If you read up on the accident, there were like a dozen things which if they'd been done slightly differently, there wouldn't have been an accident. Off the top of my head: - Only one controller was working, and was overburdened - Tower's collision warning system was turned off for maintenance, without informing the controller - Controller was distracted for a long time by a problem with another flight. - Both BAL 2937 and DHL 611 requested flight level 360. Controller granted it, probably due to the above distraction. - Controller mistakenly told BAL that DHL was on their right, when it was on their left - Controller realized the danger shortly before the collision and told BAL to descend to try to resolve it. A few seconds later, TCAS advised DHL to dive and BAL to climb. You're supposed to obey TCAS if the controller's instructions conflict. But TCAS was new and not everyone fully understood it. So BAL obeyed the controller, resulting in both planes diving. - DHL initially didn't take the TCAS warning that seriously, and performed a moderate dive instead of the recommended steep dive. They didn't increase their dive rate until 2 seconds before the collision, by which time it was too late. Just a really sad accident in all. So many little things could have prevented it.
@@cnplaza6737 Another strange and sad and heartbreaking event.. the school children from Russia were brought to the wrong airport the day before by the trip’s charter company.... they waited and finally got this flight for the next day.. they were never meant to be on that flight. 😪
@@cnplaza6737 The phones were also down, which made it impossible for another ATC in another tower, who did have working equipment and thus saw the danger, to warn Nielsen. So many little problems which aligned perfectly to lead to this disaster...
"Im so sorry. Were going to crash" Last words were spent on the lives of his passengers...not family, not himself. Just his passengers and his remorse. Heavy shit.
I don't think that's what was said.... I could be wrong but researching it it looks like that was the tower and another aircraft communicating, hence the muffled nature.
@@clarenceghammjr1326 Pretty sure most of the errors with Boeing's are human error, like not being inspected properly or something, I could be wrong though all I did was look it up on Google, I'm no expert
No joke, I was at Midway in the mid 2000s and they used to have these CNN Airport Network monitors at all the gates. I guess someone at Southwest wanted to tune in a soap opera, so anyway, it was feeding live from a local transmitter. Anyway, coverage was interrupted to announce breaking news of a plane crash. That was on every monitor through the entire airport. I swear, you can't make up stuff like this. I was there and never before did I wish so much that I hadn't left my camera behind.
As for the Uberlingen - I personally saw the DHL aircraft that day and had a brief radio conversation with the pilots. They were #1 for departure out of Bahrain, in the hammerhead, when I landed there. They complimented my landing right on tower frequency. I remember them saying “Awww Reach, that was beautiful” right as I touched my C-5 down. We exchanged brief pleasantries. They said they were going to Italy and then Belgium. We then wished each other well. The tower controller casually let us finish our brief chit chat before clearing them for takeoff. To this day, having over 15,000 flight hours of combined military and civilian aviation, I have never had a conversation with another aircraft on an operational ATC frequency the way that I did that day! We left Bahrain, flew to Germany, and were all shocked to hear the news of what had happened after landing there.
@@joshthomson3948 I sure was! I had two “small world” things happen to me in 2002 that just about left me keeled over in shock. This was one of them. But the other one was non-aviation related and was even more stunning than this - so much so that as I look back at it, I can still hardly believe it myself (it had to do with the DC sniper killings). No idea why 2002 was my year of small-world stuff.
That one was a bad one... the plane had actually landed but for whatever reason they didn't apply enough brakes, and they were running out of runway quick so the Captain attempted a Go Around but wasn't able to build up enough speed before the runway ran out and one of the wings clipped a wire tower, which caused plane to flip and crash. That's why you can hear an audible gasp from everyone. The sad thing is if they had just continued braking and overan the runway a little bit, they probably would have got bumped around a little and the plane a little beat up, but they would have all survived.
@@stephenmystery8313not at all, retrying a landing is actually rather common. In fact, you can even hear pilots in this video refer to “going around” (TOGA as it’s called).
Scariest thing about a plane crash is knowing that death will probably not come unexpectedly and you'll have to sit there as the plane falls for seconds or even minutes and think about how you are certainly about to die.
That's the thing. When people say flying is very safe they're 100% correct but if you're unlucky enough to be in a plane crash from altitude it has to be the absolute worst way to die
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
When I was a pilot for Delta, they used to replicate that microburst for us in the sim from the L1011 crash in Dallas. The technology has improved exponentially since the crash, but that scenario is still a handful even with the new equipment.
I took a class back in the 90s about management teams & Delta 191 (Dallas) & United 232 (Souix City) were discussed on teamwork & responsibility. *I REMEMBER THE "REQUIRED" WEATHER OBSERVER AT DFW TO HAVE AN "OPEN" ATC OPERATIONS WAS AT DINNER* during the time Delta 191's approach & that ATC missed calling the wind shear warnings.
@@user-qj6fk9px8l This is what I know from the pilot side. The technology is way better than it was when DAL 191 crashed. However, that windshear was a monster and came out of the blue. No telling if they would have survived had the current technology been onboard. Here’s what I will tell you. I ALWAYS trusted the technology we had after I experienced the scenario in the sim, and it also worked on the ground. I witnessed a windshear warning prior to takeoff in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina once the storm had passed but the feeder bands were still around. Other airplanes were going around and the windshear warning was painting it. Many of us are alive today because of the newer technology, but awareness has also been key.
Wasn’t this crash investigation also instrumental in the implementation of Doppler systems at all major airports? For wind shear and severe weather detection?
@@user-rb3es1rp4s I do not recall, but likely so. I was a USAF pilot when this happened and was not flying into commercial fields much. There were different standards for the military and commercial fields back then but they are probably the same now.
Yes, it was. At the busier airports, TDWR replaced the old LLWAS. TDWR (doppler radar) is superior to the old LLWAS. LLWAS was just wind anometers set around the airport perimeter; not nearly as good as a doppler scanning the airport arrival and departure corridors. I was a controller for a long time and used both systems. TDWR was one piece of equipment that the FAA got its money's worth. It was accurate and gave warning in plenty of time. When I issued a TDWR microburst alert, pilots knew it was the real deal and treated it accordingly. The old LLWAS was a crap shoot, at best.
@@jon590the co pilot was literally telling him "get it up Charlie" while the captain was losing his mind. I'm not going to sit here and judge the captain though because nobody knows how they'd react in that situation
I have seen the ACI episode Regarding the mid air collision over Uberlingen. This is the very first time that I’ve heard the cockpit voice recorder. I can’t help but send my heart out to the Russians. They were alive all the way until they hit the ground. All the children who died. And of course, I cannot forget the heroics of the DHL crew. They fought to keep their airplane airborne for as long as they could. The number of lives they saved on the ground because they fought back.
I recently watched that episode of ACI, and I've seen it quite a few times and yet, I learned of a detail that I had somehow missed: The children were not even supposed to be on that particular flight. Because 2 days before, the tour group accidentally took them to the wrong airport and missed their original flight. If the tour group had not made that mistake, they would have made their original flight, and they would likely still be alive today.
And all that because of the dumb aviation bueraucrats who could't decide whose orders take priority - tcas or controller's. Despite a near miss in Japan months before that
i had no idea the CVR for the überlingen disaster was even publicly released. that's actually probably the most disturbing CVR i think i've heard. you have to realise that after impact, the russian plane's nose (and cockpit) was severed from the rest of the aircraft as the wreckage plummeted to the ground. the whooshing sound is the open air behind the pilots. the passengers - CHILDREN - were torn from their seats and launched into the sky, freefalling. the grunts and groans coming from the CVR are the pilots either struggling to breathe the thin air of high altitudes, or struggling to deal with the insane G forces they were experiencing, or both at once.
Delta 191 is rather infamous in aviation history. Other than the hint of lightning in the recording, you don't get a clear idea as to what happened, but they flew into a microburst that essentially pushed the plane into the ground. It was thanks to this flight that windshear alerts became a thing.
The air traffic controller who was on duty for the 2nd crash, was stabbed to death a couple of years later in front of his wife and kids by a Russian citizen whose 2 kids died in the collision. The murderer served less than 4 years in prison and was released back home to Russia where he was hailed as a hero and given medals.
man these are brutal. for a while it seemed like the full recordings were never going to be available to the public and I wish it stayed that way! You aren't just hearing fear and a quick death in a lot of these...some of them are the cockpit breaking apart and crushing the pilots while still alive. Rest in peace aviators
@@LSR1980Can you please be a bit more sensitive? Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine that you are piloting a plane that you know is going to end your, and hundreds of passengers life in a matter of seconds, and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do. It is the worst nightmare of any pilot. So get your insensitive ass out of this comment section if you can’t have the maturity of a 13-year-old.
We hail the ones that keep their cool in such a moment, but damn, I sympathize with the first guy shrieking his lungs out. I can totally see myself going through the strict training to become a pilot and still reacting like that facing the end. Rest in piece man.
The fact that everyone on DHL plane were still alive trying to recover, and half of the Tupolev including the pilots were alive as well, suffocating and maybe in pain because of eardrum damage, but very aware they were done. So creepy.
@@BenHuynh-us4stthe text says indi gulf 88 but I have no idea what that is. The actual flight is East Coast Jets 81. It was a private jet that crashed during a failed go-around as they overshot the runway. They made the decision to do the go-around too late and there was not enough time to get in the air.
I remember reading about Delta 191. Downed by a microburst, a weather phenomenon that was unknown at the time. Might as well have been a ghost to them.
I guess as a passenger you are hopefully unaware of your impending doom, in some cases anyway. All the better you’re not hearing the gpws and other warnings telling you death isn’t far way.
I remember the first one well. My Mom worked for the Pilot Charles Gilbert and his wife Helen. My parents were worried it was him when the story broke. I remember my Mom crying on the phone when Helen called her.
I trained as an ATC but all of my jobs were as a ground controller. I did have to learn the correct procedures for when there is an emergency, a Mayday or a Pan Pan Pan or anything of that nature. Glad I never had to deal with something as horrendous as these calls. I had a couple of small fires and once a crew member just died in his seat. The captain was very professional about it but by the time we got them off the runway and back to the gate he was hysterical.
Wait. In the second one, after collision, the one on the right is split in half. We can hear the wind as it’s crashing. That is effing terrifying. Omg.
The second to last one is East Coast Jet Flight 81. Still though this one is so horrifying to me even with how preventable it was. “Flaps…FUCK’ captain knew he screwed up bad. I can’t imagine being on a jet that small and hearing your captain saying “it’s not motherfucking flying!” RIP
I have so much respect for that last pilot. I always wondered if pilots warned passengers. I’d want to know. I expect the captain to say something during turbulence so i cant even fathom falling outta the sky & the pilot is silent.
Rest in peace to Northwest flight 255, ive learned a lot about it the wreck is hidden behind the bushes of the hill it smashed into, the bushes also block it when you try to get on I 94, its a terrible wreck, it shocked michigan, its the only type of commercial airliner that crashed in michigan, the place where it now rests is in taylor or allen park off I 94, you can still see the airport that it took off from on I 94, it still scars michigan about the crash, most people near the crash sight probably remember this incident, may those rest in peace, may that 1 survivor be ok from this crash.
The sole survivor was a 4 year old girl at the time of the crash named Cecelia Cichan. She did an interview last year on the 35th anniversary of the crash and also a documentary about 9 years prior called "Sole Survivor". Despite losing her mother, father, and brother in the crash, she seems surprisingly well adjusted. She was raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who shielded her from the media throughout her childhood until she was an adult. She says she stayed in touch with many of the families of the victims, including maintaining a close friendship with the firefighter that found and rescued her. He's a captain now in the same department and even attended her wedding.
That last crash happened when I was 10 years old in 1987. The soul survivor was 4 years old. Cecelia Cichan. Not sure if that is still her name as she has married and living life away from media attention the last I knew. They found her in her mother's arms.
She is married with a child now. What I find wonderful is that the person who took her to the hospital attended her wedding. In my opinion that shows how much her survival meant to him. ❤
I live in the area of the second crash.My grandfather(RIP) toled me once that his friend was a firefighter when the crash above Überlingen happend that he had to collect debris from the planes.Thei also had to lock out for body's which were later transported into a cave somewhere near here for later reconisation.RIP for al involved🫡😞😔
i have a question on how the BAL tu154 had the voice recorder continue working after the plane was split in 2, and if it did there should have been no noise at all as the only mics are in the cockpit while its in the tail
Black box recordings have their own battery packs which means they can still work even after the cockpit is separated from the aircraft or the electrical power is cut
Your answer has no bearing on the statement originally posted. The issue is the physical separation of the cockpit mic connection from the cvr. If there’s no connection between the cvr and microphones then the cvr couldn’t have recorded anything. The power or battery back up for the cvr is irrelevant.
My Dad, best friend & I were working in Dallas. We took my friend to DFW to put him on a plane because his grandfather died. My Dad & I had just left the airport when Delta 191 crashed. It was so violent it picked our truck up & slammed it down hard enough to break the transmission in half. Horrible weather & HORRIBLE sight.
I would add the 1987 Las Kabacki crash in Poland, it was caused by faulty design of Soviet plane, the pilot's last words were just "Cześć, giniemy" (Bye, we're dying).
Hardly anyone flies near garden variety thunderstorms anymore. Let alone monsters like the one that spawned that microburst. Pilots know a LOT more about their genesis than we did back then. And we practice flying in them in the SIM. Your drive to the airport will be the most dangerous thing you do that day.
How do they even understand each other with so much noise over the radios? I understand basically nothing they say over the comms in this kind of video.
Communication between ATC and pilots basically rely on standard phraseology and expected instructions. It's easier to make something out of what's being said when you know what to expect, although it can take some practice. Experience also helps.
All 3 pilots actually survived the Martinair 495 flight (3:15), 56 of the 340 occupants sadly died however link to the wiki if anyone wants it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinair_Flight_495
Fun fact: Delta 191 is *NOT* a dc 10 it’s a lockheed L1011 tristar Edit: according to Wikipedia flight 191 is a dc 10-10 but in the cvr the gwps pull up is a Lockheed L1011 tristar so which plane is it? Edit 2: there is 2 191 incidents: Delta flight 191 and American flight 191 so my bad ignore the edit 1
The captions are 100% wrong for Northwest 255. Never in any of the recordings nor the transcripts does the pilot actually say "I'm so sorry we're about to crash". I didn't bother to check the others but there's a history of people purposely putting incorrect captions on these to make the vids more dramatic.
Just listening to it you can clearly hear those words being said. Whoever is saying them may not be the captain, but someone is saying those exact words. This isn't a case of captions changing what is heard either, the BRACE is especially clear at the end.
that mid air collision with the recorder still working and the pilot telling the other hes sorry is so horrifying.
If you read up on the accident, there were like a dozen things which if they'd been done slightly differently, there wouldn't have been an accident. Off the top of my head:
- Only one controller was working, and was overburdened
- Tower's collision warning system was turned off for maintenance, without informing the controller
- Controller was distracted for a long time by a problem with another flight.
- Both BAL 2937 and DHL 611 requested flight level 360. Controller granted it, probably due to the above distraction.
- Controller mistakenly told BAL that DHL was on their right, when it was on their left
- Controller realized the danger shortly before the collision and told BAL to descend to try to resolve it. A few seconds later, TCAS advised DHL to dive and BAL to climb. You're supposed to obey TCAS if the controller's instructions conflict. But TCAS was new and not everyone fully understood it. So BAL obeyed the controller, resulting in both planes diving.
- DHL initially didn't take the TCAS warning that seriously, and performed a moderate dive instead of the recommended steep dive. They didn't increase their dive rate until 2 seconds before the collision, by which time it was too late.
Just a really sad accident in all. So many little things could have prevented it.
@@cnplaza6737 Indeed, a perfect example of the swiss cheese model, unfortunately...
@@cnplaza6737 Another strange and sad and heartbreaking event.. the school children from Russia were brought to the wrong airport the day before by the trip’s charter company.... they waited and finally got this flight for the next day.. they were never meant to be on that flight. 😪
@@cnplaza6737 The phones were also down, which made it impossible for another ATC in another tower, who did have working equipment and thus saw the danger, to warn Nielsen. So many little problems which aligned perfectly to lead to this disaster...
A Russian father/husband of his wife/kids who were killed in the Ueberlingen incident murdered one of the air traffic controllers years later
"Im so sorry. Were going to crash"
Last words were spent on the lives of his passengers...not family, not himself. Just his passengers and his remorse. Heavy shit.
I don't think that's what was said.... I could be wrong but researching it it looks like that was the tower and another aircraft communicating, hence the muffled nature.
If i was a passenger i would shout i want my ticket refund!
@@Teefs143If so if you went on the flight you would probably be dead
@@BaddestBunnyy but still i want my refund!
@@Teefs143stfu you’re so cringe
That one pilot howling. it just terrible! He knew what was going to happen and could not do anything about it.
It’s so sad 😞
@@alternate-althow?
@@alternate-alt what are you on about
Which crash
@@alternate-altand you’re here providing them.
What a great video to recommend as I wait at my gate
I only fear this if I see a Boeing at my gate😂😂😂
@@clarenceghammjr1326 Pretty sure most of the errors with Boeing's are human error, like not being inspected properly or something, I could be wrong though all I did was look it up on Google, I'm no expert
@@clarenceghammjr1326Boeing 737 max 9 and 8
@@clarenceghammjr1326which is like 50/50.
No joke, I was at Midway in the mid 2000s and they used to have these CNN Airport Network monitors at all the gates. I guess someone at Southwest wanted to tune in a soap opera, so anyway, it was feeding live from a local transmitter. Anyway, coverage was interrupted to announce breaking news of a plane crash. That was on every monitor through the entire airport. I swear, you can't make up stuff like this. I was there and never before did I wish so much that I hadn't left my camera behind.
"I TOLD YOU IT WAS ON THE LEFT" "sorry you were right:("
That’s actually sad tho
Do you know the name of that flight?
@@jambalayajones5504 Bashkirian-Airlines-Flug 2937
@@jambalayajones5504 it was the BAL flight 2937, in 2002.
*no pun intended*
As for the Uberlingen - I personally saw the DHL aircraft that day and had a brief radio conversation with the pilots. They were #1 for departure out of Bahrain, in the hammerhead, when I landed there.
They complimented my landing right on tower frequency. I remember them saying “Awww Reach, that was beautiful” right as I touched my C-5 down. We exchanged brief pleasantries. They said they were going to Italy and then Belgium. We then wished each other well. The tower controller casually let us finish our brief chit chat before clearing them for takeoff.
To this day, having over 15,000 flight hours of combined military and civilian aviation, I have never had a conversation with another aircraft on an operational ATC frequency the way that I did that day!
We left Bahrain, flew to Germany, and were all shocked to hear the news of what had happened after landing there.
Wow you must of been shocked.
@@joshthomson3948 I sure was! I had two “small world” things happen to me in 2002 that just about left me keeled over in shock. This was one of them. But the other one was non-aviation related and was even more stunning than this - so much so that as I look back at it, I can still hardly believe it myself (it had to do with the DC sniper killings). No idea why 2002 was my year of small-world stuff.
@@jumboJetPilot Wow. That gave me chills. Thanks for sharing.
@@wintercame anytime! Happy 2024!
My dog was your flight instructor, so THANK HIM.
“Not motherfucking flying!” Thats is the last words you’d EVER wanna hear your pilot scream
That one was a bad one... the plane had actually landed but for whatever reason they didn't apply enough brakes, and they were running out of runway quick so the Captain attempted a Go Around but wasn't able to build up enough speed before the runway ran out and one of the wings clipped a wire tower, which caused plane to flip and crash. That's why you can hear an audible gasp from everyone.
The sad thing is if they had just continued braking and overan the runway a little bit, they probably would have got bumped around a little and the plane a little beat up, but they would have all survived.
@@jamesb1988 He was a selfish jerk. He was more afraid of his reputation being tarnished!
@@stephenmystery8313not at all, retrying a landing is actually rather common. In fact, you can even hear pilots in this video refer to “going around” (TOGA as it’s called).
@@Zildawolf Yes, a go around is very common.
But with the amount of runway he had left, it was ridiculously irresponsible.
Scariest thing about a plane crash is knowing that death will probably not come unexpectedly and you'll have to sit there as the plane falls for seconds or even minutes and think about how you are certainly about to die.
That's the thing. When people say flying is very safe they're 100% correct but if you're unlucky enough to be in a plane crash from altitude it has to be the absolute worst way to die
as you usually die suddenly when it happens
@@-Osiris-it depends. If it's a massive crash u won't even notice it as death is instantaneously
@@NicotineRosbergthey say the g force knocks most people unconscious in high speed crashes at least.
Even the shuttle astronauts only had to wait 2 minutes and 45 seconds until they hit the sea. The first shuttle crash, you understand.
In the last example, there was only 1 survivor - a 4 year old girl. It has the record for the deadliest plane crash ever with a sibgle survivor.
I wanna be 4 yrs old now
A child would NOT survive in the wild..
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
@@Mocha142yt the plane didn't crash in the wild and even then often times it's quite easy to find si[þs of plane crashes unless they crash in the wild
In the northwest one?
When I was a pilot for Delta, they used to replicate that microburst for us in the sim from the L1011 crash in Dallas. The technology has improved exponentially since the crash, but that scenario is still a handful even with the new equipment.
I took a class back in the 90s about management teams & Delta 191 (Dallas) & United 232 (Souix City) were discussed on teamwork & responsibility. *I REMEMBER THE "REQUIRED" WEATHER OBSERVER AT DFW TO HAVE AN "OPEN" ATC OPERATIONS WAS AT DINNER* during the time Delta 191's approach & that ATC missed calling the wind shear warnings.
@@user-qj6fk9px8l This is what I know from the pilot side. The technology is way better than it was when DAL 191 crashed. However, that windshear was a monster and came out of the blue. No telling if they would have survived had the current technology been onboard. Here’s what I will tell you. I ALWAYS trusted the technology we had after I experienced the scenario in the sim, and it also worked on the ground. I witnessed a windshear warning prior to takeoff in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina once the storm had passed but the feeder bands were still around. Other airplanes were going around and the windshear warning was painting it. Many of us are alive today because of the newer technology, but awareness has also been key.
Wasn’t this crash investigation also instrumental in the implementation of Doppler systems at all major airports? For wind shear and severe weather detection?
@@user-rb3es1rp4s I do not recall, but likely so. I was a USAF pilot when this happened and was not flying into commercial fields much. There were different standards for the military and commercial fields back then but they are probably the same now.
Yes, it was. At the busier airports, TDWR replaced the old LLWAS. TDWR (doppler radar) is superior to the old LLWAS. LLWAS was just wind anometers set around the airport perimeter; not nearly as good as a doppler scanning the airport arrival and departure corridors. I was a controller for a long time and used both systems. TDWR was one piece of equipment that the FAA got its money's worth. It was accurate and gave warning in plenty of time. When I issued a TDWR microburst alert, pilots knew it was the real deal and treated it accordingly. The old LLWAS was a crap shoot, at best.
in the first record the scream of pilot was realy sad
Indeed
Not the response you want from ya pilot, keep composed till the end
@@tomdonis4315 you would do the same if you were in that pilots position 🤦🏻♂️
@@tomdonis4315I mean… that was the end… why else scream like that unless you know you’re about to die?
@@jon590the co pilot was literally telling him "get it up Charlie" while the captain was losing his mind. I'm not going to sit here and judge the captain though because nobody knows how they'd react in that situation
When the pilot is verbally panicking you are really screwed
Yes indeed
I have seen the ACI episode Regarding the mid air collision over Uberlingen. This is the very first time that I’ve heard the cockpit voice recorder. I can’t help but send my heart out to the Russians. They were alive all the way until they hit the ground. All the children who died. And of course, I cannot forget the heroics of the DHL crew. They fought to keep their airplane airborne for as long as they could. The number of lives they saved on the ground because they fought back.
I recently watched that episode of ACI, and I've seen it quite a few times and yet, I learned of a detail that I had somehow missed:
The children were not even supposed to be on that particular flight. Because 2 days before, the tour group accidentally took them to the wrong airport and missed their original flight. If the tour group had not made that mistake, they would have made their original flight, and they would likely still be alive today.
@@SAUBER_KH7 that is true. I had completely forgotten about that detail.
And all that because of the dumb aviation bueraucrats who could't decide whose orders take priority - tcas or controller's. Despite a near miss in Japan months before that
Hearing the Western Airlines 2605 captain scream for his life makes my stomach turn, blood run cold, and heart shatter substantially.
Me too i'm about to cry 😭
idk, the 1st and the last hearing the pilot say "i'm so sorry" was gut-wrenching
i had no idea the CVR for the überlingen disaster was even publicly released. that's actually probably the most disturbing CVR i think i've heard. you have to realise that after impact, the russian plane's nose (and cockpit) was severed from the rest of the aircraft as the wreckage plummeted to the ground. the whooshing sound is the open air behind the pilots. the passengers - CHILDREN - were torn from their seats and launched into the sky, freefalling. the grunts and groans coming from the CVR are the pilots either struggling to breathe the thin air of high altitudes, or struggling to deal with the insane G forces they were experiencing, or both at once.
Delta 191 is rather infamous in aviation history. Other than the hint of lightning in the recording, you don't get a clear idea as to what happened, but they flew into a microburst that essentially pushed the plane into the ground. It was thanks to this flight that windshear alerts became a thing.
No feeling can be worse than witnessing your inevitable fate and being completely helpless and hopeless about it.
Like just after you say your wedding vows
The air traffic controller who was on duty for the 2nd crash, was stabbed to death a couple of years later in front of his wife and kids by a Russian citizen whose 2 kids died in the collision. The murderer served less than 4 years in prison and was released back home to Russia where he was hailed as a hero and given medals.
Russia is really fucked up sometimes...
@@frederikzinn6568not that time. i commend that person
No, he wasn't given any medals of course, but this whole story was very much on the media that time - there's even a movie called "Unforgiven"
Classic Russia 🤡🇷🇺
Sounds like Russia. The country of drunks and twisted psychopaths
As my Mom always said: "by the Grace of God go I". May they all rest in peace.
What ever!
there BUT for the grace of God go I is the correct term ,
God probably looks at your mom’s butt
So she was misquoting it every time.😅😅😅
I was probably "mis-hearing it"...
man these are brutal. for a while it seemed like the full recordings were never going to be available to the public and I wish it stayed that way! You aren't just hearing fear and a quick death in a lot of these...some of them are the cockpit breaking apart and crushing the pilots while still alive. Rest in peace aviators
im crying i feel bad for the pilots who died in the first one , there fear in the audio! grace to the ones that died out there!
Should of never been a pilot. Weak
@@LSR1980Can you please be a bit more sensitive? Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine that you are piloting a plane that you know is going to end your, and hundreds of passengers life in a matter of seconds, and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do. It is the worst nightmare of any pilot. So get your insensitive ass out of this comment section if you can’t have the maturity of a 13-year-old.
@@LSR1980obvious rage bait
@@sidwayelson Nah honest talk. The pilot should be strong till the end
@@LSR1980 🧌
We hail the ones that keep their cool in such a moment, but damn, I sympathize with the first guy shrieking his lungs out. I can totally see myself going through the strict training to become a pilot and still reacting like that facing the end. Rest in piece man.
🌹 I love aviation, and although I watch a lot of aviation related content, the loss of life behind these stories is not lost on me.
The scream of agony is just heartbreaking.
The 2nd Crash is the most shocking to me. I listen to a lot of documentaries about crashes but the 2nd is just so intense filled with suspense.
The fact that everyone on DHL plane were still alive trying to recover, and half of the Tupolev including the pilots were alive as well, suffocating and maybe in pain because of eardrum damage, but very aware they were done. So creepy.
0:02 Western airlines 2605
0:27 uberlingen mid air collision
1:24 Delta Airlines 191
3:27 Martinair flight 495
3:47 East Coast jets 81 (not sure)
4:27 Northwest Flight 255
3:47 indi gulf 88 (I used slow motion)
@@BenHuynh-us4stthe text says indi gulf 88 but I have no idea what that is. The actual flight is East Coast Jets 81. It was a private jet that crashed during a failed go-around as they overshot the runway. They made the decision to do the go-around too late and there was not enough time to get in the air.
this makes me sad... knowing people died its just... sad....
I remember reading about Delta 191. Downed by a microburst, a weather phenomenon that was unknown at the time. Might as well have been a ghost to them.
The one where the captain says he is sorry to the passengers 😭💔
August 2nd 1985. I lived about 10 miles from dfw airport. Remember it well. Terrible day.
As fkd up as the pilots were on NW255, he saved the little girl by calmly telling them all to brace.
Wow, that was very sad.
I guess as a passenger you are hopefully unaware of your impending doom, in some cases anyway. All the better you’re not hearing the gpws and other warnings telling you death isn’t far way.
Unaware of your impending doom! Good one.
I remember the first one well. My Mom worked for the Pilot Charles Gilbert and his wife Helen. My parents were worried it was him when the story broke. I remember my Mom crying on the phone when Helen called her.
I trained as an ATC but all of my jobs were as a ground controller. I did have to learn the correct procedures for when there is an emergency, a Mayday or a Pan Pan Pan or anything of that nature. Glad I never had to deal with something as horrendous as these calls. I had a couple of small fires and once a crew member just died in his seat. The captain was very professional about it but by the time we got them off the runway and back to the gate he was hysterical.
Stuff like this is far more terrifying than any horror movie
Northwest Flight 255 ---- 154 passengers died and a four year old girl was the lone survivor. Incredible.
3:33
Imagine hearing that sound before you crash that is terrifying…
The pilot gasping is horrific
about the last one northwest 255, out of 149 passengers, there were only 1 survivor, a 4 year old child.
Two saddest last words of piloto for me: Gol 1907, TAM 3054 and United 232
Wait. In the second one, after collision, the one on the right is split in half. We can hear the wind as it’s crashing. That is effing terrifying. Omg.
the way in the 2nd crash when the other pilot says sorry is so sad
ATC says he's sorry
So sad! RIP.
I heard one other man screaming like that an he was being stabbed to death in state prison.
Überlingen😪still hurts till this day.
That will give me nightmares
The second to last one is East Coast Jet Flight 81. Still though this one is so horrifying to me even with how preventable it was. “Flaps…FUCK’ captain knew he screwed up bad. I can’t imagine being on a jet that small and hearing your captain saying “it’s not motherfucking flying!” RIP
Thanks, I was trying to search for that one, but the name in the video gave me nothing.
I have so much respect for that last pilot. I always wondered if pilots warned passengers. I’d want to know. I expect the captain to say something during turbulence so i cant even fathom falling outta the sky & the pilot is silent.
Rest in peace to Northwest flight 255, ive learned a lot about it the wreck is hidden behind the bushes of the hill it smashed into, the bushes also block it when you try to get on I 94, its a terrible wreck, it shocked michigan, its the only type of commercial airliner that crashed in michigan, the place where it now rests is in taylor or allen park off I 94, you can still see the airport that it took off from on I 94, it still scars michigan about the crash, most people near the crash sight probably remember this incident, may those rest in peace, may that 1 survivor be ok from this crash.
Northwest* 🤓 ☝️
@@Astrobane123 thanks ill fix it, but was it necesarry?
@@joshuasmith1724 idk?
The sole survivor was a 4 year old girl at the time of the crash named Cecelia Cichan. She did an interview last year on the 35th anniversary of the crash and also a documentary about 9 years prior called "Sole Survivor". Despite losing her mother, father, and brother in the crash, she seems surprisingly well adjusted. She was raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who shielded her from the media throughout her childhood until she was an adult. She says she stayed in touch with many of the families of the victims, including maintaining a close friendship with the firefighter that found and rescued her. He's a captain now in the same department and even attended her wedding.
Everytime ive gone by there I try to respect that so many people died right there in such a horrible way, it was terrible.
The first audio is genuinely some of the most terrifying I've heard and I've been around on the internet for a long time.
Chat this is the umpteenth video of these I've watched today. Why do we do this to ourselves? 😩💔
This is two of us. Who else do you mean? Did anyone upvote this vid?
That last crash happened when I was 10 years old in 1987.
The soul survivor was 4 years old. Cecelia Cichan. Not sure if that is still her name as she has married and living life away from media attention the last I knew.
They found her in her mother's arms.
She is married with a child now. What I find wonderful is that the person who took her to the hospital attended her wedding. In my opinion that shows how much her survival meant to him. ❤
*sole.
This stuff hits hard. Not for feint hearted‼️
I live in the area of the second crash.My grandfather(RIP) toled me once that his friend was a firefighter when the crash above Überlingen happend that he had to collect debris from the planes.Thei also had to lock out for body's which were later transported into a cave somewhere near here for later reconisation.RIP for al involved🫡😞😔
I saw Western airlines 2605 Happen It was horrific the plane was Destroyed😢
i have a question on how the BAL tu154 had the voice recorder continue working after the plane was split in 2, and if it did there should have been no noise at all as the only mics are in the cockpit while its in the tail
Black box recordings have their own battery packs which means they can still work even after the cockpit is separated from the aircraft or the electrical power is cut
Your answer has no bearing on the statement originally posted. The issue is the physical separation of the cockpit mic connection from the cvr. If there’s no connection between the cvr and microphones then the cvr couldn’t have recorded anything. The power or battery back up for the cvr is irrelevant.
@@jeffkimble8857 Presumably the Tupolev has them in the front half of the aircraft. Western and Russian design philosphy is quite different.
The Uberinger collision sounded the same as a car bomb that settled a Mafia issue out of Vegas.
How about some back story on these, just a little intro for context or even something in the description. So sad to hear the final terrified moments.
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Gotta love RUclips and how this is the next video recommended to me after watching
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Quotes on got me terrified I'm so sad that a lot of people have to die in a plain
😢
The Part 1 Please
#2 is incorrectly identified. It's really known as: East Coast Jets Flight 81
My Dad, best friend & I were working in Dallas. We took my friend to DFW to put him on a plane because his grandfather died. My Dad & I had just left the airport when Delta 191 crashed. It was so violent it picked our truck up & slammed it down hard enough to break the transmission in half. Horrible weather & HORRIBLE sight.
No idea what "Indi Gulf 88" was supposed to be but it is "East Coast Jets Flight 81"
My mistake
How does “we’re going down Larry” from air Florida 90
Not make this list
"I know!" - see what I did there ;)
It was in another video.
Who included the Blackbox audio in the desc?
0:33 That impact sound is fake, right? It must have been added later. The tiny cockpit microphones don't register such low frequencies.
0:01 Western 2606
0:24 Uberlingen
1:22 Delta 191
3:15 Martanair 495
3:45 Indi gulf 88
4:25 Northwest 255
This definitely feels like a bad thing to watch on my way to the airport
I feel bad for the DWL
I would add the 1987 Las Kabacki crash in Poland, it was caused by faulty design of Soviet plane, the pilot's last words were just "Cześć, giniemy" (Bye, we're dying).
Last words from pilots :
Adam air 574 :Allahuakbar
Garuda indonesia 152 : NOOOO
Adam water 💀
When you translate it
Bruh isn't funny @@a330aviation3
Ik i just translated it and it said adam water
@@a330aviation3 bruh 102 people died on that flight 574
And no survivors
@@Justamen2735 IK IT'S NOT FUNNY RUclips TRANSLATED IT FOR SOME REASON!!!
Can someone please explain all these crashes pleaseee 🙏
Where’s part 1?
I believe the Delta situation was in Dallas…
Delta 191. This is why I'm terrified of microbursts.
Hardly anyone flies near garden variety thunderstorms anymore. Let alone monsters like the one that spawned that microburst. Pilots know a LOT more about their genesis than we did back then. And we practice flying in them in the SIM. Your drive to the airport will be the most dangerous thing you do that day.
Can u tell me how did u get the footage
Search for any cvr and there you will find it
Bro its not that hard 💀
It’s not his the original owner is declaringanemargeny
@@BaddestBunnyyhe didn’t say it was his
@@noiceboi631 he said where he gets it
Western 2605 is just terrifing... It is similar to Polish Air Force 101 crash, so scary if you think about it...
How do they even understand each other with so much noise over the radios? I understand basically nothing they say over the comms in this kind of video.
Communication between ATC and pilots basically rely on standard phraseology and expected instructions. It's easier to make something out of what's being said when you know what to expect, although it can take some practice. Experience also helps.
It's a bit like learning a new language. At first it all sounds like unintelligible words, but after a while it all makes sense.
Why The Bashikirian black box stoped record in the colison, the plane divided in two
Delta 191 last words oh😢
0:23 me and my friend literally play airlines simulator:
#2 is not Indi Gulf 88. It is East Coast Jets Flight 81. Indi Gulf 88 doesn’t exist.
Im sorry about that 😅
Mann someone knows the crashes 😱😱.
they are mostly gasping air because cockpit was detached and subjected to extreme G's
the last words scare me....
Th pilots of Martian air 495 actually survived
Urban mid air collision 0:42
Überlingen mid air collision
Who's the voice of doom, in every accident that says PULL UP. PULL UP
rip to all 🕊️🪦😔
I feel so bad on the first one
“Not flying! Not mother effin flying!” Once a plane is on the ground, it’s better to overrun the runway than to chance another takeoff at low speed.
All 3 pilots actually survived the Martinair 495 flight (3:15), 56 of the 340 occupants sadly died however
link to the wiki if anyone wants it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinair_Flight_495
The Martinair pilots didn't die, so it wasn't their "last words".
Fun fact: Delta 191 is *NOT* a dc 10 it’s a lockheed L1011 tristar
Edit: according to Wikipedia flight 191 is a dc 10-10 but in the cvr the gwps pull up is a Lockheed L1011 tristar so which plane is it?
Edit 2: there is 2 191 incidents: Delta flight 191 and American flight 191 so my bad ignore the edit 1
Thank you for the knowledge I thought it was a DC 10, but now I know
@@Iamaidot np
Thanks Sheldon
But AA191 accident in ORD 5/1979 was a DC10-----Comair 5191 8/2006 was an RJ100ER
@@greatcollector9362 dude 191 was a L1011 you can even hear it’s gpws saying pull up. Dc 10 was a darker voice but L1011 is lighter voice
Bro in delta 191 on the up of the picture thats the thats the behind thats a Japan airline
The captions are 100% wrong for Northwest 255. Never in any of the recordings nor the transcripts does the pilot actually say "I'm so sorry we're about to crash". I didn't bother to check the others but there's a history of people purposely putting incorrect captions on these to make the vids more dramatic.
Just listening to it you can clearly hear those words being said. Whoever is saying them may not be the captain, but someone is saying those exact words. This isn't a case of captions changing what is heard either, the BRACE is especially clear at the end.
He did in fact say it I heard it plain as day you are wrong.
Pls just make pt 2
Coming right up
Those captain are not clear when talking at blackbox