A Delay That Proved Fatal (Spanair Flight 5022) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN 

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For some reason I feel like I learn more from your videos then actually high quality documents

Unreal when systems like a takeoff warning are envisioned, engineered, and implemented into aircraft to prevent crashes - only to be disabled or damaged. As is always the case, air crashes usually require two or more completely unrelated events to occur - as is the case here, but systems-wise this is still tragic. When you advance those throttles and hear the warning, you immediately reject. Everyone would have been fine. 😭

I've watched hundreds of air crash investigation videos. It's shocking how many crashes were caused by the flaps not being set properly. If you're sitting behind the wing, and you notice the flaps are retracted as you're about to take off, yell as loud as you can that the flaps are not set. You'll save everyone's life.

This is a great series. No actor reenactments, no false drama in the narrator's voice; just straight information.

This video requires way more views. Excellent presentation!

Interesting thing to note: the captain of NWA flight 255’s name was John Maus. So in essence Dedmau5 lived and John Maus died on two very similar air crashes.

How do you forget to set flaps on a commercial plane...

actually at 2:40 its true deadmau5 was gonna board the flight i dunno if you have seen the h3 podcast with deadmau5 he was talkin about this incident

A First Officer with 500 hours flying an RPT jet is ABSURD.

Very well done. The video is relevant to each step of the narration, and the explanations are clear and complete.

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You deserve more subs, if I’m gonna be honest when I first clicked on one of your videos I thought you would have 500k or more.

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New subscriber here. Excellent, well detailed video. Thanks.

This is what I am talking about. Everytime you call for trouble shooting they always assume you forgot to do the simple things Competent people do not call for simple things that one can do on there own

You are the best at describing plane crashes keep up the great work🙏😃

MEL states you can fly without heating not when it is on all the time including on ground. Technician was pressured by pilots to find a usable MEL in orderer for them to be able to leave.

Writing pssydefect with two s makes it a wholly different kind of name xD

Excellent channel

spanair sounds like a french person saying spanner

It is unforgivable for professional pilots to forget to deploy slats and flaps on a take-off. How the heck did this happen?

What’s the flight simulator used at this video?

I'm continually amazed how systems designers perpetually design systems that can get in to invalid states, and leave identifying the invalid state and fixing issues or errors up to the user... Granted, engineering is hard as hell, though it's just weird how many times a simple, proper status display (or good logging from the software developer's side) would have allowed the user/operator/pilot to properly analyze and diagnose the situation. If the computer knew TOWS was supposed to be functional because the plane literally could not physically already be flying by either that stage of the flight or by other instruments, it could've warned them the plane was in an abnormal state for the takeoff phase just as TOWS should have warned them of the specific config issue. Boeing, after seeing a bunch of these crash vids, seems to really suck at providing internal systems feedback or great info on _what exactly_ is causing the computers/systems to display the warnings. They try to recover from bad situations instead of _failing fast!_ I don't know how to provide a relatable example, but these sorts of things really feel like those situations in software engineering where the program is doing something just ... completely stupid, and it's not obvious why. You try a bunch of things and it's just... "broken". Then you dig in and find out it did something basic like it still thought it connected to the server, but didn't really, and your program is failing horribly to identify the invalid state and fail out to login or something. In physical systems like planes/etc, "failing fast" basically just means don't do anything automatic if stuff is wack (unless of course it's specifically to mitigate exactly what is wack), and _tell the operator_ what is wack so they don't have to guess. BTW the reason I'm mad at Boeing for this is because the moment you automate and put warnings on something, you take ownership of those events. Boeing implemented TOWS. TOWS gives pilots the (apparently false) sense that _they'd be warned_ if something was wrong. Their pilots were now relying on a system. Yet that now functionally required system doesn't have a warning of its own if it's in a bad state? The plane doesn't have an alarm that their alarms were off?? Shame on Boeing. Complete user experience design failure again and again in these crashes. (if there IS a clearly defined TOWS OFF signal, then there should be even more shame: If a critical warning system can be turned off, or worse, _turns itself off,_ the condition where it's off but still required should be a required critical alarm itself. It should be as critical as the most critical alarm it can turn off. It'd be like your car being able to turn off its park brake warning. If your vehicle can get in to the state where the brake is on but the warning light is off, don't be surprised if you get some calls from angry customers looking for new brake pads! Or uh... crash a few planes, in Boeing's case...)

40. C is 104 degrees F. It’s September I live in Arizona 104 is the high for the next 5 days. IT IS SEPTEMBER Get on our level Spain

Germanwings Flight 9525

Fun fact: deadmau5 was supposed to be on that flight when going to a festival in Madrid but just missed it

imagine being that one survivor though

That's why many airliners decided not to hire an untrained F.O.... UNDER 500 hours of experience flying anything and with that attitude (CVR), and flying over hundred of souls on board... jeez. It was a miracle it didn't happen more often. Checklists are there for a good reason. It's a pity this time something that important as flaps was omitted.

I wonder if someone with aviation knowledge seated over the wings gazed out, realizing the wings not being set for low speed flight. Thus knowing this will not end well… E. g. non rev traveling pilot.

No Flaps/Slats Full:Mistake

So let me get this straight the plane was okay to fly as long as there weren't icy conditions...and they decided to fly after having used dry ice to cool the temperatures down... AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS IS A HORRIBLE DECISION

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Company failure

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The white man sold Spain a faulty plane

Crazy that even being so close to the ground, an accident like this still ends in the loss of so much life.

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On that day, I flew with my family from Luxembourg to Gran Canaria. We arrived and took our luggage. Outside of the airport, where we wanted to take a taxi to get to the hotel, dozens of people were crying, sitting on the floor with their faces in their hands. We asked our taxi driver why those people were crying. He told us that they just heard of the plane crash minutes ago. We spent the first afternoon in the hotel not at the pool, but watching the Spanish news in our room.

Your videos are short but still somehow better then 1 hour long documents,so keep up the amazing work

So glad I discovered this channel, instead of just looking at poorly described text boxes

I found this channel like month ago and I can't get enough. This channel is awesome, i just love the way he explains everything, even though I watched most of these on Air Crash Investigation he always has some new info about the crash that they didn't mention on the ACI episodes. He deserves way more subscribers i am sharing this channel with everyone I know. Excellent work man, stay safe and healthy. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos for us Aviation junkies.

There were more people who survived, but died in the hospital

I also flew Spanair to Tenerife one week later. I'll be honest. I was worried.

While any crash and loss of life is tragic, your analysis of why it happened gets the scientific part of my mind thinking about it. A whole lot has to go right for a successful flight, but only one oversight and it's a bad day for everyone. Thank you for your dedication to this endeavor. We all appreciate it.

you got to have 0 emotion to be a good pilot and make sure everything gets done b4 take off. And why put the flaps which is the most important thing for take off at the BOTTOM of a take off checklist???

what a pleasure to see you back again!! for me, you're the founder of a new generation of airplane crash videos; professional, detailed and way better than the others. please make videos about space shuttle disasters :) All the best

The Pilots forgot to recheck and reconfigure the plane for take off. They ass / umed they were ready. They were complacent , forgot to go thru their take off check list anew This is a large part of a lot of crashes like this. Another thing is when the pilot calls out the mechanic's crew to look at something, They turn off / on breakers and may forget to re set them. The Captain & 1st Officer need to go over the take off check list again. They forget to do this, thinking the "OK / all set" really means something, it does not, they have to do the full check list fresh. Time is money. What a shame.

"They had the idea to cool the probe with dry ice..." Welp, that sure sounds like treating a symptom instead of the problem. At least it doesn't seem to have factored in to this one?

Your content Is well done! I've learned some things in your videos that weren't pointed out in Mayday or Seconds to Disaster. Disaster request. You should consider Comair Flight 5191. Not many documentaries or media content on this tragic mistake.

Im glad deadmau5 wasnt on this flight.

This is one of my favorite air crash investigation flights

this is a repeat of Northwest Airlines flight 255. Even down to the same number of people who died on the plane (since NWA crash had two on the ground die as well)

I love your channel! You describe things so well and I can understand everything easily. Your simulations of the flight in (i think?) Flight sim help me visualize it even better. Keep up the good work!

Watching these videos makes me think I ought to be very patient about delays when travelling. Many of them seem to happen because people are hurrying, trying to keep on schedule!

Man, imagine Deadmau5 dying in a Spanish plane crash. All the great music he's put out in the years after this accident would just not exist. Crazy to think about. Probably would have done way more damage to Spanair too

RIP to the people who died in these accidents Spanair 5022 and Northwest 255 🙏🏽

So Deadmau5 and the few people who missed there flight got lucky that day, sadly the ones on board weren't that lucky though

Of all the accidents I’ll never understand, forgetting to set the slats and flaps before take off rates #1 on my list. It’s just so fundamental.

I absolutely LOVE your videos! Thank you so much for all of your hard work. Now I look forward to Saturdays even more. 💗

Always such good content! Thanks for the commitment.

I’ve been on a tail strike takeoff in an MD 80! In the back row between the engines!

I remember this day perfectly, my mother had scheduled this plane to travel to the canary islands, although she didn't liked the scheduled time,so she asked to the travel agency to change it if another flight appeared. One week before,wr changed or flights and leaved Madrid only 1 hour before the accident

I flew an IBERIA md-80... eww. I hate that plane and I will NEVER ever get into an older plane or a Boeing 737-8 MAX.

Thank you so much for these videos! I find them fascinating and terrifying. I found this channel yesterday and have been flying through all the videos. Keep up the good work!

I remember flying with Spanair with my parents some time in the early 90s, when I was around 7 or 8 years old. We returned from Gran Canaria, where we spent our summer vacation. As we were waiting to board, other passengers on our flight would joke how Spanair would be a subsidiary/successor of Spantax, an infamous Spanish airline that ceased operations in the late 80s after being involved in a series of accidents and incidents... I had the laughs on my side when one passenger remarked that "Spanair is the new Spantax - only every second plane survives..." and I replied "Well lucky us, the first one just left for Hamburg!" I guess sarcasm has always been my second language... XD

Shout out to the people who legitimately thought malware took down a plane. You're part of the reason why we can't have nice things

Those poor pilots. They were on the brink of losing their jobs and they ended up losing their lives. Absolutely heartbreaking.

this scenario must have been unsettling to those passengers who happened to know some things about planes. when you are sitting in the window seat near the wing and you know the plane uses flaps and slats during take-off and landing, imagine sitting there during the second attempt on the runway with none of that and engines powering up. i think i would have gotten up and kick the cockpit door in to tell the pilots to engage flaps and slats with terror in my voice.

Deadmau5 missed this flight by like 1 minute, how crazy

I recall that it was before only a day or two from when I had to fly from Madrid then. It was really weird and scary at the airport... I knew enough about airplanes then to be happy to fly on Iberia's A320 back home as that plane was much more modern and Iberia pilots have a much better reputation. RIP.

This plane never should have been cleared for takeoff, there was clearly a problem with the plane itself, and if I was a passenger, as soon as it taxied back, I would have gotten off I'm not saying that the pilot didn't make errors, however, he knew something was wrong when he kept it grounded :(

Humans have been on the planet for approximately 300,000 years and have only been able to fly for the last 100 of them. 0.03%

Popular? Don't seat in the back. It is very, very, very, very, very loud.

Alright. Subbing. Really good stuff, man.

I gasped when I heard Deadmau5

This video is one of more of the most accurate that I have seen , but there are some things not mentioned or wrong: One flight attendant survived , and kept flying with Spanair until the end of the company. There was a bulletin which request to check the TOWS before each flight by the CREW , Spanair was doing it only the first flight of the day ( this was the second one) In spanish media , they blamed about maintenance , saying that they disconnected the TOWS , but the C/B pulled to dispatch the inoperative temp sensor as not direct impact in the electrical source for the TOWS. Also the resolutions of the investigation indicates that , with the maintenance manual info and the MEL info , is not possible to relation the fault of the RAT/TAT with the TOWS. As is shown in the video , they identify the "STALL" audio alert as an "engine stall" , and they lowered the power to the right engine , this is way the A/C banks to the right.

A takeoff config issue on the same family of aircraft 30 years later…just absolutely amazing.

Fun fact deadmau5 was supposed to be on this flight but was just slightly late

Good to hear you got your computer situation fixed, glad to have your videos back!

First of all the checklist after starting the engines should be done over anything else. The most puzzling thing was the fact that they deployed the flaps and slats properly for the first aborted takeoff. Surely they must have remembered that they needed to be done again for the 2nd takeoff?? It seemed like they were trying to do too much at once.

Hello! Can you make a DISASTER BREAKDOWN video about Philippine Airlines flight 434? That would be really good! Also, you just earned a new sub!

Thank you for condensing an hour's TV into just a few minutes, great work 👍🏼

i love your voice

I vividly remember seeing this crash on the news. I was in Italy, on a trip with my family. This crash is what triggered my sister's fear of flying since we had to fly home that week :(

Live these Videos Chloe only found ur channel a month ago but getting through them great story telling

Any plans for a video on TWA flight 800 soon? Love the videos

Well done Anthony

How did ANYONE survive this crash? But the flight crew were all stifling hot, and things were going wrong. Which just goes to show you if things aren't just right, don't bloody take off! Step back, cool off, get your thinking together.

This flight is eerie similar to NW Flight 255 36 years ago today (08/16/23), not configuring flaps after a long delay

been binge watching this channel for the past week and i am loving it

When Pilot Forgot Put Flaps down be like = Skill Issue

you are macking great videos thats intresting to watch

I know the pilots are dead, too. But... How can you be so stupid to not check for such basic things.

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Is there anything we can do as passengers to avoid flying a malfunctioning air plane?

Oh dear, Gernans are not very good at flying Aircraft, well, well.

Watching this at the Airport waiting for my flight.