Flying On Empty - Air Transat Flight 236
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2019
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Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada on August 24th, 2001.
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I was 22 years old on this flight. It was “quietly casual” is the best I can describe it. I’m sure everyone was as anxious as myself but, overwhelmingly, everyone kept very quiet and to themselves. The only moment in which I felt shear panic was when the engines went quiet and you could literally audibly hear the cockpit alarms until the pilots silenced them. I presume so anyways because I never heard them again and I was the very first left row aisle seat.
What’s incredible is than after maybe ten minutes of silence, some people got up to use the bathroom and flight attendants began providing service almost as if totally normal. I assume this was either instructed by the captain, the purser, per their training/protocol, or off the cuff professionalism. This is a fact that should be edited into the video because it was wild and the braveness and seemingly going about business as usual, totally incredible. How they kept so calm and casual when you know they knew the situation was impressive. This is what I think encouraged people to be quiet and continue to keep to themselves, some relaxed enough to go piss. I felt panic, than anxiety, then a calming nervousness. I attribute this to the silence and the flight attendants demeanor. All you heard was infrequent whispers and the attendants filling drink requests until maybe the last 10 minutes. This stuff is never mentioned in these videos and short docs and I’ve watched all I can find. I know there’s other passengers who have to have shared a similar story as me.
How was the aftermath? What happened afterwards? How did you get out?
so glad ur safe
I can't even imagine how scary that must have been! Thanks for sharing your story, glad you are safe.
Are you in the documentary that released two weeks ago?
too bad, no ones gonna cozy up to that and make a video all about you on that flight
Legend has it the Captain still has second thoughts about diverting.
James Odom hates to miss his drug delivery.
@@TheBeingReal WTF?
@@suzannegirard6556 he was in jail for smuggling drugs
@@irfan123100 ???
@@irfan123100 So? That was years before that
i was on this flight, i vividly remember the terrifying silence of a commercial jet gliding on no power, regretting not telling my wife i loved her before i got on the plane. please always let your loved ones know you love them you never know when you’ll get the chance again.
I remember this at the time, and it was posited in the press that the savvy and confidence he demonstrated, perhaps even his gliding skills, were probably honed through his experience running dope, often landing in bizarre circumstances with zero room for error. He's a total hero here in Quebec, for those who remember. Great story.
Yes probably n working under fear of the feds gave him skills to handle the pressure! Only weed though it’s legal now haha!
Just once I would like to see a video where the ground maintenance was actually able to help out.
The pilots might as well skip it. In every incident it seems like the maintenance department has no clue how planes work once they’re off the ground.
@@Met-Tech facts
So what exactly did Captain Contraband's prior lapse in judgment, (for which he'd already paid his debt to society) have to do with anything that transpired during the above flight? I'd thought for certain it was some plot foreshadowing, or inserted as a prerequisite leading up to their dumb luck of having to divert to an Army base, whereupon evacuation of the aircraft, the MP were going to discover 80 kilos of smack in the cargo hold which had inadvertently caused the plane to malfunction. Or conversely, in recognition for successfully executing an emergency landing while also preserving over 300 lives in the process, the pilot was going to have his criminal record expunged as a token of gratitude, given a medal, and hailed as a hero by all of his peers. Turns out, you're simply just some caption repeating douchebag, scoffing others, while clutching a half empty glass of warm Haterade.
In 2002, Piché was awarded the Superior Airmanship Award by the Air Line Pilots' Association in recognition of his extraordinary skill in successfully executing the dead-stick landing of an Airbus A330. Well deserved.
Also blamed for not switching off the valve. Huh
@@mamindhive Yeah. This pilot kept alot of people alive! Deserves ultimate commendation. Depressing to see the legalese blame thrown upon them.
This video makes it seem so perfunctory - "Well, the captain wasn't sure if he even needed to divert, then they lost both engines and casually glided into the airport." It must have been a horrifying ordeal, you're midway across the Atlantic and you luck out by being near the Azores and then you glide 120 km and touch down perfectly. You get one chance to get it right, there are no do-overs and you die if you get it wrong. This was an epic achievement and those pilots saved a lot of lives aside from their own.
Hi your comments are so brilliant from memory I remember the people on the plane were preparing to ditch into the Atlantic and saying goodbye to loved ones probably
This Pilot was a hero just trully amazing and when I googled about him I saw he is one of a few elite pilots that has won the aviations
highest awards.Imagine hitting the runway at over 200miles an hour scares me to death. All the tyres blown out too just as well there was no fuel for a fire what a miraculous story to bring a giant plane down like s glider never been done since as far as I know
Absolutely. Seems disingenuous for the pilots to shoulder any blame when their airline’s higher-ups clearly put these people’s lives in danger.
Yes James. I agree with you 100%. The Captain and FO saved the lives of all onboard.
Yet this amazing pilot didn't close off the fuel transfer switch after it became obvious it had no affect. Great landing no doubt but thad the captain done his job right they would have never ran out of furl. No blow out tires and no injured passengers. And probably no 250 million dollar fine. Just saying, this captain wasn't the best of the best.
His drug flying experience probably helped save everybody's life, weird.
The higher ups couldn't afford to wait for the correct parts. But they could afford to pay a $250 million fine.
Floyd R. Turbo 250k... This guy was wrong
@@allstardemon ... and therein lies the problem, a $250k "fine" is like a speeding ticket for us, NO deterrant value whatsoever.... 😒
LOL
Wow, imagine being a passenger there. The constant, incessant "hum" of the engines suddenly stops ... AND ... you are over the damn Atlantic Ocean. Lots of soiled pants on that flight.
I would have been on my phone with my parents crying and almost wanting to go home.
"Wow, these noise-canceling headphones are really good!"
Then continue to glide...
@@annetteslife you would be going home.. to god
@@christopher8659 what do you mean by that? I didn't say anything to piss you off now did I?
Double engine blow out.
"It must be the computer telling we have no fuel!"
I live in Toronto and I remember waking up that morning and hearing about this incident on the news. It was a big story in Canada that day. I remember thinking how lucky everyone was and how the pilots skillfully hauled their nuts out of the fire.
hmshyperion Leafs suck
@@rulinghabs who gives a shit
Glad it's a happier ending then most. Amazing to think they just glided that in and how eerie the silence must have been during it.
@Ryan Plethra you would still notice the engine dropout... if you really want to be a smartass... 🙄😒
Corporations pushing her penny pinching practices regardless of safety. Glad it had a happy ending, and great job from those pilots
i cant stand when pilots think the computers are wrong, regardless, maybe it was, maybe it wasnt, you still have to follow protocol as if the warning was legitimate. youre losing fuel, land immediately. Do not disregard the divert. Maddening honestly
as if governments are any better. grow up
@@Mike1614b That was a terrible deflection.. It's not your thing.
@@pacmanzz Yes! Better to be safe - than sorry. This was a life and death situation!
Airbus blaming the pilots because maintenance's administration told them not to install the fuel lines correctly.
Yea, makes total sense.
Oh, come on. Even I was yelling "Shut the valve!" before I even learned whether or not the plane crashed.
@@r.severn7479 Yea but even still a 120km glide. They don't really deserve the blame after that.
Blame should be put on both sides imo. Airbus gave wrong instructions and the pilots could've made better decisions.
@daemonicpotato No dipshit. Their calculations were not showing a major fuel leak but a minor one. So its easy to Monday morning QB here like you are doing. Obviously there was some other factors involved. Otherwise they would have closed it. Airbus criticizes the pilot's because their ECAM system isn't programmed to signal excessive fuel consumption based against the measured power output. Yeah, if your aircraft design insists on taking away as much of the thinking and skill from the pilot as possible, you'd better make it at least equivalent in problem-solving capability. Really, if there had been some positive indication that they were losing fuel on the #2 engine, I doubt the crew would have opened the crossover
@daemonicpotato Just F off Monday morning QB.
Im glad the captain overcame his criminal past and decided to be upstanding and make something of his life. Seems like a good success story, that he got to be so good with flying that he got that many hours and got to Captain! Love stories like that. Awesome and I'm proud of him.
“Smuggling marijuana” isn’t an indication of a criminal past. It was BS to even bring that up. Imagine getting a 10 year sentence because you had weed on you. Total nonsense
Greetings from Québec! Piché is considered a national hero here, I was hoping you'd feature him at some point :)
@Joe Michaels Québec is in Canada.
Pretty low standards for declaring someone a "national hero", considering his screw-up was the main reason the emergency occurred in the first place. And even then he did the only thing there was to do. An excellent flying feat, but hardly performing beyond the call of duty which is the definition of "heroism".
The main reason the emergency occurred is called ''faulty maintenance''. You obviously don't know much about aviation but that's not your fault - you're just being ignorant that you are ignorant about it. Posting only ''An excellent flying feat alone'' would have shown you in a better light without all the rest of us thinking you have no clue at all what you're talking about. That being said, have a nice one.
@J M LOL
Comment starts with" Greeting! From Québec..."
That's the part you missed? 😂
@@illisvellamae9399 What makes you the expert!!!! You were there ???
The Captain's motto? "Why drink and drive, when you can smoke and fly?"
I think you better shut the fuck up! You flew this plane???
He had to dump his contraband over the ocean. That’s why he was hesitant.
@@suzannegirard6556 c'est une citation de Bob Marley, Suzanne, calme-toi le pompon
@@suzannegirard6556 Calm it Karen
@@Brickcellent Don't call me 'Karen'!!!!Ass
I am astounded... how they could land an aeroplane just by gliding? Spectacular! Many congratulations to the pilots and crew involved :)
Long time watcher. First time commenter. I've really enjoyed watching your videos for over a year now and just wanted to thank you for all the effort you put into these videos. I really appreciate that you don't put in any music or unnecessary sound effects or long overblown introductions. Keep up the GREAT work.
At 6:26AM, engine #1 also flames out due to fuel starvation.
However the captain is still having second thoughts about diverting.
He thinks they could glide back to Canada on their remaining fuel.
Smugglers are generally cool under pressure. Good job Captain.
Always love when an airplane survives an anomaly and gets back into service.
@X Pilot
Hope you are feeling 100% well again. Thanks for your work friend.
Sheesh! This was suspenseful since I didn't recall the incident. I love that there was a happy ending. Great video!
Neither did I and I am a Canadian
well, it was 2 and a half weeks before September 11th🤷♂️
In a weird way your videos are both informative and somehow relaxing. Always good to watch and get well soon
Staying cool in the cockpit saved that plane from disaster. Outstanding crew.
I bet those silent minutes while they gilded into the airfield was surreal
Dude overcomes his past misdeeds only to have X Pilot rub it in his face again.
as past misdeeds go, being a former drug smuggler pilot is pretty badass
Jet Engines: Sorry boss, that's it. We're out of fuel
Capt Pinché: Here hold my cosmo, I got this
*Piché
‘Pinche’ LOL
Thanks. Hope you are feeling better.
Great video, but the captioning had such short memory that it repeated itself several times.
Interesting how both times it was a Canadian airliners that ran out of fuel and glided in for landing. Air Canada- "Gimli Glider" and Air Transat- "Azores glider"
Nice video, but seems like several of the captions were repeated.
Nice video, but seems like several of the captions were repeated.
Several of the captions were repeated, but seems like nice video.
Informative and entertaining,, however, several captions appear to have been repeated. Lol.
Excellent video as usual, but apparently some of the captions were repeated.
Idk.. I feel like there were some repeated captions. Maybe I'm crazy
Bad handling of the situation by the crew, but great skills to land the aircraft.
what a fascinating story!
and kudos to the Captain and crew - amazing effort on landing/gliding!
I love that aircraft name, thank god everyone was safe.
Thanks for the upload. I hope you're feeling better :-)
I watched all of your videos. I loved them. Keep up the good work, you're doing great.
Many thanks for your excellent videos. Please continue!
Great work once again! I can’t wait for how you do Tenerife
Waiting for that too. But all these videos are great
Amazing story! Never heard it before.
These are such in depth videos. I love it!
Thanks for uploading a new video despite not feeling so well. Get well soon!
Love your work as always X!
Keep the great content coming. Really enjoying your vids X Pilot
Why mention the Captain served time in prison for a crime that was totally unrelated to the story.
To me, it meant that he was a hustler and a survivor. The kinda guy who's gonna cheat death if he can.
And everyone else’s too. Far more brave than the airline company
It means he’s a real brotha and even dope dealers can save lives
maybe thats how he kept the plane "high" for so long
to prove that even though he had a criminal past, went on to become the hero that saved all those lives
I love it when they end well.
Amazing video, hope you’re feeling better
Thank you for posting!
I’m glad that no one was killed on that flight. Those pilots did a great job! 🙂🙂👍🏻👍🏻
Glad to see you back making content.
However i did notice some repeat and misplaced subtitles. Ultimately I consider it trivial but mention it as an FYI.
Nicely done. Get well soon!
That was some great flying and a cool head to save the passengers from tragedy . Impressive
Nice vid as always! Feel better soon 😷
Good video again. Hope you feel better!
Remarkable video. Keep up the good work X Pilot! Also if I could, I recommend that you do the JAL 123 crash.
Glad this one didn't end up in a total hull loss or casualties
Nice video! Thanks
alright, even the plane survived this one. nice glide!
This guy is a legend for doing this
Excellent. Great work.
Godly graphics and nice video! been subed to you since u had 800 subs lol
I have heard this story so many times, and somehow I am only finding out now that Captain Piche had a criminal record. He does seem like a wild man though, I bet he has tons of great stories.
Thanks for the video, glad everyone on board survived this one!
Suggestion: China Airlines Flight 611
9:43 - the fine was actually CAD$250,000, not 250 million
It seems like it's too much money for such a problem
@@manuelluispereira1139 a problem such a 300 some lifes been very lucky?
The $250 million fine not the 300 lives that were saved and very lucky people
Thank you , I was shocked when I saw a 250 Million dollar fine , this makes more sense
Aegard Yeah, totally, you can buy another couple A330s at that.
Great job X pilot!
These videos are really sad but they’re really well made, keep it up 👍😭😭
Incredible!!!!
thank god these pilots follow the good ol' saying: "Its better to be sorry than safe."
Kudos to the pilot. Impressive as hell!
i hope you get to feeling better.... God speed for a quick healing.......
First Quebecer to comment! FYI, a movie was made about Capt Piché. This guy has quite a story!
Piché: Entre Ciel Et Terre is the film.
Entre Le Ciel et Terre...A Lil' Hollywood-ized, but pretty accurate...
In English?
New upload. I'm excited
Seeing flight tracker, apparently The plane was returned by Thomas Cook and is still flying with Air Transat, new livery, new cabin.
Hope you feel better soon
THANK YOU
Excellent save.
That would be scary if I was on that flight. That was another piece of excellent work!
Request: Japan Airlines Flight 123
Nice channel, first time I come across it!!!!
Nice gliding. Wonder if the pilot had glider experience? Not sure why the hard landing caused injuries unless seat belts and crash positions weren't quite right.
When I got to @4:10 I was practically yelling: "why on Earth wouldn't you close the crossfeed valve immediately?!?"
I'm no pilot, just enjoy these sorts of videos and have learned a lot from them. I wonder if the situation was just so overwhelming that the fact that the valve was open just slipped their minds?
l used to watch Allec but now l much prefer your P3D videos over his old FS versions lol. Also your subtitles *MUCH* easier to read.
Plus no music at the end. Both are great, but I prefer X Pilot as well.
There is also TheFlightChannel. His videos are quite nice but sometimes i dont like all the music he uses
haha LOL haha Agreed. l watch some of the others that do these too but this one has become my favorite overall.
I am ‘revising’ for my university finals in neuroscience. So naturally I’m watching every single person mentioned and a few more. Probably on repeat.
New Vid - thanks!
Glad this Captain and Crew received the Recognition for protecting the passengers.
No need to mention the pilot's criminal record chap, it has nothing to do with the story. Nonetheless a great story that very well could have ended badly; a shocking decision by the airline to use old parts that were not even standard, bean counters gambling with lives. If only it was possible to tie the person(s) responsible for that decision to the wings of the plane as it run out of fuel and had to glide. It might change their perspective on life as they shat their pants on a lump of metal hurtling towards the earth with nothing more than a pilot's skill to get it down in one piece. Now THAT would be a video I'd love to watch!😁
Sounds like guys in suits declining the proper parts for engine were the real criminals…not the brave pilot who saved their asses!
Hey Canucks, I know that fuel is expensive up there, but these gliding tricks to save money gotta stop.
You are so funny! Haha
If it originated from Vancouver then we would have given him just enough to get to cruising altitude.. than he was on his own
@Charron, ..C'mon, Canadians enjoy a good discount lol.
Right outta the Gimli playbook - another incompetent Quebecer ground crew damn near killing hundreds...
@@MrKingalow and what does the fact that the ground crew is from Quebec changes to the situation
"Blamed the Pilot...????" This Man performed UNBELIEVABLE aeronautical manuevers with a GLIDER ... One chance was ALL he had.. And he DID it... Some people just SUCK.., I swear to God....
Fuck yeah blame the pilot.
He transferred fuel to a leak without once thinking where all that fuel was going.
*”A **_good_** pilot uses his superior judgment so he doesn’t have to rely on his superior skills!”*
No. The pilot should have stopped the crossfeed, declared a low fuel emergency, and diverted. The one engine would likely have ran out of fuel but the remaining fuel and engine likely would have taken them all the way to Europe.
So right!
Fuel imbalance warning, set the cross-feed, engine flames out on one side, yeah yeah keep cross-feeding..
Although the pilots did a fantastic job at the emergency landing, they might not have had to land at all had they remembered to close the cross feed valve after seeing how it didn’t solve their problem.
I think they would have had to land eventually. It is preferable to the alternatives :)
@Daniel Adam
I think they were under pressure at that point, maybe a little panicked, I'm not excusing the oversight but I can see why they might have been distracted.
That being said when I realized it didn't have any effect I would have closed it too. I always say if you change something and DO NOT get the desired effect, put it back the way it was.
@@watershed44 stress is definitely a big factor, the landing could have been much worse so all things considered they did a great job!
I wonder who he knew to serve such a short time. Although I do have to say it's a good thing he was the pilot.
Airbus criticizes the pilot's because _their_ ECAM system isn't programmed to signal excessive fuel consumption based against the measured power output. Yeah, if your aircraft design insists on taking away as much of the thinking and skill from the pilot as possible, you'd better make it at least equivalent in problem-solving capability. Really, if there had been some positive indication that they were losing fuel on the #2 engine, I doubt the crew would have opened the crossover. Instead, the crew's indication of a problem is a series of ambiguous notices without a direct notice of what is actually happening (that they are losing fuel). Kind of stinks that the crew was pretty close to the correct diagnosis, despite the ECAM not being offering anything straightforward to confirm it.
@daemonicpotato Maybe they opened the crossover because that's what the QRH told them to do in response to that warning? It's a systemic failure because each of the symptoms when treated/ignored on their own doesn't lead to the root cause. Only when looking at the big picture do they start to suggest what the problem is.
If there had been an ECAM warning about excessive fuel consumption instead of only the alerts for which I can only presume to a result of the oil sump filling up with fuel, they might have caught on sooner that blindly following the remedy for an imbalance condition was not a good idea.
It's difficult to judge the whole event after the event, though. The aircraft manufacturer blaming the pilots is somewhat typical, the biggest entity blaming the smallest entity in the equation. @daemonicpotato
@daemonicpotato Flight crew of flight 1549 only thing they did incorrect was hit the ditch switch just before touchdown, in the overall scheme of things wouldn't make much difference because a fracture occurred in the rear of that aircraft on ditching anyway.
Pilots don't train extreme scenarios or flight outside of the envelope in a full motion sim because it may no longer represent reality. Hindsight is great but the pilots in all the historical events you have mentioned didn't have that.
@@radon360 I agree with you. If it had started with the fuel warning things would have gone differently with the pilots thoughts. In addition, they even called ground maintenance who literally was useless.
@daemonicpotato Hey! Expert! You should have flown the plane
Perfect example of superior flying but piss poor decision making.
You never correct a fuel imbalance without asking yourself where that fuel went and whether it’s stopped or is continuing. The only thing they could have done that was worse was hit the fuel dump.
Under duress I might give him a pass as he may have suspected the bypass pump was malfunctioning or the readings were false. Maybe if he had an extra officer in the flight deck like the old days they could've had more ideas fleshed out...
For the captain that used to fly on a more analog Tristar plane when he saw this fuel rate losing alot more than usual on a LCD he definitely did not believe on that which I kinda accept.
He wasn’t believing in the instruments that check levels
Great job. A few blown tyres is par for the course. He wasn't going for a silky smooth landing he had to put her down hard to bleed some of the speed off. Remember he had no reverse thrust.
"Gotta do what I gotta,...to keep my crew alivvvvveeee....Flying on empty....Flying onnnnnnnnn!!!"
Nice Video, This is an Rynair Landing but the pilot was best
The C-GITS aircraft is back with Air Transat as of Apr-2019.
The whole story captured in a movie named « Piché entre ciel et terre » (Piché between sky and ground) and the manoeuvers and landing are shown in an except here on RUclips. Just search for the name of the movie. It’s pretty well done and realistic. Mr. Piché acted as a consultant on the making of the movie.
Second to see another awesome vid
I saw this on the National Geographic Channel on the the Air Disasters series. The Episode was called "Flying On Empty"
Bravo Mr Piché!
i say don't open the crossfeed valve until you figure out what's going on 1st......
Well that seemed to be a success compared to the other videos which are actual crashes