Its still Walter's fault unintentionally given had he not move jane she would have survived her overdose. Kinda tragic to think. Walter White inadvertently caused a second 9/11 all because he wanted to leave a fortune for a family that would have abandoned him.
the fact that they had to film this scene 6 times for the bear to fall on the pool, blowing up 6 planes and killing over 800 passengers, and having to do a police investigation and clean up of the area over 6 times, it really shows how they went the extra mile, bravo vince!
@@LordxCurry ah you see, the production crew was resourceful: they only blew up one plane each take since they didn't need to show both actually colliding. Vince and the team are truly geniuses!
The build up to this was insane. For many episodes prior to this we saw a teddy bear in the pool for no apparent reason and wondered what the hell it was until we finally got to see it.
@@mklein1 I think it was eluding to the $737,000 Walt calculated he needed to make before he finished. But maybe it’s both, never thought of the plane till now 🤔
@@buckleup8962 first of all, it’s Juliett, not Julia. Second, watch again and pay attention to what he says right before he drops the message with “disregard”.
His story was one of the few tv stories that’s ever moved me to tears. I can’t ever watch that scene of him watching Jane be zipped up in the body bag without shedding a couple tears. A father should never have to go through something like that.
It often gets overlooked… but season 2 was the strongest one, easily the darkest. The way it builds up intrigue with the flash forwards, the Jane storyline… everything about season 2 was sublime.
lol just no, YOU think that "season 2 was the strongest one", that's not true for other people and it does NOT get "OfTeN GeTs oVerLOoKEd" AT ALL, people know what they're talking about when it comes to giving praises to series. Stop trying to project what YOU personally like onto what is actually true as that's completely not true at all. The WHOLE SHOW was Phenomenal so don't put one season over another AT ALL as you badly just did right now.
@@Gadget-Walkmen Gordon Freeman. I meant no disrespect man! You’re totally right about my projection of opinion, but go easy, I too adore this show and also believe it’s near flawless from S1-5. But the uppercase/lowercase lettering? That’s a bit much no? There’s also nothing wrong with organizing a hierarchy of seasons by quality. Even if it’s not objective. We’re all here to share our thoughts. I was being completely positive and inclusive with my statement. Can you say the same?
Think about it, all of this happened because there was some microscopic damage to some of Walt's genes causing cancer. Nice illustration of the Butterfly Effect.
Quite. Though the catalyst was the cancer, but in a way it all started when Walt broke up w Gretchen and sold his share of the company. Until the bitter end, he could never get over it and that was the foundation. The cancer is why he broke bad but the seeds were there.
More like rationalizing instead of "justifying". I wouldnt call it coping as much because Walt really didnt blame himself. He just needed those who knew his role, to believe that it wasn't his fault.
@@aurelia8028 by any stretch of the imagination? Well my imagination is stretching and telling me that if Walt had not let Jane die, then Jane's father would not have been sitting in that chair giving fatal instructions due to overwhelming grief. I mean an airplane crash is a stretch in and of itself but it's not a stretch to say that in what we know predated this incident, that it is 100% Walters fault. That being said I absolutely adore Walt and I'm glad he got to die on his own terms
Just occurred to me that the most haunting part of a tragedy like this would be the silence. You'd hear a distant thud, maybe see a distant fireball and smoke trails, and that's it. Then after just a few minutes the sky will cleared and nobody outside of the debris impact area would ever know something like this happened. Like the aerial version of a ship sinking beneath the waves
@@Gerald0613 that's highly unlikely, the people and everything inside would have disintegrated into bits of debris on impact, which is also why this scene is unrealistic-- the teddy bear most likely would Not still be intact after the collision
This is unfortunately based on an actual midair collision over a suburb of Southern California in the 1980s - a Piper Cherokee hit the tail of a 737 passenger jet and air traffic controller on staff and controlling this portion of airspace was actually named Walter White. Catastrophe begets reform so Now all aircrafts are required to have collision warning systems and LAx airspace got much much much more stringent around unauthorized crafts entering the airspace
This scene was actually improvised by Bryan Cranston, he was just sitting on the set and the camera was accidentally on but he saw a plane crash in the sky and Vince loved it so much he put it in the show!
This is pretty unlikely to occur with passenger aircraft. Even if a controller screws up and there is about to be a conflict (crash) both planes have TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) which will alert the pilots of both planes to the presence of the other plane they are in conflict with and will eventually give both planes commands to avoid a crash. As long as both planes listen to their TCAS advisories then a collision shouldn't happen but if the pilots don't listen to their TCAS and say listen to a controller who may be giving them instructions different from the TCAS advisories, then it could happen- that's how those two planes crashed in Europe, the Russian pilots listened to the controller and not TCAS and the other plane listened to TCAS so they eventually collided killing everyone on both planes (one was a cargo plane). The Father of one of the children killed in the collision tracked down the air traffic controller responsible and stabbed him to death in front of his family.
A cool thing I noticed was at 0:21 Janes father incorrectly uses "Jane" instead of "Juliet" which is the correct letter for the phonetic alphabet and disregards the message. Just shows how heartbroken he was.
After listening closely, that seems to be the part where things go wrong with the instructions. He stops mid-order due to the wrong name and says to disregard, then fails to reissue instructions to that plane until much later, and the last instructions are him repeatedly trying to correct JM21 and Wayfarer 515's headings as he sweats and appears to notice the impending danger.
Fun-ish fact (fun is a little bit exaggerated): The scene was inspired by Aeromexico Flight 498 collision in 1986. To make it more coincidental, the air-traffic controller in the real-life accident was named Walter White. Edit: So many likes, so many comments!
@Happy Thoughts if you still don't know: The air traffic controller was later murdered by a family member of some of the victims. In 1986 Aeromexico Flight 498 (DC-9) collided with a Piper Archer over Cerritos, California, killing everyone on board both planes. The name of the Air Traffic Controller who was handling both aircraft was "Walter White".
@Happy Thoughts Actually the guy is incorrect. It was another Midair collision in 2002 in Germany where a Jet carrying school children and a DHL Cargo Plane collided and that Air traffic Controller was killed. Not the Aeromexico Controller
When his daughter died and we still follow him I was like yeah something bad will happen, and then we get this, man the suspense, I actually got scared
I remember when my first run viewing this series, this was the moment when I realised this was one of the best series I've seen. The whole season building up to this moment, and it destroyed me.
Never seen Breaking Bad, just clips on RUclips, and the night after I saw this clip for the first time, I genuinely had a nightmare of planes crashing all over the sky, so bravo to the people who worked on the show for being able to give me such a reaction based on just a three minute clip
Same. I remember seeing 9/11 footage on the ground a couple blocks from the WTC. One of the buildings collapsed, and within about ten or fifteen seconds there was gravel and debris just zipping down the street. It's incredible how far and how fast that stuff can spread.
The first firefighters to have died on 9/11 wasn't killed by falling debris like gravel or steel. He was killed by someone who jumped from one of the towers rather than burning alive.
@@Sol_Badguy_GG no she wouldn’t have. It was Walt shaking Jesse that caused her to roll onto her back, something she deliberately avoided to prevent herself from dying as she did.
@@Sol_Badguy_GG What you described is a crime. If you are present and can be reasonably judged to have the power to prevent a fatality or injury, you can be legally charged with causing that fatality or injury.
I find it odd that the planes are completely silent as Walt is just sitting in his back yard. I've never seen a plane manage to get directly overhead without me hearing the extremely prominent noise they make, let alone two planes that are on a collision course with eachother.
When you hear an aircraft every day your brain dismisses it unless it is lower and louder. The contact/collision was out of the ordinary and so the sound will be noticed
@@Animedumptruck But remember what got Jane back on drugs? Jesse doing heavier drugs while dating Jane. And you know why Jesse got back on meth? Because Combo died. Which was a direct result of Heisenberg pushing to expand territory. Everything comes back to Walt.
I could see a 50 minute long episode of Air Disasters on this, it would be insane. There are real mid-air collisions similar to this that have actually taken place. The Überlingen mid-air disaster rings a bell and would be of no surprise if it was direct inspiration for this scene.
@@chrisd997 Man, I bet you wrote that one! Let me try now, Mr. Chris! I bet you use the same shoes outside your house as you do inside your house. I bet you have no less than 2 dogs INSIDE your house🤢and your house has the scent of a gas station urinal.
@@CGJUGO80 The sad thing with comments is that is difficult to convey when someone is joking. For your bet , I couldn’t agree more ! And thankfully not :)
@@chrisd997 The banter between you and him is actually pretty heartwarming. You don’t see it too much on the internet, especially on RUclips where many people act quite toxic to each other.
I think it was a private jet colliding with an air liner, which is similar to Gol Aéros 1907, which happened in 2006, two years prior to when Breaking Bad first released.
This scene was based off the real midair collision in Cerritos, California in 1986. The real life air traffic controller who caused the incident, his name was Walter White….
@@SecondEvilExit is, in fact, true! Except for the part about it being White’s fault. It wasn’t, blame was ultimately placed on the pilot of the colliding plane (as opposed to the, uh… collidee?) and the FAA. But yes, apparently the ATC was called Walter White, and the crash was used directly as inspiration for this scene.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie iirc, there was also a 3rd plane involved. A small plane wandered into the restricted zone, which distracted the controller for a few seconds (he had to get the third plane out of the area)...while he was dealing with that guy, the two other planes collided.
The tragedy is profound, the pain is profound and believe me, the settlement will be profound. Better call Saul *turns sideways to the left and sheds a CGI tear* .
Interesting fact, The night of may 31 of 2009 (the day this episode came out for first time) the flight air france 447 was taking off from Galeão int'l to never land again.
The scene is partially inspired by a real mid air collision that occurred over Los Angeles in 1986 between a Piper Cherokee and an Aeromexico DC-9. Coincidentally, the controller in charge of the flight was named Walter White.
One of the best misdirects of the show. They spent the entire season showing flash-forwards of the government being at Walt's house, making it seem likely that he'd been captured, only for their presence to be explained by two planes colliding in mid-air. I remember ALL the conjecture about why the NTSB would be at Walt's house, and all the logical reasons just seemed WAY too ambitious at the time. I didn't think it would actually be an investigation into some kind of air or train disaster. Then, naturally, a train became a BIG focal point of the show in the final season.
I see people give credit to the cinematography and the colors, but can we take a moment to talk about the sound design? The ringing blocking out Donald’s commands as he realizes his mistake of telling a plane to disregard his sentence to turn, and then it gets louder when the “Conflict Risk” warning pops up. And the silence before the crack as the plane explodes, with the whistling as the camera falls, it audibly shows that this disaster isn’t just going to affect Walt, but also all of Albuquerque below.
planes move REALLY fast, something that could be a dot in the distance one second could be filling up your windshield the next. 737'S are pretty big and heavy planes, while they move fast they don't turn that well so even if a pilot did notice there's not a good chance he would be able to react in time to make a difference. They don't have radars and have to rely on air traffic controllers like the guy in this clip to keep them clear of each other and ATC's messing up on calls have caused collisions in the past.
@@uglyskully5928 hey i just noticed your response, terra was right, the question wasn't dumb, i'm a dude who studies planes as a hobby and even I forget just how crazy they can be. Anyway aircraft colliding with each other is pretty rare considering how wide open the sky is but when 2 planes are on a collision course the pilots often only have seconds to respond and sometimes they don't even realize they are until it's too late. It's what makes an air traffic controllers job so important, he can see a collision before the pilots can
This was the very first scene I ever saw of breaking bad I walked into my uncle’s room and this scene played and and I asked what it was, he said that it was this show called breaking bad Then I left, so one of the most iconic scenes from breaking bad was the first one I saw
This is a true story. I was one of the pilots. I reincarnated yesterday, and mommy watched this episode of Breaking Bad while nursing me, and it made me remember everything. Now I understand. Thank you, RUclips !
I feel so sorry for what this guy had gone through. The pain in his eyes still gets to me. His job honestly should have given 6 month or more break before allowing him to come back. Along that with mandated therapy and him checked on by someone. So it’s on them as well for what happened.
Just saw the episode and thats exactly what I was thinking. If this were to happen in real life, and it was revealed they let this man back on the job AFTER LOSING HIS DAUGHTER...yeah the fallout would be tremendous.
@@bizarreyapper7187 yeah especially after only one month. If a job like this requires a person to be very focused and precise then it needs to be mandated that the person passes qualifications that they are stable before coming back. Definitely after facing a very heartbreaking event.
@@grumpygovernor They shouldn’t have allowed him to come back unless it’s been enough time to grieve and him seeing a therapist. Also him passing qualifications that’s he stable enough to work.
The ripple effect...Jane takes drugs...Walt refuses to help Jane when she's choking to death...Jane dies...Jane's father sinks into a deep, dark depression, and loses it at his difficult job...Hundreds of innocent people die. Scary.
Very realistic! Only difference is when you witness it IRL you don't hear the sound of impact. Which makes it even more eerie! Everything does go Slo Mo until the Fuselage spirals Earthward and the ensuing Fireball arises like a Phoenix from the ashes. ....Then, you finally exhale!
He probably would have seen the flash of the explosion a bit before he heard it. Light travels faster than sound blah blah blah. If he didn't notice the initial collision, by the time he looked up, shrapnel would've been all over the place. Or are you referencing something? LOL, I dunno, I haven't seen the show.
@@lunayoshi Yeah Specifically a mid air collision 💥 over El Cajon California in East County in early 2006. The collision took place over Grosmont High school. The only reason I witnessed it was because a buddy of mine and I were driving down I-8 towards San Diego and we had to pull off the 🆓 Freeway and into a service 🐕🦺 station because our Rental car was acting up.
The production company used a real house in Albuquerque on Piermont Dr. for the Walter White residence exterior shots (it's a private residence to this day). If you look closely at the footage of the wreckage falling from the sky and the path the stuffed animal takes to the ground below, the little bear actually makes a track through the air (from the bear's perspective as it falls) directly into the pool of the exact house used for the White home exterior filming, lol. Attention to detail here.
She left and took the kids because Walt accidentally slipped up about his second phone before his surgery and she waited until he recovered to leave since she couldn’t take the lies anymore
I first saw this episode I didn’t understand what was going to happen until the planes crashed and the bear landed, which was when I pieced everything together
I LOVED the cinematography and directing in Breaking Bad. All of it…the characters, the acting, the script writing…just every little bit. It’s my all time favourite.
I LOVED when i started farting when that crashed happened. the sweet relief. oh i let it RIPPPP. it caught me off guard. smelled bad, kinda spicy. but that happens sometimes. have a great day.
Note: this might be based off the cerritos mid air collision. Also, the real air traffic controller involed in the incident was named walter white himself
If you look through the titles of the episodes with the flash forwards to the plane in this season they form the sentence ‘737, down, over, ABQ’ always thought that was nuts
I really think that while Walt was responsible for Jane's death, he wasn't responsible for what happened here. Jane's father should have taken time to grieve his daughter's death rather than getting back to his work
nice scene, but I was a bit thrown off by it's speed. By the time Walter heard the crash, it would have been already a well developed explosion with trailing debris field and would appear to be moving much slower, because distance. Instead, the explosion seemed to be happening just a few hundred yards away. Also, the doll fell way too fast and hit the pool like a bowling ball instead of a bag of fluff. So, a little sloppy.
If you think about it, Jane's father had the highest kill count in the entire show.
167 kills
😂😂
@@Evanxbdlt that’s 5 tactical nukes and a bonus of a 137 k/d ratio.
walter still got the assists
Its still Walter's fault unintentionally given had he not move jane she would have survived her overdose.
Kinda tragic to think.
Walter White inadvertently caused a second 9/11 all because he wanted to leave a fortune for a family that would have abandoned him.
the fact that they had to film this scene 6 times for the bear to fall on the pool, blowing up 6 planes and killing over 800 passengers, and having to do a police investigation and clean up of the area over 6 times, it really shows how they went the extra mile, bravo vince!
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If it was filmed 6 times then it would actually be 12 planes blown up because there are 2 crashing into each other.
@@LordxCurry ah you see, the production crew was resourceful: they only blew up one plane each take since they didn't need to show both actually colliding. Vince and the team are truly geniuses!
@@davidyang9902 Bravo Vince!
🅱️ravo 🅱️ince
Saul really saw this and went “Yeah, let’s make a commercial”
Lawyers capitalize off of tragedies, why do you think you always see them advertising lawsuits for asbestos poisoning? 😂
There's no opportunity like a good crisis
Later, he will make another crappy commercial with bad Green Screen on the background
Tragedies make good jokes and good business
Glad this didn’t happen in 2001
The build up to this was insane. For many episodes prior to this we saw a teddy bear in the pool for no apparent reason and wondered what the hell it was until we finally got to see it.
Yeah when I saw the teddy bear for the first time I thought the White's family were killed or something
True, I thought the cartels invaded Walter house lol
@@mklein1 There is also the episodes named 'Down', 'Over', and ofc 'ABQ', which spells out "Seven-Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ".
Clever af
@@mklein1 I think it was eluding to the $737,000 Walt calculated he needed to make before he finished. But maybe it’s both, never thought of the plane till now 🤔
That little teddy bear's burnt out state was set up to show how Gus Fring was gonna go
The way he accidentally says "Jane-Mike 2 1 turn heading, disregard" is so painfully realistic
i never realised that wow
i guess they disregarded it
@@blankfrank25 smoking has been around for century’s, not a new world thing
Clearly says JULIA, not Jane
@@buckleup8962 first of all, it’s Juliett, not Julia. Second, watch again and pay attention to what he says right before he drops the message with “disregard”.
I felt so sorry for Donald Margolis. He was such a nice character and just really loved and protected his daughter.
He probably even blames himself for why she died.
He should've been on that plane why didn't he just do his job the whole show would've just ended if Walt would have just died at that exact moment
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His story was one of the few tv stories that’s ever moved me to tears. I can’t ever watch that scene of him watching Jane be zipped up in the body bag without shedding a couple tears. A father should never have to go through something like that.
@@yoshikagekira1863 how’s Morioh this time of year?
Respect for the cameraman who sacrificed his life falling mid-air
Iuckily he fell in to the pool! Big production companies won’t let their crew just die like that
The camera man never dies
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That wasn't a cameraman that fell mid-air, it was a pink Teddy Bear
@@basiljh the teddybear was a animatronic with the cameraman soul trapped in , im so sorry form him😔
Fun fact: this episode accounts for 62% of all the deaths in Breaking bad. Split 11 deaths before the crash, 167 in the crash, and 104 in seasons 3-5.
wow !
104 in season 3-5, jeez I don’t remember that many deaths lmao am I forgetting something?
@@zxrytags9344lots of people died in Mexico with the poisoning and shootout, so that's probably at least a third of those 104
You have excel skills
only 62% lol
It often gets overlooked… but season 2 was the strongest one, easily the darkest. The way it builds up intrigue with the flash forwards, the Jane storyline… everything about season 2 was sublime.
My favorite season
Yeah season 2 really set up everything about breaking bad while having some really creepy undertones throughout
lol just no, YOU think that "season 2 was the strongest one", that's not true for other people and it does NOT get "OfTeN GeTs oVerLOoKEd" AT ALL, people know what they're talking about when it comes to giving praises to series. Stop trying to project what YOU personally like onto what is actually true as that's completely not true at all. The WHOLE SHOW was Phenomenal so don't put one season over another AT ALL as you badly just did right now.
@@Gadget-Walkmen Gordon Freeman. I meant no disrespect man!
You’re totally right about my projection of opinion, but go easy, I too adore this show and also believe it’s near flawless from S1-5. But the uppercase/lowercase lettering? That’s a bit much no?
There’s also nothing wrong with organizing a hierarchy of seasons by quality. Even if it’s not objective. We’re all here to share our thoughts. I was being completely positive and inclusive with my statement. Can you say the same?
@@quadruplchin sure, fair enough. My bad then as it's fair to share opinions as long as it's positive!
Think about it, all of this happened because there was some microscopic damage to some of Walt's genes causing cancer. Nice illustration of the Butterfly Effect.
In my country. One of the episodes is called "the butterfly effect"
Which episode, may I ask?
@@theunicornenthusiast7194 you may not ask, unfortunately
And had he accepted Ellion and Gretchen's proposal to pay for his treatment, none of this would've happened.
Quite. Though the catalyst was the cancer, but in a way it all started when Walt broke up w Gretchen and sold his share of the company. Until the bitter end, he could never get over it and that was the foundation. The cancer is why he broke bad but the seeds were there.
The fact that Walter tried to justify this claiming this is only the "31st most deadliest aircraft accident" 💀💀
Bro are you serious, I have to rewatch the show
That's more like coping than justifying
“Justify?” He was saying that was a way of coping.
More like rationalizing instead of "justifying".
I wouldnt call it coping as much because Walt really didnt blame himself. He just needed those who knew his role, to believe that it wasn't his fault.
He said 50th that too out of 53 worst air crash incidents.
Once in a while I'm reminded of the horror that Walter has unleashed in this world.
What? This is not walts fault by any stretch of the imagination
@@aurelia8028 He let the air traffic controller's daughter die.
Jesse was the evil one.
@@aurelia8028 by any stretch of the imagination? Well my imagination is stretching and telling me that if Walt had not let Jane die, then Jane's father would not have been sitting in that chair giving fatal instructions due to overwhelming grief. I mean an airplane crash is a stretch in and of itself but it's not a stretch to say that in what we know predated this incident, that it is 100% Walters fault. That being said I absolutely adore Walt and I'm glad he got to die on his own terms
@@bigpoppy0617 Jane let Jane die
This is the moment Walter White turned into Hindenburg.
Okay Mick
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I came here for this comment
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Best joke I’ve heard in a while
1:43 What a shot
Just occurred to me that the most haunting part of a tragedy like this would be the silence. You'd hear a distant thud, maybe see a distant fireball and smoke trails, and that's it. Then after just a few minutes the sky will cleared and nobody outside of the debris impact area would ever know something like this happened. Like the aerial version of a ship sinking beneath the waves
@@Gerald0613 that's highly unlikely, the people and everything inside would have disintegrated into bits of debris on impact, which is also why this scene is unrealistic-- the teddy bear most likely would Not still be intact after the collision
This is unfortunately based on an actual midair collision over a suburb of Southern California in the 1980s - a Piper Cherokee hit the tail of a 737 passenger jet and air traffic controller on staff and controlling this portion of airspace was actually named Walter White.
Catastrophe begets reform so Now all aircrafts are required to have collision warning systems and LAx airspace got much much much more stringent around unauthorized crafts entering the airspace
@@FeechLaMannas Actually, it was a Piper PA-28 Cherokee that collided with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, but everything else is true
@@Sticknub good correction thanks!
@@Epical_TV look up Aeromexico flight 498 -- many aviation disaster channels have re-created the sequence of events on youtube!
This scene was actually improvised by Bryan Cranston, he was just sitting on the set and the camera was accidentally on but he saw a plane crash in the sky and Vince loved it so much he put it in the show!
Shut up
Why are you telling him to shut up anyway? like he was talking to you 💀
@@fakepaulwalker1myearsago48 This joke aint funny
@@thecupheadfan1837 why delete the "shut up" comment, huh?
@@fakepaulwalker1myearsago48 No, I dont think I will
This is pretty unlikely to occur with passenger aircraft. Even if a controller screws up and there is about to be a conflict (crash) both planes have TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) which will alert the pilots of both planes to the presence of the other plane they are in conflict with and will eventually give both planes commands to avoid a crash. As long as both planes listen to their TCAS advisories then a collision shouldn't happen but if the pilots don't listen to their TCAS and say listen to a controller who may be giving them instructions different from the TCAS advisories, then it could happen- that's how those two planes crashed in Europe, the Russian pilots listened to the controller and not TCAS and the other plane listened to TCAS so they eventually collided killing everyone on both planes (one was a cargo plane). The Father of one of the children killed in the collision tracked down the air traffic controller responsible and stabbed him to death in front of his family.
Can't blame the father.
In 2008?
That’s a movie
Funny how that's like tech from the 80s and we have Elon musk 🤣
@@mrimpossible4353 like I couldn’t fathom the possibility of our modern day advanced technology bro
A cool thing I noticed was at 0:21 Janes father incorrectly uses "Jane" instead of "Juliet" which is the correct letter for the phonetic alphabet and disregards the message.
Just shows how heartbroken he was.
Wdym a cool thing? That was the whole point of this scene
@@joshuaizly5502then I guess the whole scene was a cool thing!
@@thatkidwiththehoodie Breaking Bad was a cool thing
@@joshuaizly5502 all the evidence I’ve seen seems to point that way!
After listening closely, that seems to be the part where things go wrong with the instructions. He stops mid-order due to the wrong name and says to disregard, then fails to reissue instructions to that plane until much later, and the last instructions are him repeatedly trying to correct JM21 and Wayfarer 515's headings as he sweats and appears to notice the impending danger.
Fun-ish fact (fun is a little bit exaggerated): The scene was inspired by Aeromexico Flight 498 collision in 1986. To make it more coincidental, the air-traffic controller in the real-life accident was named Walter White.
Edit: So many likes, so many comments!
Crazy!
@Happy Thoughts if you still don't know:
The air traffic controller was later murdered by a family member of some of the victims. In 1986 Aeromexico Flight 498 (DC-9) collided with a Piper Archer over Cerritos, California, killing everyone on board both planes. The name of the Air Traffic Controller who was handling both aircraft was "Walter White".
@Happy ThoughtsI searched for exactly “what happened to air traffic controller walter white”
@Happy Thoughts Actually the guy is incorrect. It was another Midair collision in 2002 in Germany where a Jet carrying school children and a DHL Cargo Plane collided and that Air traffic Controller was killed. Not the Aeromexico Controller
@Happy Thoughts According to Mayday, White later quit his job.
Now, I understood it all:
This is the main reason why Lotso is bad in Toy Story 3.
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BROOO 💀💀💀
He's breaking bad
😂😂😂
1:18 the calm before the storm.
The fart before the shart.
@@reb-dom1ne true tjo
i really love how it's so calm that it's an opportunity for something interesting to happen
@@reb-dom1ne morbius moments be like
The way all this connection works is just stunning.
When his daughter died and we still follow him I was like yeah something bad will happen, and then we get this, man the suspense, I actually got scared
Memes aside, this is one of the biggest “I finally get it moments”. After so much questioning, we finally understand the meaning behind the teddy bear
And it looks like the teddy bear got a free skydiving lesson from all that
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Erm acktually sorry nvm
The kid who had it died...
I remember when my first run viewing this series, this was the moment when I realised this was one of the best series I've seen. The whole season building up to this moment, and it destroyed me.
How can he stand there looking down into the pool when there’s a 20% chance of being hit on the head by a frozen poo?
you see that? It's a peanut.
A space peanut...?
@@sofakingonmynuts1438 beware of them boeing bombs and remember they aint meteors
I think he didn‘t move because of „the perfect moment to go“ he thought he would have by having made the money he wanted to do
Where did you get that statistic from?
That myth has been debunked, planes dont dump it like that
Never seen Breaking Bad, just clips on RUclips, and the night after I saw this clip for the first time, I genuinely had a nightmare of planes crashing all over the sky, so bravo to the people who worked on the show for being able to give me such a reaction based on just a three minute clip
watch it!!! its super good, definitely go in as blind as you can
Please watch it, it's really worth it.
Please watch it lol.
@@jakeozzy4776Maybe BrBa is a little bit overhyped, but it’s definitely worth watching
breking bar worst series oll of time bad bad rely bad don watch it
Somewhere, Patrick Stewart yells: "Dammit, Q!"
1:54
This scene makes the fire ball look like it’s actually there
Dude literally had one bad day and made one mistake. That's some bad luck.
That's aviation for you...
If I were Walt, I'd head indoors after seeing that crash and not stare at it dumbly. There's shrapnel falling.
Same. I remember seeing 9/11 footage on the ground a couple blocks from the WTC. One of the buildings collapsed, and within about ten or fifteen seconds there was gravel and debris just zipping down the street. It's incredible how far and how fast that stuff can spread.
You have no idea how you’d react in a situation like this in real life. It’s easy to assume when you’re safe at home watching youtube.
He is in shock and can't believe what he is seeing.
@@troytellsit493 no, I know
The first firefighters to have died on 9/11 wasn't killed by falling debris like gravel or steel. He was killed by someone who jumped from one of the towers rather than burning alive.
This is the moment when Walt's mustache becomes Heisenberg's goatee!
Walter did nothing and STILL chaos followed him.
He let Jane die
@@IXCoug exactly, by doing nothing
@@IXCoug He didn't let her die, he just didn't save her. She would have died if he wasn't here at this moment anyway.
@@Sol_Badguy_GG no she wouldn’t have. It was Walt shaking Jesse that caused her to roll onto her back, something she deliberately avoided to prevent herself from dying as she did.
@@Sol_Badguy_GG What you described is a crime. If you are present and can be reasonably judged to have the power to prevent a fatality or injury, you can be legally charged with causing that fatality or injury.
Chilling, simply chilling image of that toy, showing the innocent life/lives taken
All because of Walt's ego
I find it odd that the planes are completely silent as Walt is just sitting in his back yard. I've never seen a plane manage to get directly overhead without me hearing the extremely prominent noise they make, let alone two planes that are on a collision course with eachother.
When you hear an aircraft every day your brain dismisses it unless it is lower and louder. The contact/collision was out of the ordinary and so the sound will be noticed
I live under a flight path, you hear the plane for maybe 10-20 seconds, after that you can see it, but you can’t hear it
Also its possible walt was still processing what skyler told him and zoned out
They're not, you can literally hear them
i see planes everyday i cant hear
I don't know if there will ever be another show that used color as well as this one did.
BCS
1:44-2:02 this might be my favorite shot in the whole show
It's funny cuz it's a mix of both CGI & the Google 3D satellite shot of Albuquerque.
the cinematography in BB is amazing. Plus that scene where Jesse floats out his room when getting high with Jane
The sound work is amazing too
The knock on effect of greed and power at all costs.
he saved Jesse by letting Jane die tho, even if it was mostly for selfish reasons
@@Animedumptruck But remember what got Jane back on drugs? Jesse doing heavier drugs while dating Jane. And you know why Jesse got back on meth? Because Combo died. Which was a direct result of Heisenberg pushing to expand territory. Everything comes back to Walt.
@Happy Thoughts Probably. But Breaking Bad is certainly a story that believes in the butterfly effect. All of Walt's decisions have consequences.
@Happy Thoughts jane died choking to death on her own vomit. she was choking because she was rolled onto her back when walt pushed jesse.
Having Walter wear pink with the bear in the pool, genius writing
I could see a 50 minute long episode of Air Disasters on this, it would be insane. There are real mid-air collisions similar to this that have actually taken place. The Überlingen mid-air disaster rings a bell and would be of no surprise if it was direct inspiration for this scene.
No surprise u love air “disasters “ given your name 😆
@@chrisd997 Man, I bet you wrote that one!
Let me try now, Mr. Chris!
I bet you use the same shoes outside your house as you do inside your house. I bet you have no less than 2 dogs INSIDE your house🤢and your house has the scent of a gas station urinal.
@@CGJUGO80 The sad thing with comments is that is difficult to convey when someone is joking. For your bet , I couldn’t agree more ! And thankfully not :)
@@chrisd997 The banter between you and him is actually pretty heartwarming. You don’t see it too much on the internet, especially on RUclips where many people act quite toxic to each other.
I think it was a private jet colliding with an air liner, which is similar to Gol Aéros 1907, which happened in 2006, two years prior to when Breaking Bad first released.
This scene was based off the real midair collision in Cerritos, California in 1986. The real life air traffic controller who caused the incident, his name was Walter White….
YO ARE YOU FOR REAL?
@@SecondEvilEx yes look it up
The ATC wasn't responsible for the crash but it messed him so bad that he had to quit
@@SecondEvilExit is, in fact, true! Except for the part about it being White’s fault. It wasn’t, blame was ultimately placed on the pilot of the colliding plane (as opposed to the, uh… collidee?) and the FAA.
But yes, apparently the ATC was called Walter White, and the crash was used directly as inspiration for this scene.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie iirc, there was also a 3rd plane involved. A small plane wandered into the restricted zone, which distracted the controller for a few seconds (he had to get the third plane out of the area)...while he was dealing with that guy, the two other planes collided.
The tragedy is profound, the pain is profound and believe me, the settlement will be profound.
Better call Saul *turns sideways to the left and sheds a CGI tear* .
Q was just testing a new bald genius in another dimension
this is the moment wayfarer 515 became the 31st most deadly aircraft accident
As an aviation enthusiast who kind of knows what’s going on, this scene starts as cool then gets scarier and scarier.
That’s some pretty good acting by an extra if you ask me.
If you have a spoken role you're not an extra
@@screamsfromhell good point
He's actually John de Lancie. An actor known best for playing Q on Star Trek.
John de Lancie is a well known and experienced character actor, he just has a fairly small part because breaking bad is such a huge show
@@screamsfromhell
He was talking about the teddy bear.
This scene was clearly inspired by Aeromexico 498, and the writers didn't know this, but the ATC in that crash was named Walter White
Interesting fact, The night of may 31 of 2009 (the day this episode came out for first time) the flight air france 447 was taking off from Galeão int'l to never land again.
The scene is partially inspired by a real mid air collision that occurred over Los Angeles in 1986 between a Piper Cherokee and an Aeromexico DC-9. Coincidentally, the controller in charge of the flight was named Walter White.
Omg yes, I was just reading about this and got here.
impossible
One of the best misdirects of the show. They spent the entire season showing flash-forwards of the government being at Walt's house, making it seem likely that he'd been captured, only for their presence to be explained by two planes colliding in mid-air. I remember ALL the conjecture about why the NTSB would be at Walt's house, and all the logical reasons just seemed WAY too ambitious at the time. I didn't think it would actually be an investigation into some kind of air or train disaster.
Then, naturally, a train became a BIG focal point of the show in the final season.
God the way the background turns to grayscale at the end of emphasize the toy in the water really makes this hit hard.
It also foreshadows the fact that Saul Goodman will later become Gene Takovic as well
Bugs Bunny: "Boy, he REALLY shoulda made that left turn at Albuquerque"
I see people give credit to the cinematography and the colors, but can we take a moment to talk about the sound design? The ringing blocking out Donald’s commands as he realizes his mistake of telling a plane to disregard his sentence to turn, and then it gets louder when the “Conflict Risk” warning pops up.
And the silence before the crack as the plane explodes, with the whistling as the camera falls, it audibly shows that this disaster isn’t just going to affect Walt, but also all of Albuquerque below.
Watch yo jet.
Watch yo jet, bro, WATCH YO JE-!
2:03 Pinkman
Can anyone answer this? Couldn’t the planes have seen each other and gotten out the way? I know they travel fast tho
planes move REALLY fast, something that could be a dot in the distance one second could be filling up your windshield the next. 737'S are pretty big and heavy planes, while they move fast they don't turn that well so even if a pilot did notice there's not a good chance he would be able to react in time to make a difference. They don't have radars and have to rely on air traffic controllers like the guy in this clip to keep them clear of each other and ATC's messing up on calls have caused collisions in the past.
@@warhawk9566 that’s warhawk! I knew they traveled really fast but i guess that was a dumb question! Too many action movies in my mind
@@uglyskully5928 It wasn't a dumb question, it makes sense because a lot of people don't know how airplanes work.
@@terracottapie thanks
@@uglyskully5928 hey i just noticed your response, terra was right, the question wasn't dumb, i'm a dude who studies planes as a hobby and even I forget just how crazy they can be. Anyway aircraft colliding with each other is pretty rare considering how wide open the sky is but when 2 planes are on a collision course the pilots often only have seconds to respond and sometimes they don't even realize they are until it's too late. It's what makes an air traffic controllers job so important, he can see a collision before the pilots can
This was the very first scene I ever saw of breaking bad
I walked into my uncle’s room and this scene played and and I asked what it was, he said that it was this show called breaking bad
Then I left, so one of the most iconic scenes from breaking bad was the first one I saw
The first scene I saw was Gus death 🙁
This is a true story. I was one of the pilots. I reincarnated yesterday, and mommy watched this episode of Breaking Bad while nursing me, and it made me remember everything. Now I understand. Thank you, RUclips !
I feel so sorry for what this guy had gone through. The pain in his eyes still gets to me. His job honestly should have given 6 month or more break before allowing him to come back. Along that with mandated therapy and him checked on by someone. So it’s on them as well for what happened.
Just saw the episode and thats exactly what I was thinking. If this were to happen in real life, and it was revealed they let this man back on the job AFTER LOSING HIS DAUGHTER...yeah the fallout would be tremendous.
@@bizarreyapper7187 yeah especially after only one month. If a job like this requires a person to be very focused and precise then it needs to be mandated that the person passes qualifications that they are stable before coming back. Definitely after facing a very heartbreaking event.
I don't think he was forced, I remeber him saying he wants to work so he doesn't have to think about Jane or smth, which didn't work as you can see.
@@grumpygovernor They shouldn’t have allowed him to come back unless it’s been enough time to grieve and him seeing a therapist. Also him passing qualifications that’s he stable enough to work.
Never said I didn't agree, but I don't remember being forced to go to work
The moment when you realize Chuck Mcgill is indirectly responsible for all of this happening
"Let's make a commercial."
~ some *_criminal_* lawyer
Kim Wexler, "That's a bad idea Jimmy."
Imagine being completely lost in your thoughts for straight minutes and then hearing a big boom in the sky like this. So scary.
The sound design in this scene is brilliant
i appreciate it as well
The ripple effect...Jane takes drugs...Walt refuses to help Jane when she's choking to death...Jane dies...Jane's father sinks into a deep, dark depression, and loses it at his difficult job...Hundreds of innocent people die.
Scary.
To think that the name Jane was probably selected for this very moment to be the final trigger to cause the crash.....man. storytelling.
He meant to say Juliet but said Jane on accident
@@thefangirlingpuellamagi3345 if janes name was juliet this crash never wouldve happened!
It is such a good effect when they turn the background behind the sinking bear from color to black & white.
Loved the flash forwards/ build up to the crash. Left us all to speculate what was going to happen.
This is the moment Walt became Hindenburg
0:25 : you can hear him breaking up as he says jane
Very realistic! Only difference is when you witness it IRL you don't hear the sound of impact. Which makes it even more eerie! Everything does go Slo Mo until the Fuselage spirals Earthward and the ensuing Fireball arises like a Phoenix from the ashes. ....Then, you finally exhale!
He probably would have seen the flash of the explosion a bit before he heard it. Light travels faster than sound blah blah blah. If he didn't notice the initial collision, by the time he looked up, shrapnel would've been all over the place. Or are you referencing something? LOL, I dunno, I haven't seen the show.
@@lunayoshi Yeah Specifically a mid air collision 💥 over El Cajon California in East County in early 2006. The collision took place over Grosmont High school. The only reason I witnessed it was because a buddy of mine and I were driving down I-8 towards San Diego and we had to pull off the 🆓 Freeway and into a service 🐕🦺 station because our Rental car was acting up.
It's crazy to think that walt could rationalize everything he did/was apart of all the way until hank dies. Even this.
the way the teddy bear’s arms is apart in the water is how walter was when he died at the end…
and how don eladio died
Man really does show that Walt's actions have consequences
The production company used a real house in Albuquerque on Piermont Dr. for the Walter White residence exterior shots (it's a private residence to this day). If you look closely at the footage of the wreckage falling from the sky and the path the stuffed animal takes to the ground below, the little bear actually makes a track through the air (from the bear's perspective as it falls) directly into the pool of the exact house used for the White home exterior filming, lol. Attention to detail here.
1:08-2:25 Chills every single time
Q is Air Traffic Controller, no wonder crash happened.
I watched plane die.
This is the moment where Walter becomes Pinkman
What happened right before this between him and Skyler again?
She left and took the kids because Walt accidentally slipped up about his second phone before his surgery and she waited until he recovered to leave since she couldn’t take the lies anymore
Anyone notice how the flight code was JM? Which is his daughters initials - Jane Margolis
For anyone who doesn't know, the teddy bear falling represents gravity in this scene
As someone training to be a pilot, they nailed the ATC. Very close to what would be said in real life
the scary part about this scene is that you know exactly what's going to happen from the opening of the episode
I first saw this episode I didn’t understand what was going to happen until the planes crashed and the bear landed, which was when I pieced everything together
Q really went too far to mess with Picard here...
I LOVED the cinematography and directing in Breaking Bad. All of it…the characters, the acting, the script writing…just every little bit. It’s my all time favourite.
I LOVED when i started farting when that crashed happened. the sweet relief. oh i let it RIPPPP. it caught me off guard. smelled bad, kinda spicy. but that happens sometimes. have a great day.
1:43 I really love that scene of the bear falling. It's done very well.
The captions saying [Music] during the explosion and [Applause] during the bit from inside the pool was a little jarring.
Note: this might be based off the cerritos mid air collision. Also, the real air traffic controller involed in the incident was named walter white himself
Note: There is no way, the aircraft's fuselage that can be seen burning in the sky is like a widebody, possibly a A300 or Boeing 767.
This is the moment where The Pink Teddy Bear became Don Eladio
Walter a few days later when holding a speech about the crash in the school gym in front of traumatized students: "it wasn't that bad bro"
If you look through the titles of the episodes with the flash forwards to the plane in this season they form the sentence ‘737, down, over, ABQ’ always thought that was nuts
that plane didnt have the makings of a varsity aircraft
Damn... that bear cannonballed hard into the pool!
This is what broke him into throwing morality to the wind.
I really think that while Walt was responsible for Jane's death, he wasn't responsible for what happened here. Jane's father should have taken time to grieve his daughter's death rather than getting back to his work
He did, it still wasn’t enough
saw this while watching the series - brought home the message - evil carries with it consequences that are beyond human comprehension.
nice scene, but I was a bit thrown off by it's speed. By the time Walter heard the crash, it would have been already a well developed explosion with trailing debris field and would appear to be moving much slower, because distance. Instead, the explosion seemed to be happening just a few hundred yards away. Also, the doll fell way too fast and hit the pool like a bowling ball instead of a bag of fluff. So, a little sloppy.
Creative liberties
This was the moment Walter White.. should have run for cover! WTF man, he's supposed to be smart.
John de Lancie is an amazing actor.
Yes he is
I remember watching this and thinking "wtf just happened"