@MentourPilot i have a question. With you moving to full time KZbin content creation (which is fantastic for us), do you miss training Pilots and your old job?

Beja is not an air defense base. It is an international airport with a runway suitable for A380.

Based on this presentation, I struggle to believe that focus on CRM is the correct response. Rather, the safety lessons here should be about subtle incapacitation, dual incapacitation, food poisoning. It seems to me that the FO was nearly as incapacitated as the captain here, and they were both clearly nowhere near airworthy (hence focusing on CRM is a completely wrong focus). Probably the best bet was to get the autopilot engaged... Yet, equally clearly, their nonairworthiness was an extremely subtle effect for both of them, and difficult to determine the true severity of without IMC g-forces screwing with the brain, and by then was clearly too late. Almost certainly they were both poisoned/intoxicated, possibly by weed, possibly by anything really. Note to self: not sharing meals applies on the ground as well as in the air.

An autopsy should 've been conducted on the body of flight crew to properly determine if food poisoning was the actual cause of this tradgedy or the lack of the crew having proper rest prior to the flight.

If there's one thing i' ve learnt from you as a pilot is that the use of rudder in flight except in an event of engine failure and cross wind landings is just not proper.

Love your work... Indian me found it funny how Petter pronounced Coimbatore. 😛 There is a Bollywood movie Runway 34 based on this incident. That obviously was more exaggerated and tweaked to make it more cinematic.

I coudnt resist to see your dogs. The girl even had leaned on you. You are a really kind hearted and a brave person indeed. Sorry couldnt focus on the video when these cutie dogs were there. You are awesome

Anyone else think of Phoebe on friends when he said flange..😂

funny how you excuse the first officer from the very start. thats not really fitting the situation. her performance was very bad, too.

The amount of comments here indicating familiarity with substance-altered consciousness is alarming especially as I see more and more people advocating to be allowed to use substances on their off time between work hours. Those communities need to make sure their mutual self-policing is up to snuff and own it when an accident is pinned on a trip otherwise we're going to see a lot more OSH failures going forward.

15:45 Another basic thing that Capitalists don't seem to get: you may get your co-workers sick if you go to work sick.

With so many trim accidents there should be a "trim engineer" on board already.

Petter, big fan on KZbin. I wasn't sure where to comment to see if you could do a special segment regarding how airplane movies got it right and how they got it wrong. Example, in Die Hard 2 the terrorists fixed the Dulles ILS system 200 feet below sea level. Wouldn't the airplane altitude sensor give the pilots conflicting readings? Of course movie was filmed in early 90s... Just saying that it would be a fun episode.

Very unsettling indeed- I spent a summer at Camp Crystal Lake the year before Jason wreaked havoc.

Wow difficult - I remember looking up a plane called 'The City of Columbo' An L-1011 TriStar I'd remembered travelling on in times past, only to find out it had been blown up on the ground by a bomb hidden on board at the airport of the city it was named after - that was MY plane Dammit!!

I would say the FO was so scared at that point, that he just froze.

There are some good principles to pick up on even if you have nothing to do with flying an aircraft.

Well, at least they didn’t blame Boeing

@MentourPilot could you please do a video about why humans are still being trusted more than AI? And how far are we from a safe fully AI flight?

The silence of the first officer baffles me. It's so sad

I love that the passengers evacuated without direction... hate this idea of waiting for someone to tell you to exit, for example, a burning plane just because the engines are running. I'd rather take my chances with an engine (especially in the back where the exhaust blows out rather than in) than be stuck inside a burning plane. On top of the fact that if they waited they'd never evacuate as the PA was broken... it'd take them minutes just for the crew to figure that out.

Ahh well. That's the French for you.

The way you always have new content makes this very nervous flyer never want to fly again. I really don't know why i watch this channel 🥹

This one is really incredible! I ended the video in anxiety..

They should have made the gas tank from styrofoam instead of saran wrap. Watch out for icebergs

The lack of appropriate responses from the first officer concerning multiple issues suggests to me that he was also incapacitated.

26:43 when i tried to wrap my head around the shown FI, i had a brief moment of confusion. If you tilt your head right just a little, the horizontal FI line infront of the 45 deg white attitude lines looks like it is not horizontal. What if he confused the horizontal flight indicator (FI) as his vertical one? Like in a 90 dergrees roll, where you would pitch up to follow the vertical indicator. Imagine this, since liftoff, he focused mostly on the attitude (horizontal FI), now he starts turning. Maybe his head tilts right ever so slightly. But his head seemed to be already overwhelmed with simple pitch trimming, and in the rather usual turn, when he checks his bank angle, he sees still looking at the horizontal FI line as the "top" line, which in his head now becomes his vertical FI. Anyways, he starts following that perceived "top right" line in his head (which is actually the horizontal FI), believing it is the vertical FI, pulling up to match it. He also starts rolling right to walk onto it from the left. However his untrimmed plane doesnt quite pitch up enough and because his right roll inputs dont relflect on the horizontal FI line he keeps adding right aileron to "turn", but nothing happens. He does neither correct the heading overshoot nor the bank angle alarm, because hes completely lost track of the vertical FI line (heading) "off to his left". Only when he notices the vertical FI line to the left, he abruptly corrects the bank. His brain was doing exactly what its supposed to, it tried to follow a point on the FI, only that it's not following the intersect of the vertical and horizontal FI line, instead it was following the closest point on the horizontal FI line. His brain reduces the workload by not calculating the deviation from the vertical AND horzontal line, but simply the deviation from the horizontal line in x and y direction. Source: playing games with vehicles on steep inclines instead of sleeping, my geometric understanding playing these jokes on me

Hello I'm from Lebanon I was 9 years old when i was studying next to my parents when I saw on the news the picture and the live video of the search and rescue of the plane in the sea I'm almost 24 years old and still think about that flight and what could've caused it since I couldn't find any info about it.. Thank you for giving me the answer I've been looking for for so long! And Great video as always! And again thank you!

17:19 BA callsign "Flappy Bird" instead of "Speed Bird" 😅

Im amazed how can such a BASIC instrument like the horizon be THAT ignored. Like literally 90 out of 100 crashes could have been avoided by looking at the damn thing !

It sounds to me that the pilots first comment about weed in the food makes sense.

😢 Just realized Connie Sellick isn’t in this video! (🤣there was a movie about this. She played the copilot)

Whatever the cause, the PF forgot how to fly. It sounds like this accident was avoidable in so many ways. It keeps making me wonder though, would a flight engineer (3rd person in the cockpit) have been able to help rectify this situation?

Very well made and decently careful. Have you watched the investigator Ashton Forbes' theory on Redacted - The video is titled "MH370 Mystery Solved! ..."? It's a rather captivating theory with a kind of scifi and ufo-related ending of the flight. Redacted don't limit themselves when it comes to speculations ;O)

Air Chance . . . . . the list is long & nothing very pretty in there.

2:00 Fun fact: the Center of Lift is slight behind the Center of Gravity. Hence 'trimming' the Stabilizer is important to adjust the Angle of Attack.

The MD-11 was not "poorly designed". This was an incompetent bunch of Chinese morons on the flightdeck.

seems like the pilot became spatially disoriented, and gradually irretrievably confused, possibly due to looking outside, which can be perilous with all the plane's flashing lights, the lightening flashes, the turbulence going thru clouds, the clouds passing by at high speed, the up pitch and turning movements, add in fatigue and even an experienced captain can become overwhelmed. He should have turned the controls over to the 1st officer until he could recover his orientation and confidence, or put the AP on S&L and declare emergency with area controller who would then also understand how to further protect and vector the flight

In addition to all the mistakes highlighted on this video, I think there is a point about those RNP (LNAV only) approaches. The aircraft has the vertical GPS altitude , it has all the information to provide a vertical guidance, or at least a vertical monitoring, and it does not do it. Looks like something stupid... The RNP approaches with vertical guidance (VNAV?) are much safer.

' there is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen'

The De Gaulle tower personnel were not exactly covering themselves in glory on this day. Between the repeatedly and systematically botched QNH callouts and their inaction in response to the terrain alert, they really made a mess of things. Replacing the North Tower controller during the go-around was the first intelligent thing they did all day. I'm glad to see that the BEA didn't cover for the tower controllers or whitewash their repeated mistakes.

Muckalucks

"When you get the feeling that something isn't right, always speak up and ask." That's the best advice ever given.

Thats a deeper meaning. You know that the plane was a good one. You have flown it. But like all tools you need to be fully aware of its capabilities. Of which sometimes exceed our own capabilities. I took a 4 hour stint on the 737 simulator. Trim and stuuf like that was a mystery. I got it in the end. What an experience. I pictured myself as you there in that cockpit. Keep up the good work.

Anyone important on that flight? Any passenger with political or other affiliations?