An Engine That CAUGHT FIRE Mid-Flight! | Airtours Flight 28 | Mayday: Air Disaster

[@MaydayAirDisaster]

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[@patrickperalta59]

I have a question when they search for the Recorders in the plane wreckage...... why do they call them "Black Boxes".. when the color is orange....why not just call them orange boxes.

[@mattedward6155]

Nothing is more relieving then seeing a passenger interview in one of these

[@CynthiaSchoenbauer]

I feel I know exactly what you mean! I don't know if everyone is going to perish... I am always holding out hope that not everyone is going to die. I gives me a little bit of a hopeless feeling. I want to know that we can always win when we struggle against "death" of any kind.

[@couch2558]

Extra relief comes when you see a pilot interview

[@orioledtd]

Except for that one from Japan where only a handful out of 500+ survived the crash on the mountain.

[@CanuckTony]

True dat….

[@CanuckTony]

@@orioledtd yes, exactly the point

[@joefleming1053]

That flight attendant is is the true hero in this story in my opinion, for going back into the smoke to rescue people

[@lisaschuster686]

They always play a crucial role in evolving disasters.

[@Uvray]

That poor captain was clearly still suffering talking about it. Not his fault at all. The flight attendant was a real hero.

[@patriot9455]

No matter how safe travel is, all the improvements are written in blood and bracketed by grave markers. That will never change, life is a series of risks

[@gishileh]

Thanks for all flight attendants. They ar all real heroes.

[@rosered5939]

The flight attendant who went back in is one brave woman.

[@LastAvailableAlias]

The way airlines keep trying to cram passengers into smaller and smaller spaces makes the likelihood of a successful evacuation less and less

[@houstonbalaji4768]

1985 was indeed the worst year for commercial aviation. I was getting ready to make my very first overseas flight in Dec 1985 and the news about the accidents kept coming in at constant intervals. I remember having such mixed emotions as I stepped into my Air India 747 for the flight to New York’s JFK.

[@LastAvailableAlias]

30:20 If planes had cameras that allowed the pilots to see all of the plane's exterior they could've seen the flames and how they were being directed against the plane and possibly turned it around. They would have also seen it wasn't a tire blowout but an engine failure. Small cameras have become much more technically feasible since 1985 and better quality. I don't know why there is resistance to putting cameras around a plane now since they are so cheap.

[@TheSjuris]

Anything that adds weight or drag increases the amount of fuel needed to fly. More fuel means more money and fewer passengers.

[@Darkkfated]

I suppose that makes sense from a 1983 perspective, when they probably would have had to use bulky close-circuit TV-style cameras, but these days you could inbed Cell Phone-style cameras directly in the hull, giving views of the entire plane exterior, and not affect weight or aerodynamics hardly at all.

[@brandonyen7837]

I thought the same thing too why not install a cameras for the pilots 😮

[@Ryvaken]

Pilots already face an information overload from too much information presented inefficiently. If there was a third man operating systems in the cockpit, this would be feasible. With just two? You don't want them flipping through camera feeds trying to find something to look at.

[@JohnTom-p1n]

Probably because there are hundreds more sensors than in 1985.

[@thepolitewierdo]

I’m sure widening the aisles would help too, but that would make it harder to squeeze people in like sardines.

[@scjincascadia]

All about profit at the end of the day not safety

[@thepolitewierdo]

@@scjincascadia 100%! One Boeing executive who was one of the people that withheld information that directly lead to the crash of both a Lion Air and Ethiopian Airways plane lost his job but the poor man only received 62 million dollars in bonuses. It’s a slap in the face to the victims and their loved ones. The greed is extraordinary!

[@scjincascadia]

@@thepolitewierdo that’s fucking insane didn’t know about that… there seems to be a lot of no compensation to the victims families the flight that crashed in 2012 into the ocean also have just lost a case this year against the airline. It’s so frustrating and disgusting let alone - and I don’t like bringing it up bc of conspiracy nuts but mh370 still not being solved and the search being called off after seeing all these other stories now baffles me. No excuse for not finding the black boxes Imo. The greed is astounding

[@k_spats]

Rest in Peace to the 55 souls lost. 🕊

[@terriehumphries6028]

I was a teen in 1985 and remember how this fire started controversy of sitting in back verses sitting in the front. I remember my Aunt and Uncle discussing this and the plane crash that happened at DFW, we lived in the DFW area and I still do.

[@suehart919]

Flight attendant a true heroine. What about the little girl? Who went off without her?

[@tramer76]

Seriously, Im addicted to Mayday.

[@nageeb96]

its the best on youtub as it were

[@spectrastar2749]

Welcome to the club of Mayday

[@motionless_horizon]

Same! I wish there were new episodes, I feel like I’m running out of ones I haven’t watched lol

[@spectrastar2749]

@@motionless_horizon They are producing new episodes, but they won't be showing up on KZbin for a while.

[@cassandrajohnson8621]

Same.

[@garyphillips3552]

How do you design emergency door that doesn't open in an emergency. They said they opened it too quickly. Isn't that what you do in an emergency?

[@kathrynhoward4196]

They also said it was a flaw in the door's design, and that it was fixed.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

1985 was so fun in the New Wave era, I was too busy working and having fun to remember any of this.

[@parmaman8551]

Pilots did well to stop. We've seen previous disasters where pilots took off even when they hear a loud bang.

[@cycadence2577]

The narrative about the failure of the combustor burner can is, for the most part, correct. After the details of the Airtours incident became known, the engine manufacturer (Pratt and Whitney) issued Service Bulletins to alert all operators world-wide of the failure and devised new maintenance limits and inspection criteria.

[@soupwifey]

I was a child flying all the time in 1985. The only accident I remember is the Delta one at DFW. That's the airport I flew in and out of that year. My parents probably remember the other ones on the news. I was too busy playing outside or playing video games to worry about watching the news.

[@davidbullock289]

Fire and money created the same effect with people getting out of the plane that was crazy

[@MegaKaitouKID1412]

In terms of smoke hoods, I have to agree with the school of thought that complicating evacuation is going to make it slower. Smoke is dangerous, but in a fire situation the ultimate goal is to get everyone as far from the fire as you can as fast as possible, and if that can be done effectively with an actual plane's worth of people without smoke hoods then adding smoke hoods to the picture may not be worth the slow down. That said, there should be some available and flight crew should absolutely be comfortable with and trained to grab smoke hoods for themselves in proper situations, which would have helped the flight attendant who was looking for passengers on the plane after the survivors had evacuated.

[@AccidentallyOnPurpose]

They did have smoke hoods for the crew, but they didn't use them, and they were in an inconvenient place. Honestly, the crew's smoke hoods should be at every single emergency exit. They are the ones going to be on the plane longest and therefore most likely to die from smoke inhalation.

[@NXTangl]

Seeing Thatcher promise investigations into the cause somehow doesn't fill me with confidence...

[@SusanInSFL]

Yup. She was an awful person, imho.

[@tbone3972]

Some things make no sense, on a plane people rush off to stay alive, on the road drivers rush to die.

[@KoVLiberty]

That one woman who decided to get up is a damn fool. You're still on the ground. You'll get out. All you're doing is causing a panic.

[@SusanInSFL]

Agree. And yet, we were forced to listen to her ‘wisdom’ for far too long in this film.

[@dweebicusmaximus]

“You’ll get out?” 55 people didn’t, and she was sitting way too close to the engine. her fear was completely justified What, do you assume everyone who died died of natural causes?

[@KoVLiberty]

@@dweebicusmaximus because she caused a panic, that's why. Yes, it's scary. The quickest way out is in an orderly fashion not jamming people at the door to the point where they can't move. Every second counts and it wasn't a large plane. If they all got stuck for just two minutes, that's time that could have been spent evacuating everyone. Seat maxes and evac drills are a thing. This is calculated science and one of the exact scenarios that would have been practiced for.

[@dazzlingextremes389]

Forget that mess when your plane is ON FIRE YOU JUST GET STOPPED AND GET OFF.

[@sitolm9791]

Why wouldn’t the door open? Damnitman! They could have gotten off twice as fast if both front doors had opened

[@dianehardison2133]

It is not unusual for exit doors not to open after a plane has had a serious problem. The explosion may have caused it to jam

[@CynthiaSchoenbauer]

Exactly. It is designed to only work for the safety drills when there is not a threat to life and limb... otherwise, all bets are off. When the pressure is on, they don't step up.

[@kyhunter0249]

The video literally said why the door didn't open and boeing fixed the issue

[@kyhunter0249]

43:33

[@JeremyAtkins1]

Mid-flight? They were taking off

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

Well, the description box just below the video says they were in a Boeing 767. The accident aircraft was a 737. British Airtours never flew the 767 and British airways didn't acquire the 767 until 1990. The accident flight took place in August of 1985. You can't expect the producers of this video to get ALL of the minor details correct can you?

[@nicholasimlach1787]

Also thank God they didn't reach rotation speed before the can blew up. I doubt very much that they would have been able to execute a safe successful landing

[@neilsunn]

Three nonfunctional exit doors was not considered related to deaths?

[@kathrynhoward4196]

The simulations of evacuations were done using only two doors, so the two rear doors' not being available shouldn't have affected the overall survival rate of the passengers. The third door's being jammed, however, _was_ a factor, which was addressed at 43:29.

[@giselestrauch5146]

a bad month was this one, I lost my mom on august 28 1985 from her own health problems in nyc

[@Theonewhoseeks12]

I’m so sorry for you

[@boblawblaw6875]

Lindsay sure caused a lot of unnecessary panic

[@isabellind1292]

Spot on!

[@carlseiz1266]

The worst thing you can do in a situation like that is panic

[@nageeb96]

looks like in the 80s we had great music and very bad Aviation Calamities.

[@davidbullock289]

Wait, what caused the stuck door or the door to be stuck?

[@kathrynhoward4196]

The answer is at 43:29.

[@samanthagomez7074]

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[@CASPER721CD]

They should have an override to open exit doors faster instead of losing precious time as crew goes through shutdown list.

[@moneykingmm9298]

Many aircraft operations active are dangerous to people leaving a passenger aircraft by emergency ramps or other methods. It would be pretty bad to have a passenger sucked into a jet engine in operation! The order to evacuate is after all aircraft operations dangerous to people leaving the aircraft are shut down.

[@nicholasimlach1787]

That's bloody ridiculous 4pages in a life or death emergency like that. What needs to be done is a system introduced with 1 or 2 switches that performs all the tasks for them. Imagine how much smoother evacuation would have gone with the captain and first officer there. That's not good enough sorry In modern aviation

[@cigarsgunsanddiesel8032]

Yeah if I'm the pilot and there's fire, screw the 15 point checklist... brake set. engines off. GET OUT!

[@breakeverychain7]

So hard to watch knowing the best choice would have been to immediately evacuate. There needs to be a way for attendants to take matters into their own hands.

[@Jetman123]

Thankfully, today, the procedures are such that the head flight attendant/purser may initiate an evacuation without the Captain's consent. A light and alarm appears on the control panel when this happens to inform the flight crew to stop the aircraft and its engines immediately.

[@nickfejes6246]

IMO the lady they interviewed caused many of the deaths by causing a panic by immediately ignoring the attendants and rushing the front before they even stopped. She caused the panic which caused everyone to jam the exit.

[@floridaray3380]

90s to get off in a non-life threatening situations where a$$ holes don't try and get their bags.

[@billybud9557]

plane on fire= evacuate passengers, not "pull off the runway"! Lots of room for improvement here.

[@lisaschuster686]

Someday pilots will have fiber-optics rear view mirrors. They rely on guys in the tower to describe the scene to them!

[@cathybiller9203]

I wouldn't sit there and do a freaking check list

[@SusanInSFL]

So many issues here. Thatcher is so ignorant, she called this a ‘crash’. The woman who pushed and insisted she go out the front first? I really didn’t want to hear a thing she had to say.

[@scottguthrie8074]

Lady in yellow created the panic!! Shares the blame for loss of life!!

[@ArrowXTmstRiztheboi]

This is a reenactment lmao

[@MusicBent]

He’s talking about the lady being interviewed Lindsay Davies. She got up and ran to the front before the evacuation began, and even left her husband behind!

[@SusanInSFL]

Agree. And yet we’re forced to listen to her insane regurgitation in the film.

[@dazzlingextremes389]

I never have understood by every single runway made does not have room so that if something goes wrong they can come to a safe stop it makes no sense to me

[@rogerw-interested]

for the most part they are, thats why they call V1. remember, it was the pilots choice to turn off the runway, many just stop where they can

[@fredukm2481]

Do not understand why they did not limit or eliminate the materials that outgas toxic fumes.

[@kathrynhoward4196]

Assuming they looked into it at all, I imagine they couldn't find materials that didn't create toxic smoke when burned, or that the possible alternatives weren't practical for whatever reason.

[@DrMemory667]

13:00 We have a flight attendant searching the black smoke-filled plan, whilst firefighters in air masks just stand at the bottom of the ramp? Help people at the slide bottom. I do believe they have not properly assigned people their correct tasks. And it killed.

[@circusshizshow]

Good thing all the cameramen were there at the event to document everything exactly as it happened!

[@edheather4056]

@@circusshizshow I really hope you are being sarcastic

[@rogerw-interested]

and how do you propose firefighters get up and into a plane, esp in this case with one working door and everyone exiting?

[@joelsterling1445]

I see in your description that the plane involved was a 767 but the actual type of plane in the video was a 737

[@motojunkie8348]

People are regarded assholes. They'll do anything they can to try and escape a flight no matter how long it takes except leave in an orderly fashion. They'd choose to spend 4 minutes fighting over a spot rather then 2 minutes being patient. Now I see why they call us useless eaters.

[@CynthiaSchoenbauer]

People who need absolutely everything for themselves are called naricissists. Any group with narcissists will have some members die so the narc feels they have enough.

[@Taydrum]

put yourself in a burning tube with 100 other people and I bet you would do the same

[@lisaschuster686]

People jumped over 100 storeys to escape smoke in the Twin Towers.

[@HughMacEachern]

*An Engine That CAUGHT FIRE Mid-Takeoff

[@benbaker2965]

I was so confused. The story of a plane that lost an engine midflight. Damn plane never left the runway.

[@SusanInSFL]

Thatcher was the voice of stupidity here. Ugh.

[@jayrandolph9328]

REALLY? XD Right at 4:20 they used the Wii bowling sound effect when you throw the ball backwards at the crowd lmfao

[@alaska-bornfloridaman]

They really should install a Ring camera on each side of the plane so the pilot can see the engines.

[@cr-qo3ov]

If the airlines weren't so worried about their bottom line they would make these planes out of non flammable material seating the interior all those components but that would be too expensive

[@katherineharvey3669]

How did this happen when you did not take off

[@Jason-qn8ov]

I still can't believe you are required to go through a checklist while the plane is on fire! I couldn't be a pilot because I would get the passengers and myself off the plane and that checklist can burn for all I care to be perfectly honest

[@ShacuLOL]

Soo this is seen as a "mid-flight"? Cool

[@intercity234]

I'm of the oppinion that smoke hoods should be available on planes. Many fires on planes occur in flight, and they can offer valuable protection to passengers.

[@GH-oi2jf]

The aircraft type is wrong in the description. It was a 737-200.

[@Its_a_kind_of_magic71]

Lol after this my Mother would never fly with Airtours 😂😅

[@timnewton9610]

Greedy corporate people and shoddy maintenance practices and the title is wrong it wasn’t mid-flight because it never left the ground

[@Dottie-y2c]

Oh so they cancel the take off at 6:22

[@johneyon5257]

3:35 Capt "Stop!"

[@barbiesandlol3018]

I'm not judging but I have a feeling that if they would turn around and drive opposite direction closer to the fire department they would avoid all that spilling fuel on the ground and devouring the airplane so fast. I know.. easy to say.

[@JohnnyUtah488]

Here is my abbreviated checklist for situations like this: 1. PANIC 2. Soil underwear 3. GTFO! 4. See rule 3

[@Jason-qn8ov]

I must be a bad person because my favorites are the ones that crash with all lost. I don't know why but I watched the ones that Landed last

[@DewYou-zn4ny]

A bunch of EGO,and selfishness, if yuh asks me! Smfh 🤦‍♀️ 😮😢broken people,are sad. 💔 💔 💔 🎉🎉🎉 ✈️/-Tatiana Pereza NJ USA 🇺🇸 XXX ❤❤❤

[@henrysantos121]

Matatan.🔥🐎🔥. Ribirin HS,

[@adamguymon7096]

One: I would have made the isle way not 30 inches wide by I would have made it 36 to 46 inches wide. Two: I would have cameras all over the aircraft so when that boom happened the pilot could have quickly looked to see if there was a fire and where it could have come from of it was a tire like he thought and if he saw something in real time he could have made different decisions than what he made. Instead of turning right after he turned off of the runway, he could have turned left facing the plane away from the wind and not letting the wind blow the fire over the plane. I am DISABLED and use a Powerchair and can't walk at all. In a situation like this, I would not have a prayer?

[@merrynelms5101]

No one said they were glad the accident happened. They said we always learn from every accident and it saves more lives. The one attendant wasn't paying attention to what the guy was saying. She just wanted to be sarcastic. 🙄

[@bibiayube677]

Plane on fire and pilot going through checklist

[@gerdruess9364]

Probably would help to have Doors that open!!!

[@Vespyr_]

I love how that woman with no oxygen mask braved the fire to rescue people but men with protective suits and masks refused to enter.

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

How exactly were they supposed to enter? There aren't any ladders/stairs from the ground to the plane, there are only slides from the exits, it isn't that they refused to enter, it's that they COULDN'T ENTER.

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

@@lindyt3942 Yes I've seen plenty of firetrucks in my 46 years. Now the question is have you ever seen airport firefighting equipment? You're thinking of a firetruck like we typically see driving on city streets. There is rarely a firetruck like we typically think of firetrucks at airports, no ladders, but booms with water cannons on them instead.

[@giselestrauch5146]

low cost planes more chances of mishap

[@arcamean785]

We humans are panicky animals under the best of times but when trapped in a confined space with deadly smoke it's literally everyone for themselves. Sure SOME people are different but just look at events like "black friday" and how animalistic people get over poorly discounted "gifts". edit: We will NEVER see smoke hoods on commercial flights unless people bring their own because FFS they cut out a piece of lettuce to save 54k, why would they ever spend the money on hoods unless it was made federally mandated... oh and they'd lobby against it as too cost prohibitive.

[@thedave5748]

Damn - why werent the rescue workers running through the plane to get those 54 ppl who died?

[@moneykingmm9298]

Because of the fuel

[@atatsmail260]

This is hilarious, it should be Hollywood movie , plane engulfed in fire with three tons of fuel on board, pilot With 4 pages of evacuation list , 3 doors stuck, thick toxic smoke , all jammed to one exit only to be foamed by ground rescue Who decided to distinguish The passengers instead...!

[@breakeverychain7]

She didn’t have a mask to use during the check for any lingering passengers? There really needs to be better protocol for these events.

[@cw5451]

She had a mask available at 35:30, but she didn’t use it.

[@breakeverychain7]

@@cw5451 shame

[@sawahtb]

No one's going to be likely to put those hoods on in a panic.

[@giselestrauch5146]

being 737s always problems?

[@dunreal3]

Probably because there is more 737s than any other airliner on earth.

[@edheather4056]

The 737 was the most widely used commercial aircraft in the world at the time. I think it still is, not sure. Flown the 737 dozens of times without a single glitch. I'd get on a 737 anyday. Most commercial aircrashes over 75% , are caused by human error, not aircraft design One more thing, Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier etc, build aircraft not engines, Pratt &Whitney, G.E. to name two.

[@edheather4056]

Building engines

[@thesilentgeneration]

Believe I would rather be in a driving coffin on the ground than in a flying coffin.

[@mikaelandersson5936]

Airplane manufacturers are responsible for 50% of accidents...the remaining 50% are due to airlines...100% is due to cost savings on the passengers expense. WE, the passengers are expendable....

[@star55551111]

too many seat no easy escape😑

[@I_SuperHiro_I]

It’s obviously not a burst tire…..that wouldn’t cause that….. Ooooo……about that……

[@dexterpoindexter3583]

Where's the "mid-flight" bit? Or is that clickbait, to get old fans to watch again... 😒👎

[@sonicvictory]

They didnt mention an obvious flaw to the aircraft design that jumped off the screen. Why is there only 2 escape doors in back and 2 in front. Fire in back leaves only 2 in front, One dosent work. One door left, dosent get opened until after fire crew was already hosing down the plane. Oh gee lets get all psychological as to why people died. How about 2 escape doors in middle, everyone lives.

[@fetchstixRHD]

Escape doors over the wing, where the burning engine was located?

[@motherofthreeb6337]

FORGET the check list! GET OUT! Yoi can replace a plane, but not a life!

[@moneykingmm9298]

Many aircraft operations active are dangerous to people leaving a passenger aircraft by emergency ramps or other methods. It would be pretty bad to have a passenger sucked into a jet engine in operation! The order to evacuate is after all aircraft operations dangerous to people leaving the aircraft are shut down.

[@helenetroisi4138]

I don’t get it. The pilots are f Doing a check list instead f helping the passengers??

[@moneykingmm9298]

Many aircraft operations active are dangerous to people leaving a passenger aircraft by emergency ramps or other methods. It would be pretty bad to have a passenger sucked into a jet engine in operation! The order to evacuate is after all aircraft operations dangerous to people leaving the aircraft are shut down.

[@SilviaRJW]

because you kept looking behind to make sure charlie is following, many passangerdid not make it--- while a350 crashin japane 380 passangers all survived because charlie was not there --- full of drama rhis epis--

[@MrMississippiMan]

I literally watched this last night. Why is it uploaded again so fast?

[@dexterpoindexter3583]

@MrMississippiMan They love us _so_ much... 😸

[@MrGoesBoom]

Get used to that with this channel, you'll see the same episode around a dozen or so times

[@jongalleog3486]

Its a bloody shame

[@sanju200100]

Boeing as usual .. first it was 737 and then it was 737 max.

[@abzolute.]

NEW CONTENT 😮

[@sabbottart]

Playback speed 1.5X

[@twpizzaman]

plants and people

[@MamaMia84oo7]

There should be a law where woman and children evacuate first and men last after helping them.

[@ClearedAsFiled]

I think there is its called common sense and morality. ....but unfortunately both of them have left the planet....

[@IamTaliaIsrael]

Where's the fire engine's? They should have been coming! Why were taking so long? They should have been coming and behind that plane soon as they called it in smmfh glad they finally made it and got those people off the plane and putting the fire out I don't understand why they don't check those plane's? They need to be more observant when getting those plane's ready to go check everything!🤧 O my goodness I hope everyone is alright 🤧

[@rogerw-interested]

you have to consider safety, you just cant have trucks randomly driving around runways, even in an emergency. fire crews need clearance before crossing runways

[@IamTaliaIsrael]

@@rogerw-interested shiddd sum need to happen quick