Can SIX pilots save this doomed plane??
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On February 28th, 2018, an Airbus A320 encountered a cascade of critical failures while on a training exercise in Tallinn, Estonia. The flight controls had stopped working, the flaps were stuck, and the right hand engine had caught fire. The cockpit was filled with a terrifying array of bells and alarms, as the pilots tried desperately to bring the plane back for an emergency landing. How had this routine training exercise gone so terribly wrong, and how would the flight crew get out of this life and death situation? This is without a doubt, one of the most fascinating and unlikely stories in the history of aviation. This is the story of SmartLynx Estonia flight 9001.
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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Flight background
02:05 A small detail
03:29 Incident touchdown
04:58 Out of control
05:50 Manual pitch trim
06:24 Dive
07:12 Partial control
07:30 Engine fire
08:20 ECAM messages
09:23 Turnback
11:07 Final approach
11:25 Engine 2 fail
11:53 Dual engine failure
12:24 Final Glide
13:29 Impact
13:56 Aftermath and damage
14:29 ELAC 1
16:19 Actual vs Commanded discordance
17:29 Incident approach
17:58 SEC - Spoiler Elevator Computer
18:42 Safety changes and improvements 
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Very much worth the wait and brilliantly done as ever. This was a totally new one on me and very interesting.
Tbh as a FF I sometimes wonder if it's normal to have such a fascination with air disasters, near misses and close calls. I remember once watching Mentour's video on the Tenerife KLM/ Pan Am dual 747 tragedy whilst flying to the Bahamas which definitely elicited a quizzical look from the young lady who came to ask me if I wanted another drink and saw it on my laptop. She did comment on her return that she had strangely gotten into those videos/ shows since becoming CC but she wasn't sure she'd ever watch such things while on a plane. Being me I couldn't resist telling her that was probably just as well coz she's not supposed to be watching TV whilst at work & that's how these things happen 😆
Such exceptionally good presentation and production qualities ought to put you in the 10M subs club soon
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Is there a video on the particular circumstances in depth that resulted in the shutdown of what happened.
Trainee Pilot " ... argh ... Captain? ... Argh ... Will this be on the test?!"
😂😂
Poor trainee pilot... I hope this experience didnt dissuade him as well as the rest of the trainees from finishing their programs and becoming pilots.
i thought the same thing... if i was a trainee i certainly would think about it twice🤭
Talk about trial by fire
what cracks me up is that, while the captain forgot to hit the transmit button when calling for mayday, no one on the ground seemed to noticed a 320 slamming into the runway and taking off again and thought to call them.
It's likely the Air Controller knew this was a training flight and thought maybe this was part of an "aggressive training"!
@mofleh177 when I was 10, my step-dad took me, my sister and her friend to an empty lot for her "driving class". A lot of putting the old Mercedes up on two wheels and shit. He said it was to teach her she has control of the car, but really he was a crazy motherfucker who never took the boring route.
*600 ft above the ground*
Holy ****. That must have been one of the most hopeless looking dives they'd ever experienced, and they still flew the absolute hell out of that thing.
This kind of piloting is right up there with what the crew of ua232 pulled off; absolutely phenomenal.
I would not be surprised or disappointed if those pilots flipped the bird to the bird as they disembarked. The stress must'a been immense.
God's intervention for sure
@@GodiscomingBhappygod aint real buddy otherwise you’re saying he let the thousands of other air crash victims die
@@Aisakdik69 sure he is, he is all around, death is part of life, you are not meant to understand when God calls them home. Your time will come too, as everybody else´s. Blessings.
@@Aisakdik69you assume God is supposed to turn the world into a utopia and have no test for the human he created.
I'm always happy when everyone survives such a terrifying incident. Hats off to the instructor pilots who brought the plane down safely. I hope the trainee pilots weren't put off flying by this incident.
The training was so real we almost died during our touch and go.
They told us "so that's how you handle that kind of situation."
Now I drive a school bus for a living.
Were you on this plane? That's absolutely crazy!!
The most insidious thing about this particular event is that, aside from using the wrong lubricant on the switch, every decision made by both the pilots and the designers of the aircraft's systems seems to be perfectly reasonable on its face. It's only when you take all those decisions together and throw a very specific fault into the mix as well that they lead to a near fatal accident.
Engineers have to always be thinking about the "what-ifs" when designing systems, doubly so for safety-critical ones. That's why Boeing's decisions surrounding MCAS were so shocking. No engineer worth their salt should have ever signed off on a system that was so obviously deficient and potentially dangerous as MCAS turned out to be. But this is different. There's probably no engineer on Earth that could have imagined a scenario where all four flight computers shut down one after the other with the exception of complete power loss in the aircraft combined with a failure of the RAT, which, quite honestly, nobody would expect anybody to survive anyway. But that's what happened here, via a sequence of events that nobody could have reasonably predicted.
This was, as Mentour Pilot might put it, a black swan event. There was no way to predict it as a possibility, no way to train for it, and probably no chance of it ever happening again even with the new precautions that have been brought in since it happened.
Swiss Cheese comes to mind too...
@@EannaButler I'll have some mushrooms on mine 😂
Not only does software have to account for unreasonable inputs it has to account for mechanical failures simultaneously. Good luck on that ever happening in all cases to prevent an accident. 🧐
You're too easy on the engineers responsible for designing the software to control these systems. Failures should be graceful.
Actually the fact system 3 and 4 shut down was preventable enough. They assumed if one landing gear is in the air and the other isnt that means the computer is broken. Thats a completely false assumption, it is a situation that can happen. Shutting it down only for that feels very unreasonable
Appreciate that the content you produce is often of incidents which are less well known or heard of. Thanks.
Yeah 100%
I'm amazed that ACI never covered this (unless I'm wrong). It's such an intense story
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@@bluecoffee8414 ACI? I'm not aware of that channel
Agree
I'm Estonian so of course I saw this incident on the news after it happened, but I had no idea about the details behind it. I just knew there was a crash at Tallinn airport and everyone survived. So this video was very eye-opening! What an absolute nightmare flight for the pilots and just amazing work for landing the plane! Thanks for covering it.
Nice work. You described the technical aspects very well. Good balance between story, visuals and relevant technical items!
Thanks Danny!
Those trainees got a hell of a lesson. Glad that everyone made it down safely and hats off to the skill of the instructors!
Your excellent narration is the key differentiator of your channel versus others doing similar content on YT. You have raised the bar substantially!
Thank you!
Agreed. I like being able to listen and not have to READ the entire video...not gonna name names.
This channel is giving Mayday a run for its money, that's for sure.
For me, hearing someone who knowS about the grammar of singular and plural is such a relief. Like listening to a great singer after having suffered through a school concert.
I think Mayday is focusing more on the drama (and the experience) of the people involved, while GDA is focusing more on the technical elements and events that led to these disasters, plus the results of the investigations that followed. Both channels are doing a great job in their own way. @@aerohk
What the trainee pilot was thinking: I should have gone to medical school.
Amazing aviating, especially on the part of the instructor. I hope this raised the trainees' respect for him to a whole new level. And that it didn't put them off flying.
Man, machine and computers. When all 3 are working in harmony it's heavenly, when something happens to break that bond it's sheer hell. The instructor surely deserved some kind of honour and decoration for what can only be described as a remarkable piece of airmanship. If this had been programmed into a simulator, I bet it would never have got a successful landing. Love your style and presentation Green Dot Aviation, you have new subscriber
All I can say is WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! Excellent video and phenomenal end result. Regardless of fly by wire technology these two pilots remembered how to fly the plane even at its most rudimentary they stayed laser locked on utilizing what they "did have" and flew the plane. Miraculous, simply fabulous!
I live in Estonia and Latvia, but never have heard about the given incident, but really impressed to hear it on your chanel. Respects to SmartLinx instructors and trainees, trully impossible situation.
As I said before, there’s nothing like your videos on RUclips, and I repeat: nothing! Definitely not “Mayday”, or some pilots retelling well known crashes. What makes “near misses” more interesting is the added input from the crew which gives not only a deeper insight, but in the end more safety for the entire industry.
Check out Disaster Breakdown, AirSpace, The Flight Channel, and Three Greens. I like them all.
I've heard of this particular incident before but you still had me on the edge of my seat for the whole flight, wow!!
PHEW...that was nerve racking just to see it...all from the wrong lubricant...😬😱
so glad they knew how to fly...🛫
Thanks from Scotland...✨
i been in the sim with manual trim 0nly. n0 eng fire. the trim is very sluggish t0 react. al0mst imp0ssible t0 make a landing. we get trained 0nly t kee it in the air. n0t stall 0r crash
Simulator - I wonder if Pilots can go into the simulator and select incidents like this, sort of a "greatest hits of disasters" and practice whether they could deliver the appropriate results.
Good one! :)
I'd imagine it's possible to some degree. Crash Investigators pretty much always have pilots recreate the incident using as much data as they can gather to see if it was a recoverable incident or how likely it is that a pilot would be able to get out of X, Y, Z which they do by seeing how many sets of pilots can and can't achieve a non total loss result.
All that data has to be programmed in and whilst some countries have the resources and facilities for the investigating branch of their country to have their own Sim's/ access to. There are many more that don't so private/ airline/ manufacturer facilities would be used. If I was the guy asked to programme in those parameters you can be sure i'm gonna save that one for later.
I have a firsthand answer... If you have time remaining in your sim block, a cool instructor will ask "want to try anything?" In the crj900 I've personally done dual engine failures, water ditching, barrel rolls, and weaving through valleys.
@@BobbyGeneric145 I have had an instructor spring asymmetric flap extension on takeoff on me in a single engine GA full cockpit sim. Scared the pants off me. He didn't warn me.
@@MrJuanDover something I've always wondered... We do V1 engine failures in the sim, and its programmed to fail right when you are rotating. Why not change it up and have v1 well below Vr so that you are draggin along a dead engine a good 5 seconds before rotating. Guaranteed that many would attempt aborting after v1.
I wonder if anyone ever checked back with those 4 trainee pilots to see how they made out afterwards and if any of them were too traumatized to continue training? I would think that after this event they all would have become the best problem solving pilots flying today! Those are the ones I want flying my airplane that's for sure!
I doubt they learned much from it personally. Learning while fearing for your life is hard enough, and not being involved but just sitting in the cabin meant they really couldn't possibly have learnt anything apart from "don't give up, maybe you'll survive"
Wow. . . just wow. . . thank goodness for experienced pilots!! Kudos!! What a nightmare!! Green Dot Aviation, excellent presentation and explanation!! Great graphics!! Totally awesome!! This had me on the 'edge of my seat'!! Thanks!! And, glad all were able to get safely on the ground after such a horrific ordeal!! 👍✈✈👍
The irony was if the captain kept pressing the ELAC's off and on the nothing would have happened. It was only when he didn't it all went wrong
and there is no need to stop elevator trim during touch and goes. it auto sets to 0 u can fly no prob. cuz its smart enough to realise that pilot may abort the landing.
They should have gotten an award...good job
All my years of watching air crash investigations and I never heard of this one! What a good job by the inspector pilot!
Well done on the video. What a story of airman-ship. Very impressive they kept their heads together in the face of imminent death. I especially enjoy seeing the flight instructor realizing the plane is damaged beyond repair, might as well suck out every operational second it can provide to save everyone's lives rather than trying to save the plane or its engines.
Excellent video! I was terrified just watching it, I can't imagine what the crew felt. And what a way to learn for the trainees. I wonder if they went on to continue their flight training. It really shows how a skilled pilot can make all the difference. I look forward to more great videos from your channel, thanks for making them!
Thank you very much!
Up front I'm not a pilot... However, I ride a motorcycle, and have for about 30 years. I've seen some pretty gnarly sh*t over that time, and (so far) managed to only have some truly hairy close calls. Riding CAN be absolutely terrifying from time to time, even when you do it well...
SO I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out most but maybe not all those students continued their training. Those who did continue truly DO have "the bug". They'll likely become much better pilots for the experience in their formative years of schooling.
After some of my own hairiest moments, I've taken a break for 3 days (at the longest) to seriously consider just how much I love the sport... Then I got the gear back on and MADE myself go ride... even just a trip to a parking lot and some drills (figure-8's, brake-and-escape, etc)... AND by the time I was into my second or third drill, I was "over it". I can't quit... It's MY "bug"... if that makes any sense. I've always been that way about it, and friends joke that I'd bleed 10W-40 or that I'd rather ride than breathe...
We're going to face moments of truth once in a while. If you can find YOUR "bug" then those moments will make you stronger and help you grow. I truly hope you do, and for those student pilots that might've given it up on this account, it wasn't quite their "bug" yet... and that's also OKAY. ;o)
That was tense. Nothing takes the place of pilot’s training and flight experience. Great job.
We've recently had the 20 year anniversary of the deadliest crash in the history of German aviation, a collision of two planes near the Lake Constance.
I would love to see a video about this incident from you, because I like the calm way you present these things.
Collision of which 2 planes? Is it the TU154 v the DHL 757 collision you're meaning? If so, I'd also like this guy to cover that one. Far the best Air accident story teller on RUclips, this channel.
@@michaelosgood9876 Yes.
Was there another collision near Lake Constance at some point?
@@johannageisel5390 Don't know if your being facetious or not but I'm from the other side of the world & don't know of all the accidents around Europe. Can't say for sure
@@michaelosgood9876 I have never heard of another collision in this place, so I was wondering if there was another one I did not know about, because you were asking as if there were more than one of these incidents.
@@johannageisel5390 All good. Actually, I thought the Interflug IL 62.crash was fairly massive
Does anyone remember to mention what a good job the crew did? There were many situations where a wrong decision would have cost lives. Excellent work and right decisions.
Amazing video, my favourite content is when you cover lesser known incidents like this one with great learnings to be had. Thankyou 😊
Glad you enjoyed it Andrew!
Pretty complex explanation for this which you present in a clear way so even people like me can understand. Well done!
I really like that you create these videos more to explain what is happening with the airplane mechanics and the psychology behind accidents and near disasters... it's nice seeing cases that don't just involve crashes. Thank you so much wonderful work.
One of the best channels of 2023 for me - well done. Thank you.
Thank you!
What an incredible set of compounding circumstances! What I find really fascinating about it is that the only actual error was the wrong lubricant type. All the behaviour of the pilots and computer software was, technically, correct, yet it resulted in disaster from the deviation from technical correctness to _actual_ reality. And that's just one of thousands of system-interactions aboard a sophisticated aircraft like that. I wonder what others might be lurking and waiting to be found in another unique situation?
Great point and that’s a good question. There must be similarly unlikely combinations just waiting to be discovered.
I wouldn't like to be the one who found them 😬
@@GreenDotAviation For sure. Working in Network Administration/engineering, I would say a good _half_ of outages, crashes and other problems are the result of unknown unique circumstances. The code behind devices nowadays is incredibly complex, and the reality is that it's not possible to account for "everything" a person might do. They, unfortunately, tend to only be found when they happen.
@@ChristophersMum Yeah, no kidding. :/
@@GreenDotAviation why did the instructor retract the flaps when deciding to *not* reject the takeoff? Wouldn’t the impact of the aircraft with the ground after lifting off have not happened with the flaps still extended? The damage caused by the impact as a result would have not happened and the aircraft could have still been repairable after landing..
U gotta have some balls to be a pilot! Hats off to the men and women out there flying us around! Thk u!
Wow that pilot is good.. what a stressful situation. Terrifying.
Could you imagine the first time you're flying an airplane and all the stuff happens all my goodness LOL
My compliments to the Instructor. Above and beyond.
It begs the question how many flights take place where, even BEFORE take off, an alert, or fault, is displayed - but dismissed as "minor" - and about which, due to no deaths or injuries, we never hear, but which, in an alternate universe, are devastating......
This is a truly poop your pants situation! Holy Moly
what a crazy crazy incident. I absolutely love your animations and narration ♥♥ the use of MFS in this high quality is just stunning to watch.
what an absolutely epic story! thank you for making a video about this. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time!
Just as you indicated on your recent live stream, this was a very tense episode! Thank you. So very interesting.
geez i almost spit out my drink when i read the title, i flew on smartlynx a month ago, very good video btw
@@K1OIK "By the way"
Skilful glide in and landing under those circumstances and the stress level at that time
As always, great graphics, commentary, analysis and presentation.... please keep them coming.
Thanks! More on the way ✈️
I haven’t heard this story before. Great job with the production quality and overall storytelling
Not sure how you make some of the most tragic and horrific events ever palatable and interesting but thank you and keep going
I’ll take it, glad you’re enjoying them!
Excellent original content, well researched and presented.
Loved this episode. Such an unusual turn of events. I hope all pilots watch this.
Great job again! I haven't checked your listings yet, but have you covered what we call 'The Gimli Glider'? It was a Canadian flight that lost all engines and landed like a glider I think in Manitoba on an old abandoned military base airstrip. It's a good story about survival due to the experience of the pilots that saved the day just like this one. This story includes some close calls with civilians on the ground.
This is why we learn so many things only through incidents. This was basically a completely unpredictable confluence of factors. This one of the most interesting incidents I’ve ever seen.
I will also say that several of your videos have covered incidents that were either a blip on the news or weren't covered at all and the detail you go into is very much appreciated.
I hope the trainee pilots continued their training!
Very well done, Green Dot Aviation! Perfect command of technical details, and that lovely Irish accent. Great!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Radical. What a job done by the pilot. Amazing.
This shows has taught me one valuable reason I couldn't and shouldn't be pilot.......no calmness, I panic can't think can't speak...no keeping my mind in calmness
awesome content!! much love from Bangkok, Thailand 🙏❤️
Thanks! 🙏
Wow, these pilots really are getting some serious hands on experience
this story is absolutely nuts
What a great video you've created! Thank you for uploading and sharing!! ✈
The training experience from hell.
All these videos are extremely well done, clear and detailed - what a great work - CONGRATS!!!
I'd never heard of this incident before. Incredibly interesting nonetheless and definitely a case of a confluence of issues which thankfully would never normally happen.
I'm only 5 minutes in and this is utterly terrifying!!!!
After binging on your videos for days, I finally found one from my country. Yay! I knew nothing about this incident beforehand though. Thanks for your awesome content!
what an excellent video. Highly underrated creator, hats off to you!
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Wonder how many more scenarios Airbus didn't account for.
I’m a fan of this genre of videos and I really appreciate the way you explain everything. I have no knowledge of aviation terms and what not. So thank you for helping me
I love the disaster recovery videos. please keep em comin.
Thanks for all the great videos!
Much appreciated Julie!
excellent video as always! i noticed a typo in the chapter list though - it should say dual engine failure!
Ah! Good catch - fixed
Absolutely love your videos. Great visuals and awesome narration.
One additional thing Airbus have changed after this incident, is that the automatic retrim to the neutral position is now delayed until the aircraft has reached a slow speed. This way the instructor no longer needs to grab the trim wheel during base training.
This is a good presentation. Thanks for posting 😊
Brilliantly put together
Incredible video, and I'm equally amazed I've never heard of it. Reminds me of the Air Astana incident in Portugal
Lovely work can’t wait for more this is so intresting
More to come!
@@GreenDotAviation I’m excited!
These are my favorite stories. So good.
Absolutely LOVE your channel. Thank you.
A photo finish! Incredible!
Your content is great! Thank you!
Wow, talk about perfect storm!
I've made similar comments on other of your videos; but you really do an outstanding job. Kudos to you, sir
The trainees got to sit back and witness a hero at work.
I can’t believe this isn’t one of the most watched videos on the channel! An all-time favourite of mine!
That’s an incredible story 👍👍
Hats off to the instructor
Awesome video. Well done. And my hats off to the pilots and their expertise. You all are amazing!!
That was one hell of a roller coaster
I just discovered your chanel.
And this intro! love it👍
Cool video, as always, greetings from BKK 🚀😎
Glad you enjoyed!
A VERY good video full of great explanations and indepth knowledege of the A320.
amazing content! great storytelling!
Man, your starting music takes me back to my good old days of Project IGI. It has a very similar music! Ah, those good old days!
So well done that I’m scared and want to go to the back like the one trainee! WOW
Awesome content ... this is basically "air Netflix" for free :D
Brilliant video, really enjoyed this one.