Aviation's Most Bizarre Incident of 2024 - Turkish Airlines Flight 1046

[@igorzlobinski738]

Love this format. Excellent graphics, sound and explanations without any unnecessary stuff. Thank you

[@MohsinTaufiq-vu6yb]

I have travelled Turkish Airlines many many times from Atlanta to Bombay and I found Turkish airlines to be one of the very best airline with quality and professional service.

[@lordfarquaad7054]

I too have travelled with turkish airlines almost everytime and they are very skilled pilots, I believe this was maybe their last flight for the day and they were just really tired cause I know from a pilot friend even tho everything is mostly autonomous its still tiring work, Im just glad it wasnt anything more than some broken lights and a damaged front wheel

[@macwyll]

@@lordfarquaad7054 It's interesting the the pilots could hear they were destroying the lights but continued on anyway. If they're that tired they should not have flown at all.

[@donalfinn4205]

Just goes to show how important it is to have a good copilot with you, and not a nodding donkey.

[@imtrxshy6977]

😂nodding donkey got me

[@ivangim1]

The Turkish Airline pilot should have been made to undergo alcohol/drug tests upon landing in Turkey. There's no way he could not have known that his plane had taken off at the edge of the runway and damaged so many runway lights as well as to his aircraft. No normal pilot does that.

[@onee]

I don’t think it’s alcohol or drugs. I’ve heard of Turkish Airlines pilots sometimes being overworked and because of that sleep deprived.

[@macwyll]

Agreed! I'm callin shenanigans on this one!

[@cann_1132]

There are a few topics to add here; - After takeoff clearance, just before the actual takeoff, ATC told them the next frequency, and the Captain instructed the First Officer to input it into the RMP, which distracted both pilots. - They managed to take off, but before landing, they received an ECAM warning indicating that the nose landing gear tires were flat. - They declared a MAYDAY, which alerted IST ground. In the same time, OTP ground noticed that the lights are broken. - Following the incident, the pilots were fired.

[@macwyll]

Thank you for supplying this additional info. The MPC Flights people seem to leave out a bunch of aftermath information that the viewers would like to know. I wanted to like this channel but this is the second vid I've watched that didn't give us as much details as they should, so I can't subscribe

[@Nobilangelo]

Turkish de-light.

[@MGTOW2025]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Peterlenga21]

😂

[@KodadımN]

BİTCH İ AM FROM TURKEY PLS NOT KİDDİNG

[@simonrajan3945]

Erdogan special

[@itsmeugur8408]

the average European you have a shit European Union and an average sense of humour .

[@Simselli]

I cannot understand how 2 commercial pilots could make such a mistake as lining up with the edge of a runway.

[@57Jimmy]

Air Canada. KSFO. Almost landing on several aircraft on a taxiway😳 There have been others too. Sounds like rushing to rolling takeoff from an intersection which within limits is certainly much shorter. Generally even though there are two pilots, one is flying and the other is monitoring the instruments. In the rush to go, the one monitoring is focusing solely on the instruments as he should. The one flying focusing on ‘gettin’ outa Dodge’ believes he is lined up so therefore MUST be lined up. ‘Conformation Bias’ This could have been ohh so much worse!

[@rgpyt96]

Exactly

[@ArthurTanner-d7s]

Fatigue, distraction, confirmation bias……….. How many would you like?

[@Nacokes89]

Training quality of the pilots is also a contributing factor, since we know lot of unprofessional got hired in the past with low level of English and very low level of aviation knowledge, they’re many cases where this company had issues with pilot mistakes and its no coincidence . Luckily they have a modern fleet in order to let the aircraft fly the pilots…..unfortunately.

[@HonorV2ultimate1tb]

hangover from last nites all nite orgy

[@zappababe8577]

ATC to the pilots: "We have a number for you to call"

[@miket2120]

Yeah, the first number was to the guys in the shop who had to repair all the damage.

[@jamiecheslo]

Something no pilot EVER wants to hear from ATC.

[@craigcowan2971]

I’m reminded of the Delta Connection flight that took off from the wrong runway at Lexington, KY. They noticed the lights were off, but still never picked up on their mistake until they ran out of runway.

[@getsmarter5412]

Rarely mentioned is the Kentucky pilots 1st entered the wrong plane and were about to fire it up when ground crew pointed out their mistake. I’m sure that contributed to their overall confusion.

[@TracyDavis-l5g]

Yes, it happened in August, 2006....I remember this. There were about [50] passengers, and crew. Everyone [perished], except the First Officer, who eventually had to have his leg [amputated], due to the crash.🙏

[@Snorkel1205]

The real question here is....why would anybody want to leave Lexington, Kentucky? At the very end of the 6th day, just before wrapping things up, God created Kentucky and made the grass blue! What a sense of humor God has so I just might squeak into Heaven. But it's not looking good.

[@bluecoffee8414]

​@@getsmarter5412Wow I did not know that. I saw an interview with the surviving pilot. Very sad. His guilt (and injuries) are terrible

[@DİLEKAVAN-w2z]

İdiots

[@MrDiaconescua]

Also happened to a Tarom ATR in 2016. Same thing, only they had to abort takeoff. Maybe something confusing with the lights on OTP?

[@hhhhhhhhhhhh-f6p]

i think since they entered 1/3 of runway they didnt notice white and yellow light difference kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6mwXoxoaZqei9Esi=h80G7IijkAdiAxyW

[@Rheatown217]

Unreal. How do you confuse edge lights for the centerline lights? Aren't they in the......center?

[@yeeeaaahmayneee3808]

It would be hard to understand even if there is only one person in cockpit,but 2 people ? That’s scary

[@ats-3693]

Imagine driving down a road straddling the road edge marker line with two wheels in the dirt wondering why the road seemed so wide out to the other side.

[@robav8or]

They’re lucky they didn’t ingest debris into their engines.

[@richardmorin6968]

How did the Bucharest airport authorities manage not to advise that flight about their mistake before they landed ?

[@Ozymandi_as]

Would they have known immediately that it was the Turkish Airlines plane that had caused the damage? We're not told how the damage was first noticed, but I assume it wasn't the tower, who would surely have said something if they had. Side on to a distant runway at night, would they have spotted it, even if they weren't absorbed in their screens? No, I'm much, much more concerned with the awareness of the pilots who steered off the centreline as they turned onto the runway, threw the engines into full thrust then bumped down the side of the runway hearing loud bangs as they accelerated to take off, but didn't raise any concern until they encountered a problem steering their nose gear in Istanbul. However, when did they first notice their mistake? Any pilot who makes a significant error that might affect the structural integrity of their aircraft is surely under a duty to acknowledge it as soon as possible, rather than wait until it becomes apparent to others. I hope they have both been suspended pending an investigation.

[@christopherhennessey8991]

The A330 is one hell of a nice looking widebody jet.

Great visualisation. Utterly nerve wracking.

[@Nacokes89]

It’s the attitude of the pilots, the chain of mistakes starts because they try to rush for departure, situational awareness is like 0. One might can do an mistake but at least the other pilot is there to catch any mistake, but honestly im not surprised ….

[@notmenotme614]

Mmmm I wonder why the runway is much more narrow to our right than it is to our left?

[@tonybeam]

An amazing production with fabulous explanations and graphics. I am now a follower.

[@MPCFlights]

Thanks Tony and welcome.

[@eduardodaquiljr9637]

So control tower and pilot itself could not determine if the plane is on the center of runway despite so many sensors and monitors on the aircraft?

[@chandrachurniyogi8394]

very very weird flight crew, almost like the pilot & co-pilot are in a state of trance & oblivious to what's happening with the aircraft . . . A330-300 & all its iterations stem from the legendary A300-600R (A300B4-600R) wide body jet . . . and has proved to be quite a sturdy & decently reliable airframe so far . . .

[@Aircraft1606.]

Turkish Airlines Flight 1046 CVR Transcript 2:19 TOWER: Turkish 1046‚ number 1. Continue taxiing via Delta. 2:27 TOWER:Cleared for takeoff runway 26L. 2:34 PILOT: Taxiing via Delta. Cleared for takeoff runway 26L. 4:15 PILOT: Takeoff. 5:22 PILOT: ROTATE. 6:23 GPWS: One Thousand... 6:43 GPWS: Five Hundred....

[@rondar2]

Both of the pilots are fired btw.

[@4693-v1m]

Incredible... in the true sense of the word!

[@glocke380]

Did the co-pilot participate in this take off at all?

[@Integral77777]

I think they noticed it but it was too late to rotate and they decided to take off. I think they were drunk. That is not normal.

[@Ozymandi_as]

The pilots, it seems, did not raise any concerns until they had difficulty sterring their plane in Istanbul. However, are we to believe they steered off the centre line as they turned onto the runway, then bumped and bounced down the side of the runway, accompanied by loud bangs, as they accelerated away to takeoff, without noticing thay anything was amiss? That seems quite unlikely. If a commercial pilot of a plane carrying hundreds of passenger makes a significant mistake that potentially affects the structural integrity of his aircraft, should he a) own up to it straightaway, out of concern for the safety of his paasengers, or b) wait until such time as it becomes apparent to some other responsible party, in the hope that he might get away with it? I'm not a pilot myself, but I feel that this question should not be difficult.

[@richardshiggins704]

Excellent graphics as usual . An extraordinary event really though usually there is a Runway Alignment Indicator in the cockpit to confirm both correct runway and alignment .

[@hhhhhhhhhhhh-f6p]

normal center lights and edge lights are differeny color center white edge yellow

[@41izmit]

Those runways don't have any different color lights for the side of them running along?

[@hhhhhhhhhhhh-f6p]

apparently edge lights meant to be yellow and center line to be white kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6mwXoxoaZqei9Esi=h80G7IijkAdiAxyW

[@donosodemaistre2764]

Smashing all the lights, maybe these two pilots had a blast, a little fun on the job.

[@cattinkerbell4946]

Sounds like drunk to me...

[@donosodemaistre2764]

@@cattinkerbell4946 or high as a kite resp. an aircraft. :)

[@foooooob]

Anybody would have noticed that the airplane is at the wrong place.......So professional pilots!

[@majorp7967]

What license do you have??

[@foooooob]

@majorp7967 The licence of free speech.

[@yeeeaaahmayneee3808]

@@majorp7967do you think those 2 idiots in cockpit should have license,neither of them noticed that they are taking off from the edge of the runway,5 year old child would notice it

[@michaelvilleneuve194]

Seriously? How can stuff like this happen???

[@DrMackSplackem]

No way to say without more information. I wonder what their duty time looks like. Extreme fatigue can explain some baffling human performance errors.

[@AlonsoRules]

dead of night played a part

[@kenzo1708]

Turkish Airlines are famous for their shitty pilots and safety record but great food&service in their premium cabin

[@michaelvilleneuve194]

@@kenzo1708 I didn't know that first part, but having flown with them a LOT in biz class I can definitely say it was among the best of the best.

[@michaelvilleneuve194]

@@DrMackSplackem True eh?

[@josieann5031]

3:16 "the pilots seemed to be in a hurry." This is a bad sign.

[@Dealer.on.Vacation]

Great timing for youtube to advertise this video to me when in 4 days I have a flight from Havana to Istanbul with Turkish Airlines...🙄😬😶‍🌫️

[@OzgurNevres]

I flew with Turkish Airlines, to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, just 2 months after Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 that crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport 😅

[@jeanneewaseck6635]

I know this is going to be another great video - so, thank you!

[@ibrahimhcaglayan]

This is precisely why I do my best to fly during daylight hours.

[@MsTatli]

I can picture a movie scene... starts like this : Pilot in command comes into the cockpit... trips over has his right eye injured by a cloth hanger , then co-pilot follows the PIC , he trips as well and has his right eye injured by the same cloth hanger.. They say Oh well ! we need to make it to istanbul by " (input a self censured word) " . They sat down and each get a black cloth attached to to their right eye by the flight attendant ... They look each other, smile and align the plane with the right edge of the runway... end of scene ... That said : definitely lucky that nose wheel did not collapse on landing and lucky that nobody got injured ...

[@giglambert8787]

@MsTatli it’s clothes hanger … did you not know this? you typed it twice😱🤭LOL

[@nikiforospetrakis2260]

At least in Bucharest they make runways very good even beyond the edges of them.

[@Spellregent]

Honestly, this is unbelievable. 2 so called professional pilots and both are blind or what? This is freaking insane. This is a serious incident that more people should give attention to, it could have very well ended in disaster. Luck just played its role here tbh.

[@doylepro]

We knew the usual thuds noticed during take off /rotations but this must have much louder than usual..boy oh boy they must have been homesick or something to rush without noticing that

[@traveltalesbypiano3749]

Having just subtitles makes me not being able to listen to it in the background. Sorry, guys. I have left.

[@giglambert8787]

scary no one noticed…what sort of punishment has been handed down?? I did notice before entering the runway the plane from the captain’s side …his line up was off to per video. he had not centered the plane on the taxiway!

[@hhhhhhhhhhhh-f6p]

did airport runway had yellow white red and green color lights on runway? video does not show or mention how colors are used normally

[@gazing-out-the-window]

I’m not surprised considering the runway overkill at IST.

[@capenovegia]

Pull them from the line. Unqualified.

[@Jagatrakhshkan350]

This must be a video game, no-one in the world would align like this

[@ergunyildizoglu8018]

Pilots were probably drunk.😂😂😂

[@donaldwilson5693]

Amazing that neither of the nose wheel tires blew out.

[@phugoid]

Pretty clownish, for sure, but the edge lights are largely sunken, much like those on the runway centre line. I don't know how an aircraft running over could actually destroy them! Lots of hierarchical issues in the Turkish culture and therefore, the younger pilot in the flight deck would've been wary of piping up if indeed the PIC was the PF. If, OTOH, the PIC was PM, he deserves a rebuke and retraining.

[@41izmit]

If it was in UK they would close the whole airport to repair those lights which to me over exaggerating things as usual in UK.Also did Romanians contact to airline or Istanbul Airport to inform what happened sooner?

[@maxon-m3c]

What's the old joke about getting licenses out of a box of Cracker Jacks!

[@ArthurTanner-d7s]

That’s only for FAA licences.

[@clqudy4750]

Any experienced pilot knows it's easier and more fun to take off from the taxiways, and then land directly at the gate. That's what I always do.

[@MyGod-gw4bt]

i also graduated from the harrison ford flight school

[@MGTOW2025]

@@clqudy4750 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ramarakeshv]

How such a silly mistake can happen beyond me

[@atamme1]

All the while the tower was a sleep, no warnings to the pilot that he was off course!!!???

[@jjaus]

Surely any pilot would see the painted runway sign as you line up.

[@kemaldemir1832]

It is a shame to me, as pilots you're representing your airline and country and you do so a dumb thing? They must have noticed that something was going terribly wrong there. As passenger I'd have felt more than only uncomfortable such in that take-off...

[@envitech02]

WTF??? I think they destroyed dozens of the runway edge lights. These jut out about 1 foot above the surface. More importantly debris could be ingested into the engines.

[@RaineStudio]

So those guys are still flying. What will they forget next time? The flaps, maybe?

[@allardk21]

…not a case of forgetting…but misidentifying the edge.lights as the center line. Happened many times…

[@V4raggare]

The passengers? 😄

[@ilkermcevik]

İşlerine son verildi pilot yabancı idi

[@ilkermcevik]

.işlerine son verildi pilot Türk değildi

[@titan1235813]

Funny, you're depicting a Boeing 777 on the outside, while the cockpit is that of an Airbus 320 family. Please, be truthful and accurate with your videos. Thank you.

[@MPCFlights]

It's an A330...

[@titan1235813]

​@@MPCFlights Good, it's an Airbus A330, then, NOT a Boeing B777.

[@MPCFlights]

@@titan1235813 That's no 777, go get your eyes checked mate.

[@titan1235813]

Absolutely right, dude. My bad. I should pay more attention next time. Apologies for the gaffe.

[@Nervisor23]

@@titan1235813no problem, happens to people all the time

[@yuckabuster]

Nice job sir.

[@N1611n]

They should've gone to Specsavers! 🤣🤣🤣

[@AsherJohnson-k1i]

LOL

[@N1611n]

@AsherJohnson-k1i 🤣🤣🤣

[@dennisyoung4631]

“…drunk with fatigue…” Being tired makes everything harder…

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

Were the pilots huffing nitrous oxide when they took off?

[@abdurrahmanhani5479]

In aviation everything is possible unless being focused on the flight.

[@charlesduran8700]

What were those pilots thinking

[@N1611n]

They weren't thinking!

[@Aluminata]

Allegedly thinking. Innocent until proven guilty. 😂

[@ioanplesa]

Mistakes happen. Imagine multitasking 10 things at once, while being extremely tired at night in a widebody operating in a small airport such as LROP.

[@yeeeaaahmayneee3808]

@@ioanplesadon’t try to make excuses for them,they are professional pilots in charge of a plane that carries more than 250 souls,wonder if you would be saying the same thing if someone close to you was on board and dies because of such a stupid mistake

[@user975bg]

Unbelievable! How is this possible?!

[@cattinkerbell4946]

Sound like drunk to me...

[@aeyb701]

One of those lights could have burst a tire into fragments at rotation speed, no? Seems to have run over enough of em: oops, another AF4590. Or am I fulloshiht? Looks like he used Google maps to site the plane on the runway rather than his own eyes. And the other guy…did they both not see it?

[@cfrB1641]

This is a video game that you watch..

[@THELIFEOFPRICE]

crazy

[@AeiKei]

Date was pretty close to Ramadan, just 8 days after. Considering they had a very tiring schedule during the last month and almost no food this could explain the lack of awareness about the situation

[@Ezel21love]

Zero situation awareness. These two pilots need more training.

[@hermanprodj]

The pilots maybe high, even higher than the plane could fly

[@daviddenham1511]

We did this at Etihad……AUH-DUB one foggy night….A330…..it’s documented

[@m.afakyanc8581]

But that was a foggy night and possibly the visibility was too low. In this case, there's no fog!!!

[@Injudiciously]

Love that music at the end

[@jimbo4260]

Makes no sense whatsoever. What was their explanation for this?

[@foxtrot_delta3042]

Nice visuals, but can't you have a voice over? You would get a lot more followers if you added the voice over for those wanting to listen rather than have to stay glued to the screen.

[@josieann5031]

A human voice. NOT the horrible AI so many KZbin channels are using.

[@FelippaRodrigues]

Hey Um.... MPC... Can You Do a Recreation Of *TransAsia Flight 510* And *Aero Transporti Italiani Flight 460?* Thanks. Have a Good Day....

[@MidnightWarrior1976]

Bizarre is right. Remind me not to fly with them.

[@ioanplesa]

That's a stupid statement to say for such a big airline that has a very good safety record.

[@MidnightWarrior1976]

@@ioanplesa You are right. Maybe they have improved.

[@ElaborateTiger]

Why were they using an A330 on a 1 and a half hour flight?

[@herceg6772]

But hey, they still landed in Istanbul airport, not on the main street with lights.

[@tangram72]

Not at all the most bizarre incident , there are dozens of much more bizarre things in aviation history.. A bit of exaggeration

[@deanguilliams8076]

All pilots be aware of complacency.

[@imtrxshy6977]

Knowing full well something like this could have caused another concord disaster just irks me.

[@storeparts]

If they were old fighter pilots, maybe they were preparing for a rote start

[@cfrB1641]

This was a video game that you watched 😅

[@hubbezoglu]

but why?

[@markcardwell]

Thank you

[@TikoV73]

I fly the Airbus and am sure other pilots here will agree that the PFD (Primary Flight Display) shows the runway centerline so why this wasn't even noticed is surprising.

[@JustYourRandomTurk]

100% fatigue. I was questioning the same too.

[@jeanettenorman7052]

Pilot ERROR

[@MehmetSadettinAkel]

Incredible story

[@ApollonDriver]

Rush and fatigue

[@m.afakyanc8581]

I wonder how wide the sideway (bankway) at that airport is. If its 7.5mt wide (as the standard() then TC-LOC's right (main) landing gear was also running not on that concrete surface but on grass... If it is 15mt. than o.k. the right landing gear ran on the bankway. Plus the risk of taking up FODS on No.2 engine!

[@aydincesur5570]

non professional behaviour

[@camillabrifjord727]

They must have been drunk. Hope the company checked it.

[@srdjan6004]

Search for Air Serbias incident with taxiway and ILS Sys involving Embraer.

[@johnfisher7143]

Expectancy bias is seeing exactly what you expect to see. For whatever reason they saw the centre lights which were actually the edge lights. We’ve all done something similar in our lives.

[@benyomovod6904]

Feet, what is this in Sqirreltails?

[@guneskilicistanbul1744]

Hard to believe! How come and why would the pilots filmed the bizarre take-off, bumping on all the side lights! How and why would the plane be videoed from inside and outside, with its tail logo deliberately lit all through the take-off, ascending and landing? Hard to believe, must be verified as to me it seems like an animation.

[@keithalderson100]

Indeed it is! It is using the flight sim to accurately represent what ACTUALLY happened... detail taken from the accident report.

[@kazemsharifan1372]

The pilot thought is 2 ways road (run way)

[@Joy_Entertainment7]

Probably these Turkish pilit played a lot with Atari, so they thought they get higher scores by hitting mire lights on the ground.

[@sonerguner3382]

I have never heard of this incident as a citizen of Turkey, I will search. I can simply say that where the plane has landed is not Istanbul, it is artificial graphics. So I wonder if the take off graphics are real.

[@keithalderson100]

None of the video is real; it is all done using the flight details and accident report to then REPLICATE the exact flight as closely as possible using the simulation of a flight game.

[@sonerguner3382]

@@keithalderson100 Yes, you are right. I have read the incident from other sources as well. Thanks for the explanation.

[@bunglejoy3645]

Pilot not aware tgere was an issue i could see on either side of runway it was greyish asphelt compared to black of nain runway. Was the other colour grass

[@safirahmad8262]

Nice computer generated images