Tech Fail or Human Error? American Airlines Flight 965 Vanished in Darkness! | Mayday: Air Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2024
- American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, faced a catastrophic runway error during its final approach to Cali, Colombia, just before Christmas in 1995. Delays in Miami and seasonal traffic contributed to a two-hour late departure. Incomplete communication with air traffic control, misinterpretation of instructions, and the crew's failure to retract speed brakes led the aircraft off course by over 10 miles, resulting in a critical navigational error and putting the flight on a dangerous path.
Can passengers really increase their chances of survival by choosing specific seats, according to the recommendations mentioned in the episode?
From Season 2 Episode 5 "Lost!": Singapore Airlines Flight 006,
Boeing 747
December 1995, it’s the holiday season and the skies are full. Airlines and passengers are dealing with the stresses of travelling at this busy time. American Airlines Flight 965 was held on the tarmac in Miami for two hours. The experienced pilots, wanting to make up for lost time, are pushing the state-of-the-art Boeing 757 to its limit.
As the plane prepares to descend into Cali Airport in Colombia an alarm sounds in the cockpit. They are heading straight for a mountain!
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I was living in Colombia 🇨🇴 and I remembered this showing on the local news and showing the little girl who survived as a miracle 😢
not much of a miracle for all the other people that died
@DeepFriedDave that's the point
So you think only people in Columbia saw this? It was world wide news.
If the Captain had been to the destination 6 days earlier, he would have known there was no radar. They were trying so hard to beat the clock, they didn’t pay proper attention.
This is why I think while the intentions are good, HOS rules cause problems.
No
While that's true (partly) you're really assuming. Maybe the trip 6 days earlier was in the day light hours when there's more visibility, and the radar wasn't really needed. Also the radar system was destroyed in 1992, so in the following 3 years the Columbian government made no attempt to fix or replace it. Not to mention the language barrier that led to the miscommunication between the tower and the crew.
It’s not the pilots fault. It was a crappy airport with radar systems down and unintelligent controllers from a third world country failing to communicate properly. Facts.
Ground radar has nothing to do with it. Pilots don't need it. They have cutting edge nav equipment and they should know where they are at all times.
The whole accident started from the delays that had put them behind and needed to save time for the next days departure and having this in their mind they accepted runway 19r and rushed. I think there should be pilots everywhere on standby for this events
Not enough pilots to go around.
Sure, that can certainly be done if you're willing to pay double for your airfare.
God bless the first responders and the survivors.
Circling to land at night is something pilots generally like to avoid.
Even the most modern navigation equipment is only as good as the humans and other machines they rely on for accurate calculations.
Especially in a mountainous South American destination. Circling at night sounds bad.
Can I circle and land in Uranus ?
Remember to NEVER take for granted the capabilities of your phone/device today, GA pilots use them like a real-time GPS rig now.
Agreed. Look how much info was gained during 911.
I have two phones with different carriers because I work in remote forest. My phone saved me when I had a spinal injury and stayed in my 4x4 truck two days with a major two foot blizzard starting. There was no cell signal so I texted and an ambulance was sent. My 4x4 truck was used to drive me out 1/4 of a mile to a road the ambulance could drive to. Phones can save your life and I always have a phone on me.
@@imfree62 Thank God that you are here with us today & the people that Made the cell phone that saved your life...
Blessings to you and your family always from Puerto Rico with lot's of love 🙏👍❤️
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@@imfree62is there a remote forest on Uranus ?
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One thing is the Air Controller should have told them he didn't have radar on them.
Exactly, in a lot of these episodes I’m noticing that bare minimum communication is exchanged between traffic controllers and pilots. It’s ridiculous, ESPECIALLY in such a situation when the radar has just been blown up by activists, like come on?! 50% of the job is proper communication.
Not true.
These are the findings. The flight crew were negligent.
The flight crew's failure to adequately plan and execute the approach to runway 19 at SKCL and their inadequate use of automation
Failure of the flight crew to discontinue the approach into Cali, despite numerous cues alerting them of the inadvisability of continuing the approach
The lack of situational awareness of the flight crew regarding vertical navigation, proximity to terrain, and the relative location of critical radio aids
Failure of the flight crew to revert to basic radio navigation at the time when the flight management system-assisted navigation became confusing and demanded an excessive workload in a critical phase of the flight
@@danieljohn589 the flight crew is definitely at fault, but not mentioning that they radar is down could have made a difference to their situation.
@@IWMIL I thought the flight crew were aware they could not be seen on radar?
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Thats right you always have to check and check again to make the flight as safe as possible
Very sad, but excellent coverage.
this is the same video and again, I think this is on the capt. he was too nonchalant when they began descending.
A calamity of errors that clash with a seasoned pilot expectations of what should be happening. Unraveling the problem in its entirety was not necessary. When the ground alert came they attempted to start over and forgot they were in a descent sequence.
Amazing What can happen, while hindsight makes The solution seem obvious. Release those air brakes and start over.
Surprised the warning system wasn't more comprehensive to indicate the restriction of the air brakes on performance and the pilots input, to resolve the ground alert it sent out in the first place.
I'm no pilot but why continue to lose altitude when you know that you are lost?! 🤔
Mercedes thank God you survived that crash I'm so sorry my condolences to your family and everyone on their may God continue blessing you and keeping you safe you're so beautiful God bless you dear❤ your best friend forever❤
Yes, she is a nice person. I have chatted with her on Facebook. She will answer you.
Why do I continue watching these videos. There have been cases when one simple but huge error brings down an airliner. Like the mechanic who didn't assemble a tiny cotter pin that ended in disaster.
Unfortunately it sounds like the captain was very negligent
Airport without a radar should not have been operating, especially surrounded by mountains. Pilots don't see in pitch black darkness. Note: If the airport's radar had been functioning, they would know the altitude of the aircraft to inform them of the danger.
My first time to fly was a family Thanksgiving holiday trip to Acapulco, MX-GRO, in 1969. Houston, TX to Mexico City, on Continental. Boarded Aeronavis de Mexico then on to destination. This was a much smaller aircraft and landing in Acapulco felt like some kind of Rodeo stunt. If I said it was a wild approach, that would be an understatement. My next flying experience was the following summer. I was 13 and flew to spend a month at a friend's home who had moved away. It was from Houston, TX on Delta to Louisville, KY with a stop in Atlanta, GA. This time I was unescorted and it was all quite thrilling. I was hooked and have flown on commercial airlines since those days as often as I could. That is until I began binge-watching Mayday and Mentor Pilot and a few others. I am certain that I will never be able to fly again, ever. Certain.
It's possible that the industry may survive without your patronage
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg I’m counting on it. Not a lot compares to flying to far flung destinations.
A plane could crash every hour and it would still be extremely safe given the volume of flights.
Incredible bravery of these disaster recreation actor's, so few survive filming
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when i saw the thumbnail i thought it was thanos for a second…
jokes aside, rest in peace everyone who died in that flight.
whats thermos
If these were two "good" pilots I hate to see how two mediocre ones would've handled the situation. You're only as good as actions.
I’m now referring Season 2 of Mayday: Air Disaster as “The Uncensored Season.” Because they don’t censor out swear words in this season unlike other seasons. Or at least in the newer seasons, they cut it out.
The little boy suspended into the trees and later died 🙁
I wasn’t surprised by that - he had to have smashed his little torso awfully hard. It is terribly sad. Any loss of life, especially at a young age is so difficult to understand and accept.
@@Trapper_Creek_2024it was just really sad that the father knew his son survived the initial impact giving him hope, and then him dying in the hospital, is kinda heartbreaking. No doubt that boy was definitely a fighter.
The father searched for his boy but never bothered to ask where he was.
Terrain awareness is the bread and butter for a pilot.If no radar, never go below MSA at night
A dog, seated in a crate in the cargo bay was also among the survivors.
Taking off at night is an iffy thing, landing at night can bring your stress levels as a pilot up more than several notches because conditions can get even more dangerous without realizing it at the drop of a hat.
Yup crazy how these planes are pretty much flying blind especially when out over open ocean.
@@Thegaoat Reminds me of the old steamships going full speed in fog, ice fields etc.. with no radar. Nerve wracking.
Ramírez is my ex brother in law's cousin, he lost his uncle & anty .😢🙏
When the crew does not pay attention to what they're doing, bad things will happen.
Bottom line , RADAR is a necessity. 👍
And more importantly a captain with patience.
When the computer show the list of waypoints starting with R, why didn't it show the entire names of the waypoints? That's a terrible user interface. A better UI would be to show a map with waypoints on it that the captain can select easily. And once entered, a voice should read out what was just entered so the copilot can hear it.
American Airlines mentioned what you mentioned in a lawsuit and as a result, Honeywell made a design change.
Thanks GOD
Thanks for ur video
GOD BLESS everyone
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Crazy that an International airport like Cali with all of the mountainous terrain around it continued operations without a functioning radar. It’s one thing for a small private airport to not have one but not a big international airport.
This is one of my biggest fears. Only thing worse is if there would have been an alligator on the loose at the same time. Can you imagine? Alligator plane crash?! Worst thing ever
It happened
If the radar was in place the controller must had seen the plane and advised to pilots the whole mess
Im curious if a pilot out there can answer this question for me. What i find interesting is in every single case where an airplane crashes into a mountain as soon as the ground proximity warning alarm goes off the pilots instinctively pull the nose of the plane up to try to clear the mountain and in every single case, they never make it. Which is not surprising. If you have a mountain thats 13-18 thousand feet tall and you are flying at around 8-9 thousand feet, as soon as the proximity warning goes off (and im not sure how far from the ground the warning alarm is engaged 1,000 feet a mile 5,500 feet), but assuming you are moving at around 400 miles an hour, and say you have a mile untill impact, no way can you climb 4-9 thousand feet in elevation in that short time. Wouldn't it make sence as you climb to start banking sharply right or left basically to sharply turn around as you are climbing, or forget climbing just bank as hard as you can into a turn. Cause the mountain is gradually stepping up in elevation, and despite being gradual that climb can go on for several miles untill the peak. So it makes more sence to me to sharply bank either left or right and try to turn into an opposite direction. Yet i have not seen a single plane try that maneuver, instead they always pitch up, with catastrophic results case after case.
It depends on a lot of things. If it was one solo mountain in the middle of the plains, sure, might work to just turn a bit. But mountains often are part of a range, and you may not have a clear handle on where they all are.
Another thing to note, these crashes often happen while the plane is doing a landing approach, which means their speed is reduced and so too is their ability to turn sharply.
The reason you keep the wings level is to make sure the wings produce MAXIMUM lift to clear the terrain.
The terrain escape maneuver is designed to be generically applicable. In this case they had no idea where they were so for all they know turning right would be another mountain. Gaining altitude is guaranteed to be the right direction - they weren’t able to conclusively determine but in this case they believe if they’d retracted the speed brakes the plane would have cleared the mountain. You do also have to be aware that this maneuver has worked in many cases that didn’t generate an episode because they were all fine. Mentour pilot covers many of these less severe incidents where pilots recovered properly.
Can't say as a pilot, but I can say this is probably an instance of reverse survivor bias which is a bit a statistical observation based on a biased sample based on survivors or in the reverse case non-survivors. In this case, we concentrate on the failures, not on the successes. As such, it may well be that typically pulling straight up is generally more successful a strategy, and thus doesn't attract nearly the attention, even if it isn't always successful.
Well if Donny R Williams had retracted the Speed Brakes inn less than Oné second, tháý wooda cleared thé Mountáin withé Rhoom tõ Śpãrê ¡¡¡¡¡
This channel and @mentourpilot are great channels!
One thing i see wrong they were thinking more about the next day then they were thinking about current situation and that's deadly
The poor and confusingly engineered guidance systems had a large contribution to this crash. Boeing has a long history of creating poorly designed systems. Boeing also has a long history of blaming the failure of their confusing and dangerous systems on pilots. This accident was partly caused by the pilots. Many Boeing accidents are completely due to poor engineering, management, and quality control. The single non-redundant sensor and computer program that crashes the 737 Max is an example of why Boeing needs to be closed until new management and engineers can completely redesign all their dangerous planes.
Ngl I thought it was thanos in the thumbnail
What be thermos ¿¿¿¿
same 😂
Yupp 😂
Murrikân Airé lines briefed there pilots with the following message BEFORÉ the Crashé
"Flights into Latin America can be more challenging and far more dangerous than domestic flying or the highly structured North Atlantic/European operation. Some Latin American destinations have multiple hazards to air operations, and ATC facilities may provide little assistance in avoiding them.
Enroute and terminal radar coverage may be limited or non-existent. Mountains, larger and more extensive than anything you've probably ever seen, will loom up around you during descent and approach, and during departure. Communications, navigation, weather problems, and an Air Traffic Control philosophy peculiar to Latin America may conspire with disastrous consequences.
There are many hazards in this environment, but the greatest danger is pilot complacency. From 1979 through 1989, 44 major accidents involving large commercial aircraft occurred in South America. Of these 44 accidents, 34 were attributable to pilot error, or were pilot-preventable with proper situational awareness
Looks more like the pilots are negligent, if you dont know where you are, in pitch darkness, fly way up ... get some sense of location, then descent to airport.. tragic
i thought 9/11 haunted me more, this changes everything...
Anything with American Airlines is possible.
1:12 ...we knew that something imminent was around the corner.
Yes indeed that's what that usually means
This kind of accident was not the first time. recalled Eastern Air Line Flight 401
shocking miscommunication lack knowing where they were
Scary!! I am actually afraid of flying because it is unnatural but I do it,, it cannot be helped,,,, I cannot help but think when I am 30,000ft above the ground that everything has to be working correctly Mechanically and of course in this case Mentally as well !! I just pray i will never ever have to experience the terror of being on an aircraft that has some kinda weird issue or again in this case everything was fine so how do you know it is so uncertain😵💫
No radar was the main issue, however how about grandpa entering only R in the system and without having found Tulua assuming the top one was the correct without double checking?
Ingrained bad habits. Confirming the selection with only partial lettering always selects the closest waypoint. 999/1000 that's where you wanna go. So it had become habit for him to just hit enter and he didn't look at the screen.
And no, radar (or lack thereof) wasn't the issue here. Pilots can and are expected to be able to land without any controllers whatsoever, never mind the luxury of radar. At the very latest, when they realised they were off-course, the captain should have immediately aborted the approach and climb to 15, then taken his time to get his bearings. He knew he was in mountainous terrain, he was in bad visibility and he had minimal ATC support. He knew all this and made really, really dumb decisions. The decision to play fast and loose with the proper approach path in bad visibility in the first place was an idiotic decision.
The man was dangerously complacent and seemed entirely ignorant of the fact he was in a dangerous situation when all his training should have been telling him to ABORT ABORT ABORT.
I know this is kind of random but Mercedes voice sounds exactly like Michelle Obama’s and it’s so lovely!!!!!!!!! My heart goes out to her and all of the loved ones of those who were lost that night. 🙏🏼❤️
The pilots need to fly a plane instead of depending all of it on the tech.
You need to become a pilot. You could obviously have done a muuuuch better job than these experienced pilots
@@kevinjypiter6445 Oh, yeah! The experienced pilots who flew their plane into a mountain. So much better to fly into a mountain by experienced pilots.
@@kevinjypiter6445 I've got family in the business. They'll tell you the exact same thing. Heck, anyone with a driver's license will tell you the same thing. If you do not control the vehicle, if you do not make sure your vehicle isn't going to hit something, nothing else really matters.
They do fly but ok
and why allowed airliners to land when the Radar is out
Oh no not the same episode again
God bless the survivors
Damn
What happened to the FTC? This story made it sound like he was partially at fault for using the wrong words. Not to mention the lack of visibility of the plane.
You mean FAA?
@@dablackdon They meant the Traffic Controller.
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He blamed the radar in broken English and kept his job.
ATC (Air Traffic Control), not FTC (Federal Trade Commision, in the US at least).
I really hated this one. Such a messup.
A simple push of a button was a fatal mistake by the pilots. All they needed to do was make sure the waypoint they were looking for was going to take them to where they needed to go and they failed to do that…. Unbelievable…
How come these productions always show the passenger cabin lights failing and then coming back on repeatedly, if the aircraft is put into a sudden dramatic change in attitude while the engines are taking to TOGO power? Dramatic effect cause I doubt the generators are stalling or any buss power is being switched for another.
The dramatic effect is correct.
Main bus B Undéř-VõŁtê ¿¿¿¿
Yikes!
Another re run who would’ve guessed…
Why did it take that long for the GPWS to kick in? It's specifically meant to avoid this
it kicked inn straight away, the Advent of EGPWS solved thiss Latér
19:22 "And pushes the execute button". Well there's your problem....
they put the wrong info, that's why it was off course
also why fly into an area that is under war?.... we should block all flights to Columbia
HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY END THE GAME AFTER I WAS ASLEEP
Only take off, fly and land in daylight. Check. Sit by the wing. Check. Buy a lot of life insurance. Check. Pray. Check. Pray continuously. Check.
And don’t go to countries that have insurgents blowing up the radar. Big check.
Don't forget no airports in mountains!
I don't understand: they set the autopilot to BOGOTA by mistake (instead of to Rozo and Cali)
If the autopilot is flying to Bogotà, why would it not fly at higher altitude?? If it is going to Bogota, it would fly much higher because the route to Bogota from where they were, was going through high mountain ranges ...
So that part doesn't make sense to me....if it was on autopilot, the autopilot wouldn't lower altitude and begin to land in the middle of a mountain range
The FMC will only work if you tell it to do specifics. When the capt. set the waypoint to the R beacon in Bogota, it only accounts for lateral navigation, not vertical navigation. The FMC is programmed to fly altitudes at constraints unless specified by the pilots that they want to do open climb/descent. Partial operation of the autopilot is common. In this case it would have been seen as normal and unsuspecting to the pilots as they were unaware that they were flying to a waypoint that was not ROZO.
Therefore, the MCP (mode control panel) should have been set to the altitude that they were cleared to by the controllers and that is what the plane will fly at unless it is changed. The FMC will not fly lower/higher unless it is specified on the MCP. In short, waypoints/beacons only account for lateral navigation and vertical navigation is calculated/dictated.
What happened to the match up did it happen?
NO Wrong Maps und RADAR
They were lost in the problem nobody was flying the plane.
I thought the thumbnail was Thanos for a second. The lights made his face purple
I came here to find that I wasn't alone 😂
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when they said that insurgents blew up the radar at the Airport American Airlines should've made a decision at hearing that news that until the radar has been repaired or the threat of other insurgents has been addressed, no American Airliner will fly over, to or land at that Columbia Airport. i get that the crash wasn't due to insurgents but any threat to passengers should be addressed and had the insurgents not blew up the radar then maybe traffic control would've been able to guide them better. given how dangerous that Airport is to land at and with it closed off on all surroundings my Mountains, big Airliners shouldn't be allowed to land there.
There are about 20,000 airports in the U.S., most of them private landing strips. About 5,000 are public, of these about 500 have control towers, and of these only about 150 have radar. Hope this may answer your comment. Now if we go back in time 28 years ... take a guess how many more did not have radar.
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Ya but they are not flying over huge mountain ranges without radar
They mention the radar since it was good up to the final approach to the airport. It played no mayor role whatsoever in this accident due to two mountain ranges blocking radar signal. As we all know today, it was the captain and jeppensen at fault.
if two mountain ranges blokked the signal then thay woodunt have put it their inn the First Plaicê ¡¡¡¡
American Airlines Flight 965 has crashed into the mountain in Columbia
OMG é WUTT Happenud ¿¿¿¿
@@MeaHeaR you telling me
No ASSking Wut Happenud to you
@@Sahilprakash1999 No I be Ass-king You ☝🏿
@@Sahilprakash1999no I Ass-king You
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There was alot of miss communication
Hi
i thought that was thanos in the thumbnail
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NO That was elizabeth homes company not aa
No matter how much good flying they had done before, this was bad flying...and they didn't even know it. =PC=
I'm so tired of RERUNS! You need new material.
they actually have more episodes, but they are paid
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46:41 dang
I can't believe the F word was used on an educational TV program about flight accidents.
Direct to Cali, report tulua doesn't make sense. Shld hv been Clear to Cali report Tulua.
Yes that was the start ov the error you are 100% Correkt
Idk about anyone else but I'd get off the plane the second the narrator started talking.
This reminds me of truck drivers trying to make up time in an extremely heavy vehicle and end up wrecking out and killing people.
All to avoid being late.
Remember: Better late than never.
There's good reasons why people say that.
👍 approved
Someday they'll have flight monitors, not pilots. Just watch the plane fly itself, intervene if and when necessary. I'm not for this I just feel like that's the way the industry will eventually be headed. Most these mistakes are human or sabatoged by humans.
almost always false back on the pilots..... they are part of the puzzle
look at the computer data... like way points..... it always falls on the pilots 75% of the time
How do they reconstruct this, someone tell me 😮
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@@MeaHeaR thank you
Michelle “thanks god so much”.
The real problem was that the controller was Louie C.K.
yay top 420 and top 35 likes and comments. love this channel. best to all. thanks for making this video.
Colombia was seriously out of date third world? . If colombia had to technology they may have helped reroute the plane to the correct path. How can you have air traffic control with no radar ? Then the rescue team had no night vision to go out at night ?!!!
Why can't the air traffic controller speak good english...he is the reason for the crush, i can't hear him myself..Help would have come from US, it would have been faster than the 8 hours.
11:33 savage
It starts by narrating what exactly happened in the end. Why? To turn it into a show? This was a tragedy and a documentary about it, not entertainment.
I think the captain didn't know how to pilot the plane
To get into a flying rail car is to place your life in danger. I know flying is more safe than motoring but I like to hear the sound of wheels on terra ferma. Airborne (14 times) but now I either drive a Ford or go Greyhound.
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Wth is Thanos doing in the thumbnail?
Och! That hurt! The plane bruised & broke its nose. Its colorful paint was scratched. Its metal skin was bent & warped.
Cause was CFIT
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Yup a reupload again and again
Why they didn't turn back
Complacent pilots.
They got so caught up in trying to arrive at the destination in time to beat a deadline that they didn't realize they were flying hideously off-course; by the time they figured it out, it was too late.
Captans error..