Emirates Plane Crash at Dubai (Emirates Flight 521) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN 

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The firefighter who was killed was 27-year-old Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan, and he was credited with saving dozens of lives. A true hero.

Imagine being so incredibly selfish as a passenger to start unloading your luggage while the plane is LITERALLY ON FIRE.

Another unknown aviation rule when evacuating. If a person is blocking you from exiting a plane that is on fire, it is perfectly acceptable to drop kick and or punch that person.

It's purely a miracle that the evac took *7 MINUTES* and somehow, everybody onboard made it out even though the plane exploded shortly after that. Those idiots who tries to take their whole suitcase with them while in emergency has to be prosecuted for an attempted murder or something of other passengers...

As a pilot, I cannot fathom not having your hand physically on the throttles. Especially when they knew it would be a challenging landing. Very strange, this one.

The overhead compartments should automatically lock during emergency landing, so that passengers wont be able to retrieve their belongings if the plane crashes.

What a legend Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan is. Gave his life to those passengers. RIP

Those passengers taking their belonging 🤬🤬 I feel sorry for the family of the fire fighter that passed away. Imagine such a serious crash and everyone surviving and the fire fighter is the one who loses his life...very sad. Another excellent video 👏 Enjoy your well deserved week off 💕

This video feels bittersweet. I'm really going to miss hearing the names of several Patreon supporters during the thank you's most notably WherearemyCheetos, which is my favourite.

Interesting, I didn’t know that Emirates even had a hull loss of a plane. This is going to be a great video, thanks for all your hard work ❤️

may that firefighter rest in peace

At 10:45 - There is a mistake in the video's explanation. And this mistake is what caused the crash. It wasn't wind-shear, it wasn't the high temps, none of it. When the captain pushed the G/A switch he failed to manually increase thrust. Retired now and I forget why, but the AutoThrottle(s) on a B777 is temporarily disabled for a short period of time (aircraft below 35 feet as I recall) during the flare in a B777 on every landing. Every B777 pilot at my airline knows this. And every B777 pilot at my old airline was/is tested and checked on this. I suspect that most B777 pilots around the globe know this. They certainly do NOW after this accident. This guy, however, did not. It sounds to me as though he was used to the magic flying the jet, not the pilot. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that this happened. So, the accident must fall squarely on his shoulders. "Going around....TOGA....Flaps 20/CHECK THRUST...Positive Rate...Gear Up....Check Missed Approach Altitude". It's one slow continuous call with short pauses to allow and ensure that the NonFlyingPilot backs up every task. Think of it as a verbal DO-THIS-LIST and follow up checklist. "Check Thrust" emphasizes the power MUST be properly set for the Go-Around maneuver and in the case of the 777, acknowledges that the Auto Throttles MAY NOT add thrust at that moment). It also synchronizes the pilots at that moment. It's busy, and its compressed but it's not impossible and it is practiced and evaluated on every check ride. It's not difficult if the crew is well trained, proficient, prepared, and experienced. And that's what you pay for when you buy that expensive ticket. Not the blue bird, light wind easy legs. For when the crew needs to deal effectively while the feces is impinging the fan blades. It was his job to add thrust after he selected Go-Around. It's in the book. It was likely on his check ride. It was on mine. Other than that, pretty accurate video. His decision to go around, though late in my view - was reasonable. But his performance during the actual maneuver was unsat. Either he hand flew the maneuver or the auto-pilot flew it. When hit the GA button on the throttle the Flight Director commands NOSE UP and WINGS LEVEL. The plane pitched up without a corresponding increase in thrust. So, it settled back to the runway. His FO should have backed him up on the throttles and ensured that he pushed them up as well. That's the way it works at Brand X, and since its in the Boeing manual I suspect that's the way it works at every airline that flies the 777. I can see why they both lost their jobs. A guy died and a perfectly good 777 burnt up on the runway. That's some pretty lousy, yet effective advertising! After all, if they're firing the "Emirati" they've got to let the Aussie go as well, right? Hey, if you're bored....look up the stunt they pulled on Dec 28, 2021. Flight 231. There's a video on that one too. That will open your eyes WIDE. And the hellishly bad crosswind landing vid of one of their A380s as well. "Fly Emirates" ??? Not me ;)

if i was told to evacuate somewhere, I wouldn't hesitate to leave my belongings, try and help family or friends who need help yes but not my belongings

I still come here just for the wheresmycheetos bit. Thanks for reading.

The captain was a 34-year-old UAE national and wasn't named but Emirates released the name of the Australian first officer?

Really interesting that in Emirates 36 years they only lost 1 plane. Great video as always!

Unrelated matter, but congrats to you about the video you posted on your personal channel! Hopefully this community continues to fully support you because I definitely do. I’ll leave the details out so people can head over to your channel and figure out for themselves :)

Kudos for not only having to name the city Thiruvananthapuram, but for absolutely nailing it 👍 It is so sad that life was lost, even when luck had been on people's sides until then.

Typical Emirate behavior: protect the useless Emirate captain and make public the other pilot's name. These guys were blowing bubbles instead of flying the aircraft, plain, and simple.

A criticism on just Arab pilots. As someone who has observed a lot of Arab folks, that they always have an air of superiroity or know how which means they are not good when it comes to taking feedback. It's just a cultural thing

Redacted UAE name, I suspect a member of one of the royal families, and the redaction is to protect that family.

Emirates have had a number of very serious incidents in recent years, which clearly have something to do with their parrot-fashion pilot training regime. To characterise them as "one of the best airlines in the world" feels a little off to me.

my mother was on this plane - we were in india and she was supposed to leave a week before this flight, but i wanted her to stay so we could spend some more time together which could've been the worst decision of my life everyday i think about the firefighter..

If it cannot fit in your pocket then forget it. Passport, phone and wallet is most important. Because your laptop is insured and most have a copy online of the files.

Southwest is another one where fatalities are sort of weird. The first incident where anyone was killed was when they overran a runway and ended up crushing a few cars even though everyone on the plane was fine. Then the second was with the uncontained engine failure when a passenger was killed by the opening in the fuselage. One could argue the third incident almost doesn't count since there was a plane that hit someone running around on the airfield and the pilots just barely saw him and didn't have any time to react. So they've never had a physical accident that resulted in the death of a passenger, it's just been a few unfortunate incidents.

Plane crashes and someone is clogging the aisle to get their bag.....sorry but Im going to knock you down and step over you. You can get you bag after the people who want to live have exited the plane.

This is why I say UAE is a hypocrite.. they did not name emarati pilot. But named Australian pilot

I will never understand the passengers getting their luggage while they are pretty much trapping themselves in a burning metal tube where they are standing literally just above a tank of highly explosive fuel. You don’t even take really anything if much value on your hand luggage. Maybe a laptop, some toiletries and a few bits you got in the duty free shop. Is it really worth risking yours and other peoples lives to save such unimportant things?

Really good presentation of an unusual accident - if you fly PLEASE listen to the safety briefing, and, DON`T worry about those `precious` belongings in the overhead - these 300 were COLLECTIVELY responsible for the DEATH of a man that didn`t deserve his fate. Everybody aboard survived, how many I phones, Laptops and Tablets caused that preventable loss of life? Shame on you!

Why Im a huge advocate of hand flying. I encourage my students to hand fly as much as possible and teach them to disconnect the A/T when they turn off the AP. Automation reliance and complacency is such a huge problem in the industry. Why heavies are crashing on clear sunny days. Thankfully in the US the feds have actually backpedaled and are finally encouraging hand flying again.

Seven minutes is too long for an evacuation, but the fault falls to the Captain for attempting a go-around with no thrust. I might not want to leave my laptop behind to get burned up in a plane on fire because you don't know how to land. 🤬

One Emirates A340 almost crashed on takeoff from Australia in 2009

Unfortunately, having flown Emirates for almost 3 years into Saudi, I can say that I have seen the behaviour of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi passengers first hand. The plane would touch down, and while taxiing, they would already get up and start grabbing their bags and start crowding the isles. On numerous occasions when the brakes were applied they would "Domino" and fall down. So I can understand that they would attempt to grab their stuff instead of getting TF off the plane in an emergency. For some of those guys, those are likely their only worldly possessions and they will be working like slaves, for slave wages in the Arab countries. I can understand their reluctance to evacuate without their stuff, as that is all they have.

As an Indian myself, I can see why the passengers would go for retrieving their bags instead of evacuating. Safety is never considered a priority in our lives as a whole.

I can assure you, if a plane im in crash lands and things are on fire, if some moron is trying to get a bag and blocking me, they would be on the floor and im stepping over them and their bag

Typical Emiratis, named the foreigner but didn’t name their own

Ok bud this is some next level content! Keep it Up! WELL DONE!!

Keep your most important documents on your person and not in your carry on.

I was in the plane that was supposed to land right after this one. I saw the plane from the air as we circled around because we were unable to land. Was a scary thing to see.

there really needs to be locks on the carryon luggage storage.. it's annoying enough when midflight a passenger gets up to retrieve their carryon to dig crap out of it, often annoying or bumping the passengers around them... and then especially these emergency situations when you hear about people retrieving luggage.. if it's just the norm and passengers know the luggage compartments are locked during a flight and are still locked during an emergency, would be so much better for other passengers.. less annoyance and less instances of morons blocking the emergency escape of passengers. Also prob to the chagrin of flight attendants.. when the plane lands, the seatbelt light is still on, as the plane is still taxiing to the terminal, those moronic passengers who get up and begin opening the overhead bins to grab their bags.. so a flight attendant controlled locking system would be great to prevent all these negative scenarios..

For those interested, here’s a video of a go around for wind shear and subsequent escape manoeuvre, which includes firewalling the engines, which is rare because you don’t often use max power. You can also hear hail hitting the plane during the go around. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VmtoqsfCyXo.html

2:16 how many takes did that take to record 😆

So, piloting an aircraft is not like riding a camel?

I will miss videos ending with, where are my cheetos.

No matter where you are, at school, work, any form of public transport, a plane etc. You are are told in EVERY fire drill to LEAVE your belongings. That firefighter who died may have been further away from the explosion when it happened had all the passengers already been evacuated. During an emergency like that, it isnt just your own life youre putting at risk, its everyone else's

great video as always! loved the breakdown (heh) of the crucial seconds at the end of the flight, it was really easy to follow. enjoy your week off!

WTF???? You didn't tell us what caused it. It sounds pretty straight forward in the pilots didn't notice the engines not spooling up. But what else contributed?

If your plane is on fire and someone starts fiddling with the overhead bin to get their luggage... PUNCH their lights out

Many on that plane were expat workers working in Dubai, for them passport is worth more than life cause their visas are on their passport, if they lose their passport they could also lose their visa and have to return home jobless. A jobless pravasi is treated by their family as a useless person. So most of them sadly rather lose their life rather than lose their documents and jobs, hence they started taking out they bags containing their documents and work laptops. I worked in Dubai and I know how integral our passport is.

Why wasn't the captain not named and just first officer named? Saving face of your citizen?

Such a basic mistake but seems to happen more than you think in go around. I think since it's such a sudden transition from landing mode. Startle effect. Pilots forget steps like changing configuration of flaps & throttle on going around. When we flew Cessnas touch n' Goes & go around seemed so simple but for some reason in jets it seems to be more complicated and error some. Tailwinds help to ruin your perfectly planned landing execution. Keep up the good work alert pilots.

The way you just casually pronounced Thiruvananthapuram-

Wow!!! That is amazing that everyone on board lived. RIP to the fire fighter that gave his own life to save so many. It was the captains fault but it was an honest mistake so I'm not going to sit here and dog on him all day. We learned from it and that made it an even safer way of efficient travel.🛫 ✈ 🛬 🛫 ✈ 🛬

Would love to see your take on the new Netflix Boeing documentary. I had it in my head that it was your channel that taught us about MCAS and whatnot. Thank you

Sorry. But im grabbing that bag dude. No one is gonna stop me. You dont know what is in there. Some things in this world can be worth more then people, even if most people wont admit it...

Good intro ... findings? causes? recommendations? You stopped too soon.

The pilots has been flee for 15 years, yet only logged under 7500 flight hours. That means

I see you're still mad at Emirates for sacking you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Of course ther redacted the EMIRATI pilot's name 🙄 they fiercely protect their own

Clearly you have something in your hart about emirates air line and Emirates pilot

once again auto throttle and poor pilot attention to details are to blame. no excuse for this . turn the damm auto pilot off during landings!

I flew on Emirates a few times, both times from Dubai to Europe, both trips horrendous. The plane was old and tired and you felt it.

I’m so happy this dude called it the triple 7 instead of the seven seven seven or this video would be hell

Fun fact, at one point, Emirates Airlines operated every single variant of the Boeing B777, the -200, the -200/ER, the -200/F, the -200/LR, the -300 and of course, the -300/ER. Emirates are the only airline to have operated every single B777 variant concurrently.

I was starting to comment to let it out as it was making up almost 2-2,5 minutes of the video which is too much for me. Is one a Patreon because you want to support of to have your name shouted out every video? Let them show in screen, pick about 10 randomly from each tier and just do that every week (but cross them from your list so they won’t accidentally be named three times in a row and others never. The list will get smaller but still you can choose ten new ones again.. Stil leave shoutouts but not so many and (to me at least) boring. Just an idea 🙂

Wait a minute, the captain was only 34yrs old and been with the airline for 15yrs?!!

Grabbing bags during an evacuation post-crash is idiocy. What is in the bags that's worth your life?

Hey I Will Make The Crash Animation

HOW SAD

only hull loss of 777? What about British Airways 38, Asiana air 214, MH370 and MH17?

Rip to the firefighter, god bless. Ground affect, like what do you do, they were brilliant that no one die, problem got a weather bomb and a tail wind as well, s**t. Thank you for the point of discussion, brilliant.

props to you for pronouncing Thiruvananthapuram!

I realize they always say to leave your belongings behind, but I have heard horror stories of folks being stuck in some places without identifying documents, passports etc. and having a hell of a time. A good compromise would be to instruct all passengers to carry documents on their person at all times as part of the safety instruction.

Oh God we Indians 🤣

BA2276 at Las Vegas was the same. You can see photographs of the passengers walking away with their bags whilst the aircraft was burning 🤦‍♂ I am a Manchester lad and I remember British Airtours 28M - I'm getting off the plane and that's it! Stuff my toiletries.

Dude really thought it was smart to do a go around from 7 feet above the runway.

2:15 pretty sure that took 218 takes :D

So the ground temp was 155 degrees Fahrenheit (for us American's). WOW 🥺😳?!? I knew it was hot in the desert but DAMN!!!

They should have a system that locks all overhead compartments during an emergency. To prevent people from trying to retrieve their belongings.

Everyone i know talked up about it so much. When i flew i was quite disappointed. TBH Singapore is a MUCH better airline than Emirates. I only took the flight because i was traveling to Paris with mum to meet up with my sister. Never to i want to fly into Dubai again, the airport hotel was so far away -_-

LoL " Mom left me at BestBuy "

why didn't the auto throttle give more power to the engines in the TOGA-mode though?

Very interesting! I love all your videos

So what actually happened? Was TOGA pressed, was it initiated? What did the report say? Normally you say those things.

Great video Chloe. Improving every video on!

I'm about to travel.oh man my paranoia struck lol

This is the way you end the video? So, what happened? What was the conclusion of the investigation? Who was at fault? Was the TOGA system faulty? Was it pilot error for not advancing the thrust levers to full? C'mon bro, this is amateur stuff! I thought you were way past this.

But why didn't the TOGA-switch set the thrust of the engines to full power?

I’m Emirati but i didn’t know that the captain was also because no one mentioned that, thank you so much for making an amazing videos ♥️

I don't see how you get an increase in air speed when the wind shifts from a tail wind to a head wind.

Thank you… I never quite understood what happened here from reading AVHerald, but I can visualise it, now.

Selfish passengers

I know you can't see me standing up and applauding at your pronunciation of "Thiruvananthapuram," but damn it, I'm doing it anyway. :)

why was the captain’s name redacted?

The incidental music, for me, was awful. I found it horribly distracting. Can’t please everyone though I guess!

At 8:40 you are talking about a 12-knot increase in airspeed, while showing a decreasing airspeed. That's a bit confusing.

RU-vid recommend these kind of video when my family decide to travel by plane. I don't even search for plane falling or anything similar the most recent i searched was dogs video. Wtf RU-vid.

i am curious as to why it isn't procedure to deploy the speed brakes during a "float" as this would reduce lift on the wings and increase drag presumably forcing the aircraft to touch down?

the emirates captain name was not divulged but only the 1st officer's name.