The Plane That Vanished | Adam Air Flight 574 

If I'm a competent pilot and I discover that I am in a steep bank, why would I imagine that the autopilot is still on?

In Indonesia we call Adam air the airline of Death

AdamAir is one of the worst airlines I’ve read about. They greatly mistreated their employees and constantly cut corners.

As an indonesian this airline is the worst airline in indonesia

I will never understand how Adam Air was allowed to go into business in the first place

Man, this is terrible, my Family and I were returning from Bali, USING ADAM AIR THAT DAY!!

Astonishing incompetence

RIP passengers and cabin crew.

Legendary video like always. Keep up the work mate!

Pilot training and monitoring in many third-world countries is truly abysmal. Having operated on contracts in many of these countries and witnessed many of these operations I believe that it's only the phenomenal reliability of modern aircraft that ensures that the accident rate isn't far higher. I would like to think that the focus on the accident rates in these countries over the past two decades has resulted in much improved standards, at least, I'm hoping.

I have waited for so long for this. Another great video, Allec, for this weekend. Also, yeah, this company throughout its existence is damning. In fact, when the crash happened, it literally drag the entirely of Indonesian aviation industry down (even though it had already had safety issues in the years before this crash), as 6 months after, EU ban all Indonesian airlines from entering EU.

IRS devices (Ring laser or Fibre Optic gyros) have no moving parts and, in my experience, are sealed units. So I'm really not sure what a "basic clean" of the IRS would achieve if anything.

Watch your back up instruments and fly the plane first, troubleshoot later. Basic pilot skills.

Thank you Allec. Very sad story based on the way this flight was being managed.

I remember watching a documentary of this flight on National Geographic Channel back then. Name of the series was Air Crash Investigation.

I remember Allec added a highlight of this flight years ago at the end of his videos it finally came

Another great description accident report as always..Keep up the good work Mr. Ibay....

I listened to the CVR of the end of this flight. The captain kept saying don’t correct the aircraft it’s on the right heading as it went into a dive, you could hear the wind noise increase dramatically as the planes speed picked up, then you can hear an engine detach from the wing shortly before it crashed

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate…or fiddle with toggles, switches, and gauges…

I once fly with Adam Air to my hometown in South Sumatera back in 2005/2006. My plane scheduled to depart at 7 pm, but a technical problems lead to the worst delay i've experienced that forced me to depart the following day at 10 am (albeit they offered me a refund or an overnight stay at a hotel near Soetta Airport, of course as the compensation for my delayed flight)

Sandra Ang, one of the owners of Adam Air embezzled to Rp 2.1 trillion (US$210 million).

I don't understand why it's so hard to just keep it level and steady while the other pilot is fiddling with the controls? Why can't they just follow their backup controls? Isn't there a secondary GPS system for navigation?

AdamAir was a real shit show, even Garuda Indonesia were never quite that bad (though they had their fair share of fatal crashes)....flying in Indonesia in the late 90s/early 2000s was a bit of a gamble and there were a fair few losses (2 x AdamAir, SilkAir etc.)...thankfully it's much safer now.

Great video on the crash of Adam Air. Incompetent pilots at the controls is a recipe for disaster.

What a profound tragedy 💔🕊

In the horrible case here, how could two experienced pilots get too fixated on trying to get their airplane back on course, when they weren't too alarmed about the autopilot being turned off and the airplane was starting to bank. The captain then attempted to assume control of the airplane afterwards when the instrument panel was then shut off, only to get caught into an uncontrollable spiral and crash. It's terrible to notice that Adam Air has had a bad reputation to properly train their pilots and to take short-cuts over safety. How can such an airline be allowed to operate?? RIP to all lost.✝️

The one time attitude mode flies you straight and level

NY Times (Jan. 30, 2007): Adam Air had a history of safety incidents and the loss of this flight adds to Indonesia's dismal safety record - one of the world's worst. According to several investigators involved in looking at the crash, pilots complained repeatedly about problems with the 17- year-old Boeing 737-400 that crashed. Two of the dozens of complaints were about the plane's weather radar, an item of particular concern since investigators have determined that the plane flew straight into a violent storm before it went down. Normally, pilots would make almost any possible maneuver to avoid flying into the heart of a thunderstorm. By far the largest number of complaints concerned instruments that would tell one of the two crew members whether the plane was going up or down, and whether the plane was maintaining its course. So many complaints, called write-ups, were received from so many pilots that investigators have begun to ask whether any effort was made to repair the problems. The vertical-speed indicator on the left side of the cockpit, the captain's side, collected by far the greatest number of complaints - 48 - in the three months before the crash, the investigators said. The vertical-speed indicator tells how fast the plane is climbing or descending. Pilots complained 30 times about anomalies in the plane's left-right inertial reference system, which helps tell which direction the plane is turning. Problems with a fuel differential light drew 15 complaints. There were numerous complaints about inoperative cockpit instrument lights. There were also several pilot write- ups about wing flaps that stayed stuck at an angle of 25 degrees. On Tuesday, a spokesman for the airline could not be reached to respond to these specific complaints. The company said earlier it maintained and operated its planes according to the guidelines of Indonesian regulators and the manufacturer.

Always amazes me how many incidents involve the pilots attempting to fix the aircrtaft, so the aircraft can the do the flying, without thinking of flying it themselves and then focus on the problem. Habit I suppose. IFR is always challenging but wings level first and then fix the attitude. Goes against natural instincts. but I had a good instructor.

Flight 172 hard-landed a month after Flight 574 crashed. This proved that Adam Air's management was extremely poor that no one wanted to fly with Adam Air.

CVR is tough to listen to as well.

Thank you

Can you Do Pheonix Mid air collision 💥 🤔

Hey Joshua, Where’s the Adam Air Livery?

Hey I love your vid❤

Bravo. Excelent video. Many thanks.

How were they in thick clouds at 35000 feet?

THANK YOU

They violated one of the cardinal rules: "AFTA." Always Fly The Airplane. Aviate - Navigate - Communicate, in that order.

Were not Adam Air plane bright orange in livery?

When EVERYONE is a passenger.

Adam Air: “The Great White Hope”

Hey Allec witch simulator you use? Fsx or FS2004?

Why did you stop using the crash animations???

Very sad and very scary. Rest in paradise

Us Americans and Europeans think Spirit and Ryanair are bad

why did the plane was painted plain white? The plane involved on this crash has "ADAM AIR" letter on fuselage as well as orage colored engines.

Never hire witchdoctors as pilots!

I wonder if anyone started Cain Air or Abel Air yet?

No Adam Air Livery?

Widodo was a weird pilot!

Pilot ignorance. You simply need to know how to fly.

The standby or peanut AI should have remained operational. I understand difficult to use. Also with any nose low unusual attitude one of the first actions is to level the wings not increase pitch

Captain Weirdo earned this name.

Why so many disasters in India,Asian countries? Arabic also..what gives?

Another Indonesean airline, disregarding safety and operating non-airworthy aircraft. A major reason all Indonesesn airlines were banned from European airspace for years.

I drive Nissan Stanza taxi for two years now I want be pilot man, I have qualification in lifeguard and work for 100000 Rupiah an hour, very nice.

The Plane That Vanished | Adam Air Flight 574

Get off of your asset and narrate your videos. The screaming jet noise with text is intolerable. 0:30

Better pilot training, less believing.

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I once flew with Adamair from Surabaya to Balikpapan. I enjoyed the flight. but not too special.