Dying Young in Paradise 

this is sad. No attempts of rescue/recovery, no one cared about the safety of the pilot, not even the company

I follow a number of aviation-oriented RU-vid channels. Your choice of material is seldom redundant, and fascinating either way. Also, your narrative style is second to none. You have a new subscriber.

I'm a pilot and I do like the way you described the lack of interest in freight operations safety. It's definitely something I could feel to a certain extent when I transitioned from pax to cargo, although everyone pretends safety is their top priority of course.

Your unique style adds greatly to the story. Film noir, as another commenter said.

Great recap and analysis. It's unsettling -- and very said -- how a single oversight, albeit a big one, can mean the difference between heading home for the evening and resting forever on the ocean floor. RIP.

Takes me back, only the turboprop was a Chieftain. Part 135 scheduled passenger ops based at Sedona. Talk about paradise. Long nights doing approaches to mesa topped runways deep below canyon walls. Been there. Love the narrative. Very nearly a film noir detective tone.

We love your storytelling and we are all pilots. Thanks for doing these...

I am not involved in any air activities I am simply a retired parole officer I am however very saddened at the loss of life due to air disasters. My thoughts and prayers go out to victims and their families May they rest in peace forever

One of my new favorite YT Channels! Your way of narrating these accidents into such excellent stories is truly a talent.

One of the scariest sounds is when you hear "FIVE HUNDRED" when you're not expecting it.

Addicted to this channel, every video feels like i'm watching a noir film

"Black hole approaches" over unlighted areas such as the ocean in this story have claimed many lives. In the simulators, we all emphasize to our trainees the importance of splitting their scan between the runway and the instruments when doing visual approaches or the visual segment of an instrument approach. Absolutely essential to staying alive.

Dude! Great video/content….The best I have seen on YT! I’m a Instrument/commercial pilot..Been flying for 4 years..1300Hrs & own a 310.& a T210. Keep these coming!!

This is the second video if yours I have watched. Your narration is excellent partly because of your similies. Ill be watching more of your videos. They feel genuine which isnt the norm in a world of social media.

Flew 2 pilot mail and cargo in Hawaii up until I retired a couple years ago. Day and night. This accident could still happen again years later. Sadly, the whole aviation industry is on its butt. There hasn't been a real, appointed FAA Administrator for about a year now. The DOT is more concerned about which gender can use which bathrooms and creating PC acronyms like Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMS) rather than Notices to Airmen than they are about the terrible GA Fatal Accident record. GA is killing many innocents each month due to awful pilot judgement.

Excellent narration. Sad and sobering ending.

As the narrator said. Flying solo at night can be very daunting….

I dropped out of college in 1974 to fly co-pilot on a Beech 99 mail run in Texas. Those needed two pilots back then, but there were also a lot of pilots available. Different worlds of automation between then and now, so I guess I'm not too surprised this guy would be by himself in an airplane that large. I'm more surprised that he busted the MEA on a visual approach with traffic in sight. It just seems to me like the automation that put him up there by himself is also what did him in. Night time over water, never been there, seems spooky af.

Love the narrative style. Keep up the great work!

Love your storytelling and the relatability. Keep ‘em coming.

Flew single pilot night ops for Ameriflight for exactly one year. Chieftons and Navajos. Some hairy times.

Keep it up. This channels going to be a hit! Mark my words ! 2/24/23

Condolences to the families. Rip Amen 🙏. Thank you for this educational video friend.

really enjoying the way you narrate . Thank you

This is like an aircrash investigation narrated by Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, I approve

Thanks for the evaluation. I know I don't actively think about adding power when using S turns for spacing. I am sure that I do, based on various inputs. In the future I will proactively add some power to reduce the rate of decent. RIP young aviator.

Had two CFII friends flying over Lake Superior at night and they said they were super concerned. Night IFR can be a killer especially in a one pilot cockpit. I only fly day VFR as I fly for fun and have absolutely nowhere I need to be that soon

Flying twin turboprops in single pilot ops is a dream job of mine, information like this video will certainly do wonders to improve many pilots out there

SUBSCRIBED, love the way you deliver your content very refreshing!

the way you tell these stories are just so imfortative yet so emotional. Im a student pilot and I watch a lot of these types of videos and usually they are just infortmative but having an emotinal effect makes me think, What if that were me? and probably makes me learn more about what happened to prevent it myself. Thank you

New subscriber here, keep these videos coming! This seems very much like the Air Safety Institute videos but with a very (and much needed) in-your-face touch. You're doing a very good thing here by helping other pilots and operators learn from these tragedies.

I’m a student and we practice S turns on final to lose altitude on final. More in engine out practice where you’re just high but a circle would drive you too low. One point of reference at night with darkness every where else, I can see how the disorientation could develop. Perhaps coupled with wake there was increased sink???

I'm a new subscriber and enjoy your videos very much. Best content I have seen in a long time.

These videos are awesome. Love the personality you put into it man

Great work

Just found your videos. They are fantastic, great work. Looking forward to more of them

Great story

So well written!

So true so sad RIP

This, my friends, is what happens when narration meets creativity. Or, as Mark Knopfler aptly said, that's the way you do it.

"Newton is not a bad guy but he is unyielding." I laughed as this was a funny not funny for 100, 000 pounds of air.

Sad....

Excellent presentation

Excellent presentation.

Another good reason for two pilot operations in IMC or night ops over a featureless ocean

"They don't dive that deep for a single-pilot fatality unless you were named after a president." 🤔😂

Another great breakdown. Thank you

Did the pilot not have a working, properly set altimeter?

“…they don’t go that deep unless you are named after a President.”

So exactly why did the plane crash? He had an altimeter and sea level is generally considered sea level.

Well done.

Great Film Noir reads!

Good content thanks

RIP

Curly Qs ,love the term for wingtip vortices. I’m going to use that one . 👍👍👍

Sad😢

Great work! Keep it up!!

I fly to Lihue once in a while building hours. Crazy I never knew someone was buried below the approach path….

As a pilot, I have found the worst, most lax ATC to be in New Zealand, where the attitude of the controllers is positively amateurish and careless.

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing a radar return of 100 ft below sea level cannot be a good thing.

Poignant. Sorry, I messed why he was so low...? Wrong QNH? Wrong glideslope? Did he get spun in by the preceding 73..? An engine failure on a weighty twin, that's always a problem, mail.

Altimeter?????????????????

I got to stop watching these crash videos... makes you not want to fly

Another good video. Can I get the link for your book please?

It seems like those in charge are training pilots so many new things: 1-Obedience outweighs common sense 2-Checking the boxes is more important than checking one's self and aircraft 3-We can do whatever we want to you, at any time with no warning. 4- Our back is turned until we make news 5- Pay and support for pilots isn't even a buzzword anymore.

Try 1977

RIP

This is got to be my new favorite flight channel... Everytime you drop a new video I get really hyped

Found you today and just watched three vids in a row. Nice work. Your tone is perfect for the material.

….”unless you’re named after a president”….

More vids brother. You are too good at this to not be seen!

Gpws should be required! Sad rip

excellent!

Well who the hell wants to see something that depressing !!!