Terrifying Moments as Boeing 777 Stalls at 41,000 feet | Deadly Automations 

both pilots did exactly what they were supposed do; turn OFF all automation & fly the damn aircraft manually! Bravo!

This channel is probably the best discover I’ve made on RU-vid this year. This guy deserves 10M, so professional. Thank you man for all your work you’re doing for us, highly appreciated

In both cases, passengers were lucky they have had experienced pilots who knew how to react and counteract in out-of-manual situations. During those years, both Qantas and Malaysia Airlines were 5-star airliners, out of 5.

As a software developer, these are my worst nightmares. That some undetected glitch will harm somebody.

In the end, it all comes down to aviators aviating...kudos to the crews of both flights for overcoming planes that were fighting against them...great outcomes...

"After a brief discussion the pilots decided to land at the nearest airport." I bet that discussion went something like: Captin: LET'S GET THIS SHIT DOWN Crew: HELL YEAH

It never ceases to amaze me that this channel can produce professional level videos monthly.

It wasn’t stated here but I saw Captain Sullivan speak about the second event and he resigned right then and there never to fly again. He said reliance on computers to fly just isn’t safe anymore and you could never convince him otherwise after that event. This is coming from a US Navel Pilot who has seen it all.

I’m glad these flights did not end in a loss of life, frightening to watch these aircraft stall and nose pitch down

So interesting to watch this video. I was 18 years old back then and took this flight with my father and sister. And I never thought i would be alive and here today safely. TheFlightChannel surely made the best animation of the incident i have seen! Good job! ☺️

So glad they both had good outcomes!

Back in the days when I used to fly with MAS airlines it has that distinctive perfume smell in the cabins. Good memories. Thankful everyone survives here.

My heart stopped while seeing and hearing that sequence of events. Grateful that all occupants survived.

This channel is so addictive ❤️. Undoubtedly one of the best aviation channels on this planet. It is so informative that I can even become a pilot today!

Pilots fighting automation seems to be a recurring theme in crashes or mishaps like this. You'd think there would be a quick and easy way to instantly disable/override ALL automation in situations like this, emergency full manual control or something of the like.

I'm starting to think Malaysia Airlines never had any luck with their 777s..

Imagine how scary it was for everyone on board when the plane stalled.

what terrifying moments those must have been. amazing video quality and editing as always.

Apparently it was this incident that led to the 787 having two separate IRS switches instead of keeping the single one that the 777 had. This was due to the fact you couldn’t just turn off the individual IRS. It was supposed to be fault tolerant and not needing manually isolating.

Great outcomes on both flights. Could you even imagine the rush of adrenaline that was going through the pilots veins during those episodes. They kept their cool and put their knowledge and experience to work when they needed it. Great job gentlemen and great job to the flight channel

Captain Sullivan explained that in the situation they were in, he thought back to training and did what he remembered. He'd let go of all the instruments in the aircraft instead of pulling and tugging and stuff. And this allowed the aircraft reposition itself in a stable enough condition for them to land. He resigned, said that pilots shouldn't depend on the computers of the plane so much. Also, the passengers that were injured were reeeeally injured. The ceiling of the aircraft was smashed from all the banging of heads. One passenger passed out after hitting their head. One passenger had twisted their foot/ankle all the way back, but still forced themself to get up in pain and strap themself inside the seat. Omg, Captain Sullivan is a ✨hero✨. Never forget that.

Thank goodness the pilots were able to land the planes safely. It's a testament to their abilities to be sure. I know I can speak for others and myself in expressing appreciation for your efforts in creating these videos. Thank you!

So happy everyone survives, but how terrifying. Another great video!

This is when the Pilots earn their money. Thanks for another professional, quality video.

The environmental factor is believed to be gamma rays corrupting a bit in the computer. It actually happens more often that one might expect.

I always stay buckled in unless going to the restroom.

Só glad everyone was okay! These videos are amazing! I look forward to them coming up. Thank you for all your hard work!!

Nice to see pilots who actually know how to fly airplanes.

Lessons to be learned: Perth, Australia doesn't like airplanes.

Unfortunately the FAA forced me to retire last year, simply because I turned 65, just two months after I had passed my required nine month, 2 day simulator proficiency check rides with flying colors. It's not easy being forced to leave a "job" that was your dream since you were three years old. I spent the last 33 years flying for Continental/United, and the last five years as a Captain on the 777. I was hired May 11 1987, just as all the automation you see today was beginning to come on line, so I have flown both sides of that coin, sort of speak. Everything from no autopilot 727's to, well the 777. Unfortunately I have also witnessed the very gradual but steady decline in actual piloting skills the dependence on all this automation has created. To the point, that even in the face of its obvious failure, as was the case on both these flights, there is an extreme reluctance to just shut it all down and just fly the airplane, manually. This point was really driven home to me one day, back when I was a Captain on the 737, on the first leg of a three day trip. The aircraft was a 737/900 for our flight from IAH to ORD. As usual I met up with my F/O in the weather briefing room one hour prior to departure to review all the paper work. As we did we saw that the auto throttle system was inop. Yeah, an inconvenience, but that's about it. And even though he said nothing immediately, I could see by the confusion on his face, it stopped in his tracks. And when I asked him what was wrong, he responded, "so how are you going to fly the plane?" Cars don't have auto throttles. Your muscle cell memory of how much throttle to utilize in order to meet a certain condition is so ingrained you never even think about it. And although in training certain engine values are given as target setting to use in different circumstances, he had no feel for where that would be relative to throttle position. So, I told him, "You are flying this leg." And, after a while, he stopped chasing his airspeed and began to get a feel for it and actually enjoyed it. As for turning off all the automation. Well, you can't turn off ALL of it, as both aircraft are fly by wire. But I know in a Boeing(never flew an Airbus)you can take it down to basic stick and rudder, including the throttles. Airbus throttles are different. Although they move like on a Boeing. all you're doing is moving them from one command gate to another. And, from what I've been told, everything between those gates is just dead space, with no affect on engine performance.As one Airbus pilot told me. "The throttles are there just to make you feel like you're doing something." Some emergency checklist do require you to to try to bring back online some automation features, but based on what was presented here, that did not appear to be the case. It appeared the Captains did it on their own, which made the situation worse. All this automation is extremely complicated and intertwined. What seems like a logical thing to do, or try to do, could very well be what gets you and everybody else killed. You follow the checklists, TO THE LETTER. If that doesn't work, you turn off everything you have a switch or button for. But that does not mean you EVER pull any circuit breakers, unless specifically instructed to by the checklist. Not that these guys did, I'm just adding that. You turn off what you're ALLOWED to turn off, leave it off, and hand fly the plane.

Im a Perth local and i had never heard of the Malaysian Airlines incident until now! The Qantas incident however was all over the media and was a super huge deal here. Never thought id see my city pop up on this channel but glad both incidents werent fatal.

For the event described towards the end, it is thought to be the result of a bit flip in the binary code, from a single event effect caused by high-energy atmospheric particles, as described in this video. From about 15:15 time stamp. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AaZ_RSt0KP8.html

I was so excited for the Malaysian flight that landed just fine, and then the 'three years later' screen came up and my heart absolutely dropped in my stomach. So glad that everyone survived.

This channel I’ve been watching since around 2015 ❤️ and still to this day. Not as much as before but I still always have you in my notifications :)

The second flight being due to an environmental factor shouts out loud that there was a corruption due to 'cosmic rays'. These can cause an occasional 'bit flip' which would explain the misinterpretation of the data. It's a hardware error due to the lack of error correction down at that level ... that in itself is quite a disgusting but rarely mentioned decision made by INTEL.

As many people have said before if I ever heard the TFC music on a flight I'd break into a cold sweat - Great work. All your films are short, factual and informative. I've learnt a great deal from all of them. Thanks

At the beginning of this, I'd thought of the Qantas flight. I'd heard about it from a television documentary. The pilot eventually retired, stating that he no longer would place his life in the hands of software. If I recall correctly, he said something to the effect that today's control systems would probably kill him.

There is so much going on here and so much to be learned. Many Aviation experts claim that electronic operation of the aircraft is safer because computers can think faster and their nerves do not wig them out in emergency situations. There is merit in this line of thinking considering the fact that there have been so many air disasters caused by flight crews panicking and in moments of high adrenaline essentially making wrong decisions and forgetting things. On the other hand, here we see plainly that relying on electronica can be equally or more dangerous. Fascinating.

I’d like to say thank you for adding more information to the vids. I’ve been a big fan for months now, but don’t know a lot about aviation, so I didn’t always understand what was happening. Stalling, and other terms were ones I didn’t know, so I’d have to look them up. I really appreciate the extra explanations. 👍🏻

please do psa 1771. ive been waiting for it for ages. i have not watched any other documentaries as i want to watch yours

Hey just wanted to say thank you for your videos. They are always extremely interesting to watch and I can't imagine the time and effort you put into all of them. How come you only did 1 where you narrated instead text on the screen? Anyways, keep up the great work!

The pilots were thrown out of their seats. Just imagine they'd been injured or knocked unconscious as happened in the cabin 😳 This was a scary episode. So glad they made it back in one piece.

After people are flung around the cabin, at that point, you just assume you're dead and that the plane will definitely crash. So just imagine how you feel when the plane lands safely without a single death.

Why do pilots insist in re using the auto pilot after events like this? The first thing that goes trough my head is flight computer is getting erroneous data ... take over at least until the end of the flight.

Can’t stop watching these. Wow I think this was the first one I saw where the stall happened and it ended well! Love to see it!

Thank you for your time and much effort put into these videos. Well done. Great but terrifying outcome for this flight.

I’ve never seen TFC put 2 episodes in 1 video!!! Nice 👍🏽

Thanks for the information. This highlights the fact of the over reliance of electronics and computers to fly an aircraft. Too many complex systems means more things that can go wrong. It’s a good thing that both planes were able to make an emergency landing safely.

love from Malaysia 🇲🇾

The editing is absolutely top tier

Not exactly sure how I stumbled upon this RU-vid channel, much less understand my current fascination with these videos and the anxiety they seem to stir up within me… but I dig it. One of my new favorite channels.

I still don’t understand why the pressure applied on the yoke (or side stick) to pull the nose up didn’t have any effect on the airplane, considering autopilot was disengage.

Too bad about the spoiler at the beginning ..... when an aircraft behaves badly I like to mentally go through the system architecture to identify a possible root-cause ..... if you tell at the beginning what system was defective it takes the surprise away. Other than that, a very good video.

I can't imagine what goes through the minds of passengers as these scenarios are occurring.

thanks for this lol . tak pernah tau pon ada kes mcm ni kat malaysia

Flight Channel: the only channel with a video that says something like ADIRO and I say to myself "don't pause, you'll learn exactly what it is in the next shot." I learn so much from every video. Thank you! ❤️

great presentation as always--the on deck recorder never has heard the word f""" so many times as these guys struggled to control the plane

Wow, I was reading about this incident on a book just this afternoon. What a coincidence!

This is so informative! Thank you TFC

When you see qantas airlines and you can be calm because you know there won't be any casualties 😂

This channel have a good contents with plane simulator and accurate informations. You deserve everything sir ❤

Wow, great thinking and action by the flight crew/captain who did not give up! I can just imagine how hysterical the passengers were while this was happening.

Nice cross-fade on takeoff. That was cool. I have to say, this channel is super polished, and the content is slick in story timing, graphics, music choice, etc.. Even the commercials seem to be timed perfectly during cliff-hanger moments! 🤣. Anyway, good job!

Amaizing!!!! Love the editing.... Thank you for sharing it....

Well done to both flight crews for getting the planes down safely.

Perth: Im aware of the effect I have on ADIRU

Amazing content! Keep making these kind of videos too. Not only accident videos.

I always say this about your channel...GREAT WORK!! And the people really appreciate it 👍💜

8:52 Somehow they survived that, with no trainings and no specific warnings for the failed ADIRU system. Glad it wasn't a death. If so, that would be my worst year since I was born in 2005 and typically a Malaysian.

I've said it 1000 times. This is why people should fly airplanes, not computers. At the very least there should be one simple switch that gives full manual control with no automation involved.

great video as always. keep the work up

Great video, as usual. Not a great advert for pilot-less planes though. You deserve so much kudos and reward for this channel which must surely be making a huge contribution to air safety, well done Sir! ✈️🍾❤️

What is it with Malaysia Airlines and the 777

This reminds me of the time I was on my Kabota z724x zero turn. It had rained and I was mowing on an extremely steep wet grass embankment closed to a 5ft drop off. I made the mistake of cutting in too close (pun intended) to the edge of the incline and suddenly felt the mower sliding at will toward impending death. I pulled back as hard as I could on both drawbars and at the last second felt my left back wheel dig solidly into terra ferma, allowing me to stop just an inch away from eternity's edge. My pucker-up gauge, as you might imagine, was reading a solid 10. And, although I was only the only soul onboard that day and no one was around to hear my inward screams, by the grace of God I survived to tell the tale. After changing my pants, I spent the the remainder of the day weed eating.

Flight Channel, you should sometime give us the behind the scenes of how you come up with these great videos. We really appreciate the efforts.

Really love the realistic graphics & sound. Thumbs up!

The second flight was the result of a "Bit flip" , in which high energy particles interact with the electronics flipping the bytes of information, in this particular case the angle of attack..Vertasium just had this exact flight explained in depth on his channel. Explains it much better than I just did. Thanks for the awesome job as always.

What a nightmare! Once again shows the advisability of keeping your seatbelt firmly fastened throughout the entire flight. A bet quite a few of the passengers involved vow to never fly again.

This is without a doubt the best channel on youtube.

This channel got me interested in airplane videos. I’d have to rate it to at disaster retelling. The amount of original audio and video is particularly good. It wouldn’t be fair to “advertise” other channels on here, but two I rate as up there with The Flight Channel are one which doesn’t do fatal accidents and the one mentioned by someone else here, whose Discord server I’m on and who runs a really big operation. The second video I’ve seen on other channels and needs a more thorough retelling - they named the Captain, Kevin Sullivan as the “other Sully”.

When I watch these videos, all I’m thinking is “God bless pilots”.

As soon as I saw the second jet was from Qantas I knew the outcome would be favourable as the airline has had no passenger fatalities or hull losses in the jet era.

This channel is what got my interest back on aviation. Now it’s my dream.😁

I'm Malaysian and this is first time I know about the incident

It sounds like the investigation never found the "marginal" hardware failure in the A330. The failure is just a hypothesis.

I am but a simple layman and enthusiast, but it would seem to me that these systems are designed to compensate for dangers and automate corrective manoeuvres accordingly - but why are pilot inputs unable to override this? It seems perverse to enable a computer the power to take almost full control with zero resistance...the pilots should always remain at the top of the hierarchy with inputs, in order to provide a last line of defence against data corruptions or errors. Lack of faith in the ability of pilots? Lack of training? Is it just cheaper to invest in a computer than it is an employee? Shocking really.

" Research shows entirely pilotless planes could save airlines $35 billion per year "

It is obvious that all aircraft need to have built in diagnostic systems that alert the pilots in real time as to the fault codes and also allow the pilots to perform emergency reboots without losing control.

This is why I wear my seat belt at all times when flying because this is a massive fear of mine, the plane suddenly dive bombs or rolls over.

Don´t you just love it when computers work agaisnt you? Wow scary.

This reminded me of Air France 447 where pilot kept the nose up & ended up stalling the plane and hitting the ocean at about 2 at night with 240 people on board.

Great video and kudos to both crews. Thanks much!!!

CASE: _"We should ease."_ COOPER: _"Hands where I can see them, Case! Only time I ever went down was a machine easing at the wrong moment."_ CASE: _"A little caution..."_ COOPER: _"Can get you killed, same as reckless driving!"_

I think when a pilot make a decision to take over control... no computer or system shud have the capability to deny it... can't they make a master switch or something to just give pilot 100 percent control?...these kind of software malfunction are same like max airplane.. they haven't solve it since 2005

Did I just understand that practically the same error occured in a Boeing 777 AND an Airbus A330??? WOW! Thats frightening!

thanks for creating this. Hi from Malaysia

That guy in the lavatory on the Qantas flight: "Oh man, my mouth was open!"

These pilots are so skilled... i wish i could be them (in terms of skills.) Btw, these videos scare me kinda. Great job though! Keep it up!

Thank God both aircraft were able to make emergency landings and I hope the flaw(s) in the systems were corrected.

2005 Malaysia Airlines Flight 124 - The First Boeing 777 accident without deaths... 9 years later, in 2014 happened 2 crashes with Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines with more than 500 deaths...