The Plane That Was Powerless Over France | Bulgaria Air Charter Flight 8115
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This is the story of air bulgaria charter flight 8115, On the 16th of july 2018 an MD82 was flying from catania airport to, oh wait this place is in france and im gonna probably butcher it, to Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport in france. How did i do on the pronunciation? The day for the crew of flight 8115 started at 4 am when they arrived at the airport to start the duties that they needed to do to get this plane safely into the air. They got to the airport and they went over the weather at their origin and their destination and they came to the conclusion that the first officer would be the one that would be the one flying the plane today. As the captain walked around the airplane and updated the onboard databases the plane was fueled for the roughly 6 hour flight and passengers began boarding the plane. Then at 5:12 am local time the plane lined up with runway 08 of catina airport and then the pilots pushed the engines to max power and the plane began rolling down the runway. In seconds the plane was airborne and the plane was leaving italy behind and flight 8115 made its way towards french airspace. The plane cruised at around 33000 feet and by the time it was over barcelona it was time for them to start their descent. There was some weather activity up there and so the pilots vectored around the weather. At 7:11 am the plane started making its way down. It wasnt a smooth ride down though, the plane was buffeted by moderate amounts of icing and turbulence but nothing so serious that theyd have to abandon the approach and go to one of their alternates. At 7:20 am the ATC allowed the plane to get lower all the way down to 8000 feet till they reached the waypoint tepti. By the time they were at TEPTI they got vectored for the waypoint TBO and while they carried out those instructions the approach controller got in contact with the pilots and cleared them for the ILS Z approach to runway 20. Flight 8115 was minutes from lanidng. The pilots of flight 8115 wanted to know the weather at the field,and what they got back was promising. Visibility was at 5 kilometers or 3 miles. They had a few clouds at 1900 feet scattered clouds at 2500 feet it was overcast at 4300 feet. Again not bad weather and nothing that would jeopardize the safety of flight 8115. The pilots prepped the plane to land as they avoided some cumulonimbus clouds. But the plane was still being buffeted by turbulence. As the plane passed through 10000 feet the pilots broke through the weather and they finally had a good visual on the airport. As the jet lined up with the runway the plane was handed off to the tower frequency. When the jet was 4Nm away from the runway ATC gave the pilots a new weather update. Just to make sure that they were in the know, just so that they had all the information that they needed to make a safe landing at the airport. Wind was coming in from 200 degrees at 10 knots and the runway was wet. Again not great but not bad. By the time the plane hit 2400 feet in altitude it was steady as a rock this plane was coming down and it had satisfied all of its final approach fix criterias. This looked like it would be a solid landing. Then as they got lower the first officer turned off the autopilot and took manual control of the airplane. This couldnt have come at a worse time for flight 8115, the airplane that was suddenly hit by strong winds and rain hammered the aircraft. The first officer was fighting a losing battle; the plane was no longer on the correct glide or lined up with the runway in the way that it should be. The plane was well under the glide slope. The captain saw what was happening and he took control of the plane he took the plane into a right hand bank and increased pitch, the plane continued to lose altitude as the pilots wrestled with the controls of the jet. By this point the rock solid approach was no longer to be seen and everything was out of bounds, right now would be a great time to go around and try again but they did not do that, the pilots kept going with the approach. With the approach looking more and more shaky the captain disabled the autothrottle. He kept pulling back on the yoke but the plane was not climbing as he expected it to, the nose of the plane went from 4 degrees to 11 degrees and yet the plane did not gain any altitude, if anything it was losing altitude. The jet was still 480 meters from the threshold of the runway but it was at 40 feet. This landing had gone terribly wrong. The captain was trying desperately to keep the plane from losing the little
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SIX hours in an MD-82? That’s a lengthy flight for a Mad Dog. Was everyone holding a full jerry can in their laps?
I think we need to switch the whole world to a new measurement system based entirely on Danny DeVito. "How far away is the grocery store?" "Oh, it's just about 800 Danny DeVitos down the road."
Pronunciation - F. It's Tarb/Loord.
8 Danny DeVitos. That paints a very vivid picture. Your narration is always on point. Great channel.
The FO was not a PIC but a Pilot Flying (PF), Captain was a PIC even as a Pilot Monitoring.
There are no new accidents in aviation, only old ones repeated. Almost exactly 2 years before this incident, Emirates 521 did crash at Dubai Int. due to pilot error regarding TOGA switch functions/conditions. The EK crew did not confirm power set visually until the after the situation was beyond recovery.
I would consider it to be a design fault of the aircraft that the TOGA button did nit operate, or at least give off an audible warning, when the autothrottle was disarmed.
When you uploaded this, I was listening to ur first video cuz I ran out of new ones to listen to while I work. Thanks for the new vid! Keep up the great work!
Just a small correction, it was Bulgarian Air Charter, it is now European Air Charter but not to be confused with Bulgaria Air. Totally different company. Good work on the videos.
Fascinating video, as always - thank you! Distance between Catania and Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees is about 770 nautical miles, so flight time should be about 2 hours in an MD-82.
Great video once again!
Wow, these people were sooooo lucky! Thanks for another great video 👏😁
TOGA switch: What does it do? Seems like if you push that switch, it should do everything that needs to be done for a go around, and that includes advancing the thrust levers to max thrust. Why would you have a switch for TOGA that advances the thrust levers SOME OF THE TIME, BUT NOT ALL OF THE TIME? THAT is a recipe for disaster in my opinion. Why don't they design the cockpit to eliminate all potential possibilities of pilot error?
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How could they've missed the throttles! Unbelievable! And yes, like everyone else it seems, I really love your videos. After all, that's why I watch em😁
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Tarbes= "Tarb", Lourdes= "Loord", Pyrenees = "Pee-ren-ez" (approximately). Great video as ever !!