The Full Story of All Crashed Flights in Fallout 4 

Since when do planes run on nuculear reactors???? *realizes everything in the FO universe runs on nuculear power Oh, right

The glowing sea without nuclear fog looks like fallout new vegas

I find it funny how flight 1981's smuggling manifest says the goods came from Chicago, at least we know Chicago is rotten as hell in this game's world.

There’s at least one you missed, I found one of those stingrays on a highway overpass, a little north west of the bunker hill area. And that one actually looked pretty undamaged, it was just sitting on the highway, surrounded by cars.

I love how in the hidden compartment there's just "$2500 cash." The USD was supposed to be hyperinflated in the Fallout world. A stack of pre-war money is a $10,000 stack of bills which someone estimated inflation to be 2800% compared to today due to the price of the Capitol Post in Fallout 3 being $56 compared to what you'd probably expect to pay today for a newspaper, which is around $2. Meaning they were smuggling the equivalent of approximately $80 USD. Totally worth putting in all the effort of smuggling.

Its funny how without the engines how quickly these aircraft fell. It kinda tells how aerodynamic these things were that they couldn't "glide" that far. (or at least I'm getting that impression) Ive always noted how in this world, efficiency wasn't the answer as much as "Can we put a bigger engine in it?".

I wish we could have fixed up any of the old world tech in these games. I just can't stand to see all these old broken machines left to rust and rot. Plus, I want to drive around in a salvaged tank ala Fallout Tactics.

Kind of an interesting fact about aircraft and EMP is that the russian Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-25 Foxbat had most of its internal electronics encased in Vacuum tubes so in the event of a thermonuclear detonation the plane would be unaffected by the resulting EMP.

wouldn't it be cool if we could find a holotape of someone rushing somewhere safe before the bombs drop and than them walking outside afterwards and get there reaction

Presumably the planes were nuke powered which would've made the engines electric, not fuel based. So an EMP would actually probably disrupt the electrics of the engine despite the nuclear power not being effected. That first wreck didn't see the blast probably because it wasn't faced that direction, not to mention their altitude would've had an effect. Plus I believe the other plane was in the process of landing. The other factor is not just the EMP, but the shockwave. Which may have caused the planes to break up AS they were falling, making it harder to find all the pieces.

As a pilot, I appreciate the detail they put into that radio calls. Most of it was pretty good, I'm pleasantly surprised :D.

Actually the EMP Shockwave from the nuclear blast didn't just knock out the navigation systems on the airplanes, it took out all of the electronics and shorted them out. That's what a electromagnetic pulse Shockwave does.

with Skylanes 1981, if you take Nick Valentine with you, he tells you how it crashes by saying "The bombs didn't bring this plane down, it was the highway."

OMG, I'm seeing the jet liner model for the first time, and feel an uncontrollable desire to build it in Kerbal Space Program.

this immidietly reminds me of the plane scene in Metro: Last Light, they reached Moscow just as the bombs fell, those were just families come home from vacation, it really shows the despair: Pilot: What the hell was that?! Co-Pilot: Shit! we're losing power! Pilot: Domodedovo tower! Flight 76715 here! Mayday! Mayday! Co-Pilot: Tolya! We're going down! *multiple nukes falling down and launching from the silos* Co-Pilot: Oh my God! Shit, shit, what's going on here?! Pilot: Give me a hand here! Co-Pilot AAAAAAAA! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! Pilot: Come on! get a hold of your self! Co-Pilot: Come on! Come on! Right engine stopping! We're going down! *debris smashing through the windows of the plane* Co-Pilot AAAAAAAA! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!

whenever I play Fallout I always think back to ox's videos like he's some sort of omniscient being

am I the only one getting shivers down my back listening to the black box recordings?

The quality of the content you produce is consistently high.

Did anyone think of Metro Last Light's plane scene during this video?

"This one is probably my favourite of the crashed ships" I never knew boats could fly

6:35 It's the same flight, and the recordings don't conflict. A lot of people know that a nuclear blast generates an EMP, and know that it would knock out electronics. This happens because an EMP actually generates a current as it passes through electronic systems because of a rapidly-alternating magnetic field. Electronics are delicate enough that a relatively minor EMP could fry them really easily, even at considerable distance from the blast. But that effect is going to occur in any electrical circuit, including generators. If the EMP is minor and the generator can withstand the current, it's fine. But if the EMP is major, which the ones from nuclear detonations are, it generates pretty considerable voltage spikes; a naturally-occurring EMP produced by a solar storm in 1859 fried telegraph systems throughout America and Europe. (It also caused auroras to appear all over the world. In case you're wondering: yeah, that could happen again, and in fact almost did in 2012, but missed us. Yes, it would do unbelievable damage and probably end civilization as we know it. No, we would not be able to do shit about it.) That voltage spike would be enough to wreck a lot of bigger generators, and probably enough to set fire to smaller ones -- like the one in a jet turbine. Especially if it's running, as it'll be dealing with its operating voltage already. So: the flight is heading toward Boston Airport. Pilot A is on the line to Air Traffic Control, and Pilot B is talking through their heading information and such for the flight data recorder. The nuke goes off, and produces that famous ridiculously-bright flash of light -- the same one from the intro sequence, by the way. The pilots saw it, too; Pilot B says "What the hell?" and Pilot A gets off the line with Control for a moment. The EMP travels along with it, causing a voltage spike in both engines. The left engine catches fire, which Pilot A reports to Control. The pilots try to recover, but there's no power to either engine; the right engine might not be on fire, but it was fried all the same. The instant the bomb fell, their fate was sealed. So the flight was brought down by engine failure, but the failure was caused by the EMP from the blast. I'd wager a lot of aircraft in the Fallout universe were brought down in exactly this way.

I got the time table up on the crash in the glowing see. At their given altitude, they may have seen the glowing flash from the New York, Philadelphia, of DC bombs. As well, the flight recorder was in the cockpit, but the radio equipment was further back. This may mean that the tower which recieved the mayday signal was talking to the radio operator, and not the pilot

i remember a while back i was just wandering around the swamps by the highway around the bottom of the map, when all of a sudden i saw one of those stingray planes, with mostly the top parts sticking out of the highway bridge. (this was on ground level btw)

Theres also a rocket engine in a forest, i found it one day and i activated it using the terminal next to it, lets just say, you'll see what happens when you find it

Here is my big question. Transistors were new at the time of the war, this is why most everything ran on vacuum tubes. But tubes (like almost all pre-transistor/microchip technology) is immune to EMP.

You sound like a younger Tom Hanks

There's a crashed sting Ray jet on top of the highway bridges

Well, if anyone remembers from the beginning of the game, there was a shockwave. So along with the EMP blast, there was a shockwave that knocked the rather *fragile* planes around, or it completely forced them out of the air. Or, if you're unlucky, you're too close to the bomb...

13:13 Horizon probably purchased some aircrafts from Skylines before the war, and until they could apply their own logo, had to just put a stick on decal.

It's possible that the reason for the conflicting reports is because Flight 1665 collided with another jetliner.

9:13 - Skylines Flight 1981: There is a hidden compartment behind the cockpit which not many people know about and is not shown in this video... Imagine the fuselage has 3 floors. You can easily access the bottom floor, middle floor, and the top floor where the cockpit is using the stairs. However the cockpit floor actually has two compartments. To reach the hidden compartment, using the rock face to the right, jump onto the roof of the plane fuselage and then drop into the plane through one of the square cut outs on the roof (cut out furthest away from the plane's nose). There you will find loads of loot, I found 4 fusion cores there when playing 'Hard' difficulty. The hidden compartment can be seen at 12:03 at the top of the screen Edit: Since then I only play on 'Very Hard' and realised every few hundred or so container loot pick ups I still get 4 Fusion Cores. I found out recently this is because of the 'Scrounger' perk

2:39 hey Liberty Prime!

Hey oxhorn, the blinking light is a Navigation light, it's used so that other airliners know how big your aircraft is in the dark.

This has got me thinking; what happened to all the cross-country flights when the nukes hit? Many of them would be far from any military sites or population centers, so what happened to them after the bombs? Did they try to land in the smoldering ruins that had replaced all the airports?

There’s one of them sting rays on a highway

I think the difference between tail name and flight name indicates a Codeshare agreement between Skylanes and HorizonAir. Operator uses their name in flight number, on ticket etc while the plane actually belongs to the original owner. Like how KLM flies you on Air France, United Airlines shares Turkish Airlines planes for European interlinear transfers.

if you bring nick to flight 1981, he talks about the plane, who it hit the highway trying to land

they is a stingray on the highway in concord.

There is a Stingray jet on the overpass near Carvaga assembly plant.

So I had a sudden urge to look up when the movie "Airplane" came out. As it turns out, in 1980. As in, the number before 1981. As in Skylanes Flight 1981. Coincidence? I think not.

What is this? Air Crash Investigations??

The Stingray kinda looks like like a mix up between two of the Nazi jet aircraft, the Ho 229 and the Me 262

You missed the stingray jet on the skybridge.

No one: ATC: «rEqUEsT eMerGeNCy lAnDInG»

Ox, the crater house crash was actually carrying a radioactive cargo, that blue box has radiation symbol on it...

With Skylanes Flight 1981, Ness, a character found in the commomwealth , gives you a quest to clear the plane and she explains the backstory.

2:17 the model kind of looks like a miniature model jetwhich would be cool if you could find it on shelf or workbench in a pre war home or office. Also, about the different names on the planes, maybe Skylane used false markings or names on their jets to misguide authorities about their smuggling business.

There is a stingray crashed on a highway somewhere, I remember walking across a gap in the highway and jumping onto the stingray.

I saw a Stingray deluxe on one of the huge road bridges once. Can't quite remember where it was though, area-wise

For Flight 1665, when the Nuke hit the shock wave hit the plain a sit was headed North which causes destabilization on the left engine, with the engines Nuclear Core at critical it burst taring the wing. The plain than grounded just after the final Mayday call. Once the front of the fuselage was in the dirt the tail end spun out taring the rest of the aircraft apart.

I got the random encounter one time. She really wanted what was in that compartment!

There’s an underwater crashed one that you can see while flying in the Vertibird to Mass Fusion. I spotted it in your video on the Mass Fusion tower. I’m not sure if it’s the same one as the sunken one at Spectacle Island but I think it’s different as it looked like it had a wing nearly sticking out of the water.

having a mode that causes pointless explosions every time you land in power armor is super annoying. May just be me, maybe everyone else loves a quick flash of light to draw their eye when looking at crashed plane models.

On one of the broken up rocks nearing the invisible wall on the right-hand side of the map, there is a really little plane (which my friends and i are assuming a star wars Easter egg) since it looks exactly like a tiefighter

I do not own the game, but this channel is fantastic and consistently draws me back.

Love your videos...you make me embarrassed that I've only played FO4 for a total of 30 mins since it came out. I hope to find the time to really dig in someday.

If the Minutemen had jets, They would have way to much. Artillery, flares AND settlements. The vertibirds are what make the brotherhood worth joining in terms of gear.

Hay for the glowing sea flight, the EMP would cause engine failure. So both parts line up. My guess is the plane was hit by the EMP, and its engines started to fail, and the tower tried to get them to land after the bomb went off. Perhaps the plane was far enough away at the time that the EMP only partly damaged the electronics so they slowly failed instead of compleatly failing.

The one underwater with the tugboat carrying wreckage could have been a prewar wreck that was being taken apart when the bombs fell, salvage ops of real crashed airliners underwater in real life look very similar with barges loaded with parts going back and forth to the shore

Okay I’ll admit you are a very good story teller so I’ll subscribe and turn on notifications:)

EMP doesn't only mess up navigation my friend! True reason why the planes crashed: their engines were fryed! How are they supposed to fly without working engines and computer systems?

10:00 That's UH-1 Huey low RPM alert sound XD

I love how the light on flight 1665 is flashing on and of it looks very cool in the glowing sea

What about the marked vertibird site in the glowing sea? Is that just for fast travel purposes?

*Answer to the plane mystery*: The US gov't knew the nukes were coming so they basically created a untold no fly zone. In other words they shot it down with a ground - air missile, explains why it hit the engine.

The Horizon Air flight with Skylanes markings can be explained. Skylines likely leased the aircraft to Horizon Air and it was still under lease when the bombs dropped.

Those little things saved the game for me, always liked the story behind the "pre-war" relics

6:38 What is REALLY interesting is that New York and Philadelphia (he first two targets by several minutes) are both south west of Boston putting them to the back and right of the pilot. What was the flash from the north he seaw?

I wish they made the Skylanes 1981 crash site into a settlement. I personally think it would be cool to live in a wreckage of a crashed plane, plus the area could be made very defensible!

I kept Erikson alive just cause i wanted his wolf.

You gotta feel sorry for Flight 1665. They were damn near at ground zero when the bomb hit, and based on the FDR must've been literally knocked out of the sky by the blast.

From what I see. These wreckages were supposed to be used for modding! At least for the models. Keep that in mind modders out there!

I'd like to see more history into the cars of fallout

One small thing you missed is there is a second Skylines flight with a hidden compartment that Ness' key also works on, and that at the plane where you complete her related side quest there is a steamer trunk you can access by climbing onto the outside the cockpit and drop down onto through a hole in the roof.

as someone who has flown a plane before, engine failure can happen from a nuclear explosion depending on how far away it is as the heat generated from such a thing turns humans into shadows on a wall by ground zero. Not to mention every Nuclear Detonation causes to some degree a electromagnetic pulse .

That was actually a believable radio conversation between the controller and the crashing aircraft.

the tug boat one was more than likely a Prewar crash that was being recovered at the times the bombs fell

lol i love liberty prime is strolling far away in the background

"It's likely that you won't have the ability to pick this lock when you first find the aircraft because it's a master lock." If the Lock Picking Lawyer has taught me anything, it's that Master Locks are the easiest to pick

The stingray could escort BoS vertibirds and give air support to BoS ground troops instead of flimsy vertibirds circling until they inevitably get shot down

Just found this channel and glad I did. I was always curious about a lot of the odd, out of place, and goofy things. Plus I like a good story. :D

I want to see a video about the history of stimpaks and radaway and how they came to be. You also make really entertaining videos in a good way.

Watching Oxhorn's videos means I need to play the game with a far more critical mind and pay close attention to my surroundings. The way the lore and details enhance the experience is worth it.

An airplane wouldn't just fall out of the sky because an EMP hit. It could easily continue flying (at least gliding without power). It's not like an EMP would immediately bring the plane down. That's like saying you would immediately crash your car if the engine suddenly stopped working.

If you go to the Vim! Pop Factory, you can get some background lore on Erickson. Check out the Vim Mixing Terminal specifically in the factory section, along the East wall. He's the one who locked Grun up, and is apparently averse to hunting humans when there's other hunting in abundant supply. He also remarks that he finds the area soothing (I can't parse whether he means Far Harbor in general, or the Vim! factory in particular), and notes the opposite effect on the other super mutants. I know it's not unique for Super Mutants to wear bracers, but I thought it was interesting that Erickson wears just one metal bracer over the furry one on his left arm. Probably just a coincidence, but it reminded me of a PipBoy. Supposedly "pure, unmutated" humans like vault dwellers and the Enclave are the only ones that retain their intelligence when exposed to the FEV, and I thought the left-handed bracer might be a nod to that.

Love your videos looking forward to more with the new up in coming fallout

10:50... I've found that Cait can pick the lock with reasonable success

You know what Ox? You make damn good videos.

What happened to the runways at Boston airport, did it sink into Boston harbor or did bathesda forget to add it?

I love finding the black boxes inside the planes

hi oxorn your vids are amazing i'v been watching your vids since the first one and wene i am having a bad day your vids always brightiness my day up thank you for beeing awsome for a few years

Not sure how Boston Center wouldn't have seen the nuke when she was talking to Skylanes 1665, but it's apparent she has not from both her tone and what she actually says. I also find it hard to believe the pilot of 1665 didn't see the flash from the detonation. The relay tower audio definitely makes it sound like engine failure unrelated to the nuclear detonation

When the Bomb dropped, the flight was downed by An EMP Blast threw the engine.

There is a mod that creates a stingray bomber. It works like Minutemen artillery. Throw a flare, choose the payload, wait for results.

That encounter with Ness just happened to me this morning lmfao

Watched this and about half way through starting putting 2 and 2 together (well more like 2 and 0 because it's kind of the same username): You used to do those WoW machinima videos under Oxhorn Productions like inventing swear words. The wedding one floored me, my friends GF is named Lacey, and I keep saying it in that hoarse Tauren voice from that series.

There is a stingray deluxe on a highway and it's squished

I’m so addicted to Fallout. Im always learning new lore

0:38 the sting ray is technically a biplane

Airlines actually do sell each other planes. I'm not sure about loaning them, but I wouldn't be surprised.