The Turn That Turned Deadly | The Crash Of Singapore Airlines Flight 006
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This is the story of singapore airlines flight 006. The 31st of october 2000 on the island of taiwan it was a dark and windy night. Flight 006 was hoping to get airborne soon as a typhoon was bearing down on the island. The pilots had been flying the plane since the day before and they had been all over the world from singapore to los angeles and taipei. At 9:53 pm that night the pilots completed their pre flight briefings and picked up the NOTAMS or notice to airmen for the night, it contained important information that someone flying here should know. At 10:57 pm the pilots got clearance from ATC, the ATIS transmission could be heard in the background, telling them that the departure runway was 5L Wind was at 020 at 36 gusting to 52 and visibility was 450 meters or 1500 feet, the rain beat down on the airport marking the arrival of the typhoon.
the captain was the one flying and At 11:05 pm the pilots got permission to taxi and they were given their taxi clearance ““Singapore six, taxi to Runway zero six, via Taxiway, correction, Runway zero five left, via Taxiway Sierra Sierra, West Cross, and November Papa.”, The copilot said ““I missed that man, what is it,” the captain repeated the clearance for him.
After this the crew engaged in chatter about how they'd get to runway 5L, they also talked about alternate airports because Hong Kong and Kaohsiung were closed. As they taxied the captain said “a lot of rudder work man here...,am going to go very slow here because you going get skid.”, The plane was on the ground and the wind was so strong that the pilots had a bit of trouble with the wind. As they taxied onto taxiway november papa they were transferred over to the tower. “Singapore six good evening, Taipei tower hold short runway five left.” The first officer acknowledged. The first officer said “next one is november one” referring to the taxiway that they had to be on to get to runway 5L, ok second right the captain responded, the first officer agreed. As they taxied the tower gave them the all clear. “Singapore six, Runway zero five left, wind zero two zero at two eight gust to five zero, cleared for takeoff.”
At11:15 pm the crew were done with the takeoff checklist and they made the right turn onto the runway, they were very careful as the rain had made everything really slippery. With them on the runway the first officer said the PVD or the para visual display hadnt lined up yet. To which the captain replied yeah we gotta line up first. But even when they had lined up the PVD was not aligned but the captain said that they could see the runway and so it wasnt that big of an issue.
At 11:16 and 44 seconds they started their takeoff roll, the first officer called out 80 knots. The captain said “something there” which was followed by the first sounds of impact. Flight 006 had collided with construction equipment, they had not taken off from runway 5L. The right gear slammed into some construction equipment and the left landing gear went over a pit in the runway blowing a tire. The plane then headed straight into an excavator damaging the lower left side of the plane. The stabilizer was hit by debris and failed. There was a bit of rebar on the left side of the runway and engine number one struck that, the plane now started to yaw to the left. The plane then hit two steam rollers and broke into two the right wing was sheared off.
The plane hit the equipment 4000 feet from the runway threshold, the plane broke into two and it skidded along the runway spewing broken bits of debris everywhere.Unfortunately 179 people onboard, only 96 people made it. This is todate the only incident for singapore airlines which resulted in fatalities. 
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The 747 looked so BEAUTIFUL in that livery!
My dad was supposed to be on this flight and would most likely have been killed in the crash, considering that he was supposed to sit on the upper deck in the First Class section. He was going on a business trip and really didn't want to miss the flight because of the incoming typhoon. My mom (who worked for Singapore Airlines at the time) told him that she could get her colleagues on shift to help him change his flight to the next available flight after the typhoon. My dad really didn't want to, but because my mom had found out that she was pregnant with me that day, she managed to convince my dad to not board the plane. And the next morning, when my dad woke up at home, he started getting calls from all his colleagues. They didn't expect him to pick up the phone and answer them, but they were all relieved to hear that my dad hadn't boarded Flight 006 that crashed during the middle of the night.
The upper deck is Business Class (Called Raffles Class then), First class is on the first of the lower deck.
Cool story
@Glen Chen maybe you should consider this as your *personal Fathers-Day* to thank fate that your father was not on this plane...
Lie. First class was not on the upper deck...
@@thomasmills3934 just because they got confused between business class and first doesn't mean it's instantly a lie lmfao
It's ironic that this is an accident that happened in part because the flight crew were being too cautious.
That's irony gold. People who are too careful get into trouble and people who aren't that careful get away with it.
the captain and co-pilot got the sack, the engineer remained, because he cautioned about the localizer not lining up
@@aaronsmith5433
yeah maybe screaming murder is acceptable in your society, in most societies it is not so acceptable
@@ursodermatt8809 local jargon meaning "look , stop what your doing or your incompetence will get us all killed!".
When someone is nonchalantly headed over the falls , you gotta speak up.
"NIAGRA FALLS , slowly I turned"
The 3 Stooges
Another great video and compelling incident. Finding and seeing this channel grow has been one of the best things in this crazy year. Thanks for sharing your aviation passion with us.
All that’s been possible is because of people like you ❤️
God forbid they put up barrels or signs like when roads get closed. Nahh just use less lights.
Well, it was closed *as runway*, but worked perfectly well as taxiway.
By your reasoning every taxiway should also be barred because someone may think it's a runway (and people have taken off and landed on taxiways before. By accident and sometimes by design (not your normal flight, though!)
@@advorak8529 Sounds like you are saying there is no way to stop accidents like this. I disagree. Construction equipment on the runway is enough to prevent taxi use so why not put a more obvious marker?
@@advorak8529 someone, like Harrison Ford
Why didn't they put a red X? Isn't pretty standard to do that?
@@advorak8529
Only a portion of the runway was able to be used as a taxiway. The rest of the runway should have completely blocked of with bright orange barrels with lights on top of them. Hundreds of barrels. Two or three rows of barrels spaced just one meter apart. Humans lives, not to mention the aircraft, are certainly worth more than one thousand barrels to block off that runway! Analog, and digital signs, multiple signs telling you that the runway is closed. The fact that ATC couldn't see the plane should have been a huge res flag. The tower shouldn't have given them the clear until someone on the ground could go out and physically confirm that the aircraft was on the correct runway!
Great job as usual. It is 5 in morning & need a cup of coffee to keep watching more of your videos.
Same here! Awesome
Watching at 4.11am
What the hell is with the recent amount of "we left a bunch of shit on the runway and didnt tell anyone that one is under construction" lately lmao.
Great video!
Actually this video was supposed to come out a few weeks later but I moved it up lol so that’s why it feels like there are a lot of accidents due to people leaving stuff on the runway
@@MiniAirCrashInvestigation Yeah, I hit a Big Wheel the other day...
@@shreddder999 glad u didn't crash
Ooh not being able to sleep paid off! I’m here super early! Loved the video, great work as always!!
Same welcome to the insomnia squad
Hello
I really love these videos. I have a fascination for aviation disasters and mistakes and a lot of other videos out there rely on text to explain event sequence, but I don't usually have the patience or ability to read through a ten-fifteen minute video. Your narration of events makes things very clear and easy to understand and is the exact sort of formatting I prefer for these kinds of videos. Thank you for all your hardwork 💕
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Taoyuan International Airport later decommissioned runway 5R into taxiway NC and renamed the south runway from runway 6 to runway 5R. Ground radar was installed to aid aircraft movements in bad weather after the accident report placed partial blame on the airport's facilities being inadequate and outdated. The captain and the FO of Singapore Flight 6 both went on to fly for AirAsia.
Very sad accident with a lot of heroes. What a beautiful livery. Thanks for the video. Rest in peace to the victims
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The livery got my click!:-) 🖖
Thank you. You do an excellent job explaining a complicated topic. Super interesting, and technically accurate...great job.
Your channel is just amazing, really compact, but still in depth videos, really easy to binge! (:
Not a single dislike. Such a great audience and host!
Thanks to great people like you! ❤️
Sad, 2 dislikes😔
@@marinettedupain-cheng9930 When I saw there was no dislikes 🤷
@@gettothepoint2707 The two dislikes are from the CEO and chief pilot of Singapore Airlines...
@@apostleverde Haha. Good one.
That was really good video, I enjoy the original format just as this video, keep it mate
love the video! Great job on giving a visual example of the taxi ways, it was very well illustrated :D
Excellent presentation,especially the data on the runways and lighting. Thank You.The Captain of this aircraft was sacked by the S'pore Government,his caution and worry about getting airborne were tangible, what Idiots were responsible for leaving heavy Working gear on ruway?The Singapore government minister was over zealous and looked for an easy blame. Better representation should have been made toward the slack morons in Taiwan.Terry Offord.
Really enjoyed this.
The plane was going from Singapore to LA with a stop at Taipei and not the other way around. The pilots started in singapore. Their duty started a few hours back from Singapore.
Another good documentary
Very nice mate
Thanks !!
Love the videos. Keep em coming.
Why they left the construction equipment in middle of runway right? They should have moved it elsewhere
Splendid work man
I love your channel, love your narration, I hate the other channel that forces me to read what they write, my eyes get tired, you have the best channel in the world.
Just a tip, try speaking slower. Sometimes your words jumble together. So far your videos are amazing though, and getting better every time.
Thanks for the tip!
@@MiniAirCrashInvestigation Along with the graphics his narration is improving with every video. When he first started he tried to cram so much info in he’d get ahead of himself.
I think his way of speaking is refreshing compared to sites with the robo voice, or the “top ten’ type sites with the obnoxious wise guy narrator who must do half the sites on RUclips.
I disagree, and you should be yourself because people are listening.
I think there’s a setting so people can play it slower or faster.
@@ED-es2qv thanks for telling me, this is a good idea but it kinda distorts the voice
Just wanted to post the same. Even if you speak clearly, it is quite difficult to follow mentally at that pace. Your work is amazing nontheless, keep it up 👌🏼
Edit: Also, I think you forgot to mention the aircraft type. From looking at the footage, I guess it was a 747-400.
Nicely done!
Hey Nice video, could you make one on National Airlines flight 102
National Geographics - Mayday was my child hood favourite and I loved to watch it, and watched it all. Now I can enjoy your great content. Keep up a good work!
Your videos just get better and better! You’re tops.
Oh damn I’m early, I was wondering why there wasn’t any likes
Greetings!
I just noticed
Most unfortunate thing is that the right(05R) runway was actually the wrong runway
I was there with sq when this sad accident happened. Very nice video.
Thank you so much, I was going to ask when were you going to do this video!!!
Great minds think alike 👀
Amazing video, no dislikes!
I disliked
Very good. But On Halloween you missed the opportunity to say "it was a dark and stormy night"?
Haha, reminds me of ghost stories around the campfire.
that's a sick paint job!
How hard is it to place a big red "X" on the threshold so pilots know they can not use the runway. Maybe use red lights to indicate danger and put several signs up saying runway closed along the runway?...Just use common sense. Also I thought planes were monitored or controlled while taxing on the ground in poor visibility at major international airports? If ATC can't visually see the Aircraft taxing surely they can monitor them on radar? Very tragic and avoidable accident.
They should monitor them.... if they have that equipment
dark and windy night...the classic opening.
The plane looked so nice
the removed the colour scheme on the second one after the accident
Another perspective is that Taiwan is not a UN member state, and therefore, Taipei’s Taoyuan Airport isn’t subject to the same ICAO oversight as most of the airports in the world. This could have resulted in the closed Runway 05R not having the usual markings and lights (i.e. the big lighted “X” at each end) that would indicate that it was a closed runway.
Even if just closed temporarily?
@@johnmonk3381in this case, the runway was undergoing civil works, which would have required a closure of several days at the very least.
@@sandman79sg In the video @ 09:35, everyone in the cockpit will have seen the giant marking "05 R" right in front of the windscreen. How could anyone have missed that, and so even if the runway was painted a big "X" wouldn't have made any difference if nobody was paying attention including the F/O and flight engineer. Take notice too the captain would be repeating which runway he was taking off on, he would be saying "Cleared for takeoff, RUNWAY FIVE LEFT, SINGAPORE SIX, thank you Tower and good night".
More people killed by improper airport construction procedures. 1) barrel off closed runways so they can't turn down the runway, 2) when workers finish, they get everything off the runway that is practical, 3) clearly light anything that must be left on runway, 4) designate pink as "danger, closed runway" (or a new color) and run them down the middle of the entire runway to prevent accidental landings (Mexico City crash).
Nice to get all the information in a shorter time..
Nice explanation. Covered all bases including psychology
Why can't name runway in distinctive way. Why 5R and 5L? Soon enough any pilot will get in confused. Gamble with lives by words said.
Runways names are based on their magnetic headings. So runway 05 would be facing a bearing of 050°. And there's often 2 of them so the easiest way to name them would be 05L and 05R.
You should do AIr Canada Flight 797
Reminiscent of a similar incident at Lexington airport around the same time.
GOOD SHOW.
If you where Colombian you will call like this !!! Usted es una Calidad !!!
Who likes singapore Airlines 747 I love it
When a road is closed, a prominent sign is usually displayed, "ROAD CLOSED". Do they not have any signs at Airports??? A simple barrier and sign would have saved lives
Or even technology such as is used in formula one where the engines are electronically slowed down or stopped if driving too fast in the pit lane,or taking a wrong turn?.
its Taiwan, they even had a domestic flight where a passenger bought bottles of gasoline and a motorbike battery on board which caught fire. Uni Air Flight 873
No shit, your vids somehow aid my fear of flying. Thanks
There are almost 40 MILLION Commercial Flights per Year... and only a Few Thousand Crashes in the HISTORY of AVIATION.... You're more likely to get struck by Lightning than die in a Plane Crash.
The don’t watch the video if that’s what it does
... given the adverse conditions, "Ground Guides" should 'work wonders' ...
1:30 Kaohsiung?
Who the hell gives thumbs down on these Video's?
He does great work, spends a lot of time doing these video's, if people don't like it, just shut up.
Too much get-there-itis. Gusts to 50 kts! BUT runway lights are white, taxiway lights are green or formerly blue. In the NOTAMS it mentioned 05R was closed, under construction. ILS offset was their second warning. I'm a low time pilot of small planes. Taxiing at a medium to large airport that is unfamiliar is the most challenging part of aviation I've encountered. I always ask ground control for turn by turn instructions at big and unfamiliar airports. GPS should have and display airport diagrams to prevent wrong turns while taxiing.
What does he mean by “chatter”? They are talking about things relevant to taking off. That is not “chatter”. Chatter is Sully talking about how pretty the Hudson on his left was instead of watching for birds straight ahead
3:04 butters
Would GPS have been precise enough back then to tell them where they were? I also wonder why they don't turn off lights for runways that are out of service.
that's what the PVD/ILS systems for and they ignored it so GPS wouldn't of mattered. also it was lit up like a taxi way not a runway.. at the end of the day a lot of things went wrong to cause this accident but the blame should of been on the pilots just as much as the airport, all the signs where there to tell them they were on the wrong runway and they ignored them.
@@sirmonkey1985 The display showed a runway to the left and nothing in the middle when visually, there's a runway in front. Thus it's easy to conclude there is something wrong with the instrument. A GPS with a map overlay would show that there are two runways.
Yeah. Even an ipad with foreflight will tell you audibly what runway you're entering now. It would have worked. I dont know if airline pilots have that kind of function active though. They had other tools that should have clued them in. They missed it.
@@aarondionne9660 Plus publicly available GPS is intentionally less precise than it can be. Even older generation GPS sats had very good accuracy but the public doesn't have access to it so you can't build a precise GPS guided missile. Aircraft operators, rocket launch providers and the military do have access to the full precision.
The accident was caused by taiwan's poor airport facility and management. I have a number of friends perished in that accident. I flew to Chicago the day before the accident and was very shocked watching the accident on TV.
Turn turns turn deadly
I took off from Hong Kong that very same evening and landed at that airport in Taiwan about 1 hour before the crash. I was on one of the last flights to Taiwan before they closed the Hong Kong airport. As I was on the way home in the taxi, I heard the news...
A live camera feeding back to ATC would have been handy to overcome the visibility problem.
Wasn't this on an ACI episode? I think it was titled caution to the wind.
The Queen of the Seven Skys... make that Eight Skies i suppose... and the Queen of my heart! Long may She soar!:-) 🖖
nice pun
What a beautiful airplane.
Rumour has it it's because of this incident that SQ no longer has any special liveries, and if there are, they're repainted to the standard livery asap. Or so that's what local spotters say anyway. Tragic accident. :(
Real time accurate gps positioning using ground map airfield diagram in modern airliners
You sound like the actor Troy Garity.
Fear of the darkness
Ngl, after I heard about this, I've been *VERY* anxious of flying at night time.
I'm a Singaporean and working at changi airport....my question is...WHOS FAULT IS THIS CLEARLY ????
I vaguely remember this incident. Something very similar happened a few years later in the United States. Unfortunately I cannot remember any other details
Was that where a DC 9 collided with a Cessna that had encroached onto the wrong runway at LAX?.
@@darkknight1340 no; it was very similar to the one he mentioned. Airplane crashed into construction equipment after getting on the wrong runway. Somewhere in the Midwest
Western Airlines Flight 2605 possibly? That was a DC-10 that landed on the wrong runway in Mexico City and struck an excavator, interestingly exactly 21 years earlier than Singapore Airlines Flight 006, on October 31, 1979.
More than anything else, I was enjoying watching the old 744s... sigh...
ATC should have ground radar following
This accident is easy to do.
Taxiways named via the phonetic alphabet are difficult to think about, and runway changes should be made basically illegal, in my view. You should receive your taxi clearance and runway assignment as part of your clearance via CPDCL or initial clearance over the radio, and the controller should repeat the clearance to you when you request a taxi clearance. If they really need you to take off from another runway, this should be communicated as soon as possible and pilots should be required to STOP WHERE THEY ARE and reprogram the MCDU and re-check the performance numbers. Pilots screw up clearances all the time, and we are going to eventually have another event like the Tenerife 747 collision if this isn't handled this way....
Who takes off with 52 knot gusts??
I thought that was a bit strange too!!
People who fly on windy days
I guess this was the first time?
i took singapore airlines bissnius class
Sigh. So many ... why not question why the ILS and the instruments said "you are off to the right"? The tower should have you on radar, or at least be able to explain why the ILS is borked ...
Why not asking the tower: "Why is the runway lit up as a taxi way?"
So many ... "hey, that's strange' moments.
Did they have neither GPS nor INS?
I understand that the tower did not have a secondary surveillance radar, so it was blind to ground movements in low visibility
@@sandman79sg How many (currency units) did not having that radar --- or even simple webcams --- save and was it worth the accident and the costs in human lives?
Together with all the other ... less than optimal setups of the airport, I do not like the picture ... neither of the airport nor of the pilots.
This plane use to fly over my house when I was a kid at 30,000ft. I was in awe
At 30,000 feet it would have looked quite small. Could you tell what kind of plane it was?
@@Sashazur Flightradar24?
How do I delete this disasters, there seems to have been so many it scares me
If this channel was about deadly car accidents, he'd literally have about 100 new stories to cover, every single day. And that's just in the US
@@thecrazyfarmboy More like 10 000 new stories every day ;)
@@Pascal-uc6tr there's about 37,000 deadly car accidents each year in the US, divide that by 365 and you get just over 101 per day
@@thecrazyfarmboy On a per capita basis,the U.S statistic is a lot lower than ours in the UK.
This particular aircraft was registered 9V-SPK and was the 1099th Boeing 747 to be built.
You really tell a story well. In this instance the pilots really messed up. Taxiing out to the runway for takeoff was perhaps not the best time to be discussing weather possibilities in Hong Kong. There are key times when complete focus is required and getting onto the proper runway should be one of them.
how difficult is it for all airports to put barricades on all entrances to repairing runways?
They knew it was the second right, but it almost looks like they counted the first right toward both runways, rather than NOT counting the first right. This would put them on what they thought was the "second right". Hard to believe it, but true.
Can you please slow the speech down a bit? You speak too fast
Hey man!
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Your doing a great job
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Make the information while are you gaming
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I'm not saying that putting pictures of the accident airplane while telling the information about the accident is bad
But when you play anf flight Sim like X-plane 11, the information will be more clear
Don't be angry of my Suggestions
Ok
He will do that soon
Im trying to influence my thoughts by watching air crashes trying to make myself have a dream about dieing in a plane crash
I will say that 747 looks beautiful with that paint!
What about the big old painted number on the pavement??
The airports around here out out massive red lighted Xs along the length of shutdown runways. Also most pilots now have access to GPS-enabled airport plates. I hope those would prevent similar accidents.
Atc should have ground radar to confirm the location of each individual aircraft.
such a nice plane, beautiful livery, all destroyed....
Who else is flying tomorrow lol
Personally, it's hard for me to focus on the chain of events and catch all the details while seeing videos of other planes taking off and landing not related to what you're talking about. It would be nice if you could support it with a bit of simulation or something. But it's still a cool series though.
This is 100% airport management fault....they should've closed that fucking runway..there was construction equipment sitting there for fuck sake....
Me seeing this vid and being abit shocked cuz I live in Singapore and I love flying with Singapore airlines
What's with the crazy livery? That is one colorful plane. A little tacky but I like it. Also I'd say this is ATC's fault. They should've warned the crew about the runway being maintained just in case the pilots didn't remember the NOTAM, it's easy to forget things when you're occupied with something else.
Unforgivable Error!