Meters From A Devastating Collision - DISASTER AVERTED 

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When you on 39000 ft see that your phone has detected a new wireless network....

Outstanding coverage as usual. It's easy to say that the pilots clearly should have followed TCAS, and as you stated - if the controller did nothing, the problem would resolve itself. It's incredible to think how close it was when each pilot was following a different set of instructions despite TCAS being developed to avert that very situation.

If they haven’t already, they should have TCAS transmit to the controller to show “I alerted this plane and told it to ascend” to prevent confusion.

i couldn’t begin to imagine the roar of the DC-10s engines just 10 metres above your head at 40,000 feet jeez

Had the two planes collided, Japan Airlines would have been the title holder for deadliest single-plane crash in aviation history *and* deadliest plane accident in aviation history. I personally think that after such an event the airline would have shut down.

This is interesting because I watched a documentary on the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision a while back & the Japan Airlines mid-air incident was mentioned because it occurred exactly a year and a half before the Überlingen disaster. Had the two Japan Airlines aircraft collided it would’ve been the worst aviation accident in recorded history but it also should’ve served as a grim reality of how international airline pilots were ambiguous to the TCAS system & relied more on ATC than their own systems. Idk just an interesting thing to note.

"I certainly hope this little incident hasn't put you off flying. Statistically speaking, of course, it's still the safest way to travel." - Superman

If ICAO had taken this incidents report more seriously and issued a warning internationally incase if the TCAS and ATCs order conflicted each other, the Überlingen mid-air collision may have been avoided. Sadly it did not happen, and many people had to pay the price with blood.

It's chilling how this almost collision is so similar with the Überlingen mid-air collision in the matter of how both flight crews acted with the TCAS warning (and ATC intervention as well) D:

Prison time? Wow, they don't play around!

The way the air controller communicated with the planes is what it feels like to communicate with people in a group project

Years ago I was on a flight with my husband and 3 small children and we suddenly saw another jet fly past us close enough that several people gasped and we were frozen with fear. The captain never said a word😯

These always amaze me, the old phrase “what are the odds?” comes to mind. In theory the chances of any aircraft suffering a mid air collision outside of a near approach area of an airport should be immeasurably small. Yet they still happen. Going back to that famous Grand Canyon crash. There was also that horrifying 1996 mid air collision in India of a Saudi Arabian 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines crazy passenger version IL-76 near Delhi. If I remember correctly that one was witnessed by a US Military transport flight heading for Delhi. They described the fireballs falling from the sky.

This channel is a gold mine, deserves more subscribers!

flying is the safest way to travel like nuclear is the safest form of power - they are safe only because there is a potential for devastating disaster, so we put robust rules and systems in place to prevent them.

This and some mid air collisions have cemented in my mind the phrase "ALWAYS FOLLOW TCAS"

Wow the tenerife disaster still holding the highest death count, and it's almost 50 years ago. Thanks for your videos! I like your format, tone and the bgm used. Content is simple to understand too!

Amazing this type of incident happened more than once back in the day. Fortunately, TCAS II along with updated procedures/training have all but eliminated the chance of it happening again. Fly safe!

14:50 the assumption that mid air collisions are more likely at night is wrong. I don't have the exact number but something like 90 or 95% of all midair collisions (usually with small GA aircraft) happen during the day. It is so much easier to spot an aircraft during the night due to the lights. You simply don't see the lights of an aircraft during the day unless you have already spotted the aircraft. Otherwise very good coverage. Coverage of this incident is rare on the internet.

Sounds like a copy-paste of the Überlingen mid-air collision. They had the same conflict between TCAS and Controller

i love the disaster averted videos. keeps my mental levels up

The flights of the trainees. Everything had a trainee in use

This is very similar to how DHL 611 and Bashkirian flight 2937 collided over southern Germany

Can you do a 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision? That one was nasty.

YES. IVE BEEN WAITING FOR HOURS. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Ahhh my favourite part of the weekend! Just recently passed this channel on to a friend and now they’re hooked too!

Awesome video as always. I'm surprised though you didn't mention the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, the deadliest mid-air collision ever. Will you be covering this incident in a future video?

Always nice to see the occasional disaster averted. Another great video!

Love your videos! I’m so glad that you’re getting the subscribers you deserve :) I remember this was the disaster that got me hooked on aviation, I’m so glad that you’re covering it!

I look forward to Saturday’s like never before ever since finding this channel! On a side note..I wonder how long it took for the passengers of the DC-10 to realize just how close they were to disaster.

If i remember well the "safer than rail" statistic is because they also count people on the track getting run over by the train, which are not travelling by train so i really don't know why they do that.

Have you seen the trans air cargo plane that ditched in the water? It was in Hawaii the pilot survived the 737-200

The fact that the uberlingen mid air collision still happened sfter this incident is astonishing

Another great video from you. I commend you for the work you put into these videos, they’re so interesting!

Nicely done. I was thinking you were talking about the attempt by Air Canada 759 to land on a SFO taxiway full of airliners.

Another beautifully crafted video! Anthony, your voice is mesmerizing, minimizing my anxiety as I watch your presentation of terrifying incidents.

A transponder (aka IFF or Identification Friend or Foe) has been around for almost as long as Radar. The transponder (TCAS) signal broadcasts the the plane's ID, altitude and heading. This is so air traffic control knows who is out there. Other planes receive this signal and calculate if the plane is on a collision course. 9:31 the signal is "not interrupted" to generate an alert but is based on this calculation.

Thank you for these videos, it give me a lot of information! I intend to be a pilot, so, i will follow the correct ways to make a safe flight!

I love your videos! I really enjoy them and they are great quality! I wanted to suggest a Disaster Averted that I heard about a while ago due to a company insider but never saw any news coverage. Apparently a few years ago there was a UPS 747 enroute to China over the Pacific when the crewmember flying (I don’t remember which he said it was) began having a grand mal seizure. The crewmember got his foot stuck in the rudder pedals and made the plane uncontrollable. Before they crashed, the disaster was averted by a jumpseater (who was former military) who pulled the crewmember out of the seat with just brute strength breaking the crewmembers back in the process but saving the plane and its crew. They were able to regain control of the plane and land without incident and get medical assistance. I honestly loved this story because of the heroic jumpseater and think it would be a good incident to look at for your channel, though finding information will be challenging.

"Why si there two Wifi networks now?" *Engine roar gets louder* "oh"

It is so odd that to me the DC 10 looks newer than most wide bodies today as the 3rd engine gives it a futurisitic look. At least from afar.

Considering the near statistical impossibility of a mid air collision, its genuinely mind boggling that we have had 3 major incidents already.

the drastic action of the 747 pilot is much appreciated, 100 injuries and jail time for a young ATC controller to signify a near miss mid air collision is by far preferred than doing nothing and suffering the worst aviation disaster OR letting a deadly mistake silently slid by.

Damn, JAL trying their best to break all the records 💀

I think Jail for the ATC workers is very extreme. If the 747 Pilot had been trained properly to adhere to the TCAS commands then nobody would have been injured.

Marshall University in the state of West Virginia lost most of its football team and coaching staff in a 1970 plane crash. Would be an interesting video subject.

i was super impressed that you wrote the pilot's name in kanji. way to be respectful to someone else's culture.

Airline pilots have told me they like flying at night because, if there are no clouds, traffic is very easy to see. Think about seeing the flashing beacons and nav lights at night vs. picking out the shape and color of a plane against the ground, or even the sky, during the day. While riding jumpseat as a dispatcher, I found it easy to pick out the traffic at night, though it was nearly impossible for me to guess how far away they were. But then the midair over Germany was at night...

Very interesting video as usual :) I like your "new" video realisation style! Keep up the good work. Greetings from Germany

Chloe. I have been watching aviation videos on RU-vid for years now, whether it be aircraft or travel related and am reasonably familiar with most of the people or groups that produce the. I myself have started to travel quite a bit recently and have even considered joining the fray. Anyways, I just wanted to say that I sincerely appreciate you, your story, your journey and the work that you do and provide so that all of us can benefit from it. Thanks and keep em’ coming. Michael in Hamilton Ontario Canada

Paintwork to spare! Close shave is an understatement for this one.

And even Tenerife had survivors. I'm fascinated by people who refuse to fly because they're afraid of dying in a crash, because you're way more likely to die if you drive where you're going.

NEVER EVER choose the controller's instructions over TCAS!!!

Love your new logo. Great upload,as always. Thank you x

This is such a great channel! Thanks for the videos! 👍

I hadn’t heard about this near miss before. Japan Airlines could have gotten several bad records if it had happened. (Worse mid/air collision, worse multi plane accident taking that from Tenerife).

As for the single most deadly event.. In 2017 an airliner almost landed on the taxiway on the San Francisco airport. Early July i think. Had he done so he would have smashed maybe 3-4 airliners. That would have been a large number of fatalities. Easily over 1000. He pulled up just meters before impact..

I recall that the D variant of B747-400 (hence -446D and -481D) had the wingspan equaling to -100, -200 and -300. On some of the -481D, brakes on the main landing gears had electric cooling fans fitted.

Is there any scientific research into the nature of fatal injuries in plane crashes? What is the cause of death for most victims? Broken neck, head injuries, soft tissue trauma?

This video is excellent. I think I’m hooked on this channel now. Oh well. Binge watching the rest

I think maybe the crash of Überlingen wouldnt have happened if it was daytime. At night it was practically impossible to spot a plane until it was too late

"In a move that would cost him his job..." well, at least it didn't cost him his life, as well as all those on board the two aircraft, as happened the other time a controller contradicted TCAS... :/

How the death machine almost caused the deadliest crash

Pilots not listening to their TCAS is so enraging. Why would you listen to ATC on the ground a million miles away instead of the billion dollar flying computer that can talk to another billion dollar flying computer at the speed of thought?

You unknowingly opened my eyes to the trans community Chloe. I’ve never encountered nor spoken to anyone in it and I couldn’t be luckier to have the first interaction be you teaching me about very interesting and informative topics. Cheers all the best Chloe ❤

could listen to your plane disaster/averted videos all day!

So now I have to watch the LEMMINO video again about MH370, because the music reminded me of that video. Great vid tho.

TCAS is an incredibly important piece of technology in aviation but can only operate effectively if pilots accept and act on the instructions given. I can only imagine what the ATC controllers would have felt had this event ended in disaster. Great video, well explained and beautifully constructed 👏👏👏

Wasn't the latest the -30 but northwest wanted theirs to be called -40 so Douglas renamed the -20 the -40, the JTD motor was inferior to the CF6 and the -40 was more inefficient and had a poor climb rate, compressor stalls on engine 2 when retarding the throttle, the only reason they were made was for parts commonality with the 747.

Why did the DC 10 pilot not respond to the controller? Did the investigation look into this? It seems to me that their behaviour caused the situation to escalate

climb......climb now. Climb......climb now. Climb......climb now.

Hey, nice ride you got there Everyone else in the ATC:

That poor trainee ATC, he must have been mortified! 😮

Here's the problem, to many knobs, switches, levers, buttons, alarms ext. while listening to ATC, Co pilot, Flight engineer, while thinking about what your going to do to save every one and thinking about your family and that you may never see them again! No stress though...you got this. ,😃

Amazing video mate!!! Your vids make my day!

The craziest thing to me anyway about this near crash, was this happened on my exact birth day. Meaning the worst air crash to ever happen could have been when i was born which is unsettling to me

PLEASE include links to other videos in the description IF you mentioned them during the video! Anyhow, I'll go search now xD

Hello Chloe. I have been watching aviation videos on RU-vid for years now, whether it be aircraft or travel related and am reasonably familiar with most of the people or groups that produce them. I myself have started to travel quite a bit recently and have even considered joining the fray. Anyways, I just wanted to say that I sincerely appreciate you, your story, your journey and the work that you do and provide so that all of us can benefit from it. Thanks and keep em’ coming. Michael in Hamilton Ontario Canada Show less

It's amazing to me that aircraft ever collide. Just a tiny fraction of a second difference in the maneuver of one plane or the other would cause a miss instead of a collision. These two planes were changing altitude in the same direction but at different speeds and times of execution of the descent. So many variables have to be just right for a collision (or even a near miss) to occur. A hundredth of a second difference when one of the plane's pilots started their descent can make the all the difference. Then there is the rate of the descent and the individual speeds of the two aircraft that have to be just right for a collision to occur. It seems that the odds of a collision happening would be some astronomical number against. Yet it does happen, as do near misses like this.

I think I accidentally stumbled across my new favourite channel

Using fatalities/passenger mile may not be the only way to measure risk. How would the stats look if the unit of measure was fatalities per movement?

Technically the safest mode of transport is elevators btw, they just aren't mentioned in the comparison because they obviously don't fit in with the others in that category

I cannot wait for the video on Gol Airlines 1907. That's the most interesting disaster to me and I've always wanted to know more of the details surrounding it.

Plane crashes are fire bombs.

1:25 technically American airlines flight 11 is the deadliest plane crash ever.

TCAS, a legacy of PSA flight 182 back in 1978.

Excellent video as always!

a)they were two different companies, therefore two different models and b)might have been some form of communication error, whether it be human, machine, or both

Passenger: WTF is with these pilots, are they mad?! My legs broken fuck you! Also passenger at the airport finding out they were meters from a swift disastrous death: *.____.*

New prof pic this Saturday, Nice.

1997 at island was so sad !! Can be avoided at that time !! May they rest in peace ! AMEN

Very informative, and I did not know about this incident prior to watching this video.

It's so ironic that the biggest air disaster occurred on the ground!

Scary to think in a alternate timeline this actually happened, how awful man.

imagine being in either cockpit and the plane is yelling at you to either climb or decend

Bit harsh for both ATCs to serve prison time I thought

Thanks

fact:this could have been the worst mid air collision with a whopping 677 deaths

Now that's a was dangerous one . Actually flying isn't that risk free as most people think it is . But nothing is risk free in life nowadays