How Bad Plane Maintenance Can Lead To A Disaster | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster

[@CuriousScienceandEngineering]

Do you trust pilot judgement, or would you fully trust technology? Want to see more Mayday full episodes? Watch them here: bit.ly/3vYH6wJ

[@peterolsen269]

Technology cannot account for mother nature. Flying a plane is like racing a car, you have to feel it.

[@brandy192]

Yes and no to that question. I can't fully trust neither one of them, and nor would I want to be in any situation where I must have a choice between one or the other.

[@eveethetabby_cat]

3:41 it is showing a Lockheed 1011-1(not a DC-10).it also showed the Lockheed 1011-1 in Swissair 111

[@eveethetabby_cat]

5:00 that part also shows in Swissair flight 111 and in United airlines 811

[@amberkat8147]

I would not fully trust technology. Nor pilots. People are faulty- so too are things made by people. But at least with the human there's the chance they will have a gut feeling and do exactly what's needed to avert disaster in time. With machines, they have no gut feeling, if their input and processes says a certain thing, they will do it or try. It for some reason it doesn't work they generally have no back-up but to signal an alarm. And that's because programming the possible actions for all possible emergencies, and all the tests and things to try in each one, would probably be too difficult. Computers can't second guess themselves or have a gut feeling something's wrong. Also, planes have a lot of interconnected systems- one time a pilot who could no longer use the normal stuff to steer was able to use power to the engines to steer. Even if a computer could control both of those systems, would it occur to it to do that? I doubt it.

[@sploosh578]

Why is there no narration? Did somebody accidentally upload the file with the wrong audio track or something?

[@brennangomolka22]

lol this is amazing actually LOL

[@elcarmi]

Actually better without narration.

[@anonymousadult]

I need narration.

[@111danish111]

it's like fill in the blanks !

[@christophermercado5466]

I was "curious" about that myself 😂😂😂

[@peterbiltguy4311]

4:24 *So accurate were not even swiss 🤣*

[@StephenLuke]

RIP To the passengers and crew of Aeroperú Flight 603

[@John-ww3ji]

Synopsis Probable causes 1. Pitot tube blockage 2. Financial crisis faced by the Airline thus cutting costs and cutting corners by the Management and staff. Amicable solution Enhance safety by a Thorough HOW!/TOW and TOW /HOW procedure. At least 60 minutes briefing time. Pay your Engineering maintenance crew especially the Lame or approval or certifying engineers same pay as the Pilots pay for the aircraft type. The players involved. 1.Flight crew 2.Maintenance crew 3.Ground handlers. 4.Air traffic Controllers Upon taking over watch the Pilot in Command is the last line of preventing the fatal crash.

[@michigangirl5072]

And they're still cutting corners til this day.

[@DiamondPaintingWithLyndz]

Love the series!! Keep em coming!!!!

[@weonedirection8205]

5:19 *Landing Gear Up, The Scene Starts Here! :]*

[@samuelosei-somuah3072]

Many plane disasters have occured too soon after so called Maintenace works no matter how minor

[@Jetup24]

The maintenance worker who left the tape on the pitot tubes should of been charged with involuntary manslaughter and sent to prison for life

[@davido3026]

Negligence!!!

[@elcarmi]

GPWRS is a different system and the one you have to obey in a situation like this, especially when airspeed/altitude is unreliable.

[@Jetup24]

Why wasnt the worker who left the tape on the pitot tubes charged with involuntary manslaughter?

[@MichalDeKoning3336]

19:25 that stall alarm sound ringer sounded like from Airbus

[@christophercarrera2005]

Without narrator

[@kungpaopizza2126]

I initially watched this on other computer-animated versions & they do very little mentioning of the passengers.It’s not till I saw _this_ reenactment here and I could 😢actually be reminded that there was way more people in that plane there than just the two frightened pilots

[@dentonboothe5322]

They take too long to try to return

[@alechamid235]

I agree, at first sign of an issue they should have made u turn while still on land.

[@DeMoraJS]

@@alechamid235 You can get fired for doing that.

[@alechamid235]

@@DeMoraJS better to get fired than getting killed

[@DeMoraJS]

@@alechamid235 It's not that black and white. The vast majority of issues during a flight, from takeoff to landing, don't equate to a death sentence. Most of the times they can be solved by following procedure, so turning a plane around and wasting tons of money in fuel, delays, passenger accommodation and time over a NON issue can end a career. Don't get me wrong, security should always be a priority in aviation, but there wouldn't even BE an aviation industry if it hit the panic button at the slightest hint of trouble.

[@likkerland]

@Alec Hamid These are split second to minute decisions, it's not that easy

[@LouisGedo]

I love this series ............ the investigation part is as awesome as the tragedy part. Thank you for continuing this epic series!

[@Jetup24]

How is the tragedy awesome?

[@LouisGedo]

@@Jetup24 The recreation is awesome is what I meant

[@planck39]

Good to see whole sequens

[@hartmutschon1190]

The terrain warning is an independent system. They knew, that the altitude meter was defective, so there was no reason that the terrain warning was a false alarm. I'm not an expert, but every flight controller has to know, if the on the radar indicated altitude comes from the transponder of the plane and is faulty. Why isn't there a red plug or better a slider with position switch and indication in the cockpit or a valve or flap to close the static holes during the cleaning of an plane. Using tape for a standard cleaning procedure of an million dollar airplane ... had no engineer in our world a more reliable idea?

[@peterolsen269]

There is a lot of confusion here, let me help. If you know how your systems work IE. where these magical computers get their information, then you have some insight as to what has gone wrong with your aircraft. Someone said, oh without daylight they could not level the aircraft and all their instruments are unreliable. This statement is not true and not well informed; all of the failures that they were experiencing were based on data collected from the Pitot Static System. Gyros and Engine instruments would continue to work fine. So, trust your Artificial Horizon, Turn & Bank and your Engine Settings and IGNORE Airspeed, Vertical Velocity and Altitude. Who was thinking that the guy in the tower has some magical way to tell how high they were? REALLY? Fly PItch and Power as has already been mentioned, In other words set a standard power setting used below 10k feet and keep the horizons level, begin a slow turn back to the city lights to verify your position. Second level of confusion seems to come from who is "Maintenance" and who is just ground service? I am a Commercial Pilot as well as a Licensed A&P Mechanic, my two licenses look identical except for the fine print. I don't wash or fuel the aircraft and I don't load baggage. If anyone including pilots put any tape on my aircraft while on the ground and didn't make a logbook entry, they could be summarily dismissed. With an open logbook entry, the pilots would have seen there was tape on the aircraft because I am the only one that can sign it off, meaning "close it". Open entry means no departure, which means no accident. Standard Operating Procedures mean everything in this business, and also to call things by the English names to indicate what you really mean, Period. Last I will mention Avianca Flight 052 from Columbia to New York. They circled the airport and remained in holding for so long they simply ran out of gas. You can look up the episode for yourselves here on KZbin. The Captain of 20 years with Avianca was so bad with his English that he had to have the First Officer communicate with Approach. This is not conversational English but a code of English that means certain definite procedures will be followed. Some examples are Initial Approach Fix, Short Final, Go Around, Pan Pan and of course Declaring an Emergency or Mayday. One of the survivors of this crash (who speaks Spanish as a principal language) when interviewed said, " The captain asked for priority and where I come from when we say priority that means we should be put to the front". What she is not realizing is that if you go to Japan or Hong Kong or South Africa and say "Priority" they will say HUH? The only word that the crew on Avianca Flt. 052 had to say was "EMERGENCY" and then explain what happened when they got parked at the gate. In closing I would say that the words we use, the procedures we follow and responsibilities that we assume in aviation have certain specific meanings and redundant safety implications not related to common life outside of our business. If you are going to become a Pilot, Engineer or ATC, you need to know these "code words", what they mean and understand how following proper paperwork and knowing procedures will keep you out of these deadly situations.

[@michigangirl5072]

Let me make it clear to you on your third point. 1. No one is DISAGREEING with you on the fact that they should use these codes. I agree with you. 2. I also agree that they should have went to an alternative airport in Boston. Pilots are to blame. But 3. So are the ATC. Running out of fuel also means an emergency. And 4. If you wanna talk about confusion, you're commenting on the wrong episode.

[@dlvox5222]

I remember this was a case of a taped over pitot tube I believe. Pitot tubes measure all the critical airspeed indicators. I always thought the Doppler radar measures altitude bouncing signals to the earth surface. But IDK. Not a pilot. Was a aircrew in helicopters in the Navy.

[@tylerbrass4002]

I believe you are correct about the radar, but the ATC had access to that information, and therefore could relay accurate ground speed info to the pilots, but the altitude information was not accurate, but they thought both were accurate. The terrain alarm was based on a system separate from the pitot tubes, I believe it was based on radio altimeter, and maybe stick shaker is separate from the pitot system as well, but I'm not sure. Had they known all of this information at the time, they probably could have worked the problem. That's my understanding of this accident anyway.

[@edwardrichardson5567]

You have a transponder that sends Altitude, Airspeed & Heading. Onboard Radio Altimeter operates within 2500 ft above ground.

[@edwardrichardson5567]

@@tylerbrass4002 GPWS gets its info from the on-board radio altimeter which reads actual Altitude above ground. GPWS does not read from the Barometric Altitude which computes static pressure against the ram pressure entering the pitot tube.

[@longdongvondiqenbaum]

There's a reason why we have a warning sign on MH60R aircraft saying don't cover or plug the static port with anything, the pitot and static ports are part of the same system that feeds you air pressure which is used for altitude.

[@ionutturcutvoda3545]

I don`t know what year was this was but in situations like this they should have used a gps based phone app like waze or iGo as soon as they saw that their instruments weren`t working

[@ericbuzzard2041]

😄😄😄😂 smdh

[@kmnormal629]

What?

[@gofast3209]

No narration???

[@robinstewart6510]

🔥 The aircraft industry needs to redesign the pitot tubes to automatically clear any obstruction before takeoff. Another, perhaps better, option is completely retracting the pitot tubes between flights, preventing anything or anyone from even touching them. At the very least, design a test before takeoff to detect any erratic behavior.

[@campkohler9131]

The test idea is the answer. A pump should pressurize the various lines and either sensors check the results or the crew follows along to verify that the pitot system is responding properly. This kind of test would have also prevented a similar problem from crashing that charter aircraft that had it's pilot tubes blocked by insects because it sat parked without pilot tube covers installed. You would think that clever pilots would carry on board their own altimiters to compare with the cockpit instruments for the first few minutes of flight, and if anything is odd, land immediately and figure it out. Anything is better than crashing.

[@robinstewart6510]

@@campkohler9131 .. The test would have to be conducted before takeoff. After takeoff, especially at night or increment weather, the crew would be in serious trouble.

[@rosemarietacba720]

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[@nathanaelgonzalez8303]

AeroPeru Flight 603 2 de octubre 1996

[@raymondcole5068]

radar should have been able to tell them the speed ,direction, and altitude of the airplane accurately

[@Operngeist1]

depends on the style of radar, the one they were using only showed the information the plane was sending them, known as secondary radar. With primary radar they would have had that information.

[@carloscortes5570]

Radars are all different styles.this one is bullshit in,bullshit out

[@katrinarucker2326]

It's quite strange to watch this episode without the narrator. 😮

[@peterbiltguy4311]

7:40 *I am up, but the speed!*

[@michigangirl5072]

The co-pilot says that a lot. The speed indicator stops working, that's understandable.

[@michigangirl5072]

The maintenance crew really fouled up on this one. The pilots never ask for much. All the crew had to do is remove the damn tape. It's not like the pilots tricked him into solving a difficult puzzle or something.

[@gameplaysgabyturismosereag4035]

28:32 😳and 28:27

[@gameplaysgabyturismosereag4035]

aeroperu flight 603 crash

[@danahsutton101]

Ten cents in tape brought the plane down. The cleaner should have remove it and the pilots should have made sure it was removed.

[@peterolsen269]

You are getting closer all the time.

[@ultrajd]

I understand the need for accountability but throwing the maintenance worker in jail seems a little extreme. Also No disrespect intended for the flight crew but I feel that as soon as they started seeing that their flight instruments were malfunctioning they should have turned around and gone back to Lima.

[@katrinarucker2326]

Sadly, they've wondered away from the city lights before they could even do that. That's when they started to fly blind. It must've happened so quickly before they realize what's going on.

[@ultrajd]

@@katrinarucker2326 So it would seem.

[@mawj09eas4]

Interesting, no narration.

[@Carols-we8mi]

Yet again maintenance are responsible for more carnage. Maintenance should be supervised and team led so that they fully understand the consequences of poor maintenance work. Death, disaster, destruction and carnage. So many lost souls. And poor maintenance with shoddy workmanship. Maintenance workers need to understand the importance of precision work and the consequences for passengers and crews, DEATH.

[@rubrubgames69]

17 center is the ai is broken

[@sandrakiefler4649]

Wtf is happening!?

[@ANGELSURS]

I was on this flight and survived. I drifted towards an island and still there to this day.

[@kristinekhan8465]

Wow with internet connection.... Amazing

[@inovakovsky]

@@kristinekhan8465 That is a troll. No one survived.

[@boost1606]

Oh really is the island called Pen Island?

[@ANGELSURS]

@@kristinekhan8465 I had a wifi extender

[@ANGELSURS]

@@inovakovsky no troll here as I survived

[@Edson_Lucas_A320Neo]

Flight 603

[@sbolden123]

😭🙏

[@mauriciolavanderos2872]

1954-1996 end Time of alliance judeo-aleman

[@davewilliams1719]

I thought pilots were suppose to be trained on cockpit scenarios and faults I believe it was a maintenance gross maintenance error however I'm a mechanic pilots should have been able to get back to the airport the pilots were not effectively working together sad all the way around 🙈😭😭

[@samm928]

Poor painter is not responsible .. it's Air Peru that should go to jail.

[@Jetup24]

Whoever put the tape on the pitot tubes should of taken the tape off after cleaning/painting/maintenance. Whoever left the tape should of been charged with involuntary manslaughter and sent to prison