18-Year-Old Student Pilot's Rogue Flight Is His Last! 

And by amazing you really meant absolutely terrifying, lol. the tenth take off was much less amazing. LOL

You should do a poll on RU-vid and ask how many of your viewers are actually pilots ? I'm curious to know because I am not a pilot but I absolutely love watching your channel. It's literally making me think about trying

Same here. I’m not a pilot, but the lessons are still applicable to most any situation.

I think it’s roughly half of my viewers are pilots, retired pilots, or student pilots.

Thanks for the info. I assumed it would be like 75% pilots, and 25% not. Cool to know.

his dad. we don't know about his mother.

@@DrDeuteron- perhaps his mother and not his dad. That is misandry…

His dad should be charged with manslaughter. He essentially gave his kid a loaded gun.

Graveyard spiral 😜

@@michaelgarrow3239 Father bought him the plane, according to the video.

Harsh, but fair.

Sadly true!

​@@Frank_Nemo...Not Fair at All. Love is Blind and Parents Love their Children. They should have said, "Some people aren't fit to be Doctors." This Boy should have Never Passed an FAA Medical. Ever.

I was a forklift trainer for decades. There was always a few students that just could not grasp the theory of the stability triangle. They were just not mentally capable to process it. Which is fine. There are some people that should not be behind a wheel, whether it's on the ground,water and especially the air.

@@roynichols5212 well said

I agree,

If he was in military air space, don't they usually send a fighter jet up to see or do they just assume it's someone who's lost ?

@@onestepbeyond7240 im not a pilot or have any prior experience with aviation directly, but i can hazard a guess that it probably isn't too smart to send a very expensive craft to chase a bird that doesnt know where its going and is turning everywhere with total disregard for any deconfliction plan, in a solid cloud cover

​@@glenncainBasically, they, as pilots, knew what was happening with Jet, even though Jet didn't even know himself.

Gets kicked out of flight training and his parents gifted him a new plane... ?? So glad we were poor!

I have no experience with actually flying but a lot of experience in simulators (DCS, MSFS2020), and while it could be the case that the simulators are nothing at all like reality it seems to me like you'd have to almost TRY to nose dive right after takeoff. If you actually lift off then you have sufficient velocity to produce lift, the only thing I can think that would cause an immediate nosedive after takeoff is pulling up way too hard and stalling, or pushing down and commanding a dive.. but I can't believe anyone with any actual flying experience would do either of those things, I know I wouldn't do that with only sim experience. It reminds me of that scene in The Last Man on Earth and it always bothered me how unrealistic that was... I mean even if he completely cut the throttle he wouldn't have nose dived... Unless you are leaving out details and he overbanked a turn or something.

@@Chris-xo2rq I’ve seen the video footage and i suspect that footage is lurking on RU-vid somewhere. What appears to have happened is that he failed to gain significant height upon take off and was getting close to the hangars. It looks like he panicked and jerked the controller stick to the left, but simultaneously pushed it forwards causing it to roll. I suspect the aircraft then stalled and it promptly nosedived into the ground.

@@conniep.8124 Thanks that makes more sense, I was pretty sure a turn had to be involved somehow.

But often times, does buy arrogance

@@Chris-xo2rqlol @ computer games. No you're right. You have no experience.

A complete moron.

A very stupid one.

and I'll bet they tried to sue somebody else for it, too.

A spoiled, entitled child committing one of the most expensive forms of suicide he could manage.

Amen.

The kid obviously had never heard NO when he was growing up. Unfortunately it caught up with him.

Absolutely insane

Kid probably put on some story how the flight school had been mean to him, maybe even accusing them of making fun of his ADHD. Making dad fold over and think he was helping his son

Some people are not designed to have children. They need serious soul searching.

My thoughts as a father...

Stupid mother. He has no freedom now!

They already lost their son, and now you want them to get sued also? A lawsuit won't bring back Johnathan.

@@Jeremy.Bearemy Of course! Johnathan's life had meaning. The Mr. Montgomery needs to be held accountable for his part.

Who doesn't have an ego AND is stupid at 18 man... cut the kid a break. His father, well... In the best case scenario I'd suppose he had a talk with his son about his shenanigans before buying the plane. Jet probably swore he'd mend his ways or something. I guess the dad should've known his son better, but it's so easy to judge other people isn't it?

@@Titere05 No, I don't think so. Jet was responsible for his passenger. They need to be held accountable. If they are not it sets a bad precedence that other "stupid" 18 year old's to do the very same thing killing more innocent people.

It's wild to me how so many people like you just openly admit that they are mentally ill and have dangerous empathy issues. You know full well it might not be as simple as it seems, yet you're fine with being openly hateful just to get likes. So weird.

unqualified and wreckless.

​@@starrlite831 : *A characteristic of many 20 year olds.*

@@snoglydox Actually what he did seemed more like a suicide mission than reckless. Unconscionable comes to mind! Drunk before flying... taking off into instrument conditions at night with no instrument rating and just a beginning student pilot. He should of never been flying.

Unskilled and nowhere near ready to fly solo let alone with other souls

​@@starrlite831 : *You go from **_" unqualified and wreckless [sic]"_** to **_"a suicide mission?"_* *Most twenty year olds' brains don't have the discipline, especially those obviously spoiled, to know that their prefrontal cortex is just starting the process to mature, so I just believe he was over confident and showing off, as kids that age are.*

And doubtless gives nary a crap.

Also the new instructor that told him that he could not fly the next day for his cross country solo due to weather. Yet he took his friend with him and killed that poor kid as well.

At least his dad helped the gene pool by providing his son with a Darwin Award.

Bro you are disgusting. How dare you. Yes this kid made absolutely horrible choices, and the father in hindsight should never have got him a plane. But be respectful, two families lost two boys. What part of that is funny? Sicko.

@chrishan9138 ...That Boy never should have passed an FAA Medical Exam. Don't be blaming a Father's Love for his Child's Death. That is Sick.

I’m not sure I believe anyone who spells military as “Milatary” was ever in the military, much less a pilot. I’ve never heard one story of a military flight cadet taking a plane on an unauthorized 0400 joy ride and crashing with a non pilot ride along.

@@richwightman3044 I am disabled and 80 years old. I'm sorry about my spelling JIm

​@@richwightman3044that's embarrassing for you.

I don't think it is true for all young people. But this seems to have been a rich kid that has never heard the word no in their life. Naming your kid Jet already makes me question the parents.

I've seen it in some middle-aged private pilots. 150 hours and they think they're God. They do the most stupid things.

I once heard it explained like this (roughly); Apes are not meant to fly but aeroplanes are made for that very purpose. So who's instruments are going to trust more? (Ive mangled that a little)

In fact it was. I never saw that before

Impressed me!

Instructors should be able to flunk students out and mark them as "Should not fly for 10 years". Let them apply again when they are 10 years older and maybe a bit wiser.

Good chance the father thinks problems are always somebody else’s fault.

actually not his son but the dad is real issue. Probably spoiling his son to make up for his lousy father skills

He didn’t take things seriously by drinking and being on meth… he methed up

Imagine a group of people that have been kicked out of 109 flight schools 👀

and him (the father)

And clear evidence of repeated substance abuse...

Got it from his a-hole soulless Dad.

I was flight training at 18 and became a private pilot at that age too, I was very competent and mature. I don't think it's so much age that's a problem but rather competency. I've seen many older pilots get very immature and complacent.

He finally got the lesson his dad never gave him.

@@user-iv5gy3rc2bEXTREMELY well stated! TOTALLY opposite of my Dad. We were even beaten a few times, growing up as kids, and I actually THANK my parents for having done that. Today all three of us siblings are extremely successful people, thanks to our parents being super strict and putting us properly on the the “straight and narrow”!

I wrote that too. It put a burden on the child to become a pilot.

Oops I put my comment on the wrong line.....about Travolta's son, named Jet.

My thoughts exactly.

@@linanicolia1363I don't think it's entirely appropriate to connect this case with that of the late Jett Travolta, who was disabled from birth and died of his disability.

😂😂😅😊

I hear many stories of young men dying, and of course their fathers are wealthy. Interesting. I grew up dirt poor and my dad had eyes in the back of his head. He always knew when we were getting into trouble

Exactly! I have seen this as well. Also saw a couple of these know-it-alls perish, with innocent passengers.

Ye cannae change the rules of physics!

@charlesbrewer6552 How did his father reinforce that?

@@Redridge07 By rewarding him with an airplane of his own, for getting kicked out of flight school. Did you watch the video?

beware who your friends are.

the passenger was also foolish. I mean he got in the plane.

When you 18 you think you know anything.

A teenager who thought he knew best. Imagine that. Let's give them the vote. Smh.

@@user-iv5gy3rc2bIf you can send them to war, they DAMN well better be able to vote. This is the dumbest argument, I hate that so many idiots have jumped on this bandwagon lately because they’re mad Gen Z doesn’t vote the way they like.

yeah… dude was determined to be reckless. They literally kicked him out of flight school but his daddy’s money allowed him to keep going. Absolutely insane

the passenger had no business trusting the pilot.

He was taking pills for paying attention that saids it all, he should have paid attention to his life!!!!

Good thing he never got into commercial aviation.

​@@timrothenbush1189holy crap

I suspect that the timing of the flight had some impact on the accuracy of the forecast, and indeed the METAR's. Early morning flights are intrinsically sketchy, because a great many airfields that will, in daylight, be reporting actual weather, and helping the forecasters in finessing forecasts throughout the morning, are NOT reporting. Also fog can easily turn into low cloud, and vice versa, accordingly, if he was not aware of how the timing of the flight, relative to the likely accuracy of the forecast (which is decidedly NOT constant throughout a 24 hour period) then he may have taken off believing the forecast was accurate or less severe than it was. As a British instructor, I have to wonder at the facility whereby a student may get authorised to fly solo merely on the strength of a phone-call, rather than the presence of the instructor on the field. That seems a desperately dangerous system, especially for one only at the very beginning of solo nav flight. I appreciate that the instructor told him he was not to fly. I wonder if the actual words used might have created the impression he was being told not to fly cross-country, but was allowed to fly some circuits? Or took it to mean the latter? There was obviously some woeful judgement at play here, but there may have been other factors tangentially affecting that decision-making?

He wasn't thinking he was high on meth and had probably been up all night.

You do if you're a Richie Rich with an invincibility complex. This was pretty much karma...

@@Fidd88-mc4sz he was high on amphetamines, didn’t you watch the video. Oh my goodness your dad didn’t just buy you an airplane did he?

You gotta know buying the kid a Ferrari for showing up drunk ata drivers lesson is exactly what this kid dad would do. Complete and total moron

Tragic yet laughable......so predictable.

Parents like those of Donnie Darko 😅

Well said

I want to know how the Mom is feeling about the son getting the plane.

@@em1s301 well if they're still married probably not for much longer

With that much amphetamine in his system, you can guarantee it

Good point. I agree

@@GoToPhx This is true, I had ADAD and my mother would give me coffee to calm me down.

@@jaykid6595 …and so jacked on Molly he thinks he’s invincible.

​@@webcityguymyclubb40321. Molly is mdma not amphetamine 2. MDMA doesn't make you feel invincible, not even close, the effects are pretty much the opposite, becoming very aware of your surroundings

Spot on, Friend.

I think I really like your dad 😉

trusting your instruments is the first thing you learn ; your dad had to really suck as a CFI. Sorry, but reality is there. Did he also teach you to fly ?

@@linanicolia1363 I agree. I'm not even a pilot (though I did have dreams of being a private one and started studying and taking the written exams) - even I learned that you trust your instruments.

​@@linanicolia1363 his dad trusted his instruments exactly as he had to do. What was wrong with that?

⁠@@linanicolia1363 intellectually knowing that you are supposed to trust your instruments is very different then experiencing spatial disorientation and actually having to do it. If you were an instrument rated pilot you would have understood the story.

OMG I love that line!

kid was 18, that's all on him too.

I have the feeling he was a spoiled brat all of his life. The father is responsible for this.

@@OnceShy_TwiceBitten i was still a kid at 18. No life experience. It's all on Dad. I say that as a father now

@@valleyofiron125Me

Arrogance. Bet he was the quarterback on the football team too

My dad’s attitude was: you can have every thin you want, once you show that you can manage the responsibility that comes with it. That applied to expensive toys, his power tools, his computer (that back then must have cost him a years wages) and the family car. But he also helped us understand what that responsibility meant. That’s the key part, and by the sound of it you’re being an awesome dad 😊 Giving your kid a plane after he showed up drunk for his cross country solo, much less awesome. Also a little surprising. Over here, solo endorsements are per-flight: you show up fit to fly, the weather is good, so the CFI issues an endorsement for that day only.

A hand up is always better than a handout.

My parents never paid a penny for my flying lessons. My step father did give me a job at his masonry business ( paid under the table so no taxes). They did help by paying the car insurance (family car) A's I needed to drive my mother and grandmother around as they never had a license. Taught me how to manage my money at an early age which I thank them for.

@@kaasmeester5903- my parents were the same way. I am an only child, as was my father, and both of them gave me everything they could afford. I KNEW I had those things because I carried myself with respect and responsibility, as well as wanting to give to those I cared about. I even started flight school, because my Dad worked at Boeing and I wanted to do something to which we both could relate. He died and I never finished flight school. This family lost their son because of bad decisions on everyone’s part. The worst part is that he took a friend to the grave with him.

Would like to quickly point out that driving is orders of magnitude statistically more dangerous than flying, which is counter intuitive to a lot of people, but true. Parents often dont udnerstand that the road is the biggest threat to their children.. and therefore you need to be careful when handing car keys to your kids.

Wow that is absolutely nuts. 800 hp at 16 😮

How would you know their grade point average? lol

RIP to that hellcat. Those things are going to be insanely rare soon, because I believe this year is the last production year for non hybrid/full electric cats.

Karma for dad. Do these parents learn anything ? makes you wonder.

@@k2crasher Am not the aforementioned father. It was a local neighborhood issue.

I see pilots who own airplanes beyond their skills every day.

Not exactly uncommon...

That's a description of the father; son had no money except what his father gave him. Both of them are responsible for this tragedy.

requires a hell of a lot of maturity too, something that seems to be severely lacking with insta grammars etc.

And a particularly low level of amphetamines!

As an ex-teacher (I got out because of the stress) I have seen it too often where no matter how much you tell the parent of their child's attitude problem they will always think it is someone else's fault (the teacher, the other student, some medical condition they have self diagnosed etc etc), it is never their child's fault) Keep in mind, the teacher is often saying this because they need the help of the parent to help the child learn how to be self-sufficient and take responsibility, not because they dislike the child (although I am not saying that never happens)

My guess is the kid was a reflection of his father.

Sounds like the kid might have been suicidal..not just an entitled attitude….very sad

@@kelvin1316 This self-entitled man-child cured those problems for eternity. At least now he can't kill anyone else.

@@kelvin1316correct! I was a firearms instructor and quit for the same reason. I told my son, unfortunately this country has allowed MANY people with no common sense to acquire things, guns, planes, motorcycles and toys they have NO business with. They’re on their own and this is inevitable when you shun criticism and discipline

I’ve been involved in the hobby in various capacities for the last many years and to me the hobby has never been crazier because the youth simply don’t respect the hobby! Respect the hobby for peets sake!

@@irie_father Is this a thing non-military pilots call flying? I've never heard that terminology from my dad, a USCG pilot, and he would talk about aviation endlessly. Is "the hobby" a colloquialism?

@@LobotomyTC i call it a hobby because nobody's paying me to fly, so it's a hobby, it's still flying, but it's like any other hobby, nobody pays one to go fishing, or hunting, golf, tennis, or whatever else one may do that others may get paid for, so that's why I call it a hobby

@@redrocket4853 Ah, gotcha

What scares me is some of the "Jets" actually become flight instructors. I had one such as a substitute at one time that nearly got us both killed.

I wouldn't say they are 'just like that' with rich kids like this. It is part of their upbringing to be taught that rules do not apply to them and authority is to be ignored.

@@Taladar2003 This is not isolated to a particular party affiliation, to get ahead of the possible comments. We are in an age where it seems everyone thinks it's virtuous to cheat their way into advancement of some political agenda. Honest negotiation over known and acknowledged disagreements is going out the windows.

@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 but there's a DISTINCT difference between one group who hates regulation, government, oversight, and guidelines, and the other tends to advocate for them. But I won't name any names or anything.

@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 The good news is that you can't cheat reality. Cheaters rarely prosper. The hubris and disregard for others manifests itself across all areas of their lives.

"Some teens are just like that." Not really. I know of a couple who are actively developing their three kids into someone EXACTLY like this. They're never denied anything, never given boundaries, excused all misbehaviour and openly defended when they harm and offend others and are instantly given anything they demand. The parents - apparently genuinely - believe they are the very best parents out there and even boast about it, oblivious of the reaction of every other human their spawn encounter!

That’s a pretty amazing example of how spatial disorientation happens.

Yep, when they put me under the hood in the aircraft, there is no way I can tell the attitude - direction of aircraft or climbing. Your body, no matter how fit you are will lie top you. USE YOUR INSTRUMENTS - TRUST YOUR INSTRUMENTS.

I went up with my instructor, and he took the controls. I was under the hood, and he told me to close my eyes. He did some maneuvers. It was less than 30 seconds, and he told me with eyes still closed to fly us to straight and level. I did a bit of pitching and rolling to get us to what I thought was straight and level. He said to open my eyes but stay under the hood. Well, son of a bitch, looked at the panel and there we were in a 15 degree bank descending. So I started to recover, still under the hood. This is where the real shock came. It took every ounce of faith to fly the airplane on instruments only. I was scared as hell because it just felt so wrong. What it feels like AFTER you perform an instrument recovery was the real lesson.

The answer for every IFR pilot is to trust their instruments unless there is a sound reason not to.

You can quite easily replicate that experiment with any swivel chair.

Lol yeah ok

@@bradsanders407 Wonder why I never heard this?…lol. Did he get it from a movie?

Well said!

I don't believe that for a second

That's an excellent quote.

Fuck man he’s a kid i’m sure you were a perfect kid but think of his family reading this shit. We all do incredibly dumb shit when we’re young most of us don’t do it in a cockpit. Don’t insult someone for fucking up after they die, it’s very gross.

Father is undoubtedly a freemason, the law doesn't apply to them the same as the rest of us.

well, the precedent was set this week in another case.

yeah.another spoiled rich kid that always got to do whatever he wanted regardless of what he was told. blame the parents

I think he paid enough. STILL paying, probably, as he has to live with himself.

@@robertgantry2118 IMHO, a parent/father like this example, has to fit the definition of a narcissist, which are individuals that really don't care about the consequences of their decisions even if it adversely effects their very own blood. My own father fits this bill!

. . .and just staying the hell away from social media. Their level of narcissism is unbelievable. I can't imagine what its like trying to train them now. . .

That's exactly why you have instruments. Why do people act like primarily using instruments is some big brain concept? The instruments tell you everything.

@@jamesfranko5098yeah but it’s not that simple. It’s that kind of thinking that gets people disoriented easier. I mean, yes, the only answer is to lock on and trust your instruments, but that’s an entire skill in and of itself when your brain and body are telling you how wrong it is. That’s just BAC as well. Now thrown in a frequency change to departure, maybe activating the autopilot, there’s a lot of button pushing going on too. If you’re hand flying, then you’re subject to that confusion and disorientation even longer which gets fatiguing and definitely doesn’t help. Sure, leveling out and staying there for a bit would help, but it’s getting there in the first place that matters.

This is exactly why I don't understand why VFR is even a thing. Everyone should be instrument rated IMHO

I still thank my instructor in my mind nearly every day for making me spend an extra 4 hours "under the hood." He told me I'd thank him for this someday and he was right. He was right about that and teaching me to trust my instruments. They always seem to be right no matter what my brain is saying.

Love that!

And then you sued because this is America

@@B3Bandyour life must be so boring if that's where your brain goes after reading a totally unrelated comment

@@B3Bandget with the times, the whole America land of the sued thing isn’t as funny or known anymore so people are gonna look at you weird if you make a joke about it.

@@guhrizzlybaire 😔 your life is ACTUALLY boring because you waste your time telling other people that their lives are boring when they tell a joke that you think isn't funny.

I am not a pilot or controller but enjoy this channel.

"With great power comes great responsibility" - well said. However, this not only applies to flying. It is also true for driving a car or riding a motorbike. Hope that people will someday understand...

@@reini3006 Of course! I agree..this applies for everything in life and not only aviation. Have a great day!

I was just about to post the same comment.

I blame the 18 year old

Well, the slate got cleaned up. Too bad for the other kid who did not seem to be smart enough to figure out he was in danger.

@@linanicolia1363chances are he was no different from Jet

Over the bad decisions of an 18 year old adult?

One could reproduce this with an ordinary office swivel chair too (as long as it isn't too puny).

Try sitting in this chair, going through the process, then watch the video of your antics. That was the most powerful eyeopener I ever experienced as a pilot.

@@johnemerson1363Seems like a good idea that all pilots in training are given that as a training aid as well, it would possibly help people to fight the spatial disorientation after experiencing through the chair and the video first.

Ooo... my parents had swivel chair that could move like this. As kid, I would sit on it and spin it very very fast, leap off and try to walk straight. It was extremely disorientating. But I learned to ignore my sense of balance and concentrated totally on sight to stand and walk straight.

He stole my story. This accident was four years ago, I spent a month of full time work researching this accident and he made his own probably in one day based on my video.

I am an inspired pilot and find this Chanel amazing! These case studies should be part of every training!

How the hell do fly helicopters 17,000 hours with no accidents? Surely there would be mechanical failures.

yeah. beware who you pick as friends. Always use your better judgment. Too late for that kid.

That is so true. My son hung around with a rich kid!! I was pissed to hear later this kids dad let my son and his son shoot all these guns off on his property!!!! My kid was 15 or 16!! I was always on my kid being a single mom and would of flipped out on that father had I known. Plus this kid put alot of drugs for his freinds because his daddy paid him $1,500 a week while in HS working part time in his gravel business. Here I would net $500 a week with my first job and worked 2 other part time jobs. Parents sometimes has zero knowledge about other parents reckless behavior with their kids. Then sucks your kid into it because it's cool to them. I am glad I got past that stage with my son.

The friend agreed to fly along. He was not kidnapped. Maybe it's a case of two peas in a pod ... or in this case ... two spoiled and over-indulged brats in an aircraft. Aviation is a privilege, don't abuse it.

@@philipritson8821 where do you get "kidnapped" from anywhere in this? Yeah, spoiled kids high on drugs.

the fluids in your ears work just fine, since they respond to gravitation. It's the wet-ware processing the data that is no-good.

Poor kid ?

@@bobwilson758 Poor kid? More like ignorant manslaughterer.

@@DrDeuteron oh yeah, I remember during my private my CFI told me to close my eyes and put my head down and he did some turns and tricked me if we were turning but he caused the fluids to stabilized and told me to recover with the foggles on and it was trippy as hell. He said it will get serious once I start my instrument training. Oh boy he was right

​​@@DrDeuterondid you even watch this video which includes a clip of a military disorientation test they showed which demonstrated that you can't trust your inner ear fluid 😂

OMG....awful story of losing 4 people. It won't bring the people back but I hope the families sue the hell out of boys parents as they, too, are to blame for the deaths. I hope the driver spends years in prison to mature and think about what he has done because he is dangerous and has no regard for loss of life.

Not "only in America". In poor countries, it is very common for the children of the wealthy and powerful to cause casualties via recklessness, and face no consequences because of their parents' status and influence.

I read about that. I had a friend in highschool that totaled 5 cars in one year. I could never understand why they kept giving more cars

lol "Only in America". Get out of here, shit like this happens all over the world.

Money gets you everywhere over there

what's to be baffled about? daddy had a fat bank account

Good

@@austin33785 wtf

The laws of physics can't be overruled .

@@austin33785not good

@@austin33785 ??? Even if you don't care about the person, what about their family? The first responders who had to deal with the mess? The perfectly functional aircraft he wrecked? What a shitty attitude.

You really like pumping up your tires

@@willygerrard3174 It sounds like you really like slashing others' tires.

He had the School and 2nd instructor say NO, but he's smarter than those dummies!

@@willygerrard3174 If you have anything substantive to add to the topic at hand, I’m all ears.

@@sithticklefingers7255 float on then