The Pilot Who Crashed Twice (Lübeck Airport Crash 1987) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN 

I loved this video alot!. btw. are you going to cover the crash of iberea flight 610?

Very good video, I like the calm manner of narration very much. However, you got one thing wrong: Uwe Barschel was found dead in a bathtub in a hotel room in Geneva, Switzerland. This was officially ruled a suicide but there are loads of circumstances that do not add up.

Oh disaster breakdown could you do a double feature of Lapa flight 3142 and delta flight 1141 next Saturday? Both flight crews broke the sterile cockpit rule but the Lapa flight crew broke a rule of no smoking in the cockpit, Both flight crew failed to do their checklist correctly, and however the difference of Both flights is how the crews react on take off when things start to go wrong!

@@zr550b yeah I'm Avington that one lined trimmed out. Looks like I made a mistake somewhere, give it an hour or so to process

Well, I'm not sure about interesting but certainly tabloid, even sensationalist and verging on the Gothic!! Despite the short time only which elapsed between that awful accident and the politician's subsequent death, I also don't ascribe anything suspicious to the circumstances surrounding it. His actions regarding the dirty tricks with the media, suggest someone under huge pressure and not handling it well. Presumably, no foul play was discovered in the events pertaining to his death by drug overdose which was deemed suicide by a coroner? I say presumably because I don't recall specifics being given. My main concern however, is that it is not stated - and is therefore not possible to discern from this video - what happened in those crucial minutes and seconds before the wing struck the radio mast. Dare I say on other such channels, even if unknown, I think mention would have been made about whether either of the pilots were familiar with Lübeck Airport - and thus with the requirement to maintain a minimum altitude of at LEAST 53 feet (realistically 60, in order to have even the slimmest margin) on the approach. It also either wasn't stated exactly or again,I don't recall, other than something like that the radio mast was situated "several hundred yards" back from the start of the runway. It IS clear that this was an extremely old school, hand flown landing. However, even flying like that - and even in an older (first?) generation Citation - that leaves a fairly wide number of variables which might apply. I'm not a pilot, but I recall in certain ILS approaches, a chart is available to the pilots which advises what altitude the the airplane must maintain at the corresponding distance (to both keep clear of the terrain and manage the plane down at an acceptable angle which from recollection is usually 3 degrees). Furthermore, there are various of such parameters which can be preprogrammed into the aircraft computer - thus relieving the crew of the manual task of controlling at least one, sometimes more, of such parameters. The auto throttle, for example, might adjust the engine power so as to manage the speed on final approach, leaving the crew to the glide slope and direction only. Likewise, it wasn't specified whether there was a CVR and/or FDR and if so, whether or not they were recovered and if so, the level of damage they sustained and what, if anything, they revealed about the decisions and actions of the crew in those critical pre-accident moments, whether the crew had deviated from standard procedure and if so, why. We also get to hear nothing about the analysis of the wreckage and whether it had been determined if there was anything wrong with the aircraft. Finally, the most we are given about the weather is that it was "moderately bad" which gives no specific indications as to what the cloud cover and visibility was, whether it was raining and how heavily and how windy it was. Perhaps such technicalities are not the aim of this channel and that, indeed, it is much more about the human interest - indeed the dramatic high opera - that roils under the smartly uniformed, well groomed, clipped-accented external appearance of those involved I read The Times - and go to Covent Garden - but I never mix the two by taking The Sun. I wasn't able to find what might be called a mission statement so if someone wants to say what the channel's approach is, great but for now I remain unsubscribed....

That sounds like a great suggestion. 👍

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Sounds like this is going on my list of videos to make!

Varig Flight 820 for the first one?

Had to pause the video to read this juicy comment. Thanks 👍🏽 Interesting info 😜

Oh really, I must have found a source that was wrong, my bad.

@@DisasterBreakdown He supposedly was on his way home from vacation on the Canaries with a stopover/sleepover in Geneva

Correct. Hotel Beau Rivage, his death very likely a secret service job.

Huh. I never knew that Barschel was involved in an air crash. But then again his later actions overshadowed all that happened beforehand i guess.

Quite interesting that a guy I'd involved in a suspicious plane crash shortly before he get Epsteined.

Thanks!

When you are to pronounced umlaut letters then its tough...

@@skylineXpert His pronunciation of "Lübeck" was correct, in the same sense that "Cologne" isn't pronounced "Köln" in English. The English name of the city doesn't have the umlaut. The pronunciation of "Schleswig-Holstein" is the same in German and English, and his was fine.

@@renerpho her

Gut gemacht! ;)

I was in a two "controlled" crashes in heavy aircraft where one feels pretty helpless about the outcome. Everyone walked away unscathed, but rhat's two too many for this guy.

her name is chloe! :)

Yeah, Chloe is the best!

@@tessiepinkman True, their plane crash investigations are the best!

Friskk instead of Friske?

As a native of Lübeck, even that one was good. Have heard worse from other Germans. :D

@@160rpmPronounced ‘Frisker’ in English? Also, is Uwe (as in Barschel) pronounced ‘Ooh-vey’ or ‘ooh-vuh’? I’ve heard it pronounced both ways, even by Germans. 🤷‍♂️

Interesting, thanks

I don't expect one to be in a position for a third crash to happen. If they even get over the first one, stumble into a second and live. I'd personally be done with air after a second survival xD

@@syolyte I read an interview a while ago with a woman whose parents had been onboard Estonia when she sank in 1994. Her dad survived but not her mom. 10 years later her dad was vacationing in Thailand over Christmas and New Year. Yup. The Boxing Day Tsunami. That is incredibly bad luck to be involved in two such major disasters. He was among those who perished in the tsunami.

Its a really hard one too!

Welcome, Early One!

Thanks!

Maybe one point: The „e“ at the end of the names is short, but not silent: Friskɘ, Heisɘ 🙂

Came here to say that! 😅

@K4nzler , ich erinnere mich an drei innerhalb meiner Lebensspanne: Eine Bronco OV-10, die damals für Zielflugdarstellung eingesetzt waren, ein Sportflugzeug und die Citation aus diesem Video. Was ich bisher nicht wußte war, daß die gleiche Copilotin beteiligt war wie bei dem A7-Vorfall 1971.

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it :)

Thanks, stay tuned for next week because it's looking like a big one!

Would the airport have had papi lights then? They had to be horribly off the glide slope.

Thanks a lot!

@@DisasterBreakdown 9:25 Hey disaster breakdown, I enjoy seeing your videos, just wanted to give you a heads up, you misspelled assassination as assignation

@@someonee3186 Ahh thanks! I'll have that fixed right away

Enjoy!

Yeah I'm having that one line trimmed from the video, give it an hour or so and it'll be processed out. Clearly I messed up somewhere there.

@@DisasterBreakdown Wow! That level of conscientiousness is part of the reason why I love your channel! Cheers!

Nice! Thanks!

I've seen the videos, horrifying stuff

Yeah, but that airport specifically had no ILS. I think that's necessary to get the correct glide slope. And in aviation safety "if no mistake is made" is generally not considered sufficiently safe.

Some people love to comment on RU-vid videos very shortly after they were being uploaded

@@sunnyfon9065 Which makes no sense at all

They are probably patreons and get the videos earlier

Attention seeking behavior possibly.