Deadly Bird Strike on a Passenger Plane (Eastern Airlines Flight 375) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN

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The achievement of controllable powered flight is certainly one of humanity’s greatest collective accomplishments. It helped transform the 20th century paving the way for a more connected world. As the years and decades went on, more and more planes and people began taking to the skies. Many different airplane manufacturers were competing against one another in a race to build the best and most reliable planes. With the expansion of aviation during this century, the skies new inhabitants needed to learn to share the sky with its original inhabitants. This video is about an air disaster that occurred on one day in 1960, when these two worlds collided.
Deadly Bird Strike on a Passenger Plane (Eastern Airlines Flight 375) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN
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[@grmpEqweer]

Wonderful job, dear.

[@samsngdevice5103]

Beautiful video. Truly tops anything I've seen in this genre.

[@change_your_oil_regularly4287]

I'm extremely surprised anyone survived. Their unluckiest and luckiest day all at once.

[@annabethchase2569]

Hearing about cases of survivor's guilt in many of these scenarios, I wonder if they were lucky after all. Still, there were alive that day, when in all accounts they should not have been. That is miraculous

[@macaylacayton2915]

Only 10 people survived

[@curbyourshi1056]

I'm absolutely amazed, to be honest.

[@KiwiRaymond]

A nearly 13 minute video that contained more information than the typical TV Disaster series has in an hour long programme - well done. Thanks.

[@patriciaramsey5294]

I must agree. This vid was much better than Mayday, Airspace or other air Diasters channels

[@artkemono]

When you mentioned survivors, I was honestly shocked anyone survived given the angle at which the aircraft was going down into the water. Excellent video, as always!

[@rogerkearns8094]

Not sure how accurate the given depiction was but, yes, I was surprised too.

[@MrBmnmtfk]

Spoilers not cool

[@rogerkearns8094]

@@MrBmnmtfk They're not spoilers if you watch first. ;)

[@Cath_frost.]

@@MrBmnmtfk What do you expect when you read the comments first?!

[@zombieandy7383]

Who reads the comments before watching the video? 😂

[@CYMotorsport]

I love when you talk turbo prop! This was phenomenally well done. Another L-188 I’m curious how you’d cover is Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8. Lesser known bc of the impossibly valiant performance by the crew. I suppose it’s not really a “disaster” at all so maybe ignore me haha but it’s unique in that footage exists of their struggle to land the aircraft only made more interesting once you learn about flight control failures

[@_al1k_]

Considering he has done disaster adverted videos as well, I agree with your idea 🙃

[@EstorilEm]

Has done plenty of the flights covered on Mayday! / Air Crash Investigation, so that would be no different really.

[@pianomanhere]

Yes. This is a very good suggestion. I'd like to see this one, too.

[@57Jimmy]

That one is absolutely amazing! You talk about true grit, guts, muscle straining and the will to LIVE! The Reeves/Aleutian fight for life is probably one of the least known most intense struggles in aviation!

[@AntoniusTyas]

Watched an episode of Air Crash Investigation covering that one. It's a crazy story.

[@charles_tamminen]

I worked with a man who had witnessed this accident just after it happened back in 1960. He had been on a roof in Boston, with a friend, when the friend exclaimed "Look at that!" The man then turned to see the plane's tail sticking out of the water. At a previous company, I had worked with a woman whose husband had been one of the divers that worked on the recovery efforts. There is a good book detailing the crash, if you are interested: "Bird Strike, the crash of the Boston Electra" by Michael N. Kalafatas.

[@josephconnor2310]

Thanks for the info.

[@almightysamwhich4203]

It's interesting that no one in atc or other pilots noticed the massive crowd of birds heading around the runway

[@kenmore01]

The tech wasn't all that in those days.

[@EvanAviator]

@@kenmore01 yeah they hadn’t invented sight yet

[@pooryorick831]

My understanding is that the birds were roosting underneath a bridge nearby, were startled by something and flew up shortly before the accident. I can't remember where I read that or whether it is true, but it would explain why nobody saw the birds sooner.

[@jesuslovesyou-mattsmith1502]

This is why I always try to sit in the back of the plane. PS I appreciate you narrating your videos so I can listen like a podcast.

[@dex1lsp]

In the world of aviation (and rail) incident documentaries, you are the cream of the crop and it's not even close! Keep up the excellent work!

[@AutumnRaylene]

This video explains so much! I live like 1km away from an airport & during the summer I always hear strange air pops but I never bothered find out what it was. Sounds like it's those cannons to scare birds off! Really interesting!

[@lcr8962]

Interesting fact about starlings: they aren't native to the Americas. They were introduced because Shakespeare mentioned them in some of his plays, and fans of his wanted them on the American continent.

[@Phiyedough]

I wonder if that is why they could form such big flocks? If they were not native the resident predators may not have been well adapted to predating them.

[@user-to7ds6sc3p]

@@Phiyedough nope they behave the same in every part of the world. To quote the wiki "The starlings are generally a highly social family. Most species associate in flocks of varying sizes throughout the year."

[@zacktong8105]

I well remember this accident which was quite a shock at the time as birds had never before been considered a problem in aviation accidents and probably hadn't been with slower propeller piston engine aircraft.

[@timothymartell5112]

I may lose my job tomorrow. My wife of ten years may stop loving me and leave me. But I know, EVERY Saturday I’m getting a disaster breakdown video. Thank you Edit: f*ck b*tches, get money, watch disaster breakdown

[@KeithShizuo]

You ok bro?

[@OumuamuaOumuamua]

I’m glad to see u focusing on the most important thing (Disaster breakdown)

[@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx]

You can set your watch to it. …but, are you alright?

[@sabre242]

She'll understand bro. Stay strong king 🤴

[@ranahussnainsaleem6794]

Hey man you ok?

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

We stay by the shore during the summer in Massachusetts and the Starlings are incredible to watch, with many thousands of birds migrating every Fall. They cluster in perfect synchrony in an ever-changing cloud of the birds. They look like they fly only a few inches apart as they form their bird "clouds". I can only imagine how tragic it would be to fly into a flock of Starlings.

[@doubleucat]

This incident reminded me of Sully's plane in Hudson. Great work as always! Looking forward to more train disaster breakdowns.

[@trekaddict]

Me as well. Heck, my first reaction to "birdstrike" was "Can't all have Sully at the horn." I fell for the victims. I do with all those videos, but this... it strikes me extra for some reason.

[@cauldron938]

the electra managed to achieve some moderate sucess because of Varig, the brazilian flag carrier. in 1961, Varig bought Real aerovias, which had ordered some units of the electra, so these orders where redirected to Varig, and the planes were put on the "ponte aérea rio-são paulo" service. the plane was a huge sucess, so Varig bought more units, ending up with 14 electras. the planes were SO sucessful, that they were retired only in 1992.

[@alantoon5708]

In fact, Varig has a complete intact Electra on display in one of their hangars. It is just as it was when retired.

[@stuartlee6622]

Finally! By the way, there was a TV special entitled, "The Case of the Boston Electra". You might want to check it out if you can find it.

[@AntoniusTyas]

Fun fact: Lockheed Electra is still used as marine patrol aircraft in the shape of P-3 Orion these days. Though in US Navy and Royal Australian Navy it has been largely phased out by P-8A Poseidon.

[@TheAnxiousAardvark]

I was going to make a similar comment. Once read a book that explained the early teething problems of multiple turboprops of the era, with an addendum of how well many of the models performed after that. Used to see P-3's and P2V's passing over the house as a kid.

[@andrewdillon7837]

I thought it looked like an Orion , The Hercules , and the P3 fly out of Whenuapai airbase here in West Auckland,,Our airfarce has the oldest planes ,,old 4 blade hercules , P3s are our FLASHEST Airfarce plane

[@swanlee597]

Thanks for making this video. My wifes grand father was the first officer of this exact flight and died on it. It was nice to get a detailed video of the incident.

[@aaronallen943]

Absolutely love that I found this channel. Love your work and insight. It’s appreciated!

[@krazykris9396]

I was involved in a bird strike on a hawaiian airlines flight in early 2001. If I remember right it was the center engine (it was a dc 10). After it happened the pilot made an emergency landing. Due to hawaiian being down 2 planes (another plane of there's was damanged in a runway overrun the previous month), me and my dad had to take another airline to get to our destination.

[@BlindBlue196]

Luv the channel and loved the video u did about the railway disaster great work and content keep up the good work and thankyou 😃😃

[@anniebrown3401]

my mom's cousin was on this flight. it's so crazy to finally get to see a video on it.

[@LosHigos655]

Hey DB, I love your content! I know you probably get dozens of suggestions every video, so I hope you don’t mind my suggestion. I think an incident that doesn’t get much attention is the 1976 Zagreb mid air collision. Keep up the great work!

[@theborg6024]

nearing 100k dude, holy crap! early congrats and good luck going forward

[@IorekByrnison086]

Great job on this video!!! Love it all the way... Keep up the great work...

[@clifflivingston7947]

Love your videos and stories!

[@nyxqueenofshadows]

great video, as always!

[@planeoldsimp272]

I AM IN LOVE WITH WHO EVER OWNS THIS CHANNEL !!!!!

[@planeoldsimp272]

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[@uzaiyaro]

Some bird strikes are so uneventful that the engine might have a tiny blip in performance, but return to perfect working order within that split second. There seem to be no shortage of bird strikes on takeoff where the aircraft continued on to the destination. I guess it’s a situation where if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

[@robinhood6954]

A little more consideration for the birds please...!

[@jumaclo]

Im actually very surprised bird strikes don’t happen more often

[@emo7636]

They do. They happen quite frequently especially at large airports near water. Chances are good that you just haven't noticed because normally it's only 1 random bird that hits the windshield or the wing. But even if a bird hits one engine then it's almost always not a big deal, but you'll see a streak of red across the fuselage when you land.

[@jumaclo]

@@emo7636 ohhh ok gotcha. I guess I meant birdstrikes that result in disaster

[@grmpEqweer]

​@@jumaclo ...Usually just a little shredded tweet...

[@eliamiller9816]

Love ❤️ your work!

[@ScreamingEagle101st]

Amazing channel 👏

[@kenmore01]

Thanks for this video! I have always wondered how they mitigate bird strikes and wind shear. I guess they have their ways. More than one.

[@LighthouseCape]

I don't know how accurate the recreation was but I'm still surprised that there were handful of survivors with that horrible crash. Although, the location of the accident (just inside the Boston harbor and there were ships already around the crash site to save the survivors quickly) must have played a significant role in this case. Otherwise, this would have ended with a typical "everyone onboard perished".

[@Supatsu]

There was a very small local airport (mostly crop dusters and light craft) that actually employed a falconer every few months just to keep the birds in check. Apparently even the semi-regular presence of a few falcons was enough to deter birds from wanting to nest or roost in the area.

[@peteconrad2077]

Many airfields still have them. I once had a bird strike at Lyon. It turned out I hit the falcon. I very upset falconer brought to to our stand to show us.

[@Dat-Mudkip]

Could you consider doing TWA Flight 529? It was a plane that crashed in 1961, and the entire plane was brought down by a single 5/16 inch bolt falling off the aircraft.

[@tommcglone2867]

I think this is the Anti-Hudson Miracle. Where a major birdstrike actually causes a massive disaster instead of a legendary aviation miracle.

[@jtveg]

Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻

[@vet-7174]

I grew up in Winthrop,as a kid and remember the back of the plane hanging off a barge .

[@josephmassaro]

Fun Fact: A flight impact simulator is a type of air gun used to simulate high speed bird strikes. It's nickname is the "chicken gun."

[@sct913]

Just as long as they remember to thaw the chicken before shooting it.

[@Sashazur]

The sky’s original inhabitants (other than insects) weren’t birds, but pteranodons and pterodactyls. But what’s interesting and I didn’t know until recently is that they coexisted with birds for millions of years, until the chixulub meteor wiped out pterodactyls and other dinosaurs - but birds being smaller and more omnivorous, were more able to survive through the years of hardship afterwards.

[@barbaradavenport8346]

My grandfather was the co-pilot, Martin Calloway. Left behind my grandmother and her 4 boys.

[@GCCG76]

6:22 that perspective clip is great!

[@qasimmir7117]

I’ve always like the Electra. Powerful, high rate of climb, and rapid.

[@casparcoaster1936]

thanks to db & patrones!!

[@erajehaidery2019]

Brilliant video can you do the crash of Air iilos flight 710

[@theaboy1152]

Cooooooool!

[@andrewtaylor940]

I do love how you hit “the best and most reliable” while showing a Ryan Air plane.

[@scoobydo446]

That as cool, wish it could be a bit longer some how

[@MrAlex_Raven]

I am wondering if you will share the Electra incident up in Alaska which is a great incident with a crew able to successfully save the flight.

[@Dovietail]

It's THEIR sky...we're just borrowing it!

[@c_rhynehardt]

A few months ago I almost hit a swarm of starlings while going 70 mph on the interstate in Ohio.

[@robinhood6954]

A MURMURATION of starlings. A 'swarm'.. Lol!

[@Cold-Blooded-Jay]

I feel bad for all the countless numbers of birds that have been senselessly killed since the invention of planes.

[@toupac3195]

I understand flying ancient planes recreationally, but these are still in use as a workhorse? Wow

[@grapeshot]

15 of the passengers were young recruits on the way to Parris Island Marine Recruit Depot. 10 of them were killed.

[@wilcofaber9863]

Nice video s. And never knew that starlings could down a plane. In dutch these birds are known as spreeuwen.

[@jordancoleman2402]

Man what a way to go😞 poor birds 💔

[@Mnck01377]

Its a miracle anyone at all even survived.....

[@raillashupproductions7950]

You should make a documentary of US Airways 1549

[@jamest2401]

You failed to mention, that falconry is also used to control bird populations around airports.

[@jcfinch122]

Some birds do fly at high altitude. Turkey vultures (buzzard) have been seen at 20,000 feet. Not good on a wind screen. Great job with video!

[@Yukis.aviation]

Apparently the highest bird strike ever was at FL370 (Rüppell’s vulture)

[@Ji99i3]

I am open to having disaster breakdown be a name for a program that goes over just about any vehicular disaster.

[@BigUziVert2190]

In my recommended, there’s a video by Tom Scott titled “I flew with birds, you can too”

[@birgenair301]

Hey, what do you think of Ariana Afghan 727 crash, will you do it?

[@GicaForta]

The swiss cheese scenario… many failures + perfect conditions meeting together to create a disaster. While the seat problem seems like a joke, it literally messed up the pilot-flying’s whole system of reference

[@kevinbarry71]

Migrating geese do fly as high as airliners; but they can be avoided

[@raptorrixx99-wv2hl]

0:25 *Sees Ryanair* AAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!! XD

[@pamelagomez5998]

Can you do one on flight 19 they disappeared and no one knows where they are or what really happend to them

[@zombieandy7383]

How is he supposed to do a breakdown on a flight where nobody knows what happened?

[@fauzancooperonline.fansrob9907]

Its Remind US Airways 1549 A320 But In 1960/Eastern Airlines

[@stuartlee6622]

Next do Northwest Flight 710 please

[@josephconnor2310]

Wow, ten survivors is amazing.

[@neelufisherman574]

A pilot seat also contributed to a Indian aircraft brushing a permeter wall due to a late Rotation.would nt be wise to have in on the check list....SEAT CHECKED &LOCKED IN POSITION..

[@nikolakusovic9325]

Martin Callaway sounds simuler to Michael Callaway from Federal Express 705

[@johnschultz9023]

Actually his name is Auburn Calloway. Flew with him at Gulf Air in the late 80's.

[@stephanieparker1250]

So many safety recommendations I hear from these videos seem like common sense and I wonder why they were not done BEFORE the disaster…

[@skunkrat01]

Wow can't believe anyone walked away from that! Yay! More train disasters.... Wait...

[@bassett_green]

Why don't the inlets have cages over the inlets to prevent ingestion? Is it just because it disturbs the air flow?

[@moonrust4939]

Yep, mentour pilot made a whole video on it

[@DexHD31]

Is there still no update on the China Eastern airline that crashed some weeks back?

[@fauzancooperonline.fansrob990]

Is First Bird strike After Take off? before Us Airways 1594?

[@jackz5486]

Flock strike 🗿

[@kellyblack1554]

How many ads are there?

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

Poor birds noone seems to talk about. Killed by us because we and our flying machines are so important...

[@momentomori-rw6jp]

Loving the content, this stuff needs to be on the Smithsonian channel

[@jamesx4952]

Can you do Fly Dubai 981

[@chafouaube985]

Why you don't take Sully , who successfully land on Hudson river???

[@AmarFox6]

Poor birds :(

[@ohioguy215]

The most common problems caused by starlings are damage to crops and berries. When these birds are not eating pests, they in turn become pests and destroy farmers' crops. Another negative impact is driving out competitors. Because starlings are so aggressive, they force out many native species. No sorrow here...I'd rather feed my Bluebirds.

[@budwhite9591]

11:40. Reduce bird populations? I’m down. I got like 2000 rounds of birdshot

[@ozbekcaglayan6970]

191 but older kinda

[@gluteusaurusmaximus6133]

How to fit the word "accident" as much as possible in under 3 minutes.

[@SKF358]

Being more connected has proven to be a negative.

[@eveliinatakkinen3270]

Finnair 🇫🇮

[@FizzleFX]

We all laughed at Birdemic. Who's laughing now?!

[@scottl.1568]

Jesus...

[@Happymali10]

The plane nosedived into the water and people still survived? That seems lucky, in a way.

[@MrBsbotto]

Lucky? I'd call it a freaking miracle! In the simulation, it looks like plane is goin

[@MrBsbotto]

Sorry for my butterfingers! Continued: Seeing a plane go into the water at that angle and speed, I was pleasantly surprised to see ANY survivors. What a terrific side story to an otherwise tragic event. RIP to all the victims.

[@Jasona1976]

3 hull losses? How about dead passengers????

[@robinhood6954]

This is all very well but how many BIRDS did that bloody tin can maim and kill..?!

[@ohioguy215]

Starlings are an invasive bird species. The most common problem caused by starlings are damage to crops and berries. When these birds are not eating pests, they in turn become pests and destroy farmers' crops. Another negative impact is driving out competitors. Because starlings are so aggressive, they force out many native species. No sorrow here...I'd rather feed my Bluebirds.

[@robinhood6954]

@@ohioguy215 Well, I guess when you look deeper into it, we are dealing with the 'group consciousness' of a specific species, meaning it's not quite like killing any self conscious, conceptual human being whose own 'exteriorised' sense of consciousness gives the impression of being 'separate from each other'. So hopefully then it is okay to splatter them (the starlings, that is). 🥴

[@ohioguy215]

@@robinhood6954 In case you missed the point, which you did, the bird strike was not an intentional act. I'm sure you've never flown to a destination before. It's the same as birds flying into a TV or Cell tower. I'm sure you don't own a TV or cell phone. Starlings fly in large flocks...not one or two birds.

[@robinhood6954]

@@ohioguy215 I certainly haven't flown to any destination since the private conversation I had with a couple of senior security guards at Stanstead airport the last time I was there, but that's another matter.

[@ohioguy215]

@@robinhood6954 Well good for you...your last flight on a bloody tin can didn't maim and kill birds directly in the flight path of your ascending bloody tin can.

[@benh4569]

1stoff, I just found this channel so kudos to Chloe - very informative and fascinating tellings of these incidents. It's always puzzled me on birdstrikes - obviously the airport ground crew do their best to scare away birds with noise - but why not attach some noisemaker like a siren to the plane itself? The example from history would be the Germans's infamous Stuka divebomber. At 1st its airframe alone produced a shriek as it dived down on its target, 1st in Spain during their Civil War then elsewhere in WW2. Later on, word got back to the German pilots (fighting on the Fascist side) that the noise alone would send Loyalists (anti-Fascists) scattering - so they then attached sirens to terrify the Loyalists even more - here's what they sounded like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKCalZ55bb2KgJY . Obviously this don't mean the plane taking off has to dive-bomb, LOL. But specially now with digital sound available, why would planes simply not have the option available to play a recording to scare birds away, specially on the most vulnerable times of take-off & landing? Is there some Doppler effect where the sound waves couldn't be projected ahead faster than the plane itself? If not the Stuka sound, then some other or even sub-sonic waves, tested to work on birds? We've all heard of the Sully incident & I knew from when I was a kid birds flying into planes was a bad thing, but I didn't know there had been fatal crashes caused til I saw this video, at least on good-sized commercial planes as opposed to small Piper Cubs or the like. Is there any acoustic principle preventing a plane from scaring away birds out of the plane's flightpath?

[@Dovietail]

Just FYI, One doesn't MORE understand. One BETTER understands. 😉

[@kevinbarry71]

Stupid Starlings; they are an invasive species and are a nuisance or worse,

[@B3Band]

i like how you say "behrd" lol