A Terrifying 7000 Foot Dive Into The Ocean | Flying On Empty | Mayday: Air Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2021
- PART 1 | On January 21, 2000, Alaska Airlines Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer Bill Tansky prepare for a routine flight to San Francisco, unaware of a crucial weakness in the plane’s structure.
Are you able to work out why Alaska 261 crashed into the ocean?
From Season 1 Episode 6 "Flying On Empty": The stabiliser in the tail on Alaska 261 is jammed, pushing the aircraft toward the ground. To compensate, they have to pull back on the control column.
The plane shudders violently and dives 7000 feet in one minute at a 90-degree angle as the pilots fight hard at the controls. The plane plunges out of control again, upside-down and tumbling, the pilots continue to try to control the plane as it crashes into the ocean.
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Watch part 2 here: ruclips.net/video/2Q5ZrH_qWkI/видео.html
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They can’t do all in one video
I honestly have a lot more respect for pilots since watching these videos. Not only does the job require thorough understanding of the aircraft, but also pilots need to be able to think out of the box when faced with these unusual situations.
You have to blame Air Transat Maintenance for not seeking a technical expert consultation.
Yeah me too before watching these videos I had no clue…… but wow, yeah pilots are amazing….
I'm so grateful that everyone survived. I hope and pray that everyone onboard didn't suffer too much trauma. ,🙏🏻 I wish everyone here a great day, and stay safe. ✈️
@Thou Swell I wasn't intending for this to be a spoiler. I guess I figured that if someone didn't want to know the ending, they would watch the video prior to reading the comments. 🤷🏽
Ocean swells can push you around, so imagine how easily they can tear a plane apart with such a large surface area. Ditching in the ocean is not the same as a river.
First time i saw fans of the China’s President.. Well Done..
China doesn’t have a President or prime minister; China has a general Secretary of the communist party. They just say President so that he has counterparts. Most countries don’t have a General Secretary of the communist party after all.
The hijacked Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed on the sea just offshore in Africa does not make a good comparison to this case. That jet landed on a coral reef, not on deep water. And the wing dipped.
Most of the people who died in the Ethiopian airlines flight were because they pulled there life vest too early and couldn't exit the plane underwater because there life vest pinned them to the roof of the plane..
Captain Leul Abate was at the controls
I was waiting for a plane to land. The pilot notified there was an electronic issue and he was not going to leave in until mechanics checked. I was surprised so many passengers were angry, demanding to fly..
I didn’t care if he and his girlfriend happened to be at the same airport hooking up or it was a real mechanical issue I didn’t want a distracted pilot for any reason.
Yes. Much better 1 guy gets screwed than everyone
Captain Piche is now retired & First Officer Dirk De Jager is now a captain 👨✈️
Cut right before the ending? Video is only 27 mins long
Where is the rest of the video. I had to rewind and watch thinking I missed something. The last part is not there
Your info in the details is wrong. It talks about a Alaska Air crash not Air Transit.
The description is about Alaska Flight 261. The video is about Air Transat Flight 236, but doesn't cover the whole incident (usually the first video is the incident, the second video the investigation... as this video ends the aircraft is still in the air). For those who need a conclusion for the first half: They land on the Azores runway... barely. Massive damage to the aircraft, but everyone survives this one. What the investigation finds I'll leave for the next post...
Amazing pilot skills I'm glad everyone survived ❤
Me to
Clickbait thumbnail and title... Wrong plane in the thumbnail and no "7000 foot dive into the ocean", but a 7000 foot glide to the nearest airport that happens to be in the middle of the ocean.
There were signs that trouble was coming. You get a low fuel warning and then an imbalance warning and you blow it off as a bad sensor? With a massive fuel leak an imbalance is EXACTLY what you would get. And what are the chances of both sensors malfunctioning at the exact same time? Also a low oil temp and a high oil pressure. If your vehicle has a gauge, look at your oil pressure when you first crank up and the oil is cold. When the oil is cold, the pressure is high. Which is EXACTLY what the sensors were telling them. There were signs all around them. I would have thought something might be wrong when the low fuel warning came on but when the imbalance warning came on shortly afterwards, that would have removed all doubt and we're heading for the ground while we can still control the plane.
Part 2 is named "How A Series Of Errors Can Produce A Tragic Accident | Flying On Empty | Mayday: Air Disaster".
It's a pain to find follow up parts with no usable links in the description, no mentioning of the part numer in the title and different title names.
"I really hope it's a computer bug, because if we land with a plane full of fuel, they'll crucify us." He should have said he hopes it's NOT a bug, because that would mean the readings are correct and they really are close to fuel starvation.
..... and he doesn't want that to happen, right???
Well, if you get a low fuel warning that could possibly be a bad sensor. But, fuel is monitored and moved around in the tanks to keep the plane balanced. If you had a fuel leak in one tank, the next warning you would get is an imbalance warning. Which is exactly what they got. If I got a low fuel warning I might wonder if it's just a bad reading. But then to get an imbalance warning shortly after a low fuel warning, that pretty much confirms that there is definitely a fuel leak.
Where's the rest of the video??? It cuts out at the point where we know it glides either to a likely high speed landing at the alternate landing site or has to ditch in the ocean, but we aren't shown what happens. Bad stuff when it has you invested without a resolution.
Did the video finish before it explain what happened?
Yes they cut it off. I don’t know what people are talking about in the comments.
Video is only 27 minutes long
@@animegeek2488 ya I was about to hit unsub
Thanks🌞
Thanks for uploading!
Shame but I think I’ve become a WONDER fan. I like an entire story, and it’s a shame because these are well done. I like The Flight Channel too
They give half on Mondays and the other half on Thursdays.
They are all the same episodes. I’m ok with either channel. I think they split this to avoid copyright issues.
I totally agree.
@@TERoss-jk9ny it's the show's official channel. They just split it up for more ads
Yknow, anytime they mention the Ethiopian Airlines crash as how NOT to do a water landing, they always fail to mention the fact that the plane was hijacked and the pilots were likely under extreme duress.
And out of fuel. If they kept it up any longer they would have stalled or gone nose down into the drink
Another re-uploaded video. The heck.. 😞
This is >>> The Miracle Of Air Transat Flight 236 if you want the whole story.
Thanks for that. The abrupt ending and deceptive title kind of makes this click bait
I've been waiting for an episode like this
It's air transat vlucht 236 the full program is on RUclips aswell (wonder)
Where's part 2?
What a fearful reconstruction , I feel like I’ve been there and my heart warms to the passengers and especially to the crew , like if they were my own relatives. We are still aliens to this boundless sky and when something goes wrong with the plane , you won 't wish anyone to be the part of that bad dream that comes true. Thanks for posting , that was spine-chilling.
That's so bad I feel bad
At 27:22 the video ends and does not continue, with no resolution as to what finally happened with this plane. I just watched this video for almost 30 minutes and the ending is missing. What a complete waste of time. This is very aggravating.
Glad that is kinda worked out. I always thought pilots should not second guess gauges. Treat everything as a serious threat.. They should have diverted as soon as the readings were realized.
That would be a very scary situation like I would imagine that if you survived it you would have ptsd and severe anxiety
I don't fly and I don't go in or near the ocean. This is a hard pass for me and the outcome is one of the many reasons why. Godspeed to those passengers and crew @(((
I really appreciate the FREE uploads of the Mayday: Air Disasters...however, frequently the episodes cut off before it's over. Is there a part 2?
@@animegeek2488 Thanks for the info.!
@@animegeek2488 Thanks. Will do. :)
Hats off to all pilots. I would like to meet pilots who have been through a bad flights and listen to their flight experiences
This captain should have listened to his instruments instead....
@@Blackwind_Legacy cap was arrogant af
People are complaining the video was cut. .. I probably shouldn't watch as I'm sick of half assed videos. Yeah, I love this series and your description box says it will tell us how and why a certain event happened, and you failed to live up to that agreement, so I'm unsubscribing.
Why do y’all keep ending them early and not uploading the second part 🙄
4th request for you to label titles of partial episodes with "Part 1" or "Part 2".
I will subscribe after my simple request is accommodated.
It's a highly technical, multi-million dollar machine...... Just throw any old parts in it, it'll be fine🙄🤦
Pilot F'ed up when they didn't turn off the fuel crossover a minute or two after the problem got worse.
Pilots endure a lot..
Are you serious? You cut out the ending? That is horrible.
@@animegeek2488 thanks anime. I didn't know that. Yah. I don't like that. Just post the whole episode. I try not to piss my subscribers off. Lol. The goal is to keep them. Lol
Everything in description but pt 2... where is it?
sensor for such a huge leak should be made
this is 21 years ago scary stuff
It’s a good thing when u hear passenger speak .
Wrong video description. This is a video about flight 236, not 261.
I clicked on the video happy because of the thumbnail there was an ethiopian airlines flight that got hijacked and since i am ethiopian was exited sad.
finally.. most are always not available in our country to view 🙄.... part 2 pls..
Same
I hope that every pilot are watching this program and learn from all this experience this pilot are going through so if ever something like this happens they know what to do.
This is an early episode. Interesting to see how the show evolved over time
26:09 I wonder if a nose up landing with the tail section gliding across the water would've prevent that. Since it look like the water caught the engine and creates drag and resistance. The tail section is far smoother.
It doesn't matter. The waves create a very rough landing and will tear the plane apart.
The tail is the weakest part of the plane structurally; a nose up attitude would mean the tail would would contact and tear away immediately, likely causing the rest of the plane to break up. A belly landing parallel to the coast would be more likely to result in a better landing, although in this case the pilots were fighting highjackers for control of the plane so it's understandable why they couldn't line it up correctly
@@laurenskee2665 I thought there were a couple of planes that landed in one piece on water. Maybe the water were calmer in those situations?
@@NoReply28 if you watch Sully land his in a river, in the winter, there aren't any waves.
@@keegan9632 I remember an episode that said the pilot did the right thing by bringing the nose up before landing on the water, so I figure a nose up landing was the way to go.
I was also unaware about that particular plane being hijack. I honestly thought that the pilot was trying to slow down the plane by dragging the wing in the water... But now it make sense.
The captain was afraid of embarrassment so he risked the lives of everyone??? Genius
They seemed to be more concerned with what would happen to them if they landed with a full tank of fuel and it was just a bad sensor. But, when you get a low fuel warning and you know the fuel level is monitored to keep the plane balanced and then you get an imbalance warning, that pretty much confirms a fuel leak. If fuel is leaking from one tank then the balance is upset and you would get an imbalance warning. Getting both warnings was confirmation of a fuel leak.
Well it really happens, machine failure, so how to prevent it from happening again?
to run out of fuel while flying is as good as parachuting without a parachute.
If only they paid attention to the "don't use cross feed if a fuel leak is suspected" and turned it off once the co-pilot said that he thinks its a fuel leak, or at least once the first engine failed..
Why keep loading the same videos?
Whoa
This is the Air transat fuel problem, not the Alaska 261 stabilizer crash
I really think they should design planes that fly over the oceans with a little more sea worthiness in mind
26:40 The different flight shown (which was an Ethiopian flight, not an Alaska flight) ran out of fuel because it was hijacked!
Where tf is the ending?
Why on earth would they insist you take off shoes during a plane crash ??
I’ve read it’s because they can puncture the emergency slide
I’ve wondered the same.
Because shoes become water logged and weigh you down, making it harder to tread water and/or swim.
@@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx Because shoes become water logged and weigh you down, making it harder to tread water and/or swim.
@@trachemw3001 Because shoes become water logged and weigh you down, making it harder to tread water and/or swim.
I KNEW WHAT ISSUE WAS FROM LOW TEMP AND HIGH PRESSURE.
Damn
How are there thumbs up on this video?
I think that should Air Transat Flight 236 make a water landing i guess the outcome would be different. The Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crashed because the aircraft was not stable. The left wing clipped the water (and the coral reef) first and stalled before it ultimately crashed as the rest of the plane broke apart. However since the year is 2001 they don’t understand it and felt it was too risky… until the Miracle of the Hudson happened in 2009.
Though there is some water landing events like Garuda Indonesia Flight 421, where a Boeing 737-300 landed on the river. Everyone survived, except the flight attendant. I’m not too sure if there are more water landings between 2001 and 2009
I stg it are always the older people that don't trust the "computer"
This is the third time they've uploaded this episode. Just letting everyone know.
Maybe that's why the description is wrong.
What happened? It's an Airbus, it only flies by the grace of God.
The pilots did an amazing job of not listening to the company policy
Air Transat popular in Canada? I don't know of anyone who's ever heard of them.
JEEPERS, watching these stuff makes me really scared to fly again
Did air transit threaten flight crew to not talk?
When did mayday start ending the video midnight? No more for me.
Well that description is more confusing than this video. Its like it’s trying to scam me but I remember the date in August 2001 so yeah.
wounder why they all declined to comment and give out info. the investigators and stuff
First episode featuring Airbus A330.
thank you for sharing , but 7000 meter is not 7000 feet
I never understood why the pilot of the African Boeing 767 entered the water with his left wing first at a 45 degree bank. Look at Sully, nice and straight and level... No problems...
iirc he was trying to, but got into a fight with the hijackers some 500 yards off the water and the plane ended up veering left and the wing dug in first
So the captain caused the plane to run out of fuel by leaving the X-feed valve open.
In my observations, I do not endorse flying on any Airbus vehicle.
THIS VIDEO ENDED WITHOUT EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PLANE! DID IT GLIDE TO A SUCCESSFUL LANDING OR DITCH IN THE OCEAN?
it successfully glided to the airport.
@@animegeek2488 Actually, it's the other way around. On the Move and Wonder are thieves, who upload in a manner that leads people to believe they own the rights. Both channels have had videos removed in the past for this reason. Copyright infringement is actually a crime, Read this channels description...they are the OFFICIAL channel, therefore, they and Smithsonian are the only company's who own the rights. On the Move and Wonder do not Mayday'll upload the second part on Wednesday, like always.
@@animegeek2488 Just because a channel has been on RUclips longer does not mean it's the official channel. All that means is that one channel is older than the other. There are MULTIPLE channels who upload Golden Girls, Family Guy, or any sitcom you like....all are created at different and neither own the rights.
@@animegeek2488 Well thanks for that explanation. At least I know I will be able to see ithe rest of it on Wednesday.
@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 Thank you 😊
I had to comment, the captain made the wrong assumptions and calls when the right tank showed an imbalance with an imbalance warning on the mfd, which f/o recognized and calculated a few times and yet showing a loss of fuel more than they have to. Ofc captain cross-fed tanks turning fuel from the left to right. Right one was sucking them dry. Id leave the cross feed off if right is quitting on me with these indications id leave it off thinking its a leak. Cause its obvious. And when they had a aerodrome nearby by the captain yet again didnt wanna declare an emergency still thinking its a computer error. Well that my friend is how it had this outcome cause if left eng was perfect they had fuel and a good engine to reach an airport, 2 hours flight time its mandatory fuel. Cross feed was the main error in my opinion.
we are losing fuel in the right tank.. let's transfer all the fuel there
Wow....cant find the second part of this video anywhere. If I would have known this video didn't make it to the end, I would have used this 27 minutes of my life doing something else.
Scarebus, um, Crashbus, correction, Airbus says it all.
It seems to be an easy case to know without the need of so many computers
Just a broken gasoline line and the pilot insisting it was a computer problem!! Also poor info from the technlcal place
In Canada. Also, what happend at the end? The video just ends.
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Are you able to work out why Alaska 261 crashed into the ocean?
Luck of maintenance, they replace the parts that doesn't fit to the engine or wrong parts, they risk the life of 300 passenger, gladly the pilot & flight attendant skiled to land the aircraft,
Piioting is also not easy , folks.
This is why I miss Concorde 😂
( minus all the fatalities )
ques is do we trust computers or the pilots????!!!!
It must be the computer. .......it must be the computer. ......guess what Captain Clueless, it wasnt!
Fuel crossfeed OFF!!!!
Whats this heavy they keep saying?
It means they're an airliner with a maximum take-off weight of 300,000 pounds or more. It helps air traffic controllers keep the appropriate distance between incoming planes. Larger or "heavy" aircraft generate more turbulence, and ATC has to keep a larger distance between these planes to avoid potential crashes caused by this turbulence.
I don’t want to die on our honeymoon….Some other time is ok but I’m a BRIDE !
How do I find part 2?
Unpopular opinion but this situation was due to the Captain's bad judgement. Trust your instruments unless they're giving impossible conflicting info and always assume the worse. Trust your first officer also. All the data was there. All the indicators were there for a leak. Assume the worst, shut the cross feed and they could have had fuel to land under power.
This was in 2000... computer systems then and especially sensor-based controllers were still largely unknown, untested, and untrusted. We can trust them now without any question... so long as we have at least two redundant systems working in tangent. This pilot made glaring mistakes, but many many others would have made exactly the same. It is almost always a series of events and coincidences that leads to an accident, in this case especially. It is not the sole responsibility of the captain.
17:14 What he said here doesn't make sense. If it is a computer bug then his plane would be full of fuel. Therefore, he would be crucified when he land. Shouldn't he hope that it is actually a fuel problem and not computer issue?
Loses an engine and has monitors and alarms telling him their low on fuel, yet still the pilot thinks it’s a computer error and thinks they’ll have enough fuel to make it to their destination with some to spare, I don’t know if it’s arrogance pride or idiocy leading him to think that smh
but he knew that the plane was supposed to have been fully fueled for the flight across the pond. Instruments do malfunction at times, as they are made by men. Did you even listen to the pilot's explanation on the video?