When Pilots treat the Aircraft Like a TOY! | Air Crash Investigation
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
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On the 14th of October 2004, a Bombardier CRJ 200 from Pinnacle Airlines took off from Littlerock airport in the United States . Onboard was only two pilots who had been called to position the aircraft empty up to Minneapolis. Immediately after takeoff the aircraft starts to behave strangely with several unusual pitch and rudder inputs. But there is nothing wrong with the aircraft, instead what's about to happen this is one of the most upsetting and unnecessary accidents I have ever covered on the channel. This is the story of Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701.
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Chapters :
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Chapter 1: Problems From the Outset
02:10 - Chapter 2: The Crew
03:14- Chapter 3: Positioning Flying
05:01 - Chapter 4: Takeoff
06:13 - Chapter 5: Hot Seating
06:59 - Chapter 6: Test Pilots
07:52 - Chapter 7: Certified Ceiling Request
08:56 - Chapter 8: Vertical Speed Mode
12:21 - Chapter 9: The Forty One K Club
13:16 - Chapter 10: Drinks Service
14:11 - Chapter 11: The Inevitable Happens
15:36 - Chapter 12: Emergency Declared
17:10 - Chapter 13: Windmill Start
18:12 - Chapter 14: Masks On
19:41 - Chapter 15: The Glider
21:29 - Chapter 16: Distorting the Facts
22:45 - Chapter 17: Restart Attempts
23:37 - Chapter 18: Accurate Reporting
24:20 - Chapter 19: We're Not Going to Make This
25:47 - Chapter 20: Impact
27:20 - Chapter 21: The Investigation Begins
29:22 - Chapter 22: Crew Training
31:33 - Chapter 23: Engine Flameout
32:48 - Chapter 24: Core Lock
37:01 - Chapter 25: The Final Report
38:12 - Final Chapter: Lessons to be Learned
39 : 22 - Outro
Do you want to see Another INCIDENT where the Pilots were misbehaving? This one is really upsetting but with a better outcome 👉🏻 ruclips.net/video/ifZyclQ5QCQ/видео.html
Trying to find out the extremes of the transfer function is not misbehaving!
But you do not need a flying machine weighting several dozen tonnes to find out what a "fold-back" transfer function is.
Non-Euclidean geometry is about getting to places where the only way back home has nothing to do with the way you got there.
But you do not need a plane engine that needs servicing before restart after a stall at full-power minimum-air-load to explain that.
Yes please!
This ones so sad - Pilots Love to fly, I can UNDERSTAND them being 'naughty' testing the flight envelope (yes, its 'unprofessional' but.. They could have touched their ceiling, showed a bit more caution then eased off)
i found myself hoping they'd made it, they got airspeed up to 236Kt, but because they'd been hit by Core Lock, perhaps they had no chance by then?
Or maybe if they took things 100% seriously from the moment of stall/eng failure, preserved precious altitude, they might have given the engines time to warm up and recover?
I even understand them not reporting the full emergency immediately, feeling a bit 'guilty' not wanting to get into trouble with the airline
When they DID belatedly acknowledge the spot they were in & followed procedure I've got total respect for them not lowering the gear, through not wanting to smash into the Houses - their last moments were spent as fine aviators
Well thankfully only dumb and dumber were the only casualties in this horrifically negligent event!
There are hundreds of sensors on the plane. Is it so hard to measure the temperature in the core? Almost every better model jet engine has an exhaust gas temperature measurement. Button with warning engine is overheat. Or core is overheat.
"Professionalism means doing it the right way even when nobody is looking."
Same, even on a quiet road late a night I'll still indicate and stop at red lights. No-one may know but you should do things right
Integrity.
And not release aircraft engines that sieze up
@@ivangutowski That’s just a waste of bulb life.
@@The_ZeroLine Not quite. You MAY think that there's no one out there, but you could be wrong. Saved my car a couple of times this reflex of signalling without looking/thinking. There WAS a car in the blind spot and the driver hit the horn when he saw the right signal. Also I'm trying to avoid cutting through a big parking lot just because is shorter the route, you never know who else is cutting on another intersecting route. It's safer to use the marked routes. Usually we think that we looked everywhere, that is safe, that we perfectly control the car, but even the greatest like Senna, Schumacher, Alonso or Hamilton proved us that we are only human and mistakes happen.
As a non-pilot, my take-away from this video is this: My car's 140 mph speedometer doesn't mean that it's a good idea to try to drive my car at 140 mph.
You do have to admire the speedometer’s enthusiasm though.
yeah, whether you're flying or driving it's really crucial that you know your machine if you want to travel safely.
if you hit fog on a motorway and up flashed warning 60 you wouldn't think it meant stay above 60, thats why we have LIMIT , BUT either min max should be stated ex. MIN 275kmh next to the pilot speed, thats why the aviation authority changed it because it was open to error
welcome to the German Autobahn. Ignoring that your car probably cant actually do 140mph
And remember, too, the higher up you are, the farther you have to go to reach land should something happen. I don't know that "41ing" it would necessarily make me giddy. I write that as a non-pilot.
My first flight instructor regularly reminded my that FAA regulations are written in blood. The two most dangerous words in aviation are "Watch this".
hold my beer
Hang on, I'm going to try something!! Lol
I have first hand experience.
The world would be infintley better off without regulations of any sort tbh.
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 better? idk. more fun? Definitely
I am a nurse, and I think your point at the end is so important. In my profession, there are so many times where nobody is watching, and I see nurses cut corners or do things against procedure. And just like here, tragic fatalities can result when people are being cavalier and not thinking about safety.
I am not a pilot and never will be, but I love watching your videos because it always motivates me to act "like a pilot" in my job and be as safe as possible.
Pete, great comment...thanks
Character is who you are when no one is watching.
@@smittysmeee Awesome.... Sooo true
If nobody was watching and you had some fancy machine not hooked up to a patient, would you not maybe look through the menu of the machine to see what it could do that you didn't know about?
@@alexc4924 I don't mean a lack of knowledge of a machine. I mean things like not staying in the room for the required amount of time after giving a patient a sedating drug. Many times I've seen nurses administer meds and immediately leave the room to go to their next patient. Most of the time no consequences happen, but sometimes there is a patient who might stop breathing, and then the nurse is gone. That's why the rules are important, even if 99% of the time you don't see a consequence.
The painful thing about this for me isn't really the actions that led to the engine failures - that was recoverable from - it's what came next. I suspect they felt embarrassed about what had happened, which led to them not being completely honest with ATC. Had they been more honest more quickly, they could have got out of this situation, but they weren't and it cost them their lives. It's tragic.
Precisely what I was thinking.
i truly cant believe it. all they had to do was start the fucking engines! They should know by heart! the first thing i ever did in the sim was "what happens if i cut my engines at altitude" *cuts engine* "surely i can restart" "now lets stall and dive a 747" you can do allot at 41k
(edit) AHH I just realized they didnt pay any attention to temp. what is with these pilots and inability to notice things they should be noticing. Shit, I even monitor the temp in my vehicle when the gauge works . so far out of 20 accidents ive seen, only 2 were actual un-avoidable accidents. the rest make me very upset and actually. I want to be pilot just so I can fill a chair that a moron might fill otherwise.
@@Wtfinc Saying that "X happened because the pilots were morons" is comforting because it lets you say "that would never happen to me," but it's generally not true. And commercial aviation is so safe because most of the parties involved, particularly those designing the systems within which pilots fly, take the exact opposite approach: they assume that everybody makes errors and design the system to handle that as best as possible.
You never, ever get resilience by telling humans, "don't make stupid mistakes."
@@Curt_Sampson im scared of flying now more than ever. you just never know who's going to be in the pilots seat. I would rather pilot myself. Whateverthe smallest twin engine seaplane maybe that can get me across the atlantic.
@@Wtfinc Yeah, I'm just terrified in general, even though I know it's irrational considering I drive plenty. As far as piloting myself goes, well then I'd just be scared because the smaller types of planes I would be able to (potentially, if I got a really well-paying job) get my hands on don't have nearly the level of safety features that commercial airliners have, so it's kind of a catch-22... I don't know if I'll ever visit Europe again, but at least I flew across the Atlantic a lot of times as a kid... which kinda makes me feel like my luck would run out if I did it again (even though I know that's yet another completely irrational fallacy)
I think one reason why they may not have treated the situation more seriously initially is because they felt guilty for having caused this and were hoping to solve the issue quietly so they wouldn't have to pay such high consequences.
Of course, eventually they paid the highest of all consequences.
I think they were sadly mistaken on that. Even if they had been able to recover, I think the incident still would have been investigated and the CVR/FDR would have shown what they did.
You get the sense they were trying to downplay, even cover up their situation over fears of reprisals over their actions. I really feel like they were so worried about potentially losing their jobs it ended up costing them their lives.
Bingo
So sad. Lying to save your job cost you your life.
Some people convicted of crimes do the same thing at sentencing.
We use to have a saying in the US Navy. Integrity is doing the right thing all the time even when no one is looking.
That message is scriptural. It goes waaaaaayyyyyy back.
That’s amazing! The Army does too! So does my church. So did my middle school.
Sorry, can’t help but rag on a squid.
@@rwfwcfii439 lol it’s all good ground pounder.
Ironic
Air Force Core Value # 1: Integrity First!
I became a dispatcher for Pinnacle right after this crash. It was still very raw and fresh. We had to watch the recreation of the flight as filmed in a simulator. They really wanted to drive it home that this wasnt a joke.
You have a GREAT job and career....
@@ClearedAsFiled you are everywhere
The biggest thing to learn here, and I think this applies to any profession, is to be honest and transparent. The pilots were so worried about getting in trouble that they ended up getting themselves killed and endangering the lives of others. It always ends badly when you don’t own up to mistakes and start rectifying them
they didnt do it with passengers and when it was all over the only thing they said was we cant hit any houses. gotta love em. should you push a machine? no. theres rules for a reason. but can i blame someone who does? no. and in the end they showed their quality.
@@markheinle6319 - Once they'd already more or less sealed their fate by their earlier mistakes and deception, yes, they went out nobly, trying not to injure anyone on the ground. That's a positive. But they did still crash in a residential area, so they succeeded partly by luck at that part. Perhaps they saw the yard / shed and managed to aim for it, perhaps it was just luck that they didn't plow right into a house with people in it.
But the key fact remains that they could have avoided getting to that point if they'd declared a dual-engine-out emergency sooner, and had folks on the ground helping to work the problem. Someone might have noticed sooner that they'd better glide towards an airfield in case the engines couldn't be restarted. Or they might have noticed if they weren't busy thinking about deception, and thus could ask ATC for a vector.
(In an alternate history, we'd still have to assume they didn't immediately realize the importance of keeping IAS > 240kts, and still would have gotten their engines core locked. After still stalling trying to maintain FL410 instead of letting the stick pusher do its job and trading some altitude for speed and then telling ATC about it; aviate, navigate, communicate. IDK, maybe they intentionally wanted to see exactly what would happen when the plane couldn't hold the altitude, so they basically stalled it intentionally and assumed recovery would be no problem. I hope they weren't that intentionally reckless, but even if they were, that didn't have to be fatal when it turned out to be a lot more dangerous than they anticipated, with 41k feet of altitude to work with for stall recovery. Still, a 29 degree pitch up? I hope a CRJ-2200 is immune to a "deep stall" where the control surfaces also stall, making recovery potentially impossible even with plenty of height.)
@@markheinle6319 I disagree, a plane was lost and two men died. But for shear luck innocent people on the ground could easily have been killed. What happened was both unprofessional and dangerous. Had they survived I doubt they would be flying today. RIP.
Exactly right. That’s why they focused on trying to start the engines for such a long time, instead of trying to prepare for an unpowered landing at one of the many airports within their glide range. These guys were so focused on not losing their jobs, they ended up losing their lives.
@@markheinle6319 “can i blame someone who does?” uh yes you definitely can lol they were reckless and they trashed a plane and died as a consequence. just bc they didn’t kill anyone doesn’t mean they didn’t mess up
Remember: Getting fired is better than getting killed by your own mistakes.
look, with respect, they did not have that much time at all to contemplate this. it's not like they were in a space ship and having 2 years to make a decision. their attention was in getting the engines started and the landing.
@@ursodermatt8809 I suspect they had enough time to consider whether they would be fired, because the Captain lied about the situation of the engines...
@@fzigunov
ok, because he lied he had enough time. your logic makes sense.
lying is only possible if you have a lot of time.
@@ursodermatt8809 you're not making any sense. First you say 'they didn't contemplate consequences because they didn't have enough time' then when it's pointed out their behaviour suggests that they probably were aware of it you come up with this bullshit 'lying is only possible if you have a lot of time'
Back to school with you!
I was on a CRJ-900 once with only 5 passengers, including myself.
It was rather creepy actually. None of the normal sounds of air travel, other than the engines. They were the only noise. No rustling of cloths, no talking, no kids, no coughing or sneezing, no creaking of seats, nothing from the galleys. Just the engines. It was very early in the morning too, so dark outside and the cabin crew had the lights off.
Never experienced anything like it in over 100 flights.
Huh... you can actually hear any of those noises over the engine noise? The engines are so loud I can barely hear anything else whenever I fly.
@@giftofthewild6665usually you can hear the flaps, and sometimes the landing gear
100 flights. Lol. Thats nothing
@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor yeah you can just about hear the little Motors that move the flaps out, if you sit on the wing rows.
i was going to be the only passenger once but at the last boarding call, a couple showed up. When boarding, they made me wait until my group (C) was called. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got tears in my eyes when you said the pilot said “don’t put down the landing gear.”
They made horrible mistakes they sadly did not recover from. I feel sorry for their families.
Oddly enough this incident demonstrates what makes aviation such a safe way to travel. It would have been so easy to write of this incident as a couple of knuckle heads goofing off and move on, but instead the investigators really dug deep into the causes and came away with some important lessons that could benefit the safety of all flights. I'm sure today just about every CRJ-200 pilot knows about core lock and how to prevent it because of this crash.
Bradley Dobie: Agreed. First, it's comforting that in the vast majority of significant air accidents, multiple things had to go wrong. Second, it's VERY good that the incidents are investigated carefully and seriously and so many good recommendations are made.
What is NOT good is how often many recommendations are ignored by airlines and plane manufacturers wanting to save money, or just ignoring the recommendations due to other priorities.
Humans -- it's amazing things work as well as they do, given how fallible we all are, and as careless as far too many of us are, at times.
As a former CRJ pilot, that's the first example of what not to do in a CRJ when you join the initial Type rating. Very good video and accurate explanation about what happen.
Thank God it was empty.
@@dagmastr12 actually if it wasn't empty, the pilots wouldn't have felt like hot dogging and getting the plane in that position, ironic.
Well said. Honestly I don't think there is a single industry as dedicated to learning from mistakes as the aviation industry.
Pretty sure the world could be a much better place if we all tried to do the same, no matter which field.
I was an airline pilot for 23 years, a Captain for 10 years on the Airbus 330/340/350 and this is such a sobering and sad story since the loss of life was totally avoidable. I commend you on your clear presentation, enthralling for me as a pilot and yet easily understandable for laymen. I learned about core lock for the first time (as it was not applicable to my engine types). It's so true about maintaining SOPs at all times and I spent the whole video thinking, "They are really asking for trouble here." It's a terrible shame they didn't live to learn their lesson. My son wants to be a pilot and encourage him to watch more of your excellent videos which I have no doubt will help him to become a better, safer pilot. Thank you.
Even as a non flying noob who has played a few basic flying computer games and read the odd pilota story books it was obvious they were heading into trouble. 150kts at 41k ft angle of 20°+ nose up?! Screams of a stall to me. My dad had mentioned something called coffin corner to me many years ago when talking about stalling at high altitude. I also read 'fate is the hunter'. Great tales of flying. I thoroughly enjoyed this video but like u say it screamed disaster from the start and got worse as it progressed.
@@psirvent8 Was their crime so great as to deserve the death penalty? I don't think so. They were a couple of young guys having irresponsible fun. Haven't we all done so at some point? If anything they deserved to get fired, not death.
@@2811JPR, yes, exactly. We were all in a condition to do something stupid for fun. Reprimand and retraining is supposed to be penalty for this. Stupid situation they were not supposed to do? Yes. Sadly it had such a consequences. Luckily other civilians were not injured.
@@stevenross-watt8640 man they were so young and paid ultimate price. Guy well said It’s great tragedy they didn’t live and learn from it to tell tale. :(
@@peregrimus I agree. I'm not mocking them. They just pushed to hard with a terrible price.
When you explained what the "keeping the gear up" line meant I became very sad. And then the pilots' last words were concern and regret about likely hitting houses...I started tearing up. Then you said that there were no other injuries and I just started sobbing. I don't know why, but some mix of the pilots' final thoughts being concern for the lives of those they would likely hit and the revelation that somehow no one other than the pilots were harmed just completely broke me. This story, for whatever reason, has had the most emotional affect on me out of any of the videos I have watched from you.
For me it's also the fact how happy they were just before
@@lollol-en9xx Maybe that's what it was, yeah
@@lollol-en9xx Exactly. This has escalated so quickly.
It was like in a horror movie. First everyone has fun, then problems slowly appear, but they discard them and in the end they fight for their life and lose.
Even though these pilots arguably acted more foolishly than most other accident pilots, I just love them. It reminds me of the sad old cowboy ballad the streets of Laredo.
simp
It’s absolutely insane to think that if they had just done one incredibly simple thing when the initial stickshaker warning occurred the entire sequence of events that followed would have never occurred. Pitching the nose down would have increased speed and lift preventing a stall as well as cooled the engines enough to start spinning and start up and they could have carried on without incident and with a greater and healthier sense of respect for their aircraft and aviation as a whole.
It appears the FO pitched down but not for long enough. Why did they switch places? If the captain had been in control, it could have ended very differently.
@@pattydella4 i think its casual flight and captain want to let FO try out pilot flying for 1 time, 1st and last time in his whole life.
Very sad that his first time acting as captain for real showed that he was not professional enough to be one.
Did you not watch the video?
They pitched down, but also pitched up to level too soon and did not gain enough lift to prevent another stall due to high altitude. This is because they were trained to prevent stalls in a way that minimizes altitude loss, but significant altitude loss is necessary at high altitudes.
Lesson learned: When you push the limits, some times the limits push back.
True!
Sometimes you don't even have to push the limits.
THIS HAPPENS MORE THAN YOU THINK. LOOK AT THE TIMES PILOTS HAVE IGNORED DANGERS.
@@MentourPilot I KNOW OF A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT CAN MAKE THINGS A LOT SAFER.
@@MentourPilot this is why rules exist in the first place
In over 50 years of flying, the words that scare me the most, "Just watch this"
Almost as bad as "Hold my beer."
honestly, if i was in a plane and i'd know that the pilots adress each other with 'dude'... that would make me kind of uneasy too.
Heck I'm not a pilot but I know when one of my friends says watch this, we'll I just call 911 for the ambulance.
@@Zwangsworkaholic Extremely unprofessional behavior. Yes, I might call my friend, going out for the night out on the town, "dude". But I would never address my coworker on the flight deck as "dude" or "bro" or whatever, regardless of how familiar I am with him.
It is extremely dangerous, and sets up a casual attitude, seriously putting "professionalism" in executing ones duties in serious jeopardy!!
@@fhuber7507 You must be psychic, because you read my mind.
I have this mental Bingo card I use whenever I read a Florida Man story (or those of his cousins from other states), and under the column, "Things said by the victim" are "watch this" and "hold ma' beer". (One of the other columns, "Events leading up to the Event", has the "we were sitting around drinking" and "It sounded like a good idea at the time".)
I call the card, "Accident Investigation Bingo".
Thank you for making aviation available even to ppl like myself, an 83 year old widow, who was petrified of fllying. Can't say I have lost that fear, but I realy enjoy your teachings,... and... I just LOVE your Swedish accent!!
I hope you are doing good Ma'am
I have nothing to do with aviation or flying, excepting my absolute love of these stories, the technical details and the physics and amazing pilots we hear about. I live for these videos!
This crash reminds me of the terrified feeling you get the seconds before an accident. I’ve only had this happen once when I was younger. I used to be a huge speed junky on country roads. One time when the roads were wet, I tried taking an on-ramp as fast as I normally do in the dry and the car lost all traction and understeered nearly off the road into a drainage ditch. I had assumed that ABS and stability control would save me, but those safety systems can’t undo a bad decision. I was lucky it regained traction just before hitting the gravel. But it felt like an eternity. People sometimes feel like they’re invincible until they meet their own mortality.
True that
I've had moments like this on skis. I have the fear in me now.
A wise man once told me everyone should learn to drive in a Beetle in Wales.
You're barely scraping the surface but good start...
Good start...
@@podulox Well, it was a 2012 Focus, so close enough lol.
Felt the same feeling while cycling... I was taking a descent at maximum speed, since the weather conditions were perfect and I know that road really really well, when suddenly before a sharp 90 degrees turn I felt fine gravel under my wheels, just where the usual braking spot was. I thought I was not gonna slow down in time and I was gonna fall (at the side of the turn there is about 2 meters of flat grass peeceeding an extremely steep 5/10 m drop to the forest in that point. Luckily I managed to slow down just in time on the grass at the side. Apparently, it had rained some days before and the water had deposited the gravel just in that point
The fact that your final moments may lead to you being remembered as being unprofessional and having poor airmanship should be pretty strong motivation to quit screwing around.
Of course, but you never think that it's going to be YOU who crashes
It seems to me, that they made a series of bad decisions, after the screwing around. That was fatal, not the screwing around itself. They had manny opportunities to avoid the accident.
The fact that your last contribution to humanity is doing your best not to kill anyone else besides yourself should be, too.
They were just having fun :(
In my eyes they went admirably. They spent their last moments trying to correct their mistakes and make sure they didn’t take anymore lives in the process. Its commendable. Regardless of how “avoidable” the situation may or may not have been. Literally everything is avoidable with hindsight. The NTSB is useless without crashes to conduct investigations on. Humans have been progressing through trial and error for over 2 million years. Apparently all that means is a lot of people have to die in order for safety to actually be a thing.
Can confirm two things from my time at Pinnacle. 1: They were still training to minimize altitude loss as EQUALLY important to “breaking” the stall AFTER this accident, despite adding the hi altitude stall training. 2: The training department described the Core Lock as being the result of the restart attempts below minimum required speeds and NOT as described here. I find that interesting.
Yes it sounds like the engines actually have a fatal flaw in that they lock up when flamed out, but obviously pinnacle want to continue flying with them so they are going to tell the pilots that it only happens when you don't fly according to procedure....
@@giftofthewild6665probably any engine may be locked up under certain conditions as the mechanics of the lock up is determined by the very principle of it's design. You need metal which is softer than the engine blades to create just enough friction, just like a bullet needs to be softer than the gun barrel. So there we have it.
As a student pilot I understand that my piper warrior is a very very different aircraft to the type you talk about but still, seeing any other response to a high altitude stall being anything other than "nose down, gain speed" blows my mind. I get that the mind defaults to training in crisis, it's a shame the training that was defaulted to was not far back enough.
This happens more than you think.....hope your traning is going well...!!
Wishing you the best with training :)
Watching these videos, I wonder if pilots lack training with situations far outside of the normal. And that some kind of "completely crazy airlines" in a simulator could help. It would fill the need for experimentation, as well as train pilots in really crazy situations.
even as somone who only had a brief affair with some oldskool computer simulators, I also know you have to gain airspeed to get out of the stall
Even as someone who's just played games where you can fly, I know this. I really don't understand how they fumbled the bag so badly.
The way you impart these stories of aviation tragedies is done with great empathy and little judgement. You do not use sensationalism, you stick to data and paint a very clear picture accessible to the layperson. I’m a very nervous flyer and watching your videos has actually lessened my fears. You do a great service to pilots and passengers. Thank you.
@@omarhamani2126
In this case it seems warranted. These guys did like 15 things wrong… had they only done 14 they would have lived…. They might have been fired, but they would have lived
Me too. Seems counterintuitive but I feel less anxious about issues when flying and more confidence in flight teams to handle them and my safety when flying. Knowledge is the antidote to fear and I’m happy I stumbled across this channel for several reasons. Cheers.
I think what Gavin meant is that there is little judgement of the pilot's skill, character, etc., only an objective evaluation of their actions. Conversely in videos where he covers events that ended more favorably thanks to pilots' abilities he has been very complimentary.
@@minnesotajack1 And remember, too, the higher up you are, the farther you have to go to reach land should something happen. I don't know that "41ing" it would necessarily make me giddy.
@@markanderson77
If the flight ceiling was 69,000 feet that’s be a different story
I think this is a case of two personality types that fed each others weaknesses.
Once they started "playing" they just kept pushing each other to go further.
two burkes
If even one of the pilots was a more "strict" the other might not have been emboldened to try such a risky move. All that talk mentour does about CRM really makes this one hit harder because I NEVER would have expected this out of pilots.
Icarus flies too close to the sun. lol
@@GeneralKenobiSIYE These pilots are under my protection. If I see another “lol” out of you Im gonna start making jokes about Qui Gon Jinn. 41,000 feet means that they have high ground status for a while. So its over.
@@smoshfan439 Flying is for droids, also douche-Lords are my specialty.
EL-Oh-EL
I did high hazard chemical emergency response for many years. NTSB investigated many of the actions my group handled. In my work it wasn’t unusual for youthful high jinks, horseplay and over familiarity with dangerous chemicals and machinery to be a factor in events my team dealt with.
Was maybe the root cause of this crash a mature pilot feeling the normal mixed emotions of “settling into family life”, and getting caught up in a 23 yr old’s undisciplined titillation in pushing limits and flying for thrills rather than to do his job of getting a high dollar item from A to B within parameters. To me, it seems the captain utterly failed this young man by not constraining his youthful impulse and using the opportunity to teach and develop him. Youth commanded here not wisdom, that role reversal seemed physically embodied by them switching chairs.
I absolutely love this channel. Enough great investigative detail to keep a me as a former professional responder engaged (and entertained). But he and the production team also offer enough explanation of technical aviation details, for easy understanding. Hats off to them!
As a private pilot and nothing more every time I approach and aircraft I’m thinking about my instructor 20 years ago constantly telling me: “Aviate, Navigate, Communicate”… it seems like in almost every video some pilot forgot this. Having said that any loss of life is sad… but at the same time these two “kids” will never fly unsuspecting passengers.
I’m not usually affected much by your content but this one shocked and angered me like not much else ever has!!
Keep up the amazing work you’re doing Peter
I’m not a pilot, but there is something to learn for everyone in each of these videos
Yes,student piloting applies to driving, SCUBA diving, cooking, hiking, hunting, camping, child rearing, etc.......
You look like a pilot
In a broad sense yes, but at the same not not so much. In my work I'm often dealing with a lot of complexity when things go wrong. When nothing is working, I can change my priorities and/or reassess by strategies. But a pilot might not have that luxury, if you're compentent and get it right you're like Sully, the hero on the Hundson, get it all wrong and you end like these two.
By taking short cuts based on likely causes, I can usually save a lot of time. But when I get it wrong, all I've done is waste time, i'm not going to kill anybody.
What struck me was the relative youth of both pilots, especially the 23 y/o. Both reverted to immature behaviors as if they were at a party or in a movie. It's a amazing they opted to go so far out of acceptability as pilots and with company property, seemingly unaware of the potential consequences, particularly when safety was, and is the hallmark of aviation, and which has impacted health care and other industries. Great explanation and teaching as usual.
This is why there should be an antisocial personality test screening for pilots and all other high-risk professions!
I agree. If they were test pilots who were requested to test the capability of the craft during certain maneuvers then their excitement and sense of adventure would be appropriate. Playing with other people's expensive machinary to the extent that it killed two people and might have killed hundreds more is completely unacceptable.
@@vanyastaleva415 True enough, but I didn't see anti-social personalities here so much as two very young men thinking, as young men do, that they were invincible and that they could solve any problem.
As a comparison the average age of WW2 bomber pilots was only 21 (based on quick googling).
@@bkreed27 so what? They were meant to kill never mind the price, next to that their low age were caused by the immensely high losses.
Not in aviation at all but am in a technical trade. These episodes I’m afraid are bingeworthy. Really well done and presented. You have brought me into a whole new world that I think most people don’t really know and is at the pinnacle of technical development. There is a common misconception out there that these large commercial aircraft can “fly themselves “ which several of your episodes make clear is not true.
It seems that in this crash the pilots’ relative youth and inexperience played a large part. They hadn’t had the time to develop the healthy fear and respect that comes with age and experience. It’s very tragic that it led to the loss of their lives. I was hoping until the end that they made it out of this with just a smashed up airplane and learned a valuable lesson. But sadly that was not the case. Experience is the best teacher.
@@machinegirl03more respect? He didn't even have the balls to pitch down to get plane to 300mph to relight engines. Kept chickening out. Woulda been a simple restart
@@ron78tht74its not about balls in aviation but about logical thinking and procedures, windmill is always second option since apu always should start engines without a problem as long as u have power not in engines, just in battery and it didnt worked soo they tried windmill but first officer havent done it properly since he was more of trying to glide for longer than actually try windmill also idk if u watched full video since theres something like core lock in that particular engine which means no matter what they would do engines wouldnt restart unless they would wait really long time also all pilots should be respected theres really long and hard way to get anywhere close they were
Although experience is a "very good" teacher yes.......... The best teacher or teaching, is learning from "someone else's" mistakes. 🎉
I'm a non pilot but find your information fascinating!
Even though these incidents are gruesome and they might seem like a macabre interest, the technical details never fail to fascinate me. The knowledge that mr mentour has is astonishing and proves his dedication and love of aviation.
They are fascinating but, I admit, I _am_ macabre. Death is kaleidoscopic in its forms and factors. The great adventure. The undiscovered country. I want to learn from the dead about death because I won’t learn anything about my own.
@@darkprose This! This right here.
Don't get why it would seem macabre. He explains more about the mistakes that led to the crash. It's about the aircraft and the (clearly not followed) proper handling and flying of craft.
Not necessarily about death.
There’s always been some shady stuff coming out of the Little Rock airport, and especially the smaller ones that dot the surrounding area.
I’m not saying that there’s a lot of drug trafficking going on there, but who knows 🤷🏽♀️
I also admire how restrained Mentour Pilot is when talking about the deceased pilots. It would be easy to focus on the unprofessional things that they did, but he remains so respectful, even when their errors are apparent.
My flight instructor told me something that I remember every time I watch one of these accident videos. He said "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots".
Wise words, although there was this guy named Yeager...
@@hrdley911 He was an exception and it's highly likely that his displays of "boldness" and their risks, ramifications and potential correctives were thoroughly considered well in advance.
@@frankmiller95
I'm not sure he was an exception. You can be bold in wartime (you have to be) and then as a test pilot you are meticulous and cautious, because you appreciate you are going where no one has gone before..
Yeah there are, and they're called crop dusters.
@@pilotavery 8^)...
My heart broke when the captain showed worry over casualties on the ground. Although I was annoyed by their reckless actions, eventually their human side came out. Really sorry for the loss, hope this doesn't happen again.
I agree, when I heard at 26:06 that he wants to keep the gear up to avoid third-party casualties, while also knowing full well that it will probably cost their lives, I teared up a bit. Yes, they messed up with their reckless behavior, but in the end they both acted very responsible by cancelling the airport approach and keeping the gear up.
I had a fighter pilot instructor once for ppl training in a Cessna150 he said watch this and proceeded to show his skills as acrobatic moves go. I reminded him that this plane was abit low on oil , and the plane & we may not survive the toss. Ruined both of our temptation to joy ride at 25 years old each. But Im still here. Lost track of him. @1982. Now 2024. Keep the blue side up always if you have that choice.
Done with such respect and dignity! not an easy thing to do.
I agree. Great video and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to use such respectful language about these pilots.
This was so interesting. I am a female, 67, have no training in anything - I am just a cleaner. But this had me hooked. I think it was the no nonsense attitude and total profession way it was put across.
There's no such thing as just a cleaner Brenda. It matters not what you do in life, but how you do it.
@@sharkskinboy That is a lovely thing to say, and I thank you. I hope I do it well.x
Hello Brenda, hope u having a good day
Don't say JUST a cleaner
You're not JUST existing, you are a valuable human being with everything that comes attached to it
Don't devalue yourself please
I like Brenda. Have a great day!
Great video - as usual. Peter, you mentioned how this accident impacted aircrew training. On the engine design side it also resulted in some additional flight testing of turbofan engines, not just the GE models. At Honeywell (TPE331, TFE731, CFE738, HTF7000) we had to perform what we called “drift down” tests that reproduced the conditions experienced by the ill-fated CRJ. The engine under test would be installed on our flying test bed (a 757-200) as a third engine. We then flew the engine to 45,000 feet and slowed the aircraft to 180 knots indicated with the test engine at max continuous thrust. Instantaneously we shutdown the test engine and began a controlled descent, initially trying to hold 180 knots. During the descent at low speed we observed the N1 and N2 rotor speeds to ensure the the engine did not lock-up. As we got lower approaching FL200 we slightly increased airspeed and then relit the test engine using an assisted start procedure (cross-bleed start). For a while we were doing this for production engines to demonstrate that each engine was free of “core-lockup”. Eventually a ground test cell run-in procedure was developed so that we could ensure an engine would not lock-up. Your explanation of the mechanism causing the lock-up was great. The lock-up potential in a turbofan engine can be exacerbated by shaft-bow where the differential cooling between the case and the rotating group causes the shaft to experience high compressive loads causing it to bow slightly. The rotor clearances with the case can then become negative and the engine literally grinds to a stop. Thank you for your tireless efforts with your channel.
I love these videos that you create since they clearly explain some very complex topics. You also emphasis one of the hallmarks of aviation - accidents happen, but when they do,a tremendous effort is made to understand the root cause and fix the problem.
Really interesting read 👍
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So relieved that no one on the ground was killed as a result of those guys "goofing off".
The only positive thing which can be said about this story. It´s something which lets you speechless.
I was working for ExpressJet at this time and we all thought pilots were probably having a good bit of fun on repo flights, but this was pretty shocking.
I think the only redeeming thing the captain did on this flight was keeping the gear up in an attempt to avoid ground casualties. He knew he screwed up and he didn't want people on the ground to pay for his errors even at greater risk to his own safety.
@@tafdiz That's the problem, right? These machines are incredibly complicated and you don't know how exactly they work. I wonder how many people even knew about this "core lock" situation can happen before this accident. More the reason to stick to procedures so you don't get into these "edge case scenarios", where unusual stuff can happen.
@@tafdiz In the dumb quest for that "less than one percent efficiency increase", engine designs are reaching critical points. Just look at how bad went the literal destruction of the engine nacelle and front ring on the B777 powered by the PRATT and WHITNEY PW-4000 engines that threw a too large fan blade due to fatigue! They tested the engines on a mock-up fixture at the shop, but forgot to test the entire nacelle when testing to blade failure! Talk about insufficient testing, like TACA Flight 110 (badly designed ice and water injestion test) or Boeing testing the effect of Thrust Reverser uncommanded opening testing only at low altitude, that took an extraordinary person like Niki Lauda in order to take Boeing out of their stupidity!
During a recent simulator session (A330) the sim instructor decided to have a little fun with us (it wasn’t part of the program). After failing one engine overhead Mont Blanc, he failed our second engine as well. I immediately started looking and heading for a runway. Geneva was on our right hand side. My focus was on flying and getting to a runway, my colleague immediately started to try and recover systems. We never got our engines back, but my colleague sure tried. He did manage to start the APU and we regained all instrumentation and were in full control and communication. We glided into a safe landing on runway 22 at Geneva and came to a safe standstill on the runway.
I hope this never happens to me in real life, but I sure want to be ready to handle it, if it does.
Im not a pilot, but I appreciate the fact that aviation as a industry really learns from the mistakes of the past. Its important in any profession to understand why we do things, and just as importantly, why we dont. I appreciate the fact that you as a pilot in training are seeking out information regarding the breakdown of past mistakes, bad decisions and mechanical failures. Ironically, watching these videos and then reading the comments of all the pilots in the comments makes me feel safer. These videos are entertainment for most, but theres valuable information here for anyone in the profession. I think theres always something to be learned and in this specific scenario of a pilot. Knowing specific accident breakdowns and being able to recall what caused them, what worked in fixing the issues, what didnt work and why it all happened in the first place seems so valuable. Thank you!
Really enjoy your comment 😊
As we have seen even in some of the videos that Mentour Pilot has made, simulator training of unusual or even "idiotic" situations could potentially be the difference between life and death when you are unlucky and end up being that one in a million and the seemingly impossible happens, so Im all for unusual excercises :)
Well done mate. You operated exactly as per procedures narrated by the host. Great to learn about aviation from pros like yourself.
Can you replicate the flight path of flight 77 - the commercial aircraft that hit the Pentagon on 9/11?
100m high for 1km.
Firstly you have to get into that crazy level then maintain it....as an amateur and on your first attempt?
No one can do it in a simulator.
Can you?
Can anyone?
It's a mystery still.
It'll solve 2.3 trillion questions.
Post links of the achievement if you can.
Peace
Yup - stay ALWAYS PROFESSIONAL, regardless of the situation you are in. Good talk, good comments, excellent graphics, so I appreciate very much your videos.
I can’t wrap my head around this first officer’s reluctance to push the stick forward
Today I learned core lock is a thing. A very, very bad thing. I'm also very impressed with the aircraft. 29 degrees nose up at 41,000 feet? Still flying? That plane was trying very hard to keep everyone alive and almost succeeded.
Indeed
That poor little engine that could, something like 25% past redline.
@@MentourPilot I am a bit confused about which parts of the engine are actually involved in this core lock. And why this is constructed this way.
@@RandomUser2401 "core" on this CF34 engine refers to the N2 spool which contains the high pressure compressor section on one end and" the high pressure turbine wheels on the other end. There is a second spool integrated with the core that has a fan on one end and low pressure turbine on the other end. They are free to rotate independently. The engine is not designed to "core lock" that is just an unfortunate mode of operation when the engine is allowed to stop rotating at other than a normal shutdown. The core shaft becomes stuck and is not able to start rotating again. In this case one engine was thermally damaged beyond limits and simply could not be started no matter what. Too bad they didn't know that as much time was wasted trying to start an unusable engine.
@@buckmurdock2500 Thanks a lot for all that info, great! So the two spools are still concentric and very close? If yes, then I am a bit unclear why that is necessary, also in the video he mentions that they normally do interlock during normal operation as long as the engine is rotating?
To stay at 41k feet.
-The nose is pitched up
-The engines are almost maxed out and are in the red
-The speed is decreasing
This would be an indication that the plane is struggling.
I'm a total layman, but your knowledge and clear explanations are top notch. Even though these pilots were negligent it still was a very sad ending that they didn't need to face. Very sorry for their families too.
Yes. As somewhat a aviator geek they should have just glided back to an airport
I just found your videos and I know you're a pilot, but I am so impressed at the amount of knowledge of each of these planes. I mean, I know you researched it, but to grasp it all, as a pilot, then to be able to "dumb it down" (for lack of a better phrase) for us to understand is a great skill and I appreciate your time and knowledge. Also, I appreciate whomever does all the graphics to help with your worded explanation. Thanks!
I am an eye surgeon who as a teenager was a pilot of a 172 Cessna. The lessons I learned flying have influenced every aspect of my life. I think we rarely do things in life that don't have a "do over" safety card. The myriad of things that can happen while flying require that you be prepared to address them in a methodical and previously thought out way. The checklist before take off to the checklist in an engine failure or weather emergency require that you face the fact that you are not going to have a "do over" if you get this wrong. In surgery every detail should be thought out for the many possible issues you will encounter. Some are routine and you are familiar with how to address them. Some are more rare and when you see them begin to unfold you need a checklist to adjust and to keep 'flying" and to not begin to just try ideas. Indeed the mantra of my Alaska bush pilot instructor was "fly the plane". He meant of course keep making decisions based on the reality of the moment that you can react to. He would turn the fuel tank knob to the off position and the engine would stop. Looking at the propeller he would turn and say "what are you going to do?" Fly the plane..so drop the nose and keep my airspeed, look for a place to land and direct the plane in that direction, attempt to restart the engine, call mayday, maintain gliding speed into the wind if possible, line up with the field or road way, drop flaps, push the nose down to maintain airspeed, then attempt restart, then put the wheels on the ground, except he would flip the tank and the engine restarted and I would climb out a little pissed but smarter. He would say any landing you walk away from is a good landing, don't worry about how it looks or the condition of the aircraft. So I have the ability to take cases that would have led to slower recovery or visual problems and have the patient looking the next day as if it was an uneventful case. But this is from recognizing that I can land the plane in every situation if I keep flying by the checklist that fits the situation that is evolving. Here it would appear that they were at first covering up the 41 club errors as they didn't follow the basic rule that I learned as a 16 year old. Nose down maintain airspeed, then look for a place to land, for them ATC would have provided that, point the plane in that direction then attempt to restart and ultimately land safely on a runway well within reach. The lessons of flying can apply to many critical situations you have in your life. Keep making choices, focus on a achievable goal, stay positive keep flying the plane!
This is so fascinating to hear. Thank you for sharing. I have always been so terrified of getting out of my box and doing things that made me scared and I knew I was taking a risk. Flying is one. I get sick to my stomach from the turbulence and get clammy. I continue to remain calm and know that gods got me. The Pilots are doing all that they know to protect me. We take risks everyday. Driving down the road, flying or riding in a plane. Leaving home in general. I thinks its crazy how he put you through those procedures but he had to make sure you would do what you're supposed to for the safety of yourself and others. Thanks for sharing.
I think your comment is as valuable and entertaining as the video itself. And that’s greatly enhanced by a clear writing style that indicates that you took something more than biology and chemistry.
My father is a pilot. He was also a flight instructor. You helped me to better understand what I thought I knew….
Richard, I have the highest regard for eye surgeons. Almost two years ago now I damaged my right eye in a full-blame stupid accident in my kitchen, when I managed to bang my head very hard on the kitchen table in the dark. (Don't ask!😏). Long story short I caused a macular-hole in the right eye. Everything viewed through my right eye when I closed the left was horribly distorted. This wonderful eye-surgeon implanted a gas bubble in the macula which had the effect over time of pulling the damaged tissues together. He did tell me that the eye would never again be as good as it was before the accident, but I would say that it is something in the region of 90 percent as good. For this I am so grateful. His assistant also did the cataract in that eye as part of the operation. How you guys actually do all this what must be so minuscule and delicate work in and at the back of people's eyes is quite beyond me - huge respect.
Excellent comment, Richard. :)
Oh, so beautifully written Richard...
Keep flying your planes everyone! 🛫 🙌🏼
I used to watch air crash investigation all the time but I much prefer Mentour these days, the video quality is always top notch and everything is well explained.
Thank you! Glad too find them interesting.
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Mentour's videos are so much better than those over dramatic air crash shows with dramatic music and narration. So glad I found this channel too!
Yes, the TV shows are sensationalistic whereas Mentour is rational, factual and detailed.
Yes indeed, plus Mentour doesn't use that hideous background music that makes it impossible to hear.
An incredibly strong video for lots of reasons.
Such important messages embedded in the tragedy of the loss of two pilots; one young - one seasoned.
I am not a pilot but I really enjoy your videos. You have gone over a number of accidents that i have seen other videos on but hearting from a pilot really changes things. You are also great at dumbing it down for us wingless types! Great work sir!
it's so sad to me because, while their actions were really unprofessional and should have NEVER happened, you can also see how much the pilots love aircraft and flying, and how passionate they were. RIP.
it is very sad, i totally see why they did what they did, they were young and inexperienced and really loved flying so much and were excited to get to "play" with this aircraft while it was just them. they totally bonded over this and probably would have been best friends if this didnt happen. its hear breaking but i respect them both that in the end they were more worried about people on the ground than themselves.... i hope that they are now at peace, and that they didnt die feeling like they were about to kill people on the ground because they didnt end up killing anyone but themselves unintentionally.
And how they were working right to the end. No cries of fear, no accusations, professional all the way. A team. As an aside the plan to take the plane up so much higher made me think of the great book and film, The Right Stuff, where although he's flying a completely different aircraft, Chuck Yeager/Sam Shepard takes that plane to and past the limit, in his case the edge of space. The plane cut out, went haywire. Engines stopped, it's cartwheeling through air while he tries to get it normalized. He was lucky of course but he pushed the envelope as the two pilots did too. The love of flying and wheeling through footless halls of air.
@@margaretcastell9429 "Professional??" You can't be serious. Their "professionalism" is what got them into this instance in the first place. Their lack of professionalism explains how badly they botched the emergency they created. Idiots.
@Margaret Castell such a great book!
@@margaretcastell9429 Being afraid or as you put it, “cries of fear” is a normal human reaction, especially given the 4 failed restarts and the impending impact with terrain. It wouldn’t have been unprofessional for them to be fearful or cry out given the circumstances. We really need to stop normalizing that having a lack of emotions or not showing emotions is a good thing.
My friend was an ATC and worked with the ATC working with this flight. I knew this was in his air traffic region and was describing this flight to him. He said she was badly shaken by what happened. She had cleared them to fly at the higher altitude, but wasn't responsible for them goofing off.
She is innocent
@@bythelakeguy6147 yes, I am aware.
Wow. Often women suffer some guilt ... enabling. Of course, law and common understanding in this as in professional situations find atc guiltless in this case. Human nature is what it is.
The controller could not have said "no" to them. There wasn't a reason not to. There wasn't any traffic above them. The pilots are responsible for the aircraft.
@@QueenCallisto ...guess you know more than the rest of us... Maybe she dint know the make of the aircraft ...maybe the cap sounded sure snd determined . tough job ...and i only worked for an ex controller after Reagan fired em all... She wuz a good boss. But she woulda felt bad. Not to the point of guilt but bad.
WOW, I love this guy's presentations and eloquent delivery. He puts the viewer right in the cockpit and ATC tower. Thank you sir for your work.
This incident reminds me of an old adage I was taught years ago.
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. There are no old, bold pilots.
I'm not sure how I ended up watching this vid but the timing was spot on. As a Healthcare Educator, trying to get across to students the importance of always behaving in a professional manner as there can always be unforeseen consequences for not doing so, well its hard to put old heads on young shoulders and not just seeming like an old buzzkill. I used this video to emphasise the point and it worked brilliantly. You could see it clicking with the students from early enough on, albeit they also initially thought Id lost the plot using an air crash investigation for healthcare ethics learning. It could help one of these kids and their patients one day so much appreciated!!
Great example of innovative teaching methods - well done!
It's not really the same, it as the pilots here were testing illegal drugs on their selves.. Their goal from the beginning is to behave unprofessionally. Had there been any other passenger on board nothing would have happened.
Well done. I think keeping professional and following procedures even when it feels redundant is the main takeaway here. There are more though:
-This crew (unfortunately there are more examples) most likely was ashamed of their mistakes and tried to hide it from ATC. It feels understandable because they very well might've lost their jobs after this anyway. Yet they probably could've saved their lives if they had communicated their situation openly without hesitating.
-Learn from mistakes and look for multiple things that went wrong. We tend to find "the reason" quickly and stop looking afterwards. When something goes wrong badly, it's almost never one isolated mistake that caused it. The way to improve is to keep searching and analyzing. It's really amazing that they dug so deep to find problems with checklists and the engine even though the blame is on the pilots.
Sorry for the text wall, maybe that was more for myself. All the best!
@@flo0778 My husband and I were the only passengers on a flight when the two pilots decide to go off course and see a gold domed house in north Texas. They turned the plane sideways and flew a circle around that house. We were out of our seats at the door of the cockpit when they did that. We both fell and I just remember looking out the window at the gold domed house going around in circles! So, so bad.
@@judymcrae7692 Very ungracious from your pilots but I don't get the link with this video, this plane was absolutely empty.
You know it's a bad one when the introduction mentions the pilots being good people with families before telling you anything about what happened.
*OnLy those who Know the Lord Jesus are GOOD PeopLe!!!*
*Those PiLots had ReJected the Lord Jesus! & Now they are HOT, for ALL ETERNITY !!!*
Someone missed the memo about "Judge not" i see..
They paid the ultimate price for THEIR mistake
Havent YOU ever done anything dumb? 1 John 1:8
@@JustindeEugeneWhyIQuitDeMonRat obviously you’re not one
@@JustindeEugeneWhyIQuitDeMonRat jesus wouldnt like you
So sad that one of their final decisions was to keep the landing gear up, basically dropping their own survival chances to zero, to try to gain some additional distance to avoid killing people in their houses.
I have watched this video a couple of times since you released it, this time it was because it Autoplayed the next video whilst I was answering the door, & I just left it running, because I love to listen to your voice - I find your voice comforting, your knowledge interesting & your enthusiasm heartwarming.
Each time I’ve heard this story I have taken something different away with me - the first time was the impact of the tragic outcome, which was so obviously avoidable if the pilots had just been professional, the second time was the aerodynamic aspects you detailed, but this time it was your compassion in your presentation for the facts.
Thank you Petter, thank you for your knowledge, your passion for aviation & thank you for having the type of voice that just draws the listener in.
For people like them , you figure it out what needs to be done and the vulnerabilities of the planes. Applaud them
The 2 pilots, in the last few seconds, kept the gear up and no flaps, so as to minimize fatalities on the ground, but, at the same time, removing any chance they, themselves, had of surviving. In the end their last decision was, incredibly, noble.
Curious Why would flaps down flaps increase fatalities? Is it that they might hit more homes?
@@livenfree Be advised, I am not a pilot and have barely any idea on flight mechanics, but:
My guess would be that because the flaps increase lift they would also reduce the braking force on the ground, and therefore increase the distance the plane travels across the ground before coming to a stop.
A longer distance on the ground means higher chance to hit a building and/or injure people.
Same reasons go for the landing gear.
@@semurobo sounds reasonable
"Conjecture" pure conjecture... as to pilots' "considerations about affecting other folks."
I.e. the collisions would also affect the plane's survivability.😛
@@semurobo Not quite. Lowering the flaps increases low speed lift, provided there's thrust. They also increase drag. Without thrust, the drag slows them down a lot more. They wanted to fly past the houses instead of coming down on top of them.
"ah, we've had a non-zero amount of engine failures."... These guys ended up losing their lives, basically because they knew they had messed up big time, and that they're pretty much already fired, careers over once the stall happened. I think it was the "we're already completely screwed" mindset caused by their first series of mistakes, that caused them to then just continue making bad decisions. That gear up I don't want to go into houses comment is extra sad, because it's basically the pilot having a moment of "We've already killed ourselves with our bad decisions, let's try to not kill anyone else."
it is also a basic commercial airline pilots training 101. (to seek as non populated area as is possible). Is this not standard military training?
Agree 100%
@@hualani6785 While it is basic training to avoid populated areas, they had already ignored so much of their basic training getting into this situation that them making a point to say they weren't going to deploy the gear to minimize risk to people had an impact on me. It was basically the point where they spoke into existence that they were definitely going to die but they wanted to do it in a way that only affected them.
V sad
Would they definately have lost their jobs, as many comments suggest, if they had properly communicated dual engine failure and did a successful emergency landing with the proper priority?
Sir! You are an awesome mentor. Actually you explained all the happenings in an understandable way, no matter how complicated and technical the things were.
Petter, thanks for yet another absolutely brilliant teaching aid. Superb. Tragic but ....lessons learned, once again.
I think the fact that their first instincts and last acts were to try to avoid hitting others on the way to their fates is really telling of the types of people these two were. It's unfortunate that they had such a huge lapse in judgement. They really could have hurt or killed other people, and unfortunately they did so to themselves in the end. It really couldn't have been worth it. This is so sad, especially hearing how excited they both were.
What a waste of pilot training aircraft and life. Tragic. I hope others learn from this.
I mean, so what? They are 100% responsible for their actions, and that they decided after they put people at risk to try get out of that isn't admirable. Admirable would've been not causing the need to make the decision in the first place.
There is nothing to admire here. We have such low standards for men.
I feel the same way... a lot of people talk in these comments about how immature and unprofessional they were, which is true, but I mostly just feel sad about how they tried to be selfless in their last moments but died
I'm not sure if I would go that far. They crashed the plane into a populated area and it seems they only killed themselves mostly due to some luck.
one thing that could help would be if airlines held some kind of recurring (every year? Every 2 years? idk) "aerobatics flights" where a plane would be flown with just pilots onboard and under the supervision of veteran high time pilots they would be allowed to perform maneuvers near the edge of the performance envelope on an empty aircraft.
As humans we all get the itch to "push it" "try it", it's like owning a motorcycle: even if you're really level headed, you sometimes want to turn all the throttle, you want to reach the redline.
Killing that itch with a performance oriented flight where everyone gets to try a couple higher G pulls and climb up would probably help have a safer and more relaxed environment
I was a gliding instructor for about seven or eight years (it was a while ago) and ended up with something approaching 2,000 launches on gliders. All the time, I had this vague feeling that my limitations were much greater than the placard limitations on the aircraft. I think it made me get out of certain situations very early. Perhaps earlier than strictly necessary, but I had a highly developed sense of danger. Complacency and overconfidence are deadly in many situations, but the air is particularly unforgiving of them. I used to read the gliding accident reports regularly, and my usual reaction was to think "I wouldn't have done that!" Followed soon after by the thought "Actually, I can imagine a situation where I might have done that." An older instructor said to me that he read the reports thinking to himself "nearly done that, nearly done that, done that but got away with it ..." Very good video.
As a glider pilot, you can't throttle up any engine to get speed. It is essential to put the nose down until you get the speed you need. We are doing training for this even near the ground in case of cable breaks during launch. Put the nose down until the speed builds up. We do this at 300 feet, even at 100. These guys had 40.000 feet for free and didn't manage to keep up their speed! Reminds me of the Air France 447 crash.
"highly developed sense of danger" That is so well said... thank you!
@@chrisehmke1651 But cant you stall a plane so badly that you lose controll over rudders?
Like planes diving tail first and tumbel spin or eny other oriantaion thats not forward?
Or should you know how to fly a akward faceing plane?
Im not a pilot, but i like planes and would like to get my licens one day.
@@rambo8863 airplanes are configured so that the center of gravity (CG) is always forward of the center of lift. That way they are inherently stable as long as the pilot does not screw it up.
You really know flying and airplanes my friend! All pilots should take notes from you. As an instructor you are great. I've never even been in a cockpit. I feel I could land one from watching you talk the guy down using auto pilot. Watched it about 20 times. Still blows my mind! Just keep doing what your doing and the skies will be safer for it!
I've watched a lot of these accident videos.
But you have a way of describing it that makes the accident more technical and educational... yet still compelling.
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This incident always makes me upset to listen to, until it comes to the gear up to try to avoid houses. Then it hits me that it's still a tragic loss of life, even though it could've been prevented by standard procedures. The pilots tried to hide their mistakes, probably out of fear of losing their jobs (rightly so), and dug themselves deeper and deeper into a hole until they couldnt dig out of it. Only then realizing how wrong they were, but too late to save themselves.
Losing your job is less serious than losing your life.
Thanks for calling it an incident and not an "accident". This was certainly no accident.
@@BOB-wo2nb What, they intentionally crashed the plane? Please.
@@BOB-wo2nb You're saying they intentionally crashed the plane?
In the end they were only concerned with preventing civilian deaths. Amazing they crash landed in neighborhood & no one else died. 31 y.o. & 21 y.o. did some REALLY stupid stuff and lost their lives. RIP
@@GG-kn2se "accident" means no one is at fault and that it couldn't be prevented. That is most certainly not the case here, as the crash very much could have been prevented simply by not monkeying about with the plane, thus the proper term is "incident". All crashes are "incidents", no matter if they're planes, cars, trains, ships, or whatever, unless it can be proven to be an "accident"
I love the fact you go into a much more in depth analysis than TV shows like "Aircraft Investigations" that are dumber down for the average viewer. Your insight and technical knowledge of the facts surrounding these accidents makes for compelling viewing!
That’s great to hear! Thanks!
Agree, or the related examples illustrating what is being said. The TV show never budge from the core subject, or they "core lock" on the subject.
Another very well done video. Very intersting discusson on the compressor stall and subsequent engine lock up. Your technical presentations are excellent. My dad was an aero engineer who had his hands in subsonic inlets, a STC for cooling on the Malibu and some work on the Australian Seabird Seeker Aircraft. He was also a private pilot and told me about back side of power curve and the problems with a decreasing headwind on landing requiring the ability to accelerate the mass of a large aircraft to maintain airspeed. You had an excellent discussion on energy management in another video where you discussed need to plan the approach, particularly the extra time to slow the aircraft down in a tailwind situation. These videos are top notch, interesting and technically great. Thank you!
This is one of those heck yes RUclips finds. Great channel my dude. Wishing you and yours the best. Much love and respect from a fully grown man that is terrified of flying.
I am a Dr and specialist in anaesthesia and like pilots we have hours and hours of boredom and occasional seconds to minutes of terror.
The world of anaesthesia shares many parallels with the aviation industry and there is a lot to learn from your videos which make me a better Doctor. Thank you.
You are absolutely correct. There are many parallels here.
Glad to hear from you!
I too am, or was before retirement, an anesthesiologist. I was thinking the same thing. Most of my memories are good, some, not so much.
Another physician (not a pilot at all), and had the exact same thought (hours of routine, minutes of emergency). Also that both medicine and flying are fields where mistakes must be avoided at all costs, and how to address/avoid when humans can make mistakes.
@@MentourPilot I spent 17 years working as a firefighter and paramedic. Also been a pilot since I was 16. I think another often overlooked aspect to all of this is the neurophysiology controlling how your brain is handling being inundated with critical tasks. We can't actually multi-task, we are jumping from one to the other without actually completing it. So to combat this, you develop an internal flowchart for handling different situations. If this, do this. And you train those responses over and over and over until they become muscle memory. After a while, handling chaotic quickly evolving situations becomes much more second nature. If we want pilots to respond in a way that is most conducive to as safe a landing as possible, then there needs to be more time spent training, and not just tabletop exercises, but simulations and in air stall training with certified instructors. One of the best things I ever did was seek out a trainer who would walk you through different stalls, then show you how to recover. By doing that over and over, if I feel a stall I know the first immediate steps to take to begin rectifying the issue. Not saying they don't both share a large share of the culpability here, but if the published service ceiling is 41k, and the VS a/p is engaged, the plane should either give a master caut or auto level off and engage spd hold to prevent a stall. Falls on the manufacturers to implement fail safes where possible to make the plane inherently less prone to human error, and reviewing emergency procedures for ease of use in imparting important flight envelope information. Accidents are never caused by just one failure in the system, blaming that is to ignore the larger framework that caused or allowed the failure to occur in the first place.
I'm about as far the other direction in profession...I am a school bus driver, and instructor. We too, have similar hours of boredom. But its in the moments of boredom when we could change the lives of an entire community. If a school bus driver isn't 100% attentive, we have the potential to lose children. In my particular school district, this hasn't happened in nearly 20 years, but its a sobering reminder to always stay alert, stay professional, and keep distractions put away. We don't have a QRH for situations that can arise on school buses, but I am going to try to press for us to start having checklists and quick references for those times when things don't go as planned. Thank you for the educational videos, they are much appreciated.
Such a tragedy that didn't use all that altitude they had to their advantage.
Penny Lane ... It's all to do with physics.........The narrator explained it very well.
They had 6 airports at 41 grand ,the very first thing they should have done was set up for the best one ,and do everything else to try and restart after they established a plan and they would have made it
@@sydbarrett4518 They were too worried about getting fired once they flamed out. They would have to answer to the man when asked why were you at 41k feet going slow enough to stall. They assumed they had enough height to restart so that way they could figure out how to keep their jobs but by the time it was too late...cloud layer...they knew it was no more birthdays.
No. More. Birthdays.
This channel is a huge source of information. I love it. Very well done.
I've been binging your videos lately, and i think this one really encapsulates what I take away from watching these. That even if the mistakes made were mostly at the hands of people being irresponsible, the core tenant is to learn and keep people safe, not to blame someone for everything. Watching your videos helps me understand how to learn and grow as a person and I really appreciate that.
I’m so glad there were no casualties on the ground, and so sorry they didn’t live to know they avoided harming others. This is such a sad story, even though others have more loss of life. I’m glad they do more high altitude training for stalls.
I think that this is why I was so broken by the statement that somehow no one else died. Their last thoughts were that they had failed to avoid innocent casualties. They will never know that they managed to avoid killing anyone but themselves. Somehow, despite how blatantly it is that this was entirely their fault, I feel the most sadness towards them than I have out of any of the other pilots that died in other accidents that were almost entirely out of their control.
I've been shaking my head for half an hour now. What a stupid "accident".
Sit down for a while, it help with the dizziness! Here, have some lovely green tea.
I guess you should check out the Air France AF-447 incident then. Headshaking guaranteed for at least 3 hours.
Agreed. This is weird. Why don't TWO trained pilots care about sufficient airspeed TWICE? First, four almost stalls and second, a pilot refusing to fly over 300 knots. Those men were plain crazy?! With all due respect. Even recreational pilots are trained to recognize and solve spins. And the pro's can't even apply the windmill start checklist correctly? WTF?! Very sorry those two crashed. I really do not unserstand them.
@@voornaam3191 They were panicking. This reduces rational thinking. I'm always wondering why so often they make the same stupid mistake. When stall warning goes off you have to push the nose down, no matter what. Instead in order not to 'fall down' they are pulling the stick and contributing to the disaster. Also it takes nerves to speed dive to accelerate to 300 KIAS when your biggest aim ist to keep the ground at distance. Thus, they were not trained enough.
Darwin award
I am not in the aviation industry. I appreciate the detailed explanations and lack of judgement regarding pilot/crew actions. You simply share and make the information understandable. I appreciate your channel.
Thank you for sharing. You explain everything so well so it's easy to understand
That professional pilots would not know the effects of high altitude on power and lift is just astonishing.
I think they kind of knew, just not in all the details. I've noticed in my job that I tend to kind of forget about things that I don't need on a regular basis. I've learned them once but then never got to use them and so the knowledge slowly eradicated until it was mostly gone. After a refresher it would come back much quicker than the first time but I would need to spend a bit of time on it first. That is likely what their issue was too. They had learned about it in the past but then they had planes that were never meant to be at those high altitudes and didn't train for those situations and just like that all but the basics were gone.
@@Silkke
Well, if youre going to forget the fundamentals of your job, you shouldnt be doing it.
@Charles Faure I am certain the pilots knew. The issue here is that they turned the flight into a frat party. Their focus was on bragging rights and not operating the aircraft.
@@Silkke Everyone forgets stuff for work, but this isn't excusable. That's like a cop forgetting to lock his gun away around his kids or a doctor forgetting to wash his hands before surgery. If a pilot needs to be reminded to not fly at max altitude, they shouldn't be a pilot.
@@drink15 agree!
What blows my mind the most is they kept pulling the nose up after the stall.
Yeah, I never really understood that either
Could it be fear of descending bellow a safe altitude?
Panic mode, like the AF crash
@@kriptonis i think they were trying to reach the ceiling but the stall keeps preventing them and they kept trying
@@MrWizardjr9 ... the higher they went, the less air there was. So thin that it couldn't re-start the engines. Wrong height - wrong speed...wrong pilots...
Thank You for your videos Peter! Before each video starts I pray that whatever incident the crew faces will be resolved and pilots , crew members and passengers will return safely to their families. Unfortunately not always. I hope these pilots will find peace in heaven.
That moment when you realize a little bit of fun has turned into a "I've really fed up". Many of us have been there and fortunately many of those moments don't end this tragically.
The NTSB has such a special way of saying 'screwing around' in the first cause listed.
I’m a former USN/USMC flight test engineer. We’re taught to use “matter of fact” speech. We try to ensure that no personal opinions or bias is introduced into our reports. Lay out the facts and determine the test results. Personal opinions are a no no.
This series has been so cool. Lots of knowledge to be gained for even an amateur enthusiast. Thank You !!!!
I found his channel after I flew for the first time..I wanted to learn about flying...4 years later I still love his videos
I have over 700 hours and I learn from Peter every video
@@rob3910 I only have 200 but... ditto ;-)
Cool it's not the right word dude, tragic is the right word. Let's see how cool you would have been in theirs situation...
@@anderssvensk4317 they’re not talking about this incident. They’re talking about the series
Thank you Mentor Pilot for your honest explanation why all those crashes. I am in my mid seventies now and live in Australia since 1970’s but I am from Switzerland originally. I am glad all those flights I have been on flying back to Europe over the years and in 1975 did a world tour and been on many flights that nothing has happened to me. There was not a flight I know that had difficulty. All I can say thanks to all those pilots that did such a fantastic job.
i'm nowhere even near this industry but just been binging all his videos...I find the whole thing fascinating. The intricate systems and the way pilots react to different scenarios is incredible to me
"The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
-UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden
nice saying
Integrity
“Man looks into the abyss, and there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character, and that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
-Lou Mannheim
If flying a plane like that is a test of their character, I would have liked these guys. They seem like fun
Integrity
Deep in pilot desire, we want to reach the maximum attitude ever possible. Only works well on flight simulator though.
Just keep your best climb speed. Nothing is going to take you higher than that. If at best climb speed the airplane settles 2000 ft below the "official" ceiling, that that's the ceiling for that airplane that day. Now, noteworthy, that plane that day WAS capable of achieving FL410, had they not slowed down below best climb.
Didn't exactly work in my MS flight sim either though, is mine broken??
I don't fully understand why airplane can't maintain maximum altitude, since is rated for 41000? Why they was high angle of attack?
@@marekjakimowicz There IS a procedure to get to and maintain 41,000 from the manufacturer. But you need to enter 41k above a published high speed. If you enter 41k below the published speed (as happened here), the engines produce insufficient thrust to accelerate even in straight and level flight. Its not the AoA specifically, however it makes sense that to intercept 41k you would be more shallow in the AoA, to carry the high speed required by the manufacturer.
Personally speaking it should never be certified for 41k service ceiling. I'm unsure if this airline even produced a section in their manual for high altitude intercept because they never intended their airplane to be up there in their operations.
@@marekjakimowicz ... There is a concept called "excess thrust" which is how much thrust you have on top of what is needed to fly straight and level (no climb or descend) at your current speed. If your excess thrust is positive, you will gain either altitude or speed. If your excess thrust is negative, you will lose either altitude or speed.
As Peter (Mentour) explained, there is one airspeed that will give you the minimum drag. That speed will aslo give you maximum excess thrust (because it is the speed where you need the least thrust to overcome the drag). So it will give you the best climb rate if your excess thrust is positive (i.e. if you have more thrust than what is needed to fly straight and level at that speed). That airspeed is called "best climb speed".
The normal procedure to climb at high altitude is to set the throttle for climb power and use the pitch to control the airspeed keeping it at best climb speed.
The service ceiling is, by definition, the altitude at which the plane can sustain a climb of 100 feet per minutes at best climb airspeed. That means that if you apply climb thrust and keep best climb speed, you will eventually reach your service ceiling altitude but barely, just with a climb rate of 100 feet per minute, which is a very very shallow climb.
But this is not what the pilots did here. They set the autopilot to maintain a climb rate of 500 feet per minutes (5 times more aggressive than what you can sustain at the service ceiling). Because of that, there was a point where they started to lose airspeed (at a certain altitude, the engines just didn't have enough power to keep the airspeed and a 500 fmp climb at the same time) and, eventually, the speed went below the best climb speed which, remember, is the minimum drag speed.
After that it is a vicious circle. Speed goes down, drag goes up so speed goes down even more so drag goes up even more and so on. They finally managed to get to 41000 ft but by then they were going so slow and the drag so high that their excess thrust was negative, meaning that the available thrust was not enough to keep both the altitude and the speed. One had to give and, because the pilots didn't let the altitude drop, the speed kept deteriorating which made the drag to keep increasing and the speed to keep deteriorating and so on, until they stalled.
In other words, the plane was capable of maintaining 41000 ft, but not at such a low speed and high drag. They should have climbed more slowly and maintained best climb airspeed until getting to 41000 ft.
brilliant video so much great Tech info,love it Thanks Petter,Bill
Thanks for making awesome content. I'm skippering my own boat this year, and I'm learning a lot from those accidents and some of the knowledge is transferable to sailing. It's quite interesting how those two different disciplines are so connected.
Must have been so embarrassing to announce a dual engine failure after stalling at 41,000ft., because all other pilots would have known what happened immediately. Those two pilots were immature.
Not really. Even today, it's not clear why the engines failed and apparently seized. I don't think they lied because of embarrassment, captain lied because he was in denial and didn't want to face the consequences (fired from company/fined/license suspension) until it was too late.
@@gabrielcho999 the slower and higher aoa the closer the wind vortexes get from the wing tips to the body. This turbulent air disturbs the airflow to the engines in the tail leading to flameout. It's hard to imagine it was caused by anything else.
@@gabrielcho999 These hot doggers did a 4-1-0 ….. max climb , max thrust to max service ceiling. This is the equivalent of flooring your car to the point it overheats and quits with engine damage.
The made an initial reckless vx input all the way up and overrode all physical and audible warnings…. This includes itt over temp ….. they baked the engines till they had a glider .
Source? I’m an AME with 3 CRJ endorsements
@@gabrielcho999 The engines seized due to a "core lock" phenomenon that was evidently particular to these turbines. If these died at high temperature and insufficient airspeed was maintained to keep the turbines rotating, then the differential cooling would cause the cores to seize in their housings. Or something like that.
WRONGS! tHEY WERE TOLDS TO GO UP THERE ANS TEST THE AIRCRADFT UP THERE. THEY IS INNSENT VICTIMS!
Quality is going from BEST to BEST + 1 after every episode is what I can say.
No adjectives can describe this amazing work!
I am enjoying a lot.
Thank you!!!
Thank you! Glad you found it interesting
@@MentourPilot THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING INCIDENT . THANKS FOR ALL OF THE EFFORT AND SKILL THAT YOU PROVIDE!! FOR US.
As a non pilot I really enjoyed watching this as there are so many technical details and physics involved that can explain what happened. It shows that a good understanding of aerodynamics and physics is what will save your life in this situation.
I like how you don't criticize and never pronounce judgements. Always looking at the best in people. Good job!
Another way of saying "looking at the world through rose colored glasses".
The "best in people" would be valid if this was something they had not deliberately caused. Instead they chose to clown around putting innocents at risk on the ground. It was a tragic waste of their lives and needless pain for their families all because unprofessional behavior going against every aviation safety protocol. Having said that it is commendable and I respect them when they were close to the end and voiced their concerns about hitting houses.
If either of these joy-riding morons had done their best this incident would not have occurred.
@@mortimerschnerd3846 No it's not. It's finding good things to learn even from the worst of people.
Even though the pilots behaved unprofessionally. Their last moments were spent thinking about how to minimize harm to people on the ground. That is a noble death, lessons to be learned there and an attitude of servitude to be replicated.
The interesting thing to me about these videos is that they really show why aviation is so safe: Whenever there is an incident, it is taken seriously and changes are mandated to reduce the likelihood of that mode (or modes) of failure in future. Compare that to automobiles, where drivers are barely trained by comparison, and the same mistakes get made over and over. So even though planes are inherently more risky than cars (since you can't just pull a plane over when something goes wrong) because of the way they are operated the overall risk is reduced to well below that of cars.
Not only that, many countries don’t change traffic situations. A lot of accidents can be avoided by investigating unsafe designs in roads and passages. The Dutch are doing just that and it really makes road use safer.
There's a Boeing documentary on Netflix.🤔
You produce some of the most interesting, informative and professional work on the internet. Thank you, and God bless.
Im not a pilot but man these videos are super interesting to watch and you explain it great even for the simpletons like me keep up the great vids man