Crashing Just Seconds After Landing in Europe (Runaway Aircraft)

[@OfficialSamuelC]

The runway lights going off all of a sudden was absolutely a massive factor in this. No pilot expects that. Airports should’ve had backup generators in place for this that kick in immediately. A second of downtime is more than too long without reference at that critical phase.

[@blahkayonaFriday]

This was in the 90s but they now have the ability to where pilots can activate the runway lights from the plane, this happened to someone I know- the airport closed for the night and the pilot switched on the runway lights to land

[@tom201090]

Exactly

[@Forest_Fifer]

Johnny " just kidding...."

[@Southwest_923WR]

No doubt, bro. At that point in video, I was PIC, and verbally said "WTF??", and was confused looking out windshield like crazy! S.H. @weirdest moments at add to confusion. Mama always said;" When in doubt expect and prepare for the worse. If all turn out better, you,re good. If it falls apart, your all ready on it!" 64 years old, that has saved my ass a A lot Of times! Real talk.

[@MADTASS]

@@blahkayonaFriday I know our Air Sea Rescue based at our Airport would Activate the Lights by Ringing a Certain Number when the Airport was Closed and they were Returning from a Tasking, may also happen at Small Private Airports but i Doubt this Occurs with Commercial Airlines at a Manned Tower. As mentioned, Nowadays, During a Powercut a Generator will Kick almost Immediately to Resume Power to the Crucial Part of the Airfield.

[@misterclownface]

Thank you for not putting in goofy narration or AI. That was crazy and I surprised everyone was okay except for the one fatality due to internal injuries afterwards.

[@andyburnett8012]

I live four miles from the airport, flown from there a few times, a work colleague of mine was on this flight with his wife, he told me about the ordeal a week later, apparently they were left in the field in the storm in darkness for about an hour before any rescue vehicles arrived, he said the floor of the plane in front of him where it broke was level with the muddy field and they literally walked out of the plane into mud. His wife vowed never to fly again, to be fair I don't think I would either. Not sure if he ever flew again, can't blame him, he said it was horrendous.

[@Fastvoice]

The wreckage was located 18 minutes after the accident - first rescue vehicles arrived 14 minutes later. Transfer of all passengers to the terminal building took an hour and ten minutes. That's at least what the official report says.

[@CherylPix62]

@@Fastvoiceto be fair, after having gone through what they all went through, I’m sure it seemed like a longer time had passed before rescuers got to them!

[@Fastvoice]

@@CherylPix62 Yes, of course.

[@watershed44]

@andyburnett8012 I wish you could still contact your old colleague and ask him whether or not he decided to fly again, I'm curious.

[@deepthinker999]

Excellent Contribution.

[@Eseseso494]

RIP to that one poor passenger. Amazing that no one else died.

[@LV2UXO77]

WOW, look at the condition of the plane. This was hard to watch. I can't begin to imagine what the passengers were experiencing at the time of this landing, and for the pilots to not see the runway due to the power outage had to have been a horrifying nightmare for them, and I'm sorry to the family of the one passenger who didn't make it due to their injuries.

[@watershed44]

@cjjackson3129 The hospital ER screwed up big time. Internal injuries, and bleeding. I can't believe they didn't keep the patient for observation especially with all the high impact from the seatbelt restraining them.

[@twiz1084]

@@watershed44that’s the Spanish for you

[@advorak8529]

@@twiz1084 is it? That sounds rather racists/nationalist-in-a-bad-way … as if the other countries never had any ER swamped with dozens of cases make a deadly mistake …

[@advorak8529]

@@watershed44 How many passengers on the flight had minor or no visible damage, how many beds (look at the time, near midnight!) do they have to observe all of them? Without the exact details of the internal bleeding, any symptoms shown, and the environment around I dare not to condemn them quickly. There is more to it than meets the eye.

[@zakelwe]

Yes it is shame about the person who died. I agree with advorak in that not being there it is hard judge 24 years later and not knowing much about it. It must have been one wild ride. It could have been a lot worse, the big advantage they had is that off runway it was mainly fields which brought them to a stop without any steep cliffs, hills or buildings. Good safe runoff luckily. Compare that to TAM Airlines Flight 3054 ..... they didn't have that luxury sadly.

[@hachimaru295]

The cherry on the cake not mentioned .........The tower controller, aware shortly after touchdown that something was amiss, tried to contact the crew of Flight 226A, but to no avail. She then pressed the button to activate the emergency alarm. To her surprise, the emergency bell did not ring. During the eventual search nobody could find the plane and one passenger walked to the terminal to let them know ........... you couldnt make it up

[@Nick-E1v2]

What are you talking about

[@hachimaru295]

@@Nick-E1v2 tie in with the vid it will become clearer if you read it slowly

[@zakelwe]

That always made me shake my head in wonderment. Back in the 70s there would have been a local with some donkeys who would have have charged 500 pesatas to get to the terminal, visiting a local winery en route which was owned by his brother...... The donkeys would be wearing those red straw sombreros with their ears jauntily sticking out. My one would be the one that stops every 10 yards to eat grass ... just like always....

[@legitusername-zl7to]

who forgot to put emergency power bruh

[@terryhughes7349]

From what i recall from this incident the Tower lost power to many systems and when they pressed "emergency button" it didn't activate. This led to the first responders slow response to get to the where the airplane stopped. Miracle there where no initial deaths. Sorry to 1 passenger for not receiving a thorough examination for internal bleeding and passing away.

[@rgarlinyc]

Amazing there wasn't a complete plane-full of serious injury... a horrible experience for both crew and passengers. Great job TFC, thanks a lot!

[@ABBADiego]

I was cabin crew for Britannia Airways 1986-1992. Best airline I ever flew for. RIP passenger who died.

[@martinross5521]

Thank you for your work as crew for Britannia Airways. We often flew with the airline for holidays and our experiences were excellent. By contrast a Ryanair flight to Girona in the dark during a really powerful thunderstorm was frightening. We were more fortunate than those in this video…

[@captainemergency7477]

Did you ever fly with ‘John Lapwood’? He is my dad, and was known as the madman of Luton airport when he worked with Britannia, I’ve got endless stories from his time at the airline, did you ever hear or fly with him?

[@zakelwe]

@@martinross5521 I agree, top notch pilots and cabin crew. I used to fly with them in the 70s to early 80s ... the spanish air traffic control and some of the airports down there in those days ( think Madeira old airport before runway and extension and Los Rodeos in Tenerife ) meant they worked hard for their money and were highly skilled.

[@martinross5521]

@@captainemergency7477 No I’m sorry, I don’t recall him. But Sunday afternoon flights were times when the pilots used to have fun - a fighter turn back onto finals at LGW with the wings nearly vertical. Anxious voice from the back “we’re all gonna die”. No one laughed… except us!

[@martinross5521]

@@zakelwe Thank you! Spanish ATC still seems content to enable close encounters. We’ve looked under the runway extension at FNC and it must have been really hard to land there before it was built. Respect for the Captains flying now; to achieve that regularly before was immense…

[@avgeek-and-fashion]

BACKUP POWER TO THE RUNWAY LIGHTS was available but took (iirc) about 15 seconds to power up due to a misconfiguration. I saw many people ask about this so thought I'd clarify.

[@hachimaru295]

can you add a link to this as theres no mention of the pilot reacting to this and the landing took more than 15secs

[@hugegrant6141]

Imagine the horror of experiencing those two massive impacts in the first place and then all of a sudden you hear the engines ramping up and you become airborne again. terrible.

[@profdrsertankabadayi4216]

The cabin crew deserved a big round of applause to successfully evacuate everyone on board in that condition of the airplane!

[@cadoo5591]

Wow, I was literally holding my breath through the landing. I would never have predicted a safe outcome after that!

[@getmeouttatennessee4473]

Same. What an amazing reenactment. I was sure everyone was dead.

[@bestboy138]

Beside the great production the thing I really like about this channel is that it forces me to read. Thank you.

[@brucereynolds7009]

The Flight Management software for the 757/767 was developed by the GE Space Division in King-of-Prussia PA c. 1980; I was part of the group developing the software. While working for GE Space, I was TDY'd to the GE Nuclear Fuels Plant in Wilmington NC: on one flight from Philadelphia through Charlotte (1980-03-17) the connecting Piedmont 737 flight from Charlotte to Wilmington had to land at Wilmington with no runway lights---the rental car agencies placed their cars at the end of the runway so that the landing strips were illuminated.

[@gerardleahy6946]

It seems incomprehensible that a system as critical as runway lights could fail, even in foul weather. What about redundancy? I feel sorry for the injured and the family of the deceased but it seems that medical incompetence was to blame for his/her death. I also have sympathy for the pilots and hope that the incident didnt end either of their careers as I think that nobody could have coped with all of the adversities thrown at them.

[@andreahighsmith636]

In other words: all wrong from the Spanish side, runway lights, hospital, doctors... but not a single word about the terrible performance of the crew, not proceeding to Barcelona, not discontinuing the approach, not accepting runway change suggested by ATC. Nothing. This is the typical analysis por UK people. The failures are always from others. They are always perfect. Disgusting.

[@wolfman3295]

Amazing that the runway lights turned off just as the plane was trying to land! And no backup system?? Looking at the wreckage at the end it is also amazing that there were so few serious injuries, and unfortunately one fatality after the fact from internal bleeding that wasn't detected at the hospital?? Congrats to the captain and crew for doing the very best they could.

[@margeebechyne8642]

That is truly incredible! Only one death, which could have been prevented if the hospital had discovered and treated the internal injuries. For it to have skidded so far and not burst into flames was really amazing! To try and land when the pilot was virtually blind from the power outage - it must have been terrifying. But it looks like the flight crew held on long enough for it to stop. RIP to the lone soul Thank you for another great presentation.

[@kylebieth3678]

Can you imagine how terrifying that was? Not only to crash once, but go airborne and crash again! Insane that only 1 person died. I'm not sure if I'd get on another plane in my life after that one.

[@wintercame]

And that one person would have lived except for medical error.

[@kwamemeloy1070]

@@wintercame Hmm.

[@wintercame]

@@kwamemeloy1070 You hmmming me? 😉It was a failure to diagnose extent of injury.

[@kwamemeloy1070]

@@wintercame mayday 😄

[@wintercame]

@@kwamemeloy1070 😁

[@sandramalone3522]

As I'm watching, I never would have thought this plane would have made it. Thank God it did.

[@Berchol]

Now that’s a sturdy bird

[@godarkertilldeath]

Can you guys imagine being those pilots, right after two very hard landings, what they must've felt when the power cut out making it pitch black in the cockpit!?!? That would be crazy scary bc u know they felt it accelerating and were either in shock or couldn't see nothing to shut em down. (Assuming they could still cut fuel) I mean the thing damn near took off flying again while passing the end of the runway! Insane!!!

[@Greatdome99]

"Aircraft's main electrical component" is called the "Forward E/E Bay." (electrical/electronics). There's another one in the aft cargo compt.

[@chendaforest]

I flew on Brittania as a toddler, I still have fond memories of been carried about the cabin by a friendly flight attendant. Happy days.

[@scottfranco1962]

Its known as a "black hole" approach, landing on the runway with no lighting, and we practice that. The issue is that the lack of runway positive sighting makes it difficult or impossible to judge height above the runway. PS. Calling it a "glide path" is incorrect. It is a "glide slope". The term "glide path" is now reserved for GPS precision approaches, to differentiate it from ILS landings.

[@marcleblanc3602]

I get that aside the Warning, but what about landing angle? Strange in these Radar times, all kinds of Distances are calculated.

[@love2fly558]

Black Hole approach is when a lit up runway is surrounded by darkness. There’s no term for an approach with no runway lights at all.

[@maskedavenger2578]

@@love2fly558The term is “ Oh F*#k we are right in the sh💩t “ .

[@karenlindley.9756]

I flew on Britannia many times in the day and always found them to be a really high quality airline / charter for THOMSON.

[@zakelwe]

Indeed, it was always Dan Air who always used to crash.

[@firesuch]

Superb detail of the incident 👍🏻

[@clarsach29]

So the pilots allowed themselves to get into a situation where they didn't have enough fuel to divert and had to make a landing at Girona....and then didn't call for a go-around when the approach was clearly unstable?? Bad luck about the power cut happening at the worst moment possible but this approach was a hot mess even before that

[@maxdiesel2736]

go around without enough fuel ?

[@homerl7]

@@maxdiesel2736 2.6 tons of fuel is enough for more than one go around. They didn't have enough to divert to another airport.

[@clarsach29]

@@maxdiesel2736 i think there would have been enough fuel for a go-around even if there wasn't enough for a diversion? but maybe I am wrong

[@curbyourshi1056]

Go around to a landing strip with no lights. 🤔🤔🤔

[@timonsolus]

@@curbyourshi1056 : Go around to give the airport time enough to switch on the emergency diesel generator and put the runway lights back on.

[@pauldietz1325]

There is also a Mentour Pilot episode on this accident.

[@jamarranger]

Good old Brittania, better days and good memories when Brittania was in the air. So glad there wasn't more casualties in this incident.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

A GOOD argument for having runway lights on either UPS battery backup or standby generator power !

[@EuroScot2023]

Battery backup for runway lights is only a viable option very recently with Large lithium battery packs. Even then, they would only handle the massive load for the time until the Diesel generators were running. This happened 25 years ago remember.

[@EuroScot2023]

ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) Regs state that runway lighting backup systems should kick in within 15 seconds max. The lights at Girona were back on in 11 seconds that night. (Spanish Air Safety Report into the accident)

[@AbdullaYoosufff]

Now that’s a sturdy bird

[@dodoubleg2356]

I'd just like to say, that no matter what I'm goin through or need to take care of, good or bad, whenever I see a vid from this channel, I say to myself..."I gotta do this, that or the other, but 1ST, I'm gonna enjoy this vid." Thx for all the content & keep up the good work. ✈️😉👍✌️

[@nzkshatriya6298]

Hope the hospital workers were taken to task for not checking for internal injuries

[@just_some_internet_guy]

Agreed!

[@eddiehimself]

Hospital staff can't force a patient to be checked for internal injuries or to stay in hospital for observations; it could well be the fact that the patient refused. Don't be one of those cunts who jumps to conclusions please.

[@Powerranger-le4up]

And the airport too since it took rescue crews more than an hour to reach and evacuate the scene.

[@watershed44]

@@eddiehimself Over there it is socialized medicine so if you go to the ER is any country in Europe your costs as covered because of EU agreements between countries. The hospital should have pleaded with the patient to stay for further observation.

[@EuroScot2023]

Of the 245 persons on board, 201 were not casualties. Only 2 were classes as serious injured and 42 with minor injuries. Presumably, the person who died was one of the 42 most of whom would have been suffering from bruising and strains. If they were not in that group they would have been taken to local hotels until they could head home - or to their resort. I doubt if anyone other than the serious casualties would have had a Cat Scan. In the USA, they'd have been lucky to get a sticking plaster and a $5000 dollar bill! In my personal experience, Spanish medical care is of extremely high quality.

[@renferal5290]

JFC!!! Now that was terrifying!! You do such a brilliant job on these videos

[@geniol28186]

Muy buen video como siempre 👍

[@elprup2011]

Another excellent video from TFC. Well done!

[@burnsyboyy7534]

I’m from Cardiff and lived not to far away from the airport itself thanks for the upload, I remember this crash well horrible.

[@sarahalbers5555]

Off topic, but my dad was born in Cardiff. I loved visiting Wales.

[@airaction2257]

Surely at an airport if there is a power outage there should be a backup generator for the runway lights, some of these airports are lacking in backup systems.

[@timonsolus]

I'm sure there would have been a backup diesel generator for the runway. However, I'm also sure that it wasn't set up to kick in automatically, and would have needed to be started manually by airport staff. Meaning that it would take about 5 minutes to get the runway lights back on, not 5 seconds.

[@EuroScot2023]

Girona had all the correct systems. Spain is bang up to date as a country. More so than UK or USA.

[@Matityahu755]

I loved that airline. Decent food, proper silverware, crockery and stemware, fantastic crew...and smoking in the back permitted.

[@jamiecheslo]

Really difficult to believe that there was only one fatality in this incident. The flight crew should have diverted to their alternate upon hearing that there were thunderstorms in the vicinity of the airport. Thunderstorms and commercial aviation simply do not mix. Another excellent video! Thanks for the hard work! Cheers from Canada.

[@dd_ranchtexas4501]

@jamiecheslo: The video said that they did not have enough fuel left to make the alternate......

[@zakelwe]

Note all the alternatives had thunderstorms too. They got a report of Barcelona weather improving but with thunderstorms they can appear and disappear quite quickly, they could have gone to Barcelona only to find out that it had got worse there. Then they would be in the same position but with a lot less fuel for multiple attempts. I think that was a fair decision given that.

[@DaebakSimmer]

I guess someone didn’t watch the video property.

[@mikemarkowski7609]

The visuals continue to improve. Impressive, thank you!

[@peterkoln2837]

Great work again! Thank you.

[@littleavationguy8268]

Indeed, every video of his is so good

[@brunoais]

I missed that song. Another awesome recreation in a flight sim by TheFlightChannel. Awesome work! Keep going!

[@3sierra15]

The Spanish investigators went easy on the pilot. American investigators would have pointed out that had he gone around or diverted at the first opportunity he wouldn't have has to dive for the deck, the gear wouldn't have collapsed, the plane's electrical system wouldn't have failed, the autobrake wouldn't have failed, the engines wouldn't have accelerated, and the plane could have come to a safe stop on the runway.

[@captainemergency7477]

I’m friends with the captain of this flight, and he said that now, looking back on it, a go around should have been performed, however, he was at the time more concerned about fuel, since he had already conducted a missed approach, if he had to go around once more he would be diverting to BCN. His only concern was getting on the ground at the time.

[@hxmza_aviation5312]

Nice vids bro keep it up

[@arnosilent8991]

I from Brazil 🇧🇷 and i love this channel!

[@Just_Smile-n2w]

12:13 I am wondering why the Brittania name, logo, and aircraft ID number was covered over….and who did that?

[@侑霖-t7j]

Amazing work!

[@JohnnyLaps]

That could have been a total disaster.Prayers to the one passenger.Whew.

[@annaanthony13]

My compliments again for this very accomplished video. Losing power all of a sudden during a landing is nightmarish - this is one of the most terrifying landings I have ever watched on this channel, with the exception of United Airlines 232 on 1989 in Sioux City. The bouncing of the airplane seemed to never finish. I wonder whether a pilot can make something nowadays to prevent this also by some kind of training - not only lighting on the lights on the runway, but also preventing the bouncing, taking off again, even if the plane already touched the runway, veering or keeping the feeling of position by checking instruments, just to avoid a pitching down. Such an accident should be matter of some training.

[@zakelwe]

The big issue now are pilots not having enough training, especially not in manual control. So it is the other way around, they would probably do even worse than that old pilot who could fly manually. There is an even bigger push to get more pilots in cockpits by the airlines by dumbing down the amount of training due to staff shortages. There is a big stink about it in the USA with congress.

[@daonlyzneggalz7522]

Yowza! Insane for sure! Also, I'm loving the new font better than the other one- this one is easier to read :) keep up the great work!!

[@darrenglynn597]

I remember Britannia Airways in the early 80s as I use to go to Barcelona and Majorca from (E M A )(East Midlands Airport. )

[@zakelwe]

Excellent airline.

[@captainemergency7477]

My family and I were and still are very good friends with the captain of this flight. I’ve had many amazing experiences talking to him about this, my dad was a cabin attendant for Britannia at the time too, and he flew with this captain many times too. Top bloke honestly, any questions, as me in the replies :)

[@zellyu8559]

wow that is a cool connection! I want to hear him tell his side of the story

[@s.scirocco4411]

First off please relay congratulations to this man for accomplishing the landing that he did. Pretty much miraculous. Could you find out if he kept flying after this and how did it affect his future flying if he did? Thank you in advance.

[@captainemergency7477]

@@s.scirocco4411 he was allowed to carry on flying after this accident, all that happened to him were some sessions in the sim going over the situation and a few briefings. So, yes, he was allowed to keep flying, but he chose not to. He told me that he just couldn't face going back to flying commercially again, like many pilots do after an incident. Hope this helps :)

[@s.scirocco4411]

@@captainemergency7477 Thank you so much for getting back to me so promptly. I completely understand why he wouldn't have wanted to go back to flying commercially again. I wouldn't either!! I have a fear of flying that is pretty much phobic and I am in awe of anyone who can get into a plane repeatedly, regardless if they are a passenger or a pilot. If it's not too personal, do you know if he had a belief in God before or after this incident? I would think that it might make you question your place in the universe after such a close call. Lastly, please if you ever run into him again, can you let him know that I think he's just bloody amazing and he should be awarded some kind of aviation medal for landing that plane the way he did!

[@captainemergency7477]

@@s.scirocco4411 thanks very much to you for asking questions too mate! I do see him quite regularly, he loves locally so we talk pretty much every week. Funnily enough, he is agnostic, so does not have a belief in God yet does not go against him being real. He told me the reason why he didn’t want to go back to flying was because it just didn’t feel right for him, with all the media coverage and the injuries etc.. he said it just didn’t feel the same as before, which I can completely understand :) Edit: I’ll definitely make sure to let him know of your kind words 😉

[@ZakChlebowski]

Those seconds of agoney must have been tough, being in a situation where you dont know what to do or how to fix it,

[@bigd1223]

The sound effects of the engines is incredibly accurate.

[@yankeetango]

Hindsight is 20/20 but should have taken the divert to Barcelona when offered.

[@johnsmith5255]

Imagine putting forth an effort to land a plane in bad weather conditions, coming very close to succeeding, only to find that the runway has 'vanished' after looking away for a split second. I bet the captain's neck hair stood on end when he looked back at the window.

[@nathanahubbard1975]

And yet he continued to try to land the plane.

[@timonsolus]

@@nathanahubbard1975 : I don't understand why the captain didn't immediately decide to abort the landing and go around the moment the runway lights went off. My instinctive reaction would have been to pull up and slam the throttles forward to maximum, in that order.

[@watershed44]

@@timonsolus Yep me too, if he was that startled and now trying to land on a dark runway, he had enough fuel left to do a go around for sure.

[@EuroScot2023]

A definite case for brown underpants, I think.

[@davestrang8585]

Love this channel

[@gideonkorir9358]

The weather was too bad. Runway lights also going off prior to touchdown also contributed heavily to the runaway aircraft accident.

[@jasonmurdoch9936]

Absolutely

[@timonsolus]

I don't understand why the pilots didn't immediately decide to abort the landing and go around the moment the runway lights went off. My instinctive reaction would have been to slam the throttles forward to maximum and pull up.

[@gideonkorir9358]

@@timonsolus The Aircraft was low on fuel. That's why they decided to land if I am not wrong.

[@timonsolus]

@@gideonkorir9358 : The aircraft didn’t have enough fuel to divert to another airport, but it definitely did have more than enough fuel to abort the landing and go around while the airport staff got the runway lights back on.

[@gideonkorir9358]

@@timonsolus Oh yeah. You are correct. It was Pilots fault then that this accident took place.

[@davejones542]

hearing the passenger that died made me cry. They were going on a summer holiday to Spain..

[@littlespinycactus]

What a time for the lights to go out! It's hard to believe a critical failure of an essential system is even possible, when backup generators are standard in hospitals and every other facility where lives depend on the power staying on.

[@northernsoutherngirl]

WHEW!!😮😮Once again, on the edge of my seat screaming: when the hell is the plane going to stop?!?! I know the passengers had to have been mortified!!😳😳 Thank goodness they all initially survived. But r.i.p. to the one passenger who later passed away. I need a drink after watching this video.

[@roberthagedorn290]

The open field next to the runway saved everyone's life except one. 11:36 "It finally stops...." Luckily the engines were sheared off. Otherwise, the aircraft would have kept going at high speed sliding along on the ground until something besides decrease in momentum would have stopped it.

[@the_phaistos_disk_solution]

This is far better than the others.

[@eddiehimself]

If you are considering ideas for other videos, it might be an idea to consider the helicopter crash of rally legend Colin McRae

[@jwagvideos]

Great video, and what a story. Real Audio on that would have been really interesting!

[@wobblybobengland]

Unlucky. I was flying out of Girona the day after, had to go from Barcelona.

[@chrisclermont456]

I hope the runway light cutting out was listed as a causal factor in this crash!! RIP to the one casualty!! 😢

[@johnnorth9355]

Why no emergency back up to the runway lights and why no immediate go around ?

[@Samboraok]

Nice video

[@HenryXiHengLee]

That's a very nice video, @TheFlightChannel. Would like to ask if you can do a video about LOT Polish 5055.

[@machintelligence]

Using the Swiss Cheese model for accidents (where all of the holes have to line up just so) this cheese was more holes than substance.

[@lynnecamp3268]

What an absolute nightmare!

[@coffeefire]

Gosh this one was just tense :o

[@jillengel4124]

What a wild ride.

[@JaneXemylixa]

This wreckage is the saddest-looking I've ever seen. Not in the sense of horrifying, given the minimal consequence for the souls on board, but just... aw.

[@johnalexander7490]

Thank You, TFC, for another great video re-creation! THANK YOU for not using the gosh-awful AI voices again.

[@OfficialSamuelC]

Hospital staff are responsible for the death of that pax.

[@watershed44]

@OfficialSamuelC Internal bleeding? I would guess. I'm surprised the patient didn't walk right back in the same day within a few hours because I'm sure they were very weak, and in pain.

[@EuroScot2023]

You are assuming that the passenger was one of the 44 who were classed as injured. 241 were not and will have been taken to local hotels. The passenger who died later may well have simply been feeling a little bruised and shaken up at the time. Of course everyone wants to sue the hospital these days - even for dying from decapitation in a road accident.

[@thedailywin537]

This one was difficult to watch, and not simply because of preexisting expectations regarding foreign carriers and foreign airports. The video's production quality, and particularly the pacing of the deteriorating flight conditions, held my attention in a way that other have not (and that is absolutely not a complaint.) Yes, RIP to the passenger who's medical care was arguably incomplete.

[@EuroScot2023]

'preexisting expectations regarding foreign carriers and foreign airports'?!! Exceptionally xenophobic comment. It was a British carrier, Britannia Airways, who were highly competent and an excellent Spanish airport, Girona. Certainly superior to many US airlines and smaller airports. Not diverting immediately was a mistake obviously but the rapidly changing weather and its effects, both in the air and the on the ground, were totally unexpected. The out-dated and fragile control system of the 757 unfortunately was beyond the pilots ' control - but that's the nature of Boeings.

[@joojoojeejee6058]

How about applying full forward elevator when you come in hot and it's obvious that you would bounce... And reverse thrust even before touchdown?

[@user-tg2us4ps5v]

Thankgoodness the fuel tank / fuselage didnt freaking explode after crashing into the fields.

[@mrofnocnon]

What a time for the landing lights to go out! Could not have timed it better for the worst possible outcome.

[@jessicasnaplesfl7474]

Another engineering oversight leads to a failed part screwing up major systems. Seems many bad landings cause collapse of the front landing gear. When designing the airplane, some foresight of collapsed nose gear apparatus being displaced backwards would lead to either relocating important wires, cables, and parts that are located right behind this gear, to the left or to the right of the likely path of displacement. Adding extra protection in front of and around sensitive components located just behind the front gear to withstand intrusion of the displaced gear components, would also add to safety. An extra thick firewall directly behind the nose gear would add extra protection from the fire that results from displaced gear scraping along the ground. I don't know the percentage of front landing gear failures, but I seem to see more of these incidents than others, and most of these are accompanioed by fires which endanger the passengers and crew. Foresight is golden.

[@vinny1883]

This could've easily ended so much worse. It's a miracle there was nothing but empty field for 586 meters where the plane veered off to.

[@zakelwe]

Exactly

[@pinetaroad]

This is one of the scariest landings I ever read about!

[@carolinehoward180]

Those poor pilots. As if it isn’t stressful enough 😭😮

[@reggiedixon2]

That will probably buff out I would think

[@sarahalbers5555]

We always can use duct tape!!

[@dave9917]

well ya, the fricking runway lights went out

[@bparrish99]

"Well, we're here."

[@kathym6603]

How does a pilot recover from a landing with this many backasswards signals.

[@zakelwe]

He was an oid timer. And still got screwed due to bad luck

[@anabilrahmangaming7622]

Currently a student pilot. Goal is to fly 757/767 for either Delta or United!

[@drichi07]

This switchiung between day and night for "better view" is more confusing than helpful.

[@blrenx]

Any landing you can walk away from...Right?

[@love2fly558]

I was doing night currency last month in a non-towered airport with pilot controlled lights. Stupid lights shut off 1/2 mile from the runway; couldn’t see anything. Click the radio like crazy and lights came back up again just as I was adding full throttle for a go around; instead continued with the landing OK.

[@hachimaru295]

it does make me wonder if this scenario is done in a simulator for trianing purposes too and what the majority of outcomes are ... of course nothing focuses the mind like the real thing in the real world though .

[@pratyushmandal2782]

Good video..

[@Aircraft1606.]

0:01 Departure 1:48 Approaching Girona Airport 2:38 First Approach 4:00 Missed Approach 4:30 Second Approach 5:02 Insufficient Fuel 5:53 Deadly Approach 7:51 Crash Landing 9:48 Gear Collapse 10:57 Accelerating after Landing 11:47 Investigation

[@plane_aviation1]

How do you get your music

[@yinalfonso5109]

losing control over an electrical failure is one thing, but losing the visual of the runway is probably the pilot's worst nightmare. 😰