TITANIC of the Skies! - The Untold Story of Air France 447 

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This quality of content is something one would usually pay for to watch on Netflix or any platform, but you give it for free. Thanks Petter, what an inspiration 🙏🙌

The first officer disregarded everything he was being told by captain and the relief pilot. He continued stick input even after transferring the controls. He basically went into full panic mode, disregarding chain of command.

It's so easy to judge these seemingly counterintuitive decisions, but it's a slam back to reality when Petter says "and so it's been about one minute at this point". That's an incredibly quick transition from fine to disastrous

This flight is why in pilot training they teach us the “sit on your hands” idea. This means that if there is an emergency and you think you have to do something RIGHT NOW to avert disaster, stop for a second and think before you do anything. It’s likely that a startle reaction will cause you to do something that only makes the situation worse.

It was so frustrating that the relief pilot kept trying to do what might have saved the aircraft only to have the confused, potentially panicking FO yank the controls back from him and doom them all. Very sad, very frustrating incident. You've done a tremendous job educating everyone who's watched this video!

Absolutely heartbreaking. Another crazy part of this story is that of an italian lady who missed this flight just for being late few minutes, took a flight home the following day and died on a car accident on her way home. Something out of a Final Destination movie..

It bears repeating that Mentour Pilot always treats these incidents with the dignity and gravitas they deserve. May this channel flourish and may future generations learn from it.

The first officer's last words really stuck with me: "This can't be true". I think he said that because the whole scene played out exactly like a bad dream. Maybe it felt like that moment at the end of a nightmare - just before you wake up in a sweat - when you begin to realize what's happening just can't be real. But this time it was...

I was an A330 pilot and this had a huge psychological effect on me when it happened. Eastbound at night over the Atlantic it was hard not to see how you were in the same situation as these guys were,cruising along safely,yet 5 minutes later they were all dead. Rewatching this was honestly harrowing. Sometimes I'm glad I'm retired and thank God I never so much as scratched the paint on an airplane. Praying for you Petter and all my colleagues out there that you stay safe!

He took 5 minutes to describe what happened within 18 seconds. It's unimaginable the overwhelming pressure those pilots must have felt.

My uncle was flying from Rio to Paris on the same day, his flight left 30 min earlier. He said he remembers walking by the gate for this flight with the people waiting to board the aircraft. I find that chilling.

I'm amazed by how you can explain this complex technical material in such an engaging manner. I have zero aeronautical knowledge but was able to keep up with the key technical details thanks to your presentation skill.

A teacher of mine was in this flight with his wife and his 3 years old son. Moments like this leaves you astonished how lives can end so abruptly. He was brilliant. The rest of the semester was very sad and weird

I am a Captain with JetBlue Airways and have been flying the Embraer 190 for the past 17 years. I recently completed my transition training to fly the Airbus 320. During training one of my instructors mentioned the book you credited at the end of your video as it was written by his friend, Bill Palmer. That got me interested in this accident which is how I found your video and channel. My newly acquired A320 knowledge allowed me to understand your full breakdown of this accident and was fascinating/horrifying all at once! I’ve since watched several of your videos and I’m truly impressed with how well they are all done. Some of these accidents I’m familiar with, most I’m not. As a professional pilot I want to continuously strive to be better and these videos are great learning tools of things NOT to do! Thanks for your work it’s much appreciated!

My God, I could not even imagine the horror that each passenger went thru the last 5 minute's of their life. Rip.

This honestly had me on edge in the best way possible. The storytelling of these events were really portrayed well. Definitely better than a Netflix docu-series!!!

I can’t imagine what the investigators felt when they found out the pilot flying wasnt giving the controls over, and also kept the plane’s nose up. I also can’t imagine the distress the captain felt when everything clicked in his mind, but was too late to do anything about it…

Still, hearing the first officer say "Damn, we're going to crash" and "This can't be true" my heart just went out to them. That must have been terrifying. I can't even imagine. May all their souls rest in peace.

The moral of the story is, 'If you're pitching up but still losing altitude, despite full throttle, PITCH DOWN OR YOU'LL KEEP LOSING MORE ANYWAY. (in the dark after flying through stormy weather). I'm surprised the computer of the plane doesn't blatantly tell them that.

I'm brazilian and i got a flight from Sao Paulo to Paris the other day, pretty much the same route as this one, and i'll tell you, i thought about this flight the whole trip hah... There was a lot of turbulence over the ocean as well. I feel for all those people, including the Pilots, it's a sad mistake to make, but we're all humans and subjected to those possibilites. May they all rest in peace.

I realize how panic affects people but still, even knowing the likely outcome i can’t help wanting to yell at the pilot who is panicking to LET GO OF THE STICK! The dual input when one pilot is doing the correct thing and the other is in full panic mode is heartbreaking.

This is probably the only video about this accident that doesn't paint the First Officer's decissions as incomprehensible. It becomes clear that this was a matter of not completely understanding the plane's systems and a lack of training in stall situations, the scene must have been terrifying to the pilots. Thank you so much for this video, can't think of many other channels that achieve this level of quality.

F/O killed everyone.. what a tragedy.... I feel like the Captain's decision to leave just before entering a storm wasn't the wisest. My heart goes to the families :/

This is one of the most disturbing air crashes out there- “Titanic of the skies” is pretty accurate. Crashing into the Atlantic in the middle of the night, all alone, is just so eerie.

A real masterpiece in clarity and professional explanation, in memory of 228 victims. Thank you Petter.

A friend was on that plane, with his girlfriend, her son and a friend of the son's. The guy was an ever optimistic fella, he could see the light even in the deepest darkness. I could not believe my ears when they were on the news. He was the kind of guy, that if there was anybody surviving the accident, managing to swim to an island and living a happy life from that on, it was him. Whenever you hear about a tragedy, it's always a comforting thought to think, it has nothing to do with me, nor my family, friends, nobody I know. No such a horrible thing could happen to us. This time, it did. May they rest in peace. Thank you for the great video, Petter!

This accident certainly broadened my understanding of how planes work as a whole. Including how a stall occurs and how to recover. This accident occurred two days after my 25th birthday was a shock to the entire world. Not a lot is said about how the passengers would’ve experienced the resulting collision with the sea and the physicality thereof.

Buddy...! You deserve an Emmy Award youre not just a great pilot anymore you're a great documentary film maker and media presentee. Thus was amazing. The detail and graohics in this put us audience members in the cockpit. Ive seem several docs on this crash but this is by far the best. Worst of all tho is how tragic this was.

This hits close to home. I had lived 2007-2008 in Brazil, so at Christmas 2008, freshly back in Europe, I helped friends schedule their Brazil visit for May 2009. At my advice, they decided to fly back to Bucharest from Rio (and not São Paulo, as they initially planned) via Paris. Back in 2009, there were two daily flights RIO-CDG. There was no rush, no obvious criteria (except perhaps the price) which flight to take. Fotunately, between two glasses of wine and without any serious consideration, they chose the other one, the one that had flown a couple of hours earlier (and, if I'm not much mistaken, was still airborne when tragedy struck). The first Mentour video I will cannot bring myself to watch, at least not for the moment.

The amount of stress and it's reasoning described over this video, then the realization that it was condensed into just a few short minutes is amazing and frightening. When you said "all of this happened in the first 18 seconds," it was a slap of reality. It only got more gut wrenching from there.

You take control! … 1 seconds later… “Duel inputs”

What an unbelievable level of incompetence and stupidity from the FO. Relief pilot should have taken control within the first minute when it was obvious of the FO's failings. Simply setting the thrust and levelling the aircraft out would have stabilised everything. How on earth that FO got that position is beyond me !!

I too am an Airline pilot. I’ve been an f/o and Captain on the Airbus. I’m currently a Boeing 787 f/o. We have heard the cockpit voice recordings (recreated in English) during subsequent training. Your video recount of this accident really helped me to connect the subtleties of the human actions in understanding how this crew remained so far away from identifying the problem and initiating the correct solution. Kudos to your research and your ability to dig deep into the factors at play, many of which were extremely unique to the aircraft manufacturer. This accident helped me to identify the one thing that may have prevented this accident from ending in the water. That is if this had happened in a Boeing aircraft, the “yoke” or control column in front of the nonflying pilot would have been seen by that pilot monitoring as being constantly pulled back by the flying pilot in the right seat and also by the captain, once he was on the flight deck. I’ve loved the side stick control in the Airbus but it is out of sight and is not mirrored to the other side stick. Your use of graphics and animations were so extremely well done, they took me (and I’m sure those who are not aviators) on to that flight deck as if we were there. Every time I go to training and train for the unusual attitudes and “upset recoveries” I always replay Air France 447 as I realize that we are now much safer because of that tragedy. I’m moved even more because of your video. Thanks

Just want to say this accident saved at least one life. I had an airspeed unreliable incident during takeoff on one of my student solos and immediately diagnosed it in part based on what I knew about AF 447. Caught a bug or something right before rotation.

Dude I kept getting more infuriated every time you mentioned the FO taking controls and pulling up when all he had to do was pull down and his colleagues pulling down but him pulling up. Soooooo MAD!

I always appreciate that you say lost in your videos instead of killed. It's more compassionate and as for someone who has lost a dear friend in an accident, in my opinion it's more accurate.

Imagine being the Captain woken up suddenly from rest, coming to the cockpit with both other pilots in complete panic with dozens of warning and many of the display indicators missing. In hindsight it is easy to understand what was happening. But I can't blame the captain for the time it took for him to grasp what was happening. Insanely confusing and scary scenario.

A spine chilling account of this tragedy. Very professional and Considerately done. I have nearly 15,000 hrs on Airbus from 320,330,340 and your account made me feel like I was there with them but unable to talk. Poor souls, all 228 of them. Rest in peace.

ive listened to the cockpit recordings before and its absolutely heart breaking. I can feel anxiety from watching this video too. I cant imagine what the pilot that kept the nose up must have felt when he realised his mistake. The terror in the voice of the captain when he said no no no no nose down! it really is heartbreaking.

The most important thing I’ve learned in my entire life is how to remain calm in crisis. SLOW DOWN IN EMERGENCIES. Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast…. Fast is deadly…. This has helped me in soooo many different situations in my life. I work in healthcare and this motto is often contagious…As this type of calm spreads throughout emergency environments, it can lead to exceptional outcomes.

I know the first officer tried his absolute hardest to fix the situation, but him taking control from the relief pilot who was doing the exact thing that could’ve saved everyone just so he could do the opposite is heartbreaking

This story is the most terrifying on your channel, Peter. I can fееl the tension and stress of the situation through the screen. Awesome job!

well this FO panic so hard but three of them didnt realise their on stall state. due to panic they waste time to trobleshooting the situation. now i know how crazy a good pilot need to be.

I love how compassionate you are in describing the pilots' experience. You understand what they did wrong, but you're not judgmental. I so respect that.

I was in that aircraft. We landed in Rio that evening, I went to my hotel and got asleep. The morning after I woke up to tons of calls from coworkers asking if I was ok. This accident affects me personally, thank you for sharing this very detailed and incredible story!

I was flying across the Atlantic ocean on an Air France flight from Dulles and we landed in CDG 5 minutes before AF447 expected landing. When I heard the announcement call on the speaker asking everyone waiting for AF447 to go to the customer service desk, I instantly knew something terrible happened. I will never forget

I like your through explanation of events. My father is retired now, but worked as an accident investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration here in the US. We live south of Pittsburgh. Therefore, dad was among the very first investigators on the ground at Shanksville, Pennsylvania during that awful day we now refer to as 9 11. (September 11, 2001)😢 dad covered many more accidents in his career, actually began working in Raliegh, North Carolina. People don't realize how much goes into flying or how greatful we should be for a good, experienced, sober pilot when we get one! Thanks for ur hardwork!

Phenomenal attention to detail and presented in an informative, accessible and clearly knowledgable way, whilst still maintaining care when dealing with the delicate matter of the scale of lives lost to such an awful tragedy. You absolutely are the best of the best when it comes to Aviation documentaries on RU-vid, and the fact all your work is consistently of such a high standard is a testament to you and your work ethic. Thank you!

This is nothing short of a masterpiece. You have outdone yourself, Mentour team. Absolutely electrifying.

What always gets me is how quickly things can go from "this is smooth" to "I dont have control". It is bloody scary

I never thought I would one day find myself screaming " PITCH DOWN!!" at my TV for 10 minute straight but here we are.. A very sad and frustrating story

As someone who is looking to start his aviation journey in the next couple of years. I thought these videos might scare me in a sense, but they, in fact, provide highly educational tips on how to avoid situations like this from occurring.

56 minutes of high quality Mentour content! It is truly amazing how you can drop two of these videos a month, all with animation and perfect explanation. I can only guess how long making such an extended video takes

It's easy to forget when watching videos like this just how quickly everything we are talking about is happening. The panic and confusion must have been unbearable, and I can't imagine how the captain felt walking back into all this chaos. And of course that isn't even mentioning how the passengers must have felt. Fantastic video as always, and this was perfect timing on the upload as I had just finished catching up on the videos from the last month that I'd missed

You do an outstanding job sir. I am a retirement age woman who hates flying but I find your channel extremely interesting. I have watched so many of your videos I think I might be able to make an auto-pilot localizer assisted landing of a big jet if I am ever called upon to do so 😂. And if not, well I will die trying.

Coming back to rewatch this video for a 3rd time. You handle these stories with such care and diligence, you’ve grown to become one of my favorite channels on RU-vid. I’m wanting to become a pilot in the future- or at least get my pilots license- as I’m not sure I’m going to be able to pursue that career as I’m hearing impaired. It takes me a lot longer to process information than it would any normal pilot, so I feel like I’m kind of out of the running by that regard. Regardless, these videos are incredibly entertaining and well put together. Thank you for all you do!

I did my A340 type rating just over a year ago and obviously this was discussed. But you presented this much better. I’ve learned a lot more from your video. Thank you for that. It will make me a safer pilot.

I've seen multiple documentaries about this unfortunate Air France 447. This one hands down is the best one! It covers the technical details, but also captures the absolute horror and confusion in the cockpit like no other. I was sitting on the edge of my seat. Great work! it's crazy that Mentour Pilot makes such high quality content available for free

I used to work on ADIRU software, we watched this closely from the first news we heard, and waited a long time for the FDR and CVR to be recovered to see if there was potentially a software error that contributed to the incident. The initial limited ADIRU faults transmitted indicated the ADIRUs performed as expected. This is another case supporting what the old engineer in the lab who investigated all devices that failed in the field said "these airplanes are so complicated you better hope you have a very good pilot every time you fly". When faults start happening, there is usually a cascade of faults and the crew needs to sort it out.

Truly amazing they designed, engineered and built an aeroplane that could not fly. You are at 10k feet you just lost 28,900 feet of altitude, you pitch the nose up 6-8 degrees and put the engines to 125 percent power and the plane drops out of the sky. Amazing! The pilot flying has no idea what to do when the plane is losing altitude the engines are throttled back and wonders why the plane is not responding. Wow!

I'm a french engineer and in years 2007 and 2008, i designed new types of flight controls systems for small planes. (They would be your nightmare, but we could discuss this elsewhere, here is not the place for that). I think there is a major understanding problem, between we (engineer that imagine new planes) and you, the pilots (that are using them). All these instruments, all these warnings, all these display: we are calmly designing them in our office. We have no idea what it is to really pilot a plane. We have no idea what it is to be in an emergency situation, with doubt, without knowing what to rely on, and whith our human senses blured by the shaking of the plane. What seems totally obvious to us, in the calm of our office ... seems to actually not be obvious at all in the real situation. We (engineer) think that the most direct and the most explicit way to tell, you (the pilot) that the computer has no idea of what the real values are, is to turn the display off: because we think that display turned off means no value (no valid value). That's so obvious to us. But here, in this accident, the 3 pilot did not understand that, and they though that it was a bug, a system malfunction. (while turning the display off to tell the pilot the mesure value was wrong was actually a "feature") Also, we assume that the pilot will have perfect training to understand the specific plane he is piloting, and will follow the procedures like a robot. But that's not the case. So, we should stop considering that some informations could be "obvious". Here, there should have been a red flashing light, with the writing "pitot data inconsistant" or "speed data wrong". That way, the crew would have understood that it was not a computer bug: they would not have had this doubt. Most engineer that design aircraft systems never pilot anything that flys. I do some paraglider freefly, but i don't use instruments: i only rely on my human senses to fly. I really can't imagine what's it's like to be unable to rely on these. We think the same as driving a car: in a car, you can do without instrument, just with your senses. But a plane seems to be more like a blind submarine, doomed without any instrument. I think that the engineers that designed this airbus have assumed that in case of stall, the pilots would have "sensed" it in their body. In case off wrong pitch, gravity beeing what it is, they would have sense it in their body ... i guess the shaking of the plane, combined with the stress and adrenaline of the emergency prevented that. Also, the lack of verbalisation of the pilots shows that they relied too much on considering their understanding as "obvious". 1 pilot alone could have been wrong. But for these 3 (experimented) pilot to be like that, without any clue all the time, that proves there is a problem with the displays that are unclear.

This hits close to my heart. I used to fly that very route and that very plane regularly. Whenever I fly over the Intertropical Convergence Zone just north of Brazil and the plane shakes a bit more in the night I can't help but think of AF 447.

Your presentation is first class. You even put some reputable TV documentary entities to shame. Well done, and thanks!

I have a deep passion for aviation, and the idea of flying has always excited me. I've never experienced fear during flights and, in fact, I aspire to become a pilot myself. However, this incident sends shivers up my spine. The loss of speed indication and FBW systems, coupled with navigating through a storm at 60,000 feet high over the Atlantic Ocean on a pitch-black night, is truly an eerie thought. The thought of being in such a situation, losing orientation, and descending without awareness is actually making me anxious even though I'm safe at home .

As a Simulator instructor and a graduate of Embry Riddle's courses on Aircraft Accident Investigation & Human Factors I have to say this is a Master Class on what happened in this accident. I'm beyond impressed and think you could easily be teaching this stuff to Airlines & Aviation Colleges. You've covered almost every major point in Bill Palmer's excellent book on the subject and done it in an interesting and educational way that's very difficult to achieve. It was riveting all the way through. I urge every commercial pilot to watch your videos and learn from them. They are the best I've seen. Well done! Capt. Trevor Evans MRAeS.

It's weird, but every time I hear this story, I still think there's a chance they'll save the plane. I keep waiting for "...and then they realized they needed to push the stick forward and continued on their flight."

Hi. I'm THE most nervous passenger on airplanes ever. I also learned to fly a small plane before I ever learned to drive. Obviously, it was a couple of lessons only; so no flying time, but I absolutely loved it 😊 When I learned to drive- my right-hand turns were INDY 500 style! 🤦🤦 I found your channel accidentally; and I'm so hooked! I've signed up to your app also-thank you. I love the way you present your channel/information; I can see you are obviously qualified in this area; and I REALLY appreciate your very factual and physically accurate accounts- while also maintaining resoect, care and admiration for the aviators who are highlighted in your content. Only a real aviator would be capable of this; and I thank you. I recently watched the content of Ted and Dan; and the respect and admiration is obvious, and contagious. Please continue to do exactly as you are! 👏👏👏 Excellent channel and content. Thank you D

Great explanation! Can’t imagine the stress and fear the pilots must have felt in the last couple of minutes seeing the alt. meter go down fast before impact. I’m glad there has been improvement to the safety procedures after this accident and that we ultimately learned something very important from it.

The fact that when they started doing the right thing by pushing the nose down the stall warning sounding is soooo unfortunate, and is just heartbreaking

Accident investigators have such a hard job. Not only trying to solve sometimes mysterious puzzles, but the frustration and helplessness of hearing and reading data that they know ends in disaster, and often realizing instantly what the pilots never realized, and yet not being able to communicate what they know to those to whom it would have made such a difference.

Let one person have control. Make up you mind. It's like car with 2 drivers, one turning left, other right.. one speed up, the other breaking.. They simply stalled by reducing the thrust and keep climbing until it started to fall.

I never realised how complicated jet airliners are. These aircraft are amazing in the information they gather, how they gather it, and how it is supplied to the pilots. The pilots are also amazing people. As a passenger you just don't appreciate what is going on behind the scenes, while you are drinking your cocktail/coffee etc. The next time I fly, I will fully appreciate the high level of skill and knowledge required to keep me safe. Regards Rob.

I've seen quite a few documentaries on this topic, and this has to be the best, most detailed and technically accurate one. I'll have to watch it again, but this is now the reference documentary regarding this crash for me. As an aeronautical engineer, thank you for that ! Outstanding job from everyone involved !

I'm French and I've seen many videos about airfrance 447. As here in France it obviously was a very big deal, I already knew most of what happened. But you truly did an amazing job explaining how the different factors combined brought up this tragedy. You sincerely did an impressive job! Also, when you hear the last words of the crew right before impact, it truly is heartbreaking hearing them realizing they're about to "hit".. I rarely write comments, but your video deserves it! Thanks again.

I have watched this video 3 times because it is by far THE BEST content regarding aviation and accidents on the web hands down! Thank you so much for the work you do Petter!

Although your topics are about accidents you still make me feel safe to fly by giving us insights into the training you guys go through. I like how you highlight different standards for different countries companies and how different they can be. This is one of the best channels I have found. You have an ability to put us right there into cockpit and the pilot's head.

Having family members working at Air France, this accident has a bitter taste for me. Even though it happened 13 years ago, it remains a difficult wound for the company, and is still a reason why some crew members don't fly with their wives when having young children. My family members told me that they always have thoughts about their lost colleagues when flying the Paris-Rio and Rio-Paris routes. This is a tragedy that won't soon be forgotten.

This is a great video and incredibly informative as always, also I really like the fact that you say regularly "xx seconds have past since AP disconect" during your explanation of the events, because its really easy to think that they had time to react and think, but that allows us to realise that what you've spent 10 minutes explaining in details and with insight that the pilots didn't have actually happened in mere seconds

What a major design fault, that 2 pilots can put in contrary inputs which level each one out.

I got the impression that the pilots probably did know the stall warning was going off but didn't believe it since it was only happening when nose-down - backwards from what they would have expected

DAMN! I have been a pilot for 42 years…spending time in Boeing 737 757 and the last 17 years in the Airbus. This is gut-wrenching. TRAINING TRAINING TRAINING! This was a complete cluster.

This air disaster is definitely one of the saddest. The combination of how preventable it was, the fact that one of pilots wives sat in the back, the fact that seconds before impact the captain figured out the problem but it was too late and the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. It’s all very haunting.

I cannot imagine the amount of information you have to gather and the work you put into each one of these videos. I am totally absorbed and feel as though I am in that cockpit fighting alongside the pilots. Excellent!!

After years of watching videos analyzing air accidents I say this is the most nerve wracking video I've seen and that has made me feel the stress and fear of the situation. It's probably because of the way and great skill in which you present the stressful situation without losing a shred of the exact technical information Well done

I really appreciate your detailed timelines. It puts things in context. In this video, you calmly and deliberately explain what is going wrong for several minutes, and then say "this all happened in 18 seconds." It gives real appreciation to what the pilots were up against, and how challenging the situation was in the moment.

I actually felt stressed as this story unfolded so I can only imagine what the pilots were going through. A tragic tale relayed to your audience so very well. Your content just gets better and better.

Literally my BP raised and won't come down after watching this breath taking video. So beautifully narrated, so aptly animated and derived to us aviation fans here. Mentally was down for a long time, as to what happened. The presentation looked like it happened for real right now and I was there inside the aircraft !!! Great Cap. keep the wonderful work going

Even when the pilot finally figured out the issue (it was too late) the co-pilot still kept the nose pitched up after getting yelled at to let go. Incredible.

the stall warning coming on and off is absolutely unbelievable... it's heartbreaking. everytime I watch this video I catch myself rooting for a different outcome. rip

@Mentour Pilot, I am a fellow professional aviator and huge fan of your channel. I’m a retired US Air Force pilot and current teaching as an instructor on the Gulfstream 650, 500, and 600. I’ve memorized hundreds of mishaps that I bring into the classroom and your channel has been a magnificent source; I’ve sent all my clients to your channel and hope to send many more. GREAT WORK!! ~ Bill

Crazy how I always binge your videos at the "Circadian Low". I get such focus, such inner peace at that time.

Big thank you for this video. There are some (very good) documentaries about this accident, but you told it more from the pilots' perspective than any other documentary did, which made me think a bit more cautious about this. Before watching your video, I was like most other people, thinking those pilots were dumb. "Stall? The very first thing to do is lower the nose, engines full power. It's the very first thing you learn even in a PC simulator..." The chaotic and parallel alarms, the complete darkness, the self-contradicting appearence of the stall warning (just because the manufacturer thinks "haha, that situation will never appear, so f** it..."), the lack of a stick-shaker and your reminder of the fact that in a stressful situation, hearing and recognizing alarms is the first thing to be ignored unconsciously was very well explained. They made some critical mistakes still, but I'm thinking a bit different now. Thank you!

This is exactly what we are taught when learning how to fly: "Whatever happens, fly the airplane". Some airlines now have started training new pilots on flying single/dual engine GA aircrafts to gain a sense of flying a plane manually rather than to totally rely on automation. As one highly seasoned airline pilot said: Many pilots nowadays don't know how to fly an airplane "manually". It is such a sad story. According to pilots, now those incidents and resulting procedures are programmed into simulators.

When you hear stall-stall-stall while pitching up and you can't combine these two elements in order to realize that pitching up at high altitude can result in a real stall, is beyond me. The F/O was panicking from the beginning. He could not think at all.

My heart really goes out to these pilots and their passengers. The way you describe it really brings one right there mentally and emotionally in that cockpit

Very good video. I watched several videos about AF447, having friends and family at Air France. Yours is definitely better. Thank you.

Wow 56 mins of Petter explaining me this crash on a rainy Sunday. Could I even ask for a bigger treat?! One of the best story-tellers on RU-vid hands down.

As a former US Air Force fighter and trainer pilot with about 3300 hours in much older, all manual aircraft with MUCH simpler cockpits, I have trouble understanding many of the actions in this and other scenarios that you go through so skillfully. The very first thing I don't understand is why does it seem that the pilots are not paying attention to what I will call the "attitude indicator," the part of the flight director that is showing the pitch and roll attitude of the aircraft. That was our primary reference flying on instruments for keeping the wings level and the nose somewhere near the horizon (AOA is now part of attitude control but I never had it). In "unusual attitude" training, If the nose was in the "sky" part of the indicator, it was: push the nose down, level the wings, and add power if necessary. If the nose was in the "ground" part, pull the nose up, level the wings and reduce power if necessary. Do the newer large commercial aircraft attitude indicators work differently? You refer to the flight director bars appearing and disappearing, but not to the actual attitude reference behind the bars. On a different subject, something that would make me very uncomfortable flying an Airbus is that the sticks don't follow each other. All the other controls and indicators are pretty logical, but those sticks would blow my mind! You have the best presentations and most outstanding productions of anyone I have seen on UTuub!

As a kid, I used to fly with my brother, who was going thru flight lessons. On many of our flights together, he always pointed out that, in the event of unforseen circumstances, always revert to the basics of Stick and Rudder... Just fly the plane. Engine speed, horizontal and vertical stability, and figure it out.