After Multiple Systems Failure Mid-Air, How Air India Pilots Saved 370 Lives
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2018
- On September 11, four Air India pilots on board the flagship flight from Delhi to New York faced one of the most dangerous situations imaginable. They were low on fuel with multiple systems failing in their Boeing 777 aircraft. With zero visibility over the New York area, it was proving to be impossible to spot the runway. In this exclusive interview, the senior commanders on the flight finally break their silence and explain just how bad the situation was when they somehow managed to land in Newark, an alternate airport.
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Came here from VASAviation and this was amazing.
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Yea me too
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It's commendable how they are respectful of each other as colleagues and admiring each others support. No senior junior hierarchy.. No trying to take all credits. Great team work
That's the key reason for being a successful team and if you notice both captains were highlighting each other's attention to detail in that tense situation. Loved the ☕️ ordering part. What a sense of relief then .. impressed with sushant and rustom
That’s because they’re both captains lol, the first officers weren’t asked to be on the interview
He is Captain cool....never did he look panicky in his conversation with ATC.
Salutes to you SIR.
Usually conversation btw ATC is made by f/o in that situation coz capt will be flying the plane
Pilots are trained to be cool
Parsi gentleman
Don’t forget to give credits to ATController too.. they are the guiding starts when it comes to these kind of situations pilots face!
Not only they were professional, their manners with the ATC was even more impressive. God bless their parents.
The pilots really give so much importance to the procedures. Sometimes people tend to overlook such stuff in a situation like this.
After watching over 30 crash videos on the Flight Channel, seeing something like this makes me feel proud of being an Indian!
Exactly! flight Channel and this now
It has nothing to do with being Indian, these two gentlemen are highly trained. Good job captain and f.o.
Kantshri Baronia same here. I am watching this after many TFC VIDEO.
@@anthonyvega1959 Maybe English is not your first language and this is why you misunderstood. Kantshri Baronia didn't say that they managed to land the plane safely because the pilots were Indian. What she said was, after watching something like this, she feels proud to be Indian.
Kantshri Baronia Amazing pilots. You should be proud. They remained calm thinking the process through out. There are 370 souls safely back on land thanks to well trained, intelligent, pilots.
Great pilots come from everywhere! Thank you for your service.
That Pink Floyd reference, though at 8:45 :D
Hat tip, Captains. A marvellous job done.
Kamal Krishna super obscure Floyd reference! Kudos to the pilot for classic rock knowledge.
@@Ojisan642 Yes, even some Floyd fans don't know that song as it's a very early one😀
No one else could have interviewed the commanders more professionally than Vishnu Som. Absolutely fantastic achievement and we are truly proud of our Air India pilots. We sleep because we know you guys are at the wheels. Salute to you all 🙏 🙏
well done to these excellent Indian pilots; total professionalism from start to finish totally focused on what you needed to do in exceptional circumstances.
As an avionics geek these 2 captains make me proud to be an Indian
These guys deserve medals this this feat.
Congrats to the 4 brave pilots...their intelligence, professionalism, training and calm handling of the serious problems...are really praiseworthy...God bless them all with continued success...
Man!!! I was waiting for the whole 25 mins thinking they will at least simulate and show us something on that Sim and simulating the gravity of the situation they had on 101. If you wanted to conduct just an interview, your channel should have made them sit in a much comfortable manner like in your studio or something...
true.. from minute 2 and after 2 commercial..i started to skip, end the show in 3min.
Me too broo
13:59 they did something
because its a 787 aircraft. the plane they flew was the 777
8:45 That 'See Emily Play' reference was smooth! I tip my hat to these two great pilots.
Calm, professional, aviate,navigate and communicate... this is a perfect example how ATC is your best friend!! Kudos to the pilots and the controllers
I giess youbare an viewer of captaion joe
New York and September 11th don't sit well together!! Had not realised that this was the date of the incident. Also - 'See Emily Play'?....had to rewind that bit as it seemed so incongruous in these circumstances. Respect to these super cool aviators!
amazing to hear the entire scene ...the pilots maneuvered the plane to safe landing. God bless these brave and cool headed pilots
The calmness of pilots is an understatement. The way they landed, Air India’s pilots are built different.
These pilots did an amazing job. It's not easy to grasp what they were dealing with, which was a whole lot. I listened to the ATC clip and, even with lights and horns blaring, they were incredibly calm and, if I recall correctly, not once did they ask for ATC to repeat an instruction. The right team was on board to deal with this one. Congratulations!!
This makes me feel so proud of you four !
Dia Chakraborty why you are proud? It shows air India is not maintaining the aircrafts properly.
Came to this video after this flight came up in a discussion. I was one of the passengers on this flight. The pilots were amazing!
did you guys know something was up? i remember having a missed approach at jfk before with some large boeing, and we weren't even told what was up until we were in a holding pattern, it was quite confusing. (that was pretty good weather, and yet the captain was like "whoops, we just didn't see the runway in time, so we had to go around"... to his defense, the 2nd approach was the smoothest, smoothest landing)
@@andij605 I'm curious, too!
How unfortunate of you to be flying our shoddy flag carrier.
APU inoperative tha.. tab bhi management and technical team and the crew itself were like.. nope.. operational costs tou nikaalni hee padegi naa
The only thing keeping air india going is that they choose the best pilots. I heard the whole ATC conversation, that guy has nerves of steel. Didn't lose composure of his voice even once.
I came to this video after Kozhikode Dubai flight shooting runway incident.
When the odds are shrinking, it's time for thinking.
Aviate, navigate, communicate. Heroes.
Condolences for pilot Lion Air from India Bhave Suneja , he hard to try battle with flight control but the error MCAS system couldn't save the plane , respect for pilot 😑
I have a question. Lets suppose you are aviating an aircraft and the collision avoidance system goes offline in midair. The collision which is supposed to happen with another aircraft should be having their collision avoidance system working. In that case, can't the other aircraft warn the faulty aircraft of the potential collision possibility and avoid the entire situation?
Great job all around, including the interviewer who did a very thorough interview exploring such a complex event.
All 4 pilots are heros,mind blowing how they stayed calm and saved all lives on board.Kudos to the heros.
A great landing by Two great pilots with Pink Floyd riding in the jump seat. I love it.
Mo B 🤣🤣🤣👍🏽
What's even harder to fathom is that they flew this plane back the very next day - empty, but still. I believe I'd hesitate. Then again, perhaps they had better mechanics than the ones who let them leave India in that condition. Props to these amazing pilots. Namaste, y'all.
AND Pink Floyd inspired the landing, love these guys!
These are massively impressive guys. Legends of CRM.
Praying for everyone in India. Very worried about you folks.
Pray for everyone who fly in Boeing planes.
Best to listen to the pilots full conversation with ATC to fully understand the problem and the incredible coolness of these 4 men!
Okay, this happened on September 11? My birthday already has blood splattered across history. This would have been another splatter. Kudos to the entire crew.
I’m crying. I want to hug these heroes ! They saved themselves and all 370 plus passengers!! This gave me goosebumps! I fly frequently on AI-101 New Delhi to New York!
They are really brave heroes of our country. Kudos
I'm also amazed at their calm and clear thinking with so many failures. I wonder did the passengers know that there was a problem - did they share anything with the passengers that they may need to prepare for a difficult landing toward the end?
They did reportedly just say to the attendants to keep the passengers well buckled to their seat belts
Both - Pilots and ATC's - did a great job at handling the situation. Scary, and looks like they got pretty lucky too ^^
Bro! This happened on 9.11! What were the chances of this over New York?
Skilled professionals. Well done guys.
God bless and happy flying.
Greetings from Cumbria in the U.K.
Stay safe and well.
WOW, teamwork played a key role. Salute..!
Hat’s off to our Super cool Pilots.,
Lots of Love and Salutes 💪🏻✌🏻👍🏻
WOW! HATS OFF 4 THOSE BRAVE PILOTS !
They had 7.5 tones of fuel on board ,at the speeds they where doing that's just shy of 1.5 hours of flight time remaining for a 777 , they had a cloud ceiling of 400Ft , 1 altimeter still working and radar vectoring from ATC , the plane was still flyable ,they did a great job Aviating , as trained pilots i would like to think the 370 souls on board where never in danger - Aviate - Navigate - Communicate none of the 3 where compromised - Hero's ? Good pilots for sure !
they had 7200 KILO's of fuel ...thats just shy of 16,000 pounds
What?? The plane had just 7200 kg of fuel left not 7.5 tones !!
@@gauravkalra4 7’200 kg is 7.2 tons unless the measure a tone different in India ? 1000kg = 1 tone
Pilots are heroes ❤️
They should be respected
"It's these critical moments that they spent a lifetime training on." Fifteen hour flight; thirty-eight minutes of intense focus.
Four GREAT professionals. Need I have TO ADD MORE.
What a Job!
Claps Claps Claps and more claps for all the 4 captains!!
And Salutes too!!
What 4 Captains???
2 commanders, 1 on-duty (L) and 1 off-duty (R) but due to the emergency HAD TO hawk over the on-duty captain so that he didn't mess up. EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK.
ATC?? Dumbs
8 out 10 flights with similar instrument failures meet with disaster for sure.
And the rest 2 who survive, are only because of well planned crew and Pilots. And I am proud that Air India follow the world's most difficult Pilot training manual before handing over the cockpit for international schedule.
Well done Air India pilots!
Very proud of these captains, if it was me as normal human being, I would panic and tremble.
Love people from India. Hugs from Florida!
getting chills after hearing that this happened on 9/11...
These are the heroes of India !!!!
THE TWO PILOTS ARE REAL HEROS. I SALUTE THEM.
Heard this story on multiple RUclips videos. Hats off to the pilots.
It was all about basics....landing cessna172 when they were in flying schools without ILS approaches and all the navigational instruments helped them.....and thumbs for their calmness and professional approach towards this failure👏👏👏
Looks like pilot big fan of pink floyd, @8:45 emily play saves the day:) kudos to the pilots
Talk about utmost professionalism and respect for each other as pilots!!!!!!!! So commendable.
Cant even think of the situation..God saved everyone.. Kudos to our heros🎉
Excellent pilots god bless you both🙏🙏🙏🙏
What world class pilots so much clarity ,determination and patience. And they listen to Pink Floyd WoW !!!
Thank God they remember practices in flying club. Show us once again, pilot should keep their basic skills of stick n rudder, or even keep practicing in their flying club. Also once again, thank God there are 4 of them in the cockpit, so they can share burden and brainstorming thru CRM (just like UA232 n QF32). Bravo,, aviators! Stay safe all
Amazing...God bless
Amazing job! These are the types of fantastic pilots needed in every jet!
The kind who ignore critically low fuel levels until they're running on fumes whilst flying past at least 20 airports capable of taking their aircraft? No thanks. Pilots like that are the kind who used to kill people regularly until drummed out of civil transport across most of the civilised world.
Do you even realise you’re being so ignorant. They weren’t running low on fuel. They had just enough fuel to land the aircraft at the destination on any other normal day under normal regular circumstances. They only were short on fuel because of the weather conditions and all the unfavourable circumstances the aircraft was under right when they reached the destination. They knew they had to make some go-arounds or follow alternate approaches that required more fuel or land at alternate airports. All of which wasn’t predicted earlier. It’s no fault of the pilots. Things like technical issues and weather conditions can go wrong at the very end sometimes with not enough time for the captains to foresee them and be prepared. Hence this was an adversary which necessitated more fuel and not one that they knew of before. If it were a normal situation,all the fuel conditions would’ve been just fine. Pls appreciate the adeptness and coolheadedness of these heroes under such critical conditions that saved 370 lives for friks sake and be less of a snob maybe?
@@peoplepleasingisterrible522 - Wait. What?
@@ccchhhrrriiisss100 sorry that was supposed to be reply to the first comment on your comment. Not at you my bad peace :)
Hi sushant we all are very proud of you, keep it up from K V no. 2 Delhi cantt
Great job done by the pilots. It was not less than a miracle
Eeesh, don't run into aircraft issues on 9/11 or 11/9 anywhere near New York!
Oh my god ! So mindful Job and so so so difficult!!! God bless !! These pilots are made in heaven
1) Pilots land manually most of the time
2) LNAV/VNAV approaches are not conducted as frequently as ILS approaches but they do exist and are covered in training manuals
Yes but they were low on fuel they had lost both radio altimeter and other systems and the weather conditions were very bad
Lol, you for real?
Pilots need a minimum of a 600 feet cloud ceiling to land and align properly to the runway by manual approach, but it was 400 feet in this case and they did it successfully.
They could not attempt to land manually before that because it was 200 ft at one airport and 300-something feet at another. Really dangerous.
Moreover, it was the last chance to land, there was no fuel for a go around. Multiple equipment failures including everything that helps you land with minimum visibility, as well as the instrument that lets you in on the altitude.
What part of the terrible weather and multiple instruments failure to assist with very low visibility landing did you not get?
Moreover, the pilots decided to add 800 kilos of extra fuel just for a case of emergency, which was eventually the difference between life and death of 300 souls. If anything, the pilots deserve more credit than they already do.
One's only complaint should be that Air India did not reveal the report/reason for this almost fatal technical issue and kept it under the wraps.
However, you missed the 3rd point: min of 600 ft visibility, which they didn't have.
Seconds after touching down, heavy rain came pouring down in New York, one more missed approach and the 370 wouldn't be here today
Pilots and ATC both were well trained n did good job.
It was so neat to watch the take off of this huge airplane
Finally someone with knowledge of 777 vs 747
Congratulations to the pilots as I look at a lot of these videos.Yes,they were very cool and competent in a busy airspace. Indian pilots are top notch!
Excellent video with detailed analytical presentation
Very smart men, pilots are so calm
The pilot had better communication quality with atc in new york than with that reporter behind his seat.
HAving said that, depsite the somewhat shouty title, this was impressively professional reporter work.
Wow!! I still want to know "WHY" all those failures occurred? and on both sides? and why the APU? did someone got himself in the avionics room and began pulling wires???
Lack of maintenance... The b777 is actually one of the most reliable aircrafts
Most likely a electrical or system failure. This airplane is much too complicated to speculate, unless you are looking at test results conducted after the incident. On international flights an [ APU ] is always good to have but may have not been a factor in this type of failure.
Rohan. Do u know even a thing about mantainance??
wish they talked about how the instruments could be improved or why maintenance allowed the plane to fly when there was a lingering issue with the computer in the first place.
Great job by the cockpit crew but the important question which was never asked (probably due to restrictions by Air India PR dept) is why were there multiple failures and why were the back-up systems also unavailable e.g. radio altimeter on "both" sides not working, third radio altimeter giving erroneous information, APU not working. Was it due to irregular maintenance or due to lack of funds for critical spares. Was this aircraft in service as a flying coffin?
Ashwin Valecha my thoughts exactly. Who the hell signed off for this-cause I guarantee they’d not have been able to MEL all those things-particularly TCAS.
In my opinion, it sounds like the APU is the problem that caused the issue. No auxiliary power unit, batteries run low, no instruments. But this is just a guess.
And why the pilots decided to press on regardless to NY when there were plenty of alternates they could have diverted to well before the destination, with decent weather and not be running on fumes.
Patrick Burns: APUs don't usually run during flight. There are _big_ generators on the main engines.
This flight is best described as a clusterf**k narrowly avoided being aa tragedy by a bunch of inept pilots who need permanently grounding for knowingly putting 200+ people in harm's way and an airline the FAA/EASA need to ban from their skies.
It doesn't matter how "good" their flying was at the end. It was their unspeakably _poor_ decisions which caused the crisis in the first place - not quite as bad as the safety chief of KLM losing patience and beginning a takeoff roll at Tenerife without making sure he actually did have ATC clearance, but close.
Lack of maintenance by AI... Otherwise we all know that the b777 is one of the most reliable aircrafts
I guess electronics are not as reliable as we seem to think. And computers are great, but you can never do without the human factor, which, in this case saved the plane and 370 people!
Well done gentleman, your cool and professional behaviour saved the day.
Peoples watching this video will apprecialtes only pilot skills. But viewers from VASAviation channel appreciate both ATC and pilots
these guys did such an amazing job of landing a plane in miserable condition
Woah what a coincidence this was on the day September 11. (not same year I would assume)
Salute and Kudos to all 4 of you to maintain calm and composure in this almost crashland type situation.
Also the TCAS failure sounds very scary. How did you ensure safe & accurate separation in such busy airports?
Also, how would you be able to differentiate between real warning message and faulty/wrong warning message? This partly reminds of Turkish Airlines B737 that crashed due to faulty pitot tube and wrong IAS display and also IAS was directly connected with autothrust and subsequently gear down was suggested in master caution, on-board computer thought the aircraft was about to flare for touchdown, but in reality the aircraft was almost at 1000 ft.
Once again salute to all 4 of you!!!
In terms of separation, ATC is there to make sure airplanes are not on collision courses. The aircraft have separate systems to avoid each other in case ATC screws up, so in this case the controller had to be extra careful and give them extra room.
In terms of interpreting warnings, pilots who have flown hundreds of flights have a certain rhythm that they become ready for as to when gear should be down, for example. If they are getting gear warnings when they are still at 10,000 feet or whatever, they will know that is not correct. Similar to the altimeters, there are two different ways altitude is measured. Radio altimeters measure height from the ground at or below 2,500 feet, whereas barometric altimeters use air pressure to compare with outside pressure and measure altitude. The barometric altimeters we're working just fine, but the radio altimeters are much more accurate at lower altitudes. Since the pilots could see that the radio altimeters did not match the reliable barometric altimeters that they had been using the past 15 hours, they knew there was something wrong with the radio altimeters.
As for the Turkish airlines flight you refer to, I believe they also received warnings for a faulty radio altimeter, which showed 0 feet. In that case, however, the pilots did not recognize the failures, and when the autopilot tried to use that faulty data, it tried "flaring" the aircraft at 2,000 feet. The pilots failed to understand the failure (which previous crews on that same aircraft had understood and fixed the problem), and they were too busy to pay attention to details, which caused them to ultimately stall. In this air India flight, the pilots recognized the problems and were able to cope with the implications
Fantastic true professional
Great feat. Kudos Air India
Now why isn't anybody saying Air India Sucks?
literally everybody is. read the comments.
wow !amazing pilots good job and thx 4 posting !
Kudos to THE Indian pilots 👏
Indian Government must give them due recognition and reward.
We proud of our pilots
Salute to all these pilots. They saved so many lives ! Great work.
Hats Off Pilots for a great job.Good training, confidence and timely management.
Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance !!!!
Boeing, boeing, Boeing Aircraft!!!!!
Ask Boeing that question!
Boeing is no longer the pioneer it once was. Airbus is far superior. The a350xwb is a superb plane.
Awesome landing. You 4 are the best at what you do. Ive listened to both of these and you are calm as if nothing is going on. Great job.
Different aircraft have different glide ratios, meaning they will lose altitude at different rates, affecting how far they can fly without engine thrust. For example, if a plane has a lift to drag ratio of 10:1 then that means for every 10 miles of flight it loses one mile in altitude. Flying at a typical altitude of 36,000 feet (about seven miles), an aircraft that loses both engines will be able to travel for another 70 miles before reaching the ground.
SANJAN NASA All that you said is true. The fact that Two engine aircraft are able to be put into service, daily, over vast expanses of water is a certification that was only earned after being able to demonstrate the reliability of those engine used on the 777 and other such aircraft. The engines will remain working even with an electrical failure.
They aren't heroes, just damn good pilots.
Kudos to THE Indian pilots 👏
We have seen failure of highly sophisticated instruments fitted on modern airplanes which help pilots to the automated flight control , leading to catastrophic plunge in the ocean. In that perspective taking over plane from instrument landing system to manual mode and performed successful landing is credit worthy at such short distance , low on fuel , bad weather , crosswind.
We proud of you 😘🤘
Also AI 101 had crashed long back in Mount blank I believe ...it's rare that an airlines reintroduced same number of a crashed airline ... anyways hats off n let's pray for saftey of flights
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