Pilot Misses Runway on Landing 

How a "snack" company hasn't sponsored Kelsey yet is beyond understanding. He's ALL about the snacks and thinks everyone else loves their snacks, too (ATC, etc.). Awesomeness.

I love how Kelsey integrates snacks into his videos. They’re important.

08:40 “Hey, controller, put your snacks down, my life is in danger here”… pure Kelsey 😅

Hey Kelsey, thanks for mentioning us on the dispatch side. I think it would also have been good though to clarify that we are certificated airmen and we are empowered by regulation to consider safety above all other factors. We're not just telling crews to fly halfway across the world on three engines purely because it's the best thing for the airline. We could very easily lose our livelihood for doing that - dispatcher certificates are revoked much more commonly, per capita, than pilot ones. We're doing it first because we calculated that it's safe, and then secondarily because it's the best thing for the airline.

"We paid for all the runway, so we'll use it all" - joking aside, thank you for the informative video! As a pilot in training your videos really help and are super entertaining!

Hi, Kelsey. Great video as always! This is the town I was born (São Carlos), and that place was originally a tractors factory that was converted to Latam maintenance center. The runway was the original from the factory (used for private flights at that time). Was extended a bit and received better lights. But it’s not a commercial airport, is basically used by Latam to get empty planes for maintenance.

This reminds me of when I was a flight RN and we lost an engine (EC135). I did not realize that while the helo can fly with 1 engine, it can’t land with 1 engine. Did a run-on landing on the runway which was a bit hair raising, but it all went well. Didn’t have a tow veh at the time so the three of us had to manually push/pull it 500 yds or so back to the hangar. Good times!

Just restating the obvious here Kelsey, but you have completely demystified flying to the point where I am no longer a nervous flier! Thank you!

Kelsey, Sao Carlos airport in the interior of Sao Paulo State is not a commercial airport, not even a private one. It exists because Latam (former TAM) has a maintenance facility over there. And it hosted an Air Museum, closed for many years now. It is located 215 km air kilometers (135 miles) from Sao Paulo city, and 165 km from Viracopos Campinas airport (100 miles).

Love the inclusion of the true master of the air in the 2nd clip - The Dragonfly. Incredibly agile and deadly when hunting.

Great video, however, at 8:05 I thought it was really cool when that dragonfly came out of no where and the slowmo made it look almost majestic. lol Have a great week everyone!

About 25 years ago I was on a late night flight from BOS to MCO, and at the last minute of descent the pilot gave full throttle - surprising us all onboard - and up, up we went at a sharp angle. Pilot came over the PA and informed us there were some obstacles on the runway that needed to be cleared. He chuckled at the punchline: the obstacles was a herd of deer.

Flew to Houston last week. Honestly sir, your videos helped my stress level decrease tremendously. One of our sons is an FO on the 787, and I worry less (although he flew to TelAviv a couple weeks before 10/7) because of you. Thank you Kelsey.

Absolutely love your humility and the amazing way you tell a story. You always make us feel safe and secure. Since following your channel, I have been able to encourage nervous flyers by sharing (and telling them who you are) the posts you make. In 2023 many employers do not like their staff making RU-vid / social media posts. Kelsey, I am sure I speak on behalf of the million + people who follow you, in saying that if your employer ever doubted your integrity, then over a million people would trust you more than they trust an airline. Brilliant content as always and thank you for making it so engaging and interesting.

I remember a conversation with a stewardess on a United flight back in the 80s. They had just landed at an airport that I think was in North Carolina and when they deplaned noticed local press filming. She asked one of them if they had missed a celebrity on board. The response was no, it was just that nobody had ever laned a plane that big at that airport before. Evidently not something pilots like to hear.

The São Carlos Airfield is almost only used by the LATAM maintenance center, there is no regular flights there and beyond LATAM only a few flight schools from the region and particular airplanes use it.

I told my brother in law about your channel (he’s a Captain training pilot’s at United). I really enjoy how educational your videos are and I told him you’re a fantastic ambassador for the profession. Keep up the great work!!

That was incredible time lapse video of removing/reinstalling a jet turbine engine. Great stuff!

I'm a Cabin Cleaner and here to say that you pass right by me last week in IAH airport you were in terminal B on the United Express and you were boarding one of the planes that cleaned I didn't get to say hi to you cause I was in a hurry, stay safe.

Good morning! Great video Kelsey! I’ve been on one go around due to the winds being wonky. We ended up landing on the same runway, just opposite direction. Thanks to all of Kelsey’s awesome explanations, I wasn’t stressed at all. I had to ease my seat mate’s mind, she started freaking out.

I live close to Manchester Airport, I've heard 3 bird strikes in my life from the ground (the distinct popping noise gives it away) including a popular one on you tube which was recorded in 2007. Every single one has resulted in the plane coming back and landing safety thankfully.

Watching you is so cool because you’re so calm about anything that happens when you’re flying which intern makes me think that I am going to be very calm next time I fly😂 thank you.

Great video Kelsey! 09:36 Receives (flipped the c and the v, but remembered I before e, except after c) 🤓

A friend of mine is an ex-military fighter pilot, and told me the story of how he ripped his landing gear off. It was deep winter (and we’re Canadian) and he was coming in for landing. Because everything was white, he had a hard time getting perspective. They had something called ‘impression fences’ at the ends of the runway that were these big red blocks placed to ‘give you the impression’ of where you were by giving contrast against the snow, but runway maintenance had been plowing snow around them. You couldn’t see them, and they had gotten compressed and basically turned to ice. As he’s coming in, he ends up a bit too low and clips the mound of compacted snow/ice, and rips both of his main landing gear right off. He doesn’t think anything of the sound, thinking that it was just him having a hard touch down, until he went to lower the nose. That’s when he realized that his nose gear was already on the ground, and they were sliding down the runway on the burner cans. Without brakes, it took them a couple thousand feet to come to a stop. Both on board were fine (although the plane was later struck off service). They were checked out by medical, and immediately went to the bar for several hours.

As usual, you get some good examples and lead your audience through a detailed analysis of who, what, when where , why and how! You appear to be one of those individuals who loves his ’job’ and shares his knowledge and understanding so well with us. Thanks Kelsey.

Hey Kelsey I think we’d all be interested in your take on the pilot riding jump seat that tried to pull the engine fire bottle on both engines.

Theory: The EXTREME culture of safety and professionalism that pilots operate in does NOT allow them to "hotdog" or blatantly fly in an unsafe manner. This leads to their competitive spirit coming to the fore during the landing phase of flight. The manual landing is all on the pilot and the feedback is instantaneous. On one shoulder, you slam the runway hard or on the other shoulder you kiss the runway so perfectly that the tire spinup and weight transfer onto the gear occurs almost imperceptibly. Buttering a landing is the ultimate measure among these professionals. Hats off to them all!

England loves 74 Gear... The best around... #1

And yes Kelsey, you pronunciation of Sao Carlos is accurate, great portuguese skills. Great video as always. Greetings from Brazil

Missed your usual cheerful welcoming opening, Kelsey ~ but glad at least that you didn't forget the "blue side up" at the end. That puts a smile on our face EVERY time! Thanks for all the wonderful content you produce ~ upbeat, educational, and never mean-spirited. You are terrific!

Doing 99% of flight correct and being judged on the landing reminded me of what pro golfers say… “Drive for show, putt for dough”. Another good video, Kelsey 👍🏼

I love these videos. I'm always torn between watching the planes and watching Kelsey's face. When you see the eyebrows go up, like at 0:24, you know something is serious. And when he starts shaking his head a couple seconds later, you know it's super serious!

That first story reminds me of a story I heard years ago about the aviation museum Aviodrome in Lelystad, NL. Aviodrome has an old KLM 747 in their collection. Now, the museum is right next to Lelystad airport. Back when they got it, the airport and runway already existed, but it was (slightly) too short to land a 747 on. So despite plenty of pilots claiming they could land the plane there no problem, they decided to ship it in overland instead.

"we pay for whole runway, we use whole runway"

more likely to find an engine on the shelf at SeaTac. but fun trivia, some years back, I met a truck driver who was a Boeing contractor. all he did was deliver engines. he'd drive to Seattle, pick up a trailer, deliver it to the destination, then take the scenic route home. he owned his truck and house, so all he needed was money for food, fuel, taxes, and chrome.

I recall a B52 calling in a Pan Pan for losing 2 engines to which the tower said “ah the dreaded 6 engine approach!”

My son was landing in Knoxville, and the pilot did a go around. After they landed, my son called me and made it sound like the end was near (not really he was just asking me about it because I am an engineer in the biz). I pulled the audio the next day and it was so business as usual sounding. The pilot said they needed to go around, and they were vectored out and landed several minutes later.

we had a near wingstrike during our landing in singapore when the pilot flared too much and floated, which then the crosswind rolled the plane to the right, and our right wing was a few cm away from the runway

That was a close shave!

The dispatcher ALWAYS orders you to return to the airport you started - Lufthansa did this a short time ago. They were near China and ordered a plane BACK to Franfurt/Main in Germany. Crazy.

About the second video, the telephoto lens is producing a lot of planar compression, making visual illusions of the distance and position of objects. When Kelsey said the second plane is kind of high, you can see the plane’s shadow just in the threshold, even though it seems to be over the “blocks”.

Two dangerous things my first flight instructor tried to drill into my head. The first was "Always hit the numbers". The second was you never want to do a go around. He said that if I had to do a go around I would "lose face". I once landed under extreme conditions and had to do two go arounds to make a safe landing. The older pilots actually congratulated me. As a student I landed at the Huntsville Alabama Spaceport and the numbers were actually longer than most runways I was used to so I had to take off again so I didn't have to taxi for 20 minutes to get to the mid field exit ramp.

Your facial expressions on the thumbnails are great!

Another great vid 👍 this is something we need to hear as passengers. Trust pilots (and the all the crew, including maintenance, ATC,)

Love the videos, thank you Kelsey!

I love these videos and I’m wondering if Kelsey has ever done one involving United 1448 on a foggy day in Rhode Island. The pilot air traffic communications were pretty awful and has an air traffic controller myself. It’s still terrifies me every time I hear it.

I'm wondering if Kelsey is doing a video about the off duty airline pilot, who went crazy, on board a flight, and was arrested.

That was soo close!! I love sundays !! Because of Kelsey's new videos✈️🤍❤❤ I'm here early !!

In that 1st segment, it looked like, in addition to the hill before the start of the runway, the first part of the runway before the touchdown zone was also uphill. That perspective can really mess with your mind. I landed a C152 at an airport at which the runway was at the top of a bluff along the Columbia River (Columbia Gorge Regional Airport, RWY 31). I had to stay focused on the altimeter and the appearance of the runway instead of the water/ground in the foreground.

Hi Kelsey, thanks for another well explained video

I really enjoy your explanations of videos because I like to learn and I know nothing of being a pilot or flying, but I really enjoy the depth of explanation so at least I know what somebody is talking about if I get into a conversation or if I eaves drop I understand a little bit. Thank you for your expertise.

Good morning from Chicago Kelsey. I hope you and yours are doing great today, BROTHER! KEEP THE BLUE SIDE UP 🛩🫡

After a rough landing, many years ago, on the way out, I told the pilot "you're an awesome pilot." He smiled, and then I hit him with "your landings need help, though." It took him a second to process, but he had a good laugh. Always try to leave people better than you found them.

Awesome video as usual. Thanks Kelsey!!

I dont fly much but recently i had to fly out for work and had my first go around experience thankfully 74 gear had me prepared cool experience for me

Always good info! Much thanks!

That was a very close landing, but still safe. Good job by the pilot.

Kelsy I love your content. Thanks.

You're absolutely correct when you say that landing short will ruin your day; however, a silky smooth landing can be made without floating down the runway but it takes hard work. The key is a stabilized approach ON SPEED. As you no doubt know, the vast majority of airline pilots fly too fast and as you also know, this works out just fine since the safety margins are so large as you so eloquently point out in your video. In my airline, the pilot not flying was required to make an "airspeed" call when the guy flying let his airspeed deviate more than a certain amount. I'll bet for every one call I made for flying too slowly I made 30 or 40 for flying too fast. Everyone likes to make a nice landing, so they typically fly a bit fast, fly the last part of the approach "flat" as we would say in the Navy, and float down the runway searching for the ground in hopes of a smooth touch down. By the way, crossing the threshold 30 feet high will result in landing 700 feet too long, but crossing it at the correct height by on a glide slope only one degree more shallow than normal will result in landing 1000 feet too long, all to common in the business as pilots flying in good weather try a "duck under" maneuver on short final hoping for a smooth landing. As they hunt for the runway, their cross wind correction goes to Hell and frequently the touch down isn't smooth and or touch down is made drifting to one side or the other causing unnecessary side loads on the main gear. It also upsets the passengers, especially those in the cheap seats. Fishing around for the runway from an altitude of 10 or 20 feet frequently results in one of those embarrassing "kerplunk" landings. We've all suffered through plenty of those both in the cockpit and in the back. But in my 33 year career with a major U.S. carrier, my goal was to always be sure it was someone else flying. The answer is to work your ass off flying a stabilized approach on center line, on speed, and on glide path aiming for a touchdown at the earliest safe and legal point on the runway. That allowable touch down point may vary with a particular companies procedure, and depending on the runway, may or may not be clearly marked; so know the proper aim point. At just the right instant, you initiate your flare and reduce power to idle. Back pressure on the yoke/stick and power reduction must be input at exactly the correct time and just the correct rate. The result will be rounding out at an altitude inches above the runway with a rate of descent just short of zero, at idle power, and with airspeed decaying. At that point just hold what you've got and let God take 'er those last few inches. With a cross wind you must integrate the above mentioned movements with a transition from a crab to a slip using wing down into the wind and top rudder. Again this de-crab maneuver must be initiated at exactly the correct moment at just the correct rate. The result is that you will touch down with the fuselage aligned with the runway and at the same time your direction of travel will be exactly aligned with the runway, resulting in no excessive side load on the gear and no jostling of the passengers. The less time spent in the flare and de-crab phase will reduce the time for your landing to turn into a nightmare. The downside of waiting for the last possible instant to start the flare/de-crab maneuvers is that you've only got one shot at making it perfect. That's why you have work hard to be successful at it. Done correctly you will enjoy being able to use minimum braking, minimum reverse thrust, and still make an early turn-off, sometimes cutting five minutes off the gate-to-gate time. All this requires maximum effort for a few minutes but it's pretty much what a Naval Aviator goes through on every carrier landing. Not the de-crab part of course, but putting in the hard work and attention to small details especially regarding air speed and glide path control is absolutely mandatory if you want to live long enough to have grand kids. In the airline business, this level of concentration is completely unnecessary, but it's just about the only way an airline pilot can demonstrate his stick and rudder skills. Almost every other aspect of airline flying is down to good planning before take off and good flight management once airborne. But a good smooth landing at the beginning of the legal touch down zone without floating is where you can show off your piloting skills. And really, that's all it is............ showing off. As countless RU-vid videos show, bad landings usually don't result in damage or injury. Your reward, especially as a First Officer, is that when you get to that early turn off and tell the Captain that he has the aircraft so he can taxi to the gate, you can give him your best steely eyed sideways glance out of the corner of your eye, holding it just of a fraction of a second longer than necessary; i.e. just long enough to let him know that you know he can't match your flying skill.

Great video Kelsey... love it when when analyse video clips.... thank you.... Roger... Pembrokeshire UK

Another great video! Thanks, Kelsey!

Always dig your videos and I also watch Mentour. After the Military I should've taken flight school since Boeing gave big discounts for lessons. I did missile defense (EW3 1986-90) onboard my ship protecting just under 2000 fellow souls. So I was used to huge pressure to perform and honestly I liked the responsibility of being extremely precise. It wasn't flying but the attention to detail and situational awareness was dire to protect my Marines and Navy crew. A quick Happy holidays to you and my fellow Veterans out there. Persian Gulf 1987-88 LPH-7 Guadalcanal,,, Gator Navy lol

I'm interested to hear you break down the "what could happen" with that pilot flying jump seat that tried to activate the engines fire suppression system. He is being charged with 83 counts of attempted murder.

"Kind of alarming"? Ha, great line, (but true). "Uncomfortable"? Good job, Kelsey. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

I like that you went to kind of a shorter discussion and more different incidents in the video. Sometimes you go a little long, but in your explanations. The other thing, with the last video it was shot with a very long telephoto lens so it compresses the distance between the two airplanes.

One airport that I know has it's runway also on a hill and not on flat ground - and they decided years ago that they level off the terrain up to some distance before the runway starts. They also diverted some local roads. I think, having the ground before the runway quite some feet deeper than the runway, makes the radar sensors to measure the hight above the ground level useless or less useful. You might get readings like "200, 150, 100, 10, 5" ;-) When the ground is on the height of the runway before the runway begins, the automatic height announcements are more consistent. Yes, there is the flight path and so on. There are indicator lamps next to the start of the runway, there is the ILS instrument in the cockpit, there are the eyes of the captain...

Great work again, Kelsey.

Thanks for the video

Another great Video, Always look forward to the Vids, From Cape Town SA

This looks intense. I love Sundays!

Enjoyed the video. Thanks!

Thank you as always for fantastic analyses, and your gift for explaining to us layfolk. An aside, I will not forget that tragic Asiana accident at SFO 😢.

Good stuff as usual. Thanks

kelsey we need your reaction to the alaska airline pilot who tried to turn on engine fire suppression system mid flight

About 30 years ago my husband and I were on a regional flight from DFW to Drake Field in Fayetteville AR (before XNA). It had not been a comfortable flight because of winter weather and when we got over the mountains in NW AR, it got even worse. Even my husband, who has a cast-iron stomach, got a little sick. And then we were landing-or so we thought. We were low enough to start seeing details on the ground. But nope, we’re suddenly going up instead of down and then we were making a big wide turn. At that point, either the pilot or the copilot announced through gritted teeth that they apologized for the go-around but-if you don’t already known-there’s no ground control at Drake Field. Our go-around was because there was a private plane crossing the runway. The runway at Drake Field isn’t very long and what there is of it is between two mountains-kind of like an “H”!!! When we finally got into the terminal, Mama asked where we wanted to eat lunch and I said, “I don’t want lunch. I want to go home and be sick.”

Another great video Kelsey. 74 Gear, keep the blue side up!

Oh my god, I was wondering why I wasn't seeing your content on my sub page. I binge watched your channel so hard that I didn't even realise I wasn't subscribed.

Another good show

I know almost nothing about planes so I appreciate his recognition that for us civilians, go arounds can be really scary, primarily because we don't know what happened and then imagine the worst. I was on a flight into Detroit many years ago that had to go around from what felt pretty close to landing and I was so shaken that I considered not getting on my connecting flight (and I'm a very experienced flyer.) Watching these videos reminds me of just how knowledgeable, experienced, and level headed pilots, crew, and ATC are.

Thank you very much for the debrief!🙂

I have to say, I've always been something of a nervous flyer. Watching videos from 74gear and Mentor have made flying much easier for me. I recently was on a flight with some pretty hectic Turbulence. I've seen videos of worse than what we copped which was actually somewhat comforting because I know the plane can handle it just fine. With that said, I think that if we had not been told to put on our seat-belts, it wouldn't have been too surprising to see people come out of their seats a bit. Even bumpy landings are fine for me now

13:13 ..and what is cool to _hear_ is the relaxing music in the background x)

Love the videos!

“Hey Controller Put your snacks down, my life’s in danger here”. 😂😂😂 Yet again Kelsey, your priceless comment makes these videos SO watchable. Top man, don’t dare stop being you. Snack companies take note fcs.

I love your videos Kelsey! I'm hoping I can be in your shoes one day!

Great video!😸

Ypu and mentour uploaded at the same time!!love it❤😂

i love youre videos and when i grow up i wanna be like you when i grow up keep it up :)

This guy is awesome. Perhaps the goat.

Super efficient landing well done, not using any more of the runway than necessary!

Good to see you again. Your videos have been off my feed for a while now. I thought you were taking a break or something. I watch a lot of Aircrash Investigations on TV. What struck me the other day is that on some incidents, like when a plane loses its vertical stabilizer, engine, or even the entire tail cone, the pilots don't seem to have a means of visualizing the damage and realize what has happened except through some annunciators and feedback from their controls. I know that on some airlines external belly camera views are available to passengers (something I enjoy btw). Would it be useful to see the external status of the aircraft? I wonder if a similar system like on each wing, dorsal fuselage, and making them manually pan-tilt might be useful, or are incidences too rare for it to be practical.

good video. Wake turbulence behind a heavy definitely to be avoided...

Love your videos Kelsey! You explain the incident so eell and in layman's terms so we can fully understand what happened. 👍👍❤️🙂 george 😎🤿🦈🦑🇺🇸 TEXAS

Another great video as always, Kelsey. KTBSU

Does anybody love this guy as much as I do ? I want him as my pilot on every flight that I take in the future. I remember some flights where the pilot braked hard but don't remember which airports or the conditions. Hearing him talk about reasons why it's done makes me wonder. I love flying, have never been in really rough conditions but have felt the plane "bounce" around and get buffeted by strong winds before. When we are about to enter areas of this type the seat belt sign comes on and the pilot tells you to remain seated so we are given a "heads up". Never have I panicked when any of these things have happened. For those that have a fear of flying I know his explanations should help with that. It's more risky to jump in your car and drive to work every day today than it is to fly anywhere.

Amazing content

Thank you Kelsey for sharing another awesome video. I’m just wondering 💭 How often do the airlines change the tires on the big Jets?? Blessings, Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸

I really do enjoy your roasts Kelsey! Grand vid as always!

@9:40 Dispatcher “Reveices” the call. 😂 Kelsey, either that’s a major typo or you’re trying to see if we’re paying attention.

jeezzz that was a close one....