A Routine Landing Approach Quickly Turns into a Disaster (Terrifying Moments on Tape)

Find out why an Airbus A310 jet airliner operated by Yemenia flying a scheduled service from Yemen to Comoros (Yemenia flight 626) crashed while on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport.
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[@SuperBigblue19]

As a former Navy diver, I can tell you that a 12yr old girl surviving 13hrs in the ocean after a plane crash is nothing less than miracle.

[@testplmnb]

They did better in tytanic

[@hiyaks]

That's what I was thinking. Some kind of super-human strength!

[@jaapjoop1093]

as an active youtube watcher with nothing to do i can tell you that was a miracle

[@minoozolala]

@@jaapjoop1093 lol you beat me to it.

[@marleen6507]

Amen

[@7franny7]

As cabin crew myself, I'm absolutely amazed and shocked at the amount of silence in that cockpit when these alarms are sounding...

[@mikem9584]

Not a peep

[@jimmycline4778]

I think they were also in shock

[@7franny7]

@@jimmycline4778 that's why we have procedures. It's suppose to kick you into action 🥹💔😔

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

ASpiderman no way home

[@Foxstang4life]

They were probly drugged up to the nines

[@phj223]

I got anxiety just listening to the hesitation of the ATC, you'd think it was his first day on the job. :-/ But yeah, the pilots forgot the basic principle, aviate, navigate, communicate. They were trying to navigate, and forgot to aviate..

[@ArchTeryx00]

He probably spoke very poor English. which is a common problem in a lot of countries since English is the agreed-upon lingua franca of aviation. The hestiation was him trying to figure out the right English words to say.

[@tomsmith9011]

stress undeniably made them lost focus.....you might have too

[@ArchTeryx00]

@@tomsmith9011 Oh absolutely I would have. I know Im not cut out for ATC. That being said, 626 was probably (AFAIK) the only flight he was handling that night, but it was a third world airport with minimal equipment and at least one broken item. His job wouldn't have been at all easy.

[@phj223]

@@tomsmith9011 I might have, but I'm not a pilot. No pilot should ever, ever, stop flying the plane. There are so many accidents on these channels that could have been avoided if the pilot flying would have just confessed that he wasn't sure what was going on, and set a safe altitude, configuration, and heading, and asked for a new approach.

[@tomsmith9011]

@@ArchTeryx00 yep and is really shameful how it could happen. I wont fly a third world airline.....between the planes, the airports and the pilots, a lot can go wrong. God bless ya Brother!

[@BillWhittleChannel]

I'm a private pilot with 968 hours TT with both glider and instrument ratings. I have seen every single one of your EXCELLENT videos, and this one is the hardest for me to understand. I most emphatically am not an airline captain, but surely procedure for any type of instrument to visual transition would be for the pilot flying to FLY THE AIRPLANE, on instruments, as if in a black-box simulator... in other words, TRUST YOUR INSTRUMENTS, keep your head down, keep the blue side up and the brown side down and most importantly watch AIRSPEED and ALTITUDE! The OTHER pilot (this is why we have two!) should have eyes eyes outside the airplane looking for the visual references. If I recall correctly, the pilot with the visual reference established then gets the hand off, but this is a dangerous time as the two pilots are working on completely different reference systems. I believe the visual pilot (PNF) gets the controls while the former PF continues to monitor airspeed and altitude until the new PF (the one who made the visual contact and has visual reference) is established. That means that the new PNF still should monitor airspeed and altitude all the way down to insure that the new PF does not have a faulty reference system because of the poor visibility. It seemed to me that both pilots were looking out the window all the time. How else to explain it? And if this is the complete cockpit voice recording, it is even more astonishing that no one had anything to say about ground proximity warnings not once, but twice before totally losing control? I understand drunk pilot accidents better than this one.

[@rickrickard2788]

This is what happens when you have two qualified pilots, but who've never been in any REAL emergency situations. There was none on board, who could control their panic- This is what makes trained men, forget to "fly the plane". And this experience doesn't have to just come from flying- LIFE teaches us this, if we find ourselves in these kinds of situations.. it's just that, many don't, so they've never learned how to control their fear. And it's getting much, much worse, in the airline industry- which is what I posted about on this one.

[@dmorga1]

@@rickrickard2788 Yes, I wonder about their training. Was this little airline giving them any simulator training? What was their training regime for annual certification?

[@michael.forkert]

@@dmorga1The answer is NONE.

[@brandonaldaymachuse6669]

They probably passed out from vertigo...that plane was not stable at all so perhaps the pilots were just being tumbled around the cockpit, disoriented and overwhelmed...at that point, you just let go and let Jesus take the wheel.

[@BillWhittleChannel]

@@rickrickard2788 You're so right, Rick. On my very first flight lesson in gliders, as we were walking out to the aircraft my flight instructor said to me, "Bill if things really go south up there your reptile brain is going to take over. My job is to make sure that the reptile knows what to do." That's the best single piece of advice I ever heard about flying.

[@irvancrocs1753]

Bahia Bakari is dubbed as "the miracle girl" by the world press after that incident, she stated initially there must have been other survivors, as she could hear them after the crash but later the voices became silent, by the time in the morning she realized she was alone on the rough sea. Also fun fact: Steven Spielberg wanted to create a movie about her but she turned it down.

[@tomsmith9011]

SS is a demon - hope you know that

[@Powerranger-le4up]

Makes sense that she’d say no. Her mother was onboard with her.

[@RPG-oh1yf]

I'm sure a movie will be made about this one day.

[@miketype1each]

Yeah. After all, she lost her mom on the flight. Her dad was in France at the time.

[@NeonVisual]

In most aircraft crashes the victims are lucky to be knocked unconscious by the impact. Most will be fully aware of the final few seconds as their bodies are mangled and ripped apart, then what is left of them burning alive in the initial fuel explosion. Survivors are the few who avoided both of those scenarios by chance, but most of the deaths happen in the minutes after the crash, not at the moment of impact.

[@DaughterOfTheKing_]

I am terrified getting on a plane but I can watch these videos in my bed all night 😂

[@martinc.720]

Ok

[@aquarius2287]

Same here! 😂

[@SFbayArea94121]

Gurlll, cuz u wak

[@GC2024_]

Same 🤷‍♀️🤣

[@martinc.720]

@@SFbayArea94121 Feeling better? Now that you tried to insult a stranger online?

[@lyonvensa]

My heart jumped up to my throat when the simulation showed the plane practically pointed STRAIGHT UP and then watching the altimeter descend in a terrifyingly fast rate. I may not be a pilot, but holy shit, did those pilots not even look at their instruments?

[@wirdy1]

That airbus tried so hard to not crash, but was ultimately over-ridden by awfully bad pilots.

[@b.t.356]

Honeslty though

[@404notfound.....]

@@b.t.356 ??

[@psalm2forliberty577]

You can say that again ! RIP to the 152 Souls lost, in Jesus name !

[@buskontention3872]

@@psalm2forliberty577 A bit presumptuous to assume they were all Christians... just saying.

[@albertchehade9916]

HOW were they ALLOWED to become awfully bad pilots? Religion?

[@andy-james-]

Those poor passengers, on the first pull up they would have been rattled a bit. The second they'd be wondering just what the hell is going on, the third and stall would have been horrendous for them. RIP to those who died.

[@ArchTeryx00]

At least it didnt last long. Low altitude stalls like that are very often fatal because there's simply no altitude to recover with. You HAVE to point the nose down and increase your airspeed to pull out of a stall, and long before you get enough airspeed to get flying again, you hit the ground. :/

[@billyd5749]

@@ArchTeryx00 Should have never even come close to a stall. As soon as the stick shaker activated they were at max thrust and he could have pointed the nose down slightly and all would have been fine.

[@2killnspray9]

I really can't understand how can they possibly "accidentally" set the autopilot to 0 feet. I don't see how you can turn the bottom "accidentally" way too much.

[@billyd5749]

@@2killnspray9 absolutely inexcusable.

[@2killnspray9]

@@billyd5749 Inexcusable, unbearable and mind boggling! Indeed !

[@donaldwilson5693]

Those two pilots did so many things wrong and were so incompetent that it's a miracle they accumulated as many hours as they did before finally crashing. It was just a matter of time.

[@rc70ys]

Agree totally it was inevitable

[@someone3.2007]

The takeoff was fine but I can't say the same for the landing. Some pilots are just so stupid they don't know how to recover from stalls

[@Avocado11]

@@someone3.2007 So they went to the Indiana Jones school of flying.

[@rekunta]

@@Avocado11more like Trump university.

[@2killnspray9]

It's insane I don't even understand how can someone "accidentally" puts the descending altitude to 0.

[@Eseseso494]

1. I'm amazed anyone survived this. 2. This entire situation put me on edge since I had no idea how it'd turn out. 3. The pilot panicking and trying to avoid a crash is what sealed their fates when the plane stalled. 4. RIP to all 152 victims. 5. Excellent job as usual, Flight Channel

[@blaze1148]

@H001_ There was 153 initial passengers....

[@loosemoose9799]

I seldom become anxious or nervous when watching the videos, but this one gave me the chills and I nearly yelled at the laptop screen for them to look at their instruments. This was a totally preventable crash.

[@2killnspray9]

It's insane I don't even understand how can someone "accidentally" puts the descending altitude to 0.

[@misterxmistery7424]

The animation is wrong (not sure whether on purpose for dramatic effect, but that would be really bad for this channel's reputation), the plane didn't hit nose-dive into the water. Here is the correct video how it crashed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnvcYYOEaa11f7s Nobody survives a nose-dive hitting the concrete so to say, even in low speed.

[@narabdela]

No criticism of that totally useless and incompetent ATC? 😮

[@deepthinker999]

There is criticism in these comments.

[@narabdela]

@@deepthinker999 Not prior to my post.

[@margeebechyne8642]

This is so strange. The captain had 20 years experience? Seems like such a senseless tragedy. It's astonishing that the little girl survived. Thank you for another great presentation!

[@rezopolis]

Exactly, I found his attitude so wierd, and he seemed so clueless about how to communicate basic questions with confidence. The communication tower even had to say "speak louder please", I've never heard that before. I don't know... so so strange

[@Jayloc05]

@@rezopolis the pilot told the tower to speak louder. Not the other way around.

[@ponncho]

I can’t even imagine how traumatizing it was for the girl going thru the ordeal

[@Slayer-33]

Did these guys USE the instruments? Holy hell. How can you not react even to the most basic of circumstances? Like wtf, why isn't the artificial horizon paid more attention to?

[@Blovi-qd4lh]

Indeed. It’s like these two haven’t a clue how to fly, in spite of decades of flight time. How did they ever pass a checkride? Rhetorical question. Turn the damn auto pilot OFF and fly the airplane!! Altitude, airspeed…..yeegads.

[@kewlboss]

How about you pay attention to the altimeter bro?? I kept thinking that through this whole video, wtf are you looking at if your not watching your instruments, especially at night...

[@prosoto]

@@kewlboss Waaaaaaaaaaaay too much dependence on automation coupled with bad training on the basics of aviating and CRM. A circle-to-land at night really has no business being the procedure to kill everyone yet there they went.

[@deepthinker999]

@@Blovi-qd4lh Was there ever a check ride? Perhaps not.

[@lukeduke6693]

I dont feel this crash can be explained by normal negligence or lack of skill. They made the same potentially career ending (or fatal) error three times in a row but disclosed no mechanical issues on last radio. Then no real attempt to counter a stall in a plane of that size. There was something going on in that cockpit.

[@mariorobertson3732]

The ATC should be also held responsible for giving unreliable data, mumbling and broken English. He really did not help the pilots stress levels.

[@nicknico4121]

I don't understand how he didn't attempt to warn the pilot and tell him he was flying too low.

[@adotintheshark4848]

English is supposed to be the language of commercial aviation..it should be GOOD English.

[@b.t.356]

For real though. The ATC employee was grossly negligent in the performance of his duties as well.

[@rgbaal]

@@nicknico4121 No Radar so he had no way of knowing. It's not ATC's job to fly the plane.

[@rgbaal]

@@b.t.356 He did not contribute to this crash - he was marginal but good enough. its the pilots job to fly it.

[@KateetMaddi]

Imagine being that close to landing and then just… :( If I was watching the flight path and saw that we went way past the airport and kept going really close to the water and back up again I would already be freaking out, knowing something bad was coming. Then going completely vertical straight up before ultimately having your worst fears set in and nosediving straight down. I can’t even imagine the fear. RIP to all the people :(

[@deepthinker999]

Ignorance was not bliss in this case.

[@patriciamariemitchel]

Madeline, I don't believe it. If you watch these videos, it's more likely that you'd of been shouting to the crew before it got that bad, Tell the pilots to check their instruments, especially the altitude selector!

[@reaperincess]

Sadly well said... 💔

[@stardustring]

This is literally my worst fear.

[@reaperincess]

@@patriciamariemitchel Calm down, Karen. Not everyone has the same mind-set as you. You're not her.

[@cookselectric]

Pilot incompetence at it’s best….. wow

[@martinc.720]

*its… wow

[@deepthinker999]

Do you know about the KLM pilot in Tenerife?

[@cookselectric]

@@martinc.720 lol, spell check changed to it’s, tried again..same

[@cookselectric]

@@deepthinker999 yes, worst ever, sad

[@ferda9886]

That one girl survived is a Miracle

[@ramonmoreno8014]

yeah thanks jesus

[@susangreene9662]

I am shocked at this crash with both pilots having so much Airbus experience. One little girl surviving is utterly astounding.

[@-DC-]

Simply incredible that a high time captain could be sat in that Aircraft and ignore warning after warning Alarm TCAS Chime Instruments etc etc, Even with all that Safety Technology he still managed to kill almost everyone onboard WTAF.

[@randomrazr]

that airbus tried so hard not to hit the ground. the level of ignorance and stupidity made it crash

[@markamos1964]

From watching this and other videos on aviation accident investigations, circling approaches (especially at night or in marginal VFR conditions) require the utmost in attention and are often the cause of crashes. Very sad indeed.

[@tradewins]

utmost

[@flyingphobiahelp]

And are banned by most US carriers

[@celestedonohue3543]

What exactly is banned by U.S. carriers?? Please explain? I'm so curious! Thanks! 😳😳

[@klocknerdeutz]

They would have been wise to keep the autopilot in for the maneuver, makes it a lot easier. Also I don’t understand how they were so preoccupied by looking for the runway in the turn, you shouldn’t start that turn until you see the actual runway. Not sure who was flying but it would have made sense for the FO to do it, as the rwy would be on his side…

[@majbach1968]

I vaguely recall hearing about this accident in 2009 no doubt due to the miraculous survival story of the 13 yr old girl but never knew the cause of the crash until now. Of all the aviation tragedies I have heard or read about, this one shakes me up the most. The actions of the flight crew are not unlike someone who is drunk or under the influence since this approach was not a stressful one; it was textbook and routine. All of the issues that arose came from pure pilot error and incompetence. A terrain proximity alarm and not even a word exchanged between the pilots?

[@jopar024]

Aeroflot flight 593 enters the chat: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2LOgXSNi65oi6M Talk about terrifying, unnecessary accidents.

[@majbach1968]

@@jopar024 That one I DO remember as I was a commercial pilot at the time and got the monthly accident reports. Par for the course with Russian airlines. I'd NEVER step foot in one of their planes.

[@jopar024]

@@majbach1968 This crash animation paired with the CVR really puts it in perspective: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKPXpYeIbcprY5Y

[@georgezachos7322]

I am amazed that someone survived this. Amazed...

[@RPG-oh1yf]

Water landings tend to the rare case because the plan doesn't burst into a fireball on impact. How anyone stays conscious on impact with water to not drown is the miracle.

[@northernsoutherngirl]

I was getting seasick watching the plane go up & down!! So I can only imagine the g-force all the passengers must've been feeling. So horrible!

[@cattinkerbell4946]

Wow. What a flight crew from hell. I think the low altitude may also have been caused by the crew trying to identify the runway.

[@donaldsalkovick396]

Atc controller from hell too

[@cattinkerbell4946]

@@donaldsalkovick396 Right. :DD

[@irvancrocs1753]

Wow! Looking how brutal the impact i really can't imagine how anyone can survive that! The girl's determination to live is just unbelieveable.. I hope she doesn't suffer survivor's guilt after that..

[@tomdelage7099]

You can google her, she talked in french media as a grown up woman. Even if you dont understand the langage, just the way she looks, moove and talk will say you how strong she is

[@tarekbahsoun2755]

@@tomdelage7099 c'est bizarre j'ai l'impression que beaucoup n'avaient pas entendu parler de cet accident ? Peut être que comme nous vivons en France,et que la plupart des passagers venaient de France on en a plus entendu parler ?

[@tomdelage7099]

@@tarekbahsoun2755 à l'époque ça avait été médiatisé au jt. Puis ça passait de temps en temps, avec notamment l'ouverture du procès (des années après). Je crois d'ailleurs que c'est au moment du verdict que la survivante a été invité dans des médias (type émission canal à 20h, ou les médias internet comme konbini)

[@Dad_Brad]

Imagine being those two pilots. Trying to talk to the air traffic controller, whose English is utterly impenetrable.

[@deepthinker999]

Mentally impenetrable too.

[@formulaben]

Imagine being this ignorant, thinking it's anything but unusual.

[@ArchTeryx00]

These pilots, for whatever reason, forgot the basic axiom all pilots learn: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Stabilize the plane first, then figure out where you are, THEN talk to ATC. In that order. They were so busy trying to figure out where they were that they forgot to fly the plane, a quickly fatal mistake. Piloting 101 and this crew failed it, resulting in 157 deaths. Needless, tragic and outrageous.

[@rgbaal]

I was muttering - apply power - stabilise and climb away. Then work out the rest!

[@ArchTeryx00]

@@rgbaal Yeah, exactly. I'm as green as can be and I know enough to fly the bloody plane before I worry about anything else, including exactly where I am. Altitude is life. At such a remote and quiet airport, pick a waypoint, set up your own racetrack pattern at a safe altitude, and then have your co-pilot let the tower know what is going on while you figure out where exactly you are and plot a safe route in.

[@towmlvb3423]

It seems that the division of responsibilities between the Pilot Flying and the Pilot Non-Flying was less than professional and contributed a great deal to the disaster. Why was the PF the person looking for the runway and the sole supervisor of the instruments? Madness... The captain's leadership seems to have been somewhere between woefully inadequate and totally non-existent. Lunacy...

[@ken_in_atx9619]

The deafening silence in that cockpit. How could two pilots remain mute through problem solving? Horrible pilots. RIP passengers.

[@kyshka]

I think they are not even real pilots

[@stephenyarde8710]

One of the issues often overlooked is the fact so many alarms going off simultaneously can be confusing and disorienting in an already high stress emergency situation...

[@billyd5749]

I agree but at that point what are you supposed to do, fly UP. Gain altitude, fix the situation then worry about landing.

[@ericmarquardt6614]

Those pilots should never have put themselves in such a workload to begin with.

[@cletus2199]

That's not an "Issue", that's part of flying instruments. They couldn't handle the stress of flying a CIR APPR and when things went wrong the problems snowballed. Alarms only indicate the existence of an issue. You have to train your brain to not get stressed and focus on controlling your AC. These guys should have never been put in a cockpit.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

@@billyd5749 I only know (very very little) from watching plane videos like this, but I think fly up is not an option when your speed is too low and you are stalling.

[@billyd5749]

@@Doo_Doo_Patrol not nose up. Gain altitude. Max thrust fix the angle of attack.

[@AA-lc6yi]

I've known about this crash for a while, but never seen it illustrated... absolutely shocking behaviour from the pilots. Also makes the fact that somebody actually survived even more incredible.

[@brendanfoehr5086]

Interesting sidenote: Bahia Bakari, the French girl who survived but lost her mother on the flight, received an offer from Stephen Spielberg to make a movie about her, which she declined. However, she was featured in the CNN documentary Sole Survivor, along with other sole survivors of major airline crashes George Lamson, Jr. (Galaxy Airlines 203), James Polehinke (Comair 5191), and Cecelia Cichan (Northwest Airlines 255).

[@LuisAngelSantos]

Wow… 😢😢😢

[@lahodal]

I wonder if the alarms can be heard from the front passenger rows. I think they can. This must be absolute hell to experience.

[@SJF15]

They can, i have heard all sorts of bells and whistles from Row 1.

[@ericmarquardt6614]

I was wondering that too. To hear "PULL UP, PULL UP" twice was I'm sure unnerving as well.

[@krashd]

In an airliner they can't, the cabin is soundproofed.

[@pabloescobar7802]

Literally flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean 🌊

[@dseven-yy4we]

Flying is stressful if you are alert and always considering your options in an emergency. It means you understand the risks that are always present. Saying "stress" is a contributing factor is like saying "flying" is itself a contributing factor. This increasingly common notion that stress is a valid explanation as to why pilots mess up and kill everyone is disturbing and I think indicative of the greater infantilization of society at large lately. Don't become a pilot if you can't handle stress.

[@WayneM1961]

Well, in simplistic laymen's terms the crew made a right old feck up of that, and how the hell did that controller get his job? Several times he seemed to struggle with his English.

[@deepthinker999]

Good old fashioned politics. Its everywhere !

[@WayneM1961]

@@deepthinker999 What's "political" about an incompetent crew and a controller who struggles with English? They're facts not politics.

[@deepthinker999]

@@WayneM1961 The politics is how they got their jobs.

[@WayneM1961]

@@deepthinker999 Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I can't argue with that point.

[@giyasiozturkey10]

Imagine the poor trauma the girl had to go through. Just sad. :(

[@b.t.356]

I was secretly looking forward to a Yemenia 626 video! Super scary stuff. Lots of negligence all around.

[@holretz1]

I think that a good invention would be a very strong light that points downward about 45 degree when the plane is flying level. If they are maybe 1000 m above water or ground, they can use it for reference. Of course it should not be on all the time, but when pilots get disoriented.

[@jameshoopes6467]

Geez, can you imagine how terrifying that must have been in the cabin for the passengers? 😢

[@thomasmuller3413]

rollercoaster :D

[@Pablo668]

I don't understand how the pilots weren't talking to each other at all (it seems like), leading up to the fatal stall.

[@soflogator]

God these stories are as terrifying as they are fascinating

[@2puffs770]

Agreed!

[@chaosnexxus9255]

As soon as ATC is asking how many people on board you get the impression it's not gonna end well.

[@Chishannicon]

It's incredible that someone was able to survive that kind of crash. What horrible luck for them to have accidentally set "0 ft" for the target altitude.

[@laveritaforza108]

This is so sad. Easy to say , but bring the aircraft to a safe altitude when all hell is breaking loose in the cockpit. Forget about the landing approach. Gain composure, then figure out how to proceed.

[@charlesclager6808]

Good video. Excellent presentation. Good that you used daylight even though it was night. The 12 year old surviving was a miracle especially not being rescued for 13 HOURS !!.

[@GhostRangerr]

It's amazing how with all the functions that display alarms & warnings airplanes are equipped with, there are individuals who still manage to crash them.

[@l.faraday8767]

These crashes are always so sad. One failure to respond after another caused such a loss of life.

[@douglasc9182]

That is a true miracle that someone survived.

[@kerbyfab]

Imagine the sheer terror those passengers must have felt.

[@petepillow8642]

Imagine caring

[@Rayan_bamedhi]

I feel so bad when i watch this crash that our airlines made. I'm a subscriber from Yemen.

[@hollowkos]

It's amazing how all these trained pilots do the exact opposite thing they should be doing during a stall.

[@las2665]

On one side it is a miracle that one girl survived 😮but on the other side 152 people died 😢

[@finepilot]

A go around could have prevented the accident. Go-arounds are life savers in 90% of the cases in my opinion

[@drn13355]

You could say that about anything. Do you have data to back that up? I was a Army crew chief in UH60 Blackhawks for 9 years. There are a myriad of reason shit goes wrong. To say "90%" with GAs for "life savers" makes no sense.

[@HitechProductions]

Every landing is a go around with the option to land. 😎

[@deepthinker999]

@@HitechProductions Well Said !

[@HitechProductions]

@@deepthinker999 I stole it from a 777 pilot who is on youtube. ;)

[@BrainConduit123]

I’m wondering if even experienced pilots start to lose basic flying skills due to these modern aircraft and all the bells and whistles designed to fly the plane for them. Also, if they were disoriented due to lack of visuals, why didn’t they request vectors from ATC? I’m not a pilot but I’ve watched enough of these videos to believe they could have done that.

[@thomasmuller3413]

maybe he was drunk or had less sleep.. so many things

[@andrewwilkinson5220]

How could pilots with nearly 30 years of experience do this? Like I could see this happening to a lone pilot with like two weeks of experience

[@northseawolf]

I worked with a guy who's sister was F/A on that flight. God rest all souls who perished that night.

[@LorenzoGiordanoGomes]

I know judging people from my sofa is hard, but I can't understand how someone that managed to get to the left seat of an A310 can get this agressive with the controls and f*ck up this bad.

[@marcodebarkingville1827]

If you were already shitting bricks because you know you're doing a really bad job getting the plane on the ground, the warning signals and voice prompts are enough to start a heart attack'. I know they were giving me high anxiety. 😱

[@zootallure4819]

A friend who is an aircraft mechanic supervisor told me to never fly because of the very poorly maintained aircraft the airline corporations operate. He says many of the pilots are less than proficient and their training is obviously lacking. Neither he or anyone in his family will board a commercial airliner. I have not flown anywhere for 15 years and will never fly again. You have a better chance of survival in a head on vehicle collision than a plane crash.

[@adrienne3334]

I cannot at present continue watching this sequence. I don't yet know why because I've watched lots of these incidents on this channel right until the end. But this particular one has me on edge, really edgy and I don't know why. Will hopefully come back and watch until the end later.

[@psalm2forliberty577]

So many commercial aviation crashes occur on moonless nights over water, with spatial disorientation seemingly always a factor. What's crazy to me, is it seems not to matter if it's a large State of the Art Jetliner, they still crash due to this really challenging combination of negative factors. RIP to the 152 Souls lost, in Jesus name !

[@rgarlinyc]

Another great retelling TFC, thanks a lot. I can't help thinking of the sole survivor, the 12 yo girl, clinging to wreckage afloat in the sea for 12 hours...!🤯😲

[@johndoyle4723]

Thanks, excellent quality video as always, horrible for all the people on board, and of course the 12 year old surviving in the water for so long. Pilot error from a very experienced crew appears to be the conclusion.

[@tauceti8060]

If only the approached plan had allowed them to land at 02 end of the runway instead.

[@formulaben]

@@sirensynapse5603 That's because you have no idea what you're talking about.

[@formulaben]

Yes, and if they could sprout winds and land on the terminal building that would have been better too. Great insight, Tau.

[@RPO767]

@@sirensynapse5603 RW 02 had a tailwind exceeding their maximum landing limit.

[@trollogy3435]

The pilots did the best they could to crash the airplane.

[@I-AM-BELIEVER]

Such a blessing that little girl was able to survive. To all who perished, rest peacefully. God is good. Oh, please save the offensive remarks. I know it’s coming and I won’t read it.

[@zakoreilly5722]

This scenario is a nightmare I have recurring, when you know what to do, but whoever flying the plane isn't responding or doing anything to alleviate the situation so you are in the fate of someone else's hands. Also how the hell can't your seat of the pants, feel the rapid nose up and gravity effect and make you look at the instruments and trust them.

[@deepthinker999]

The instruments are not always accurate and functioning properly as indicated in several of these videos. There is one of an experienced Italian Pilot who said screw everything to the F/O and took over the plane and landed safely.

[@Ben-ks5bm]

@@deepthinker999 bank angle! Fuck the bank angle!

[@cszabo8899]

With that plane, these pilots, and that ATC, it would have been preferable (and safer) just go by boat and deal with Somali pirates and whatnot.

[@iconicshrubbery]

4:46 atc -"Persons on board?" (I just want to know how many souls will be lost) Perhaps that is a bit premature as it's just a routine landing... (for now).

[@randybonefield7806]

This is disgusting. It's almost as if the plane was being flown by kindergarten age children. The incompetence is astounding.

[@ryanholman6090]

To the commercial airline pilots here: how often do you hear the GPWS outside a simulator? These pilots seemed really unphased, like it was the least of their problems.

[@NadimAJ]

I had a spurious (incorrect) GPWS warning a few months ago. I performed the procedure as per the book even though I could see the ground.

[@rickyhenry4958]

It’s incredible that even one person lived.

[@ABC_DEF]

Surprising, but not incredible.

[@JBS2018]

@@ABC_DEF Considering the attitude of the aircarft as it impacted the water and the forces at play, yes, incredible is exactly the word. Though the best word available, incredible doesnt do justice to the fact that so many minute things came into play to create just the right circumstances for her to survive.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Another factor, that the pilots did notice and contributed to many of their navigation obsessions (missing other stuff) and aviating wobbliness: There was no landing runway beacon or otherwise active light at the end of the runway or apparently along the runway. So the pilots were largely blinded from what they were expecting, and compensated into aviating confusion.

[@formulaben]

Please Carl, bless us with more wise insights about "landing runway beacons" and how the pilots were blinded.

[@creigiihtondenynis39]

Nope sorry their is always the alternate. this was a case of over use of the automation.....

[@davidwartski7213]

These are always so heartbreaking to watch, but of vital importance from a learning perspective. One can only hope that something positive might come from these disasters.

[@danijuggernaut]

Wow, never knew about such an approach. Quite scary to flight visual at night and so low with tailwind and gear down.

[@formulaben]

Just know they were breaking industry best practices, company standards, flight regulations, and basic common sense that would keep you alive. It's a comically horrific example of professional airmanship.

[@fgrau7376]

The complete lack of airmanship , Flying The Aircraft mixed with a complete lack of situational awareness ended disaster. Even before the stall to get that Aircraft and not realizing you’re 160 feet from the water is almost impossible to believe

[@jaguar3248]

Sadly not the first time an aircraft has crashed due to the crews inability to fly a visual circuit at night.

[@paparucoontour]

Can't understand this level of disorientation and confusion that leads to utter incompetent decisions. Its like you have driven a truck for 20 years and one day while driving at night in a road that becomes difficult, you just forget how to drive... its mind boggling.

[@frankg.39]

Imagine being a passenger of that plane, the fear. :(

[@lunayoshi]

To be honest, it looks like it all happened pretty fast. If the passengers couldn't see lights outside the window, all they'd know about was the weird G-forces. I would have gone "oh, huh, I feel heavy all of a sudden. Oh wait... I don't think I'm supposed to feel this weightless. Hold on, are we crashi--?"

[@dzjc01]

Is it me, or is the level of incompetence of some airlines, extremely frightening? Some people have no business in the cockpit, and unfortunately, we as passengers don't know this until it's too late.

[@brunoais]

Great job with the map! I liked it! It gave much better look at how the plane moved

[@jacobduperon472]

So many extraordinary factors about this crash. One soul survivor out of 150 passengers, arguably poor decisions from the pilots and just the sheer terror everyone must have felt towards the end of the flight.

[@cndvd]

It’s “amazing” how experienced pilots get disoriented so easily. I don’t see how they are not aware of their decent when they are running parallel to the runway above the ocean.

[@walterengler5709]

I would think one of the contributing factors was the utter (to me) stupidity of fly by, turn around fly at it with lights on by oh don't land, do a downwind leg to go past, around, and finally curve back into the runway. And doing this all at night. You might as well have added to a barrel roll into the mix for the stupidity of having them fly around like that (and it was and is standard practice? wow).

[@schaerffenberg]

Agonizing to watch. How horrifically worse for everyone aboard. That the child survived such an ordeal seems incredible. The Moroni airport, with its busted beacon and slow-witted ATC, played its part in the disaster. Passengers fly any Third World Airline at their peril. Those who prefer politically correct notions to reality have paid and may yet pay a high price for their modern superstitions.

[@angelbulldog4934]

The crashes caused by human error are the hardest to watch.

[@NETBotic]

There's no way the jet hit the water at that angle. I'm surprised you included that in the video.

[@ogdon2009]

How on earth did that little girl survived? Nothing short of a miracle!

[@MrMakemyday3]

i aint a pilot but this bunch looked like the keystone cops trying to land. glad i dont fly

[@TomTracyTV]

the “sink rate pull up” call is haunting

[@jwagvideos]

These videos are very, very well made. I have to say though, I found the real audio in this video anything but "terrifying". I'm guessing that word was used to attract viewers.

[@MarkJoseph81]

It's terrifying in it's absence of any communication between the two... "pilots".

[@zaram131]

They had to be either unconscious or suicidal in my opinion. There’s no other reason they wouldn’t have been talking to each other. There had to be something else going on.. plus they both had 20 or more years of flying experience.

[@leonardgibney2997]

Surprising how such experiences pilots could make such mistakes. Worrying.

[@mallowhoney]

I'm waiting to be tested for dyscalculia and don't need to be tested to know I never have a snowball's chance to be able to read flight instruments and I still think some of the things happening here make no sense.

[@breeze1472]

How the hell was this plane allowed to fly given all the fault finds it should stand worldwide not just France.And I dont blame the pilot for shouting at the controller he sounded half asleep to me the sort you want to shake

[@MothaLuva]

7:28 No, at this phase the descend rate should be 0 and the aircraft steady holding its altitude at the circling minimum!

[@javianjohnson8746]

This is COMPLETELY pilot error! Its as if they just felt out ignored the alarms and how low they were because they we're more concerned on finding the runway than with making sure they don't crash their plane before even having a chance at making the runway. Straight-up incompetence

[@1962LIBBY]

Needs at least 4 more commercials.

[@carlmichael5592]

Funny, I don't see any. Perhaps because I have a subscription.

[@deepthinker999]

@@carlmichael5592 Great Answer !