Captain Liu was actually an experienced former bomber pilot in PLA and pilot coach. Also he had above 100 times on this airline so he could find the way back without dial's help. He is just a hero and heavily awarded after the accident.
@@Bravo-Too-Much pretty sure that nobody is denying that. People can be skilled and professional, yet they fall victim to a crash. Always take the win when luck comes your way.
Never heard about this one. I thought it was going to the similar British accident. Again no one died, but the captain spent the rest of the flight outside! The senior cabin crew member held on to the captains legs. Nice endings are more than nice. The British Captain and FO get together for a cup of tea regularly :) I loved the photo of the Chinese FOs shirt. Yikes!
I too hadn't heard of this one, but had watched a video about that British accident. Do pilots get a uniform allowance? As Christina T said in her comment, the pilots were both lucky and unlucky. I wonder if there is a redesign so that the oxygen mask can be reached by either hand.
@@bikeny Hi Stephen. My understanding is that pilots uniform cost typically gets charged against their paycheck. Don't know if there's an allowance, but it would make sense. Either hand for oxygen should be a must. You need it when you're in trouble. And of course, you're flight crew. Everyone else is in trouble too.
If you wanna hear the radio chatter from this incident VASAviation has the audio along with a flight path recording on their channel. iirc, it was released less than a week after the incident itself.
@@roderickcampbell2105 that's why Boeing did it right with flight yoke , any hand could be on the yoke . When I first went up the cockpit of an Airbus , my first question was , hey I'm a right handed , that means I would have to relearn flying with my left hand if I'm made captain 🤣
Had never heard of this one. Truly amazing airmanship by the captain and one really fortunate first officer. All this caused by a simple leaky seal seems so unthinkable. Given a similar story from a British Airlines flight where the captain was the one who got sucked out and was held in by cabin crew, you would think that first directive to secure the harnesses upon seeing a windshield crack would have already been in place. Glad to learn it is now. Thank you for another interesting report on how things happened and what was learned. Enjoy your channel very much and look forward to seeing your next video.
What a superb performance by that young pilot. I am more impressed than I can say. Congratulations to that man. Everyone on the plane was very lucky to have you in control, Sir. Best wishes from UK.
I'm dumbfounded that the captain just shrugged off cerebral hypoxia. What an absolute unit, it takes under a minute for most people to become fully incapacitated, he's a superhuman
@@millomweb That's not really how it works son. Run an oil heater on a cold, windy day with a gust blowing at you, and open a window. The room stays warm for a fair while. Why? Hot, dense air will always have dramatically more pressure than cold, sparse air by nature. The inrush of air has velocity, not pressure
@@millomweb On top of that, an A319 is much larger than any room in your house, it's about the size and volume of a moderate two bedroom house. Run this experiment again but open every door leading to that room in the house while the air is hot and dense. Same thing applies
@@millomweb If it's under pressure, it's denser. The air in the cabin is also denser than the outside air because the air is thin, hence why we can't breathe it. You're really dumb for a pedant, you know that?
I honestly thought it was going to be about the British incident because I only read the thumbnail. I’ve never heard of this incident and it’s honestly surprising because the pilots are true heroes!
A similar incident happened in the 1990's in Great Britain. In that case, the Captain was sacked out. In that case, the windscreen was replaced, held in by the wrong screws. Everyone survived in the British incident.
Maybe it's just me, but if I'm that FO and my windshield starts cracking randomly the very first thing I do is put my shoulder straps on, I've seen what happened on British Airways 5390
I read a news article that quoted the captain as saying they didn't see any signs that the windshield was going to shatter. It just did and fortunately, the co pilot was wearing his seat belt, although not his shoulder harness.
Same! And ALL immediately don Oxygen masks as a preventative measure and look, they needed it anyway a second later. I am a former FA and these just seem logical. I am sure many airlines have that as SOP after the similar BA incident many years before.
New addendum to check list : If windshield cracks appear, put on parachute. Just kidding . . . Thanks for the great upload. Amazing recovery and airmanship.
That’s 2 mishaps in a row I hadn’t heard about - I’m going to look at your list of videos more closely! At first I thought this was the story of the Captain who was ejected from the cockpit, after maintenance failed to use the correct screws to attach a new windscreen. But this is a well known accident and I couldn’t think you’d say nobody would have heard of it. This channel is created by someone knowledgeable, narrated well and deserves to succeed.
@@mduduzisibanda7840 Yeah, they ain't the most comfortable things to wear... No pilot is gonna willingly wear those shoulder straps for 3+ hours straight.
Interesting video! This reminded me of British Airways 5390 where a cockpit window also broke, having been installed almost entirely with bolts that were too small (84 out of 90 bolts were undersized).
British Airways had a similar glare shield blowout. The captain was sucked all the way out with just his legs inside the cockpit. The steward and another pilot had to hold his legs all the way down to a runway. The 1st officer flew the plane and operated all the procedures including radios and emergency checklist and mayday calls and landed the plane. The captain survived. That 1st officer is my hero......
No, I never heard of this incident. It couldn’t have happened in a worse place than the highest mountain ranges on earth! Captain: Quickly, let’s get this plane down to 14,000 feet. FO: Not unless you want to slam into somebody‘s base camp! Amazing airmanship, and very lucky flight crew. They could have been hit by so many things at such velocity that could have killed them. The oxygen concentration at 24,000 feet is 8.4 percent. You can survive that for a short time, but your thinking ability would be very impaired. When you combine that with everything else that was going on at the same time…. Unimaginable how well this ended! I’m just an occasional airline passenger, not air industry connected. I appreciate these videos so much! I’ve learned quite a bit because I’ve been watching these videos: I always pay attention to the flight crew safety demonstration, I count the rows of seats to the nearest exits, I stay buckled in. Should there be an emergency evacuation I will physically yank and scream at any passenger near me who is trying to retrieve their luggage.
The oxygen concentration at 24000 feet altitude is 20.9 percent, same as sea level. It´s the barometric pressure that decreases with altitude, not the composition of the atmosphere. At 24,000 feet, said barometric pressure (and therefore the oxygen pressure) is one third that of sea level.
When that plane came to a stop after landing, I assure you that there was some applause from the back of the plane for the pilot and crew ! What an incredible job they did to bring that aircraft down safely... 👌👍🏆
Which would have more force in a rapid depression from a cockpit window. The exiting pressure, or the amount of force the oncoming wind would. I don’t see how the poor guy even remained conscious. Given the air being sucked out of you that fast, and -40 degree wind hitting your face at 500 mph. Granted the depressurization helped offset that but still, very interesting. This is where pressure difference and the outside airstream meet head-on. Literally
I heard about it. cause when it happened to a british pilot, and someone said "it's not the only time a pilot was sucked out of an airplane" I just *had* to find the other time.
Airbus really should add a small shock absorber to the cockpit door that will not allow the door to just fly open and damage the circuit breaker panel like that. Or if that's not possible at least a door stop that the door can slam into instead of the electrical panel.
the door was never an issue until we learned from the muslims that those doors must be very heavy. No blowout panel in the door allowed thanks to a snack bar owner named allha
I wonder if the fact that it was a front window that broke helped to keep the plane partially pressurised. I imagine that it might have a sort of ram-air effect as the plane speeds through the oncoming air, and that's why the captain stayed conscious and alert, even though he couldn't fit his oxygen mask.
@@AirspaceVideos The bizarre thing then is why was the FO in an icy blast - once the pressures had equalised, incoming air=outgoing air. I think it's bizarre Airbus decided to have the cockpit door open. Isolation would have been the better option - less air blowing the FO out AND keeping the pax pressurised. OR in a cabin pressure fail, cockpit would stay pressurised. Win-win surely ? And don't call me Shirley ;)
No, i'de never heard of this near tragedy. There was a similar incident with an American carrier in the '70s. The pilot was partially sucked from the cockpit and couldn't be brought back inside until they landed. i was surprised you didn't mention it! 🖖
Yo, I remember hearing the radio chatter of this incident on VASAviation. It's chilling to hear the extreme rushing of air in the cockpit over the radio. The fact that the captain could stay awake for so long at such a high altitude is crazy. What a baller.
I'm amazed that two similar incidents could happen twice. BA5390 was slightly different, caused by the wrong bolts in the windscreen, but it's amazing that "put shoulder harness on" wasn't added after that incident
a similar incident happened on a British Airways BAC-111 where the pilot's front windscreen glass blew out warning that sucked out more than half of the captain's body . . . but the cabin crew managed to hold onto his legs somehow until the first officer was able to do an emergency landing at a nearby airport . . . the captain survived with injuries & went onto fly for British Airways for many more years before retiring . . .
Idk about others but if i saw the windscreen starting to crack in front of me the first thing i would do before anything else is put on my seat harness.
What surprises me the most is how the first officer's back or neck didn't immediately snap from being stucked outside the window. They got extremely lucky.. or unlucky if you'd consider that.
discord/notification squad where you at? Great vid as always, I wanted to ask at the beginning why the door opened up especially since you mentioned the 9/11 thing in another vid, thought maybe the changes in policy didn't reach china yet? or maybe it was an older aircraft? but you still answered that question at the end of it :D Also thanks for the movie recommendation, I'll give it a try ;)
A very similar thing happened to a BAC-111, except that windscreen blew with no warning at all and the captain spent the remainder of the flight hanging half-out of the cockpit. He survived, BTW, and resumed his flying career when he had recovered enough.
This is the first time I've heard of this event. The fact that both pilots were able to remain consciousness is beyond amazing. The one thing that may influenced this is if they flew into Lhasa, Tibet, at over 10,000 feet?- often enough, remaining over, their bodies may have developed more read blood cells to compensate.
Are you blind or something? The plane landed in one piece- why do you expect everyone to be dead? I mean, if you meant the first officer, then thats understandable. But if you mean everyone, then... Idk if you could see or hear properly
As soon as the crack appeared I would have put that seat belt harness on. I remember the British pilot that got sucked out the window all but his legs! 😫
Some time ago a Concord lost a part of it tail rudder while flying between Christchurch and Sydney. I believe it was attempting a round the world passenger flight speed record. I believe it was flying well above Mark 1 when it happened and that it continued and landed safely in Sydney. An in-depth review of this incident would be interesting to watch.
Great video Sir, thank you I had not heard of this before. I can only guess what was going on in ATC when the radar shows an out-of-communication aircraft circling where they do not think it should be
I had never heard of this story. In fact, when I saw the first part of the title, I assumed that it was the story of the British pilot whose window had come off and flown completely away before he was sucked out and spent the rest of the flight being held to the plane by his feet. Good thing the FO in this story had made proper use of his seatbelt prior to the incident. I wonder if the crew was aware of the incident with the British pilot. I would imagine they weren't aware of it or else they probably would have immediately put their shoulder harnesses on when the wind screen started cracking. That was the first thing that came to my mind at that part of the story but, then again, I am sitting in front of a screen that, should it crack, the only tragedy would be a broken computer at a time when I can't afford another one. It might make an entertaining science fiction novel if the breaking of the computer screen sucked one into the internet though.
Wow, what a crazy situation to be confronted with! Glad everyone was ok. I've never heard of this incident. And great report as always! Question: have you ever experienced any emergencies yourself?
Different trigger to the event, but almost identical outcome. Wasn't that one a case of the maintenance staff grabbing screws that were not the correct size to secure a flight deck windshield?
In the late seventys my brother was in charge of servicing Danair planes they had a problem with shattering wind screens they found the adhesive on the masking tape that the new screens was wrapped up in was the cause of the problem
I love your videos and I was wondering if you could turn down the intro volume a little? Personally I find it a little loud compared to the rest of the video
Great video! But two thing need to correction, the first was after landing the aircraft was tun to the taxiway E8, not stop on the runway canterline, the second was the NO.3 and NO.4 tire didn't burst, it deflation because of to many engry on the brake so the temperature was too high.
I just saw the Germanwings video and wonder whether the pilot could have used decompression to either distract the rouge FO and enter the emergency pin or even blow the door open with that safety feature as shown
It’s possible as the door would unlatch but you’d to open a door which isn’t going to be easy and if you’re depressing the cabin, the pressure is working to pull the door closed since it open into the cockpit.
There is something wrong with this story. I used to work as a glasscutter, and that windshield would definitely have been laminated, not tempered glass as the story suggests. Tempered glass explodes like that, which is why it isn't even used in cars, let alone jet aircraft. Something may have happened, but not as described.
I have a video, recorded by the F/O, of the window arcing and cracking over a period of time. The obvious action would have been to switch window heat off and open the 115VAC power supply circuit breakers instead of recording the event. Fortunately, everyone survived.
@@AirspaceVideos when the temperature is -40 degrees. Temp (Deg C) = ((Deg F) - 32) * 5/9) = (-40 - 32) *.55555 = -72 * 0.555555 = -40 Deg C (to 5 decimal places) Great video. So sorry it took me so long to discover it.
The FO WAS NOT SUCKED OUT!! He was blown out of the cockpit. Try to educate the public about pressurization. In the case of rapid 'D,' the high pressure BLOWS towards the low pressure....and, if your are the poor FO who is blown out of his seat in this case, it really sucks.
Putting on the shoulder straps with a window crack makes sense but shouldn't they also put on an oxygen mask? I know nothing about aviation but that makes sense to me.
not necessarily - most cracked windows are harmless. Most of the time, only the outer pane cracks and the flight can be continued. The oxygen mask is only required if the cabin pressure drops
Good presentation. Just think if Airbus gets approved for single pilot operations during cruise this would have resulted in a crash killing all aboard the plane. I personally like two pilots in the cockpit just in case the autopilot disengages during an emergency.
