"Our fuel level is 3200, and our flight plan says we need 3300 to reach our destination." "Let's go for it, we'll be fine."

the problem....the co owner was on board. the words ...just make it happen, springs to mind.

The pilots treated this flight like they were driving a car and a low fuel light was no big deal!! Shocking behaviour and thank goodness the major airlines are better than that, or so we trust anyway.

Thank you for covering a very sad and dramatic moment of chapecoense acident. One of the saddest days in brazilian aviation. The pilot,had done this CRAZY AND RECKLESS routine a number of times before, always landing in fumes of fuel. After one ofthese crazy flights, A hangar employee said that he tried to convice the man to not repeat it saying that it would eventually kill him to keep doing that. Another fact worth mentioning the lady who accepted their flight plan, denied the flight plan 3 times, asking for the endurance time and total distance to be changed, then after 3 times she was somewhat forced to accept it anyway. This was one of the most bizarre lack of airmanship i have seen in aviation in my life. Its obvious that eventually he would run out of luck, as fate would have it, it happened, and he carried many inocent lives with him. Note, this same pilot was going to carry the argentina national soccer team, including famous soccer player messi.

The original voice recordings are heart breaking bcs you can clearly hear the dispair in their voices and how much the tower controller tried to save the flight. But how could ATC provide vectors if they didn't have the plane's altitude? Devastating.

One thing is to risk your own life, but when u risk a life of so many people, you are simply a criminal.

"they should have approximately enough fuel." This isn't a car,where ya just walk to the nearest gas station,if u r wrong. If u run out in the air,u probably gonna die. And ya gotta be more forceful that u r almost out,& need priority.

I didn't know many of the details of this story. As you were telling it I find myself still not believing that the pilots could be making these decisions. As you discussed later this reflected a criminally reckless culture without the thankfully no longer functioning airline. Excellent telling of the story.

I think this should be characterised as what it was - manslaughter.

I used to watch a show called Mayday on the discovery Channel which went into detail about plane crashes and the investigations that followed. I haven't had cable in over a decade so I haven't watched the show in quite some time. This channel however has filled that hole. Thanks. :)

Seems to be absolute incompetence and recklessness that cause this accident.

This channel produces better videos than some of the more well known aviation accident channels on KZfaq. Is there a Patreon to donate to? I would definitely support the work of this channel to produce more videos. Awesome job!

Nice video as usual. So weird to see such loss of lives due to what seems basic negligence from professionnals... Makes me wonder how often stuff like this happen.

Very informative, and extremely well presented. Keep up the good work!

This same Lamia got to transport the Argentina National Team with Lionel Messi in the world cup qualifiers in South America and they almost had a fuel starvation situation with them, but since they could avoid the accident at the time, nobody got to know how reckless they were.

Great video @3Greens

Can't wait to see you hit 1000 subs soon😊

It's allways the double down with gross negligence. First ignoring all precautions and then not admitting the mistake or doing so when it's too late.

The captain thought the Rionegro VOR indication was actually the localizer, which is why he descended in such a way and thought he was on final even though he was over 10 miles away from the airport, he actually crashed in the very same mountain the VOR is located, less than 200m to its side

This is such a terrible story, very well told. Thank you. ⚘

Good God, this is stressful to watch, what numpties. Two aircraft "short of fuel", quite a common problem it would seem.

The poor Girl at TAC was blamed for this. I remember. She had to go into hiding.

One of the most negligent air crews ever...led by the Captain/part owner

Pilots of that flight ware behind the aircraft from beginning making number of amateur fuel decisions. Absolutely unacceptable performance for professional pilots.

Well done video. It’s sad how reckless the pilot was. And since the pilot had a history of flying on fumes the executives at that airline were ultimately at fault. They should have gone to jail.

UNBELIEVABLE

God these videos are so immersive. Truly sets you apart from similar channels. Edit: aside from the occasional overzealous voice actor, that is. Looking at you, ATC lady

Love the channel! You should research the 70’s plane crash of the American Football college team, Marshall University from my hometown of Huntington, WV, USA. There’s been a movie about it, but your research and telling of the story would definitely do it justice.

I had heard about the video game request and thought maybe that delay played a part, this explains clearly that it had no bearing.

must have got their license in a Kellogg's corn flake box ?

The voices here are so good :D

É tão realista a forma como você retratou as comunicações do LMI2933 com o ATC de Medellín, momentos antes da tragédia (mesmo sendo em inglês as comunicações, você conseguiu transferir a angústia e preocupação de ambos os lados) . Admiro muito e foi graças a sua simulação desse triste momento da aviação, e também para nosso futebol, que conheci seu canal. Ótimo trabalho e espero que continue com as simulações...

You should have added that the owner was Capt and neither pilot would get paid unless they made this trip.

I remember when I woke up to this sad news. I was so sad, especially because on the news they showed how happy they were bcs they were going for the final.

Very well made. This is comparable to Mentour Pilot and has a higher production quality than Mini Air Crash Investigation and simmilar channels

Imagine delaying an entire flight because you want to get a video game out of your bag. Imagine being a captain who allows it, instead of suggesting getting the game in an hours time when they [have to] stop for fuel. If someone were to write this as fiction, they'd be laughed out of room for being too far fetched.

As always, made my evening 🌆🌆🌆

Those are the type of people that keep driving their cars with the low fuel indication and only tank 4 liters at once to save the money even though you will after all spend that money on fuel anyway, and get surprised when the car stops in the middle of the road. How extremely stupid do you have to be?

Planning to land with zero is not a plan..

I don't think this is exactly an accident. It was too planned to blame mere chance. Of course the outcome was not desired, but it was easily predictable.

When the pilot is himself the co-owner of the airline, you can imagine what sort of a company we are talking about.

We're almost out of fuel and we're near someplace called Gemli (sounds like Gimli). What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

what happened to the airline, was it prosecuted, jail, compensation?

The pilots, just.....smh my God this is so sad! 🙏

8:38 the irony is palpable

If you're a flight crew and you know full well that you clearly do not have enough fuel to A) have the regulated amount of standby and B) get to your effing destination in one piece, you are not fit to fly any aircraft ...... this is absolutely insane in my opinion.🤬🤬

moral of the story: you will only be concerned about your fuel levels when you run out of fuel.

Just when I thought there was no worse planning than mine in MSFS.

The Captain being a co-owner of the airline is a bit like Harold Steptoe taking his horse 'n' cart out every morning, being on the board of directors loses some of its lustre. He may well have considered it to be quite above board to cut corners in passenger safety as he himself was likely to die if he cut one too many. Amazing how reckless some people can be, life is dangerous enough, without adding needless risks.

just a thought that doesn't mean a thing but shouldn't the single green light be on top indicating the nose gear?

So sad. 😪

Why/How was it even cleared for departure? not take-off but departure from the gate? the maths NEVER added up.

So much for their 1st class and VIP flights!If each player was travelling with other passengers in the 2nd class separately,wouldn't some of the players alive today!Just think about themselves and also their 5 stars hotels too instead of the 2-3 stars hotels!Football and other sports are NOT a proper career,they are hobbies only!

Total negligence and stupidity. Criminal negligence if he had lived.

Lamia was a Venezuelan airline headed for bankruptcy, it got a couple Bolivian investors to save it and moved it to Bolivia, but money was always tight from the start. This is the result of a culture that i know myself as a Bolivian know well, the "No pasa nada" means Nothing is going to happen, said when taking risks

I would hazard a guess the aircraft ahead of them that had declared a fuel emergency landed with more fuel than they had when idiotically accepting a holding pattern diversion. They ought to have declared a fuel emergency themselves at that point and likely would have landed safely. This not the first time ‘Priority' has stupidly been used in preference to the more appropriate and assistance providing ‘Emergency'. Astonishingly he was more interested in advising his loss of electrical power than advising all four engines had flamed out due to dry tanks. I suspect their primary reason for not declaring an emergency earlier when their situation was salvageable was entirely due to the subsequent inquiry that would follow. Once it becomes official due to mandatory ATC reporting and involvement of the civil aviation regulatory body, they knew they’d be caught out deliberately violating regulations that demand a minimum of 30mins fuel reserve on landing. Because they’d elected to 'fly on fumes' arrogantly and irresponsibly deciding to continue rather than make a fuel stop. Their appalling corner-cutting decision making disregarded all safety dynamics and was purely financially motivated, including their deceitful fraudulent filed flight plans and poor scheduling. Irrespective of the destination airport's closing time, which is simply poor schedule planning on the charter operator’s part, they ought to have planned for a refuelling tech stop and advised an earlier departure time to cover both the potential tech stop and arrival well within the destination airport’s operational restrictions when negotiating the timetable for the charter. Too many accidents have occurred over the years with charter operators due to competitive bidding, dodgy operational practices and involvement of company owners/co-owners holding a pilot’s license but not endorsed on type being operated, yet irrespectively demanding on being a part of the operating crew, usually for reasons of vanity or in pursuit of benefits. Consequently the CRM dynamics are completely annihilated with F/O (un-endorsed owner) holding the advantage over an enormously steep flight deck management/decision making gradient. Unacceptably although understandably with some less assertive personality types or with dependence on employment, career progression or accumulation of flight hours, they are unwilling to affirm their authority and position as PIC despite carrying the responsibility, as evidenced by even agreeing to accept an unqualified F/O devoid of appropriate endorsements and experience on type. I often wonder - do they even consider a pilot incapacitation scenario or similar requiring the unqualified F/O taking sole control?!

So sad rip

Reminds me of Avianca 52

The first officer was a total puppy. Unwilling to even question the captain's words. I'd be like, yo..

This isn't a Nascar race, it's never smart to play such a dangerous game with fuel.

Controller should have just told them, "your lack of planning is not my emergency."

Rip Filipe Machado 😢❤

This wasn't an accident but a display of pathetic piloting and gambling and in the end, when it all looked to go belly up, still not having the decency to admit your mistakes and immediately declare an emergency. They probably would have made it, just, if they had had a direct route to the airport without holding pattern, etc. With the mentality of this captain and co pilot, this was clearly an accident waiting to happen. Shame on them!!

In those countries

It was an Avro RJ (Regional Jet) actually, a development of the Hawker Siddeley (HS) 146.

Note: That airline was not brazilian, neither these pilots. Only the passengers.

A plane should never run out of fuel on a flight.

I caste my mind back to the 50s, manchester united crash

Air crash over Chicago

"Ain't got no gas innit" Why would anyone even TRY to run a plane on fumes?

That's Brazil's most famous Plane Crash, but people often forget about Brazil's most deadly plane crash which is also the deadliest plane crash in latin american history. TAM (now LATAM) Flight 3054 killed 199 people on July 17th 2007 after the plane wasn't able to slow down at the runway and started going left, eventually the plane hit a building owned by the same company that owned that plane (TAM) which killed not only the 187 passengers but also 12 people inside that building It was hell. a reporter managed to record the plane engulfed in flames just a few mins after it crashed and holy damn, it was just fire and more fire there was 187 dead burning corpses inside that plane

Mentor pilot is a very good aviation experienced pilot. And very experienced in analysing air disasters.

The co-pilot is a co-owner???? How much is this airline worth?

Its 2022 and they still cant afford hard drives with more than 256mb total, shouldnt it be possible to record everything that happens in the plane for atleast a year at this point of time?

Just plain " MONKEY BUSINESS " !

They should of whent Brazil would be enough fuel when on feul reaserv they should said it before hand when lights whent on priority clear taxi for ran way for landing emergency not enough feul.

Correction: 3 players survived

12:57 to front...: Co-Pilot 9.000 thousand feet..., VECTORS, VECTORS!.!.!.!.!/ ATC: You are 8.2 milles of distance to the runway/ Co-Pilot: Jesus!/ ATC: How are you altitude now?... Lima Mike India 2933 Position?!?!?!?!?!

1:18 Captain going down with the ship? How about company owner going down with the ship. Jesus Christ...

Who is to blame

Whoever encountered the difficulties of a landing in South American countries will understand the enormous stress of the crew. Land and refuel - pay the fuel with credit card. How to get to the counter to pay the fees? Call the tower to let somebody open a door. A portion can be payed cash with dollars. Another portion must be payed cash in pesos. Immigrate to convert some dollars to pesos at a bank. A long queue in front of the banks counter. Convert some dollars to pesos. Immigration again to get to the office. Pay everything now. Delay the flight plan accordingly. In the meantime three hours elapsed. Time is getting critical because the airport of final destination might close. Venezuela does not permit overflight. Make a trick in the flight plan to circumnavigate Venezuela. The wether on the route is stormy. Landing in Aruba ten minutes before closing. Idiot procedures of some countries contribute to such incidents !

Who flies without enough fuel?

Guess Bolivian Air Force doesn’t require basic math skills.

14:04 Wow those look like some HARD ASS motherf--rs

Definite typo on that tail. Es de mierda!

Are you kidding me-??? "The pilots fell they have JUST ABOUT enough fuel to make it"-???!!! Its not like your driving a car and run out of fuel on the side of the damn road-!!! This whole thing was bound to happen if not this day another day for sure considering the planes fuel capacity. "Rules, we dont need no rules-!! "Hold over Gimli" ??? Oh Brother-!!!

You actually owned a part of this company and you don't know that you cannot make this distance without a refuel? And there is no advance planning to do this and this from a "professional" airline?? Unbelievable? Unbelievable? What a waste, just Unbelievable again!!

Is this flight crew responsible for paying the cost of fuel? Why would ANYONE risk it for a biscuit? Piss-poor flight management - full stop.

Some Mothers do 'ave 'em .

Getthereitis. Don't do it.

Hell Yeah hehe

Do you talk to your mates at the pub with that voice ?

Why are there special considerations for the football players? I thought all lives are equally precious and important.

Couple of amateurs. Never should’ve been in the cockpit

Forza Chape❤️😞

Lesson learned: don't play video games.

It’s hard to believe these two clowns were former Air Force pilots. /In the Newtonian World

I think here will be a lot of brazilian comments but no, lol

Ever noticed these small planes causing more accidents and death than the big ones. Why?

Third world country attitude?