Cell phone battery causes fire on board. Southwest Boeing 737 MAX 8 diverts to Palm Beach. Real ATC

THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:
04-AUG-2024. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 (B38M), registration N8889Q, performing flight SWA3204 / WN3204 from Chicago Midway International Airport, IL (USA) to Miami International Airport, FL (USA) was about 80 miles north of Palm Beach International Airport when the flight crew donned oxygen masks, declared an emergency, reported smoke in the cabin and decided to divert to Palm Beach International Airport, FL (USA). Later the pilots reported that there was a fire caused by the cell phone battery and the fire was extinguished. Subsequently they decided to continue their flight to Palm Beach Airport. The airplane landed safely on runway 10 left and continued taxi to the gate.
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Timestamps:
00:17 The airplane starts the descent
00:35 The pilots don oxygen masks and declare an emergency. Smoke in the cabin. They divert to Palm Beach International Airport
03:20 The fire is caused by the cell phone battery. They are diverting to Palm Beach anyway
07:05 The flight crew contacts Tower controller
07:27 Landing at Palm Beach International Airport. Communications on the ground
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THE VALUE OF THIS VIDEO:
THE MAIN VALUE IS EDUCATION. This reconstruction will be useful for actual or future air traffic controllers and pilots, people who plan to connect life with aviation, who like aviation. With help of this video reconstruction you’ll learn how to use radiotelephony rules, Aviation English language and general English language (for people whose native language is not English) in situation in flight, which was shown. THE MAIN REASON I DO THIS IS TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERY EMERGENCY SITUATION, EVERY WORD AND EVERY MOVE OF AIRCRAFT.
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Map, aerial pictures (License (ODbL) ©OpenStreetMap -www.openstreet...) Permission for commercial use, royalty-free use.
Radar screen (In new versions of videos) - Made by author.
Text version of communication - Made by Author.
Video editing - Made by author.
HOW I DO VIDEOS:
1) I monitor media, airspace, looking for any non-standard, emergency and interesting situation.
2) I find communications of ATC unit for the period of time I need.
3) I take only phrases between air traffic controller and selected flight.
4) I find a flight path of selected aircraft.
5) I make an animation (early couple of videos don’t have animation) of flight path and aircraft, where the aircraft goes on his route.
6) When I edit video I put phrases of communications to specific points in video (in tandem with animation).
7) Together with my comments (voice and text) I edit and make a reconstruction of emergency, non-standard and interesting situation in flight.

[@michaelcolletti790]

Emergency handled beautifully by pilots & ATC. Great job all!

[@YouCanSeeATC]

👍

[@D.Lily02]

This is an example of why we're not supposed to pack anything Li-ion batteries in our checked bags!!! If they catch fire in the cabin, they can be extinguished. If they catch fire in the cargo bays, we better pray 🙏 they have a good smoke detection system, fire suppression system, and a really close airport to get down to fast!! Awesome job by this flight crew and ATC!! ❤

[@clqudy4750]

ATC: Any hazmat on board? Pilot: Other than the other 181 cell phone batteries, no!

[@roger7673]

The infant will not have its own smart phone yet. But the pilots tablets also have batteries. j/k

[@tommyrjensen]

The batteries are not really "hazmat". All they do is erupt in fire now and then.

[@smeezekitty]

To be fair, there are literally billions of Li-ion batteries in use and problems with them are very rare all things considered. You can't eliminate all risk from anything

[@john-lk1xd]

Thanks for finding the first part of the emergency, I couldn't. awesome!

[@YouCanSeeATC]

👍👍👍 Thank you 🙂

[@GfDDA1367]

Center controller was busy getting his Jimmy Johns order in, didn't have any time for emergencies

[@user-bc3ho9yv5g]

I’d just start telling them to get the souls, fuel, hazmat from the previous controller every time they ask

[@TC55555]

They need it for the emergency crews! Hazmat needs to be handled different if they landed and a fire started back up!!!

[@user-bc3ho9yv5g]

@@TC55555 i 100% understand it’s needed ONE time. Not 4 times, every controller switch. During an emergency

[@mikelp72]

Yep, exactly. Them asking the question over and over is just ridiculous.

[@zdenekleitner6312]

@@TC55555 but the ATCOs are supposed to relay that information between units...

[@jamescollier3]

Hi. We are 190 people on fire. What runway? eh... I'm lazy

[@thisismetoday]

That was a quick upload

[@Twig-qf9zp]

Its funny my dad was the first officer

[@dxcrcxdr6679]

It amazes me how many times the EMERGENCY Aircraft is distracted from the issue at hand by repeatedly answering the same question over and over and over. They will one day distract an full plane to it's demise by getting shoe sizes of any handicapped infant on oxygen with a blue pacifier carrying hazardous materials. I offer a solution: Side band Squak NOS and current fuel based on verified data on same system giving data on NOS (number of souls on board) and live current fuel all verified by Base\Airline, Flight Crew, Ticketing\Booking, and flight computer or other live fuel sensor data# - sounds hard but I could do it or anyone reading this understanding signals planes maintain\emit. ONLY emitting in-circle public data such as NOS and fuel I digress

[@jamescollier3]

right!!!! Sometimes multiple times, and 100 computers in the system must know this info. have the fire service look it up on a special website. What are they going to do? , hold back some trucks? It's a 737, plan accordingly. Plus, it will be hours before they really need a head count, if something bad happens anyway

[@barryo5158]

It’s ridiculous and someday it will cause a real problem! They need to change the protocol or something, perhaps record the souls, infants and hazmat as part of the a taxi or takeoff checklist and have it readily available to the pilots at all times, on display etc. Same with fuel and time conversion, it should be readily available and in the same place as the aforementioned. Really, the pilots should be able to just press a button to convey the info to ATC.

[@timblack33]

I feel like they could get NOS from company before the emergency aircraft is even on final. I’m fairly certain it’s part of the gate agents paperwork. As far as the fuel remaining, a simple computer program could give a close enough Talley for sequencing and rescue/fire suppression. If the Aircraft just departed, it’s gonna have X fuel based on where it was going plus company policy divert/excess. ARF and ATC would both benefit from a simplified system for fuel management.

[@baddrivingnyc]

Aviate, navigate, communicate in that order. If the pilots were task saturated, then they would not be expected to answer all of these questions. Even in emergencies, there are procedures that must be followed. And it's "its" - "it's" is a contraction of "it is".

[@barryo5158]

@@baddrivingnyc I think the point you’re (contraction of you are) missing, which is hard to believe since you appear to know everything, is that the current “procedure” seems flawed and likely a relic of time when the “communicate” part from your hackneyed phrase was done with much less technology than (not then) that which is available now.

[@sweetdaddydee1314]

Somehow, haters or there will blame boeing for this :p

[@AIRSIDEOPS]

I hope everything goes smoothly!

[@Michael_K_Woods]

Was that a 16.9 kt crosswind gusting 26.3kt? Goodness.

[@waynesummey5051]

Was the phone a Samsung? Everything Korean seems to burst into flames; including my freezer at home. At least that wont fit in my carry on bag.＼(^^)／

[@spn3925]

Wasn't there talk at one time of putting an airtight metal box on planes for things like this

[@SuperSulus]

We do, but not metal boxes, rather fireproof bags.

[@mikecomeau3038]

That bag has to now be replaced after use. Hope they have one at Palm Beach, otherwise that plane isn't going anywhere. ​@SuperSulus

[@N1120A]

They have at least one bag on every flight for this.

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

An airtight box would create a bomb. And storing 100+ devices in a single container means the rest will catch fire when a single device goes up.

[@spn3925]

@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td my thought is an airtight box would snuff it out. And not talking everyone putting their devices in it just ones that catch on fire

[@timblack33]

CNN still gonna blame the aircraft manufacturer somehow

[@brycehughes8840]

Hello, I'm not actually a KZbin viewer but rather a multi-national billion-dollar corporation, and I thank you for your loyal service

[@sweetdaddydee1314]

Has nothing to do with political affiliation. That has everything to do with people who just hate boeing.

[@paddyohenry6428]

So vital to get souls on board and fuel right away. I think it comes before "aviate, navigate, communicate."

[@TC55555]

They need to be prepared on the ground. Emergency vehicles for fire etc. Souls in case they landed and need to evaluate the AC.

[@paddyohenry6428]

@@TC55555 Yeah well all know that. It's about priorities.

[@jonathanbott87]

​@@TC55555 they also should be making sure the ground where they meet emergency vehicles is a long paved runway

[@ace00007]

The controllers really need to talk to each other asking the same questions over and over again

[@BLAB-it5un]

It's only a matter of time before a battery fire takes down a plane. Someone will violate the checked bag ban and ignite a fire. And of course a ban on these batteries on planes will never happen because convenience must come before safety.

[@N1120A]

Um, do you realize airline crews rely on Lithium ion batteries for both service and navigation?

[@BLAB-it5un]

@@N1120A Of course. Batteries are everywhere. My point is that the risk is considered minimal but it isn't zero and these fires happen a lot even if still a very small percentage in the scheme of things. And we aren't going to ever get rid of all risks but usually the main reason is convenience. But given planes are flying gasoline and electrical systems there will always be risk.

[@giggleigloos]

Phones aren’t a convenience at this point unfortunately, and they need batteries to operate.

[@andij605]

it already happened in asia before, so they take it more seriously there. they check checked baggage thoroughly in china, your bags will not fly with batteries in them

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

​@@N1120AHow are they stored? The batteries in the 787 are now mounted in a box that separates the cells and can vent in case of a thermal runaway. Such system would not be very convenient for cellphones and laptops.