A CRUCIAL Weakness In The Plane's Structure | Flying On Empty | Mayday: Air Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- On January 21, 2000, Alaska Airlines Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer Bill Tansky prepare for a routine flight to San Francisco, unaware of a crucial weakness in the plane’s structure.
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From Season 1 Episode 6 "Flying On Empty": Thompson, 53, and Tansky, 57, are among Alaska’s most experienced pilots. Shortly after takeoff, they discover a serious problem with the aircraft’s tail. The stabiliser, the horizontal surface on the tailplane, won’t move.
The stabiliser plays a vital part in controlling the angle of the plane in flight. The pilots struggle to keep the plane level. The stabiliser in the tail is jammed, pushing the aircraft toward the ground. To compensate, they have to pull back on the control column. The plane is unstable. The pilots request to divert from San Francisco to the nearer airport in Los Angeles. They try again to free up the jammed stabiliser. The plane shudders violently and dives 7000 feet in one minute at a 90-degree angle as the pilots fight hard at the controls.
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Why is the audio jacked up?
WTH is wrong with the audio? Is this a fake page?
sound is terrible
If you don't explain that in the video, you have failed completely. This isn't a game show idiot.
The sound is really weird on this one.
They're just droids
Flight attendants are pretty damn awesome, thinking they going down IN the water, and STILL doing their jobs.....thats something else
Yes. They deserve much credit also.
The skills of two pilot is priceless also the cabin crew. Its very hard to stay calm on that situation.
The thumbnail alone tells me this is Air Transat, not Alaska 261. Regardless, both episodes have been uploaded multiple times already.
@Jaquan Kelsor lol right. Who is this Karen and why does she feel the need to throw her most likely very heavy weight around?
Yeah they have a been uploaded multiple times only just three times with one of the three videos being Clickbait which is this one and the other two are the real ones
@@xnibbyjonas nobody cares
@@bitchpepper can’t hear you over people not caring
@@xnibbyjonas clean the white male goo out of your ears then
The pilots were amazing. they did a great job. I wish the music at the end was lower so I can hear the investigation's explanation.
Another reason why I left aviation. When the bean counter runs the shop, the mechanic loses their voice.
It’s hard to hear the dialogue since all the noise in the background is much louder.
What would be the most terrifying for me as a passenger would be to have my child with me. You would have to force yourself to be calm for their sakes.
Thumbs up for the pilots...Great work
whoever mixed the audio should never mix ever again. The BACKGROUND music is so loud you can barely hear anything.
Thank God for the Azores and those skilled pilots.
It was a rough landing but it was a damn good one.
Guys and girls this episode is clearly Clickbait seriously it is so click bait
I think they should laser beam, instead of flash light. The laser beam will be reflected or refracted by the fuel stream.
When the refraction or reflection is constant and is on similar path straight path while moving the laser ray beam to the left and right , means that fuel is leaking.
I think it will be help them better to know about it at night
Any landing that you can complain about or criticize is a good landing because you are alive .
Good pilots !
My take away from this is that the pressure from the airlines to have all planes in the air making $$ over-rides safety - but I would love to have seen these 300 people, booked on the flight, standing i a terminal,being told that the flight was cancelled due to a mis-sized fuel connect that could possible bring the plane down over the Atlantic... Would all 300+ have said "no problem, we'd rather be safe" and happily waited for another flight? LOL _ They would have been inciting a riot! "We paid for the flight" It was a no win situation for the airline! People need to get real about air safety and correct Maimtenance - most planes in service are older than most peoples parents!! I quit flying in 2011 - a 30,000+ free fall is not my idea of fun travel!
This incident reminds me of Gimili airplane landing in Canada....
Season 1 Episode 6. I see that they learned a lot from these early episodes. This one was difficult to watch. The narrator could often not be understood because the actors were also speaking, or the music was way too loud.
Of course, gotta blame the pilots for something, like they didn't just land a full passenger jet safely, losing zero lives and broke a record of gliding without engines and hydraulics farther than any plane has ever gone in those conditions! Also, not to mention the serious emotional roller coaster they went through trying to save their passengers and themselves. Yeah, good on you investigators to place blame where it isn't warranted.. 😒
The manager that disregard the mechanics concern should've been charged with negligence.
Also, the captain made a huge mistake.
He didnt listen when copilot kept telling him that there may be a leak.
Instead they crossed fed the right engine which had the leak, therefore much of the fuel was thrown out through the leak.
They should have assumed that it was a leak and land land before the engines lost power our. But they also didn't do that because they were afraid that they were gonna get in trouble with management in case there wasn't a League.
This is where the airline management is at fault, safety should come 1st but we know that these airlines prioritize profits .
I like the bald guy who was smiling while he talked about diving over the 400-foot cliff. "We're toast!" 🤣
I swear they got this episode 3-4X’s in this season
Music too loud! Can't hear narrator.
Psst! You have uploaded this multiple times!
Too much noise can barely hear the coments
8:42 Keep monitoring your oil level. That is the advice. Wow, how come I did not think of that?
That’s crazy… he should of said yes instead of not yet😢. But… they are the ones that try to make the best decisions without causing panic.
Way to go Pilots!
The pilots did a great job
Title should have been mini mayday marathon but again thank you for these amazing uploads ❤️😊
A great Pilot,
Description does not match this episode. And, much od the audio has some serious echo.
This episode has left me speechless... the lack of engine noise must have been terrible to stand...
THANKS GOD...
Cool pilot 😎. Should have turned off the crossfeed though. Pretty obvious the fuel was going somewhere.
I’ve never heard or seen any of these where they call maintenance and they help the pilots
They did an excellent job of landing this bird without power but, the thing is on this flight, they got a low fuel warning but they thought it was a bad reading. Think about it, if your fuel drops faster out of one wing tank than it does the other, what would be the next alarm you would expect to get? An imbalance alarm. Which is exactly what they got. What are the chances that 2 sensors, that correlate to each other, would go out at the same time? The imbalance alarm should have told them, without a shadow of a doubt, that there's a fuel leak.
I believe the checklist was changed after this incident to not open the crossfeed valve when you have a fuel imbalance.
I've probably seen this but don't remember it. So I'll watch it again.
Whatever you do, DO NOT click on any links. This is a pirated video.
I love this series
Bless the pilots 🙏 can't imagine the stress they are under in situations like this. Worrying about all the passengers that depend on them, what they need to do to try and get them down as safely as they can, that they probably don't have time to worry about their lives.
Thank you Jesus they landed without no injuries 🙏
They were really lucky, first an runway was available to land, until the plane loses all its momentum, the oil didn't caught any fire and burnt engines.
Alaska doesn’t have many Arbus in their fleet if at all. They also dont fly to Toronto. 261 was mid day coming back fromPuerto Vallarta .
Air transit. Alaska has A32O Neo btw
I hate it when the producer plays loud music and you can't hear the program.
Such a negligence must pay for environmental damage too
Omg I would be so so scared
Thank the lord for him watching over everyone.
AMEN
What has this to do with AlaskaAir?
Better check first as so fast fuel finish is weird.
Better not cross valve
If I was the captain the fist thing I would have done was the staying alive strut walk all the way to the terminal.
"Ok everyone, we have another plane coming to fly you the rest of the way"
No emmies for sound quality on this one.
50 minutes of video. 50 minutes of friggin commercials
This is why tri- and quad-engine passenger jets and the fuel to support them are still a good idea.
Not in this case, in a trijet or a quad-jet the end result would had been the same if the same course had been taken
@@Rookie_One We can’t know that since the engineering would have been radically different.
@@DeanStephen a cross feed valve is still a cross feed valve no matter how many engines you havr. And quad jets still used the same wet wings design for the fuel reservoirs. So if the same chain of events happened, with the same wrong part issue, end result would had been the same
I keep noticing the giant hole in the system' there is no Quality Assurance supervisor or manager to sign off anything that a tech or mechanic touches.
10:10 ptfs engine sounds
Prayer played a role...The power of prayer!
Most interesting
I just don’t understand why the pilots don’t get up once or twice a long flight to just look at the conditions of the plane. Or, have the flight crew keep a lookout?
I have thought to put faired-in cellphone cameras in strategic locations on the exterior of planes, e.g. one looking at each engine’s inlet from the fuselage, with monitors in the cockpit and the flight crew spaces.
Love happy endings
sooooo... there's a cliff at the end of the runway. Why can't the plane land in the other direction, so they would not head toward the cliff?
These passengers are a pain
26:10 how did over half die at that low speed?
Because of the fuselage breakage when hitting the water. Water at slight speed is like concrete
It wasn't going that slowly. It's called "slow-motion". The pilot also didn't land wings-level.
@@gingerskydust6573 Yes, water is very dense. We forget that because when high speeds are not involved it feels very forgiving.
@@taylorwoolston8856 Yes, I too think if you don't use the tail to be something that slows you down (my first choice but it does not work because planes are too fragile), you may be able to land on water more level and have a better outcome than having people drowned by fast water rushing in BEFORE they could get themselves out. People would have had to be experts on the situation to have a better survival rate. But airlines do not invest that much in much of a training session where the whole goal is having a chance of surviving anything with skill and intent. I believe that almost ANYTHING is survivable with enough skill and intent (positive thinking and no secret death-wishes).
This video is about Air Transit 236 which had no deaths, not Alaska 261
I just watched this vid from you a day or so ago...really?
Keep your problems to yourself.
Robotic voices. Probably from the year 4001
0:59 THE GUY IN THE PHILLIPHINES AIRLINES
He was using all his frequent flier miles.
Reupload
DITCH THAT MUSIC!!!
Can't watch his videos. The music is distracting and completely unnecessary
The narrator is often poorly audible.
Sighhh, watched 👀
WHY DO YOU UPLOAD THE SAME VIDEOS EVERY FEW MONTHS????
They really need to have a pilot consult on the dialog. Pretty cringeworthy
The audio made me feels like im in alien space ship
Hereos exists 👏
A CRUCIAL Weakness In The Plane's Structure?
BONEHEAD CREW
I would never travel by Air Transat, they treat their customers abominably!!! 🛫👎
arrogance is the cause of this. Need to train away this in pilots.
Sus
Draw near to Jesus and he will draw near to you
V SEREDINE ADVENTURE
Profits over people. That's the Canadian corporate way.
Can you please stop giving away key story information in the video title, I like to discover the story by watching the show.
Once again no glory to God, this is disgusting!!!
Pilot was an idiot, Air Transat and the pilots themselves knew that therefore declined to take part or comment on this film. 🤷🏻♂️
The worst part of this whole ordeal, is that you’re stuck on an island in the Atlantic. That means you have to jump on an airplane again to get back to where you came from. 🫠
NOW, THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST EPISODE, I'VE SEEN...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣