Crashing Immediately Before Landing in the Heart of Europe 

The aircraft had deviated from the glide path for quite a long period of time. If it escaped the attention of one of the crew it is understandable. I am unable to understand how both the pllots could not notice such a obvious error.

It really does seem like a miracle with only one life lost. That the captain made these errors and was the one is also amazing. RIP captain. Thank you for another great presentation.

What the hell were those guys doing up there? You don't just ignore both a sink rate AND glide slope error with a cloud floor of only 200-300 ft!!

Whoah, That cockpit layout is almost art deco. Even an 8 year old child would be able to understand what works where. This is the most nice cockpit i have seen to this day.

I see a good deal of whinging about ‘repeats’, and old content, yet no new content creators have stepped forward. I will gratefully watch anything you present, and thank you profoundly for all your hard work.

How can you not select "approach mode" on approach? 😐

I'm not a pilot but as soon as I would hear 'glide slope' and 'sink rate' while in the clouds and no runway in sight, I'd push the TOGA button and go around.

Strange that the airport controllers did not notice that the aircraft was heading for a missed approach

By the way, for those interested with general culture, the patterns on reactors are called "triskell", spirals represents 3 elements : water, air and ground...and it's a celtic symbol, because the region of Nantes and Brest in France is called Britain, and the celtic language is still spoken here...😉

How both the Captain and the FO could make such a basic mistake and neither of them notice is quite astonishing to be honest.

It's crazy how almost everyone survived such thing. For sure a miracle.

It seems to me there was some intention behind the pilot's actions, specifically with wanting to get low and under the cloud base early. It seems like this was all intentional until the go around, rather than an accidental misconfiguration. When the go around was called it was too late, by that point they had stopped flying the airplane for a few seconds and it sealed their fate.

Finally a new story and not reupload , there more story to you cover VASP 168,TRANSBRASIL 303,TRANSBRASIL 801,AUSTRAL 2553,SAM Colombia 501

Thanks for the new upload!

Unfortunately the captain died (RIP) but this crash is appalling: it's a misuse of the ILS related automation by pilots who are performing ILS approaches almost every day! As a former pilot I don't really understand. Btw: funny title of the video. Brest is not exactly the "Heart of Europe", it's even the end of Europe in its West part, at least at that latitude. Brest is in a region called Finistère (litterally: the end of the land) ... The heart of Europe would be around Vienna in Austria (for the EU ...)😉

With all these crashes in IMC conditions, it's truly astounding the lack of basic piloting technique of head down and fly your instruments. Even with the auto pilot off, you fly the keep the lines centered. Both deviations should have been seen and corrected for. To be that far deviated vertically and horizontally, and fly well below MDA without having the airport in sight, the pilot, and copilot, really had to have been checked out and had their heads up their asses, and this is true for a lot of crashes where it's clear when in IMC, even marginal IMC, all they had to do was "fly under the hood" essentially, and everything would have been fine. But nope, they know better, and get people killed. While rare, it is sadly becoming more common for these events to occur as quality of pilot training is being traded for other social efforts, as we've recently seen with United.

Nice video mate!

finally a video thats not based on past videos

I think the long crew duty day had a lot to do with not keeping up with the airplane. Also, there is TOO much automation.

Finally something new and not a reupload

Crashing before landing?? The way I've always understood it, crashing usually happens instead of landing!

My heart hurts for the Captain 💔😭😭

The flight directors provide information for the pilot to join a desired path with the optimum attitude. Movement of the roll command bar to the left or right requires rolling the aeroplane to the left or right, in order to centre the command bar, and to satisfy the computed command. When centred, the command bar indicates the achievement of the required attitude. The ILS raw indicator indicates the position of the desired track in relation to your position. Therefore, if the indicator indicates a right deviation, it means that the desired track is right of the aircraft. In this case, if the flight director shows a left deflection it means that the aircraft needs a slight correction to the left in order to intercept the desired track in the most efficient way. This would be common, for instance, shortly before reaching the desired radial - the flight director will move left so that the aircraft doesn't overshoot the desired track. However, the ILS raw indicator would still show a right deflection.

Finally some new content

03:04 What a day to be safe chilling in that orange car while waiting for the next duty to take care of

Great video - compliments!

Thank you!

There's a lot of other youtube flight channels but strangely enough and I think I speak for a lot of other folks, this is the only one I bother watching...

i follow u since many years, and im so happy cause its my hometown !!!! love u

You’d think after multiple initial glide slope and sink rate alarms that would be the time to go around and reassess! Especially in low visibility.

Thank you so much for all your videos !

Nice video

Love watching your videos when I get home after work! Would love to see an updated PIA 8303, as well as videos on Partnair Flight 394, LOT Flight 5055, and Thai Flight 311!

I am glad we’re back to new accidents, afraid there might not have been a return. I would personally ask Patreon members for accident ideas if they ever run low. In the future, I would not really consider fuel emergencies ‘accidents’ happening fairly often and not resulting in industry changes.

Good video - thank you.

Nice video. The crew here displayed gross incompetence - not understanding how to use their equipment, not being familiar with approaches to the airport and its topography, and therefore unable to appreciate either lateral or vertical deviations from the selected approach pilots should always study and understand where they are going, irrespective of the technology that helps them navigate and land). They also did not know their position with respect to the airport at given points during the flight, so even with repeated audible warnings, they didn't understand they were too low and not lined up with the runway. Finally, they were unfamiliar with the airliner's engines. This was not a modern fighter jet with an engine that can go from an idle setting to Zone 5 afterburner in three seconds. Airliner engines require time to spool up, and there wasn't enough time here. Lastly, crew communication and situational awareness were poor. I am not clear on why you cannot fly an ILS approach without the Approach switch set on the Autopilot. If you tune into the ILS frequency (glideslope, azimuth), can't you just watch the indicators on your display (or on your HUD) and fly the airplane to touchdown? Perhaps I do not understand what is meant by "arming" the ILS. I would be most appreciative of an explanation to help me understand.

Thank you for another informative and interesting video. Keep them coming! 😎🇨🇦😎

Wow, amazing outcome!

In 2008 February we landed in Düsseldorf with literally 0 visibility. I have to congratulate those pilots. ❤

Like the original font better than the newer one because it’s easier to read for some people like me. My vision isn’t the best.

Finally some new content not just some reuploads

Even if they were using it, forget about CAT III ILS approach...the final call as the PIC is to land when you can see the runway in front of you! The options are to go around and if not possible for a landing is to go to the alternate.

Rest in peace Captain ❤

I like the intro returning

I’ve liked the video :)

why is this video on my homepage when my flight is today

Too many AF Accidents - stopped flying them years back. Basic training inadequate has been cited in some of the incidents like AF447

Doesn't the term crashing right before landing kinda sound twisted? Like landing right before crashing.

oh! this is gonna be interesting! also, please do JAL516.

Thanks

You should do Mandala 091

pull up so many times and not heard?

Saw the wreckage of that aircraft and have flown into that airport many times. It is one of the only place I know of where you can get a 100 foot ceiling and a 30kt crosswind

How the hell did everyone except the captain survive this horrific crash? Just google the crash and look at the images. The plane looks absolutely destroyed to bits. There's no body of the airplane. Just bits of burnt debris scattered around. I can't grasp how anyone can survive that.

Theflightchannel can you please make a video of what happened to Philippine Airlines 113

Is there daylight in France at 9:30 pm?

RIP to the captain though he made a terrible mistake he was only human. While these videos are very good they can't possibly convey all of the circumstances involved in the accident that day. Awesome that everyone else made it out OK. Also kudos to all of the flying crew out there who successfully complete thousands of flights every day and get their passengers to the destination in total safety.

How can I find the acoustic warnings that the Concorde had? Thank you BCN

Plane smarter than the captain.

Copilot contributed to this accident. Let’s not forget about that.

Look out already.

Can you please cover 2 airliner crashes in Cincinnati, Ohio in the nineteenth sixties. Both airliners hit a mountainside when attempting to land at Greater Cincinnati airport. One in 1965 and I think second one in 1967. Thankyou

Pull up😮

What is the soundtrack music at the start, it's really nice.

Flying is an art that does not suffer fools

In my opinion, if this situation were their OPC scenario, probably they would have gone around with the first GPWS alerts.

Pls do aviogenex 130 thta crashed on approach to rijeka (Croatia) in 1971

In glorious slit-vision.

Complicated stuff. I would think ground control would also pickup on this

Why did approach did not warn them?

finally not a recycled story, keep going, good work this time!

Finally a new video

May the captain rest in peace 🙏

They left the go around call to late, when you hear the Glide Slope alarm going off that’s when you pull up.

wow

Sad

Mah fave channel yesss

How can you not notice you’ve neither captured the localiser nor the glide slope? Both pilots too. I wonder if the Captain lost his life because he was the last to leave the aircraft and the fire impossible for him to get out? I didn’t realise it was so easy to crash in such a catastrophic way. After all it touched down, all they had to do was avoid trees.

Another airfrance calamity

I guess the channel isn't dead after all.

Who decided thats the heart of europe?

in memory of who i didnt get time to read it

It's always amazing how pilots disregard their high tech instruments. This is despite their duplications, which makes it easy to confirm that they're functioning properly and risk to their lives that they face by ignoring them. Some of these people must be special kind of dumb like no other

Did the engines lack power for some reason? Icing reducing lift? Flight crew drinking earlier? Easily avoidable crash.

If the sircraft proceeded to the decision height and not past it, why was the go-around not successful?

Holding patterns trigger my motion sickness.

Finally an upload that isn't a reupload

Best youtube channel i ever seen in my life

pay attention pilots

Why show highlights in preview

it was the forth leg of the day ! with 50 mn delay pilots were very tired !;bad crm in the cokpit 🙀😩😩 certainly an urge to end this tiring day of work !! and the night didn’t help to be accurate for the landing 😢😢😢 I was a former purser working for BRITAIR ! BRITAIR merged into HOP airlines

Never before seen an accident where the only one who died was the one who caused the accident.

Checkoff list? Would the errors have been avoided with a checkoff list?

Pretty sure I remember this one being done on here before.

Minimums ?

Easy to blame the dead guy.

I’d say it’s more than just pilot error. There was no visibility. The plane should have been diverted to a better airport. It’s Europe. There’s plenty.

Can someone explain this title, "Crashing Immediately Before Landing..."?? That makes no sense LOL.

Just inexcusable that two "trained" pilots with an IQ above 80 I hope allowed that accident to happen. Unfavorable landing conditions is a good time to triple check things while descending to earth.

What is the point of Auto Pilot and all of these warnings? This level of incompetence is enough to put you off flying.