Plane Cleared to Land With People on Runway 

The team is not just the crew on the aircraft - it's alll of you on the griund, especially the forefighter who train and hop to never have to use that training in a majot incident. Communication is key and saves lives. Al the best to you and your colleagues at airports worldwide. Unsung heros, all.

Don't call it his final communication 😂

In the 1980's, I worked at an international airport that was shared with the FAA and the Air National Guard as a fire fighter. I was surprised that the tower didn't declare an Alert II when they spotted the fire and possibly an Alert III since the plane was on the ground. And maybe they did and I just couldn't hear it on that frequency. But that would have removed all worries about passengers on the ground. And maybe they did declare the alert and it just took a few seconds for all the controllers to hear that an alert was declared and to start following their procedure and order the go around. Back in the 1980's either alert would have closed the airport so that emergency vehicles can cross any runway or taxis as needed. The Operation manager might declare the airport re-open once verifying no FOD or anything else on the runways while we were still on the field but maybe things have changed since then. Once the airport was re-open we would have to be in contact with ground control if we were having to cross runways to get back to the station. Also, we appreciate communications directly with the captains too. The captains also like having trained eyes on the plane once they get it on the ground because they really can't see what is going on outside or under their aircraft until they get out.

​@@go-away-5555But it is though 😂, the final radio communication before exiting

As a person who lived through a house fire, where we could barely get out: you have no idea how much we appreciate Fire Fighters!

First thing I noticed was the passengers WALKING away from the bottom of the slide and calmly walking off to (presumably) the lawn nearby.

I feel like they got lucky with their load of passengers as well, a load of people who actually have brains in their heads. You don't see that in most people anymore.

I would think the people helping off the end of the slide are the ones who were sitting in the emergency exit row and were instructed to do that task. They always ask if you're fit and able to help in an emergency before takeoff.

​@@NM-yu3fcSo many pax think the exit row exists to give them extra leg room, it's nice to see they were listening! 👌

I feel Kelsey gave credit where credit was due. He specifically mentioned the flight attendants.

Wow what a jerk that passenger was. Hope he got banned for risking people’s lives due to his arrogance and selfishness.

On another Qantas evacuation, with a brake fire (with communications lost with the engineers on the ground), the F/O went down the slide with a fire extinguisher in his hands. He overbalanced (probably because of the fire extinquisher) and broke a limb. I can't remember if it was a leg or arm. That's another reason not to carry something.

And to ride the gray dragons…

I often remind myself that it’s not about the snacks!

Giving us food and water is a secondary task for the FA. They're main is keep us safe and informed.

I bet the cabin crew were reveling in the fun they had, and always hoped they would get the chance one day to deploy the slides.

@@mballer I'm fairly sure it wasn't in these conditions lol

@@THErealOGse I'm pretty sure it was certainly a different trip back to the hotel, with a story to tell the rest of their career. It's not like it was a raging fire right outside the windows. I would have liked to have heard the captain's announcement to the passengers. Pretty sure he was calm and reassuring. A good time was had by all!

While it’s of course true. The Flight attendants are very important. I suspect Kelsey also has in mind “keep FA happy with me they will make sure he gets the good snacks”

Very true. I'm pretty attached to my Surface Pro but it's not worth someone being maimed for life. Anyone caught on the slide holding an object that isn't a lifeform should be no-flied between 10 years and eternity.

@@avengingmime There are a few videos on YT with emergency evacuations where the plane is on fire and you can see (from the interior) people going for the overheads and (from the exterior) people coming out with carry-ons and roll-aboards. In many of these instances people died closer to the fire. I get that in panic situations people who aren't trained how to behave in an emergency don't often act rationally but a little pre-mediated thought about what you'd do in that type of a situation can go a long way in saving someone else's life. My "stuff" just isn't worth it.

@wizardmix Id like to add to this, when on a plane, if you have life saving or urgently needed medication put it in a pocket on your body - do not leave it in your carry on bag. In case of evacuation, you will not need to worry about it that way. I have medication like that and I always make sure its on my person while on a plane not in my carry on.

I probably wouldn't take the time to get an overhead bag in an emergency, but I'd grab a bag in front of me under a seat. I carry medical supplies with me so I might need these.

Lock the overhead bins for take off & landing.

Exactly what I thought....referring to whole gear.. Controllers cannot know tire positions for all different planes.

or may be she’s aviation enthusiast

Exactly my thoughts, I assume she meant the gear closest to engine number 1, which is the left side.

@@ravipratik3305 Nah, she hates airplanes 🙃 Clearly, the ATC person on Tower duty that day likes aircraft enough to make their job related to aircraft. I think that only a truly irrational person would both dislike aircraft and seek to become an Air Traffic Controller. It's as implausible as an auto mechanic that doesn't like cars, you know what I mean? The job doesn't pay nearly well enough to attract people that don't have some form of passion for the subject matter in both cases. In any case, the situation is likely exactly as the thread starter indicated, the ATC was referring to "number 1 gear" as in "on the same side as the number 1 engine".

Yeah, me too. I think Kelsey’s off base here. I’d never say that, normally. I don’t think the pilot ever thought there was a right side problem.

Number 1 gear, number 1 tire, who cares, she told them the fire was on the left side using the number 1.

I agree. When I was ground crew we were trained to count the engines and main gear from left (captain side) to right. The furthest left main gear assembly and engine would be number 1, then 2, 3, 4. I suspect the tower controller may have been trained the same way.

Excellent point. Like the number 1 engine is on the left facing the cockpit.

Sooo which one is the 74 Gear one?

@@StorymasterQ Well--That would be on a REALLY HUGE plane, of course! 😁😂🤣

Kelsey you did a phenomenal job explaining everything here. Your best video yet! Thank you for always showing gratitude to the entire crew, including the flight attendants. Having trained as one long ago, I appreciate you reminding the public that their #1 purpose is for safety & that they are well trained & very assertive in emergencies! It looked very well organized. Great to see.

i fly with an underseat chihuahua. leave or carry out?

@@hank_roberts"i fly with (...) or carry out?" Just claim that he or she is a passenger and must be evacuated.

Good point

yep , wallet , cards, my pack of smokes n passport , the rest of the shit is usually worthless anyways and in some ways i should get rid most of it :)

Make that all IDs and even in you home country. Do you want to go to the DMV?

@@Wtfukker very well said :)

Exactly 🙏🏽💙💙

It’s good that everyone is remaining calm and professional, but I also thought that exchange was hilarious.

OK ... now lets try the same evacuation on a Frontier or Jet-Blue flight. Many on those flights just AIN'T getting off the airplane without their carry ons.

@@oddshot60 Not that many people listen to the safety announcements on any airline as much as they should. I feel that they should mention some of the reasonings behind these rules such as leaving your luggage behind to not only make it quicker but to Kelsey's point not damage the slides.

I wish we could get the American congress to work half as well 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@@marjanusa8385 True, that!🥰

I bet you a quarter that his calm explaining voice coming over the intercom helped keep the passengers calm as well.

@@hcfornwalt nah, need the quarter for gas money!😂🤣😎

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographernever know when that one drop of gas might come in handy

Also the ATC lady doing some wild multitasking

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer???

Everyone I have ever dealt with at ATL, has been amazing. Great staff, great gate agents, great air crews. This video shows how solid their tower is, and I really appreciate that. That doesn't mean I don't absolutely loathe that airport, heh. (I spent several years going to DragonCon flying in and out of ATL. After a couple years of that, I just decided to start driving from Maryland down to the convention.)

@@Tirani2 I only flew into ATL on two occasions in my life, but I'll never forget the time that was in the daylight, how I could look out my window and see planes that didn't seem all that far away, paralleling mine! I knew they had to be far enough away for safety, but it surprised me. Every plane was flying just as steadily as could be and I was impressed. My husband, now retired was a helicopter pilot for a little over 52 years and I got to ride with him several times. I remember being so proud of him when I would see him in the front, flying the chopper. Both his mom and I got to ride with him together on one of her visits and she never stopped talking about it. She was a lot of fun to be with and such a good sport about things. I still miss you, Mom. 🥰❤

My first impression was it was a cg recreation. Maybe some of the later shots were actual.

It seemed like there were 2 planes coming in for a landing. Did she let a plane land on an adjacent runway?

I'm glad people are no longer told to remove their shoes when going down the slide - that was the most stupid thing ever. They just needed to make the slides tougher, and apparently they did.

@@scotterickson6332 The other plane didn't land, did you not notice that?

And Kelsey did his best explaining and teaching work here!

The first flight I was on the "stewardesses" came around and passed out little packages of two chicklets. 1955 or so.

Evacuation and safety is number 1 job for flight attendants. Most of the training is about safety.

@@North_West1 I hate when I've seen the videos where people are having tantrums when they are asked to co-operate with the rules. The rules are there to protect everyone concerned. There are so many self-absorbed brats around these days. :(

No Chinese passengers

I've been shocked the times I saw evacuation videos where people clog the aisles trying to get their stuff to take off the plane. I was sitting here panicking because of that and I was home, sitting in my chair at my computer and I was yelling at the people to never mind their stuff! Just get off the plane alive!!!

No Indian passengers. Besides, I always have my passport and money on my person. So what if you lose a change of underwear or your laptop -the insurance company will replace it with new stuff.

That's a good motto. Mine is 'How would an adult behave?'

> youtube will probably swallow it. Assuming you did reply to yourself, it sure did. Would be better if you post the title so people can look it up themselves?

"BA038 777 Crash ATC Recording with transcript" will find it

There should be better communication with the passengers in cases like that. I was on a flight that was delayed and they let us know before we reached the gate that our connecting flight was being held and we had 15 minutes to get across the airport and board. Unfortunately I think that extra time put that flight crew over hours as once we got there we were informed that they had to bring in a new flight crew and ended up waiting another 90 minutes. But keeping the passengers informed goes a long way towards reducing stress and making everyone's experience better. It's a lot easier to forgive inconveniences when you know the airline is dealing with problems and trying to make sure everyone is taken care of.

@@roberteltze4850 Every time I had to fly ORD>CLT one summer, my arrivals were delayed due to lightning at CLT, and every time, I was advised to hustle over to my connecting flight to ILM because it was preparing to depart. That usually required walking from B13 to E36, just under 3/4 mile. The first time, I arrived out of breath, and the agent told me that due to the lightning, my connection was going to board for another 30 minutes. The next time, I arrived and the plane was there, but up on jacks with no nose wheel. The mechanics arrived--with the wrong replacement wheel. Took them another 45 minutes to get the right one because they had to cross the active runway to do that. The next time, I just took my sweet time, boarded the connecting flight a bit late, then sat on the tarmac for 30 minutes after another ground stop due to lightning. Never made sense to me how some airlines' internal comms could be so poor.

Besides the aircraft emergency situation, there are other factors that can do exactly the same thing. The first one that comes to mind is adverse weather events. Snow, rain, thunderstorms, and the like can all shut down an entire airport for hours at a time, and yet they usually are able to resume operations at least by the next day at worst (with exceptions (as in longer delays) being made for things like being directly in the path of a hurricane or tornado, or subjected to an earthquake, of course).

@@roberteltze4850While I agree with you and suspect you are probably not one of these people, most people don’t listen to, understand, or comply with most announcements in the plane or airport.

​@roberteltze4850 If it's due to an emergency in progress on the ground or another airplane still in the air, they absolutely should NOT inform the passengers of ANY of that! That's a guaranteed way to absolutely panic the crap out of lots of people already stressed from flight travel and being crammed together around strangers. Not a good idea!

It's the Captains's job to remain calm and make sure all goes well. He doesn't want anyone to panic and die because of it and he has to maintain being able to think on his feet, which is what this Captain did beautifully. I have the utmost respect for the Captain and his crew in this video and the passengers. And he was so appreciative toward the Air Traffic Controller for all she did and how she had kept in communication so well.

I’m handicapped and elderly and I have to wear cumbersome leg braces. I doubt in an emergency I could get out in time.

You saying "wasn't a pants on fire emergency" reminded me of something interesting: If you're wearing synthetic fabrics and you go down an airliner escape slide, those synthetic fabrics might melt from the heat of friction on the escape slide. It's not a good idea to wear pantyhose on an aircraft for that reason, same with any synthetic fabric, even blends. That slide is designed to dissipate energy as you go down it so it's not supposed to be slippery. Thanks to it not being slippery, the energy has to go somewhere, and the only place for it to go is heat energy. And no, they can't make the slide more slippery either. If it was any more slippery, you'd go flying off the end of it and on to the hard tarmac, and I don't like being presented with that possibility when I might have been woken unexpectedly from a nap I was having while on the flight, to the sound of flight attendants delivering emergency procedure briefings.

@@44R0NdinGood advice. Also, hose and other synthetics will melt rapidly and stick to your skin if you have to run through flames. I looked all over my 10-9 pages and can’t find the word “tarmac” anywhere. What is that?

@@richwightman3044 Tarmac is the asphalt or concrete paving material making the major surfaces of an airport intended for aircraft to taxi on, land, or take off from. So basically it covers both the taxiways and the runways without having to specify which material they're made of... or at least that's the definition that's in my head.

You're not lying!

@44R0Ndin Hopefully concrete at least on the apron; otherwise on hot days the pushback driver is trying to ease the nosegear out of its little divot in the asphalt and cringing at the thought of possibly having knocked a poor FA off their feet during the safety briefing. I was SO happy when our ramp in Albany finally got concreted. No more trying to "gently" rock planes out of the tar! Still froze to the pavement in the evil upstate winter though...

Ì don't need training to close down the parallel runway. That is common sense. You shut down that parallel runway, whether they are evacuating or not

There's no alcohol for Pilots who are flying planes.

No we don't. That's the crux of it all. We are ALL capable of utter inhumanity.

I agree, she most likely referred to the #1 truck, not the individual tire. The TWR coordinated with the ARFF crew from their station located south of Runway 9R, adjacent to Taxiway R. According to the established protocol, no vehicle shall move on any runway without prior communication with the TWR. The TWR instructed the ARFF vehicles to cross Runway 9R via R7 N and move towards the emergency vehicle on Runway 9L. This indicates that the ARFF vehicles were already positioned next to the runway, awaiting clearance to cross.

Besides what others have said, there's the expedient factor of "If you saw it or learned of it first, it's your problem to deal with" regarding which ATC position handles what kind of emergency. If they were taxiing to the takeoff runway and had a stuck break start smoking, it would likely end up being GND's problem to deal with. But since this aircraft had just landed and hadn't been officially handed off to GND yet from TWR, it happened on TWR's watch, so it's TWR's job to handle it as they see fit. Now, the option does of course exist to hand the problem off to another controller that might be more suited to handle the emergency in question (or have more resources available to do so), and in fact that's routine for in-flight emergencies, but in this case where things are happening quickly and it's on an otherwise active runway, it seems like the TWR controller on duty was capable, confidant, and comfortable with with handling it by themselves. Of course, that's just approaching it from "general principles", each airport likely has protocols to determine who's job it is to handle emergencies based on what kind of emergency and when/where it happens, and those would override anything I've just said of course, because those protocols were probably created in response to something happening that they wish to avoid, even if the thing to be avoided is just a point of minor confusion about who's actual job it is.

ROTF!! That seems to be what people try to do these days.

The evacuation activities are for passengers and crew only.

I wouldn’t get off without my dog. 😢

It was far from effortless. Yet, it looked that way, due to the pilots & crew doing their jobs superbly and clearly communicating to their passengers, like Kelsey stated. Thanks Kelsey.

@@AndreasS.-mh8ti I know it's FFFFAAARRRR from effortless. Had a family member who was a flight attendant for 25yrs and she would tell us the stories. I watch him and The Mentor Pilot. They truly have helped me as far as flying.

Might not need to be a pilot to get that reference, F4's are particularly loud jets, and if you have a door open in the tower you'll learn about it very quickly when an F-4 does a low pass at high speed (particularly in afterburner). I think that's what a "Door check" is in any case, did I get it right?

In the old old days the bombers used to fly over the range tower to make sure the doors were closed before they proceeded back to base. They would fly very low passes. The range controller would look up and let them know. And yes, The phantom II would give us full after burners. Same with the F16 falcon. We had a catwalk around the outside at the top of the tower.

I think he reacted to a video game video.

@@chrishebert5672 I think it's more related to the incident in August 2023 in Atlanta. 😉