You got SO. MUCH. WRONG. about the Gimli Glider. First of all, you make it sound like the pilots realized the mistake right before they ran out of fuel. In reality, they didn’t know about it until both engines were already stopped, so there was no way for them to use the turbines to brake. Second, Gimli Air Base had closed down by the time the incident happened, and had been turned into a racetrack, so there was no way the pilots contacted the base to clear the runway. Furthermore, there was no garbage on the runway. Instead of garbage, there were two boys riding bikes, both of them managing to ride away before the plane touched down. Third: “The plane began to land very smoothly.” Nope. The approach made before landing probably wasn’t smooth, as the plane’s hydraulics used a small turbine at the bottom of the plane to power the plane if power went out, and that turbine powered the plane less the more the plane slowed down to land. Finally, you say the front landing gear broke during the touchdown. This is wrong, as when the pilots opened the landing gear to use gravity to lock the wheels in place, (remember, they had almost no power) the front landing gear failed to lock BEFORE touchdown, and not during touchdown. So, you managed to mess up quite a few facts, and left out probably the most interesting part about this incident: the captain performed a forward slip, where you apply the rudder one way and put the ailerons the other way, which is usually only for gliders, so doing it on a commercial aircraft was pretty significant.
2:49 this is why the fire brigade at an airport has a unit that cover the runway in a layer of foam so the aircraft won't spark or heat up as much. just for the sake of information
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I’m an avgeek and you got a lot wrong about some of these flights. For u.s airways 1549 don’t show a badly animated 747 fly over the Hudson. It was an a320. For the gimli glider, you said the plane started landing very smoothly. This is not true. The pilot preformed a side slip. A technique when you use the rudders to angle the plane to the right or left.
Your video continually switched from two-engined jets to four-engined. At 4:18, you say that the pilot successfully landed the plane. No: it was onto the Hudson River, which by definition is water (not land). You constantly superimpose video clips of fiery explosions over the aircraft. This is not simply cheesy fakery, it is overt falsity. This segment depicts an actual event. One has the ethical obligation to truth and fact.
I know, but I felt like he should've mentioned it in the video. I mean, the pilots managed to keep their plane in the air for 32 minutes straight before crashing.
“The pilots controlled the airplane by using its wings.” Such brilliance! This entire video is just so poorly written, compounded by so many falsehoods.
The 2nd one the November 2011 one that’s the month of my birthday not my date of birth but the month of my birthday I was born on November 9th 2015 and I’m six years old
