How these Pilots Crashed their Plane While Having Fun | A Thrill at 41,000 Feet

Find out how the pilots of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashed their aircraft into the ground outside Jefferson City, Missouri while flying between Little Rock, Arkansas and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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[@Seriouslyfunny1]

When the captain says "look how high we are", I don't think he's talking about altitude...

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Or IQ.

[@tat2steven810]

😅👍

[@henrydenner5448]

Hahaha. Good point! 😁

[@nat4581]

NO drinking and flying.

[@iVenge]

When you think you’re Niki Lauda and you’re driving an AMC Gremlin.

[@rhensontollhouse]

My flight instructor had me read the NTSB report then we discussed it. The importance of staying professional, fly by the numbers, know what the numbers are, keeps you alive. Had a couple experiences where the lessons he taught saved me.

[@AndreOutlaw]

I'm not a pilot or in training but I think that idea works in every profession. If you stay professional, follow your training (if the training was correct), and follow the rules, then you may pull yourself through anything. Or at the very least be labeled as doing everything you could do/it wasn't your fault.

[@ahgflyguy]

There’s also something to be said for pushing the nose down when the stick starts shaking, without regard for any of the numbers except AGL altitude.

[@TrashMutt]

Good advice

[@DarekDarek-gx2to]

789⁷⁷

[@jordanhazen7761]

@kellie everts Disruption to engines' intake airflow due to the extreme maneuvers they were flying. Once both flamed out, the "core lock" problem (a known issue with this specific model of engine) prevented restart. It was triggered by the thermal shock of first having been run way too hot - maxed out power with insufficient air cooling due to the excessive climb rate and low airspeed - then being suddenly chilled down by frigid ~36000ft airstream. Differential expansion/contraction rates caused some rotating elements with tight clearances to bind against a sealing surface.

[@davesmith5656]

NTSB [off camera]: "Idiots. How do we phrase 'idiots' politely?" "How about: Pilots' unprofessional behavior, deviation from standard operating procedures, and poor airmanship?" "Sounds good. Let's go with that. Idiots."

[@jonathankleinow2073]

"I checked with the board chairman, and he said we can't put the probable cause as 'fucked around and found out.' Sorry."

[@babydriver8134]

They were kids. Someone should have known better.

[@jonathankleinow2073]

@@babydriver8134 The pilot was 31, well past the age where incomplete brain development or something like that could be blamed for his behavior. He was an immature but fully grown man.

[@babydriver8134]

@@jonathankleinow2073 YEAH? Like I said, KIDS.

[@jonathankleinow2073]

@@babydriver8134 ...Okay then.

[@PuppyDogPilot]

I went to work for Pinnacle a few years after this accident. Every time I heard people talk about this accident, the scorn or contempt they had for the pilots was very noticeable. This is very rare in the airline world. That speaks volumes.

[@ecs2ecs46]

extremely glad that it’s rare

[@PuppyDogPilot]

@@ecs2ecs46 Glad what is rare? If you meant accidents, I agree. If you meant having scorn or contempt for stupid pilots, I disagree, They probably did other things before this accident that should have drawn some criticism but got away with it. Pilots need to be called out on any bad behaviors or dangerous attitudes before they crash.

[@di-gun5791]

I think he meant neither. He's glad dumb pilots are rare.

[@sam08g16]

@@di-gun5791 dumb pilots may be rare, but arrogant and egocentric ones abound

[@mjleger4555]

The "smoke" must have indicated that there may have been some "fire" before this incident. However, just because there are no passengers is never the reason to play around in an aircraft!

[@novembertheduck3575]

Just use a Flight Simulator if you want to have fun...

[@theoriginaltroll388]

Good thing it was on just them on the plane

[@danielrisueno6053]

@@theoriginaltroll388 better to have no pilots than to have reckless pilots, at least there were no passengers

[@ufanisoneetze]

Or be the sky king. Only he can pull stuff like that. Rip skyking

[@channelsixtysix066]

It's cheaper and you get to walk away after crashing your plane.

[@leftR-tardation]

Why use a flight simulator? Just imagine the flight in your mind...

[@Parabellum-oe3sw]

An airplane cockpit is the last place on earth where i would decide to have fun

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

They were right. The problem is they had the wrong kind of vehicle for their correct maneuvers. Next time the company should give them an F/A-18 Super Hornet so their maneuver works...

[@dipayan4264]

You can have fun.....but not with the aircraft........just engage the autopilot before having fun......and make sure it remains engaged......

[@theoriginaltroll388]

Flying the plane is extremely fun idk why they needed a extra thrill

[@noobscoopsies1100]

Well you actualy can have fun whit aircraft but not whit a comercial plane better using cesna or some

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

@@noobscoopsies1100 I know of 2 pilots. One tried to impress a tourist, skimming the surface as if it was a WIGE. They never returned. Another one tried to impress a tourist girl and flew near the cone of a volcano. Wind from the side pushed the plane and made it crash against the volcano. Cessna planes do not work either. They need something like an F-14 Tomcat to play. I would not recommend an F-16 Falcon because if one wing stalls and the other does not, it enters unrecoverable spin.

[@nataliee8032]

That poor little plane tried everything it could to save itself.

[@user-io4rf4ml5e]

That's what we all said when we go

[@user-io4rf4ml5e]

Got the Fdr and cvr data. I worked for Pinnacle at the time

[@Lexlugr]

@@user-io4rf4ml5e why the hell would they ignore the stall warnings multiple times? Were they really that dense?

[@user-io4rf4ml5e]

@@Lexlugr First Officer very low time Captain came thru Gulfstream Air if I remember correctly, comparatively low time. Don't know what was going thru there heads. Was a strange time, hiring 250 hour pilots and building hours with little real world experience

[@xiro6]

im sure if it had ejection seats,it would have throw them out.

[@IARRCSim]

That was the first and last time the air traffic controller saw that type of plane over 40,000 feet. If it ever happens again, he'll probably declare an emergency before the pilots do.

[@taylorg8509]

I wouldn’t be surprise if ATC didn’t get a write up as well , obviously they assumed pilots had a good reason But I bet atc shoudlve asked why the need to be so high up

[@AEMoreira81]

Endeavor Air (successor to Pinnacle) now restricts flights to 37,000 feet. In training, what they did that night is shown in the simulator.

[@Mdeaccosta]

@@AEMoreira81 that makes my blood run cold! On the other hand, watching Idiots in Cars prepped me nicely for some recent distracted driver/ crossing the center line foolery.

[@AdrenalineVideos1337]

I'm not a pilot but climbing so fast you stall the plane seems like a pretty big user error. According to the video, had climbed more slowly they could have made it to that altitude safely.

[@Skilliard]

It's not that the plane isn't capable of flying at over 40,000 feet, it's that the pilots did so incorrectly(climbing too fast and letting air speed get too low).

[@channelsixtysix066]

"We Can Have Fun With N8963A, 'Coz Who's Gonna Know, Right?" The only sensible thing they did, was not have any other personnel on board.

[@tima.478]

They didn't even do that...

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

And don't crash on someone on the ground

[@TheBeingReal]

Just a multimillion dollar plane wrecked.

[@EM.1]

There was no one on board because it wasn’t a scheduled flight, it was a REPO FLIGHT. REPO stands for repositioning, the pilots hop-on, as passengers, on the last scheduled flight directed to the destination where the aircraft to reposition is, then board the aircraft takeoff and perform a flight to reposition the aircraft to the correct destination, ready to perform the scheduled flights the next day. A lot of REPO FLIGHTS are made to move aircraft between Newark, LGA, and JFK, the length of the flight it’s around 4 minutes excluding flight plan authorization, GROUND traffic management, takeoff clearance, same for approach, landing, taxiing and finally parking the aircraft.

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

@@EM.1...a FOUR minute flight? So why did Traffic Control permit them to fly so high? Was there even time? (I know nothing about flying)

[@Sanakudou]

The silence in these videos really add to the sense of dread, imagining what these pilots last moments were like and worse yet, getting to experience real-time how long they had to sit there and think about their impending death, to think about their own stupid mistake and how they can’t take it back. It’s truly chilling.

[@craycraywolf6726]

Definitely. TFC makes these well

[@johnalexander7490]

@Oldschool DOSfan Somethings when you F up, you get no Backsies. ALWAYS be careful ... in your car ... in your place ... on your Segway ... whatever it may be. :)

[@cyrilhudak4568]

CVR transcripts are available. The cpt stopped functioning when he realized that they might die.

[@bobsullivan5714]

@@johnalexander7490 Except on my motorcycle...I don't need to be careful on my motorcycle...I have my horn to chastise others with, a middle finger, and a genuine Government approved helmet.... What could go wrong?

[@johnalexander7490]

@@bobsullivan5714 :) I still stand by what I said. Even on a motorcycle... you get no backsies. :) To your credit, it IS more fun being a little less careful on a bike :)

[@jjjcmo]

This plane crash occurred less than one mile from my house. I heard the crash - it sounded like a freight train collision. I looked outside and saw a huge fire ball erupting from across the valley! I sped to the scene and saw the burning wreckage. The plane had plowed through a thick grove of trees, thereby breaking up. Remarkably, the front of the fuselage came to rest between two occupied homes on a residential street! There were a number of smaller collateral explosions of what I assumed to be oxygen canisters, hydraulic lines and possibly one, or more tires. In defense of the aircrew, it was obvious they avoided hitting any homes or businesses in the area - there were several of each. In a gross instance of irony, I flew on an identical CR jet the next day!

[@CHARCHICHI]

Wow

[@jdhrap]

Well these 2 idiots first thought was to find a street or highway to land on. How many people would have been killed with that dumb move. Just 2 immature guys trying to win the Darwin Award for the year.

[@apj341]

Jim Jones

[@glamdolly30]

The landing location has to be more luck than judgement, since Dumb and Dumber totally lost control of the plane some time ago!

[@johnalexander7490]

@@glamdolly30 I second that emotion !! :)

[@whyask5461]

There is a reason they call the Maximum Operating Altitude for any aircraft "Coffin Corner." As you climb the thinning air produces less lift over the wings. Because of this it is vital that you maintain a higher than normal forward airspeed to prevent stalling. At the same time the thinning air also causes the engines to produce less and less thrust the higher you climb. When operating at the aircraft's certified maximum altitude you are balanced on a knifes edge performance wise. Piloting an aircraft in this condition requires strict attention to the aircraft's instrumentation to ensure that you are following the published guidance for your aircraft type.

[@heard3879]

That's a very helpful explanation! Thanks for explaining what the video SHOULD HAVE EXPLAINED!!!

[@LetsHavePun]

Taking any piece of machine to max operating limit and trying to sustain it there is never a good thing, in most cases

[@greg77389]

Be that as it may, any pilot worth his salt should be able to recover at that altitude. Altitude can be traded for speed and vice versa.

[@staceygrahame2504]

@@heard3879 No it shouldn’t. Atmospheric variation VS performance is basic science. The principals of physics that I learnt as a kid at school + common sense, are enough to tell me that even though I’m no pro aviator, the following applies: 1) The maximum operation level exists for the safety of the people and the plane. It’s been tried and tested time and time again before the jet was approved for service. Therefore if someone has already risked their life to find out for you and you’re dumb enough to want to test it for yourself, then the world probably doesn’t have to wait long to have at least one less dumb person in it. This now increases the safety of the remaining population. 2) The higher up we go, the denser the air is due to the lack of oxygen and increase in pressure. Therefore the performance of anything that goes up high - including an aircraft - will reduce the higher it goes. 3) Reduced performance of any machine requires increased input and quality of input from the energy source. For this to remain at an effective level, it requires constant precision. 4) Gravity never stops. If you’re going to mess around with tried and tested performance boundaries, you’re going to * it up. Because unless precision and accuracy remain constant, you’ve allowed for you’ve allowed for gravity to increase its effect and therefore all the scientific calculations that are the foundation of ‘how things stay up in the air and move forward’ are now effectively redundant, because smart butt pilot decided to play around with gravity, inadvertently changing all the optimum flight requirements. I feel bad for the plane. It didn’t do anything wrong. It was lumbered with an inadequate human in the front seat. It’s fate was sealed.

[@sudbtd]

​@@John_Thompson That just means you are dumb

[@budspaulding7121]

An old pilot advised me, long ago: "Maintaineth thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee" I miss hearing his wisdom...

[@dukadarodear2176]

That saying was in vogue among pilots in biblical times.

[@budspaulding7121]

@@dukadarodear2176 I told you it was long ago! LOL!

[@howieduin915]

A more modern day saying. " There are old pilots, and bold pilots. But there are hardly any old bold pilots."

[@paulfrombrooklyn5409]

@@dukadarodear2176 Moses was an Airbus A320 pilot.

[@macman975]

@@paulfrombrooklyn5409 Moses was also the first person to download information from the cloud to a tablet. Smart guy.

[@williamstone4334]

I'm not a pilot, but it seems like the plane tried to save itself but the pilots wouldn't let it.

[@windward563]

ikr

[@HC-cb4yp]

I've seen about 100 videos like this and 99.9% of the time that's the case. If the pilot and copilot would just go back and have a drink, the plane would have fixed the situation. I think we've reached the stage where aircraft are so technical that it's time to get humans out of the cockpit and eliminate the cockpit entirely.

[@vomitkermit3446]

@@HC-cb4yp idk if you know this. But the pilots are only there now to get the plane to take off, and stop after a landing. And to handle a failure. From the moment the wheels leave the ground to right before landing, the plane is flying itself. It is actually against the rules to take control otherwise.

[@HC-cb4yp]

@@vomitkermit3446 Still too much human interference. I understand the military has been flying troop transports with no one in the cockpit for some time.

[@johnsmith-wc8gs]

@@vomitkermit3446 I did some work on a house owned by an instructor at Boeing. He asked if I'd like to check out his work so ofcourse I said yes. At the facility in south Seattle he let me use the flight simulator which was basically a fuselage on hydraulics. After flying around the sound and buzzing the space needle I brought it in for a landing which was a little rough. He didn't mind at all. That was when he asked if I'd ever been in a plane for a rough landing as indeed I had. He told me it was because that was the pilot flying the plane. All the smooth landings were on autopilot. This was in 1997 so guaranteed the technology is far beyond that now. Cheers!

[@sonikkuzahejjihoggu535]

At least they didn’t kill anyone else with their foolishness.

[@farerse]

@james murphy they pitched down and used gravity but they were unsucessful

[@rossrankin309]

and to think they almost did when looking for a road or highway to land on. Nope you messed up, you bin that in a field or water

[@bluefishbeagle1]

after the engines flamed out what they needed was more speed not less. the core of the engine was allowed to spool down and that core locked the engines, until internal temperatures equalized the engine could not be restarted... they ran out of time,

[@asmartbajan]

There's a saying many student pilots are told by their instructors: *There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots.*

[@irvancrocs1753]

I am curious what was inside their heads seconds before the impact, probably thinking "If only we didn't do that" and full with regret..

[@Mackathne]

23 years old, with an amazing salary for his age and his entire life ahead of him, all thrown away for a few minutes of joyride

[@FuzedBox]

Most regional pilots receive utterly abysmal pay. I'm not even joking when I say you can make more working retail. Regionals are for grinding hours and building your profile. Still sad, though.

[@duncandmcgrath6290]

I wrenched for a northern carrier years ago . Newb pilots would stay at the staff house and fly stupid hours keeping the right seat warm , basically minimum wage when they got all the deductions taken off .

[@rezhaadriantanuharja3389]

Well you can still say that he had his entire life ahead of him

[@Shattered-Realm]

23 is too young to be in control of a aircraft it seems.

[@michaeloneill1186]

FO pay for a regional airline is barely greater than flipping burgers, and the hours are worse. Makes you think.

[@MrWheeler715]

Pilot: Let's have a little fun up here. Physics: Hold my beer....

[@visionist7]

One of the pilots did ask the other if he wanted a beer at one point

[@goozzz381]

@@visionist7 bruh

[@visionist7]

@@goozzz381 it's in the CVR transcript

[@Machelle3200]

@@visionist7 OMG

[@greenbeagle13]

@MrWheeler715 🤣😂

[@leonardwl]

I used to fly for this airline, and while the video is great as usual, it omits some key items that actually make it a lot worse. The CVR shows they were too busy celebrating their first time at FL410 and bragging to each other that "we're 4-1-0-ing it, baby!" to notice the deteriorating situation they had put themselves in. The captain and first officer had exchanged seats during the climb (a huge violation of procedures). So the relatively inexperienced FO was in the left-hand captain's seat when the stick shaker & stick pusher activated. That was a huge contributor to the pilots not recognizing or responding correctly to the low airspeed. After the engines flamed out and the plane began to descend, the pilots traded seats AGAIN to get back to their correct positions. This stole precious time, and required that both pilots reorient themselves while in a high stress, highly disorienting situation. It likely contributed to their inability to achieve 300kts and get the engines out of core lock. When the dual flameout occurred, they told ATC they had only lost ONE engine. They were too arrogant or embarrassed to admit they had experienced a dual flameout. By the time they realized they were in deep s*** and told ATC that both engines were out, they were too low and ATC was unable to direct to a suitable airfield.

[@jessstone7486]

W O W ......:(

[@SOLDOZER]

Both engines were locked, one was melted and odds of starting them was zero. They did not even tell ATC they lost both engines until they were at like 13,000.

[@lukailic5439]

How do you know all of that?

[@SOLDOZER]

@@lukailic5439 You can go read the cockpit voice recorder transcript. That's what Leonard did. He's not even a pilot as he claims. He just read the transcript.

[@ih82r8]

I wish this had been included, but glad someone mentioned it. What horrible pilots.

[@Powerranger-le4up]

I’m well aware of what happened since I’m from Missouri and live about an hour and a half from Jefferson City. I was not too happy when I learned about these pilots’ reckless and unprofessional behavior. When you’re not conducting yourself in a professional manner on a plane, you’re putting yourself and your passengers in danger. I’m just glad no one else was onboard at that time.

[@trishayamada807]

Not to mention putting people on the ground in danger as well. What if the crashed into a building! This was all so needless. It makes me sad and so angry at the same time.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

Yeah I can relate. Commercial airline crashes are SO darn impactful. (Pun unintentionally apropos) PSA Flight 182 crashed in San Diego 1 mile from our place growing up - with 140 some lives lost. Its a memory that just never leaves. At least here it looks like the pilots aimed away from homes. Tragic this happened in darkness In daylight they may have found an appropriate sized Highway.

[@adamr9570]

Oh sorry I thought you would be happy, but you weren’t TOO happy right? 🙄

[@coltonwilliams1565]

They still could’ve crashed and killed people on the ground though.

[@and2rew]

Alright Karen.

[@Tld0026]

Take a empty toilet paper tube and put it in front of a blowing fan. You will feel the air passing through it on the other side of the tube. Start tilting the tube upwards and the air will decrease less and less until none of the opening of the tube is exposed to the incoming air from the fan. The jet engine is essentially that tube. That tube requires airflow (for many reasons) not to mention the extreme heat that is going on inside that tube. Parts start heating up, other parts start cooling down. Thermal expansion and contraction of different metals start. Tolerances (or gaps) of spinning parts inside a jet engine are very small. They expand and others contract until those parts start rubbing together. Rubbing stops the spinning, no spinning no motor. I.e. Core Lock!

[@Yuzugumi007]

That makes a lot of sense thank u

[@imrankhanyousafzai5461]

very nicely explained ! thank you.

[@komradestahlin8795]

but there is no blowing fan in front of the plane, the air should be stagnant No matter how the engine is tilted.

[@daftvader4218]

@@komradestahlin8795 Derrrrrr!!

[@komradestahlin8795]

@@daftvader4218 I Don't Speak Caveman

[@Alicia-BG]

I can't even imagine what their families feel knowing that they lost their loved ones due to their own stupidity and that the losses were 100% unnecessary.

[@maxpenn6374]

In all seriousness, it's good for the survivors that, stupidity notwithstanding, life insurance still pays out.

[@Giovanniram22]

I can't even Immagine the pointless of your message.

[@Alicia-BG]

@@Giovanniram22 I can't even understand what you wrote in your message 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@melodiefrances3898]

No kidding. They had probably done a number of stupid dangerous things before this, and it caught up with them this time. At least they didn't kill anyone else. That is the only blessing.

[@bigredc222]

I bet their families disagreed with the findings, it's hard to accept the people you love were responsible for their own death.

[@Interdictiondeltawing]

This felt like a group of teens going on joyride in a car

[@goodccvoid]

m

[@rampage1306]

Ur right lol

[@sigmaswan2969]

Yeh

[@Lee247Jamaica]

Hi Kenny

[@Interdictiondeltawing]

@@Lee247Jamaica hey

[@petratical]

In ground school back in 1966, I was told that "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots"!

[@billolsen4360]

Exactly what an 81 year old retired UA pilot told me when we were doing church work together.

[@chrisholder4978]

Ya well, military pilots are all mostly bold as hell and have nerves of steel and a lot of them grow old. So, your message must only pertain to civilian pilots....correct?

[@petratical]

@@chrisholder4978 Let me put it this way, just after my brother got his license, (he was 2 years older) he joined the Army and traded his civil license for a Military one, and to be even considering such a move, one must be bold to fly over enemy territory, getting shot at. But, we both heard the same thing in civil ground school, but what the Army taught him, I do not know! I will add though, that while on a patrol (he flew Bird Dog, recon) a VC got a rocket off right under him, slamming through his plane, just behind his seat. Only singed the hair off the back of his neck , missing any cables or important stuff. So, "bold as hell and have nerves of steel and a lot of them grow old." yes and thankfully he is growing old! Now that I am on this subject, and we should honor our service men and women, I meet an old WW2 bomber last year at a nursing home, before this covid thing hit. He was 99 years old, and talk about (military pilots are all mostly bold as hell and have nerves of steel and a lot of them grow old) he was such a one, as he was on a crew aboard a B-24 Marauder, having done (survived) 67 missions over Germany, including D-Day. He said, (after asking a dumb question), "what was it like" he said; "It got hot", speaking of the triple A, ack ack .

[@SOLDOZER]

Really? Nobody has ever heard that before.

[@billolsen4360]

@@chrisholder4978 I think it really means stupidly bold pilots but that doesn't rhyme as well.

[@cautiouslyoptimistic1962]

Being able to say "Look how high we are!" Wasn't worth the risk to have a little fun, obviously. If they had just let the plane right itself, they'd still be alive. What a shame to die in a crash of your own making, and being posthumously shamed and disgraced. Bless their families.

[@anax3672]

Don't add shame and guilt to this tragedy then. How would you feel if you were the family of these pilots?

[@alicjagodlewska1059]

@@anax3672 That's the truth. Families know it!

[@cy4330]

@@anax3672 Well gotta face the insults if you raised such dumb kids. Natural selection on display

[@Dr.Faran.Ophthalmology]

No matter how much scary they are, i can't stop watching these plane crashes.. and these words “too low terrain, pull up” probably the most scariest words i have ever heard”

[@joshtmotorsports2471]

Indeed scariest

[@DomiBlanche]

Fun fact: I used to have that sound as an alarm on my phone. 😀

[@Dr.Faran.Ophthalmology]

Hahahaha... you won’t have any problem in waking up at all then 😜

[@barbaraguy3491]

Scariest words I have ever heard are "depart from me, I never knew you". From Jesus in Matthew 7 (7:23).

[@ItsameAlex]

true

[@1982nsu]

A wise airline pilot said it best, "Your attitude determines your altitude."

[@Sombody123]

These guys must have mistakenly figured out that it means high spirits and high altitudes.

[@wilsjane]

I strongly suspect that their fate was sealed long before they reached 41,000 feet. The steep climbs, followed by low airspeed would have been cooking the engines. At an inclined angle, oil flow would also have been slowed. At 41,000 feet, with reduced air, the engines struggled to maintain thrust and the temperature rose until the core bearings seized. At this point, they should have realised that they had broken their toy, since engines do not flame out for no reason, particularly both of them. Their only option was a slow and well planned glide back to earth, but thy simply had no idea what they had done to create their problems.

[@broadsworddannyboy5057]

Excellent summary

[@jameretief8327]

Or better put, “Never go full retard!”.

[@achaille9110]

@@wilsjane - Human arrogance.....It's a killer.

[@samiksha537]

Even the poor plane tried to alert them multiple times but then she realized they probably have a death wish and gave them what they wanted.

[@ze2004]

300 knts windmill??? WTF 41000 feet, they tried several times to turn on motors??? come on...

[@ahgflyguy]

@@ze2004 seriously. If you want to relight engines, you gotta be willing to push the nose down. Based on the description that they were executing pitch up maneuvers, it sounds like they were maybe afraid of pointing the airplane at the ground and going fast.

[@standalon3308]

Okay, except the "she" part. Material objects and applications are male.

[@FeelFree3]

@@standalon3308 But somehow people call ship a she.

[@standalon3308]

@@FeelFree3 Not the first thing done wrong for millennia. .

[@13rdp]

Crazy story! Reminds me when flying back to Europe over the US, one bored controller asked us if we were flying a Global, when we confirme he strangely asked us if we could climb to FL 510 (the max ceiling of our a/c) to '''make his day''. We answered that we could but we wont. I was very surprised by such an silly request from a professional.

[@ivanriverooo]

Maybe it would have been a good day to ask him to have a pen and some paper. I would have at least joked or asked him back about it. Unless he was joking. The mere potential induction to someone "trying drugs" so to speak should be penalized.

[@teabag1165]

I am not surprised since it was the US

[@elizabeth5985]

dang. In retrospect I bet you wish you had reported him. That is reckless behavior and is unlikely the first or last time he's done something like that.

[@joannaharrison7368]

@13rdp that's INSANE!! I just CANNOT understand pushing it to the brink like that... Especially with others lives!! Thank God you're not an ego maniac.... I'm sure your family and the families of the passengers that you potentially saved that evening (including the family of dumbass!) Are more than GREATFUL!

[@stephaniela6150]

It’s frightening to think those two were tasked with flying passengers. They didn’t sound mature enough to operate a go-kart.

[@ecs2ecs46]

my thoughts exactly

[@thaneoffife6904]

To me it seems they only acted recklessly because they didn't have passengers. I doubt they would've gone to the service ceiling or swapped seats during a regular passenger flight.

[@leeriches8841]

They don't even sound mature enough for Mario-Kart tbh.

[@Trblsum96]

@@leeriches8841 well, they were smart enough to fly a plane ✈️.. can you?

[@sam08g16]

@@Trblsum96 And dumb enough to put one down, losing their lives in the process

[@Win-xl7no]

The transcript of the voice recorder on this is absolutely shameful. They were literally laughing and joking all the way til it went wrong. Disgusting.

[@smurfchina6147]

where can we hear it?

[@myfoot6171]

Where can we hear it?

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Where can we hear it?

[@funkygenesis]

Hear can? where it we

[@goku445]

2203:15RDO-1 ah we had an engine failure up there at altitude it at ah airplane ah went into a stall and one of our engine's failure

[@juangerardop]

Pilot: look how high we are Minutes later... Plane: pull up, terrain.

[@madcapper6]

Not a funny situation but I had a good laugh at this one.

[@vanezzalaza8635]

i laughed this one

[@ebayerr]

Juan gerardo : Going to 41,000 ft.wasn't the problemThe problem was they weren't flying fast enough. They were at 163 knots when they should've been at 250 knots. Things would've been fine if they had been at the right airspeed.(13:10)

[@denniseudela411]

Air Control: Whoa, that was quick! That's also a record. I've never heard of such a "dropping descent" from that altitude! Ooppsss... sorry, I meant just dropping. Ain't no descent on my radar! Pilot ~ sounding macho and in a non-urgent demeanor: "We're cool! No need to prep for an emergency landing there..." Pls fill in the blank of what the macho captain possibly said? Final transmission: ".... _______________!"

[@isabellind1292]

IKR?? It's as bad as the kid in the pilot's seat...what does this lever do, daddy?

[@celticstephenhill]

They mysteriously switched seats at least 2 times during this flight. And had they called for vectors immediately after engine failure, they would have had plenty of time and elevation to glide to the closest airport. The worst part of that is that while they were descending towards the eventual crash they could SEE the runway they were aiming for in the distance.... Gruesome.

[@phreak761]

Because both pilots would have killed their jobs for needlessly wrecking a perfectly good aeroplane, instead they killed themselves.

[@paulwoodford1984]

they wanted to die

[@johnnyfiveo]

i googled "poor airmenship" and it brought me here. there seemed to be nothing redeeming about this flight at all.

[@W.A.F]

🤖 You are in a simulation Johnny

[@GrabbaBeer]

It’s really not poor airmanship, they just weren’t experienced enough about the cores locking etc. Every pilot has had their own fun before.

[@nickv4073]

Just curious. What makes a person Google "poor airmanship"? Is the lockdown getting to you?

[@johnnyfiveo]

@@nickv4073 learn how to take a joke. has the lockdown gotte to you?

[@nickv4073]

@@johnnyfiveo Oh, it was a joke. Ummmmmmmm, okay. If you say so.

[@modaphne193]

When your flight takes off and lands safely you count your blessings

[@jimmyjoe8225]

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, any landing that the plane can take off again afterwards is a great landing.

[@kinkane5566]

@@jimmyjoe8225 AMEN brother! I never complain about air travel - even the obese woman paying for one seat instead of two at the expense of half of my seat and the one on her other side. If I walk out of that plane, it's mission accomplished, no questions asked and no promises broken. I've had several 14-15 hr flights as well and when that sucker touches down, I'm happy as a kitten just that we MADE IT.

[@fiegenfiegen]

I pray and ask Holy Mary for protection of my family and I and for wisdom on the part of the pilots when we fly. It works! Never had a crash. (I rationally know that safe flying is not the result of my praying, but I keep praying just for that extra pinch of help!)

[@MOMAZOSPATO]

@@fiegenfiegen yes every time i fly once we both engines are started i make a quick prayer to god and to holy mary so they protect me. Always seems to work

[@Soulful_Chaos]

Amen!

[@ThePessimisticTech-Priest]

This is the tale of Icarus for the modern era.

[@clintballard521]

Great analogy.

[@eugeneoreilly9356]

At least they learned something from Ickarus,by flying at night.

[@videodeposu8741]

Nice.

[@Sparrow.31]

More like the tale of 2 stupid guys

[@TheSpritz0]

BEST comment of 2021!!!!!!!

[@bernieh6725]

Jesse was my neighbor and good friend when this happened. I'll never forget getting the call from another pilot friend. Jesse stayed in the apartment below mine outside Detroit. I use to invite him up for dinner and Games on TV when he was in town. This is the first time I ever got to understand what happened. It was very hard to watch this, it brought back a lot of memories of him. He was a great guy. Northwest flew me to FL for his memorial. So sad for him and his FO. I still miss him, May they RIP. I'm glad you made this video. Thank you.

[@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime]

Didn’t seem like a “great “ guy to me.😢

[@jordan2735]

I’ve crashed for that same reason soooo many times in flight simulator. Crazy that real pilots could make such a mistake.

[@PygmalionFaciebat]

Same with me. In my young years i even thought, its a bug in flight simulator that i cant restart the engines again. But it seems to be absolutely correct. And i dont have any pilot education at all. At least they flew alone. And they got what they wanted: the fun of their lives. Just dont know, why they couldnt have that fun in a flight simulator. I did so much silly shit in flight simulator - for fun reasons ;) ... Or if they want real fun.. there are those red bull airplane-races, where the airplanes are designed to do ''fun stuff'' ... There is a place for fun - and there is a place for seriousness. I'm really glad they didnt had passengers. It was bad enough that they crashed in a urban place with a lot of homes, and thankfully no one on the ground died because of their 'need' to have fun.

[@pilotactor777]

Why? You've got over 10 km to recover? Why crash. I don't get it?

[@PygmalionFaciebat]

@@pilotactor777 The reasons were quiet good explained in the video i think.

[@oneseeker2]

Mistake? No

[@PygmalionFaciebat]

@@oneseeker2 Why it isnt a mistake in your opinion?

[@jameszettelmeyer291]

One thing I've learned from all these videos is how many hours you have flying in no way translates to how good you actually are at flying when shit hits the fan....

[@vytisagafonovas3887]

well, you can scrach the hours to zero at that altitude becouse it was first time for both of them.

[@Rokaize]

Nah, what probably occurs to some pilots is the more hours they get, the more confident they get. Resulting in over confidence. Where if they have say 15,000 hours, they might feel like they are too good to screw up.

[@thebeautifulmanclub3790]

@@Rokaize correct. One of the basic core principals of CRM and why it’s so important to stay humble and avoid that mindset.

[@ignaciogarrido5584]

None of them were in this complacency area in which too much experience can go against you. They were simply stupid kids..

[@jameszettelmeyer291]

@@Rokaize correct. That's basically the point I was making.

[@joaosoares3719]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein

[@chrisholder4978]

Well, sad to say, it is usually not STUPIDITY, but simply humans being humans and doing human things.

[@TheWordisGod]

"quoting albert einstein in an attempt to appear less stupid never usually works" my local barber

[@standalon3308]

​@@chrisholder4978 To be stupid is not human, it is postero-human.

[@standalon3308]

By the way, the universe is finite. It must in order to be spherical. Just an aside.

[@jaypaint4855]

Wise words

[@JJJJ-gl2uf]

I'm an ex-army parachutist and have flown hundreds of times commercially, so I'm used to a lot of rough rides, landings, and unexpected things happening in the air. But the more flight channel videos I watch the less trusting I am of pilots doing the right thing on the flight deck. I know the odds of a crash are incredibly remote, however that doesn't change the way I feel now.

[@ratanrajsinghdeo]

Same feeling of mine

[@Bruno-tm3xo]

40 years on the job …….and I agree with you. I have flown with some F/o who were only there to have fun

[@natowaveenjoyer9862]

Comments like yours are why these channels are poison.

[@BoubiMalo]

Yes sir a plane crashed in the Mediterranean because the pilot and f/o were smoking n the cabin engulfed in flames

[@steveturner2763]

At FL410, when the engines flamed out, there was enough thermal shock to ensure core lock conditions would occur. The plane's operating manual did not make it clear that you needed in excess of 300 knots to windmill the engine. But it was a moot point because the turbine blades had melted in the right engine (No. 2)-- which reached a temp of over 1200 degrees C (300 over redline). According to the transcript, they actually reached 44,000 feet, overrode the anti-stall nose-down maneuvers four times, and misinformed ATC that there was only a single-engine flame- out and wasted 14 minutes trying to restart the engines instead of lining up the appropriate airport to land in. They could have saved their lives and aircraft if they had acknowledged to themselves what dire straits they were, in at the appropriate time.

[@SOLDOZER]

They were too busy trying to cover up the fact they were goofing off and it bit them.

[@justinwallace390]

Thank you for that added info. It helped fill in a few gaps.

[@rogerrose8220]

Steve. How did T blades get so overheated - You mentioned thermal shock can you explain that more?

[@IronWarrior95]

That was exactly what I was thinking about.. if they had immediately started to look out for an airport for an emergency landing and saving as much altitude as possible to glide to the airport instead of wasting altitude and time by trying to start the engines 4 times, then they could have a better chance! I know nothing about airplanes, but it looks like you can glide for miles after engine failure when you have enough altitude and speed, especially when you start at 40,000ft. I think they would have a good range if they saved as much altitude as possible. But I don't understand why the engines failed.. nor why they couldn't make enough speed downwards.. but someone said it was the wrong autopilot setting. But I still don't know about the engines and why they melted or smth. Was it because they were gaining altitude to fast and ended up to high where air is thinner?? I'm trying to understand..

[@sverigeaao5196]

@@IronWarrior95 Engine parts are made from different metals and metal alloys. They all have different temp limits. When the engines stalled from being so high altitude (they went ABOVE 41 at some point) and low airspeed, they immediately and abruptly started cooling down due to the extremely low temps at that altitude. Thus, some engine parts cooled more rapidly than others, which made the fan blades seize into the surrounding "casing". This is called a core lock. And yes, you are right. They climbed so rapidly, the engine temps were far beyond max limits, which guaranteed they would get a core lock when the engines stalled due to the disrupted airflow at that altitude, attitude and speed.

[@Brian-qn7fn]

"The Defense Department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid".

[@Av-vd3wk]

Why would the defense department notify the parents of these civilian pilots, Goose?

[@arnoldsherrill6305]

I get the reference and it is spot-on and all they need to do is just change it to the NTSB and it would be actually accurate because that's exactly what they were.... stupid

[@erinthesystem9608]

"Death by Misadventure." 😬

[@riflemusket]

Where’d he go?! Where’d who go?!

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

They did every thing short of take the Photo inverted....

[@AncestorEmpire1]

When Aviation gives Beavis and Butthead pilots licenses

[@None-zc5vg]

They seem to give those licences to anyone: even a lot of airline-pilots behave like knuckleheads, like that impatient KLM chief pilot who took out 582 people plus himself in the 1977 Tenerife crash.

[@theaveragesimmer4780]

@@None-zc5vg lol. That’s not what happened. It was foggy and there was miscommunication between the tower and the pilot. It was more of a freak accident than pilot error. It was the perfect storm, literally, of circumstances at Tenerife.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@theaveragesimmer4780 not to mention the stupid airline policy about overflight hours. But the majority of the blame remains on the captain, an extra minute of patience wouldn’t have killed anyone, his hubris did however.

[@theaveragesimmer4780]

@@AncestorEmpire1 that’s hindsight. The fog, the delays, the diversions to Tenerife, the fact that Tenerife couldn’t handle the capacity of multiple 747s..... it wasn’t the captains fault. It was a perfect storm set in the ancient 1970s era of aviation.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@theaveragesimmer4780 the accident doesn’t happen if the captain holds his,position for a minute at the most. He was in a rush to take off and didn’t double check with the ATC. The blame isn’t entirely his, but he shares a good amount of it.

[@chrisalexander5900]

This is what really gets me enraged. All that experience and still goofing off. It was a blessing that It was just the two of them and not a full passenger flight. Every time I get in my car I treat the trip as the first. Aware,alert and focused with both hands on the wheel always looking. CWA

[@bruce6614]

They weren't really goofing off - they just didn't read the checklist for climbing to 41,000 feet. And then they just seemed to get stupid. Didn't follow procedure on a restart regarding building up to 300 knots. They screwed up completely.

[@LarryWater]

This is why young men should not be pilots.

[@bruce6614]

@@LarryWater BS - you have pilots in their 20s flying for the military. This accident wasn't due to their age, it was due to their negligence. They didn't read the checklist for climbing to that altitude. If they had, it would have told them to maintain 300 kias instead of the 240 kias they climbed at. They also did not follow other procedures.

[@tima.478]

I clearly remember this incident. I was the station manager for Delta at the time, having taken the helm from my good friend Sonny Bankston in 1997. I was scheduled to leave for Fiji the morning (Friday), after this incident but Instead found myself in an emergency meeting with the airport manager and a few other higher ups. We had offered to assist with maintenance but Pinnacle politely declined. Godspeed to those young pilots.

[@erinthesystem9608]

I'm not big on corporate cheerleading, but this is just a statement of fact: *That plane does not belong to you.* It is not yours to needlessly expose to the risk of being damaged or destroyed! Even the airline is probably renting the plane from another entity. SO: Besides the threat of death, you're also disrespecting company property.

[@generalyellor8188]

Stating the perfectly obvious. But you're not alone; 99% of these comments are doing the same.

[@erinthesystem9608]

@@generalyellor8188 Glad to have given you a yawn to brighten the malaise.

[@DarkKnightBusa]

“Nothing parties like a rental”

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Do you know who owns a lot of these aircraft, when you get to the bottom of the corporate pile? Teachers’ pension plans. One major investor in US real estate and aircraft is the Ontario, Canada teachers’ pension plan.

[@JJtoob]

They also got rules and regulations for a reason. You don't try to test the limits of a commercial airliner if you don't own or made the plane, nor have permission to experiment, and you don't do it with a newbie on the other seat. Those planes can already have issues when flown as directed, and they are so finicky in what speeds and loads and configurations are necessary to take off and land properly, the last thing you wanna do is play around with them.

[@malonejunior2711]

The most dangerous words a pilot can say is: “Watch this”.

[@jasonMB999]

Not really

[@AdamGbl95]

Well... the thought I try to keep out of my mind when flying in an airline is this... the simple fact that our lives are in the hands of fellow human beings who have the same free will to choose whatever they wish to do... and if they wanted they could dive the plane straight into the ground or straight up... then down... at any moment. The only thing stopping then is their own belief and preference for safety.

[@AndreiIR000]

A close second would be "Hold my beer"..

[@jtoddwalsh]

One of the first things my flight instructor said.....

[@malonejunior2711]

@@jtoddwalsh Good instructor!

[@Acestes.]

This is so upsetting. I'm just glad no innocent passengers were on board that flight. Really sad honestly. RIP two these two pilots.

[@jeffreygosselin1143]

I bet when they took off from Little Rock they never imagined their lives would be over in less than two hours due to their gross negligence.

[@N_Richd1]

Well.. Nobody actually thinks of dying on the day death happens to you.. It just happens unexpectedly..(unless you commit suicide/pls don't do that anybody)..

[@ZacmanAir]

These 2 pilots were like a couple of teenagers drifting in their used BMW in a busy intersection with no regard for anything but their thrill.

[@AndroidFreak39]

That sounds so specific and yet so true.

[@christymoran7308]

Seriously, they really should've checked their attitude.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Only thing missing was the Iron Eagle tape player.......

[@JustAlice_Mai]

Reminds me of a pretty recent BMW crash in Singapore except they were young adults.

[@gerrywhelan5761]

Well if they had a bit of skill things would be fine, not spotting a dangerous loss of speed, not reacting to warnings, doing just about everything wrong, that plane was within its limits up at 41,000 feet, just stupid piloting really,

[@SpaceEag11]

From my experience as a passenger once you fly above a certain altitude, you cannot see much and the plane seems to be not moving. This is due to the fact that speed is relative and at that height, you cannot see the ground so you get the feeling of staying still. Now What puzzles me is, what kind of 'fun' were they trying to have at 41k feet which they couldn't have at say 37000 feet? which was an altitude they knew well. Is it just they wanted to push the aircraft to its limits? was that their definition of fun? They were certainly not trying any acrobatics right? Seems to me like they wanted to get up to 41k feet, just for the heck of it. Unfortunately, the plane was not in any mood to have fun.

[@JohnSmith-gb5vg]

Supposedly their is an unofficial pilots club called “410”, for pilots who flew over 41k. Some think this why they went up that high.

[@SpaceEag11]

@@JohnSmith-gb5vg Oh wow, so this is considered something prestigious? Like being a member of a billionaire's club lol

[@maxlambie7788]

probs read the right stuff and thought they were hot shit. good book btw

[@gary1961]

@@JohnSmith-gb5vg I'll just stick to the Mile High Club.

[@Sammie551]

They just wanted to be "at the top of the world"

[@ryanhampson673]

I’m a pilot and I’m 42 now..When I was younger I would always scoff at older people saying young people take unnecessary risks..Now that I’m older I can look back and understand…Both pilots were young, which isn’t a negative, but cockiness is in abundance when we are young….There’s that statement, “there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots.”

[@el34glo59]

Besides Maverick of course. I'm joking. But yes you're 100% right. I understand it completely, even not being a pilot, being older now.

[@findelka1810]

maybe it would be an idea to restrict promotion to being a captain to let’s say being at least 40 years old (on top of the required flying hours), so at least one mature adult would sit in the cockpit.

[@panther105]

I assume if they did get the plane back on the ground in one piece that their careers were basically over....

[@NewscasterNews4]

Life fired them before that could happen

[@Tech_Otter]

Flights up to max altitude is not against the rules if done properly. However they did everything wrong which led to the crash. They likely would have been fine if they descended after noticing the slowing of their speed or not override the stick pusher which tried to save the plane.

[@duramirez]

@@Tech_Otter Would you test a plane maximum anything, not knowing how well maintained it is and you knowing you are not a test pilot?

[@shawnallen2731]

But alive.. Better than a career loss...

[@ernestkovach3305]

@@Tech_Otter They actually went several thousand ABOVE MAX ALLOWED which this video did not disclose.

[@clinteranovic8075]

What a nightmare for them, all the worse because they knew they had caused it themselves. RIP.

[@BioTheHuman]

Yeah, actually I don't understand all the hate the comments are giving. We all do mistakes every day and I can bet that everyone one of us has said "watch this" in their life or "let's have some fun". Even if they had caused their death, they are still 2 dead young men.

[@fawziekefli2273]

The last words on the Cockpit Voice Recorder were "Aw, [expletive]. We're gonna hit houses, dude." So, in their final moments they probably had remorse not for themselves but for the innocent lives they thought they were going to take.

[@chateaupig826]

and thank goodness they did those shenanigans without passengers

[@bobby1970]

@CatólicoContraOMundo , I agree with you completely.

[@brizzle3903]

@@BioTheHuman but they caused their own deaths through their intentions, for goodness sake had they crashed into a suburb they would’ve wiped out entire families the cockpit of an airplane is not the place to play games Don’t expect any sympathy for these two they were reckless!

[@larsporsena7115]

Multiple times during this video I was mumbling to myself "WTF are you guys doing? WTF are you guys doing!"

[@__eganista6372]

Same here. It's extremely worrying that these are 'professionals' and often with peoples lives in their hands. You'd think they have some idea.....

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Doug Masters from, "Iron Eagle" takes a airline gig.....

[@greggravitas5849]

I saw the transcript of the CVR of this flight. A real jaw dropper.

[@bigdaddydaddy3203]

Omg i wasn’t mumbling it I was yelling it out loud wtf are u dumb bastards doing I was still saying it after I put my phone down

[@davesaunders3334]

You should read the CVR transcript - It's WAAAY more WTF than this summarised version. They knew they were abusing the aircraft and laughing about it. Sad for their families but honestly we're all better off without them.

[@Lycon721995]

As someone who works on CRJ 200s as a mechanic i've never seen ITT's roll back that fast and that far, i can't imagine the shock to the compressor just must of jammed it, truly unreal.

[@ao1778]

A furry mechanic that doesn't know the difference between "must have" and "must of". Yeah, I'm going to make sure to not fly on CRJ 200s.

[@Lycon721995]

@@ao1778 It's not something you type all that often just something you hear. It still "Would Have" fucked that engine.

[@themomentchannel3498]

@@ao1778 lmao

[@purebloodheretic4682]

@@ao1778 Keep your Desk Job as an Amateur You Tube Spell Check Clerk! The Mechanic Knows what he's Talking About, Obviously you Don't 😁

[@SwiftHDX]

@@purebloodheretic4682 Why Do you Capitalise random Words? Edit: Also, your*

[@elliestjohn9600]

There’s a reason why that altitude is called ‘coffin corner’ in aviation

[@memmener]

"Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash"

[@kinkane5566]

I'll have you flying rubber dog shit out of HONG KONG!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sanskariladkaa193]

@@kinkane5566 if you miss this much... you will be flying dog shit ouuta hongkobg

[@kelvyquayo]

@@sanskariladkaa193 going strictly from memory.. not having seen the movie in maybe 30 plus years “You’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong”. As a kid I thought “what’s wrong with that?” lol.

[@normanrhone2791]

Deh one ya priceless.

[@mhzprayer]

Lol, "the defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because...."

[@TheManneken]

Me: flying a plane will always be a dream for me Pilots: getting bored while flying and crashing the plane

[@33moneyball]

That’s the difference between fantasy and reality.

[@MikeM275]

As a pilot that in the past flew commuters, I can tell you that you do in fact get bored at times just like any other job. It is too routine, and you literally fight sleep while flying at times. As a young new pilot I was eyes wide open and exhilarated...several hundred hours later flying the same route in the same plane it does in fact get a bit monotonous...Not in an "I hate my job" way...but simply in a "we do this every day" kind of way. Hard to explain I guess...but I understand why with no passengers on board it was tempting to do a few rare maneuvers...had they managed the auto pilot better this would have been a non event with no KZbin critiques of that flight...

[@neophobicnyctophile8264]

@@MikeM275 I guess that’s why they call it a “job”...

[@Skyprince27]

It’s actually not THAT expensive...

[@declannewton2556]

@@neophobicnyctophile8264 Job =/= no fun

[@motoxtim34]

I love how this guy used Microsoft flight simulator! I spent tons of time in flight sim and for the longest time couldn't figure out why when I use the vertical speed Dial to climb to 40000ft at a rate of 1000fpm the plane would lose all its speed. Took me forever to figure out that once you get to higher altitude you gotta reduce toe fpm for a slower climb.

[@Dfender67]

“We’re just trying to have a little fun!” Yeah but at the expense of someone else’s 3 million dollar plane!

[@GoldenMushroom64]

Not to mention the people below! This could have been an even bigger disaster

[@Dfender67]

@@GoldenMushroom64 Very true!

[@Dfender67]

@@cjf888 Some are that much! I don’t know how much this one was but I’m guessing for this type at least 3 million but could definitely be more!

[@kerstinnilsson9968]

@@cjf888 makes sense, but I’m sure planes depreciate just the way cars do, and this plane had been operating for years so probably wasn’t worth near that much by the time it crashed

[@reefread1234]

The expense of life matters more than a plane imo who cares the price it crashed it wasn't alive

[@tinman-uf4to]

That poor little airplane tried everything that it could to fix what those dumb pilots were doing to it.

[@TrailRunnerLife]

Never heard an adult anthropomorphize an inanimate object, but sure, the plane really tried its best.

[@normie2716]

Never? Never saw Toy Story? Pinocchio? Every Disney movie ever made, essentially?

[@ivanchubb885]

@@normie2716 And every ship that ever floated...

[@logicplague]

@@TrailRunnerLife "Now I know why it's called "she" " - Capt. James T. Kirk

[@macgriffyn]

Pilots often refer to the airplane as more than an inanimate object. They’ve got quirks, idiosyncrasies, almost a kind of personality that has us favor some over others. I flew at Pinnacle for almost a decade, and I had aircraft I liked and ones I didn’t. Same thing where I fly now. And when we see an airplane destroyed because a pilot does something they shouldn’t, we do feel bad for it. She shouldn’t have been mistreated the way she was...and it cost the lives of those that did it.

[@bharv2309]

The music that you use in your videos after the planes crash along with the “in memory of” at the end always gets me choked up. Every damn time.

[@loveblue2]

Very true. Another thing that's so amazing about TFC videos. Every detail of the videos is spot on.

[@kanemolliere2288]

I’m a student at Embry-Riddle, and our private ground instructors always tell us about this crash because both pilots were Riddle students

[@troyhung4307]

Even without a pilot's license, you should know "Speed Down, Nose Down"

[@exotik4123]

yeah Im not even a pilot and watching them try to climb in a stall was crazy

[@GigsVT]

As a pilot they have pressure on them like not deviating from their cleared altitude and getting in trouble. Yes obviously getting written up is preferable to dying, but that is most likely the place they were coming from mentally. I'm cleared to 41, for no good reason, if this causes a pilot deviation I may never fly again, we need to stay at 41 until we are cleared for lower, no matter what.

[@bradenwoods1111]

Honestly amazed at how little it appears this pilot knew about aerodynamics

[@nitsgupta6670]

@@GigsVT it was a full fledged emergency. Who knows maybe the air france 447 co pilot was trying to maintain altitude during a stall my friend, and he was blamed for the crash

[@GigsVT]

@@nitsgupta6670 my point is they felt pressure to try to hide it as long as possible

[@bbqguy777]

I lived a mile from this crash site and remember hearing the boom when it happened. A friend of mine lived right next to the crash site and the plane damage melted the siding off her house. Luckily it crashed right between four houses and nobody on the ground was injured.

[@GoodMusicManiac999]

My God, they're lucky to be alive

[@SpewtGG]

🧢

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

I am glad no one was injured.

[@indianapatsfan]

I was looking at a map of the airport and the nearby crash site. I'm guessing they didn't see the river at night because neither pilot mentions it in the cvr transcript. They might have had a better chance of survival if they ditched it there. You know the area a lot better than me. Whaddaya think?

[@radiationshepherd]

Wow that's so lucky it missed all the houses

[@miragedelta]

I wish they were mature enough to understand how precious their lives were

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

This is sickeningly disrespectful.

[@JesseDavis7373]

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co How so?

[@larrybe2900]

And to have a little fun but to over do it with someone else's property was reckless.

[@EM.1]

I wish they were mature enough to understand how precious are the lives of everyone who was under them, while they were being so dangerously reckless with the unprofessional and selfish intent of “enjoying their alone time with the aircraft”. What a way to waste a perfectly functioning aircraft.

[@captainbeavis]

Regarding their behaviour i would say the life of those two morons wasn't precious at all...

[@brisreiter1396]

This might be the most avoidable accident I've heard off.

[@AEMoreira81]

Indeed, this crash made the Darwin Awards.

[@DownUnderFlyer]

Also mentioned in the NTSB report is the fact that while the crew declared an emergency, they failed to state that they had a dual engine failure. They stated that they had 'lost an engine' If ATC has known the true magnitude of the emergency earlier, they could have directed them to a closer airport. That's stupidity on a grand scale.

[@seuthee5082]

May I ask what's the difference? I don't understand and is very curious

[@DownUnderFlyer]

@@seuthee5082 The aircraft had 2 engines and both had failed. The crew didn't state that fact to the air traffic controllers. By saying they'd 'lost an engine', it implied that they still had one good engine. Because of this, ATC didn't know just how dire the situation really was.

[@seuthee5082]

@@DownUnderFlyer Okay I get it now, poor communication was a factor to this accident as well. Thank you

[@pax1217]

@@seuthee5082 As I read comments, it could be a situation of "I did something wrong and I dont want to admit it", just thinking about the consequences to their lifes if they landed safely was a factor to the accident

[@user-io4rf4ml5e]

Remember the day well, worked for Pinnacle as a line mechanic at the time. Had spoken with the crew that morning.

[@LeolaGlamour]

Did they seem stupid?

[@jgsh8062]

God that's terrible. Imagine having a mundane conversation with some people then hearing they'd died not 24 hours later. Hard to wrap your head around.

[@user-io4rf4ml5e]

@JGSH Yes it is. Just the usual logbook check and a minute or two chat.

[@KBS117]

I am dumbfounded. They broke every rule in the book. Why are the cockpit voice tapes not used here? Cause I'll bet, they were very unprofessional.

[@ThePdog3k]

I read it, there was a lot of goofing around, but not when they realized they were about to die. They clearly did their best to avoid any other loss of life, and they took it on the chin pretty well.

[@sabrinadubois5822]

@Antonette Abe I read it too. “Look how high we are” was said by the captain 25 minutes before death

[@KBS117]

@@ThePdog3k idiots, breaking rules, and it killed them. Engines locked up when they flamed out..

[@charlesameyer1]

Watching these videos I’ve learned how difficult it is to fly and how many things there are to go wrong. I can’t imagine screwing around like that. Maybe it was the Dunning Kruger effect.

[@lisamarieashby2523]

No, it was the "I am an arrogant idiot" effect. Anyone with intelligence and humility would understand that there are places and times to do things appropriately, versus "playing around" to "see what happens"!

[@psalm2forliberty577]

You dont mess with Aerodynamic Physics at 41,000' or it messes with YOU !

[@micahgotracksplays340]

Lol

[@dmnds979]

The real truth is, is that that aircraft was not designed nor intended to cruise at that elevation with those engines. The air's density and flow posed a grave challenge that they should have known. Ya darn right, the AP messed with them big time... perhaps if they had others on board, they wouldn't have tried those maneuvers or went on their "joy ride". I hope no one on ground was injured or suffered property loss.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

@@dmnds979 Great analysis ! Are you a pilot or just an 'armchair Aviator' junkie like me ?

[@goodenough4399]

dmnds979 is definitely a pilot. He’s made the most sensible comment I’ve read so far. Also, planes go above FL410 all the time. FL410 is not this mysterious, inherently dangerous altitude for all aircraft.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

@@goodenough4399 He he you can always tell a Pro !

[@AudieHolland]

This feels like me when I was in my teens and trying to fly a 'flight simulator' on my home computer in the 1980s, before even reading the manual.

[@AP-yt]

😂😂

[@thedatboi_]

Theflightchannel needs to be rewarded with a show, absolutely phenomenal

[@ecs2ecs46]

here’s another good flight channel, typically he provides fact based commentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/enSwnnaboLCClcU

[@thedatboi_]

@@ecs2ecs46 Mentour pilot is very good. thanks for showing me :)

[@d_all_in]

Why would you want this content interrupted by a bunch of erectile dysfunction commercials on cable tv

[@thedatboi_]

@@d_all_in I mean on netflix or something. i think avgeeks would like a show about aviation on netflix for once

[@bendietrees]

@@thedatboi_ it already is a show and you're watching it.

[@skota7416]

Isn't the sound of the engines just the absolute best sound ever. It's soothing

[@Honeybooboo1980]

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! sorry i was a pest, asking you to cover this under about 10 videos the last 8 months! lol but im so so glad u did... i think its such an importadnt story & lesson... these less "popular" or less known about crashes, deserve the same amount of recognition - even when its victim count is only done on one hand 😭😭 you did it justice, as always!! ❤️

[@nickv4073]

Farmer's Insurance: "We've seen a thing or two".

[@greenbeagle13]

😂🤣

[@holyteejful]

Nooo 🙈🥲

[@jackmehoffen4359]

indeed!!

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

"We've crashed a plane or two"

[@bobbirge2732]

Pray there's no more pilots like them.Two many souls at risk.

[@captainbeavis]

The world is full of such morons, i fear

[@generalyellor8188]

Wishful thinking. Of course there are.

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

@@captainbeavis Plenty of those !

[@Valor_73737]

Sadly, the experience level in the cockpits of many commuter airlines is extremely low! I am a retired airline pilot! I was with my original airline 13 years before I had the seniority to check out as Captain! At some airlines at the time it could be over 20 years! At that time the average combined experience of Captains and First Officers was in excess of 20 years. By the time I retired it was less than 10! And that was for the majors, NOT commuters!

[@davidgriffiths4844]

Two many arseholes more like! 😂😂Thank God they were on their own and no one on the ground died! These two were worthy nominees for the Darwin Award!

[@ashgonza92]

Forget a horror movie. This had me gripping the sheets in bed.

[@RochellB46]

I’m a 31 year old woman that use to be afraid to fly but is now obsessed with planes ✈️ keep the stories coming. This is a sad one but a lesson to be learned you don’t play when you’re in the air

[@ingleberthumperdink9455]

What’s your favourite plane?:)

[@RochellB46]

@Sosi Tehlirian FACTS

[@lbowsk]

I like 31-year-old women.

[@californiadreaming9216]

Rochell Barbara I totally agree. I have a motorcycle good for 145 MPH. Never pushed it past 80. Why? What the heck for? If I rack it up and am hurt or killed, where does that put my loved ones. Snowmobiles Motorcycles Cars Aircraft They all have to be respected. Because each and every one of them can kill you dead. Amen.

[@bingflop81]

same!

[@zimzalabams2793]

These kinds of videos made me just wanna stay in my country and never travel outside the country

[@bayuhartanto281]

The plane owner: Your two lives may be worthless, but my plane is costly.

[@sigmamale7241]

Not to mention the property damage that this crash caused!

[@mjleger4555]

NOT the proper time for "boys will be boys!" Thanks to TheFlightChannel for a thorough explanation, including showing the instruments acting and the captions. Well done.

[@daved7164]

I randomly will start saying “to low terrain” “to low terrain” pull up.... pull up... in random places. Stores, car, church... them words are terrifying My wife looks at me like I’m nuts

[@michaelscarn7375]

You probably are

[@brethaskers8265]

I do the "bank angle... bank angle..." one

[@kenpower2304]

It would make a good phone ring tone.

[@awadramy1]

As long as you don’t say it on a plane and a FO hears you.

[@jimmyjoe8225]

Probably think you're a pilot with ptsd.

[@DMBall]

Bombardier should use this as an anti-training film: "How NOT to Fly Our Aircraft."

[@SOLDOZER]

They did.

[@FullLifeConsequences]

When my dad taught me to drive, he told me to always remember that I was in control of a very large machine that was going very fast and could kill me or someone else if I wasn't careful. I would think you should especially keep this in mind when you're in control of a 30,000 pound CJR200 traveling at 400 knots.

[@captainbeavis]

My dad used to tell me the same...our fathers probably were smarter than those pilots...

[@cayden2744]

@@captainbeavis Even a rat is

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

We had the horror videos in "Hell's Highway," Lol.

[@ThreeStrikes015WW]

@@captainbeavis Same

[@deftrascal1626]

Imagining hearing those TTS voices going "sink rate pull up!" in my last moments while I'm desperately trying to salvage the situation sends chills down my spine

[@truthmirror111]

No passengers on board, still I felt bad when I read "Both Pilots Perished"

[@EM.1]

They won a Darwin Award, it’s very rare in the aviation world to receive such recognition. Hope you feel better now that you know that their death received the proper award and attention.

[@smf2072]

Well what the hell ?! Personally I was relived that they didn't kill any people on the ground ! Would you feel the same if they were driving a car 150 mph on a old curvy 2 lane Hwy, lost control & went head on with a bridge abutment ?? Or would you think; "wow, that was pretty stupid."

[@JosieJOK]

@@smf2072 I did feel sorry for their families but, yeah, that was pretty stupid.

[@yossiallen3316]

@truth mirror. I didn't at all. They did us all a favour.

[@DeepRedBlue]

What if they’d survived, thought it was a great adventure, and did the same again with passengers on board?! Nah, I’m never happy anyone’s died. But they are some of the most deserving on this channel

[@future62]

Wow... when you look up "core lock" on Wikipedia they literally cite this flight as an example.

[@KB4QAA]

F: I've never heard the term before. However have read of many accidents where crews were unable to get sufficient rotation to achieve light off due to insufficient airspeed. Unfamiliar with the CRJ, but don't know why the APU wasn't able to motor the engines.

[@bluefishbeagle1]

@@KB4QAA they tried using the APU but with the cores locked all they did was fry the engines

[@SOLDOZER]

@@KB4QAA One engine was melted cause they over stressed it so bad.

[@69k_gold]

The flight computers did everything to save the flight, but the pilots had to "have fun"

[@michaelvalmo]

@@ihatelactose254 but there are also incidents where automation is the cauae of the accidents.

[@kirbygene]

I think about the families who have to contend with not only the deaths of someone they loved, but also that their loved ones had caused the crash by being stupid. No heroes here.

[@pewdiecake5340]

Not the flight channel....The National Geographic channel for aviation disasters!!!! awesome creations

[@tedyi8588]

If Nat Geo is to revive that program they should hire him at once

[@mgsaviation9292]

@@tedyi8588 I think they did revive the program

[@animegeek2488]

@@tedyi8588 Nat Geo doesn't have the rights to the show anymore. The Smithsonian Channel now has the rights in the U.S since 2011 to present day.

[@CassassinCatto]

I prefer this though!

[@pewdiecake5340]

@@CassassinCatto 50/50

[@6teezkid]

The worst “pilot misbehavior”, like accidents by pilot error, falling asleep, unsterile cockpits, goofing off, seems to have been collectively done by Northwestern Airlines. Absolute abysmal record. On one trip, BOTH pilots fell asleep. I won’t fly them. Edit: Oh, and being drunk.

[@deskseven]

nw airlines shutdown in 2010 you know

[@samanthasnyder9087]

Russian airlines have the same problem. Heck, one pilot brought his two children into the cockpit and let them handle the controls, the son disengaged the auto pilot accidentally and tipped the plane...causing a stall and a death spin.

[@californiageisha197]

@@deskseven they didn’t shut down. They merged with Delta.

[@deskseven]

@@californiageisha197 i mean they left the airline market and the brand shut down

[@peyton693]

we all make mistakes, but sadly some of us die making them.

[@westonrhodes771]

This was my uncle Jesse’s crash. He was a good man but he was a daredevil. And he pushed it a little too far. He made sure not to hit those houses though. As the family we got to hear the whole black box recording. He was making sure not to hit those houses on the way down.

[@JJ-bo6nc]

I hope his wife and kids are good now. Best regards.

[@PBTTOfficial]

When you put fun over saftey, you get Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701

[@dliang4628]

Damn... And when politicians are having fun (with conspiracy?) we get MH370 😥 😥

[@jiaconis]

Y*E*S

[@khalidshafishaikh]

Agree 😔

[@TotallyAHuman]

Did the pilot think he was in an ultra-realistic flight simulator?

[@captainbeavis]

He must have been overwhelmed by that crystal clear resolution and a perfect framerate

[@arvantsaraihan5777]

I guess either drugs or alcohol altered his sense of reality and made him believe that he was in a 4k flight simulator....

[@skye2030]

Thank you for working so hard and bringing us the best quality videos.

[@brianm.6271]

I wonder, if the pilots had landed the plane, how were they going to explain away the damage...

[@wuldntuliktonoptb6861]

A bird came outta no where I swear! Anyways they wouldn't have been able 2 so they decided it would be a lot easier to just crash the plane, have their families collect on the insurance policies, and just die in the explosion so you don't have to look for another career a week later.