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That's incredible piloting, they were calm as a cucumber in a stressful situation. Lucky everyone was OK. I had a similar situation as a kid where we had to go back to the airport.
Over 26,000 landings seemed a lot so I checked and yes this eleven year old plane had done that with a total flight time of 28,000 hours. That means on average over six take-offs and landings a day, every day, for eleven years. I knew aircraft were expensive and needed to be kept busy but didn't know they worked them that hard.
I remember thinking of that crash when it happened a few years later as the one that killed Curtis Mathes Jr. of Curtis Mathes televisions. They were very well regarded, high end TVs, and were based in Texas. As I recall, the company just could not adjust to losing its leader, and they fell apart a few years later. So sad to lose him, Rogers and all those who perished.
The starboard wing of that particular DC-9 was undamaged during the fire. It was later removed and reused on another DC-9 which had been damaged during a runway collision.
@@prabuddhabose9045 And sometimes the first incident triggers the second, years later. Not necessarily in this case--I'm actually thinking of a decompression due to tail strike issues over in Taiwan (IIRC).
The pressure bulkhead blew. It has an access door, with a bolt that meets a hole in the frame. That hole developed a crack that spread to the bulkhead with each cycle of pressurization/depressurization (over 26,000 to the time of the incident). They were damn lucky they lost no control. Just the tail cone, part of the bulkhead, and the access door itself.
Thank you. That was a little better. Some technical descriptions on this and other channels can be laborious and fairly useless unless accompanied with drawings or photos. You can understand parts of the descriptions until you're left freefalling trying to put them all together. It seems the writer often doesn't follow what they are writing themselves, just loosely copying text. Love the channel nonetheless.
@@pomerau I imagine that as a pilot, Allec has often been tasked to absorb dense technical writing without recourse to visuals or schematics. He's certainly been through enough government reports, where if you can't describe an event entirely in text, it didn't happen. Regarding the 1983 fire involving this airframe that claimed 23 lives (AC 797): The cause is officially unknown, but commenters on Allec's video of that incident speculate that wires spliced during the repair frayed and started the fire. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N52Fwxqk9yI.html
I was in a MD80 when we lost pressure, that dive to lower altitude wasn’t the most fun part in my life, the pilot must have been flying Stuka bomber, the plane shake, engines roaring and the O2 generators got very hot and the dust turn to smelling smoke, the pilots was of course bizzy keeping the plane flying, when we was on the ground, pilots explained that smoke was the O2 generators and a valve was frozen that make the pressure in cabin.
Allec , I can't wait for your next video. You do a excellent job of making something so complex easy to understand. I see your new thumb , Have you become a pilot? You should tell your story , I would find it very interesting
As a former aviator on P3 Orions for 4 years as a Radar operator. I accumulated 2,000 hours. I never heard any loud noises while in flight. What petrified me was any strange odors. Like JP4 (5 now), hydraulic fluid, or of course electrical fires! All three which I did experience. Gratefully to God one time on final approach at NAS/JAX during a torrential downpour. I felt the vertical axis of the plane dipping to far forward! I sat right on the wing right above the right main landing gear. I didn’t understand the term then but the PPC (pilot in command) was exceptional at a LCDR Rank level. He KNEW what to do and I felt a tremendous surge of power, gears up, and A LOT of swearing at the ATC! We of course had hit microburst! Before they were know. I was at peace knowing I was going to die fast! However GOD still had plans for me! We landed and I gave this man a huge hug! And told him ANYWHERE ANYTIME Dinner and drinks were on me! Kissed the ground and thankfully went home!
There are unconfirmed rumors that the fire that destroyed this aircraft was due to improper repairs of wiring in the aft tailcone area. Possibly wiring that was damaged due to the crack incident and needed to be repaired but was improperly repaired. Could also have occurred due to wiring that needed to be removed or relocated to accommodate the aft pressure bulkhead repairs. Insufficient evidence existed to prove this however due to fire damage to the airframe.
When I first saw this introduction I thought it was the AC flight that caught fire killing numerous passengers and Folk singer legend Stan Rodgers…then the irony hit😢
the fire was caused by this accident. Some wires got damaged during the repair or weren't properly repaired when they repaired the bulk head and the wires ended up shorting out and causing the fire.
Allec: At the risk of being a NAG..😁...could you do a vid on that BOAC flight from 1954 that suffered explosive decompression? It was seen by Fishermen on the Isle of Elba. I think the flight number was BOAC 781. It was a DeHavilland Comet 1. Pilot in Command, Alan Gibson, age 31/
If the pilots requested decent in an emergency to whatever altitude, 9000 in this case, the controller is an absolute idiot for saying they are cleared to a different/higher altitude. ATC needs to get all traffic out of the way of the emergency plane. Great work on the part of the crew, and lucky that the the blowout didn't damage hydraulics or controls. The incident likely saved other DC9s from catastrophe.
The scariest fact is that this plane would end up in an even worse incident/tragedy years later. Makes me think that it had the worst karma possible from day one.
Interesting that the fire that destroyed the plane also began in the rear. Apparently the cause was never clearly established, although a toilet flush motor was implicated.
I was going to SIU to make my A&P license, we had an aft section section of this aircraft in our hangar. One day we were practicing sheet metal patches on the section and a teacher told us that he didn’t like going near this section as people had died on the aircraft and it gave him the willies. RIP to the passengers who lost their lives.
Is it ok if when the Japan Airlines Flight 516 mid-air collision and fire in Tokyo cause has yet to be determined by officials, you make a video of it, please?
This same DC-9 was involved in a fire incident in 1983 that Allec covered (Air Canada Flight 797). Here's the link to the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N52Fwxqk9yI.htmlsi=dEv2JgAFHkQYSn5y
If you are doing a story on a Canadian aircraft/airline, you should use TSB, not FAA, responses to the accident. The FAA holds no jurisdiction over Canadian airlines.
I thought it was going to be a happy ending to the video, until its briefly told that plane was destroyed by fire. So is there a video about the demise of this particular airliner ?
Wow, maybe that plane was cursed. This could have been so much worse for everyone involved if the hydraulics had been impacted. Thank goodness there were no injuries or fatalities.
I'm just going to say it! Allec; please watch some of "The Flight Channel"'s videos! The subtitles are readable without having to "speed read". You're hell-bent on rushing these that it takes away the experience of your videos. Are you still pissed that most people preferred subtitles over the narration? It seems like it, and your timing of these does require very fast reading. All I'm asking is to please slow them down; read them out loud to yourself in a calm manner, and possibly even "fade" them out instead of abruptly ending them. TFC sometimes fades them and other times not. I've been watching you for a number of years and way back in the past your videos were more involving and not so hectic. Just slow things down already!
The fact that there was only one minor injury, and the plane was still controllable, after an explosive decompression made this unusual and interesting. Many have not ended well under those circumstances.
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Nah Bro they're great units. Each brand & type has pros & cons. I think they look very clean with the tail aft fuselage mounted engines, leaves the wings clean. Quiet ride,as long as you're not in the way back.
