Mini Aircrash Investigation is dedicated to teaching you about interesting air crashes that you might have missed, Air Crashes that have been forgotten to the pages of history. This channel is for the aviation enthusiast. So join me as we take an indepth look at an air crash and unravel the reasons why planes crash.
There was ALOT of criticism of the final CAB report from people who claimed to be in 'the know'. Rumors were the avionics were being remotely tampered with on approach and the entire 'accident'(?) was an operation to murder a group of military attaches traveling incognito, carrying sensitive documents.
We have Homeless Vets that fought for this country and they get nothing in return!!! Yet illegal immigrants get millions as True Americans are left to die broke and Homeless starving in the streets of AMERICA!!! PATHETIC
I'm born and raised in East Boston, I was about 7 years old but I remember that Chelsea, city next to Logan Airport, was at a stand still with traffic. My father asked a police officer who was doing traffic detail why all this traffic. He then told us about plane crashing. I still for some reason remember the song on the radio...
I live right by where this went down. It took a lot of digging to even figure out where this went down. No memorial. No plaque. Nothing to honor the fallen. It's sad.
The burden of this crash's responsibility should be shared between manufacturer-Airbus for creating a pilot assistant rather than an autopilot and the airline for not training the pilot. AIr bus should shoulder over 50% , reason auto-pilot is a misnomer if it has limitations, pilot in his mind is thinking autopilot will save me from crash which Autopilot should have the terrain info and be able to adjust the engine speed to avoid a crash if it can detect ground proximity it very well should know how to avoid it, I am no pilot but an automation expert autopiloting the industrial world, I would put most of the blame on the manufacturer airbus.
The xrew of the final flight of Columbia should have been afforded the same knowledge about the damage to that shittle. This flight was the beginning of NASA's post Challenger quick return to risk normalization.
I flew on Aeroflot in 1983, on a high school trip to the Soviet Union. I was with my parents, and I’m surprised that my father agreed to fly on aeroflot as he had been a navigator in the US. Air Force, and must’ve known something about their track record. On a flight from Moscow to Tbilisi, we had a lot of turbulence, and my father was confused as to why the pilot didn’t simply change altitude a bit. It was a nailbiter. other than that the flights were mostly uneventful.
What is known as "Contagious Failure " is always a risk on paired engine installations but in the whole of the life of the VC10 this is the only instance of such a failure. Uncontained failure is relatively common (But any engine failure is very rare in modern jets). Think of the 737 at Manchester where engine components punctured the fuel tank in the wind and resulted in the loss of the hull and several passengers. The Sioux City DC10 where engine parts disabled the hydraulics. There are sadly many other examples so the relative safety of the VC10 configuration could be said to be safer in terms of asymmetric thrust handling. Flying aeroplanes is a skilled profession and BA pilots are very well trained.
I've just finished reading 'Into the Black' about STS-1, they had problems with the tiles, it's worth reading. It's either luck or a series of miracles that the Space Shuttle was so successful.
I, too, refuse to crash even if I'm driving home after a long day of heavy drinking in the hot sun out on the water without eating anything that day or flying my private jet after leaving the truck and boat in the hangar...
I find it to be the strangest aviation accident. The course of events seem very unlikely to me. Maybe there was something else which had been hidden from us, we will never know. In this evil world of ours, anything is possible.
These dumb attitude pilots are the reason for crashes such as AIR BLUE 202 Karachi to Islamabad. Thumari Jasbha dikhane keliye, doosron ki Jaan ka daawpar nahi lagasaktha hai.
It is unfortunate that some people are commenting that Pakistan is a horrible country. This accident is sad, but it boils down more to issues with the captain rather than entire aviation sector or the country's culture. ATC has done an excellent job of offering options. Yet, the captain ignored it and crashed it. Perhaps PIAs psychiatrists noticed some underlying issue with this captain and that is why they rejected him but we may never know. The accident investigation seems to be quite thorough and I am glad they do acknowledge the effects of fasting on human body as well, making a scientific observation about it, free of any religious bigotry or hatred (either for or against against religious practice). All said and done, it is sad that about a hundred people have to die due to the madness of one single person.
IMO I would say that there was no real defect to the aircraft and this was an isolated case where the metal fatigue of tye blades caused the engine failure which was not contained within the engine failures causing the no4 engine to catch fire. After implementing the AIB's recommendations no other catastrophic failures on VC10 aircraft.
In windy condition low flaps settings and higher throttle settings usually help to handle the A/C better. These guys just botched the job by putting engines to idle. Cant do that because you also want reversers after landing and at idle even reversers wouldn't be effective.
You neglect to mention the knife and straight razor and threatening gesture he made to the flight attendant. He burst into the cockpit with one hand in his pocket on the knife…
