate unless you have experienced it. Somatogravic illusions are powerful and make you “feel” as if your body is doing one thing when it is doing the opposite. Training is the only thing that reinforces that the instruments are correctly showing you the state of the aircraft. In this case the FO wasn’t sufficiently trained or wasn’t suitably skilled. They should not have been sitting in the seat of an airliner. Why the Captain didn’t pick up on the FOs error soon enough we will never know. The size of the instruments would not be a factor in this pilots lack of trust in what all the instruments were telling him.

    • @markg7963
      @markg7963 2 года назад +14

      Its not the altimeter that caused the problem, it’s that the basic instrument scan of the ADI and power. Attitude and power get set and monitored. The concept is called control and performance. You set a situation with the adi and power, and you monitor the performance with your monitoring instruments (so adi and engine thrust is the control, monitor instruments are everything else…VVI, altimeter, airspeed, heading, etc). Look at the simulation how much pitch down got put into the scenario, with the power up, these guys were goners long before they realized it. Every accident is a chain, and in this one a glaring weak link in that chain was the lack of basic flying skills of the FO. He never should have been in an airplane…any airplane. And if there is any good news it’s that he wasn’t flying a load of 250 passengers. RIP to the 3 that were killed that day.

    • @t.p.mckenna
      @t.p.mckenna 2 года назад +3

      @@markg7963 Thanks very much for that.

    • @annehaight9963
      @annehaight9963 2 года назад +6

      Learning to really trust your instruments and not your body's panic is something that requires intensive, constant practice and training. Some people don't have what it takes to be a pilot, and this FO seems to have been one of them.

  • @pfwww12
    @pfwww12 2 года назад +1

    I remember flying to Miami and the airport was crowded. The pilot said were going to go around one more time. As soon as he said that the thrusters started to jet and the plane instantly pitched up and flew back up in the air. Finally i understand how the plane could do that so fast. Its all automated. wow

  • @swerne01
    @swerne01 7 месяцев назад +1

    When you describe the PF as someone with "limited instrument flight proficiency" this is the same person you earlier stated received his proficiency rating on the 767 in Sept. 2017, a year and a half prior to this accident, and had 520 hours on the 767. The PM who is supposed to be watching the instruments, had even more experience. What was he looking at that didn't trigger warning bells in his head?

  • @averageboeing737
    @averageboeing737 2 года назад +45

    Amazing quality video like always! Always on time for when these come out :)

    • @tonyc.1544
      @tonyc.1544 2 года назад

      You cant see that they are showing an animation?

    • @averageboeing737
      @averageboeing737 2 года назад +1

      Um obviously yeah? I use the simulator myself lmfao. Think you're a little confused...

    • @PorkChopJones
      @PorkChopJones 2 года назад

      I agree very fine video

  • @tamaraalifia
    @tamaraalifia 2 года назад +13

    RIP to the pilot and their crew..without you guys we can't get what we bought. You worked so hard for us every single day and night even in bad weather so the package arrived on time :( you deserve paradise

  • @makavelifei
    @makavelifei 2 года назад +1

    these videos are so well made

  • @Ghazibinhafiz
    @Ghazibinhafiz 2 года назад

    Flight channel, you are the best !

  • @Staminist-MMF-80
    @Staminist-MMF-80 2 года назад +6

    @TheFlightChannel - I've been a subscriber since you were in your early few thousand club. I always knew your channel will grow and fast and I was right. But you grew too! Your effort is always showing, the research, the animations, music... Enthusiasm at its best

  • @friendlyavocado4319
    @friendlyavocado4319 2 года назад +22

    My dad actually used to know the pilot. Used to fly with him at Commute Air, parted ways after my dad went to Allegiant. The pilot then went to United Express. I remember the day very well, my dad had actual been in Houston that same day.
    May all 3 Onboard Rest In Peace

  • @craigbathurst1185
    @craigbathurst1185 2 года назад +1

    Reminds me of the movie I saw yesterday: Cast Away. Watched the first part and the last part. That’s all you need to watch.

  • @deeprollingriver5820
    @deeprollingriver5820 2 года назад +1

    If my plane starts going down, I’m screaming very loud, “CHECK YOUR INSTRUMENT PANELS, DAMN IT!”

  • @Argonaut320
    @Argonaut320 2 года назад +37

    you never mentioned that the Capt did in fact tried to recover struggling pulling up, while the FO (with long history if failed trainings and Type ratings, not mentioned here...) was instead pushing down to their death

    • @Minuet888
      @Minuet888 2 года назад +1

      I think the flight you are thinking of is different. I recall one that you are talking about but it’s not this one

    • @WestAirAviation
      @WestAirAviation 2 года назад +6

      @@Minuet888 Patrizio is correct. The CA of this Atlas 767 crash pulled full aft, but the split elevator design didn't allow him to save this aircraft.

    • @WestAirAviation
      @WestAirAviation 2 года назад +4

      @Alejandro brunner Well, you're wrong, but you're probably used to that.
      The FO wasn't an affirmative action hire. He got the job because he lied on his resume, and duped the Check Airman into giving him a 2nd shot.
      There's a reason we haven't had a single US based Major Airliner to crash with fatalities since 2001. We don't let the wrong people get into the seat. FO Conrad was a case of lying and cheating, that can never again be repeated.

    • @WestAirAviation
      @WestAirAviation 2 года назад +3

      @Alejandro brunner I'm curious how you'd have handled the two pilots of the Learjet 35A that crashed in Teterboro New Jersey back in '17. Watch a video on them and get back to me.
      I want to know how they were any different from Conrad, besides the obvious.

    • @KrK007
      @KrK007 2 года назад +1

      @Alejandro brunner Agreed, you don't make "simple mistakes", it's not a mistake with you, it's deliberate malice as you're supremacist trash. Reap what you sow.

  • @spaceace1006
    @spaceace1006 2 года назад +44

    So sad for the Crew and their surviving loved ones.

  • @lodersracing
    @lodersracing Год назад

    The Captain.... "What's goin' on?" ..... wow, just wow!

  • @adotintheshark4848
    @adotintheshark4848 2 года назад +1

    Yet another example of why a pilot has to use and trust his instruments. Can you imagine coming out of the clouds and seeing the ground rushing up at you?

  • @gigig2492
    @gigig2492 2 года назад +10

    The irony is that the family of the incompetent FO is suing the airline. He should never have been in that cockpit to begin with. Affirmative action has no place in aviation.

    • @NigelThornbery
      @NigelThornbery 2 года назад +4

      What is it with the families of the guilty always suing for money ?

    • @YankeeGirl226
      @YankeeGirl226 2 года назад +1

      What does affirmative action have to do with it? How many white incompetent pilots have killed people? Stop being an idiot.

  • @shutterbugshirlstravels
    @shutterbugshirlstravels 2 года назад +11

    Heartbreaking.... On one of my last flights, my passenger jet was following another Amazon cargo 767 while waiting to take off, and, of course, it looked exactly like the one in this video. Except I didn't know that Amazon is painted underneath the fuselage (on the belly). I hope a crash like this never happens again!!!

  • @nolanbennett2734
    @nolanbennett2734 2 года назад +1

    they. were. so. close.
    this is stuff that you can’t forget from student pilot to 767. always trust your instruments

  • @generaldvw
    @generaldvw 2 года назад

    Great job TFC. RIP

  • @vladimirpoutine7522
    @vladimirpoutine7522 2 года назад +4

    I'm always excited when I see a new video from TheFlightChannel! Amazing work.

  • @WendyKS93
    @WendyKS93 2 года назад +4

    Thank you Flight Channel for covering this and letting us know what happened on this unfortunately fatal flight.

  • @khairlines
    @khairlines 2 года назад

    This is my favorite channel on youtube

  • @lachlanbird9688
    @lachlanbird9688 2 года назад

    Thank you for reporting .

  • @cmcer1995
    @cmcer1995 2 года назад +64

    Another tragedy well covered and explained. I hope they found a way to prevent similar accidents from happening again.

    • @s.t.santos5928
      @s.t.santos5928 2 года назад +6

      It would have paid had they hired a smarter FO.

    • @AimForTheBushes908
      @AimForTheBushes908 2 года назад

      The fact that this channel srill has crashes to show us tell la us they did not.

    • @etherealbutterfly
      @etherealbutterfly Год назад

      @@s.t.santos5928 And a CAPTAIN that caught the mistakes the FO was making.

  • @williamloh9018
    @williamloh9018 2 года назад +25

    Another easily fixed failure: The FAA still does not have a database to keep track of pilots who should not be. Companies should have a way to report on significantly below average piloting skills/behavior...so this sort of accident can be avoided. Or....?

    • @thewholetruth_333
      @thewholetruth_333 2 года назад

      @Nicki Bluhm💝 lmao

    • @Anurania
      @Anurania 2 года назад +1

      Maybe the union opposes it. I was thinking recently that aircraft should have cameras because they provide much more information than the voice recorder, so I looked it up and apparently the NTSB has been calling for cameras in the cockpit for over a decade but the pilots union is blocking it.

  • @CycolacFan
    @CycolacFan 2 года назад +1

    Always appreciate the explanation as well as the non-sensationalist and factual way these videos are presented, but just once it would be nice to see one where somebody, ideally everybody, survives.

  • @danmortenson5274
    @danmortenson5274 2 года назад +1

    Add an audio warning that the "Go-Around mode is activated, and operating." It was the unacknowledged activation of that feature that caused the first minutes of the bad response. Evidently, the "loud" click that announced the bad input, while enough to make it into the Black Box, wasn't enough for a busy pilot (or two) to notice.

  • @JasonFlorida
    @JasonFlorida 2 года назад +13

    I have seen multiple videos on this but you always seem to absolutely knock it out of the park! Amazing video, incorporating the audio and video you are a real pro at this and as a fan for years you just keep getting better and better. I really love you and your channel!

    • @brucelee4996
      @brucelee4996 2 года назад +2

      Mentour Pilot is the one who belts it out-of-the-park.

    • @JasonFlorida
      @JasonFlorida 2 года назад +2

      @@brucelee4996 not really he has copped out to doing these air crash investigations after he already tried and failed at the original content that Inthis is better than him just copying everyone else. This guy is the original

    • @cynthiadavid5282
      @cynthiadavid5282 2 года назад

      Excellent videos of this channel

  • @anjou6497
    @anjou6497 2 года назад +15

    It reminds us just how professional the air traffic controllers are. No matter what.

    • @bldn10
      @bldn10 2 года назад +1

      Well, I know they aren't perfect and are busy but you think they might have noticed that this flight on approach descent should not be climbing.

  • @Zalley
    @Zalley 2 года назад

    Thanks - informative video!

  • @ernestweaver9720
    @ernestweaver9720 2 года назад +2

    My heart goes out to those involved. Rest in peace. Please don't make the same mistake again.

  • @eezyclsmooth9035
    @eezyclsmooth9035 2 года назад +6

    All Aircraft Crashes are always "Headline News". I live in the Houston area and I only vaguely remember this crash.
    It was in the news and then it was gone ! It is sad but, Unless there is a massive loss of life, people tend to forget.
    Thanks to this fine channel we usually get at least some answers.

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 года назад +2

      I remember when this Atlas Air crash happened. At first the speculation on what caused it to nose dive into the lagoon was hushed up. The story disappeared for awhile before being revealed.

  • @juanelfuango5250
    @juanelfuango5250 2 года назад +8

    I recall when this happened and never followed up afterwards - it all makes sense now, tks

  • @deadstick8624
    @deadstick8624 2 года назад +2

    Airspeed and Attitude -- ALWAYS pay attention to Airspeed and Attitude.

  • @shockingblow94
    @shockingblow94 2 года назад +1

    Situational awareness is so very important for pilots. It seems as though many pilots lose their SA when flying IFR.. 3 sets of eyes in that cockpit and they all failed to monitor the altimeter. Very unfortunate.