Near Collision Over Japan | Boeing 747 Almost Crash with a DC-10 | Japan Airlines Mid-Air Incident

Find out how this Boeing 747-400, flying from Tokyo to Okinawa, avoided a mid-air collision with a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, flying from South Korea to Japan.
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[@xovotu3319]

when ur checking ur wifi on board and suddenly see 2 connections available

[@sosickly]

ThatOneGuy62 *skskskjd lmaoo*

[@antoinemonfrini7606]

😂😂😂

[@mustafa7248]

Hahahahah

[@ElSauxy02]

ThatOneGuy62 lmao bruuuhhhh kskskskskskskskskskodkdkskdkk

[@pankajkushwaha2288]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅

[@tythorn13]

"So how was your first day at work, John?" "I'm going to prison."

[@vanshdeepsingh6652]

Are you a criminal and yet using phone

[@Mark50x]

tythorn13 could have used their name

[@danielkaric2449]

@tythorn 13 I'm literally crying you idiot hahahahahhh

[@ronaldsteele6151]

@Game Plays 1230 first off it's captain not caption. Second, I'm sure the pilot had a very strong poop smell all the way to his destination. But I do agree that the pilots were also at fault for not responding to the atc orders.

[@andywalker9079]

😂 😂

[@hectormonclova7563]

“In memory of the 677 pieces of underwear crapped beyond salvage...”

[@Panigale06]

LOL

[@wietick5677]

Lmao wtf

[@gamermodderzz1237]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@Sousaboi865]

New on Ebay: Used underwear, worn once

[@gamermodderzz1237]

@@Sousaboi865 lmao

[@rodan8824]

Plane: *"CLIMB, CLIMB NOW"* Pilots: "So anyways I started descending"

[@kimmysalvadore3412]

LMAO

[@dx1450]

Seemed like the right thing to do...

[@DeanieBN54]

Only because he decided to follow ATCs instructions.

[@m4rs12]

Makes me wonder why the pilot didn't notify atc that the tcas asks them to climb?? It's no brainer in my opinion

[@gamermodderzz1237]

Imagine youron the cockpit and seeing a huge shadow at 30,000 feet here is the thing 6:54 pause it and see

[@thesecond4113]

*Those people should be thankful their planes missed 135m from being in the episode of Air Crash Investigations.*

[@honey9836]

We wont talk about how they might complain that *The flight was horriblre*

[@shubhumchatterjee6165]

This could have been the worst air disaster in the history, more than 670 people could have lost their lives

[@justsomedudecalledluqman]

Air crash investigation S 10 maybe if the dont miss that 135m

[@flyingpegasus1349]

If crash happened it would outdone both flight 123 and Tenerife number of deaths.

[@getmeouttatennessee4473]

@@shubhumchatterjee6165 Exactly what I was thinking. How do you turn on the tv to see nearly 700 people obliterated at 35,000 feet?!!

[@wrbutler3681]

I'm surprised it wasn't a trainee prosecutor and trainee judge that sent them to prison.

[@CarlosRodriguez-rg2yv]

Ikr.... surprised TFC didn't have a trainee youtuber present us this video

[@villebooks]

Trainee jugde ... sorry, but this is funny x'D

[@davidmiller767]

Oh Butler that's rich !!

[@jameshunton4673]

Don’t forget the trainee lawyers

[@Harlock2day]

The sentence is correct the consequences of negligence must be clear.

[@33moneyball]

ATC should get a TCAS warning as well telling them to STFU. “Stop Talking, Stop Talking Now” “Stop Talking, Stop Talking Now”

[@IzzyBill]

Ya and also if the tcas and the controller are saying the opposite thing then the pilots should inform the controller that the tcas said something different

[@RedOne.]

*Beep Beep* Terrain, Terrain, Shut Up, Shut Up *Beep Beep*

[@kimmysalvadore3412]

Whoop whoop mouth mouth,shut up!

[@tensevo]

Joking aside, that is a really good idea, but I think ATC should already get TCAS data. They are obligated to instruct plane to switch on TCAS if it is turned off.

[@maxpenn6374]

@@tensevo Of all things to have an off switch, why a collision avoidance system?

[@tensevo]

Imagine having the balls to descend when TCAS is saying CLIMB NOW.

[@thomasnorton2679]

Imagine lacking the brains to descend when TCAS instructs you to climb

[@thomasnorton2679]

@pepe And when has TCAS ever failed? If Pilots had followed TCAS, which err less than humans, and I have never heard of TCAS failing, then this incident and the German mid-air crash the following year would have been avoided. You call me an idiot but you agree with these pilots rebellious and near disasterous actions. So if I were flying the 747, I would have obeyed TCAS and lived, you potentially would have killed hundreds of people. Who's the idiot now?

[@thomasnorton2679]

@pepe It matters not who sounds more urgent, what matters is what will prevent an accident. A well programmed TCAS or a controller who does not have the information on the TCAS received by both planes? You still haven't shown me an incident where obeying TCAS would have caused a collision, the only collisions or near collisions involving TCAS is when it was disobeyed and the controller's command was followed. No wonder aviation authorities around the world now state that in a conflict, TCAS takes precedence over the controller.

[@TadanoCandy]

@@thomasnorton2679 yep it's good that they sorted out the TCAS vs ATC thing (unfortunately not without blood) but in this particular case, I wouldn't really say it was a lacking-brains thing, more like there was no standard protocol for such occasion.

[@hasansaifi3319]

@pepe At that tim they were supposed to trust ATC. Because without clear rules they can be easily blamed for not following ATC over TCAS.

[@IchigoFruit]

I'm glad that all of them survived, that's all.

[@atomstarfireproductions8695]

I’m still surprised that the dive was so hard that a beverage cart flew up and through a ceiling panel and into the attic

[@The68lespaul]

all check this out, we got ourselves a death and destruction lover here, ha,ha, ,LOL, though im not one for a crash but they do happen, and they seem to happen a lot, U-tube is full of airliner crashes, an a lot of people do die in,em to the point of not being able to recognize anyone because there disintegrate on impact, only photo id,s are found, or clothing a person was wearing or jewelry on a finger might be found, bodies never stay in one piece, decapitation is very common in airliner crashes, big time, hands, feet, parts of organs, all manner of human remains are found throughout a airliners crash, and because of fire being involved they never find anything of a body left afterwards, these crash like unbelievably bad, and leave hardly anything for identifying people behind, its a total loss , most people of airliner crash victims don't even have anything to hold a funeral with ,maybe photo,s ,an article of something personal to the person lost they might place in a coffin, one thing I have never seen on here in or on a real time video, is seeing a video of 2 airliners crash into each other outside of animation , so far that im aware of, I haven't seen any video,s of 2 airliners colliding live caught on video, if one exist,s id like to see it, I have sen some still shots of planes before they hit the ground ,theres plenty of those, an even some video,s of planes crashing live on video, but not colliding , if ya know of one , please ,could you give me the title of it, thank you, what other types of disasters do you like or know of that you love to watch ? or is it you love anything as long as its a total disaster and that's all that matters ? im curious , interesting,

[@nielsdaemen]

It surprises me no one died of a heart atack. Imagine sitting at the window and seeing a plane come closer and closer😨

[@Alex-oq8yg]

@@beny988 yea cool idea dude lets put u on a 737 max

[@rhodahcheptoo3571]

exactly kai, GOD interfered to save them

[@Violent2aShadow]

"Everyone survives." "None of their undergarments did."

[@cp-dub2085]

HAHAHAHA...that's too good.

[@bryanbaker274]

So true. Mother: always make sure you wear clean underwear when you leave the house. Passengers of JAL907 and JAL958: they were clean when we left the house.

[@two_wanderedsouls]

Ya so that u have mid year drunk accidents nd cars crashing through people's roof

[@vicksterz]

I showed this to my family and friends, lol JEEEEEEESUSS CCHHHRRIIISSTTTTTTT, :)

[@gamermodderzz1237]

Lol mainly the pilots were so calm if I was there is the cockpit I would have pissed my Pants

[@IzzyBill]

Lesson learned: always listen to the TCAS

[@Willny95]

Unless its a 737 Max

[@dodorandria]

@@Willny95 he said TCAS, not MCAS

[@shenoko2114]

lesson learned use train

[@redneck_4739]

😃😃😃

[@redneck_4739]

@@Willny95 😀

[@takanaka3228]

It's a pity that the lessons learned from this accident didn't apply to the next year's Überlingen mid-air collision.

[@mozvidz]

I know right? That's exactly what I just said, before I saw your comment. So insane especially from the supervisors and managers of the control towers. If these guys have such a big role, why didn't they work in teams with a superior always beside them, like it is with a captain and first officer?

[@anonnimoose7987]

And they even killed a traffic controller over it.

[@jillianbruce6143]

Seriously, though, should there be a limit to the number of trainees on board each aircraft? (Don't get me started on the emotionally-neutered ATCs😖!!!)

[@anjakellenjeter]

A request for clarification of the rules surrounding TCAS - regarding who/what has primacy in such situations - was made of ICAO by the Japanese Aviation authorities after this near miss. Whilst the device itself was mandated to be in cockpits, no hard and fast rule about who/what pilots should give priority was ever given - a serious flaw in the system. However, that request was sitting on the end of someone's desk still waiting for attention when Überlingen occurred - a response would not be forthcoming until quite some time after that disaster occurred. If it had been treated with the criticality it deserved, a plane carrying 47 children might not have ended up cut in two and scattered over the German countryside, 72 people would still be alive, and the family of an air traffic controller wouldn't have had to witness their husband and father being brutally murdered on their doorstep.

[@BladeTheGabite]

@@anonnimoose7987 and then gave the murderer a reward???

[@forgereality]

Imaging looking out the window and seeing another plan rapidly approaching. I would shit myself

[@warbot2544]

+pee

[@johnhardman3]

You wouldn't have time.

[@lilivicdomingo1191]

Tylér Lewis um you speld plane rong

[@JH-Carbon]

@@lilivicdomingo1191 um u spelled wrong wrong

[@JH-Carbon]

@@shovey9329 i said u bc its shorter than you

[@IngvarMar]

**sad music plays** “Everyone survived”

[@7777beth]

@Igor , Trauma, I wouldn’t close my eyes throughout this flight again. Even in future would be looking out the window during a flight.PTSD is real.

[@CODMarioWarfare]

Reminds me of 2009 Dream Theater *BY THE GRACE OF GOD ABOVE, EVERYONE SURVIVED! [aggressive growl]*

[@adb012]

Well, it is still better than *sad music plays* / "Everyone died" or even *happy music plays* / "everyone died".

[@rhodahcheptoo3571]

GOD SAVED THEM, THEY MUST HAVE PRAYED DEEPLY AND GOD ANSWERED THE PRAYERS,

[@CODMarioWarfare]

@@rhodahcheptoo3571 ok boomer

[@saurajitsinha2852]

I believe after the Uberlingen disaster, it was established that if there is a conflict between TCAS and ATC then a pilot must go ahead with TCAS. One pilot following TCAS and the other following ATC caused the Uberlingen mid air collision in 2002. I wish after the above depicted incident, the norm has been made so and then the crash over Uberlingen could have been averted.

[@samhobbs6517]

AFAIK the rule was in place anyway, but some countries still followed the ATC. After Überlingen, ALL pilots now have to follow TCAS at all times.

[@saurajitsinha2852]

@@samhobbs6517 Is it? It was mentioned in that episode of air crash investigation that two countries have two different rules in place. Anyway, very unfortunate.

[@midsquash1613]

@@saurajitsinha2852 yep,the rule was already in place before 2002.the problem was,one of the countries didnt incorporate it into their pilot training program

[@bobby1970]

@@midsquash1613 , I'll bet they do now.

[@drewjamila3868]

Those kids in the Russian plane could have been in their 30’s now. As far as I know they were all promising kids who supposed to fly to Spain for a well deserve break. Just split seconds wrong decision and their gone. The fragility of life

[@bikerbrisk]

Captain - trainee First officer - trainee Even Controller is trainee..

[@neetumukundan3020]

😁

[@ashishdaharwal4427]

One of the passenger is captain

[@tristanmarchal5129]

Even the trainer is a trainee trainer

[@kimmysalvadore3412]

The passengers also a trainee Passengers

[@devitooo]

@Amed Tajan Even the Plane is Trainee Plane.

[@UriValdez]

And people want flying cars! 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Chasiraw]

Uriel Valdez Oh hell no!! I'm outta here if that happens. People can't even drive now!!!

[@jabobthegod]

Then it will tell you DECEND RIGHT NOW

[@villebooks]

@@Chasiraw For this comment, I'd invent the multiple-thumbs-up-button

[@jomthstoryandanalysis6376]

World news will be flooded by car collision accident in the air.

[@realpower2366]

SO TRUE

[@JohnsonMcJohnson]

Boy: look it's a plane Mum: cool Mum looks out of the window AHHHHHHH

[@keyboardwarrior306]

LMFAO

[@qxpn9220]

Richard Morris only people with infamous anime profile pictures would laugh at this comment

[@K-Riz314]

@@qxpn9220 I got a good laugh out of your comment, at least.

[@golfgtimk3]

Dc 10: 747 I know your previous ones didn't want the DC 10s 747: yes, what happened? Dc 10: IT'S TIME TO LEARN 747: You look like you're lacking fuel

[@SlidTossedPissed]

Ive trained my little boy.. .. since the age of 1.. to recognize shapes.. colors.. and "patterns" of cars. He knows what 90% of the vehicles on the road are.. cause he pays attention. Convertibles or not, stick or auto, gas or diesel... My child wouldnt say that. Hed say DA-DA, look at that DC10. Id look over..

[@kevinnugraha9198]

6:35-6:41 "Hey watch yo jet! Watch yo jet BRO! WATCH YO JE..." "Clear of conflict"

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

You should make a "everyone survived" playlist. Sometimes it's too sad watching when a lot of people died, and watching the ones with no victims is heartwarming ❤✈

[@BackyardBS103]

“Clear of conflict” This sound should play when ever I finish an exam.

[@kimmysalvadore3412]

Me during Exam: answer! Answer now!

[@gamermodderzz1237]

@@kimmysalvadore3412 more accurate thing is caution dont fail caution dont fail parent ahead dont fail parent parent dont fail

[@homerl7]

@hehe Hahah I can hear that in my head every time I forget to do a chore for my girlfriend but when she realizes I haven't done it she doesn't say anything.

[@anonymooseau]

Holy shiiiit. I would have had a heart attack. That was terrifying! Also...was it Trainee Tuesday? Why was EVERYONE involved one? Pick different days to do it guys!

[@phoenixlal7428]

I think I would have puked my heart out.

[@thomasschmitt9537]

Which day is that then?

[@O-T-7-BTS]

anonymoose_au, I've watched a lot of these as I'm sure you have as well. But this was the first time one made me feel like I was gonna throw-up!

[@iZ3C0LD7]

@@thomasschmitt9537 Thursday Trainees.

[@nerdyandnatural]

TCAS: "INCREASE CLIMB!" Pilot: So... Descend more?

[@aimaljaved2507]

Imagine someone on the aircraft sleeping when the planes near missed each other and seeing it later in the news and goes when did this happen xD

[@dx1450]

I bet the shockwaves from the aircraft passing so close to each other would have woken everyone up.

[@aerohydra3849]

@@dx1450 Yeah, and also the last minute adjustments probably would've made everyone wide awake.

[@Windtorment]

The plane descended pretty quick; guess that alone would've woken up everybody.

[@kevinhenrique4256]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer You Underestimate Lazy People,When The Costa Concordia Sunk a Couple Sleeped the entire Sinking and Evacuation They survived But Holy hell

[@mr.sinjin-smyth]

6:33 *Best unintentional stunt in aviation history*

[@grozaphy]

It should be names as the unplanned stunt

[@macman975]

They were almost 500ft apart. The visual was quite exaggerated on this video to be fair.

[@sysonic917]

D MAC not they were about 80 - 100.

[@macman975]

@@sysonic917 Copied and Pasted: Yasuko Momii (籾井 康子 Momii Yasuko),[7] ordered "JAL 957" to climb, intending to tell JAL 907 to climb. There was no "JAL 957" in the sky.[2] The aircraft avoided collision using evasive maneuvers once they were in visual proximity, and passed within about 135 metres (443 ft) of each other. Why do people like you come onto KZbin and just comment nonsense about subjects you obviously know nothing about?.

[@sysonic917]

D MAC oh shittt, i thought you were saying 500 metres.. but its feet nvm soz.

[@TheRealdeel73]

It seems like they did everything they could to hit each other.

[@uriah9645]

RealDeel73 but they didn’t

[@TheRealdeel73]

@@uriah9645 yeah??

[@shiftyFlacko]

@@uriah9645 The FBI should hire you in their investigations.

[@adrielisaac2810]

Lol

[@RetakeAmericaNow]

RealDeel73 No. This was ATC based. Back at this time many airlines didn't instruct their pilots that TCAS was always to be followed unless you could ABSOLUTELY VISUALLY see it was placing you in danger. There were several mid-air collisions because TCAS was ignored in favor of bad Air Traffic Controller commands. A horrible mid-air collision over Europe with a Russian jet carrying hundreds of students and DHL Cargo plane that sliced it in half killed everyone on both planes.

[@valobrien9596]

Shocking! As near misses go, that was exceptionally close. It must be one of the closest near misses in civilian airliner history. 677 people would have perished if they had collided, far exceeding the current record of 583 people killed in the 1977 Tenerife collision.

[@countdigi]

As George Carlin said, a near miss is actually a collision ;-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHWulamKmsiMd68

[@valobrien9596]

@@countdigi😁 He's not wrong!

[@bornanagaming3329]

Plane crash deaths WR Speedrun any%

[@jhonnytrujillo9271]

All this could be the end of JAL. It might even have exceeded the death toll of the infamous Flight 123 crash. Fortunately it was not like that, the tragedy was prevented and everyone lived to tell about it.

[@downallyourstreets]

It’s amazingly with that much lead time and making an extreme decent maneuver that the plane still narrowly avoided a collision. That means the plane from Korea was still just descending normally for a normal landing and the 747 could’ve just kept at the same altitude and been fine. This would’ve been a horrible crash with massive loss of life if a collision occurred, glad it didn’t!

[@williamthegreat9632]

*planes passing each other* Plane one: hey Larry Plane two: hey Joe Plane one: bye Larry Plane two: cya joe

[@radovanlukic3267]

Lolol nice one xd, although the Boeing 747 descended because some people were injured

[@wazimshakeer1405]

LOL

[@oliverl89]

Holy shit that might have been the most boring comment I’ve ever read.

[@Slime-Man-Extreme]

xDDD

[@michaelmacluskie6089]

NeInE 670. I don,t get it....I must be missing something or I,m stupid. Hey Larry, Hey Joe. Bye Larry, Cya Joe?? wtf.

[@commandantteste2859]

I love how big the sky is, yet two airliners almost managed to crash into each other

[@seanthebaptist6757]

When you look at those air traffic maps that show all the flights around the world in a day it's mind boggling just how many planes are up there!

[@flappy7373]

that's like saying, "i love how much land there is out there, yet two cars almost managed to crash into each other" how much sky there is isn't the issue. think of it like this: there are are roads that planes tend to follow in the sky, because they've only got so many airports to originate from or land at.

[@krispynachos9980]

Worlds Flat Bro..the space is limited af

[@bruzote]

You love that about 600 people almost died? Wow.

[@krispynachos9980]

@@bruzote he didn't mean that what so ever. Learn English

[@missusCIRQUE]

This was posted over 2 years ago but genuine question - atc and tcas aside, would it have been possible for planes within a certain vicinity of one another to communicate via radio? And just be like, so hey, u goin up or am I goin up?

[@loumac2955]

That's actually a great question and with all the pilots and aviation buffs who follow this channel, I'm shocked that no one responded. The flight crews seem to use air traffic control like a mediator and don't seem to communicate with each other the way trucks, busses and commercial vehicles on the ground do. Even ships can contact other ships. It could be a legal thing or a channel thing or a sterile cockpit safety thing but it would seem beneficial if there were a way that flight crews could communicate with each other, even if just in an emergency. So glad this one had a happy ending, the loss of life would have been staggering.

[@subinsunil8145]

It is possible, if the air traffic controller shared the frequency and the call sign of the other plane. But the conversation are usually kept between the pilot and atc.

[@thaconnection8201]

@@loumac2955 If they don't know each others frequency then i guess they can't contact each other. But I think it's more because pilots are trained to trust ATC and it wasn't until they made visual contact that they begun to realize the seriousness of it. Probably also didn't have time to contact each other once visual contact was made

[@fixman88]

@@loumac2955 They're required to monitor the Guard Frequency (121.5 Mhz) so theoretically they could have directly communicated.

[@Musikur]

Yes, the planes could have communicated with each other easily in theory. However in practice, it is much easier for both planes to talk to a controller who then knows where they are are and can succinctly give them instructions. If the pilots were communicated directly, there would be a lot of chatter as they tried to work out where they were in relation to each other, and most times they wouldn't be anywhere near each other. Its very inefficient, and potentially more dangerous. In this situation, hence why we don't do it as a matter of course. In theory, the DC-10 crew could have perhaps realised that the 747 was descending and talked to them directly by radio, however: A) it is unlikely that they knew that flight 907 was the other aircraft they are conflicting with, for all they know, its a completely unrelated incident that happens to be on the same frequency. B), the idea is that TCAS does exactly what you're describing and then tells the pilots what the outcome of that discussion is. TCAS talks to the other transponder 10 times per second to work out which plane should be climbing and which should be descending, and it can make the decision far faster than a human with our terrible, slow words can. And C) despite what the animation shows, the planes only actually saw each other seconds before impact, in which case it was far too late to negotiate who was doing what over radio.

[@ashharris7293]

This reminds me very much of what is known as the "dance of death" in ship collisions, each is continually taking action to avoid collision but that action is driving them to it.

[@dr.zoidberg4313]

CLIMB NOW CLIMB NOW CLIMB NOW CLIMB NOW "No... that's just what they'll be expecting." 🤨

[@Razgriz259]

Airplane Reference 😂

[@tomfuelery2905]

This should have more likes.

[@itwontcomeout5678]

I read this in Zoidberg’s voice

[@yolamontalvan9502]

Shit there would have been close to 600 dead people. Thanks God it was avoided. That was a miracle.

[@macman975]

It wasn't quite as close as the video makes out. There was almost 500ft of separation. This clip shows about 25ft lol

[@tessabakker662]

I don't think that was the Lord behind the yoke of 907. I think the people who fly planes are called 'pilots', but typo's are easy to make.

[@HerNameIsAshleyOMG]

Tessa Bakker just shut tf up lol

[@sysonic917]

D MAC it was actually around 80 but really close

[@macman975]

@@sysonic917 People like you just come on KZbin and just make stuff up. It was over 400ft ffs

[@Liz-cmc313]

That near miss is one for the history books. Incredible.

[@derpyto3z]

Airplane: Traffic Pilots operating out of New York: Great, I'm gonna be late for my fli- TCAS: Climb... CLIMB NOW!! Pilot: Oh Shi-

[@madcapper6]

The DC-10 flew over the top of the 747 but was in a hard descent. They got extremely lucky in spite of the pilots doing everything they could to make the collision happen.

[@tejashbista4661]

lol i laughed really hard.

[@shinkhaleynjiley4261]

Lol

[@mgaeeeee9150]

That was funny dude.

[@hanabanana196476]

Lmfao

[@Wildstar40]

There is a percentage of a chance that this may be true.

[@AlonsoRules]

TCAS is right, always. Never listen to a controller.

[@paperback2437]

So if they tell us we're cleared for landing we should believe we aren't and we shouldn't land?

[@mackenja43]

@@paperback2437 I'm not sure how Anthony's point isn't obvious to you.

[@michaelhall9138]

You are OBVIOUSLY NOT a controller. I am and have seen many a TCAS take a situation I had worked out and turned it into a lack of standard separation. TCAS does not take into consideration anything other than the two aircraft it sees as a factor. Had the DC10 followed the controllers instructions and NOT the TCAS everything would have been fine. At least U.S. controllers are protected from this type of prosecution. This was nothing more than a serious mistake.

[@0raul982]

Trainee atc:oof

[@pankajkushwaha2288]

Yeah the 2002 collision happened due to the pilot listening to the controller ... Which happened to the collision

[@jasongomes3341]

A truly awesome depiction of a miraculous escape. Your channel is indeed an extraordinary creation-a must see for all aviation lovers. The time, effort and skill that goes into each of your videos is evident and praiseworthy.

[@ihrthutao]

dc-10's cockpit: inCreAse dEsceNd inCreAse dEsceNd me: is that a song?

[@toanotherplace]

I love how I was interrupted by an ad during the slow-mo replay

[@saketkashyap8462]

exactly the same

[@mikediamond353]

Hey! So was I... Must be onto us

[@midgie4410]

It looked like the plane that was passing from the bottom was flying sideways

[@Novusod]

You should get adblock+ I never see ads.

[@Keebrev]

Bro same

[@Suisfonia]

Frankly I find it very stupid that the *trainee* was being held responsible when a trainee is someone that is NEW to the job and thus is being TRAINED on how to DO their job. That's why when a trainee messes it up it is almost always the responsibility of the supervisor or field training officer. Also it doesn't surprise me that the pilots prioritized ATC instructions, back then, TCAS was really only mandated to be listened to in the US and a few other countries - Japan was NOT originally one of them.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

That trainee nearly caused 677 deaths. If they had actually crashed, someone would have to answer for all that carnage and the man who repeatedly put those planes on a collision course would be the obvious suspect.

[@cikame]

Japan doesn't screw around, i'm not surprised after being found not guilty prosecutors found a way to turn it around, you're almost always guilty in Japan.

[@brainwaiver1]

hit thumbs down by mistake

[@charliethomas9173]

Edax the controller wasn’t the one putting them on a collision course. He told the 747 to descend but the tcas warnings told it to climb. He isn’t aware of what the tcas is saying. He also tried to contact the md to alter course but they didn’t respond. The controllers could have separated them sooner in anticipation, however I think it’s very harsh to blame solely the controllers when it seemed to be a confluence of bad luck

[@dx1450]

@@charliethomas9173 Wrong, the 747 was 2,000 feet higher than the DC-10, but he told them to descend. Had the told them to climb and the DC-10 to descend then they wouldn't have gotten so close. The 747 pilots chose to obey the controller and descend, and not the TCAS which was telling them to climb.

[@LisaD007]

You did an incredible job of capturing exactly what happened in this situation. Fascinating. Especially since the outcome was that no one got killed. But, holy cow! Talk about a close call!

[@t.w.9639]

Your videos are better than most documentaries. Thank you so much for them!

[@kokonana4086]

Holy moly how many trainees were there on board and at the tower on that day? The most scary aviation stunt I've witnessed.

[@RasheedKhan-he6xx]

I was on a flight recently and looking out of the window could see another aircraft going in the other direction, probably 2000 feet below us. Because of relative speed (each flying at over 900km/h, relative velocity >1800km/h) it was the fastest thing I have ever seen. There would be no time to react.

[@GS-ky5ts]

Exactly the same experience some months back. It was unreal.

[@Green_team17]

Just happened to be looking out the window and saw the same thing. I looked around in amazement hoping someone else saw it too

[@DaveChimny]

Crossing each other with the valid 1,000 ft vertical separation looks pretty heavy.

[@samsmiths9536]

Just so you know, it wasn’t 1800km. If both flying toward each other at 900km then the relative velocity is 900km. Two objects flying at same speed means hitting each other is the same as hitting a brick wall at 900km

[@RasheedKhan-he6xx]

@@samsmiths9536 Velocity = Distance Covered / Time taken. If the distance is the same and the time is halved, the velocity is doubled. So if your brick wall is 900km away and it took you an hour to get there you were travelling at 900 km/h. But if the wall is also travelling towards you at 900km/h then in 30 minutes you will each have traveled 450 km where you would meet. The total distance travelled is still 900km but it was covered in half the time. Refereing to the formula, the relative velocity is 900km / half an hour = 1800km / hour.

[@JCTG1]

2001 just wasn't a good year for aviation.

[@MROtheanimator1]

cause of another 9/11

[@andrewqi6695]

this near miss, 9/11 and flight 587

[@kylerider7125]

I used to fly in helicopters in the Gulf of Mexico a lot for work and this would happen all the time with other helicopters in the area. The pilots would always ask whoever was riding up front to help them keep an eye out for other aircraft. They had tcas but until you experience it it’s rad to describe when the tcas system would start giving alarms and you can find the other aircraft with your eyes I gets scary pretty fast

[@misled1982]

Those ATC's controller now work at Mc Donalds

[@derekg-birddog-3032]

McDonald's.... Douglas :D

[@namedropper9237]

@@derekg-birddog-3032 give this man a medal! 🏅 👏👏👏

[@jimmypappas9780]

They work in the prison cafeteria lol

[@Gamebreaker08]

It’s Japan, so not likely. They’re probably dead. Japanese ritual suicide, to regain their honor. (Seppuku)

[@BBaaaaa]

@@Gamebreaker08 where did you get that info to affirm such thing ?

[@MultiTopgearfan]

If this accident happened, could have easily been the worst in history. Over 600 lives would have been lost. Hopefully something like this doesn't happen again.

[@Alex-uz3ko]

not the worst, over 3000 people died in 9/11

[@-TJ-]

This occurred before 9/11, so for the time it could have been the worst crash in history, surpassing Tenerife.

[@roccoy5982]

Alex Vanikiotis 9/11 wasn't an accident. It would of been the worst aviation accident in history.

[@_original-name_]

@lexoll 9/11 was intentional so while it was atrocious it was not an accident

[@bruzote]

Alex Vanikiotis - 9/11 was pre-meditated murder. Alan Teh said it was an accident, and his comment is valid.

[@CandyGirl44]

One fortunate thing - all those trainees on the planes will definitely listen to the TCAS next time!

[@billwalbek4998]

I showed this to a coworker and he said, "That's how it be sometimes." I felt that on a spiritual level.

[@bennyksmusicalworld968]

“Descend. Descend now.” Doesn’t descend “Climb. Climb now.” Maintains altitude.

[@daboxownsall]

ATC goes to jail, pilots get off. Some justice.

[@Thors.hammer69420]

Pilots were folowing orders, so its fair that they didnt get charged.

[@daboxownsall]

@@Thors.hammer69420 Nope, TCAS always supersede ATC in every situation. Pilots panicked and failed to follow their training.

[@Thors.hammer69420]

@@daboxownsall ok. Thanks for telling me.👍🏻👍🏻

[@AndreyCheremkin]

@@daboxownsall this happened back in the early 2000s and there was no such rule (TCAS overrides ATC). This rule was deployed after an actual collision under the same circumstances (Baskirian 2937 and DHL 611 collision, 71 fatalities and ATC killed later)

[@jamestew5075]

Incredible production and analysis. Also a very knowledgeable and sophisticated viewership. I’cve done a Lott of flying but have no real knowledge, still these clips are very understandable to me.

[@prypiatshadow6371]

This reminds me of the air collision that happened above germany, between the tupolev and 757. It was a complete tragedy, and the fact that something so similiar almost happened is just flabergastering.

[@vintagerider4301]

Unfortunately, one year after this, the Uberlingen mid-air collision happened...

[@tensevo]

THat is what is sad. Were lessons learned from this>?

[@VGF80]

It really is the truth that blood needs to be shed and lives have to be torn apart for change to happen.

[@Belchmaster41]

@@tensevo the best lesson is: avoid each other in mid-air (if you can)

[@lowgunfire2671]

Lesson? F**king obey your TCAS commands!

[@jillianbruce6143]

@@lowgunfire2671 I agree with you-- go with planned computer action because I've seen that the ATCs don't even THINK, they just order out whatever pops into their minds!!!

[@xiayabennett6982]

If they’d collided, 600+ ppl could’ve died. Clap to evasive maneuvering

[@scottyjohnson3120]

Yeah, it would have broken the Tenerife record of 583.

[@tensevo]

The thing was both plane were taking evasive action to decend, one from TCAS to descend and the other was taking action from ATC to descend. Who is your master? ATC or TCAS?

[@jamc666]

all the supervisors should've been fired on the spot. in the planes and on the ground.

[@anonymous9843]

@@tensevo at firstboth were following tcas but the rookie controller stepped in and instructed the 747 to descent and at that time the ATC instructions were to followed over the tcas

[@tensevo]

@@anonymous9843 the ATcontroller is supposed give instructions, but the pilot is supposed to treat TCAS with priority in event of conflict.

[@user-lj9pb9io8n]

Another Awesome Video Thank You 😃😁😊👍

[@Calidore1]

Great video, top notch work.

[@divana219]

I love how the waring collision system sounds

[@originalpadoru]

divana prabawa I love your engrish

[@salty_kr]

Same lol

[@divana219]

@@originalpadoru yeah i love yours too

[@janghoon62]

@@originalpadoru 와 한국인

[@GatoRudyard]

If back then there it wasn't regulated that TCAS takes precedence over ATC, shouldn't the pilot have told the ATC that he was getting conflicting information from TCAS?

[@phoenixlal7428]

Agreed, that is what they should do. Communicate

[@thesauciestboss4039]

@@phoenixlal7428 Communication is key, yet always seems to be forgotten when needed the most

[@matchesburn]

A good point. My only guess is that it was overlooked due to the trainees or wasn't included in company guidelines and regulations (and at this time ICAO hadn't regulated it), and usually if it's not covered by company guidelines or training and isn't covered by ICAO/NTSB/FAA (the last two of which wouldn't apply to Japanese airline pilots) it doesn't get taught or covered that much. There's a reason why airline companies are practically (or literally) begging former military pilots to join them and that's because they are so well trained and experienced. And most former military pilots don't mind because it allows them to continue flying. I would actually love to see the statistics on how many of them go airline, but I think it's a huge percentage.

[@samking2094]

That all takes time and I'm guessing they might have tried to do just that but planes take time to react to control inputs, they're not like cars which when you turn the steering wheel they turn, planes take ages to ascend/ descend. Having said that you would still think that if you could see the other flight as these pilots should've been able to you would've been able to avoid them? ATEOTD You gotta go with TCAS over some (possibly idiot) traffic controller!

[@LatitudeSky]

The rule is Aviate. Navigate. Communicate. In that order. So if you need to take evasive actions to avoid a crash, you do it. If you succeed and live, then you can tell ATC about it after the fact and let them yell at you.

[@zuzellogan5613]

It was really scary how close these two planes came to crash. My goodness, it makes you wonder when you board a plane what is going to happen: if you are going to be safe and reach your destination or die. I am afraid of planes, I really am and I know I have to get over this fear but so far, it is hard to do. I am glad everyone survived this flight.

[@barnabywilde374]

each pilot covering for themselves over the PA system: "ladies and gentlemen, it is a custom of the local people here to greet all visitors with a near-collision as their way of saying 'Welcome!'"

[@tabby73]

🤣🤣

[@tindralundholm]

Imagine being a passenger on one of those planes. *Anxiety has entered the chat*

[@edupires]

Probably most of them never knew about the other plane till the Jal’s latter arrived in mail box.

[@LunaticTheCat]

@@edupires The passengers looking out the window likely would have seen it.

[@soniak2672]

That is one very realistic flight simulator..... I almost thought that was real footage for a second

[@J-CBertrand-tp6bg]

And who would be filming outside, thousands of feet up in the air?🙄‼️

[@tyleranimated2334]

J-C Bertrand quarantine sarcasm much?

[@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor]

@@J-CBertrand-tp6bg a drone?

[@preityarya]

I m obsessed with this channel. Can't stop watching the videos

[@portuguesnomundo]

Nice video my friend

[@j.b.9581]

There was another case in which the ATC instructions were followed instead of TCAS. It was a Russian passenger plane and a DHL cargo airplane. There was a single ATC on duty at the time. The planes collided and no one survived the resulting crashes. ALWAYS TRUST TCAS.

[@RoelandJansen]

Correct, ALWAYS follow TCAS!

[@waterbird91]

That ATC should have gotten prison time One ATC should not be working alone & this proves it. That ATC was responsible for all those deaths

[@j.b.9581]

Watch the video that I posted, it shows the judgement of the Board of Inquiry into the case . . .

[@letsreadstudios1682]

How can you blame the ATC? If it was ignorance then sure, but if the system is creating uneducated ATCs then that's a problem of the system, and the system it to blame.

[@corporalradio6514]

yes it's true the ATC is at fault but you have to take in the fact that they allowed only one (1) ATC when the minimum requirement is two (2). the ATC at the moment was preoccupied with some landing issues as he can't contact the control tower if i'm not mistaken due to the maintenance of their phone and the system that suppose to alert them when an aircraft is on a collision course wasn't working either due to maintenance. The russians were following their own standard which is the ATC command is prioritize over the TCAS which is a major mistake of course. nonetheless, the ATC guy was killed (stabbed to death in front of his family) later on by one of the victim's family member.

[@williamsimmons152]

If you're not going to follow TCAS instructions, there is no point in having it.

[@dsequeirag2399]

Amazing job who made this video 👌

[@aircrashesflyingwings912]

Flight Channel you are a very good and respectful youtuber in these days.

[@moverman317]

I love these videos. The sound and the graphics are incredible. It’s almost like you were there. I can understand what and how it happened just by watching these videos. Incredible!!!

[@tyrael280]

only lawers and judges aren't trainees in this story :(

[@HoveringGold]

I really am surprised this is not talked about more. Do people not realize this literally was a 443 ft near miss from the worst aviation disaster in World history. 677 people, all who would have died had these two aircraft collided, would have just blown Tenerife out of the water in death count.

[@Aviationfan2022]

Yo that was set on my 12th birthday!!! Thank you!!!

[@_dark_jack_462]

The effort you put in these videos is outstanding!

[@230398am]

youre the only channel that upload quality content and tell me what really happened and demonstrate it well compared to the others. so im not skipping ads. u deserve it.

[@jmar28a]

20 minutes in: “Wait… if I’m a trainee, you’re a trainee, and you’re a trainee…..oh shit”

[@bluescanty]

The number of trainees in this video is astounding

[@sd90mac61]

OMG, I'm so glad they passed each other and survived, that would of been just awefull😭😭😭thank God they made it🙏🙏

[@edupires]

I’m laughing a lot seeing the comments in this serious video. 😂

[@PrinceRN]

It makes it a lot easier for levity when everyone survives - if not their jobs and freedom (and, as I understand from the comments, undergarments).

[@okzoomer5728]

Kinda wish we had a passenger POV in both simulations. I wanted to know what it was like looking out the window and seeing a massive DC-10 fly mere meters from your face

[@konquer247]

Pilot1: Soooo, there is a conflict Pilot2: How do we solve it. Pilot1: Let's meet up.

[@donaldalbano6484]

moral of the story: both pilots need to follow TCAS instructions.

[@lucas3087]

After the Accident in Germany was change and the priority is follow the TCAS, in Case of confusion information with ATC .

[@paperback2437]

Up next: Trainee captain, trainee first officer, trainee co-pilot, trainee ATC, and trainee flight attendants.

[@worldwatcher5787]

Thanks for the replay.

[@user-tg2us4ps5v]

"hey jal" "yo wassup jal? "there is a penny on your wing" "really?" "yah, can i keep it?" "uh, yeah sure" "ok here i come!" *(missed)* "Nooo i missed :(" "better luck next time jal" "K goodbye" "Bye"

[@nonongkinclong]

So where's the funny thing?

[@TheGospelQuartetParadise]

Is it just me, or did anyone notice that there were too dang many trainees involved in this incident... both planes had trainee pilots being trained... There was even a trainee controller on duty.. And the controller supervisor invented a flight number.. If both pilots had heeded their TCAS alerts, this would not have happened. If the controllers knew that both planes had TCAS, they should simply have asked if the pilots had TCAS alerts.

[@mindyschocolate]

I watched this documentary. Apparently this TCAS was relatively new, and there were no guidelines on what actually took priority- ATC or TCAS. The pilots went with ATC out of habit.

[@pokerandphilosophy8328]

It didn't stop there. The controller and his supervisor were represented by a trainee lawyer and sentenced by a trainee judge. They then began serving their prison sentences under the supervision of trainee correctional officers and managed to escape on the next morning.

[@tenpoll]

however, the jailbreak was a trainee too, and they are easily caught.

[@melkennedy4195]

no Leander Williams - i noticed this too - the pilot trainees are not so bad as there is always a senior pilot at the dual control, so the senior pilot can take over in an emergency and I guess that is what happened on both planes, due to the constant alerts going off. I believe it was an error on the trainee Air Control Officer. but not one that should have had a prison sentence!! The reason these things happen is to learn by your mistakes and i would say that the lesson here was to never have a trainee on his/her own until they are totally competent to deal with everything. He did recognise that they were on a colision course and make amendments to the flight path, but that alert was confusing the pilots. just as well it was a clear day and they had visual!!

[@luana2778]

@@pokerandphilosophy8328 😂😂😂

[@maryam960]

6:30 my heart is pounding OMGGGG

[@uncletony6210]

whoever makes these videos does quality work.

[@tommyhemlock7915]

Even watching the near miss in real time on here was scary enough. Imagine (if you can or want to) what it must have been like on the planes.😬

[@harizshahhamin6324]

Beautiful editing, Great emotional song that fits it and full description off what happened next!! Great video

[@ChaplainDaveSparks]

Maybe it should have been titled, "Training Day", due to the trainees on both planes and at ATC. Excellent flying by both pilots. It seems like an honest mistake by the trainee controller. If he wasn't up to the task, then his supervisor should be the one responsible. What might have helped is if the TCAS transponders in both planes were also linked to ATC, so contradictory commands weren't given. As for a 130 meter near miss -- the graphics sure made it look *MUCH CLOSER* than that! My only question is how they ended up on a collision course in the first place. Maybe *THAT* is where ATC really screwed up!

[@themaidisstillatwork]

I love JAL, I was 3 years old when this happened. To see how close both planes got to each other was terrifying. And as for what we are dealing with right now, I hope we can all fly again soon.

[@smartingamerica]

Except, as noted in the incident report mentioned in the video, they were "estimated to have passed within 135 meters of each other". That's longer than the length of a football field. In the sequence simulation slow-motion 'replay' at 6:55, it looks like they pass well under 10 meters of each other - and with zero lateral miss distance. That is most unlikely. Why does this channel stretch the facts like that? Because it looks so 'cool' and enhances the drama while delivering the necessary sensational thrill to the viewing audience to draw their revenue-bearing clicks, that's why. They will never miss an opportunity to hype up and exaggerate the dramatic angle as long as its 'technically consistent with the facts' - in this case, "within 135 meters". It is a typical strategy of this channel. Unfortunately, the habit of hype which makes it so popular also makes it untrustworthy for anyone who seriously wishes to obtain an accurate insight on aviation incidents and mishaps in the real world.

[@thrtnthrtn]

@@smartingamerica Damn thats crazy no one cares tho so stfu

[@smartingamerica]

@@thrtnthrtn Is that your handle or your age?

[@alansmith2086]

Very Good Animation!!!! Well Done.

[@neils5539]

There are two remarkable things about this story. 1. Those planes are approaching at about 1,000 miles per hour (both going 500 or so, in opposite directions). The reaction time of the 747 pilot is amazing. 2. Even at the same elevation, the odds of these two planes coming directly at each other are astronomical. It's a big sky up there!

[@BBY-03]

Yes

[@tomboz777]

Plane:STALL STALL Pilots:imma put the nose up TCAS:ACSEND ASCEND Pilots:Imma descend

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

Plane: Stall, stall First officer Bonin: But I had the stick up the whole time!

[@dx1450]

"Sink rate! Sink rate!" Pilot: "Imma going to put the engines to idle and deploy the speed brakes..."

[@lowgunfire2671]

And yet there are some idiots out there who blame the controllers for PILOT error.

[@JeromyBranch]

On a flight last year from Dallas to Tucson we passed very close to another plane while at cruising altitude....290 i think. I could see people through the other planes windows. When we got to Tucson and were leaving the plane I asked one of the pilots, "Are you going to have to write an incident report for this flight?" I don't think I've ever gotten a shittier look from anybody. Wasn't what I was expecting. Good ol AA. If they ain't losing your bags, they're not flying you anywhere.

[@funkygenesis]

Would you mind mentioning some details of the flight... I think we shouldn't just investigate the crashes but also encounters like the one you've mentioned.

[@davidferron9457]

Prob a made up story

[@backslash68]

I also experienced a near mid-air collision on easyJet... the other plane was below us, not so close that I could see the other people, but I could read the company logo (another easyJet) that was a bit scary

[@ciprian7243]

@@backslash68 perfectly safe, though. Usually 1000 feet of separation is perfectly normal between planes on a flight corridor for planes heading in different directions.

[@AhHereWeGo]

Released audio from both cockpits: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...” I dunno about y’all, but when my plane tells me to do something like “pull up” or “descend” or “Climb now”, I’m gonna listen to it over the dude on the ground that can’t see me.

[@manxpuss]

Reminds me of the DHL collision. TCAS is there for a reason. Phew that was close thank god they missed.

[@thebravegallade731]

This was the reason TCAS has been first priority over ATC tho

[@hcotb3597]

@@thebravegallade731 this and the Uberlingen Mid air Collision

[@user-jn7kv1fs7d]

I am very surprised that this is the only comment mentioning the DHL collision