My Dad landed his fighter jet with no landing gear while temporality blinded from loss of blood due to the injury he suffered when he and his plane were struck near Luke AFB in Arizona back in the mid 1950's. His story was written up in Collier's Magazine and was Titled "Belly It In". Soon after, the same story was condensed into a "Drama In Real Life" segment that ran in Reader's Digest! I can honestly say that IF Dad had not survived, I would not be typing this comment. He was a Captain in The USAF at the time of his serious accident and went on to do a one year tour of Vietnam and retire a Lt. Col after a 28 year career. Dad was absolutely A Lifer Of The Skies! Cheers Everyone
@@MustangsTrainsMowers He was a Squadron Leader teaching Pilots from other Countries and one of them accidently shot at a land target before he was authorized to do so and hit my Dad's plane that was below him.
Fully agree. And that stewardess that moved everyone to the forward cabins because she remember what had happened in another crash is the reason no one died.
Good morning from Ft Worth TX to everyone watching... My father was a private pilot for 60 years. In 1972, he experienced an engine failure just after takeoff in his newly purchased 1959 Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Luckily he had enough altitude for a safe dead-stick landing back at the airport he just departed from.
That was a very impressive performance. And they didn't just sit there for 5 hours, they worked on making a plan and working with the passengers so they knew what would happen and everone could move and not get confused when it was go time.
Incredible stories! A cousin relayed a couple of his miracle landings to me. Both in a US fighter jet. First was a failure of JATO rocket assisted launch (one failed to ignite), resulting in a flip over. Landed in a cemetery, inverted, walked away. Second being a high altitude goose strike. Successfully landed aircraft. Career ending injuries.
I once long ago I found an interview here on youtube with Captain Dardano from Taca 110. He was very entertaining to listen to and had some crazy stories.
I enjoyed seeing a positive, and highly interesting and entertaining, video about plane incidents. My favorite channel these days at it is full of.... History worth remembering!
In the first story, while all the crew were exemplary, the stewardess (yes, that's what they were called then) that moved passengers to the forward cabin, thus taking them out of the death-trap tail area that broke away on impact, is why no one died. Thanks to her memory of the death toll in another crash, when the tail also broke away, and immediate initiative everyone got to go home for dinner. I hope she was suitably honored.
My brother in law used to be a Marine F-18 pilot. When he was training over land in Florida prior to doing carrier landings - catching a cable at the airfield with his tailhook - his lost all his hydraulic fluid. He was told to fly out over the ocean and eject since the plane was no longer maneuverable. He asked for permission to try to catch the cable; they told him he could have one chance and if he couldn’t catch the cable the first time, to do as he was ordered and eject. He successfully caught the cable and saved the aircraft. He’s retired from the military now but still flying professionally.
First-rate aviation reporting, History Guy! This episode held my interest for a hour in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. Or maybe I couldn't sleep because it was so interesting! Either way, it was an informative and entertaining presentation.
Stories of brave pilots and crew never get old. I could enjoy hour upon hour of stories. If the spirit moves you, please consider more. Miracle Landings 2? Miracle Landings 3? Thanks!
My dad was shot down in WWII over France and had to bail out of his P-38 fighter/bomber. He was captured and wrote his experience in a wonderful story that I read over and over! Totally different subject, but still an exciting story. 😊
I don't consider myself an AV geek. Having said that, I'm always fascinated by anything aviation. Watching/hearing aviation history is always a great refreshment, giving a perspective to aviation that I normally don't yet know. Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!
We love Air Disasters and that story is one that I love. Totally amazing and the fact that the pilot has depth perception problems that he's learned to compensate for after being shot in the face just adds to the amazing feat he performed that day.
Re Flight 1549 (Hudson ditching), The Captain always gets a mention, (of course), however it was teamwork on by both the flight deck crew and and the cabin crew that made for a great outcome.
I was not aware of the Neva River incident. Funny. Most accidents are a string of smaller events that coalesce around the accident. Inevitably, bad luck almost always plays a role. But the same is true of safe landings after an aircraft has a series of unfortunate circumstances. There is also an element of chance. This necessarily includes some good luck. If a plane lands on the water, the relative calm of the water always plays a part. In the Pan Am, the Neva and the Miracle on the Hudson, the water was calm. Proximity to rescue vessels helped. Most people survive water landings if they can escape the plane before it sinks. Good weather, good airmanship and good luck increase survival. All of these passengers and crew had good fortune. They also had heroic pilots and boats nearby. All are great stories that deserve to be told.
Wonderful compilation of historical stories of civilian bravery. Russia is not our enemy, but has been embroiled in political fervor. Their accomplishments in aviation history needs to be remembered! Thank You! Our aviation history has not been as untarnished, as we have been led to believe!
Whether enemies or rivals or whatever you want to call them, I don't think that anyone wants their commercial airliners to crash, nor should we fail to appreciate when their commercial pilots save lives.
I loved this episode. Usually I hear stories about plane disasters were very few if any one lives. So did hear a string of episodes where incredible pilots were able to save all lives was refreshing and uplifting. Thank you
For flights over water / remote lands, there is something called ETOPS " Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards " This is a standard that the plane must be able to operate on one engine and still make it to an alternate safe landing location. ETOPS is also known at Engines Turn Otherwise Passengers Swim.
Great stories and they do deserve to be remembered. Given the current DEI requirements that companies like United Airlines comply with, the skies are not given the same talent as these professionals.
I really enjoy the stories that you tell about historical events involving airplanes and the unusual and spectacular things that have happened with them and I would really? Enjoy If you know anything that happened on early commercial flights. But whether or not you are able to fill this request. I will continue to enjoy your program immensely and my father who is now in his 80s who doesn't get around much anymore but was a pilot with over 10,000 hours of flight. Really enjoys listening to your retelling of all these airplane stories!
The "Lightning Pilot" story got me thinking. Instead of emergency landings, what about planes that are grounded due to baffling faults? I don't know how long it took them to figure out what was causing this short but there was another story I heard that was grounded because the radio was forever DOA if memory serves. They wired and rewired that plane over and over again and still got the same results. One day somebody poured over the schematics nanometer by nanometer until finally he thought he found something. Acting on his hunch, in no time at all he was on that plane's radio broadcasting that he had solved the problem. What had happened was that during previous upgrades something had been removed and the wiring for that something was hidden behind a wall. I think it might have been a microphone? But anyway, once he identified the problem he was able to fix it. And that plane was FINALLY able to be put back into service. There must be other such stories out there that are worth retelling.
In the days of Propeller Aircraft (both Piston & Turbo-Prop) First Class was in the back of the cabin (away from the noise of engines & "Propeller Slap" (were the air coming off of the propeller tips strikes the side of the plane) noise)....
I love amazing stories about hero pilots. If you haven't done so in the past, I would love to hear you tell the story of 'The Gimli Glider' - Air Canada Flight 143 - July 23, 1983,
I flew with my mother on a Panam 377 from Miami to Belem Brazil on April 23, 1952. The plane continued on to Rio and Buenos Aires. On April 29, on its way back, it crashed in the Amazon Forest with the loss of 50 souls. It was called Clipper Good Hope!
Love how that guy accidentally took off in a jet. lol It is true that it's those brushes with death when you're going about your normal day that really mess you up psychologically. Even if you are in a situation that is known to be dangerous, if you've been in it regularly and had a normal day, that danger is still traumatizing when it comes. I crashed a motorcycle and had some pretty severe PTSD because of it for seven years. Just seeing brake lights used to potentially send me into a panic even if I was riding a bicycle and not even driving. I had been in counseling for basically the entire time after the accident and I had tried many medicines that did nothing other than torment me with their terrible side effects (plus I had an allergic reaction to a couple of them too). Finally, I got ahold of a good amount of acid, took it all, meditated for nine hours, and now I basically never get anxiety over that accident since that time. The thing that got me about that accident had been that I found myself in a situation where I had no options that didn't involve crashing and no way to avoid the drunk driver who took me down. It's when it's unexpected and you find yourself in a dangerous situation that you can't escape and there's nothing you can do other than try to make it less worse.
You should look up Garuda flight 421 in 2002, it too was a river ditching. But what this crew faced was almost comical in its level of difficulty. In a severe thunderstorm the 737 suffered dual engine failure due to hail damage, then it suffered a completely separate failure of the APU not starting due to a failure in the battery. This meant the pilots had zero flight instruments, not even the emergency back ups or even lights in the cockpit. When the broke out of the clouds they seen a river they could ditch in but were too high, so the pilot had to do a 360 turn to lose altitude. When they lined for the river they noticed that they'd need to clear a bridge they hadn't seen, after doing so, in a nearly comical twist, they realized there was a s second bridge not far after the first and now they'd need to land in between the two. Again all of this with no flight instruments, no speed, no altitude, no nothing. The pilot pulled it off, ditching successfully in the river. Though one person did die when the tail broke off and the flight attendant in the very back of the plane was killed, the pilots saved the other 59 people on board.
I don’t understand the time line. The flight was a little over 8 hours and they lost 2 engines a little over 4 hours a little more than half way. You said that they circled the ship for right at 5 hours until daylight. Why didn’t they continue the flight to California, they had the fuel to make it if they circled for 5 hours.
The pilots of Flight 514 may have been "flying blind." But not our boy Sergei. He went above and beyond the call of duty with both eyes wide open. And he deserves to be remembered for his extraordinary focus and work ethic.
Should have mentioned Air Canada's Gimli glider in July of 1983 and Air Transats Azores glider in August of 2001. Both planes were flown like gliders for many miles and all landed safely 🇨🇦
Ive just realised the front of the Stratocruiser was used for the rocket shipin the 1980 flash gordon movie. I also agree with you about RAF Duxford, but then the RAF Cosford too in the Midlands which i lived very near but never went, but travelled to Cambridgeshire to see RAF Duxford. Weird i worked nr Bletchley Park, Silverstone and never went there either but did go to East midlands Airport sorry Doonington Parkway .
The story of the TACA dead stick landing is even more amazing. The pilot, Captain DeArdano lost one eye when he was shot in the head during the civil war in El Salvador. Truly an amazing feat of airmanship by the Captain. I understand the plane was flown off the levy to a maintenance facility, not towed.
Pronunciation of Michaud = "Me-show" It's Louisiana. We're different. This aircraft had also just had a new battery installed prior to this flight. The battery provides backup power to the electronics; with a new power source they had a full thirty minutes of back up - and the ability to drop the landing gear. According to Captain Dardano, without the gear, it would have been a water landing. He was actually targeting a section of the Intracoastal Waterway that parallels the levee. To add to the "wow" factor, Captain Dardano has only one eye. He lost an eye when a charter plane he was piloting was accidently caught up in the Salvadoran Civil War six years prior to the TACA 110 incident. Shot and bleeding from the head, he still flew the plane with his three civilian passengers about 40 minutes to safety. He received special medical clearance to continue flying. He is still flying commercially today, often with his son as his First Officer.
Hello History Guy. Have you ever done a story about Flight of the Phoenix? I recently watched the original movie. It says it's based on a true story, but Im having difficulty finding a decent documentary about this event. I watch your channel a bunch and decided to subscribe. If you've done a video on The Phoenix can you please send me a link? If not, would you consider making a Flight of the Phoenix video? There is a bunch of interest in the aviation community. Thank you for all your video's! Keep up the great work! Randy Anderson
There is RUclips docco of a pilot who was overcome by fumes in his small plane and passed out and woke up later in his plane on the ground (at night). The plane landed itself and the pilot had minor injuries, crawled out and found a light over a hill and got help. It was a good landing!
I would like to see you do something on Richard Henry Dana. He wrote a book called “Two Years Before the Mast”. It’s a true adventure . He and his tale are history worth remembering.
The reason that the Tu-104, then Tu-124 were such unsafe aircraft was because they were less than optimally based upon the Tu-16 "Badger" strategic bomber.
Flight attendant that had presence of mind to move people forward was the hero who saved the most lives.
Pan Am flight 6. Wow. What a tight spot! Everyone “kept their head” and survived. Great story. 👍
Crew followed their training doing their duty as trained there by successfully helping save all on board.
My Dad landed his fighter jet with no landing gear while temporality blinded from loss of blood due to the injury he suffered when he and his plane were struck near Luke AFB in Arizona back in the mid 1950's. His story was written up in Collier's Magazine and was Titled "Belly It In". Soon after, the same story was condensed into a "Drama In Real Life" segment that ran in Reader's Digest! I can honestly say that IF Dad had not survived, I would not be typing this comment. He was a Captain in The USAF at the time of his serious accident and went on to do a one year tour of Vietnam and retire a Lt. Col after a 28 year career. Dad was absolutely A Lifer Of The Skies! Cheers Everyone
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Struck by what?
@@MustangsTrainsMowers He was a Squadron Leader teaching Pilots from other Countries and one of them accidently shot at a land target before he was authorized to do so and hit my Dad's plane that was below him.
Wow! ❤
The lone Russian airport attendant who kept the runway clear, in my opinion, is the big hero in that story. He didn't have to do it but did so anyway.
Russians are incredibly tough and loyal, especially older Russians
I love that these stories are being remembered. That flight crew in the first story were the stiffest of upper lip.
Fully agree. And that stewardess that moved everyone to the forward cabins because she remember what had happened in another crash is the reason no one died.
My brother was on the Pontchartrain and participated in the rescue. He was the fellow standing up at the rear of the launch that arrived at the plane.
Good morning from Ft Worth TX to everyone watching... My father was a private pilot for 60 years. In 1972, he experienced an engine failure just after takeoff in his newly purchased 1959 Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Luckily he had enough altitude for a safe dead-stick landing back at the airport he just departed from.
The impossible turn
Thanks for sharing, Mr. Sanders from Fort Worth. I love your “good mornings” to the rest of us students! Cheers!
I feel that the fact that the TACA’s pilot was blind in one eye makes that story even more incredible.
The decision to move the passengers forward saved thier lives..
Absolutely.
Excellent thinking by the lady employee. 👍😎
That was a very impressive performance. And they didn't just sit there for 5 hours, they worked on making a plan and working with the passengers so they knew what would happen and everone could move and not get confused when it was go time.
What incredible flight crews! True heroes who saved lives. The support folks on the ground deserve thanks as well!
Those were amazing stories!
Incredible stories!
A cousin relayed a couple of his miracle landings to me. Both in a US fighter jet. First was a failure of JATO rocket assisted launch (one failed to ignite), resulting in a flip over. Landed in a cemetery, inverted, walked away. Second being a high altitude goose strike. Successfully landed aircraft. Career ending injuries.
Just outstanding!!
Love the positive stories 👍👍👍
I once long ago I found an interview here on youtube with Captain Dardano from Taca 110. He was very entertaining to listen to and had some crazy stories.
I enjoyed seeing a positive, and highly interesting and entertaining, video about plane incidents. My favorite channel these days at it is full of.... History worth remembering!
I also like that this episode was truly international!
In the first story, while all the crew were exemplary, the stewardess (yes, that's what they were called then) that moved passengers to the forward cabin, thus taking them out of the death-trap tail area that broke away on impact, is why no one died. Thanks to her memory of the death toll in another crash, when the tail also broke away, and immediate initiative everyone got to go home for dinner. I hope she was suitably honored.
Delightful story telling! Thank you!
My brother in law used to be a Marine F-18 pilot. When he was training over land in Florida prior to doing carrier landings - catching a cable at the airfield with his tailhook - his lost all his hydraulic fluid. He was told to fly out over the ocean and eject since the plane was no longer maneuverable. He asked for permission to try to catch the cable; they told him he could have one chance and if he couldn’t catch the cable the first time, to do as he was ordered and eject. He successfully caught the cable and saved the aircraft. He’s retired from the military now but still flying professionally.
I’m impressed. You either have aviation knowledge, or you’ve done stellar research in aviation nomenclature
I love the History Guy! You lift us up. Thank you.
First-rate aviation reporting, History Guy! This episode held my interest for a hour in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. Or maybe I couldn't sleep because it was so interesting! Either way, it was an informative and entertaining presentation.
Stories of brave pilots and crew never get old. I could enjoy hour upon hour of stories. If the spirit moves you, please consider more. Miracle Landings 2? Miracle Landings 3? Thanks!
I have just adjusted my meaning of zipping ! Thank you THG.
God Bless these crews!!!!!!
My dad was shot down in WWII over France and had to bail out of his P-38 fighter/bomber. He was captured and wrote his experience in a wonderful story that I read over and over! Totally different subject, but still an exciting story. 😊
Always outstanding. Thank You
I'm a big aviation nerd and I hadn't heard of some of these. Well done!
I don't consider myself an AV geek. Having said that, I'm always fascinated by anything aviation. Watching/hearing aviation history is always a great refreshment, giving a perspective to aviation that I normally don't yet know.
Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!
A great story. Thanks.
I saw the story of the jet landing on the La. levee on another program, "Air Disasters". Amazing story, and superb flying! 👍😎
We love Air Disasters and that story is one that I love. Totally amazing and the fact that the pilot has depth perception problems that he's learned to compensate for after being shot in the face just adds to the amazing feat he performed that day.
Re Flight 1549 (Hudson ditching), The Captain always gets a mention, (of course), however it was teamwork on by both the flight deck crew and and the cabin crew that made for a great outcome.
I like that you are using more hand gestures and bury your intonation. It helps keep us with the story
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I was not aware of the Neva River incident. Funny. Most accidents are a string of smaller events that coalesce around the accident. Inevitably, bad luck almost always plays a role. But the same is true of safe landings after an aircraft has a series of unfortunate circumstances. There is also an element of chance. This necessarily includes some good luck. If a plane lands on the water, the relative calm of the water always plays a part. In the Pan Am, the Neva and the Miracle on the Hudson, the water was calm. Proximity to rescue vessels helped. Most people survive water landings if they can escape the plane before it sinks. Good weather, good airmanship and good luck increase survival. All of these passengers and crew had good fortune. They also had heroic pilots and boats nearby. All are great stories that deserve to be told.
Wonderful compilation of historical stories of civilian bravery. Russia is not our enemy, but has been embroiled in political fervor. Their accomplishments in aviation history needs to be remembered! Thank You! Our aviation history has not been as untarnished, as we have been led to believe!
Literally been arch nemesis since 1945. If they aren't our enemies, then by god this country just became Switzerland
Whether enemies or rivals or whatever you want to call them, I don't think that anyone wants their commercial airliners to crash, nor should we fail to appreciate when their commercial pilots save lives.
Please look into Air Transat Flight 236. It turned into a glider after a fuel leak. I love ALL of your videos!
I loved this episode. Usually I hear stories about plane disasters were very few if any one lives. So did hear a string of episodes where incredible pilots were able to save all lives was refreshing and uplifting. Thank you
These stories were exciting, thrilling, and just amazing to hear. Thank you sir.
Excellent stories
For flights over water / remote lands, there is something called ETOPS " Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards " This is a standard that the plane must be able to operate on one engine and still make it to an alternate safe landing location. ETOPS is also known at Engines Turn Otherwise Passengers Swim.
Great stories and they do deserve to be remembered. Given the current DEI requirements that companies like United Airlines comply with, the skies are not given the same talent as these professionals.
7 PM in Bangkok. This will finish my evening nicely.
Be honest, what brought you to Bangkok?
Love it! Thanks for the amazing video!
I really enjoy the stories that you tell about historical events involving airplanes and the unusual and spectacular things that have happened with them and I would really? Enjoy If you know anything that happened on early commercial flights. But whether or not you are able to fill this request. I will continue to enjoy your program immensely and my father who is now in his 80s who doesn't get around much anymore but was a pilot with over 10,000 hours of flight. Really enjoys listening to your retelling of all these airplane stories!
WOW. Loved this one, HG!
Also, note the emergency landing of the 'Gimli Glider' in Canada; after it ran out of fuel.
As always interesting video.
...such wonderful history as always, however most of us have never known about...as a retired U.S. Air Force aviator...Thank You 😎
Five hours to contemplate your mortal demise, then climbing out of the wreckage of a sinking airliner, with the story of a lifetime.
Why didn’t they complete the flight if they circled for 5 hours they only had under 4 hours to complete the flight
Al are very good episodes.
Heroes indeed😊❤
Alway good as you say forgotten history! The work you do is always appreciated. Thank you.
The "Lightning Pilot" story got me thinking. Instead of emergency landings, what about planes that are grounded due to baffling faults? I don't know how long it took them to figure out what was causing this short but there was another story I heard that was grounded because the radio was forever DOA if memory serves. They wired and rewired that plane over and over again and still got the same results. One day somebody poured over the schematics nanometer by nanometer until finally he thought he found something. Acting on his hunch, in no time at all he was on that plane's radio broadcasting that he had solved the problem. What had happened was that during previous upgrades something had been removed and the wiring for that something was hidden behind a wall. I think it might have been a microphone? But anyway, once he identified the problem he was able to fix it. And that plane was FINALLY able to be put back into service. There must be other such stories out there that are worth retelling.
Great stories!
In the days of Propeller Aircraft (both Piston & Turbo-Prop) First Class was in the back of the cabin (away from the noise of engines & "Propeller Slap" (were the air coming off of the propeller tips strikes the side of the plane) noise)....
I like the new intro!
Your work is nothing short of Outstanding sir. I'm very happy with the content and your professionalizm. Thank you for this.
This was great - well done Thankyou.
That was brilliant stuff, the gimley glider that was cool aswell, thanks great stuff 👍
I love amazing stories about hero pilots. If you haven't done so in the past, I would love to hear you tell the story of 'The Gimli Glider' - Air Canada Flight 143 - July 23, 1983,
I flew with my mother on a Panam 377 from Miami to Belem Brazil on April 23, 1952. The plane continued on to Rio and Buenos Aires. On April 29, on its way back, it crashed in the Amazon Forest with the loss of 50 souls. It was called Clipper Good Hope!
thanks
Love how that guy accidentally took off in a jet. lol It is true that it's those brushes with death when you're going about your normal day that really mess you up psychologically. Even if you are in a situation that is known to be dangerous, if you've been in it regularly and had a normal day, that danger is still traumatizing when it comes.
I crashed a motorcycle and had some pretty severe PTSD because of it for seven years. Just seeing brake lights used to potentially send me into a panic even if I was riding a bicycle and not even driving. I had been in counseling for basically the entire time after the accident and I had tried many medicines that did nothing other than torment me with their terrible side effects (plus I had an allergic reaction to a couple of them too). Finally, I got ahold of a good amount of acid, took it all, meditated for nine hours, and now I basically never get anxiety over that accident since that time. The thing that got me about that accident had been that I found myself in a situation where I had no options that didn't involve crashing and no way to avoid the drunk driver who took me down. It's when it's unexpected and you find yourself in a dangerous situation that you can't escape and there's nothing you can do other than try to make it less worse.
the pilot of the Taca had only one eye having lost one years before.
You're a beauty dude
You should look up Garuda flight 421 in 2002, it too was a river ditching. But what this crew faced was almost comical in its level of difficulty. In a severe thunderstorm the 737 suffered dual engine failure due to hail damage, then it suffered a completely separate failure of the APU not starting due to a failure in the battery. This meant the pilots had zero flight instruments, not even the emergency back ups or even lights in the cockpit. When the broke out of the clouds they seen a river they could ditch in but were too high, so the pilot had to do a 360 turn to lose altitude. When they lined for the river they noticed that they'd need to clear a bridge they hadn't seen, after doing so, in a nearly comical twist, they realized there was a s second bridge not far after the first and now they'd need to land in between the two. Again all of this with no flight instruments, no speed, no altitude, no nothing.
The pilot pulled it off, ditching successfully in the river. Though one person did die when the tail broke off and the flight attendant in the very back of the plane was killed, the pilots saved the other 59 people on board.
Miracle Monday! I like it!!
Thanks for this collection of fascinating stories.
What wonder ful story-telling.
wonderful compilation, thanks for the upload
Absolutely brilliant work!!
I don’t understand the time line. The flight was a little over 8 hours and they lost 2 engines a little over 4 hours a little more than half way. You said that they circled the ship for right at 5 hours until daylight. Why didn’t they continue the flight to California, they had the fuel to make it if they circled for 5 hours.
The pilots of Flight 514 may have been "flying blind." But not our boy Sergei. He went above and beyond the call of duty with both eyes wide open. And he deserves to be remembered for his extraordinary focus and work ethic.
How did you know that I have been on a flight disaster video binge lately? 😅
Should have mentioned Air Canada's Gimli glider in July of 1983 and Air Transats Azores glider in August of 2001. Both planes were flown like gliders for many miles and all landed safely 🇨🇦
This was great. Thank you!
Ive just realised the front of the Stratocruiser was used for the rocket shipin the 1980 flash gordon movie.
I also agree with you about RAF Duxford, but then the RAF Cosford too in the Midlands which i lived very near but never went, but travelled to Cambridgeshire to see RAF Duxford. Weird i worked nr Bletchley Park, Silverstone and never went there either but did go to East midlands Airport sorry Doonington Parkway .
So good. Thank you.
I've been on one flight that the aircrew had to hand crank the landing gear down, this was a USAF MAC flight(C-141)....
Nice of you to slide that Coast Guard Officer's combination cap in the background!
The story of the TACA dead stick landing is even more amazing. The pilot, Captain DeArdano lost one eye when he was shot in the head during the civil war in El Salvador. Truly an amazing feat of airmanship by the Captain. I understand the plane was flown off the levy to a maintenance facility, not towed.
Pronunciation of Michaud = "Me-show" It's Louisiana. We're different.
This aircraft had also just had a new battery installed prior to this flight. The battery provides backup power to the electronics; with a new power source they had a full thirty minutes of back up - and the ability to drop the landing gear. According to Captain Dardano, without the gear, it would have been a water landing. He was actually targeting a section of the Intracoastal Waterway that parallels the levee.
To add to the "wow" factor, Captain Dardano has only one eye. He lost an eye when a charter plane he was piloting was accidently caught up in the Salvadoran Civil War six years prior to the TACA 110 incident. Shot and bleeding from the head, he still flew the plane with his three civilian passengers about 40 minutes to safety. He received special medical clearance to continue flying. He is still flying commercially today, often with his son as his First Officer.
Maybe pilots should keep a plumb bob in the cockpit to find their flight angle when their systems fail. Would be easier than a glass of water.
Flight 110, welcome to Louisiana humidity, we are gonna stop by nasa, please tip your pilot! Wow. All these stories are amazing
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Great video H guy your the best 😊
Hello History Guy.
Have you ever done a story about Flight of the Phoenix? I recently watched the original movie. It says it's based on a true story, but Im having difficulty finding a decent documentary about this event. I watch your channel a bunch and decided to subscribe. If you've done a video on The Phoenix can you please send me a link? If not, would you consider making a Flight of the Phoenix video? There is a bunch of interest in the aviation community.
Thank you for all your video's! Keep up the great work!
Randy Anderson
If you get a chance, look at the c17 aircraft landing at the municipal airport. I think it's called the Peter O Knight airport
Yes heros
Taffy Holden, greatest story of all time !!
you forgot to mention that the captain was also blind in 1 eye his depth perception was very limited. a very very good pilot.
There is RUclips docco of a pilot who was overcome by fumes in his small plane and passed out and woke up later in his plane on the ground (at night). The plane landed itself and the pilot had minor injuries, crawled out and found a light over a hill and got help. It was a good landing!
Lookout At Crow's Nest ..
Temperance Wagon Too Set To Take Off..
Gallows Like The Same Walkers
I would like to see you do something on Richard Henry Dana. He wrote a book called “Two Years Before the Mast”. It’s a true adventure . He and his tale are history worth remembering.
The reason that the Tu-104, then Tu-124 were such unsafe aircraft was because they were less than optimally based upon the Tu-16 "Badger" strategic bomber.
Thaught you were going to say 19 maybe a few decades before Golden Gate bridge built then along with Diseney's creation "Snow White".
First rule of any emergency: Don't panic.
Why am I not surprised to find that the English plane had problems with the electric system?
semper paratus..