LEFT ENGINE FIRE on Takeoff | Delta A320 Emergency Return to Palm Beach 

Don't care about everyone else he needs to talk to. The pilot in distress is his absolute priority. The first advisement of fuel and souls was perfectly clear. Requesting that distressed and very busy pilot to keep repeating himself is completely unacceptable.

@@RckyMtneerperfectly clear? You can hear it being stepped on? Did we listen to the same audio?

@@RckyMtneer this just shows your ignorance on the workings of the ATC system. The controllers first priority is in fact the safety of all aircraft, not limited to the emergency. The pilot took the controller by surprise giving out this data at the moment he declared. What if at that moment the pilot was in a hard turn back to the airport Roland the opposite direction. Don’t you think telling the tower to clear the runway immediately could be important? Quite normally there is another aircraft on the runway by the time he declared. Every one of those actions I mentioned was designed to get the plane safely back on the runway. The correct thing to do was for the pilot to wait for those questions the only respond if he had time. And again, you don’t know the working environment. Beyond that you hear on the radio, controller have other voices coming through the landline. He can’t always control when someone who needs information from him calls and starts talking. Other than giving out that info when he initially declared both the controller and the pilots did a good job. Neither can be blamed for other pilots and controllers stepping on their transmissions.

@@RckyMtneer The first call was sort of out of nowhere. "Emergency, souls, fuel." The controller doesn't even have time to process the emergency part before he drops those two values. Missing them and asking for them later seems fine to me, and that frequency seemed pretty messy. We're not hearing what he's hearing anyway, this is coming from a volunteer's receiver somewhere else nearby.

Agreed with many... The only thing that really could have been improved was radio etiquette. Being super anal about what information is needed and what can wait, and disambiguating hundred from three zero zero etc. actually calling a pan pan or a mayday instead of a matter of fact casual engine fire. Those hot words tend to cause everyone else to shut the hell up and listen.

@@BLAB-it5un delta was too fast to reply. He kept stepping on top of atc before atc lifted his finger off the xmit button. When multiple stations on the same freq broadcast at the same time you get those “boop” sounds that you heard.

maybe for SOB but the fuel is constantly changing by thousands of pounds an hour

It's not an unrealistic thing to hope either, ATC can see what headings/altitudes the autopilot computer has been spun to when the pilots make changes

​@@pilotbenny That's why they specifically said "live data".

@@pilotbenny Correct -- but even without live transmission of the fuel guages, the total amount of fuel in the aircraft is changing at a rate which can be calculated based on known flight data and meteorological conditions.

I guess you like having to repeat yourself, like the pilots did, multiple times during an emergency. It is people like you who accept mediocrity that are a cancer.

That would be true if the ATC didn't make him repeat souls and fuel so much.

@@RckyMtneerlisten again, the co pilot kept stepping on his Mike, kept pressing the button to early and letting off to soon. That’s the reason he couldn’t hear.

Yeah, but ATC wasn't ready for the numbers and had to ask again. Pilots were quick on the transmit button as the fuel number kept getting truncated. It takes a few milliseconds for the radios to turn around. I often wonder why ATC doesn't use full duplex radios these days. Other than that, all went well.

@@tommaxwell429 True. Keep the admin for later.

10-4 good buddy, tally ho on the bogey, I got em on the fish finder, I’m 4.4 FOR 14,000. I’ll tell you hwat imma declare an emergency instead of Mayday because it’s July, not May, dummy.

From your lips to God's ears! I know, I know......which God? LMAO!

And get rid of this notion that we have to talk like auctioneers on the radio.

​@@tfaudree That particular US ATC dick waving activity is something I dislike intensely. It's one of several reasons why I refuse to fly in US airspace any more.

I really appreciate that

@@VASAviation when you’re good ……you’re good. End of story. I may not comment all the time. But I’m ALWAYS watching.

Me to. Total non pilot, admire the professionalism. Thanks Victor.

Yeah I do think it would be helpful. Could even add pob and fuel to the transponder if possible. It's hard for the pilots and equally for the controllers (often when they ask for something again it's likely multiple comms going on same time)

I think especially stuff like "Fuel" is usually something you can guesstimate well enough from the flight plan. It just took off, it's not gonna be empty. It's on fire, so it's not gonna stay up there for long enough for that fact to change. Souls on board I understand, in case of evacuation you want to be able to count if you got everyone. But still, ugh.

Makes sense. That would also avoid the inconsistent ways the response is given to ATC: e.g. (a) number of passengers then number of crew, (b) number of crew then number of passsengers, (c) souls on board (single number - which is I believe what is being asked for), (d) souls on board followed by the number of crew, (e) different ways of referring to "souls". It's not uncommon for ATC to query the response to that question.

There should be a big red button in the cockpit for commercial pilots that reads "Declare Emergency," and then the plane should transmit the souls on board and fuel repeatedly to an emergency frequency. Cameras mounted in the wheel wells and facing the engines should also transmit images of the landing gear and engines. Pilots shouldn't have to transmit or rely on things like "I don't see any smoke, Delta" to know if they're on fire.

@@MeMe-gm9di Fuel is actually a bit of an open question. Where did they come from and where are the next going and where do those places fall in the carriers refueling planning. It might be full for the day. It might be empty as the last flight of the day for that aircraft. It might be the start of the day, but refueling at the next airport because their charges are lower. That said, the airline itself has all that info at departure, so a simple data exchange should be possible with ATC. After all, the airlines send it to the FAA in real time anyway. Why not make it available on demand from ATC as well as back to the FAA?

This Is....DELTA!!!!!

He was asked multiple times and he still didn't say TREE like he was supposed to.

@@russell2952that’s not why it wasn’t heard. Delta (and a few others) were too quick on the mic after the controller finished talking and stepped on the transmission. When two people are transmitting at the same time neither can hear each other.

300 is also a non-standard way of saying 5hrs. It's like saying 9000 yard final instead of 5 miles. Also, any pilot should know Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. If you are busy with an emergency and can't communicate effectively, don't! Focus on flying the plane to where it needs to be first. Also, rocketing in with that first transmission with all the details, means he had to look up those details before declaring. The most important transmission isn't fuel or souls, it's Emergency, Nature of emergency, and intentions.

On the other hand, ATC appreciates knowing the time until you fall out of the sky. Albeit in this case it's pretty useless. Fire is almost always an immediate landing, and they just took off. But if it were enroute or closer to the destination, that helps a lot.

News flash: if you watch these videos you see ATC asking in all sorts of ways - pounds, time, whatever. In at least half of them you then see ATC fvcking about and asking again in a different format and, all too often, fvcking about even further by asking multiple times at each stage/controller. If the US would just adopt the fvcking ICAO standards in whole for ATC and aircraft, instead of having their own special-for-the-US-only shitty standards, then a lot of this shite would cease.

@@iatsd😂😂🤣

It's not for flying time. It's for how big the fire's gonna be.

The pilot was "quick keying" their radio over the ATC transmissions. ATC couldn't hear the number because the pilot was transmitting it before ATC had released the mic switch.

@@Chat562 Yes it is for flying time

@@craig7350 No it is not for flying time. It's for how much foam the fire trucks need.

@@Chat562 NO, its about flying time!

delta.

Delta was too fast to key and talk, or the controller too slow to release after talking. Or both :)

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@@chasesawyer8087 as they should

@@chasesawyer8087 as they should.

Either too strong and overloading the front end of the receiver or misstuned transmitter... likely the former, considering later transmissions were fine.

Nothing. Someone is repeatedly stepping on them. ATC might be a bit slow to release the mic, as it happened with Sun Country too.

@@SB-cz9voit’s delta. He keeps stepping on top of atc before atc fully finished broadcasting

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Delta keeps stepping on ATC

Quindar tones weren't audible to Mission Control and I believe they were filtered out for the astronauts, too. You're thinking of "roger beeps".

There’s somewhere around 100,000 flights every single day, all around the world (including military, GA, and cargo). With that large of a sample size, you’re bound to have some type of issue with at least one of those planes every day.

the pilot stepped on atc every single time he called in. the atc did not hear how many hundred minutes of fuel because the only transmissions he heard were "BOOP-hundred minutes of fuel"

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@@VASAviation I watch enough to know your captions aren't great... For example 5:57 ≠ "when you get out there so they can taxi into the gate" - it was "When they get the all clear from you they'll taxi into the gate." But thanks for the channel, most of the content is really good.

Big overstatement of the problem. Controller would have heard it the second time if the pilot wasnt talking before he keyed up.

Hear those beeps and boops? That’s because delta kept stepping on top of atc before atc finished their transmission.

The pilot kept stepping on the controller every time, so the first part kept getting cut off

I assume the interference wasn't just on the liveatc receiver. could be atc kept the button pressed a smidge too long and delta was exceptionally quick on their button to respond.

He gave fuel on his very first call. Either way, should be assumed a lot of gas and a lot of people. How about we get a head count after we get off. 🙄 In the meantime, keep aircraft away from me, and vectors when I'm ready.

@mikek5298 You can literally hear in the video that the pilot transmitted an inaudible number. What are you expecting ATC to do to magically fix that?

Of course it is.... If they could build competent planes, Delta wouldn't need this Airbus that caught fire. 😂

Boeing's work building engines for Airbuses leavea a lot to be desired, no doubt.

Agreed, the illogical conclusions of many is exhausting.

You ever had an engine burning up while the other is pumping out 30k of thrust?

An controllable engine fire is not a mayday. It's a pan pan.

@@Quotenwagnerianer so when my qrh says "declare an emergency"?

@@Quotenwagnerianer bollocks

@@BobbyGeneric145 You say PAN PAN and not Mayday, Mayday.

Would have*

Yeah, or "would've" but never "would of".

Wow, the airbus fan boys are also the grammar police now? 🙄🙄

It’s an American culture issue. Declaring an emergency works in the US but the problems begin when they take that terminology with them abroad with language barriers.

A320 is not a Boeing product.

​@@JediKnyghte/s = sarcasm...

I was gonna post the same!

@@JediKnyghte simpsons_thats_the_joke.gif

Engines are not made by Boeing.

Boeing's fault...

There are 3724 A320s in the air at this very moment, that is almost 40% of all aircraft flying now. Given that, it is no surprise.

Mechanicals happen. No matter who made them.

Airlines beat the snot out of aircraft. They fly all day everyday. There are very advanced maintenance programs. Which contribute to the excellent dispatch reliability we have in the national airline system. My companies aircraft fly approximately 18 hours a day average. It's impressive

They’re getting old. Happens to all airframes.

Neither Boeing nor Airbus makes engines.

That was a Mcdonnell Douglas aircraft, not boeing and faulty maintenance.

You realize that Douglas built the DC-10 and NOT Boeing. The engine came off the DC-10 American Airlines Flight 191, because of an improper procedure used to mount and dismount the engine and not due to engineering issues.

That's embarrassing herb

You do realise Boeing doesn't make engines

​@@majorminor3367 which runs Boeing today

Sounds like both the controller and the pilot like to talk at the same time... send both to internet jail.

I'm pretty sure that this audio doesn't come directly from ATC, it's generally picked up from antennae set up around airports by aviation enthusiasts. It is very likely that the receivers that picked up the plane's transmission were better positioned to pick it up at that point than the tower's receivers. (Some evidence of this: several of the transmissions from the aircraft as it was climbing out were extremely garbled while the tower responded to them as if they could hear just fine.) It is also true that they were stepped on several times. That didn't help at all.

@@Tekker2234 yes but in this instance the source has nothing to do with it. Hear those beeps and boops in between atc and delta responding? That’s because delta kept stepping on top of atc’s transmissions before atc finished broadcasting. When two stations on the same frequency key their mics you get interference like that. Delta was too fast to respond before atc lifted his finger off the broadcast button.

@@markpunt9638 no. Nothing to do with controller. Delta kept stepping on top of him before controller finished.

@markpunt9638 You can literally hear in the video that the pilot transmitted an inaudible number. Only thing that's not good enough is your common sense. It's not ATC's fault if the pilot makes a mistake transmitting.