Places Planes Don't Want to Fly Over 

I used to live near the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California. There were times that the planes would get so low near the cars. It was awesome!

My great uncle was the first American pilot to fly over the Himalayas at night during WW2. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service.

I remember the 2010 volcanic eruption and the no flying allowed. I was working I a nursery at the time, and it was so quiet when we were out in the garden! It was really Eerie and odd. You don't realise how often a plane flies over till its not there.

3:07 Yes that would be the case for the jet fuel used in USA called Jet A (freezes at or below -40 °C or −40 °F), and the jet fuel almost the rest of the world uses called Jet A-1 (freezes at or below -47 °C or -53 °F). However, there is also Jet-B (freezes at or below −60 °C or -76 °F) which is used for its enhanced cold-weather performance.

I have always read a lot about aviation. While my dad and I were on an airliner about 30 years ago, the jet hit some rough turbulence. My dad saw the wings flapping and went green. Attempting to comfort him, I told him "The wings of this craft can flap about 17.5 degrees before snapping off." He informed me that was not helping him, and he didn't want me to speak for the rest of the flight.

I'm gobsmacked they landed safely in an active volcano And weren't found for rescue for another two days! Absolutely amazing!!

14:28 in this segment, we could also include Gibraltar Airport because a motorway is crossing the runway, Thimphu Airport in Bhutan because of it's geography

Mount Everest height just clicked to me. Just go outside, look up for a commercial plane and that's how tall it is. Wow.

The British airways flight that went through the volcano ash was such a heart stopper when you watch the ACI videos of it. Amazing piloting by the crew

All seasons 0:37 Tibetan Plateau 4:00 Lava Landings 8:37 Copter Crater

In June of 1966, my family was flying to New Jersey from Texas, Austin Texas to be exact. When JFK was killed in Dallas in 1963, Governor John Connally was also shot. The day we were flying out, suddenly there were men with guns on the runway. Then a black limo drove out and several people got out. While my father seldom went to NJ with us, this year he did. He leaned over and told us that one of the men was the Governor. He and his party took over the last few rows of seats and we were bumped into first class. It only takes an hour to fly from Austin to Dallas, but after we were in the air, one of Connally's people came up and invited my father and mother to met with them. It was because my father was known to the Governor. So, not exactly scary, but it seems that after being shot in '63, Connally always flew in the back of planes - at least while he was still Governor.

3:26 this led to major redesigns in how anti-ice works in aircraft. For anyone who wanted to know 😅

While commercial flying holds no fears for me, as I regard it as a boring bus ride just with wings, I also always have ear problems. I get high internal pressure at higher altitudes, making me basically deaf until it clears. I greatly enjoy flying on small planes, that stay lower in altitude.

I am a pilot and I have never flown over any of these Thankyou for spreading information BE Amazed. We need more people like you that spread information to new pilots and non pilots alike Edit: I am a Qatar Airways Pilot

I don't fear flying. I fear crashing.

FYI - the average air temperature at a height of 30,000 ft is about -45C, so a plane would not avoid an area just because the surface temperature could get that cold. Fuel tanks are insulated.

I loved your pronunciations! No idea if they were correct (I know the Icelandic volcano isn’t) but you said it with such authority and confidence and so quickly, you deserve applause 👏👏👏👏👏😄

I have flown over the Pu'u'o'o crater. Granted it was inactive at the time, but the weather was bad and making the controls very shaky. It was also the same day as Kobe Bryant's death!

Its not what they want. Its what they are told to do. You can not just fly where ever you want with a flightplan. So its not up to the pilots, its just how fligtplans are made

I'm 1 of that 40% I'm literally terrified of getting in a plane

There are some aircraft (like some A340s) that actually have the same oxygen bottles for passengers that the pilots have, as the chemical oxygen generators don’t last long enough to descend. Qantas 747s had these too, because one of them blew up and, ironically, caused a rapid depressurisation, so some aircraft do fly over the Himalayas out of necessity.

Princess Juliana airport is actually in the kingdom of the Netherlands, but not in the Netherlands, luckily klm stopped flying fish the 747 to Sint maarten

I've always had a huge fear of flying and I'm wondering why I even clicked on this video if I knew it was only going to make my fear worse!

I was actually on one of the tours over Kilauea, it was amazing! When flying over the summit, I could feel the heat coming up through the floor of the helicopter.

In most of these situations, even if there is an engine failure, most large jet planes like that have a glide ratio of 7:1 to 25:1, and pilots would just have to make an alternate landing at best glide speed.

Not only that, but when liquid gets near its freezing point, it starts to thicken and become more goopy. I can imagine that would cause some kind of problem with the engines

In 2015, my wife and I were flying to Florida, but we had to fly to Paris and get another flight from there to Florida. We got on the plane, took our seats and, when the plane took off, nearly panicked as the wheels came up! It sounded like the plane was going to fall apart. We weren't out of the woods yet, either. We were supposed to be met by someone, as my wife is disabled, and we were also on the other side of Paris airport from where our connecting flight was departing from! We got to the plane in time, luckily. The flight was nearly 10 and a half hours. We got to Florida around midnight. It was like walking into an oven when we went outside. While we were there, we got hit by a hurricane!

I’m literally watching this in a flight lol.

The pronounciating of those hard names is very complimenting!

The big chunk in America on the map is hilarious. first few airports up there so limited reason to fly other than puddle jump regionals from the mid sized cities to the...towns. second its all fly space for the US Air Force, I grew up in Wyoming and would watch the fighter jocks do aerial maneuvers, you could see the contrails all the time, sometimes they'd buzz low to the "deck" and sonic booms would shake the house. Area is frequented by Offutt, Malmstrom, Colorado Springs, Minot, Ellsworth, Mountain Home, Hill AFB. No FE Warren cause that's a missile base and has no runway.

Soon or if not now Disney will no longer have a lot of their perks and allowances. It will be a great to see them close down for good.

actually at the british airways flight 9 all four engines did start up but the crew tried to climb to around 15k feet when one of the engines failed again

My uncle died in an airplane crash in the Himalayas.

I am literally going to Arizona via plane, so thanks for making me tremble

I’m a retired Corporate Pilot and I’ve flown over Cuba at least 4 times , I’ve landed at St. Martin Airport many times and I’ve stood at the beach watching planes landing. It’s an awesome site. If you do proper planning there should be no issues. I’m now 71yo and I miss flying very much.

Flying from Los Angeles to Las Vegas there are an amazing array of military installations that you cannot fly over. Need an 'air map' & they actually flash hugely bright lights at night with particular flashes to let you know what the runways are. This goes for municipal airports & military. You must to keep your wits about you, not to mention being aware of huge mountains to avoid you running into.

u put so much effort in these videos and i really apriciate that

I moved to Hawaii and had my drone, I usually check in the app for restricted air spaces and the place I went to was clear in the app, when I got there I see the NO DRONE signs

We flew into Mexico City once when Popocatapetl was erupting. The pilot did a bit of a loop to avoid the volcano as it was chucking lava bombs around. He apologised bit those on one side of the plane had a good view of it. The problem with the Eyafjallajokull eruption wasn't lava but clouds of ash at high level across most of NW Europe. You do not want that stuff sucked into your engines.

You could have mentioned the street crossing Gibraltar airport. Actial interference between planes and trains happen from time to time at Egelsbach airfield south of Frankfurt. There are 4 electrified tracks east of the runway. Once a pilot managed to cut the cables of all 4 lines and crash the plane.

Bros never gonna loose a 2 truths and a lie

I grew up flying. Our biological father was an Air Force pilot. Our biological sister was afraid to fly. She thought if the engine shut off, they'd fall out of the sky. So, our biological father took her up and shut the engine off. To show her, airplanes have this thing called a glide ratio. When I was having issues an a teenager. Going flying in our airplane. I'd look down at all those small cars and all those small people, and it would put into perspective of my issues.

Well sorry to be the party pooper BUT M.t Everest is the tallest mountain above sea-level. The tallest mountain in the world though is a mountain or volcano in Hawaii and it's halfway submerged.

The new screencap is much better, I was like well of course they won't fly over the Himalayas!

I have once had a flight over tibet in a small single prop plane. If there would have been an emergency landing, we would have been lost. The worst flight experiences, i ever had were commercial russian domestic flights in the far east.

Couldn’t researchers use drones to test that theory of cold/warm air vortex on the mirny diamond mine? Like have several drones surround the outside recording then have one go into it? Not just that but use some sort of scientific instrument/tools we are not in the 1950’s so there has to be some sort of scientific tool to help?

Temperatures at 40,000 feet, a typical altitude for long range routes, run from -40 C to -60 C. Tibet is not different at that altitude.

The British Airways captain had the best and most British announcement I've ever head. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Eric Moody. "We have a small problem. All four engines have failed. We're doing our utmost to get them going. I trust you're not in too much distress, and would the senior cabin crew member please come to the flight deck."

You mentioned turbulence a few times, and I went thru the worst air that probably 99% of people have never experienced. On an L1011 coming home to Indy from Las Vegas. We were over the Rocky Mountains when the plane became a roller coaster. Those up or without belts on had a very rough go. We were going up/down in 200 feet gulps. The oxygen mask actually deployed. They were swinging around so much it was hard to grab one. Some of the overhead bin doors opened and now luggage was added to the chaos. We descended and it got WORSE. Only by climbing above did we get out of it. We diverted to Denver Int and landed safely. They grounded the jet pending an inspection and they transferred us to another. It made the news in many places, on USA Today, the Times...all them did the story. After that, those little bumps you normally feel don't even phase me! lol I had a lifetime of turbulence in one go.

I love flying

Sir Mt. Everest lies in Nepal and not in Tibet. Please check your facts. You've alwasys been a good content creator so keep growing and keep posting such informative videos.

Interesting content. Maho beach is nice for plane spotting. What about Gibraltar Airport that has a roadway that runs across a runway

Also, in higher points in the atmosphere, doesn't the air get thinner, thus planes needing more fuel to maintain altitude? Also, where i live in the UK we have had both volcanic ash and Saharan sand on our window sills and doors due to storms. Couldn't Copter Crater be fenced and filled with landfill?

I absolutely adore flying and everything airplane related. But I would not feel comfy if my plane's route would go anywhere near that unpredictable North Korea 😮‍💨

Parts of major cities, especially NY City, aircraft are banned below certain levels of altitude as well. Wherever the President is, there are also temporary 'no-fly' zones put into place

These were great! Thank you so much. Love your channel!♥️🦋

Places to avoid: 0:00 Tibet, due to high mountains and the cold 4:00 Volcanic locations, due to Lava 6:40 2010 mass flight cancellations in Europe due to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. 7:00 1992 helicopter landing in the active Pu'u'o'o crater of Kilauea. The crew survived. 8:38 Copter crater, Mirnõi diamond mine, Russia. The air temperature difference in a huge hole is considered dangerous. 10:00 Holy ground in Mecca, because of a supposed magnetic anomaly due to Kaaba. 12:00 Risky runways: 12:20 Gisborne airport, NZ, due to an active rail line. 13:30 Princess Juliana Intl. Airport. Planes approach 30 m above a beach. 14:30 No-fly nations: 14:44 North Korea, due to the missiles it's launching on and off. 15:50 Cuba. 17:00 Imrali island, Turkey. Used as a prison, and is prohibited airspace (thumbnail image). Specific places: 17:47 Area 51. Obviously. 18:58 Space air, due to rocket launches in at least ten different U.S. locations. 19:56 The locations of heads of state and government. 21:30 Two U.S. theme parks. 22:00 Specific restrictions for large events.

Mount Everest isn't the tallest mountain it ijust has the highest elevation. The tallest mountain is Mauna Kea from its under water base (key col level) to it's peak.

I live in fairbanks Alaska and we fly all year long! We have -50° below . ✈ fly all over the state.

Planes don't "actively fly", a plane is flown. Pilots make calculated decisions, not planes 🙈

Thanks for sharing this video, Be Amazed. 😎👍🏻

(2:07) Mt Everest is NOT the "tallest" mountain in the world. Denali is the tallest mountain in the world. Everest is the HIGHEST but NOT the TALLEST. The title of highest is measured from sea level to the peak of the mountain. The title of tallest is measured from base to peak with no reference to sea level.

Gisborne NZ, the rail line south got knocked out of use in either a storm or earthquake, so no long distance services to Gisborne , just the local train enthusiasts service , which would be periodicly run on an excursion . Same train line stops for trains at Wairoa , then it's road , or a much safer landing when flying .

The temperature reason is interesting considering that when airliners are at cruise altitude they are flying in -40 F or colder!

There’s always a temporary flight restriction over launch facilities like the Kennedy Space Center during launches. On aeronautical charts, areas that are used for space launches have a rocket symbol by them.

At altitude on polar flights, the temperature outside the aircraft is routinely -70C or colder. So I’m dubious that pilots are afraid to fly above Tibet because it’s cold.

No talk of the Antarctica (black sun - our magnetic north)

40% of Americans have a fear of flying 3 of those people are me. ( yes I have a 120% fear of flying) Water in fuel is a major problem, but usually it’s just a foreign non flammable material in the fuel , as a mechanic in the middle one of my duties was to does fuel samples, which was mostly seeing how much water was in the fuel as due to pressure problems fuel tanks are vented so air with water vapor enter and condense in the fuel , sometimes I had samples that were half water and had to drain of gallons of fuel before I had acceptable fuel. ( the water is heavier than the fuel and the sample is taken from the bottom of the tank at a sump that hopefully collects all of the water. )

I live in Arlington, 10 minutes away from DCA and also 10/15 minutes away from the White House depending on traffic. There isn’t 30 miles between the airport and the White House. And depending what side you fly in from you can see the White House on your left hand side

The presidential protection one with the planes just flats out reminds me too much of the movie Olympus has Fallen. Don’t watch it if u hate blood, swearing, and death.

Hmm interesting 🤔

The Tibetan plateau while Temps and updrafts do play a part, it's also if there was an emergency, the nearest diverting airport is often hours away, and there isn't any terrain where you could put the plane down with any success. If you were able to put your plane down, typically any rescue would be on foot.

I love how in a few of those places, he DRASTICALLY hypes up the danger, ignoring the fact that they would NEVER happen

Then there are temporary scary places, like hurricanes. Living in south Louisiana I've flown near enough to hurricanes to see how big and scary they look, for real (wasn't too happy to fly near Mt St Helens while there was still visible plume, either). Not sure to what altitude hurricanes can affect planes, but video inside the hurricane hunters' planes indicate you need a strong stomach and lack of rational fears.

Around the 5:00 mark with BA-9, and that volcanoe incident, id suggest folks watch the Mayday series, as when they covered that story a bigger and bit more terrifying story came to light. When the crew initially flew into the cloud they encountered St'Elmos fire, something attributed to flying into thunderstorms but which an airplanes radar can often detect, and either avoid or navigate through, but there in lays the achillies heel, the radar at that time (dont know if theres been a fix yet), could not detect volcanic ash and other dry particulates, making the ash cloud invisible to radar, and further invisible if your flying at night. Talk about yikes!

I feel like everyone that don't know the difference between the definition of the highest mountain in the world and definition of the tallest mountain in the world are absolute numpties. Mt. Everest is the highest mountain in the world because of how high above sea level it is. The definition of the tallest mountain in the world refers to the mountain with the largest total elevation. That's why Mauna Kea with a total height (the elevation from base to summit) of 33,496 ft. is the tallest mountain in the world.

I remember the 2010 Iceland volcanic eruption. WWE had done a show in London and the superstars that were there had to stay there that week, so the Smackdown roster had to perform on both Raw and Smackdown that week.

It's amazing how twice British airways took big risks, like freezing and volcanic ash, and yet there 0 casualties, incredible!

In the summer of 1980 I was flying from San Francisco to Anchorage with a stop in Seattle. Unfortunately I have forgotten which airline although Northwest Airlines is a possibility, as their pilots often played the role of tour guide pointing out many features below over the PA system, especially on this route. It was a clear early evening flight, and in those days it was not at all unusual for airlines to fly mostly empty with very few passengers, so there may have been only 15 or 20 of us on this flight, possibly a 727 or similar plane. Recall that the Mt. St. Helens eruption had occurred that May. As we headed towards Washington state, the pilot announced that he would give us a real treat and asked everyone to move to a window seat on the left side of the plane. At that point he put the plane into a steep, left banking 360° turn, giving us a clear view straight down into the massive crater left after Mt. St. Helens blew its top completely off. With being able to see into the jaw of this massive hole, while severely banked over in a commercial airliner like never before or since, it was the most thrilling plane ride I ever had in my life. Not to mention, in those days everyone got a three course hot meal with a split of wine and real silverware.

i love all the videos made they have so much knowledge

I dont like how sensationalized aviation fear is. You can emphasize dangers that are present without making it sound like every emergency is immediately life threatening

I saw poop on the kabba. That bird was either unable to fly away, or it is not the only bird who does not worry about local concerns

I got down here in a ufo 🛸 at a dock lake clearing back in 1983 February 17th 10 30 am

On the Mecha topic, even smaller middle eastern religious structures are generally forbidden for aircraft to fly over. While flying for the military, we are unauthorized to fly over any of them while deployed

I thought Disney was blackmail, buy, bribe then beg

I’m super impressed with how perfectly you pronounced those names-!! 👏🏻👏🏻

I’m not afraid of flying. But, I don’t like any kind of aircraft to fly over my home. It’s an irrational fear. But, I usually dream of a helicopter flying too close to the building. One dream the airplane was gliding. Because, I didn’t hear the engines and it was chasing my family and I like a Spector. I am scared of airplane crashes more while I am on the ground than I am in the air. I don’t know why. The worst thing about flying is going through security and how tightly the plane is filled in cabin class. If I get upgraded to first class, it’s like flying when I was a little girl and there was more room to move around.

Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai wow who named it?

4:25 I reworded that part like 16 times and still can’t get enough

Pu'u'o'o is such a good description of a giant volcano.

I’ve been to that beach in St. Maarten, it’s such a trip to see massive jets fly right overhead

People can fly over Area 51. Commercial jets don't because their routes are filled out in advance. Small private planes fly over it all of the time. You just have to request permission from the control tower. It's restricted because the test missiles, bombs and aircraft there. If they aren't testing anything on that day, they couldn't care less if you fly over.

i have a soaring pilots license myself and have been flying over and using thermals of these excavated mines multiple times. whilst it is true that the heated rising air has to come in form of colder air from somewhere its not quite true that it just works like a huge vacuum cleaner sucking everything in thats moving in the airspace above. usually those "air packets" as they are reffered to somewhat often are "sucked" in from all around the rising thermals. thats what you feel in form of light gusts at sunny days when e.g. stading on fields edges shifting color from brown wheat to green grass. those are detatchments of hot air pockets sitting close to the ground in darker areas through so called initiating bubblesle at an airflow breakaway edge in this case being the green grass field, resulting in the usable thermals. with that i dont want to say that you dont get any downwinds over these mines. you surely do and they can be dangerous if you dont know how to work with/ around them but once you pushed through the sinking air you are most likely to get a really steady and strong upwind to a hight between 700 and 2400 meters depending on the weather and time of day and with exceptional conditions maybe even more

I love the irony of the Mirny Mine segment talking about how planes never fly over it, when the centerline of runway 07/29 of the Mirny airport is within 100 meters of the open hole.

Gibraltar should have had a mention, 1 it's a very short run way 2 it's right at the side of a mountain that can cause serious cross winds and 3 it's got a road running through the middle of it

Sort of out-of-date info: With Falcon 9 there are a lot more than 37 space launches in the USA each year.

Gisborn's ATC is also RTC (Railway Traffic Control).

In phuket Thailand also have Beach where airplane land.

Honorable mention to Mount Salak, which has had a large number of accidents, causing it to be dubbed the "plane graveyard".

6:30 WOW! Unbelievable skill by the crew.