The recorded collision of the two planes was very disturbing. Imagine you are waiting in the airport but suddenly you hear a bangs and explosion of the two planes
It's frankly astonishing that anyone aboard the 737 survive at all considering the violence of the second impact and subsequent disintegration as it travels further down
can't imagine what it must have been like for the survivors to live through not one but two plane crashes, minutes apart. like, you think your world is ending, and then it's actually okay, and then *it happens again*. great video, as always!
I remember hearing a story about a guy hijacking a plane and demanding the pilots to take him to Israel. "Okay," said the captain and took him to Israel, where upon the hijacker disembarking the Israeli police force greeted him explained in a very impolite manner that apparently plane hijacking is an act of terrorism, and Israeli do not like terrorists, like, a lot, and he'd have to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
You make great content. There are lots of rail disasters to cover as well as ship disasters. While I don't think I'd ever get tired of your plane videos, I fully support expanding into other content
This is my first time hearing of this incident. Thank you for sharing the story. I don't think many people realize just how common highjackings used to be around the world. There are so many events that it is hard to pick which stores to share. In the US highjackings were so frequent that passengers boarded flights wondering if they would divert to Havana.
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@@shantanusapru The hijacked plane hit the first plane with the wing and only the pilot was on board. The second one and the hijacked one both with passangers eventually collided and exploded. Totalling to three aircraft involved.
@@Round_Slinger so saying this is extremely interesting is "sick in the head"? Why did you watch it? Why are you in the comments if you yourself don't find it interesting?
@@Round_Slinger the tragic nature of the event should not detract from the unusual aspects of it in regards to aviation disaster history which can be seen as fascinating to an observer You frankly have to be not right in the head to not understand this
The video of the 737 and 757 colliding scared me to my core. I can only imagine how the occupants of the planes and the people at the airport were feeling at that moment.
Interesting case and not one I had heard of before, thank you for covering this in such detail....China saw a spate of fatal air crashes in the 90s and I suspect that both flight procedure AND airport procedures were struggling to cope with the sudden mass expansion in Chinese air travel as people started to earn better wages and wanted to become tourists
I don’t consider it really was “a spate”, it was rather about average of the time. Like you can’t really blame the Chinese for the Korean Air Cargo crashing their plane, because the captain got confused on what altitude they were cleared for and pitching the plane down into a un-recoverable attitude. And at the same time US also had incidents like Colgan Air… etc… The only recent crash in China is a suspected pilot murder-suicide, so they seems to be pretty well on the safety front.😊
@@AaronShenghao you're right, those are fair points....I think (hope) that aviation is safer in the 2020s now because of some of those accidents and the lessons learned?
There are three of those squawk codes, out of interest. 7500: hijacking 7600: radio/comms fault, 7700: general emergency. Here’s how I remember them: 75: man with a knife 76: I need my radio fixed 77: I’m falling from heaven Also, in the case of complete comms failure, there are ATC measures in place for this, such as waving them in, or I guess one could also have a military intercept to guide them in.
Did you ever hear a reason given for firing airport staff? What were they expected to do differently with a plane that was under the control of a hijacker and never even stopped? That baffles me. I'm very interested in their reasoning. Thanks!
Chloe, I must say that you do these videos really well. Not only are they well researched, well animated, well scripted and well narrated but they are done in an unusually sympathetic and respectful manner that most other channels like this don't. FANTASTIC JOB CHLOE!!!!
With previous serious incidents like this dealing with flight deck intrusions, why on earth wasn’t cockpit security, procedures and access made much more stringent and rigid prior to 9/11? It just defies belief!
Did the Chinese authorities conduct an ICAO annex 13 investigation, involving Boeing and the NTSB? Or was this more of a criminal investigation without the details being known outside of China at the time.
On US carriers, our system was either a cockpit key, a prearranged knock,or a call on the interphone. I don't think the door was ever actually unlocked. Alot easier to breach, tho. Also , the B737-300 was a United Airlines interior. That series was sometimes referred to as the "Killer Bee". Thanks for this, Chloe. Great job, as usual.
Before then most hijackings ended peacefully as long as you complied with their demands. That changed with 9/11 as compliance led to the weaponization of the plane itself.
The copilot on the Xiamen Air 373 was a man named YingZhao. My family lived in the apartment across from his in 1989 & 1990. I'm not sure why so little is publicly known about the rest of the crew on board :(
That’s pretty much what you’d call the worst case scenario. If you had to plan for something like this you probably wouldn’t have been this pessimistic about what might happen. Just devastating.
I assume the pilot would've been in serious trouble from above if he had given in to the hijacker. Not only for obeying and flying out of the country, but also for flying to a place as controversial as Taiwan.
There were a series of hijackings in China during the 90's where the planes landed in Taiwan without incident. This incident was the only exception to that.
With all the people who have jobs in Security at Airports and for Plane travel....why the hell did it take so damn long to figure out YOU NEED to keep the nuts from getting into the Pilot's cabin. Seems like NO ONE in several countries ever came to this conclusion.
Yeah, I never understood that either. It took 911 to change things. In my opinion, these newer security rules should have been put in place when modern passenger service started in the early 1960's.
Thanks for making the video. As a citizen and an aviation fan living in Guangzhou, I've read so many local reports and wiki stories but for the first time I'm able to see the raw video footage of the collision, truly scary. Back in 1980s when mainland China opened the gate and fixed the relationship with ROC, a couple of hijack incidents happened.
4:41 now, that this is common knowledge and even movies are called after it I sure hope there are other features as well in place, notifying the controller of a highjack
It is said Taiwan awarded many mainland hijackers as "anti-communist hero" but they won't do it anymore as they learned how dangerous the hijack can be. Mainland actually flew the plane to Taipei for another hijackers and turned the person to Taiwan police.
So during the Chinese revolution after WWII The communists ousted the ruling parties who retreated to Taiwan. They formed separate governments and those governments exist to this day. This was a particularly tense moment in relations between the two because just two years earlier the Tiananmen Square incident made international headlines. By comparison Hong Kong was a British protectorate during that time and had stable relations with both parties and long term plans to reintegrate into mainland China. People tend to think of Asia as a homogenous mass but every country has their own unique cultural and political history.
@@toptiergaming6900 Before 9/11 standard procedure was to try and appease hijackers because it had the highest success rate of safely getting everyone else off the plane. He would have been looking for some way to compromised given the current political situation.
"One member of crew even let him in as he assumed the roses he was holding was somehow a gift for the pilots. Perhaps thinking it was in relation to the moon festival,,," Ah yes the sounds reason to open the cockpit door indeed...
The situation was out of the captains authoritie why he didn’t listen cost the lives of almost 130 people, dude didn’t have a bomb so in reality no one was in danger till the captain decided to do what he want to do.. in reality it’s kinda his fault all those people died, that’s why things are done differently
Please make a video about the deadliest plane crash in China. China Northwest airlines flight 2303, killing 160 people. The plane exploded in mid air following a structural failure.
Yes. Even if the plane could not have made it to Taipei, Kinmen Airport, which is Taiwanese controlled and located just off the coast of China, is literally within view of Xiamen by naked eye.
"It's never explained why the captain didn't concede to the hijacker's demand and fly to Taiwan." I mean, this happened in China literally a year after the Tiananmen Incident. So, the captain literally had no choice there.
@bobbiebob575 bob Theres a HUGE difference between going to Hong Kong and going to Taiwan. Most of us Westeners fail spectacularly at understanding Eastern philosophy, culture, code of honor etc. I am by no means anywhere near understanding, but I do know, that there wouldve been a huge difference between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and that the captain may very well have felt it completely impossible to go to Taiwan, that it would be a line, that he simply could not cross, coz the consequences of doing so would be much worse and much more far reaching than the hijacker exploding the plane.
@bobbiebob575 bob Hong Kong and Taiwan are not comparable. I would encourage you to look at the history after World War II in more detail as to why that's the case. It's like the difference between being asked to fly through hostile territory or to a neutral third party.
@bobbiebob575 bob flying to Taiwan would have turned this into an international incident and the hijacked plane into a political football. Flying to Hong Kong would not. That's the difference.
New procedures were developed to handle hijackings in China, but the government certainly never addressed the fact that if their citizens were marginalized under an oppressive regime and willing to risk death to escape.
Yeah, sadly I could completely understand the hijacker's desperation to leave the PRC! Just tragically sad that he chose such a bizarre method & took so many people down with him 😢
I understand that under authoritarian regimes, heads gotta roll when something goes wrong to protect the top bosses, but what possible excuse could there be for blaming anyone on the ground at Guangzhou? The plane never stopped. What could they have done differently? The only actors were the hijacker and the flight crew on the 737.
Don't you know that Chinese international relations had already warm as early as the mid-70s after Nixon's visit? It's not rocket science that they would be able to get those planes as business starts to flourish after the opening up of relations following that visit.
All the security in the world will never detect mental illness. I believe Captains of aircraft should be trained in using weapons and allowed to carry them on all flights.
The problem is that there have been cases of pilots crashing a plane on purpose, one involving the pilot locking the rest of the crew out of the cockpit to do so if I remember correctly. So if you allow them to carry weapons one could use the element of surprise to take out the other pilot and crash the plane. Also there is a risk that a passenger could knock someone out who isn't expecting an attack and take their weapon. Pilots need to be extremely concentrated at times, having to keep track of different instruments, making calculations in their head, communicating with air traffic control and much more. It's impossible for them to be at high alert all the time for a potential attack and be able to react in time.
Guangzhou is pronounced Gwung'joe' - zhou = joe / zhao - is pronounced like 'now' but with 'j' - so your way of saying it would be spelled " Guangzhao'
Cantonese is pronounced Gwong-Zow. I'm US, my wife is from Guangzhou. She's obviously fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. Yours is a try at a Mandarin pronunciation. It's actually Gwong-Zoe. English speakers commonly say ...joe.
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