@@jafarmurtaja1482 It is him! Also his fellow Coworker in the series "Kim's Convenience (Netflix), his dad's friend, Mr. Mehta was also in one of these as an ATC Controller (Fatal Fire episode)
in case anyone is wondering, the co-pilot was late in flaring which caused the plane to bounce, overreacted and pushed the nose down causing the plane to crash
Totally blown away seeing Simu here. Such a “small” role and he acted it like a “big” one. As the venerable Konstantin Stanislavski said, “there are no small parts, only small actors.”
I was an addict of *Air Crash Investigation* documentaries. I still watch but in moderation, hope to take a flight early next year, I don't want to freak out imagining my plane landing upside-down. This talented narrator has a great voice.
From Wikipedia: The accident was attributed by the JTSB to a series of "porpoising oscillations" that developed during touchdown,[22]: 97 following a high sink rate during the final approach. The first officer executed a late flare, in which sink rate was not suppressed until the plane was nearly on the runway, but which also would minimize "float" that might carry the plane further down the runway and reduce its safe stopping distance, or carry it off the centerline in the existing crosswinds. This high touchdown sink rate, coupled with large nose-up inputs, caused the first bounce. A large nose-down input was applied, causing a touchdown on the nose gear. This deviates from approved procedures for the MD-11 during a bounce, which specifies the pilot is to hold a pitch angle of 7.5 deg and use thrust to adjust the descent rate. The plane bounced off this second touchdown, pitching upward. The large control inputs by the first officer resulted in a hard touchdown on the main landing gear. This final touchdown was hard enough (1200 fpm) to cause the left wing to fail as the left main landing gear transferred force up into the wing, exceeding its design limit. The JTSB report suggested the fire might have been averted if the landing gear fuse pin had failed as designed, but that much of the touchdown force was horizontal to the pin rather than vertical, keeping it intact. The report also cited the crew's use of autothrottle during landing despite gusty wind conditions.
Nice! Glad Simu Liu just showed that all the small roles can add up to the big ones. He also showed that when you are acting you can be cast into any role and it does not matter what your background is so long as the director thinks you fit the bill.
@@williamtran3208 It’s something the great Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavsky said to his students. He’s saying that *every actor has the potential for greatness.* In other words he’s saying that even the smallest and most thankless of bit parts can lead to top billed starring roles.
He *in fact* made a small mistake. While uttering multi-digit numbers in aviation ATC or pilots do not say, like, "runway thirty-four". This is because the aviation industry relies on radio communications and most of the time the comms aren't crisp and mostly inaudible. The correct phrase is "runway three four left".
Besides the MD11 being an awful airplane to fly, I think crew fatigue played a major roll. These two guys had been away from home a while sleeping in hotel and this particular flight left China in the wee hours of the morning, landing not long after sunrise in Japan. I spent many many years flying night freight, as the sun comes up your eyelids go down. The pilots would have been punch drunk with fatigue and mishandled an already difficult airplane to land. Airline operators often hide behind their “ approved “ Fatigue Risk Management System. The Fly Dubai accident in Russia a few years back is another example of this.
@@anujatrilokekar8889 who told you they have many crashes? Just check the records of other brands also. MDs are even used for passenger airlines in some countries but mostly for cargo
I was on a BA 747 inbound to NRT just one hour behind this a/c. Our captain said that due to “a fire” at NRT we will divert to HND. On arrival at HND we were allocated a remote stand with lots of other displaced jets. As we waited to disembark I could feel the airframe flexing in the very strong winds. Such a tragedy for the FedEx crew and their relatives… NRT was closed for at least 24 hours I believe bringing massive disruption to pax.
FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in the People's Republic of China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan. On March 23, 2009, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE) operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am JST (21:48 UTC, March 22), while attempting a landing on Runway 34L in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft became destabilized at flare and touchdown resulting in an unrecovered "bounced" landing with structural failure of the landing gear and airframe, and came to rest off the runway, inverted, and burning fiercely. The captain and first officer, the jet's only occupants, were both killed, After making an approximately 1,800-mile (1,600 nmi; 2,900 km) overnight flight from Guangzhou, China, the aircrew made an early morning approach to Narita Airport outside Tokyo. Other traffic landing just ahead of the accident aircraft reported "wind shear at an altitude of under 600 meters (2,000 ft)," and this information was relayed to the FedEx aircrew. Surface winds at the time of the accident were reported from 320° at 26 knots (30 mph; 13 m/s; 48 km/h) gusting to 40 knots (46 mph; 21 m/s; 74 km/h). After making a hard landing on runway 34L, the plane bounced three times, coming back down on its nose gear first (a condition called "porpoising") resulting in the loss of directional and altitudinal control. The left wing struck the ground as the gear failed, causing the aircraft to veer to the left, burst into flames and invert as the airframe broke up, and came to rest upside down in the grass to the left of the runway. It took firefighters about two hours to extinguish the blaze, which completely destroyed the aircraft and its contents,The only people on board the aircraft were the Captain, Kevin Kyle Mosley, 54, of Hillsboro, Oregon, and First Officer Anthony Stephen Pino, 49, of San Antonio, Texas. Both pilots were removed to the Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital (成田赤十字病院 Narita Seki Jūji Byōin) where they were pronounced dead. Captain Mosley, a former United States Marine Corps (1977-1983) fighter pilot, had been with FedEx Express since July 1, 1996 and had accumulated more than 12,800 total career flight hours, including 3,648 hours on the MD-11. First Officer Pino, a former C-5 Galaxy pilot in the United States Air Force (1981-2004), joined FedEx Express in 2006 and had accumulated more than 6,300 total career flight hours, 879 of them on Nobody on the ground was injured
1:05 Narrator states that the pilots had to lose about 400 miles per hour of airspeed then video shows Primary Flight Display. Airspeed 249 Kts and altitude 4,400 feet. Distance from runway stated as 13 miles. Looks pretty much under control at that stage. Pilots decide on landing speed of 164 Kts. How does 249 down to 164 equal 400? On short finals narrator states decent rate as 13 feet per second, that’s 900 feet per minute. This is a little high but not excessively so. It was not the initial impact or bounce that did the damage, it was the mishandled recovery. He pushed the nose into the ground. Of course he should have gone around or the captain should have ordered the go around, even so it was the bounce recovery that killed them. Correctly done it would have been achievable. As I said in my earlier comment it was fatigue that was the root cause. Not only does fatigue degrade handling skills but it also impairs judgment. If it were not for the fact that modern airliners are very reliable and real easy to fly there would be many many more accidents. Even a renowned pig of an airplane like the MD11 would be easier to fly than the likes of a Lockheed Constellation or other airliners of that era. Crash statistics bear this out.
I watched another documentary which described the flaws of Trijets design, especially that of the MD series. It seems that the 3rd engine made the aircraft harder to maneuver than non-trijets, especially during demanding landings like this one. I have seen many videos of the MD11 landing in stormy conditions at Narita, and they all exhibit wobbly, bouncy behaviour just before touch down. I'm sure this is the principal contributing factor that caused this accident, whereas the other aircrafts would most likely escaped it unharmed given the same mistake in maneuvering being made.
@@notsocooldude7720 Its the weight of the third engine being on the far end of the plane, causing center of gravity to be off and the plane have the tendency to pitch up and lose balance during intricate maneuver.
the MD-11 has a very stiff (in my opinion) main landing gear; other aircraft, e.g. a B767 have more of a cushion when the main gears hit the tarmac, they absorb more of the impact; trickier landing the MD-11, especially when the crew had to increase landing speed, I agree with the fellow below, probably flared late and pushed the nose down when it bounced up.
Excellently neat job on this historical disaster story fellows!! Those poor pilots. They did everything they could to save their airplane when it was dangerously rolling. May there souls rest in peace.😭☮✌
Another contributing factor could be the unusual landing gear. According to the pilot that plane was equipped with an extra landing gear, he distinctly said 4 green!
The md11 is known to be difficult to land as it must land at a higher speed due to the design of it's tailfin. The aircraft in this case bounced on landing due to a late flare manuever then bounced again. The third time it came down and the left wing failed leading to the roll over and subsequent demise of the pilots