How Did They Miss This RED FLAG? | Malaysian Airlines Flight 134 

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As someone who just began working ground operations at an airport, I'm going to think of this video every time I do a pre-flight walk around

Each ribbon should be very long to bring it to head height and there should be a bright flashing led on the end. It would cost practically nothing and could save an aircraft.

I wonder if that same "freezing up" is also a factor in the unholy number of trains we have here in the Netherlands driving through red signals every year (and luckily then stopped automatically usually) despite train drivers presumably being well trained... ("unholy" as in 1200 times in 6 years, so an average of 200 trains crossing red signals every year, which sounds like something that should be impossible... it almost never leads to serious accidents due to automatic safety controls & traffic control monitoring in real time, but still...) I know it's not aviation, but I assume the safety issues are similar...

such a smooth transition to an ad I didn't even know I was watching one until hear the word "sponsor". nice job

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Thanks Chris, for your very comprehensive dissection of this interesting (and somewhat disturbing) incident. No one better placed than you to analyze the A330!

I'm going to add to the several people who've been annoyed by the way the advert was handled in this video. There was no attempt to provide a clear warning that from 3:40 to 5:01 is in fact a sponsored advert and not content. It's doubly annoying because the story itself is an interesting one, there have been other cases similar to this that have ended in catastrophe (Birgenair 301 is the most well known.), in this case the crew was on the ball.

A fine sentiment there at the end. Crazy that who's responsible for taking those mudwasp covers off again before takeoff wasn't clearly defined in the manual!

Another excellent presentation. I am astounded and quite disappointed that a professional crew from a reputable carrier BOTH continued with the takeoff and did not conduct an RTO with clearly U/S Pitot-Static systems or other failure given the absent/erroneous airspeed indications! Extremely poor confidence and assertiveness from the F/O passively suggesting an RTO with the question “so abort?” rather than insisting “Dual Airspeed Failure - We are NOT Safe to continue - Let's Reject the Takeoff NOW, and return to ramp for engineering” The entire purpose of a walk around is to check all observed systems are correct and undamaged along with identifying any non normal concerns, at night with the use of a Bright flashlight, casting the light and eyes on targets long enough to mentally confirm 'Normal and Undamaged'. The PIC was new to type so even more reason for greater diligence. What is the point of conducting a walk around if not the observe what appears unusual rather than just expecting to see what is conducive with one's mental model? Perhaps the red 'REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT' streamer needs to be a great deal larger and more obvious, perhaps these warning devices also need to be produced with reflector stripes on both sides, when the flashlight is cast on it, the streamer will be far more obvious. Red is not terribly bright at night. Purely a point of trivia, the aircraft despite if being an international flight is parked on a domestic ramp at BNE! The international terminal is quite a bit smaller and a reasonable distance to the left of where the aircraft is parked. Amusing but unimportant to a brilliantly recounting of the event in question. After two very similar accidents that occurred on B757s; a Birgenair B757 highly suspected to have had nesting insect Pitot Tube congestion having been left exposed and unprotected for several days in a locally-known area of concern, and an AeroPeru B757 with a non-contrasting metalised tape covering the Static Ports to protect water infiltration when washing the aircraft. All three of these incidents occurred at night, all three aircraft presented erroneous speeds and instrument mismatch during the takeoff roll, yet all three crews elected to continue rather than conduct a low speed RTO, return to the ramp and resolve the issue. Sadly both B757s were lost moments after takeoff. While it was more good luck than good airmanship (initially) that mercifully the A330 had a safe resolution. Clearly there was excellent CRM and decisions made after other serious blunders and poor assertiveness got them into the incident they found themselves. They were also not further confused with absence of visual references as the B757 crews were with moonless clear nights. The AeroPeru event in particular was complicated with even poorer CRM than Birgenair's crew, the F/O had a clearer understanding but the PIC chose to ignore and override him, a few minutes later of level flight and appropriately controlled airspeed they could have had a 'wing man' fly alongside them to safely guide them back to the field. All they needed to do was position the thrust levers at an ‘average' position and gently turn back around towards the light of the airport for visual attitude reference.

One thing another documentary I watched about this mentioned is, when you take off you're supposed to have pitot tube covers in the cockpit so you know they're not on the plane, and the pilots did do the part of the checklist where you check and verbally confirm they're there. But covers had been installed by the airport, separate from the ones that come with the plane, so there being pitot tube covers in the cockpit didn't mean that there weren't covers installed on the tubes. So that check did nothing.

Is just me or the outro music gives me goosebumps? Great videos Chris! Keep it up!

It is easy to be smart after, but they had the best chance to abort the take off, they were not under pressure to take off, they were plain stupid to still go ahead with that.

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My day just got better.

As a Bribanerian I appreciate this video

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The long detour of that plane raising red flag to the engineer who familiar with flight plan & also a passenger in aircraft. 😁

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Wow! The Capt only had around 500hrs on type, missed an obvious mandatory check and then failed to have the takeoff aborted with NO speed indications? I hope he was demoted to cleaning out the lavatory holding tanks!

Normally, one must look to the military for this level of "not my job" syndrome.

I learnt from a Malaysian colleague. This is the common working attitude in many Malaysian's company, poor discipline and disregard of rules. That's why my Malaysian colleague feel frustrated and left his ex-company.

Many accidents have occurred due to pitot tubes being covered. I have a question: Have any accidents been caused by mud wasps having their nests clogging pitot tubes?

Thanks for another great video Airspace ! Thankfully all ended well.

Not a fan of the sponsor transition at all. I always watch your videos very closely, it's one of the few channels I'm subbed to where I never multitask while watching. I was very engaged, and still trying to follow the story well into the sponsor spot. It wasn't until you got to 401Ks that I realized what was happening. I understand you gotta eat, but please give us an obvious transition so we aren't wondering whether we're still in the story or not.

Just seen this on the flight channel today

Interestingly, this incident nearly happened again at Brisbane. The aircraft was either about to or was pushing back until someone noticed the covers were still installed. They could be seen on CCTV. It was a Singapore aircraft I think.

Tank you for taking the time to present us another great insight! As safe as planes are nowadays, there is always the factor "human". Routine can be such a dangerous thing, especially in aviation. Incredible that no one noticed the literal red flags. That could've ended so bad and somehow reminds me of the A330 Air France accident over the altantic. Glad that everyone was fine.

Out of the other 3 channels I have seen cover this you’re the only one who has actually explained why the landing gear does not function with all ADR off. So is there now a master warning that goes off if airspeed is not detected on takeoff on one or more ADR’s?

K, so I paused @10:30 - What happened during the pilot walk around? Didn't they see anything suspicious? Or, because the aircraft didn't sit overnight it wasn't required? ...Unpause....

crazy that they did not abort the takeoff with unreliable speed

in the previous crashes caused by pitot tube making aircraft reading go haywire many life had vanished question is Does Pilot learned about Pitot Tube malfunction will causing haywire in instrument reading at Flight School ????

So can the pitot tubes be included in preflight checks (other than verifying covers are removed) ?

At least 6 events in the chain. Great c r m at the end

Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻

I think civil airports should have a final check position at take off roll end of runway as military do one last chance to catch errors such as this

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This is like 4th major incident that has been linked to Malaysian airlines. Is the airlines really that bad or just a series of bad luck?

could you please make a video about el al cargo flight 1862

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sad that a simple checklist should have prevented this problem, but lots of stupid people didn't bother to do their jobs.

I see what you did here with the title

Why don't they make pito tube covers that fall off under high speed.

"SIMPLY, DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY."

the Flight Channel also uploaded the same story recently

This issue could have been so easily avoided by doing proper maintenance documentation. As soon as the pitot covers were installed, a maintenance write up (discrepancy) should have been added to the maintenance logbook. No airplane is allowed to be dispatched with an open discrepancy.

Hm, I see the human factor in this, but there is definitely also a process issue involved, if a two points in time, people do not complete a check, because they think it is someone else's duty and nobody notices it is skipped. Some kind of checklist or sign off system would have detected that the walkaround was not completed.

6:00 How does the aircraft realise it’s moving despite no speed information? I guess thrust application and then the computer waits for the airspeed to come alive after a set period of time. Would love to hear from the expert though.

man, this airline.

PUT BIGGER AND LONGER RED FLAGS ON THE PITOT TUBES AND STATIC PORTS COVERS , NOBODY GONNA MISS THEM

Your advertisment skips are unbecoming to such a serious channel, and I hope you make your add breaks more normal. You are talking about deaths and disasters, not gaming. Disappointed in a channel I have followed since its inception

Malaysian is one of the most dangerous airlines in the world. No surprise.

A problem with a Malaysia Airlines flight? Nooooo.....

Mentor pilot uploaded a longer and more detailed technical analysis, about 2 weeks ago

It’s annoying that creators copy eachother why copy other airplane videos

There’s been multiple major crashes, at least one that I know of commercially that killed hundreds, because of an old technology apparatus called a pito tube. It’s ridiculous, we have to figure out something else. I think in the one I’m thinking of the Pito tube iced over. Way too much relying on one little part. There should be multiple redundancies. . If they have to get expensive ground radar, GPS or satellite tracking,Pressure sensor that can give you at least a ballpark figure of your airspeed based on the pressure you’re getting relative to your altitude. Something. Or whatever it may be, there has to be a better solution. It’s worse than Achilles’ heel

Seems nobody mentions that the Pitot tubes were first thought of in the late 1700's, and modified as they are today in the early 1950's. I tried posting on another channel that Pitot tubes are embarrassingly outdated technology, given everything we know today - such as the ubiquitous touch-screen cell phones. My comment was immediately deleted. I wonder if this one will be deleted, too.

Typical, "It's not my job mate".

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Unsub due to the unfair Ad's inclusion into the story.

This event has already been covered on another channel.

Eggs 🥚

I thought it said MH370