These INCREDIBLE Pilots Only Had Seconds To Save Their Plane | Spicejet Flight 256

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  • Опубликовано: 17 авг 2022
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    This is the story of spicejet flight 256. On the 5th of january 2014. On that day the spciejet 737 was to fly from delhi to goa and then back to delhi again. On the ground at goa the pilots of flight 256 was given a computerized flight plan and the weather at their destination, delhi. The plane was planned to land at delhi at about 6:15 pm and the weather was supposed to be okay the visibility at the time of their arrival was estimated to be 200 meters or about 650 feet. If they couldnt land at delhi they had lucknow and jaipur as their alternates. Which were relatively close by. As they fueled the 737 they put 9.5 tons of fuel in, of which 500 kilos or 1100 pounds of fuel was meant for holding over delhi if they needed to. But with delhi being notorious for its smog the captain decided to add another 300 kilos or 661 pounds of fuel to the plane. The plane took off and made its way to delhi and when they were 50 Nm from the city of delhi things were not looking good for the pilots of flight 256. The traffic around delhi was and is nasty and that combined with the worse than usual visibility meant that there was a long list of planes waiting to land. Flight 256 was 13th in line. As they approached the entry point to the STAR or the standard terminal arrival route, ATC asked the pilots to do two orbits at this point they had 3.4 tones or 7600 pounds of fuel remaining. As the jet got closer and closer to delhi the pilots kept a close watch on the visibility. The reported RVR was at first 1150 meters or 3700 feet, but that dropped to less than half to 550 meters or 1800 metres. Things were getting bad for example the Roll out RVR or the distance that the pilot can expect to see at the far end of the runway had dropped to just 50 meters or 150 feet. This was wayyy too low and so the pilots of flight 256 decided to stay at 7000 feet hoping that the weather would improve. This meant that theyd have to burn a bit more fuel, but it would be worth it if the visibility improved allowing them to land at delhi. But that did not happen instead the visibility at delhi got even worse. The pilots now had a decision to make they could wait around and see if the weather at delhi improved or they could divert. At this time the 737 3100 kilos or 6800 pounds of fuel onboard. They needed at least 2700 kilos of fuel to get to Jaipur, their alternate. But the pilots found that just getting in contact with jaipur was a tough task as most of the planes around delhi were having the same idea as flight 256, they too were diverting to jaipur. But once they had set things up they flew to jaipur and on their way they prepped for the landing at jaipur. On their way there they looked at the possibiltiy of diverting to either ahmedabad or lucknow if the weather at jaipur was too bad. But running the numbers revealed something scary. They had no other choice but to land at jaipur, both ahmedabad and lucknow were now unreachable with the fuel that they had onboard. They had to make this landing count the pilots decided to make a dual channel autoland. This meant that the plane would basically fly itself down to the runway even if the visibility was bad. That was a solid plan. As the pilots approached jaipur there were two plane ahead of them in the queue. One of the planes decided to divert to ahmedabad the other one an air india a320 had to land and then they were good to land. But then the unthinkable happened, the pilots of the A320 ahead of the spicejet made some very bad decisions and they stuffed the landing and ended up blocking the runway. Now this wasnt some small runway excursion this was a major accident, the plane had gone off the runway sliced through some trees and parts of the plane were strewn everywhere. Like this accident has its own report and everything and if you want a video on that like this video and let me know in the comments. But the main thing for the crew of flight 256 was that they now had nowhere to go. Their one option was now blocked by an A320 that had had an accident and the weather at delhi was still horrible. When they went around the plane had 1.7 tons of fuel left. The captain now used the authority that he had and decided to head
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  • @terrigreen8813
    @terrigreen8813 Год назад +767

    I’d like to see the video about the A-320 that crashed, keeping Spice Air from landing in Jaipur.

    • @zew1414
      @zew1414 Год назад +17

      Me too, not familiar with that

    • @kcnairnair7299
      @kcnairnair7299 Год назад +10

      I too vote!

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab Год назад +4

      Terri Green.. hope he notices your request and our replies below.

    • @firefly4f4
      @firefly4f4 Год назад +4

      Same

    • @abhadoriya
      @abhadoriya Год назад +2

      Yes please

  • @Coldinwis
    @Coldinwis Год назад +350

    Please do a video on other crash mentioned! As someone that has flown into and outta Delhi & I recently brought my husband over to the US from Mumbai, I love all India videos!
    Wonderful video as always!! Thanks!!

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab Год назад +2

      The Kochi/Cochin one is already there on the internet... 6 go around.
      .
      I hope everything is fit and fine in your family.
      (You mentioned you 'brought' your husband back).

    • @Coldinwis
      @Coldinwis Год назад +13

      @@sailaab
      Thanks!!
      I’ve gotten to spend lotta time in India the past 4 years & got married over there. After a 3 year visa process my hubby got to come to the US this past June when I brought him “home”. He now gets to live in an area where smog doesn’t exist (rural Wisconsin), instead it’s snowstorms that prevent planes from landing lol.

    • @K1OIK
      @K1OIK Год назад

      outta?

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab Год назад

      O wow🙂 @@Coldinwis ji, Happy to note that then.😊
      Wish ALL of you a wonderful, beautiful life with loads of marital bliss.
      .
      And I dunno if 'hubby' ji is a "desi" (SouthAsian) or not, but Missy ji... your G.I. tract, digestive tract must be thanking you for sparing them the desi foods😄.
      .
      .
      Haha ha... yes it must be hail and snow storms there.
      But thankfully the breathability of the air must be so much better for most... especially if anyone has a breathing ailment.
      .
      .
      Thanks again for opening up to rank strangers.
      Petter (of Mentour Pilot) has recently done video on an incident involving the Doha Kochin route.
      I just did not want to cross sell anyone hence not putting direct links.
      But *o-IuOnDBoGA* is the video ID.
      *youtube.* *com/* *watch?v=o-IuOnDBoGA*

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab Год назад +1

      O wow🙂 @@Coldinwis ji, Happy to note that then.😊 Wish ALL of you a wonderful, beautiful life with loads of marital bliss.
      .
      And I dunno if 'hubby' ji is a "desi" (SouthAsian) or not, but Missy ji... your G.I. tract, digestive tract must be thanking you for sparing them the desi foods😄.
      .
      .
      Haha ha... yes it must be hail and snow storms there. But thankfully the breathability of the air must be so much better for most... especially if anyone has a breathing ailment.
      .
      .
      Thanks again for opening up to rank strangers.

  • @scorpion1349
    @scorpion1349 Год назад +249

    As a pilot who operated around 20 years to DEL, I always take fuel for my second alternate plus at least 30 min extra fuel.
    I always say "expect unexpected at DEL".
    I was caught many times with RVR around 75 meters there without the proper TAF showing that bad! Fortunately, based on the experience and being approved for CAT IIIB with no DH, and even to restrict my ZFW to carry extra fuel, I always made it there even with long holding time in the air. DEL is one of the most tricky airports in India. It really needs dispatch and crew coordination and experience to avoid such a situation. And believe me...it is worse than what you think.
    So when it comes to DEL or even BOM(WITHOUT CAT III) we are always careful and cary much more fuel than our dispatch suggests. It's not a joke and these airports are really tricky. The operations department shouldn't tie our hands to carry extra fuel even if we have to restrict our ZFW. In my company which everyone is qualified for CAT IIIB with no DH, diversion is rarely happening.

    • @K1OIK
      @K1OIK Год назад +8

      RVR? CAT? IIIB? DH? ZFW?

    • @manishm9478
      @manishm9478 Год назад +6

      @@K1OIK watch the video. MACI explains at least half of those haha. But i don't know DH or ZFW.

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 Год назад +16

      I totally agree that pilots should have the final say with 0% company pressure regarding how much fuel they carry. They're the only operations personnel that have their lives on the line. They'll be the ones blamed if they run out of fuel, even if the company pressures or restricts them from carrying the fuel they want.
      You should always have enough fuel for 2 diversions PLUS 20 minutes hold time PLUS 30 minutes extra if there's a chance the primary plus alternates have a chance of being fogged in simultaneously.

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 Год назад +3

      @@K1OIK yeah he's speaking to the pilots not the general public. I don't know/can't figure out half of those, but all you have to do is a google search.

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 Год назад +33

      RVR = Runway Visial Range
      CAT=Category IIIB=3b = Category 3b (a category of instrument landing that's basically the best, letting you auto land with zero visibility.. explained in video)
      DH = Decision Height
      ZFW = Zero Fuel Weight
      Hope this helps btw.

  • @joaodantas8530
    @joaodantas8530 Год назад +63

    Working as an Airbus 320 Captain, I find your videos really useful and a public service to aviation safety. They are direct to the point and very helpful for a professional pilot to come in contact with very delicate situations, possibly avoiding them in the future. My most profound thanks. Keep on!

    • @kait2972
      @kait2972 Год назад

      What do you think would have happened if they didn't add the extra 300kg of fuel on top of their calculations?

    • @koskeshofski
      @koskeshofski 8 месяцев назад

      😊😊😊😅😊😊😊

  • @scaramonga
    @scaramonga Год назад +59

    Definitely, the Captains decision to take that extra fuel saved this flight, albeit unknowingly. Good Piloting all round in tough circumstances.

    • @yourface4248
      @yourface4248 Год назад

      so he took on extra fuel unknowingly just for the kick of it.

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 Год назад +3

      “Better to have and not need than to need and not have???”

  • @durbeshpatel3047
    @durbeshpatel3047 Год назад +63

    I gotta say the extra 300kgs of fuel is the prime saver, meaning captain really saved everyone

    • @kenschwarz1444
      @kenschwarz1444 Год назад

      6yyyyyyyy

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 Год назад

      Just 300 kg? No - want more. At least three times that much more!

    • @aadixum
      @aadixum Год назад

      @@dennisyoung4631 Why not fill the tanks up? Even better, why not attach drop tanks?

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 Год назад

      @@aadixum airliners tend to not have the needed attachment points, nor the needed plumbing, for using drop tanks.
      Secondly, those flying them tend to not wish to put more fuel in than they think they need. A likely/plausible reason is “less fuel, more passengers-> improved profit margins.”
      While I think, personally, that airlines need to return to the status of “quasi-utilities” - they were treated thusly up until sometime around 1977 or so - not everyone is as deep into erring on the side of caution as I’ve learned to be (by learning the hard way, as a rule.)
      Ps: 900 kg, for an airliner, isn’t all that much. That’s roughly a thousand liters of Jet-A - maybe a few minutes of run time, at moderate power settings, for, say, an Airbus A320? It will go a bit further for a smaller turboprop.

  • @b.t.356
    @b.t.356 Год назад +134

    Now that you mentioned it, I'm interested in a video on the A320 that ran off the runway in Jaipur. PS: Mad props to the flight crew of the Spicejet flight.

  • @benjaminfinlay829
    @benjaminfinlay829 Год назад +95

    The Captain's decision to add that little bit more fuel on top turned out to be a potentially-lifesaving one.
    That one small choice - that little bit of extra time - meant that the engines continued operating throughout the landing, meaning they continued to have reverse thrust and full hydraulic brakes.
    And given that they were landing on that airport's shortest runway? They _needed_ that.

  • @xcharke3126
    @xcharke3126 Год назад +27

    Yes please do a video on the crash before the spicejet!! now I just have to know what happened to it....

  • @Lucca-An-Aspiring-Poet
    @Lucca-An-Aspiring-Poet Год назад +113

    The MSFS2020 Re-enactment just makes these a pleasure to watch! Quite beautiful!
    Edit; I´d absolutely love a video on the A320! Sounds very interesting indeed.

  • @Azeazel.
    @Azeazel. Год назад +22

    Hey man I just wanted to thank you for the vid and I appreciate you properly pronouncing the city names very accurately; it’s a tiny detail but it goes a long way

  • @FlywithMagnar
    @FlywithMagnar Год назад +10

    My hat off for the crew of Flight 256. It feels unbelievable when the aircraft landing ahead of you have an accident. (It happened to me once.) It was the quick decision to return to Delhi and declare an emergency that saved everybody onboard Flight 256. Too many accidents have happened because of wrong or late descisions and poor communication.

  • @buttersPbutters
    @buttersPbutters Год назад +32

    There's a definition for Category IIIC ILS, but no implementations anywhere for the foreseeable future. Modern airliners can land in zero visibility, roll out along the centerline in zero visibility, and even auto-brake to make the desired taxiway turn-off in zero visibility. But there's no way to taxi around the airfield in zero visibility. In an emergency, an aircraft could stop on the runway, but otherwise ATC cannot issue landing clearances when visibility is too poor for the aircraft to vacate the runway and safely navigate to the gate. That's the limiting factor.

    • @manishm9478
      @manishm9478 Год назад +2

      Wow that's cool! Interesting, i would think automatic taxiing to the gate would be relatively easy to implement because you could use arrays of accurate, short range beacons to guide the planes.

    • @nitin.agarwal
      @nitin.agarwal Год назад

      Movement of plane while taxiing must be easiest of automation.On ground, It's just like self driving car, in a pre-defined path, with almost no moving traffic.
      Also, on ground the GPS coordinates can be used to very easily move the plane around. We can see these things in cars itself, putting these on plane shouldn't be a problem at all.

    • @buttersPbutters
      @buttersPbutters Год назад +2

      @@nitin.agarwal There are many more collisions on the ground than there are in the air. This is a dangerous environment. GPS isn't good enough, not even with space-based augmentation (WAAS). For Cat IIIB, aircraft rely on the localizer signal to follow the runway centerline, not WAAS GPS/INS. It's possible that with local area augmentation (GBAS) installed on the airfield, GPS could be made accurate enough for taxiing. In the US, Newark and Houston have GBAS installed as part of a trial program, but there are no plans for further expansion at this time, and it's not certified for anything more than Cat I, let alone taxiing.

    • @halweilbrenner9926
      @halweilbrenner9926 Год назад +1

      Remarkable

    • @232K7
      @232K7 Год назад

      I feel like there has to be an easy way for an aircraft to at the very least safely clear the runway, so the runway could still be available should a 2nd emergency happen before the visibility improves

  • @afreightdogslife
    @afreightdogslife Год назад +18

    Everytime we flew into New Delhi, we used to carry an extra 2 tons of fuel, on top of the calculated fuel reserve. This was due to the fact that the Indian air traffic controllers makes you waste a lot of fuel, by giving you useless and nonsense vectors, their weather and visibility are always bad due to air pollution.
    As far as I know, there was no one in my airline who enjoyed flying into Delhi.

    • @desertedcake
      @desertedcake Год назад +3

      please do the needful sir

    • @blackmamba9950
      @blackmamba9950 Год назад +2

      When was the last time you flew to Delhi?

    • @afreightdogslife
      @afreightdogslife Год назад +1

      @@blackmamba9950 The last time I was there was in May 2022.

    • @afreightdogslife
      @afreightdogslife Год назад

      @@desertedcake This was and still is the typical request from crew scheduling, "Captain please Do the Needful." 🤣 🤣

  • @starwarzchik112
    @starwarzchik112 Год назад +61

    YES, I’d love to see a video on the Air India A320!
    Also this reminds me of a way earlier one you did. Another Indian flight ran out of fuel after doing _7 go arounds._

    • @sachinabraham26
      @sachinabraham26 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/o-IuOnDBoGA/видео.html this one ?

    • @abandonedaccount123
      @abandonedaccount123 Год назад +1

      what was the flight?

    • @Milesco
      @Milesco Год назад +1

      @@abandonedaccount123 Jet Airways 555. Mentour Pilot did a really good video on it. ruclips.net/video/o-IuOnDBoGA/видео.html

    • @aryandabas4508
      @aryandabas4508 Год назад +1

      Jet airways not air india

    • @sachinabraham26
      @sachinabraham26 Год назад

      @@abandonedaccount123 Jet Airways

  • @hack1n8r
    @hack1n8r Год назад +18

    You stated it -- the decision by the Capt to load more fuel is what ultimately saved them.
    However, an argument can be made that they would have diverted sooner with less fuel, and landed at the alternate earlier before the accident.
    But, I prefer the extra fuel option because anything can happen...
    Nice job!!

  • @Ananth8193
    @Ananth8193 Год назад +18

    Awesome video as usual . Actually it was so scary to hear but thanks to pilots who done everything to save the flights ... Very good explanation

  • @thedevilinthecircuit1414
    @thedevilinthecircuit1414 Год назад +10

    The primary reason this didn't end in tragedy was the crew's attention to detail when doing their fuel quantity numbers. They were careful to get it correct--and that's what got them safely onto the runway before the engines starved. Bravo Zulu to the PIC and PM: they are the real heroes here.

  • @MiniAirCrashInvestigation
    @MiniAirCrashInvestigation  Год назад +2

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  • @grmpEqweer
    @grmpEqweer Год назад +42

    Kudos to the flight crew on this one. Amazing work. 👍
    Edit: it didn't end in tragedy b/c of the captain adding a dollop extra fuel out of caution (guess he well knew what he was flying into) and luck. It was on a knife's edge.
    My suggestion is that Delhi's airport seems like a system loaded beyond safe capacity, and they're trying to make it work anyway.
    Basically? Delhi needs a second airport, outside of town.
    Just site it adjacent to the rail lines, as India inherited a really good rail system from the British occupation.
    That's my take.

    • @abingdonboy
      @abingdonboy Год назад +4

      Lol the railways were not well designed for india. They were designed to facilitate the export of India’s wealth to the U.K. furthermore Delhi is getting a second airport (Jewar) in the next couple of years

    • @charlie7mason
      @charlie7mason Год назад +3

      @@abingdonboy You are right, but in this case, its heritage does work in its favor. Alas, OP should probably just not have mentioned the British at all.

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Год назад +3

      @@charlie7mason Yeah. They shouldn't mention the Brits for Railways in India. We don't owe the Brits anything. Especially after all these years of Indians managing, upgrading and expanding the network. Brits should look at their own bloody network with just 38% electrification and problems with expanding their High Speed Rail Network to 500+ km. India already has 81% electrification and within a couple of years will have 100% electrification and a larger high speed rail network under construction than UK.

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Год назад

      @@abingdonboy Not only Jewar, there are even more airports coming up like Hisar, etc in Haryana.
      BTW, was wondering if its possible for civilian flights to make emergency landings at Airbases. Not all airbases are collocated with civilian airports, right?

    • @charlie7mason
      @charlie7mason Год назад

      @@death_parade You're right about everything.

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  • @karllung2649
    @karllung2649 Год назад +8

    I do think that runway blockage is being considered for flight planning. What I heard was that the airport at Easter Island was so remote and far from any airport, the point of no return for flights going there is some 3 hours before arrival. As such, the airport has to assure the runway will be clear for landing in that 3 hour period, which include no take off or landing as even a small accident could result in a runway blockage. The airport thus can accommodate only one single flight for every 3 hours. This was not an issue when I went there 20 years ago as there were only four flight per week.

    • @JW-rh6rl
      @JW-rh6rl Год назад +3

      It’s true that remote airports with no viable alternate use a point of no return system but the decision to continue or divert is only based on the forecasted weather and any foreseeable delays on arrival. Blocked runway is not taken into account. But the flights are planned to arrive at the destination with an ‘island reserve’ amount of 2 extra hours worth of fuel so that they would have the capability to hold over the airfield to await an improvement in any unforeseen deterioration in weather or for some kind of incident to be cleared so that the runway would be available again for landing.

  • @sailaab
    @sailaab Год назад +13

    The Kochin one you mentioned in the end was purely cockpit crew blunders.
    The German one, only partly.
    But here in India, even in cases as bad as these... the toothless paper dragon
    ..which the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in India is..
    ... the final reports are all but comprehensive.
    And obviously those involved barely get a rap on the knuckles.
    This final report too hasn't led to much operational Improvements or major policy changes within SpiceJet.
    .
    Thanks for making crisp and engaging productions👌🏽🤍 as always.💙👍🏼

    • @AT-bo6ww
      @AT-bo6ww Год назад +2

      They'll suspend pilots for taking a picture in the cockpit, but they won't care to make a no fly list when some 'influencer' carries cigarettes and lights it with a lighter on board. Welcome to Indian government organization lmao. Half of them have logic stuffed up their rear ends.

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab Год назад +1

      True! @@AT-bo6ww And use their mouths for doing the function of their rear ends.

  • @AidanPatko
    @AidanPatko Год назад +10

    I’m currently on an Airbus 320-200 at 35,000 ft and crazy enough to listen to plane crash videos 😂🤪 thanks for another great one!

    • @withthenamerickastley4141
      @withthenamerickastley4141 Год назад

      💀

    • @P5ychoFox
      @P5ychoFox Год назад +1

      Ha ha very cool. Have a safe flight.

    • @terrigreen8813
      @terrigreen8813 Год назад +3

      I started listening to these about 2 weeks before flying to Texas to visit my daughter, my friends thought I was crazy!

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Год назад

      How is your internet running in a plane?

    • @AidanPatko
      @AidanPatko Год назад +1

      @@death_parade it’s 2022 my guy… wifi is a thing…

  • @769270865
    @769270865 Год назад +1

    India aviation have a track record of "anything goes" safety mindset. Some company do not have SOPs, training rule is fuzzy, even the ATC doesn't care if you don't call. They might have improved but this mindset still there

  • @maxtornogood
    @maxtornogood Год назад +4

    Smart move by the Spicejet crew to load up on extra fuel, it really came in clutch! That A320 accident should be the next video if possible.

  • @AtharvaVaidya
    @AtharvaVaidya Год назад +6

    Please do a video on the Air India A320 in Jaipur as well!
    Love your videos.

  • @ranadeepkundu5357
    @ranadeepkundu5357 Год назад +3

    Traveling with spicejet is always a gamble. You never know what's waiting for you.

  • @pissant145
    @pissant145 Год назад +1

    The trend in these Indian cases is that the pilots are awesome and manages to save the plane even though maintenance is crap and dispatch does not care.

  • @robcfg
    @robcfg Год назад +2

    I love your videos and would like you to do one on the A320 crash that almost doomed this flight. Keep up the good work!

  • @rilmar2137
    @rilmar2137 Год назад +7

    I'd love to see a vid on that A320. That was definitely a terrible day to be flying out there

  • @DelfinaKS
    @DelfinaKS Год назад +1

    As always, another excellent video from you. Great work from captain. Yes, would like to see the A-320 crash video and curios how the pilots of that plane handled the situation. Were they also put into that situation by operations or did they cause the crash?

  • @IAmTheEggMan111
    @IAmTheEggMan111 Год назад

    I like all your vids. Just keep making them!

  • @AnimeSunglasses
    @AnimeSunglasses Год назад +3

    To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi, "That was TOO close!"
    Kudos to the aircrew for showing good airmanship throughout, from the decision to take extra fuel all the way to setting up that TERRIFYINGLY all-or-nothing final approach!
    Also, I would also like a video on the crash that forced their re-diversion. And perhaps a video on other circumstances that have caused multiple incidents at the same airport!

  • @mikecarroll5853
    @mikecarroll5853 Год назад

    This is the best channel for air investigation 🔎 shorts. Thanks for all you do.

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork Год назад +3

    Wow. I never knew about this one. I used to fly to Jaipur a lot and the Air India that came to grief there gave us a lot of laughs. He burst his tyres, went off and hit a tree. Any Indian pilot knows that if DEL is foggy, JAI might be too, Picking JAI as an alternate for DEL is so Indian.I enjoyed my flying in India- for Air Costa, but your wits around, you must keep.

    • @AtulBhatia
      @AtulBhatia Год назад

      @Simon, JAI is usually a viable alternative to DEL as the visibility there is generally better than DEL. Fact is, when the fog rolls in, ALL airfields in the Gangetic plain go under, at which point we usually plan for Ahmedabad or Nagpur as our alternate. Even in this incident, JAI was available, but weather was not the reason it suddenly became unavailable! Today, besides Delhi, Jaipur, Amritsar and Lucknow all have Cat III airfields, so that aircraft can land in visibility as low as 75m.

    • @SimonWallwork
      @SimonWallwork Год назад

      Indeed. There have been many improvements. JAI was practically rebuilt after the Air India. I felt better about my habit of taking a bit of extra fuel after seeing this vid....

  • @cornishcat11
    @cornishcat11 Год назад

    i like all of your videos ,thanks

  • @trinity72gp
    @trinity72gp Год назад +3

    🇬🇧🙋🏾‍♀️Definately need the video on the guys ahead of this incident 👍🏾

  • @jsr8884
    @jsr8884 Год назад +1

    I joined this airline a few months after this incident. I have never ever believed the dispatch team’s inputs without cross checking. Now, they are very good professionals. No doubt. My take is - why should you blindly trust someone ?. Especially if it’s your safety that’s is in jeopardy?

  • @R.Instro
    @R.Instro Год назад +1

    As a recovering football(soccer) referee, I found out that a good way to convert from meters to yards/feet is to estimate that 1 m = 1.1 yd.
    Thus, 50 m (roughly, you understand) would come to ~55 yards, or ~165 feet.
    This is still only an estimation, but it's closer than just setting meters = yards. ^_^
    (for comparison, the exact conversion of 50 meters comes to just a hair over 164 ft 1/2 inches.)

  • @socal20001
    @socal20001 Год назад

    Amazing videos. Keep them up.

  • @ozonejunky2187
    @ozonejunky2187 Год назад +4

    Dude. You always ask if we want videos about certain crashes. We always want them from you!

  • @HimmatRathorehr
    @HimmatRathorehr Год назад +3

    I clearly remember that night. The visibility was a just a few meters. I could not see the home across the street.
    I was glued to FR24 and could see aircraft going around, in holding pattern or diverting to Jaipur and Lucknow. UA managed to land though.
    Saw both these aircraft fly towards Jaipur and the AI land and this one returning back to Delhi. Learnt only the next morning that the AI aircraft had landed blind and went off the rwy.

    • @asushomie4387
      @asushomie4387 Год назад

      Can you share date and time or fr24 playback link

  • @thereissomecoolstuff
    @thereissomecoolstuff Год назад +11

    Great job on the Seattle Horizon crash last week. The fuel situation was unbelievable. Fumes don't describe this situation. This is all a part of the risk benefit analysis the pilots go through. The extra 300 kg paid off. Just did a quick check. Says the 737 burns 30 kg of fuel a minute at cruise. That's around 8 gallons. They did not have enough for a go around.

    • @232K7
      @232K7 Год назад +1

      Couldn't be overstated how critical the fuel was... that wasn't even enough to fill an average size aquarium

  • @DustyGamma
    @DustyGamma Год назад +1

    Hey, the passengers got to land where they wanted!
    ~Always look on the bright side of life~ *whistles*

  • @TJ-USMC
    @TJ-USMC Год назад +1

    "Great Airmanship !!!"

  • @miracleguy2959
    @miracleguy2959 Год назад +1

    Great video👍🏼…I think 💭 luck and skill saved this flight☘️✈️

  • @meditatingstuff
    @meditatingstuff Год назад +4

    It's so interesting, what can happen to your options. So I'd definitely like a video about what happened with the runway incursion.

  • @scoobydo446
    @scoobydo446 Год назад

    Great video , and bro look at your subs now , remember when you were excited about 40,000 lol,
    It’s Andrew from Australia ; I know you remember me

  • @TwitchKoalabaerchen
    @TwitchKoalabaerchen Год назад +5

    love it!

  • @DonutCHANNELS
    @DonutCHANNELS Год назад +1

    Such incredible graphics .. could literally smell the smog of Delhi

  • @vladutnitoiu6370
    @vladutnitoiu6370 Год назад

    Awesome video!

  • @zacharylong7717
    @zacharylong7717 Год назад

    Make that video! Great channel!!!!

  • @eddieharkin2550
    @eddieharkin2550 Год назад

    Great analysis as usual, and yeh, please make a vid about that A-320.

  • @fliegenistdassicherste8828
    @fliegenistdassicherste8828 Год назад +3

    The 300 kg of extra fuel really made the difference.

  • @adheeb5403
    @adheeb5403 Год назад

    Loved the video. Where could I find any sort of incident reports for this? Have you considered including links to them in your video description?

  • @brandtendu
    @brandtendu Год назад

    Very detailed and thoroughly explained. Wonderful. Please do a video on IA plane that was ahead of spicejet. Thanks.

  • @noneofyourbizness
    @noneofyourbizness Год назад +15

    would i be right in GUESSING that if the flight behind the crashed flight had LITERALLY no alternatives, that flight would be permitted to land at the relatively unaffected end of the runway?
    (because not permitting that to happen would guarantee that the plane would have to be crash landed, at best)

    • @rosua
      @rosua Год назад +3

      they would be in a situation like that but you have to understand with so much debris on the ground the plane landing would probably have a puncture that could lead to a runoff or if one of the parts got sucked into the engine with the airport safety crews involved with the a320 if something happened to the landing plane they would be doomed
      jaipur airport is a single runway so they arent required to have emergency crews able to handle 2 situations at once

    • @jake_
      @jake_ Год назад +3

      With passengers evacuating the plane, rescue personnel and debris on the runway, that would have been a terrible idea.

    • @rosua
      @rosua Год назад

      @@jake_ yeah it would have been but they were asking a hypothetical situation

  • @lilysonthemoon
    @lilysonthemoon Год назад

    There’s a motivational speech poster in this video.
    Great video as always :D

  • @v.pineda4258
    @v.pineda4258 Год назад

    Thank you for the video. Please make the video about the A320.

  • @vivawolf
    @vivawolf Год назад +1

    Would really appreciate another video on the other incident!

  • @zync1000
    @zync1000 Год назад +1

    Spicejet also does not operate out of Lucknow, but out of nearby Kanpur. Might have been the other reason why they did not consider diverting to Lucknow.

  • @Rincypoopoo
    @Rincypoopoo Год назад

    Please do a video on the A320 that made a mess at Jaipur. Great video as always. Thank you.

  • @barrie888
    @barrie888 Год назад

    yes ,like to see your take on the preceeding flight

  • @dianericciardistewart2224
    @dianericciardistewart2224 Год назад

    Yes I would like to see the associated incident that caused this aircraft to return to Delhi. . .This was very interesting! Kudos to the pilots for doing the best they could and finally getting their aircraft safely on the ground! 👍✈✈👍

  • @arneja
    @arneja Год назад +3

    It was a split-second decision plus staying focused on whichever plan he came up with. His calm attitude and calculated risk also added in his favour but it could have gone against him, but then it is the outcome which defines his decisions.

  • @ianwalker2250
    @ianwalker2250 3 месяца назад

    Yes please - would love to see a video from you on the Air India A320 runway excursion in Jaipur

  • @ezrashonor
    @ezrashonor Год назад +6

    It is unfathomable to me that is customary to operate with no more fuel reserves than this. I rarely let my vehicle drop below 1/4 tank…and 90% of my travel is within 15 minutes of home around town.

    • @andymath1523
      @andymath1523 Год назад +1

      Cost of carrying extra fuel in car is negligible but carrying extra fuel/weight in this 737 significantly increases operating cost's in many ways

    • @ameybirulkar7503
      @ameybirulkar7503 Год назад +1

      Google maximum takeoff weight

    • @ezrashonor
      @ezrashonor Год назад +3

      I get there’s both weight and economics at play but I’d rather pay 20% more and know if I was flying from Newark to LaGuardia that there’s enough fuel on board to make Charlotte or Detroit if need be.

    • @andymath1523
      @andymath1523 Год назад

      @@ezrashonor Very true but people want cheap seats and the airlines are competing for business , I would rather have fuel for unforeseen problem like this , this captain took on extra and saved the day

  • @gumnaamaadmi007
    @gumnaamaadmi007 Год назад +1

    This was a good call from the pilots. Spicejet has had some good days but has since fallen on hard times. Hope it regains its past glory. Competition in the Indian domestic skies is ultimately good for the customers.

  • @eduline
    @eduline Год назад

    YES, please comment on the runway accident as well. Thank you for your videos!!

  • @mxkoifish6984
    @mxkoifish6984 Год назад +1

    Aw man for second I thought we we're getting a two-for-one special. I'd love to hear about the other accident!

  • @kindnessisking5500
    @kindnessisking5500 Год назад

    I have to be honest, I enjoy all your videos! That said you will NEVER catch me in a airplane! Keep up the good work!

  • @SyedMasoomMumeen
    @SyedMasoomMumeen Год назад +1

    The A320 that bottled the landing was flying from my hometown of Guwahati (GAU/VEGT), please make a video on it!

  • @nicobellic2465
    @nicobellic2465 Год назад +2

    Make the Jaipur crash one.

  • @mbvoelker8448
    @mbvoelker8448 Год назад +4

    Definitely the crashed plane in Jaipur too.
    One never really thinks about the effect of a crash on the other air traffic in the area.

  • @jtveg
    @jtveg 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻

  • @formulajuan6038
    @formulajuan6038 Год назад

    Good video
    Subscribed

  • @rudolf895
    @rudolf895 Год назад

    Amazing analysis

  • @nancyhamlin8426
    @nancyhamlin8426 Год назад +1

    Thank you for giving the distance in feet, also. 😘

  • @BlunderDownUnder
    @BlunderDownUnder Год назад +1

    Another +1 for a video on the A320 incident 👍

  • @SteamingCupofReason
    @SteamingCupofReason Год назад

    Yes... Would love a video on the crash prior to this incident.

  • @kenharbin3440
    @kenharbin3440 4 месяца назад

    Great job pilots!!!

  • @AJ-qv9yo
    @AJ-qv9yo Год назад +1

    Great report. I love your videos on 'minor' incidents. En par with other major youtube channels, but focusing on less known (but at least equally interesting) accidents.

  • @YoursNKR
    @YoursNKR Год назад

    Less than 5k views and 1k+ likes!! 👍
    You rock

  • @telescopebuilder
    @telescopebuilder Год назад +1

    Was it a CATIII precision approach or only visual on their second attempt at New Delhi? You mentioned an auto land at the previous airport but didn't mention it on the re-divert back to ND, unless I missed it. You did mention that ND requires qualified pilots as the airport is frequently CATI+ and did a great job explaining that.

  • @dimitarivanov3817
    @dimitarivanov3817 Год назад +2

    We would love to get a video on the crash just before the SpiceJet

  • @WideLoad405
    @WideLoad405 Год назад +1

    Definitely want to see a video on the other crash that made the go back to Delhi.

  • @forresttucker168
    @forresttucker168 Год назад

    Yea, bring it on...

  • @jjquinn2004
    @jjquinn2004 Год назад

    Nice video. I'm flying Spicejet from Pune to Goa in a few weeks. Maybe I'll drive instead.

  • @ills6
    @ills6 Год назад

    For sure do a video on that other crash, it'd be a great company to this video!

  • @aerotube7291
    @aerotube7291 Год назад

    Good luck was the main reason. Note. It was an incident, not an accident. Great video

  • @shantanusapru
    @shantanusapru Год назад

    Would absolutely love a video on the A320 crash!

  • @ryanfrisby7389
    @ryanfrisby7389 Год назад

    These pilots were amazing!😸

  • @ps2hacker
    @ps2hacker Год назад +1

    A reporter asked Niel Armstrong if he could take into space if he could take anything he wanted, and he said “I’d take more fuel”.

  • @quigglebert
    @quigglebert Год назад +1

    I'd like to see a video on combined accidents, can't imagine there's more than a few separate incidents occurring at the same time

  • @mozsab
    @mozsab Год назад

    Yes!! Do a video on the screwed up landing!

  • @achalbhoir1359
    @achalbhoir1359 Год назад

    4:47 yes we want video of that A320 accident too

  • @questionablebackyardmeows
    @questionablebackyardmeows Год назад

    Yes, I want a video on the other crash mentioned too!

  • @Baylow94
    @Baylow94 Год назад +1

    "Everything in that report could be a video of its own"
    Imma need that video too then
    Please and thank you!

  • @juliemanarin4127
    @juliemanarin4127 Год назад

    Yes please do that video!