That must have been horrific; one second everything is fine and then you know your about to d*e horribly. My heart goes out to the poor passengers and pilot
In 1989 I took a flight (scare plane) from Tahiti to Morea. The pilot was a short Frenchman who just woke up from a knop. Wrinkled uniform. No flight attendant. The flight ws beautiful and the scare plane aspect gave the trip some flavor.
Cycles not flight hours are what should dictate these kinds of inspections. I would think the commercial aviation community would have learned this after the fuselage failure of the Hawaiian Airlines flight.
I have flown this route on Air Moorea in Feb 2001. Shortest flight of my life. The option is to take a ferry, which roughly takes 2 hours. On my other two trips to Tahiti - I did that. Such a sad story...
Very similar crash to the Chalks Air flight 101 going from Miami to Bimini Bahamas. Wing rips off shortly after takeoff. Hundreds of people on Miami Beach witnessed it and it was caught on video. Being from Miami and one who used to travel to Bimini by boat I knew people on the plane. I even flew on that exact plane a few times. This YT channel has the crash.
This was my exact thought as soon as they said they were under max takeoff weight. I’m like “oh it’s another airline that makes a billion flights per day? Definitely a maintenance issue…”
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrryep even though it’s a short flight it’s still a flight the way i look at it coming from a racing background is no matter if it’s a 1/4mi,3/8mi,1/2mi track a lap is a lap to us when it comes to maintenance intervals
These episodes are not new. Mayday is on Season 24 now. They don't post the newer episodes on RU-vid, only ones from about season 16 and before, with a few exceptions. Season 13 came out in 2014.
I’m sure in the actual investigations they look at the accidents logically, but on these entertainment shows they throw out all options for entertainment value.
@@chriscyrus2983 I do not understand why these cables aren’t in a sheath just like bicycle cables, motorcycle cables, etc. the housing protects the cable from wear and tear and prevents the cable from rubbing and “see-sawing” into something damaging the cable. It really makes no sense why these critical cables are just left bare? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
@@aj200415 Cables on General Aviation aircraft typically use "grommets" or plastic strands that are glued around sharp edges to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Furthermore, why wasn't the excessive wear noticed during Maintenace?
I have seen numerous crashes involving failed elevator cables. As a layman, I am just curious as to why they never built in any redundancy to lock the elevators in a stable position in the event of a cable snapping. The plane would be difficult to fly and land, but would not go into a nose dive and would at least give some small chance of survival.
Why don’t they just have the same type of thing motorcycles and bicycles have for cables? They have the cable sheath that the cable is protected inside of that prevents rubbing and damage. It doesn’t make sense to me why these critical cables are just left bare?
I flew on that type airplane and that flight in 1986! When they say it is short they aren't kidding. I flew into Papeete on a Qantas 747 and the choice to get to club med - which has been closed now - on Morrea was either to take a two hour ferry once or twice a day or take this flight It took all of about five or 10 minutes and as I recall the pilot would even let a passenger sit in the right front seat When you land at Papeete you can see the huge island of Morrea right across the channel which is about 11 miles I am assuming when they say the airport didn't have radar it is the one on Morrea and not Tahiti
We took the ferry from Tahiti to Moore Island. Saw the little airport on that island but didn't realize it was just for a local junket from the island to Tahiti.
I'm surprised that there was no recommendation in the report for a redundant cable as a failsafe. Failure of a single cable shouldn't result in a catastrophic failure like this with no backup and solely depend on inspection alone. I've seen cables fail even though they look perfectly fine in an inspection (rotten inside or impurities)
21:27 Less than 1/2-way through, the question arising in my mind is why Brouillard is looking at remote possibilities like sabotage rather than the more obvious likelihood of control cable failure. It's not like this was a modern jetliner like he was used to investigating. It was closer to the old stick-and-rudder aircraft of the past.
I'm glad I have a healthy fear of flying. So healthy that fear protects me from ever boarding a plane and crashing into the ocean to die sreaming in unimaginable horror on my way to being buried in a coffin of seawater.
Loosing both engines would not cause the plane go into a steep dive. The pilot could trim the airplane for best glide and it would keep flying but would not maintain altitude. If the pilot keep his head, he could glide the airplane down for an emergency landing.
@@Swilla1 Wayne was referring to when they said during the investigation that the problem could have been a dual engine failure. His point was that it couldn't have been a dual engine failure, because that would not cause the plan to go into an immediate dive.
@@itjustlookslikethis BUELSCHEISSE. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE TO BE DOUBLED, CABLES THE MOST. THIS IS CALLED A DOUBLE FAULT PROTECTION. EVERYTHING IN AN AIRPLANE MUST BE DOUBLE FAULT PROTECTED. You seem to be very short sited and with tunnel vision. Garbage. To be a pilot, all you need to know is what is 2 + 2 equal to. Even, much easier than driving, because of 3D. You don't need to be a pilot to know what a double fault protection is. This principle is used most anywhere.
2 engines failing wouldn't result in the aircraft doing what it did. If both engines failed, the plane would have been able to glide into controlled contact with the water, instead of pitching way down and hitting at a severe angle.
If Tahiti airport had barriers blocking the jet blasts the cables on the small plane wouldn't have been severed. The accident wouldn't have happened then.
Why do you not pick the signal before the ship arrives and mark the location, take the exact position from a satellite. Even a simple cell phone can do this. Then, once you have the exact location, you can wait for the ship from Nova Caledonia.
poor france, having to spend time with rovers in the ocean, only just a few years later af 447 would happen. at least this one didn't take nearly as long as that did to be located.
The pictures show the aircraft close to an island. Cannot be very deep there. Probably, the pictures are, only, for dramatisation and are inaccurate. Yet, the guys at the bar saw the tragedy. Cannot be very far from this island. What kind of islands are these? 700m in 1km out of the island? Strange. Sounds all Greek, rather than French!
@@kamakaziozzie3038 that, and I believe after the B1900 latest maintenance, the elevator cables were improperly adjusted. It flew several flights safely because it was not overloaded and within fore and aft limits so the pilots were able to trim the aircraft for flight. But overloading AND centre of balance past design limits put this flight into a non recoverable out of trim condition. The one other thing the discovered is that the plane was flying….until raising the gear. That simple action alone was enough to shift the centre of balance JUST past the point of no return.😢
@@57Jimmy Yup ... good ole CG. Where is the loadmaster when you need him. But in this case, I don't think a balanced load would've made a difference. A more informed maintenance crew and schedule may have.
@@itjustlookslikethis Garbage. To be a pilot, all you need to know is what is 2 + 2 equal to. Even, much easier than driving, because of 3D. So, in case the cables are hidden, this means whoever built the aircraft was an idiot. CABLES MUST NOT BE HIDDEN, except, when the airplane has been manufactured for idiots. You don't need to be a pilot to know what a cable is. And, no, they must not be hidden in the wings and tail. MECHANISMS MAY BE, BUT, NOT CABLES. CABLES MUST, ALWAYS, BE VISIBLE AND POSSIBLE TO INSPECT WITHOUT ANY DISASSEMBLY BEFORE AND AFTER FLIGHT. So, the cable will go all the way, always visible, to a mechanism with rods, levers, gear wheels, etcetera. The mechanism may not be visible, but, is expected to be very strong and reliable. The mechanism will move the controls.
OK. The flight is, just, 7 minutes with a very slow airplane. Why? Why is there such a flight. There are ships which can float faster than this airplane.
Some others said there are ferries, but they evidently take 2 hours to make the crossing. I could see that, the ferries I've been on are not exactly speedy.
@@SilverIchimaru What kind of ferries are these? From the reign of Queen Victoria? A normal ferry would take the same or faster than an airplane and YOU GOT TO KEEP YOUR CAR, when, you are there. Please, note, you have to be at the airport 30 minutes before the flight. Then, another 30 minutes to wait for luggage, get from the destination airport to the city with a taxi or a bus. This is a 1 hour and 7 minute flight.
@StevenStanleyBayes I'm honestly not sure about the ferries. It's been a couple of decades now since I've dealt with any ferry. They've probably improved hugely since then. As for the flight, it was a daily commuter that had like a 15 minute turnaround time(per the video), I'm certain there was very little security and little to no luggage besides things like purses and briefcases. The security in 2007 was nothing like it is now, if they even had it.
@@SilverIchimaru OK. No luggage. But, the passengers, still, had to be at the airport 30 minutes before the flight and they still had to walk through the destination airport and get a cab or a bus to the city.
@StevenStanleyBayes guess it's just part of island life. Like dealing with rush hour in the big city, catching the city bus if you dont drive or long driving distances when you live in a rural place. I've never had the chance to visit there, perhaps it's changed from 2007, maybe not.
Why do you narrate in English and then in foreign language for volume, speed and distances? It makes my viewing a WASTE of time. I'm NOT going to sit here and convert French to English or convert speed and distance to feet and miles per hour because it is the same trouble. Your target audience is not Canada because there is nobody there. No references in English ruins your video. Language applies exactly same to speed and distance as words. I have to look up what "papion" means in French for instance "butterfly" translated. I cannot see 20m? I can see 65'-7" and forget metrics better because one has to split hairs in all measuring systems. If i say 65' exactly then that would be 19,8 meters (less accurate by the way) You narrate in English and "So Should Distance Then" is my point. You can blame man in Genesis 11-9 of the Tower of babel.
It's a canadian show, and what do you mean "there is nobody there". Theres no reason for them to list them in american units because america is one of the only countries where it is still used.
You've got to be trolling. You say "English" like that automatically means "feet/miles." What?? Great Britain is on the metric system. Canada's is on the metric system. Australia is on the metric system. Every English-speaking country except the US is on the metric system. Don't be such a self-entitled brat. We all had to learn metric in grade school, even if we don't use it. Time to brush up, champ.
