He did finally notice url sticker on the window, which was the biggest clue anyway (for a non native speaker). I was almost sure he would miss it, but I was screaming at my screen extra loud tonight and it helped :D
Tenerife airport disaster is an absolute mad one for anyone interested in plane crashes. It was as if everything that could go wrong went wrong: planes had been diverted because of a bomb threat on another island, the weather was terrible, the football match, miscommunication over the word ok due to language barrier, apparent cockiness of one of the pilots. There were so many ways that it could have been avoided and it went wrong at every single event in the sequence.
No not a another island they were meant to land on the south Tenerife airport but got diverted to the north Tenerife airport both KLM and PAN-AMERICAN airlines 747's
@@hacke_d_ no....the other airport (Tenerife South) didn't even exist back then. Both planes had Gran Canaria as their destination, but because a bomb exploded inside the terminal at Gran Canaria they had to divert to Tenerife. The other airport opened a year later.
the "cockiness" of the Dutch captain was fabricated. He was more anxious about getting home within the strict Dutch laws that had ridiculous consequences for breaking them
As a Czech guy, seeing you trying to find "čerstvé maso" (fresh meat), "masové výrobky" (meat products) and "lahůdky" (delicatessen) on the map was hilarious 😂 Edit. Oh, and then you realised and started searching for "potraviny" (groceries) :Dddd
LMAO!!! ;D;D;D I have no clue what those things mean either, but I reckognize myself looking for every bit of foreign language like it would be a town or region ;D Little quest for you: Can you find Brunost in Norway?
cool fact about the tenerife disaster: only one person from the KLM flight (the one that was taking off) survived. her name is Robina van Lanschot. she was travelling with her two friends, Walter and Yvonne. what's tragic is she remembers her friend Walter commenting on how something didn't feel right upon deboarding the plane, seeing all the other planes surrounding them and boxing them in. after the KLM passengers were taken into the terminal to stretch their legs and relax, Robina came up with a plan. her fiancé lived on the island their plane was diverted to, and not wanting to waste time flying to their intended destination just to take a flight back to this very airport, she chose to break the rules and stay behind while everyone else reboarded the aircraft. it was this decision to break the rules that saved her life, as everyone on the plane, including Walter and Yvonne, perished. she is now married to the very same man that indirectly saved her life, and has been for decades.
The airport literally said "Tenerife Norte" :D On the accident, I'd recommend the video by Mentour Pilot on YT. It's an intruiging story and shows what a perfect storm needs to happen for such a disaster... Also I remeber some statistic that basically 90+% of airplane accidents happen during landing or takeoff
Well - I am a bit puzzled if this location was for the actual plane crash, since the involved planes got diverted from this airport because of a bombing to a northern one on the same island if I am not mistaken... And yes, Mentour Pilots video is great (basically all of them are)!
@@miallo The accident happened at the airport (not exactly at the location but on the taxiway of course), the flights were originally scheduled from the nearby island of Gran Canaria which received a bomb threat on that day
Nah, I got canaries as well from the ad, then it wasn´t hard using the compass. Never been there since I was 3 yrs old, but I still knew right off the bat it wasn´t mainland Spain, Ibiza, Mallorca or Menorca due to the red dirt and the EU plates combined with the spanish. To be fair as well, those letters were pretty faded as they were on the far end of the building. However, i got the other one right in front of me, and I knew there wasn´t a lot of airports, so not a biggie.
I never saw that either. But then, it also took me a long time to even pan over to the area where it said Canary islands. And, of course, I had no idea where they were.
20:20 The Kyshtym nuclear disaster was supposedly an inspiration for the Strugatski brothers, writers, who wrote a book "Roadside Picnic" in 1972, then in 1979 it got filmed by famous russian film direcotor Andrei Tarkovsky, and he had the Strugatski brothers work on the film with him, called "Stalker", and then later in 2007 an Ukrainian studio made a game somewhat based on the book and the movie, but instead of it being inspired by the Kyshtym disaster, it was rather inspired by Chernobyl disaster, which happened in 1986, atleast 7 years before the film adaptation... and also named it Stalker ( Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl ), and 2 more games in 2008 and 2009, and the game trilogy is very famous today, still played by many fans nowadays
@@cassandragoughsame here. As a layman I still double check assumptions even if it’s just eg when jacking up a car, remembering how a seemingly tiny design fault can lead to disaster.
Hey, I work in Crown Center (first location). Semi-relatedly, a couple of my neighbors died in that walkway collapse. One day they were just...gone. Their house stood empty for months. I was just a kid at the time so I didn't really understand what had happened, but it's very tragic stuff.
At 16:42 I am genuinely amazed at the human brain's ability to read total blurs. I also successfully read that as ".dk" on my playthrough (I later moved along in Google Maps to check), reaching a similar conclusion that this totally didn't look like Denmark. But it's also the case that that blur totally *doesn't* say ".dk" in any real, rational way, but we read it anyway.
Just fyi 13:24, it says Tenerife Norte on the airport building. It's bit funny timing wise since it comes just after he speculatively says Tenerife. Great video! Very interesting learning about the disasters.
Ah, good, im not the only one who did that then xD "Dude, Thomas, Thomas, you *Just* hovered over the name right there. Go back, to the right, right, more to the ri.. Well good thing he saw it just from the map i guess"
The Chernobyl disaster was first "revealed" to the world when workers at a Swedish nuclear facility suddenly got very high readings on their radiation safety equipment. The upper level winds blew the contaminated air towards Northern Sweden, where a lot of it fell down. I think it was 5-6 days until the Soviets admitted what had happened.
It is the middle part of Sweden that was contaminated by fallout from Chornobyl. The large area with the most fallout is just north of the geographical center of Sweden. The areas with the highest level of fallout is around 200km south of the center of Sweden.
Well - I am a bit puzzled if it was the actual plane crash, since that did not take place at that airport because of a bombing, but on a different airport in the north of the island if I am not mistaken... Mentour Pilot has a very nice episode explaining all the things that lead to this plane crash and what aviation learned from it...
@@miallo The airport shown in the GeoGuessr round *IS* the northernmost airport on the island. The bombing that caused the diversion was on Gran Canaria, a different island entirely, and Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) hadn't yet opened in 1977, so it doesn't fit into this equation at all.
Chicago is ranked around 20th in the US for violent crime, but yeah, basically every day. New York City had its first day without a shooting in many years a few months ago! It made the news
He also looked for Potraviny. That's my favorite Czech town. They've had great food. Their vegetables are so fresh. They have good meat and cheese and bread! You can find a lot of good food in there. I recommend visiting Potraviny some time
okay there's definitely an energy to playing this video in the background while doing other tasks and hearing you say crown center and realizing you are literally in my city. thought you were doxxing me for a second there, tom 🤣🤣🤣
1) I knew it was the Hyatt walkway collapse the moment I saw a mid-western looking city, just couldn't remember which city it was in. I don't think I'd have the willpower to look at all the streets in every midwest city like you did. 2) I had no idea. 3) The Tenerife disaster was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Canary Islands sign. Some extra details: some terrorist set of a bomb in the main airport for the canary islands. So a ton of flights had been redirected to Tenerife that day. The airport was fairly small and not prepared for the number of planes. Many of the pilots were in a rush to get to their destination. Specifically the plane that was taking off had already fully refueled and it seemed one of the pilots was getting frustrated with how long everything was taking. The extra fuel made the crash even worse. The claim that the control tower were watching a football game is often considered an attempt by Dutch investigators to shift blame, as the airplane that took off without clearance was Dutch and the captain was basically the face of one of their airlines. 4) I instantly thought Russia. But I was thinking of a different disaster, the Ufa train disaster, which happened several decades after the radiation one. In 1989 a gas line leak went unnoticed until two passenger trains traveled close enough to cause a spark and a massive explosion. The trains were carrying a combined total of 1,300 people, 575 died. I was thinking a train track was hidden behind the tree line on the side of the road. I would have been wrong about the place anyway, because I thought both disaster happened further to the west. However both disasters actually happened pretty close to one another. 5) As the sign from every angle stated, it's Waco. Wasn't expecting a tornado, but figured it wasn't the Waco siege because that happened out at their crazy cult compound.
Was there a plane crash, he says. Only one of the biggest in history! Haha. Seriously though, the Tenerife disaster is why air traffic control and pilots now speak so rigidly, and more specifically, why we can NEVER use the words "take off" unless giving a take off instruction. Edit: for clarities sake - Basically, the Pan Am was taxiing back down the runway, in reverse direction to the direction of take off. The KLM 747 was holding at the other end. KLM wanted to leave, controller told them something like "do not take off yet", KLM captain took it as a takeoff instruction and went. As they thundered through the fog, they gained visibility of the Pan Am (and the same in reverse, the Pan Am captain applying full power to try to taxi off in time) and tried to rotate (lift off) early to clear the Pan Am. Not a viable option; the wheels and lower fuselage smashed through the Pan Am. KLM, now airborne but basically just flying via momentum, crashed back to earth very quickly after. Also, it did say Tenerife on the outside of the airport terminal. First place to look, surely?
"That's why air traffic control and pilots now speak so rigidly"- yup, except in the US, alas. Lots of entertaining and chilling ATC RUclips videos to proof...
Oh ya, there’s a number of videos about that walkway collapse. It’s the third deadliest structure collapse in the U.S., with the others being an intentional collapse (9/11) and a factory collapse in 1860. So you could say it’s the most deadly accidental structural collapse in the US in the last 150 years. (Or perhaps ever, the exact death toll for the 1860 collapse isn’t know.) So ya, that’s a pretty major one. Reportedly had quite an effect on Kansas City for years after.
Your local mate from east London made at least 3 (maybe 4) episodes about these incidents, I highly recommend his “Plainly Difficult” channel to watch here on youtube. Hope to see the straight line mission videos, glad you’ve made it!
As an aviation nerd the second I saw it say Binter (the airline of the canaries) on the airport I knew it was the Canary Islands so it had to be the Tenerife disaster
Beat your score purely by guessing Ukraine for the Russia one - knew about the Hyatt collapse and Tenerife crash, there are several great docos around about both. Waco I got, but had the wrong tragedy in mind (thought it was weird we were downtown). Slovakia I was only a few miles off your guess. I also spent time looking for the invisible town called 'groceries'. Great game, great vid!
"Even when you're on the ground" is the most common misconception about aviation there is. I don't have the exact numbers, but being on or near the ground is BY FAR the most dangerous part of a flight. Once you're up in the air your relatively safe...
I have played Japan and there is coverage in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures of downed power lines, huge tsunami puddles, destroyed buildings with windows blown out. It is only obvious in the 2011 and 2013 coverage, but it is a meta you can use.
It's always so weird to me when Kansas City shows up in one of these videos, feels even weirder that we're in this one from the skywalk collapse, my grandmother talked about it a lot when she would bring me to Crown Center as a kid, couldn't fault you for not knowing that one as outside of KC locals and Engineers it isn't a well known event really.
I watch plenty of disaster minidocumentaries on RUclips so had seen several videos on the first and third one. Tenerife airport disaster is so widely known in aviation nerd circles that was surprised you hadn't heard of it, but that just shows how much we underestimate the general populations knowledge of anything we're interested in. I think every aviation disaster channel has made their own video on Tenerife, many with their own viewpoints on it. But the core is very much the same. - terrorist attack forced a bunch of planes to divert into a small airport that wasn't ready for it - fog made it impossible for ATC to verify who's on the runway, they didn't have ground radar - one plane was on runway longer than expected due to missed runway exit - a crew tired of waiting mistook after takeoff instructions for a takeoff clearance - two radio calls at the same time interfered with each other and neither was received With modern technology we'll hopefully never see such disaster again, but never know, if we go the route Musk wants and we get rockets flying around with hundreds of people in them, that might cause a bigger one someday.
My first time playing along, a respectable 18,519. Just about to watch your final round...... fair play mate not beating that! Got you on the Russia round though ;) annd we were exactly the same distance away in Slovakia, spooky. Great video :) Can't wait for the new Straight Line Adventure!!
This was really fun!! I have a bit of an interest in mass casualty disasters, but very little experience in Geoguessing, so I worked backwards with my knowledge of these disasters to guess the locations. My score was 20065. The radiation contamination in Russia got me, though! I thought we might be looking at the Utoya mass shooting in Norway. It was also on a lake.
Regarding the Kyshytm accident: I initially thought the map was referring to the meteorite that came down not far south of the location in 2013, but you're probably right that they were referring to the nuclear accident.
I thought the same, it's insane that it happened to be a place around the corner from Chelyabinsk. It probably is the nuclear accident, but it's strange the location isn't right outside the plant. A meteorite airburst that caused many millions in damage could easily classify under "Environmental and natural disasters", though, nothing says it has to be a fatal event.
Super excited for the straight line mission, when will it be out on youtube? Determined I'll see you out and about at some point in my lifetime, what a bloke 👌💎
Didn't even see "Teneriffe Nord" written on top of the elongation of the airport-building and it's still the first airport he's looking at 👍! Well I guess if it's Canaries Tnerife is a good first guess and of course this horrible story of the two planes running into each other comes to mind immediately. Thx for sharing, love these videos!
A little fun fact about the tenerife disaster: There was actually only 1 survivor on the KLM flight. She and her friends were tourist guides, and they were travelling to the canary islands, to well, do their job, but one of them wanted to stay on the island (the los rodeos airport island, i dont remember the name) Because her boyfriend lives there, so everyone went onboard again and she stayed. So, she technically was the only survivor of the KLM plane. Another fact, a family had lost their kids when they had to leave the plane (KLM) for a checkup (if i remember correctly), so a security guard of some sorts was assigned to help the family locate their kids so that they could board the plane again, if the security guard wasn't able to locate the kids, the whole family would have still been alive. Sry for any mistakes, english aint my first language ;)
Dann solltest du lieber hier auf deutsch kommentieren, ohne die Sowjets, mit denen ja anscheinend alles falsch ist, wärst du nämlich kein Tscheche oder was auch immer du bist, sondern ein Bürger des Großdeutschen Reiches im Reichsprotektorat Böhmen-Mähren. Deine tschechische Kultur wäre komplett ausgelöscht worden. Du würdest quasi nicht existieren. Also denk nochmal nach bevor du solche lächerliche Aussagen aussprichst.
The hotel mezzanine collapse is a very common case study in US college structural engineering classes about ensuring that the engineer and the contractor are on the same page regarding how a structure is put together. The engineer intended one type of connection to support the mezzanine but they didn’t clearly detail it on the drawings, so the contractor built it a different way, not realizing their connection essentially doubled the intended loads on the failed structural members.
First time playing along, 17k. I am content with this. I don't think your knowledge of disasters is especially bad, there is a lot of disasters and it's a big world.
Absolutely wild that I can see where I work down the street in the first round in Kansas City. Was not expecting to see my work in the distance in the form of a video today
Got 2/5... clearly need to watch more "plainly difficult"... btw a colab with him on this would be stunning, I feel the two of you could get along quite well.
Just learned about that Tenerife incident in January while being on Tenerife :D apparently the airport was a hot mess to begin with, which is why they decided to build the southern one, which is now used for most commercial flights from mainland Europe.
Bit of trivia Tom. According to the National Coal Mining museum the difference between an accident and a disaster is how many died with the specific number being 9 people. ‹9 is accident and ›9 is a disaster.
Never thought Harry from the Sidemen randomly dropping airplane disaster facts would make me instantly know where we were in geoguessr and what the disaster was but alas here I am
The waco one confused me as well. I was in texas when the waco siege happened. But as an oklahoman I also know tornadoes but this one had slipped my memory even though I watched something on that storm just a few months ago.
I remember when it happened - I was 12. It seemed like every person in KC was affected or knew someone who was. I also had a Structures teacher (a practicing structural engineer) in architecture school who was obsessed with it, so we studied it in depth.
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Gotta love spending time looking for "fresh meat/meat products/delicacies" on the map 9:58 and then calling it bs so switching to find "groceries" :D
I was wondering what these were...
He did finally notice url sticker on the window, which was the biggest clue anyway (for a non native speaker). I was almost sure he would miss it, but I was screaming at my screen extra loud tonight and it helped :D
I 100% missed that one and when Czcech@@Glotttis
Gotta love the fact that čerstvé means "fresh" in West Slavic languages and (with similar-sounding words) "stale" in East Slavic
@@LelouchVee haha, as a russian speaker, I was wondering...
Tenerife airport disaster is an absolute mad one for anyone interested in plane crashes. It was as if everything that could go wrong went wrong: planes had been diverted because of a bomb threat on another island, the weather was terrible, the football match, miscommunication over the word ok due to language barrier, apparent cockiness of one of the pilots. There were so many ways that it could have been avoided and it went wrong at every single event in the sequence.
it even went on today with Tom overlooking the "Tenerife Norte" letters on the building
No not a another island they were meant to land on the south Tenerife airport but got diverted to the north Tenerife airport both KLM and PAN-AMERICAN airlines 747's
@@hacke_d_ just get the idea mate
@@hacke_d_ no....the other airport (Tenerife South) didn't even exist back then. Both planes had Gran Canaria as their destination, but because a bomb exploded inside the terminal at Gran Canaria they had to divert to Tenerife. The other airport opened a year later.
the "cockiness" of the Dutch captain was fabricated. He was more anxious about getting home within the strict Dutch laws that had ridiculous consequences for breaking them
As a Czech guy, seeing you trying to find "čerstvé maso" (fresh meat), "masové výrobky" (meat products) and "lahůdky" (delicatessen) on the map was hilarious 😂
Edit. Oh, and then you realised and started searching for "potraviny" (groceries) :Dddd
Yes totally! Me watching from the imaginary town of Čerstvé maso like: 👁️👄👁️ 🤡😂
LMAO
LMAO!!! ;D;D;D I have no clue what those things mean either, but I reckognize myself looking for every bit of foreign language like it would be a town or region ;D
Little quest for you: Can you find Brunost in Norway?
Same here. 😅
How dare you! My family have lived in Meat Products for generations!
Tom telling us that he's alive gives me the same vibe as when he checks if he's recording
“are we alive?”
Could've been a pre recorded video from before the straight line mission ;-) @@mythyx8381
@@mythyx8381Yes we are
Can you imagine his face if he found out he wasn't alive?
@@btubbs00123 pretty dead i imagine
"Was there a shooting in Chicago?" No...not since lunchtime, at least.
i was gonna say, does he know? DOES HE????
As soon as he said that my wife said, "yes".
That’s up there with “does a bear shit in the woods?” and “is the pope catholic?”
"This could be a mass shooting. . .", so America.
Statistically speaking, there probably was just today.
cool fact about the tenerife disaster: only one person from the KLM flight (the one that was taking off) survived. her name is Robina van Lanschot. she was travelling with her two friends, Walter and Yvonne. what's tragic is she remembers her friend Walter commenting on how something didn't feel right upon deboarding the plane, seeing all the other planes surrounding them and boxing them in.
after the KLM passengers were taken into the terminal to stretch their legs and relax, Robina came up with a plan. her fiancé lived on the island their plane was diverted to, and not wanting to waste time flying to their intended destination just to take a flight back to this very airport, she chose to break the rules and stay behind while everyone else reboarded the aircraft. it was this decision to break the rules that saved her life, as everyone on the plane, including Walter and Yvonne, perished. she is now married to the very same man that indirectly saved her life, and has been for decades.
The Waco one wasn't the Waco I was expecting it to be.
Me the same….
It also wasn't the one he pulled up. I think it was meant to be the Liberty Building Explosion, which was right below in his search results.
@@brendonkozman502 Well, this confirms that I'm going to stay the fuck away from Waco. When you can't figure out which disaster is which...
@@wied Yes, stay away from Waco is the moral of the story here.
The Waco siege was the only one I could think of, but I knew that hadn't been right in the centre of the city. But an F5 tornado... that makes sense.
Please do more of these - love the combination of Geoguesser and history learning
"Terrible stuff, um.... But, that was cool!" Love it lmao
All the quips were so good
The airport literally said "Tenerife Norte" :D
On the accident, I'd recommend the video by Mentour Pilot on YT. It's an intruiging story and shows what a perfect storm needs to happen for such a disaster...
Also I remeber some statistic that basically 90+% of airplane accidents happen during landing or takeoff
Thanks for the video recommendation; it was a good watch.
Well - I am a bit puzzled if this location was for the actual plane crash, since the involved planes got diverted from this airport because of a bombing to a northern one on the same island if I am not mistaken... And yes, Mentour Pilots video is great (basically all of them are)!
@@miallo The accident happened at the airport (not exactly at the location but on the taxiway of course), the flights were originally scheduled from the nearby island of Gran Canaria which received a bomb threat on that day
I mean, really its going to be even higher than that. Just depends on whether or not the plane was supposed to be making a landing or not when it did,
13:24 - right when he says "we could be on Tenerife"
Guy misses the 6 foot letters that say "Tenerife norte" yet insta plonks tenerife airport, nice :)
Yeah, quite amateurish to not look for the name/place on an airport building ;-)
Tom doing Tom things I guess...
@@AtomicAndi well he did zoom in on it he just didn't see it
Nah, I got canaries as well from the ad, then it wasn´t hard using the compass.
Never been there since I was 3 yrs old, but I still knew right off the bat it wasn´t mainland Spain, Ibiza, Mallorca or Menorca due to the red dirt and the EU plates combined with the spanish.
To be fair as well, those letters were pretty faded as they were on the far end of the building. However, i got the other one right in front of me, and I knew there wasn´t a lot of airports, so not a biggie.
one of the very few places he's gotten on geoguessr that I've recognized immediately, stood at the spot two years ago
I never saw that either. But then, it also took me a long time to even pan over to the area where it said Canary islands. And, of course, I had no idea where they were.
Playing "Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son", while searching in Kansas - these are the kinds of details we have come to know and love from GW!
And if you leave me now by chicago in chicago, perfection
the music by Chicago and Kansas while in Chicago and Kansas was a nice touch, Tom
And Oklahoma from Oklahoma while in Oklahoma
He does that often
Kansas City is in Missouri though ;)
*while within walking distance of Kansas :)
@@nrw9724Not all of it, although this bit is, just.
I love the juxtaposition between "tragic and disturbing" and "PLAY ALONG" in the title
The sadness the overwhelmed now that there is no reason for Tom to check if he’s recording is immeasurable.
20:20 The Kyshtym nuclear disaster was supposedly an inspiration for the Strugatski brothers, writers, who wrote a book "Roadside Picnic" in 1972, then in 1979 it got filmed by famous russian film direcotor Andrei Tarkovsky, and he had the Strugatski brothers work on the film with him, called "Stalker", and then later in 2007 an Ukrainian studio made a game somewhat based on the book and the movie, but instead of it being inspired by the Kyshtym disaster, it was rather inspired by Chernobyl disaster, which happened in 1986, atleast 7 years before the film adaptation... and also named it Stalker ( Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl ), and 2 more games in 2008 and 2009, and the game trilogy is very famous today, still played by many fans nowadays
the stalker games are based off roadside picnic and chernobyl
Stalker mentioned. Grabbing my bolts to go on an artifact hunt. I'll be back in 4 days.
(Also, Roadside Picnic is a great book. Highly recommended!)
unfortunately the person who made the game STALKER has passed away in war :(
I read it some time ago and I agree. Russian SF is Russian, and good.
@@MVNG0
Every engineer has heard of the Hyatt colapse during their studies. A very well known mistake originating from a simple free body diagram done wrong.
Was gonna comment this myself lol. I still remember learning about it in my intro to engineering course freshman year.
I am not an engineer but I saw a very interesting documentary a while back on the reasons it happened and I have never forgotten the awful images.
Architecs am I right
@@cassandragoughsame here. As a layman I still double check assumptions even if it’s just eg when jacking up a car, remembering how a seemingly tiny design fault can lead to disaster.
Heard about it on Stuff You Should Know podcast. 💪
Hey, I work in Crown Center (first location). Semi-relatedly, a couple of my neighbors died in that walkway collapse. One day they were just...gone. Their house stood empty for months. I was just a kid at the time so I didn't really understand what had happened, but it's very tragic stuff.
Im sorry to hear that. I’m from KC too, and although the collapse was before my time, my parents can recount it vividly
I remember it too, as soon as I saw that photo I knew what city and what disaster.
At 16:42 I am genuinely amazed at the human brain's ability to read total blurs. I also successfully read that as ".dk" on my playthrough (I later moved along in Google Maps to check), reaching a similar conclusion that this totally didn't look like Denmark. But it's also the case that that blur totally *doesn't* say ".dk" in any real, rational way, but we read it anyway.
The truck could be bought second hand from Denmark and they didn’t bother to paint it. Quite common in ex-ussr countries.
It's the old logo for Norsk Hydro and they did have gas station branches in Denmark. Later they became Hydro Texaco.
Just fyi 13:24, it says Tenerife Norte on the airport building. It's bit funny timing wise since it comes just after he speculatively says Tenerife.
Great video! Very interesting learning about the disasters.
Yes, I was literally pointing and shouting as if it would help him see it
Yeah, quite funny, he says "Tenerife" and zooms in on the letters, but instantly zooms away
Ah, good, im not the only one who did that then xD
"Dude, Thomas, Thomas, you *Just* hovered over the name right there. Go back, to the right, right, more to the ri.. Well good thing he saw it just from the map i guess"
I was searching for this comment! Surprised so little people noticed:D
13:25 - "We could be on Tenerife..." - Yeah, I think the big sign saying "Tenerife Norte" might be a clue. 😄
Same. He missed that and i was like "Let me check comments real quick" lol.
same
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Good catch on the Waco one. I would have assumed it was the Branch-Davidians.
The Chernobyl disaster was first "revealed" to the world when workers at a Swedish nuclear facility suddenly got very high readings on their radiation safety equipment. The upper level winds blew the contaminated air towards Northern Sweden, where a lot of it fell down. I think it was 5-6 days until the Soviets admitted what had happened.
It is the middle part of Sweden that was contaminated by fallout from Chornobyl. The large area with the most fallout is just north of the geographical center of Sweden. The areas with the highest level of fallout is around 200km south of the center of Sweden.
INSTANTLY guessed the Tenerife airport one. The deadliest air traffic disaster to date. I'm actually surprised Tom didn't know about it.
Well - I am a bit puzzled if it was the actual plane crash, since that did not take place at that airport because of a bombing, but on a different airport in the north of the island if I am not mistaken... Mentour Pilot has a very nice episode explaining all the things that lead to this plane crash and what aviation learned from it...
@@miallo Yes the Tenerife accident was at Los Rodeos.
@@miallo Los Rodeos was renamed Tenerife Norte, the video shows the correct airport.
@@miallo The airport shown in the GeoGuessr round *IS* the northernmost airport on the island. The bombing that caused the diversion was on Gran Canaria, a different island entirely, and Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) hadn't yet opened in 1977, so it doesn't fit into this equation at all.
I love that you said Waco was midwestern. About as accurate as saying Gibraltar is in Scotland and you were just so confident about it.
I love the musical easter eggs you put in your videos, like the 8-bit version of If You Leave Me Now while you search through Chicago.
Followed by Oklahoma from the musical and Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas
Tom: "This looks like Chicago. Has there been a shooting?"
Every day, Tom. Every day.
Chicago is ranked around 20th in the US for violent crime, but yeah, basically every day. New York City had its first day without a shooting in many years a few months ago! It made the news
as a Slovak guy, I really enjoyed you looking for Lahodky or Potraviny on the map 😂 Great vids, cant wait for the straight line mission Tom
Hearing you say something that happened in my lifetime was “long ago in the past” is making me feel really old. 😢
Love the nods to the bands Chicago and Kansas (and maybe more I missed) during the fast forward moments 😂
9:50 Btw čerstvé maso = fresh meat, Masové výrobky = Meat Products, Lahodky = delicatessen, It's fun to see you search for it on the map :)
He also looked for Potraviny. That's my favorite Czech town. They've had great food. Their vegetables are so fresh. They have good meat and cheese and bread! You can find a lot of good food in there. I recommend visiting Potraviny some time
okay there's definitely an energy to playing this video in the background while doing other tasks and hearing you say crown center and realizing you are literally in my city. thought you were doxxing me for a second there, tom 🤣🤣🤣
1) I knew it was the Hyatt walkway collapse the moment I saw a mid-western looking city, just couldn't remember which city it was in. I don't think I'd have the willpower to look at all the streets in every midwest city like you did.
2) I had no idea.
3) The Tenerife disaster was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Canary Islands sign. Some extra details: some terrorist set of a bomb in the main airport for the canary islands. So a ton of flights had been redirected to Tenerife that day. The airport was fairly small and not prepared for the number of planes. Many of the pilots were in a rush to get to their destination. Specifically the plane that was taking off had already fully refueled and it seemed one of the pilots was getting frustrated with how long everything was taking. The extra fuel made the crash even worse. The claim that the control tower were watching a football game is often considered an attempt by Dutch investigators to shift blame, as the airplane that took off without clearance was Dutch and the captain was basically the face of one of their airlines.
4) I instantly thought Russia. But I was thinking of a different disaster, the Ufa train disaster, which happened several decades after the radiation one. In 1989 a gas line leak went unnoticed until two passenger trains traveled close enough to cause a spark and a massive explosion. The trains were carrying a combined total of 1,300 people, 575 died. I was thinking a train track was hidden behind the tree line on the side of the road. I would have been wrong about the place anyway, because I thought both disaster happened further to the west. However both disasters actually happened pretty close to one another.
5) As the sign from every angle stated, it's Waco. Wasn't expecting a tornado, but figured it wasn't the Waco siege because that happened out at their crazy cult compound.
I’ve never heard of these disasters so you’re certainly not alone. Wild stuff
Was there a plane crash, he says. Only one of the biggest in history! Haha. Seriously though, the Tenerife disaster is why air traffic control and pilots now speak so rigidly, and more specifically, why we can NEVER use the words "take off" unless giving a take off instruction.
Edit: for clarities sake - Basically, the Pan Am was taxiing back down the runway, in reverse direction to the direction of take off. The KLM 747 was holding at the other end. KLM wanted to leave, controller told them something like "do not take off yet", KLM captain took it as a takeoff instruction and went. As they thundered through the fog, they gained visibility of the Pan Am (and the same in reverse, the Pan Am captain applying full power to try to taxi off in time) and tried to rotate (lift off) early to clear the Pan Am. Not a viable option; the wheels and lower fuselage smashed through the Pan Am. KLM, now airborne but basically just flying via momentum, crashed back to earth very quickly after.
Also, it did say Tenerife on the outside of the airport terminal. First place to look, surely?
"That's why air traffic control and pilots now speak so rigidly"- yup, except in the US, alas. Lots of entertaining and chilling ATC RUclips videos to proof...
Oh ya, there’s a number of videos about that walkway collapse. It’s the third deadliest structure collapse in the U.S., with the others being an intentional collapse (9/11) and a factory collapse in 1860. So you could say it’s the most deadly accidental structural collapse in the US in the last 150 years. (Or perhaps ever, the exact death toll for the 1860 collapse isn’t know.) So ya, that’s a pretty major one. Reportedly had quite an effect on Kansas City for years after.
Such a simple mistake as well 😢
Even though it's been said already: love the effort of making 8-bit Kansas and Chicago songs.
Your local mate from east London made at least 3 (maybe 4) episodes about these incidents, I highly recommend his “Plainly Difficult” channel to watch here on youtube. Hope to see the straight line mission videos, glad you’ve made it!
I was screaming at the TV when you kept scrolling past “Tenerife North” in massive letters on the airport 😂
As an aviation nerd the second I saw it say Binter (the airline of the canaries) on the airport I knew it was the Canary Islands so it had to be the Tenerife disaster
13:24
"We could be on Tenerife"
*zooms in at big sign saying Tenerife*
*zooms out*
Really, really like this series Tom!
Beat your score purely by guessing Ukraine for the Russia one - knew about the Hyatt collapse and Tenerife crash, there are several great docos around about both. Waco I got, but had the wrong tragedy in mind (thought it was weird we were downtown). Slovakia I was only a few miles off your guess. I also spent time looking for the invisible town called 'groceries'. Great game, great vid!
love the "Chicago" music while searcing chicago lol
"Even when you're on the ground" is the most common misconception about aviation there is. I don't have the exact numbers, but being on or near the ground is BY FAR the most dangerous part of a flight. Once you're up in the air your relatively safe...
I have played Japan and there is coverage in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures of downed power lines, huge tsunami puddles, destroyed buildings with windows blown out. It is only obvious in the 2011 and 2013 coverage, but it is a meta you can use.
It's always so weird to me when Kansas City shows up in one of these videos, feels even weirder that we're in this one from the skywalk collapse, my grandmother talked about it a lot when she would bring me to Crown Center as a kid, couldn't fault you for not knowing that one as outside of KC locals and Engineers it isn't a well known event really.
I watch plenty of disaster minidocumentaries on RUclips so had seen several videos on the first and third one. Tenerife airport disaster is so widely known in aviation nerd circles that was surprised you hadn't heard of it, but that just shows how much we underestimate the general populations knowledge of anything we're interested in.
I think every aviation disaster channel has made their own video on Tenerife, many with their own viewpoints on it. But the core is very much the same.
- terrorist attack forced a bunch of planes to divert into a small airport that wasn't ready for it
- fog made it impossible for ATC to verify who's on the runway, they didn't have ground radar
- one plane was on runway longer than expected due to missed runway exit
- a crew tired of waiting mistook after takeoff instructions for a takeoff clearance
- two radio calls at the same time interfered with each other and neither was received
With modern technology we'll hopefully never see such disaster again, but never know, if we go the route Musk wants and we get rockets flying around with hundreds of people in them, that might cause a bigger one someday.
My first time playing along, a respectable 18,519.
Just about to watch your final round...... fair play mate not beating that!
Got you on the Russia round though ;) annd we were exactly the same distance away in Slovakia, spooky.
Great video :) Can't wait for the new Straight Line Adventure!!
That first one tripped me out because I literally delivered pianos TO THAT BUILDING a few weeks ago
Love this series, hope it continues!
Remember the first upload?
Those were the days…
Are we uploading?
Tag who watches the video to the end🐼
I was there
I member.
13:24 - "we could be on Tenerife" - while looking directly at a large sign saying "Tenerife Norte". 😂
I love this series! It's really interesting to see these disasters that are so catastrophic yet not many know about/ they were forgotten about
Happy to hear you still alive Tom after your recent straight line mission. 👍
Looking forward to seeing how u got on.
When can we expect the video??
Just what I needed right now, a video from Tom ! Thanks, Tom !
Really enjoyed this one. I know it’s a bit morbid but very interesting to learn of these things.
Love this series. Entertaining and informative. More of this please!
This was really fun!! I have a bit of an interest in mass casualty disasters, but very little experience in Geoguessing, so I worked backwards with my knowledge of these disasters to guess the locations. My score was 20065. The radiation contamination in Russia got me, though! I thought we might be looking at the Utoya mass shooting in Norway. It was also on a lake.
The Kansas City disaster is wild, I've heard about it before but never realized where it happened
I love how you started the video. A great joke and a great insight in one swift question.
love this series! combining my special interests of geoguessr and disasters its autism heaven
This was a killer episode Tom, thanks
21:35 I honestly thought it was the siege. That's how people know of the place... I'm really enjoying this series !
The music in the first location was genius.
I love the location based music you pick when you fast forward while searching. I really appreciated Chicago and Kansas.
The way I IMMEDIATELY recognised that first building! Never been so excited in MY LIFE.
Regarding the Kyshytm accident: I initially thought the map was referring to the meteorite that came down not far south of the location in 2013, but you're probably right that they were referring to the nuclear accident.
the meteorite wasn't really a disaster, as far as i'm aware nobody died because of it
I thought the same, it's insane that it happened to be a place around the corner from Chelyabinsk.
It probably is the nuclear accident, but it's strange the location isn't right outside the plant. A meteorite airburst that caused many millions in damage could easily classify under "Environmental and natural disasters", though, nothing says it has to be a fatal event.
I'm more glad that you noticed the Slovakian URL than you were. I was shouting at my screen when you started looking in the wrong place :D
Super excited for the straight line mission, when will it be out on youtube?
Determined I'll see you out and about at some point in my lifetime, what a bloke 👌💎
I think this is my favourite series.. keep them coming Tom!
RIP to genuine checks if he’s recording. seems apt to discover this on a tragic backstories video haha
Didn't even see "Teneriffe Nord" written on top of the elongation of the airport-building and it's still the first airport he's looking at 👍! Well I guess if it's Canaries Tnerife is a good first guess and of course this horrible story of the two planes running into each other comes to mind immediately. Thx for sharing, love these videos!
This map is by far one of my favorites, I’d love to see more of it
Really surprised that you hadn't heard of Tenerife, Waco or the bridge collapse. Good video - and interesting concept.
"That is an *chuckles* absolute disaster, innit? Are we recording?"
Hahaha that comedic timing I cant 😂😂😂
This is probably my favorite GeoWizard series honestly, other than your travels.
“Was there a shooting in Chicago?” Hahaha. There’s like a dozen every day
Putting Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son on during the time skips on round 1 was cheeky ;)
A little fun fact about the tenerife disaster: There was actually only 1 survivor on the KLM flight. She and her friends were tourist guides, and they were travelling to the canary islands, to well, do their job, but one of them wanted to stay on the island (the los rodeos airport island, i dont remember the name) Because her boyfriend lives there, so everyone went onboard again and she stayed. So, she technically was the only survivor of the KLM plane. Another fact, a family had lost their kids when they had to leave the plane (KLM) for a checkup (if i remember correctly), so a security guard of some sorts was assigned to help the family locate their kids so that they could board the plane again, if the security guard wasn't able to locate the kids, the whole family would have still been alive. Sry for any mistakes, english aint my first language ;)
what the hell? i just wrote a comment about this, and even the way i wrote it is so similar to the way you wrote yours lol. beat me to it
@@mylife1221 gg my man hahah
Only slightly depressing, but historically interesting.
"What is wrong with the Soviets?"
Everything, f*cking everything...
Dann solltest du lieber hier auf deutsch kommentieren, ohne die Sowjets, mit denen ja anscheinend alles falsch ist, wärst du nämlich kein Tscheche oder was auch immer du bist, sondern ein Bürger des Großdeutschen Reiches im Reichsprotektorat Böhmen-Mähren. Deine tschechische Kultur wäre komplett ausgelöscht worden. Du würdest quasi nicht existieren. Also denk nochmal nach bevor du solche lächerliche Aussagen aussprichst.
Klaus Schwab: "I agree"
We could fill volumes...
Western propaganda which is controlled by the people of israel, who controls ukraine, would sure have you believng the soviets are so horrible.
They have some good metal bands, but that's about it.
Gotta love a the random comments at the start of the video, never change Thomas😂
The hotel mezzanine collapse is a very common case study in US college structural engineering classes about ensuring that the engineer and the contractor are on the same page regarding how a structure is put together.
The engineer intended one type of connection to support the mezzanine but they didn’t clearly detail it on the drawings, so the contractor built it a different way, not realizing their connection essentially doubled the intended loads on the failed structural members.
First time playing along, 17k. I am content with this.
I don't think your knowledge of disasters is especially bad, there is a lot of disasters and it's a big world.
I really enjoyed the music in this one, Tom!
"I hope I'm not being stupid here!" he says, glaring at the .sk domain name in the middle of his screen hahaha
Absolutely wild that I can see where I work down the street in the first round in Kansas City. Was not expecting to see my work in the distance in the form of a video today
Got 2/5... clearly need to watch more "plainly difficult"...
btw a colab with him on this would be stunning, I feel the two of you could get along quite well.
GeoWizard vs Plainlydifficult on this map would be interesting.
Just learned about that Tenerife incident in January while being on Tenerife :D apparently the airport was a hot mess to begin with, which is why they decided to build the southern one, which is now used for most commercial flights from mainland Europe.
13:25 I was shouting at my phone lol you literally zoom in on the Tenerife north sign, but you got it anyway
Bit of trivia Tom. According to the National Coal Mining museum the difference between an accident and a disaster is how many died with the specific number being 9 people. ‹9 is accident and ›9 is a disaster.
You guessed my home town - Vrutky in Slovakia!
Never thought Harry from the Sidemen randomly dropping airplane disaster facts would make me instantly know where we were in geoguessr and what the disaster was but alas here I am
This is so interesting I could watch for hours
The waco one confused me as well. I was in texas when the waco siege happened. But as an oklahoman I also know tornadoes but this one had slipped my memory even though I watched something on that storm just a few months ago.
The reason for the walkway collapse is amazing "it wasn't built correctly" is a good teaser
i love the 8-bit Kansas songs while you were looking in Kansas
I remember when it happened - I was 12. It seemed like every person in KC was affected or knew someone who was. I also had a Structures teacher (a practicing structural engineer) in architecture school who was obsessed with it, so we studied it in depth.
NOTE: that tracking and difusing the radiation and knowing what to do , is the art .