Landing with Failure | Virgin Atlantic 43 | Air Crash Investigation

[@josh2961]

What an amazing crew, imagine trying to land something that heavy with some of the landing gear missing. Thank you for the amazing video!!

[@CuriousPilot90]

Pretty incredible, wasn't it. Thanks for the kind words :)

[@williamfeilhauer2667]

@@CuriousPilot90 you do a great job with the content of these videos. Entertainment, informative, educational it 👌. Doesn't get much better than that Thanks so much, Bill Feilhauer.

[@CuriousPilot90]

@@williamfeilhauer2667 Thank you Bill, that means a lot!

[@knowsmebyname]

Every once in awhile you see some absolutely heroic crews. Most are just average it seems...most people are average so that makes sense.

[@banjojohn1489]

That was a beautiful landing by the crew. 10/10. Hope Branson gave them a bonus for their efforts

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

He had the pilots come to Necker Island as a special reward.

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

No ...he's out on a date-with his mother

[@MrThebeanbag]

Couldn't agree more 👍

[@no1ded]

The importance, during a shift change, that a briefing should be given to the new shift by the retiring shift, cannot be understated.

[@abdulrahmanal-ali1092]

I really like your channel and the way you explain things, you make it as simple as possible, all the best to you!

[@CuriousPilot90]

Thank you. That’s good to hear.

[@staticbuilds7613]

Despite missing a wheel they landed better than all Ryanair flights

[@hywelthomas21]

I was on this flight.. do a search now and again just to relive it and came across this.. Great video.. and news to me that it was a maintenance issue! Virgin said it was a fault out of their control when we first went to them for compensation and there was no claim to be made 😮

[@CuriousPilot90]

It's always amazing to hear from people who experienced these incidents. I'm glad you found out more about it.

[@timelwell7002]

Thanks for this well-researched and presented video. I am struck by the skill and professionalism of the flight crew. Had less able or experienced pilots been flying, this could have resulted in a major disaster.

[@donaldscheer5206]

Your Videos/Reports Are Excellent! Thank You!

[@CuriousPilot90]

Thank you, I’m glad you like them.

[@davidjma7226]

Branson shouted the crew a trip to Necker Island as a 'thank you'. Good skills Commander!

[@xYuki91x]

Another fantastic video! Your pronunciation is so clear 😊 I hope the KZbin algorithm recognizes you as the brilliant youtuber that you are soon. I leave a like and comment on every video in the hopes of boosting your reach ;) you deserve it 👍 Keep it up, I love your content 🥰

[@alexn6928]

Another great video, very knowledgeable which helps make me and others understand these situations more. Thanks for the content, please keep it up 😊.

[@CuriousPilot90]

Great, thanks Alex!

[@curbyourshi1056]

Excellent video.

[@BBrambles]

Really interesting- the crew were brilliant. It could’ve been a very different story! Thanks for sharing, I really enjoy your videos :-)

[@CuriousPilot90]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JavierBonillaC]

Great video. No wasted time, thank you.

[@CuriousPilot90]

Thanks Javier.

[@chrisclermont456]

Professionalism, clear thinking, cooperation, and cool-headedness resulted in the successful landing of this crippled airliner and mitigated a serious mistake by maintenance. So glad no people were injured. Great video.

[@anthonyellsmore4532]

Yeah up...down..maybe go and look at the other wheel set 😅 superb landing

[@jamesstuart3346]

Outstanding!!

[@доктор-вонючая-морковь]

Excellent video , fun fact , the actual plane was G-VROM Called Barbarella I have flown in this aircraft many times.

[@nik.6845]

I never actually knew about this incident. Great work

[@drumcrazy72]

Legendary flying. Great aircraft. Amazing.

[@asiaexpat62]

As an aircraft engineer of over 40 years I feel confident that a gear operational test by gear swing is require after replacing components.The root cause was a total failure of maintenance prcedure.

[@wilsjane]

Why did the actuator being inverted result in a fluid leak. Did the hoses get damaged as a result of different positions of the upper and lower fluid connections.

[@allenleung301]

It seems the best way to understand more of how an aeroplane works and the engineering of it is to watch the videos about the incidents as presenters like you would have to explain the tech details of the failing part or parts and how they should correctly put up and/or repaired in order to make sure the aeroplane will be safe. Thanks.

[@jamesx4952]

12/28/14 was also the same day Air Asia 8501 went down in the Java Sea R.I.P

[@johnfisher7143]

So the maintenance crew had a 50/50 chance of installing that part correctly. Let me tell you those odds are not good. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve installed something that can go in two ways and got it wrong on the first attempt. It’s uncanny how bad 50/50 odds are.

[@Pantera-wu9ty]

Thats why there are aircraft inspectors to check these things after the technicians replace the actuator ? Someone seriously screwed up!

[@Fe7Ace]

If USB plugs are anything to go by a 50/50 chance to connect something wrong is actually a 99.9% chance to connect something wrong the first time. 🙃

[@sonder2164]

The pilots and crew did a wonderful job. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@kay9549]

Yes, well done !! Even though they were in a holding pattern, to burn off fuel, it appears that they were still heavy on landing. Once again well done to the crew !! Realizing they had to take in x amount of fuel to go from the UK to USA, being a 8 hour flight.

[@Luke25958]

The virgin atlantic 747 the only jumbo jet ive been lucky to fly on as a passenger. And what a beautiful landing considering circumstances.

[@sparrowhawk_lastname]

At the start of the video: UPSIDE DOWN?? How could they have possibly installed that part upside down? At the end of the video: How did anyone else manage to install it right side up???

[@RockandRollWoman]

Interesting series of decisions involving trade offs. Glad for a positive result!

[@xYuki91x]

I'm also happy that you listened to your viewers suggestions about how to improve the videos 😊 I don't remember if you do this in your other videos, but in this one I didn't quite understand what the problem was with the upside down installation. Maybe a picture or a model of how it should be installed vs how it actually was installed on this airplane would've helped me understand it a bit better. But that's veeeery nitpick-y of me. You're doing a great job 👍

[@matgeezer2094]

Did I understand the narration correctly - the actuator was labelled Top at the bottom and Down at the top??? That's crazy - no wonder it was installed upside-down

[@kay9549]

So you are saying actually the actuator was mislabeled, so it was installed incorrectly.

[@rayteale8883]

I am surprise that the actuator has the same size mounting holes at each end.

[@rosssmith6205]

It was mounted upside down. The hydraulic fittings were 180 degrees rotated. Different size mountings would not have prevented this accident.

[@davidtodorovic6046]

May I suggest another case involving the Virgin airline,very similar to this one? It was the A340 with some of it's gear not deployed. That one ended quite a bit worse. Can't remember where that happened. Subscribed and thanks in advance.

[@CuriousPilot90]

I'm always happy for suggestions. I'll have a look.

[@Adrian_Nel]

Irony is that Company dude on duty that day probably had them return because the cost of having the issue sorted in Las Vegas would have been high, but it would've been cheaper than burning fuel

[@jeremydenn6988]

Good pilot.

[@Dovietail]

Freaking night shift strikes again! 😖😖😖

[@ssnerd583]

...the FNG's i know them well!!!

[@MrThebeanbag]

What a fantastic landing, the crew did everything right 👍

[@jodysin7]

The 747 was designed to be able to land with half its main gear not down... im not sure if you are aware of this but this landing is not a big deal. During certification, the 747-100 had to land with half its gear. Every variant has had to do the same.. even the 800 variant can do it.

[@cosmicdebris42]

Under pressure with over 400 souls onboard. Why so Cynical professor? Go play on your simulator Junior.

[@ImperrfectStranger]

Someone else who didn't listen to the video. Gear being up instead of down can present problems. Gear being half way down... big issue.

[@michaeljohn8905]

prolly pushed all the hydronic fluid out of the bypass. Really bad because the mechanics had another truck to look at on the other side of the airplane ! Really bad mistake. I’m betting they got fired for that one.

[@ajaythakur2109]

Why was not appropriate action taken

[@Splicer]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@gangleweed]

Having watched just one too many air crash investigation videos I will never ever fly on one of those contraptions again......if something could go wrong it definitely will go wrong eventually.

[@gordonpeden6234]

Nice job! well done the flight crew. This could have ended badly.

[@kay9549]

gordonpeden6234 that is very much a possibility. I'm sure that the captain/crew realizing that wanted to get craft down during daylight hours. It was still perhaps still heavy, even though they did jettison fuel.

[@Lloyd1885]

Were the ground crew involved sacked?...why wasn't the work checked and signed off?

[@cabovermike]

Would it Have not been possible to pump fuel to left wing to aid balance ?

[@harrynking777]

One would think the designers would not have a problem in signifying the difference between up and down!

[@everydayhelp5085]

My friend who was part of the crew received a call while we having a beer in a pub, he nearly started crying thinking his life is gonna be messed up. And his going to jail tonight, the plane was still in the air by that time …….

[@gerrydepp8164]

YET AGAIN no test flight performed (or even necessary!) to make sure the parts installed perform correctly the task designed for in real time. So basically 447 passengers were unwittingly taken on a test flight. Print that on the ticket - see how many fly...

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

Why can’t they put small cameras on planes so the pilots can SEE the gear and such????

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

How would that have helped?

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 They could see if the gear was up or down and go from there.

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

@@PianoMan-hx3ev it doesn’t really matter if it’s down, it has to be locked too. If it’s not locked then it will retract as soon as weight is applied. The indicator in the cockpit told them that the gear wasn’t locked, which was correct, having a camera would not have provided any additional information.

[@t.r2603]

8:03 In short: Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?

[@Pak1947KHI]

Thank God,everyone was safe.

[@godofredo0409]

Are the maintainance crew fired or at least suspended? 'cause that's a serious mistake that can cause a hundred of lives.

[@Bobrogers99]

Commendations to a skillful crew and reprimands to a not-so-skilled maintenance crew.

[@22ergie]

A TWO YEAR OLD plays outside with a ball, tosses it in the air and says: "up ball", then as it falls back down to the ground, he says: "ball down."

[@cosmicdebris42]

Perfect landing for full gear down, let alone Right wing gear missing. Bravo!

[@tangatoto362]

Very interestinG, watchinG and listeninG to this amazinG story…. obviously not only one set of landinG gear was missinG, so was the letter G

[@greenpedal370]

Up and Down are giveaways in my book. How could they get that wrong? I wonder if someone was in a hurry?

[@andyb.1026]

So they didn't bother referring to the AMM, Which is what they sign for. And common sense calls for a retraction test, which the AMM would stipulate 😢😮

[@h8GW]

Pilots landed a bit hard, considering 1/4 of the landing gear was missing, and it didn't look like they tried to use roll to level the wings. I wonder what their thought process was on that.

[@the_phaistos_disk_solution]

The 747 is my favorite.

[@evanmclafferty3020]

Sir, what aircraft are you flying, I'm ex RAF REGIMENT

[@RabbahDocRona]

I hope the Queen pinned medals on this lot

[@kay9549]

Sure that her majesty, was advised of situation status of this flight

[@frankyjas5184]

Cool.

[@FSEVENMAN]

Yeah Boeing should make it easier for idiots to work on their planes or maybe Virgin Atlantic could get skilled traied technicians that don't put parts on upside down.

[@pedrops4910]

They should have kept more fuel in the LH wing to compensate the lack of gear

[@troysovich3074]

what AIRPRT

[@troysovich3074]

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