Pilots Try To Reach An Airport With No Fuel | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- The pilot notices a low oil temperature and high oil pressure on one engine, but does not realise that a fuel leak is the cause. Finally, after an hour of flight, he understands - the race against time to reach an airport has just begun.
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Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 1 Episode 6 "Flying on Empty": On January 21, 2000, Alaska Airlines Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer Bill Tansky prepare for a routine flight to San Francisco, unaware of a crucial weakness in the plane’s structure.
Thompson, 53, and Tansky, 57, are among Alaska’s most experienced pilots. Shortly after takeoff they discover a serious problem on the aircraft’s tail. The stabiliser, the horizontal surface on the tailplane, won’t move.
The stabiliser plays a vital part in controlling the angle of the plane in flight. The pilots struggle to keep the plane level. The stabiliser in the tail is jammed, pushing the aircraft toward the ground. To compensate, they have to pull back on the control column. The plane is unstable. The pilots request to divert from San Francisco to the nearer airport in Los Angeles. They try again to free up the jammed stabiliser. The plane shudders violently and dives 7000 feet in one minute at a 90-degree angle as the pilots fight hard at the controls.
After the terrifying plunge downward, Alaska 261 has a reprieve. But aware that they have a full emergency, the pilots request to be routed out over the ocean. If the worst happens, they don’t want to kill people on the ground as well as the plane. The plane plunges out of control again, upside-down and tumbling, the pilots continue to try to control the plane as it crashes into the ocean.
The wreckage is recovered. For the NTSB investigators, the stabiliser assembly holds the key. The jackscrew that moves the stabiliser up and down is found separated from its housing and without any grease on it. The investigators discover that the lack of grease on the jackscrew caused it to jam, leading to the plane crash.
Whistleblower John Liotine, an Alaska Airilnes lead mechanic, had criticised declining safety standards. When the NTSB investigators compare Liotine’s notes to the records kept by Air Alaska, they uncover the full extent of the maintenance errors. It turns out that Liotine had worked on this plane and had recommended that the jackscrew be replaced 15 months earlier. It never was.
The investigation exposes deeply worrying shortcomings in maintenance and regulation that afflict the airline industry. It shows how a series of devastating errors combined to produce a tragic accident - one that could happen again.
Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget.
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one of the best i've ever watched....i think i like the no anouncers better or just as good...great episode!
Felt like you were there doesn't it. You can experience what they went thru instead of being told
How people endure terror like that and survive with their minds intact… I don’t know if I could be so strong.
And cue the complaints about the repetition
Keep giving us the without narritor versions!!
I enjoyed this but it did have me very worried. Thank God they all made it safely ❤.
This episode is at least 20 years old. How about some new ones?
they have newer ones (up to s17) but it's not available to watch outside of the US
Why is there no narration?
My thoughts exactly
Artistic choice of the writers/director, likely. Maybe wanted to make this particular episode really stand out.
Its copyright material
@@ChaosMagnetthere is a narration just not on this video I’ve seen this one before and there is narration.
To avoid copyright
How scary is that!
I think this might've been the second or third accident caused by a tank leaking without being noticed. Shouldn't the procedure be changed? Maybe if one tank is draining faster than the other by a certain amount it's forbidden to crossfeed.
Everyone hailed this captain for safely landing the plane and saving everyone but it was his stupidity and lack of common sense that put them in the situation. I mean how ridiculous to connect the feed from the good tank to the leaking tank and then slowly watch that tank empty out as well. It’s the single dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. What a complete idot
Kudos to those pilot's
great story with a miraculous outcome.. narration would have made it even sweeter
Hope to see a new episode in 2024. Maybe something about the recent Airbus A350-900 incident in Japan?
Gotta wait for the final report
Where is the narrator?
I wonder why no narration.This is a recent version.I have seen an excellent sound version
This re-enactment makes it sounds like they HOPED things would be all right. They should have been thinking more about WHAT IF things are wrong. Ie. about a safest option. The fuel check AFTER 30 west suggested a fuel leak, and I would have not recommended opening the cross feed valve and retriming bu moving fuel into the center trim tank. I have dealt with twin engine boats with twin fuel tanks - not quite the same thing, but run out of fuel on one, you quickly run out on the other, but keeping the crossfeed closed might let one engine quit, you still have the other AND THE FUEL in the other tank. Yes, I know the warnings are contradictory, but think 'safety' rather than 'bad sensors'. On boats, at least, you can go look to see.
Everyone hailed this captain for safely landing the plane and saving everyone but it was his stupidity and lack of common sense that put them in the situation. I mean how ridiculous to connect the feed from the good tank to the leaking tank and then slowly watch that tank empty out as well. It’s the single dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. What a complete idot
Prefer it without the narrators, much better, they can seem a distraction at times
This is a re-upload
And a messed up re-upload. The audio track is messed up.
That one Air Transat representative who was interviewed outdoors really did not come across well. He acted like he was trying to somehow justify the errors made by their maintenance workers, denying his company’s culpability straight from his heart.
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Still want a narrator. But it's been good
The quality of the video is not very good. Its shakey and audio is not very good as well. The story is a great survival story though.
not to mention the description is about a completely different accident.
Sorry, but all Curious?: does is recycle old material and sell it as new.
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Yeah this pilot was an eegit. Everyone hailed this captain for safely landing the plane and saving everyone but it was his stupidity and lack of common sense that put them in the situation. I mean how ridiculous to connect the feed from the good tank to the leaking tank and then slowly watch that tank empty out as well. It’s the single dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. What a complete idot
Normally i don't like drama but this is painfully slow.... Boring