An 11 year old girl and her mother both survived the crash. However, the mom died in the fire because she was trapped under wreckage, saw the fire and told her daughter to run. The girl survived and was eventually reunited with her dad who wasn’t on the plane.

cool video with a sad ending! -didnt like the fake voices to be honest -absolutley loved ATC comms after the crash

One guy managed to survive because he was bending down to tie his shoes just as the plane crashed and was unintentionally in the brace position.

In those days Korean Air was controlled by Chairman Cho who was also head of Hanjin. He instructed many staff to cut corners and save on fuel/overhead. The last straw was the crash at Stansted airport when Mr. Cho stepped down and the airline has never had a crash since.

Love your work as always!! Please never use AI voices again. I HATE THEM!!

Outdated charts, pilot fatigue, poor CRM & ATC error. This disaster was inevitable.

I lived on Guam from 1990-1993. I lived in Navy housing on Nimitz Hill. The aircraft on approach to Won Pat flew right over my house. This thing must have missed that house by 10 feet. I was there on unrelated business a week after this happened. We went to the crash site. It was a sobering sight. The vertical stabilizer was sticking up out of the jungle and completely undamaged. My first thought was, "This thing just doesn't belong here." It was an eerie sight.

I was a doctor at the Navy Hospital there that night. This was not the normal crew that flew to Guam. They usually flew an Airbus on that route, but Guam had requested a 747 instead, so that they could take the Guam Olympic team to the South Pacific games. I was so frustrated at the lack of survivors who were taken to the hospital. The aircraft impacted on its belly and burned slowly, but emergency equipment could not get to the crash sit, because it ended up on the downward slope of Nimitz Hill. The crew tried to initiate a missed approach, but the landing gear got caught on a small oil pipe, which brought the aircraft onto the ground

The AI voices not so hot. Otherwise, excellent video.

It wasn't mentioned: 25 of the 254 aboard survived. 31 were pulled alive from the wreck but 2 died en route to hospital and 3 died later in hospital. 3 flight attendants survived but all cockpit crew members died. Somewhat unusually, there is a reasonable distribution of survival seats throughout the plane, strangely with 1st Class being the most survivable (7 people out of 12 seats - don't know if they were all filled - survived).

I try not to give negative comments on videos as I appreciate the effort and hard work that goes into them, especially when I know I couldn't come close to doing a video as polished as The Flight Channel.....however......I wasn't a fan of the AI voice overs. They sound horrible and are not really needed as the viewer has already read what has been said. Using the real recorded voices from the cockpit recorder and ATC tapes are great for obvious reasons, but using voice overs when you don't have actual recordings spoils it for me.

Great video as always The AI generated dialogue is not necessary

Nothing good can come from "whoop whoop" I don't understand why flight crews seem afraid to ask for confirmation from ATC if they are unsure about something. They were unsure about the glideslope.

Korean Air at the time had a lot of problems with CRM. Dominant captains and subordinate first officers were the norm. Two years later, a Korean Air Cargo 747 crashed in England shortly after takeoff due to captain's mistake and first officer's lack of courage to challenge the captain.

These videos have NEVER looked so good! The flight sim is fantastic but I even include the font and resolution of the text! I’ve been watching this channel for years and can’t praise them enough for always wanting to improve! Thanks again to The Flight Channel.

Normally, great videos, but the AI voices were really distracting on this one

I can't figure out why the creator of these videos won't correct the issue that his final text comments telling about the number of people killed, etc. at shown only for a second, nowhere near long enough to read the comments. I'll keep saying this until he notices. This is a bad way to end really good videos.

Great video! No fake voices please.

I really don't like the AI voices in this one, mostly because they don't sound like actual pilots at all so it breaks immersion. Edit: or rather totally inconsistent. Some were incredibly bad, some were okay. Were there some bits of real audio in there?

Anyone else feel like the new voiceover (audio reading of the cabin crew's dialogue) that was added to this video is unhelpful and distracting? The tone and inflection of the voice don't match with each particular situation being illustrated. It definitely interferes with my reading of the screen text, but maybe that's just me. To be clear, I'm not referring to the actual flight/tower conversational recordings from the incident, only to the voiceover.

The flight crew respected the Captain all the way into the mountain. There's a long history in cultures where seniority is so firmly embedded it's very difficult to displace and create coordinated CRM. BTW, not a fan of the flat tone, emotionless synthesized voices. It's distracting.

Out of respect for the captain many flight crews just dont correct the captain even when it puts their own life in danger. Hard to imagine but true. Hopefully this serious issue has been addressed

I really enjoy this channel, however I’m not too certain that the inclusion of A.I. generated speech is necessary. I prefer to read to text if cockpit recordings are not available. Thanks.

Great video. Not of a fan of the text being read out.

Kindly refrain from adding fake voices in places you don’t have the original. Texts alone are good along with the engine sounds in the bg, unless you have the actual audio which would make it GREAT! Appreciate the work you do, huge fan ❤

Great quality video but the addition of the monotone voice for cockpit interactions are ruining it for me.. Don't like it at all...

I would like the channel to maintain the video presentation like it was before, hope can remove the dialogue voices. Kinda annoying.

Long time viewer. NO on the AI voice. If there's no actual audio, just reading it is better. Also, showing the ending at the beginning kind of removes any suspense. Otherwise you're videos are still the best in the genre.

Not really a fan of the AI voices, personally.

I think Malcolm Gladwell devoted a whole chapter on this incident in one of his books attributing the Korean and other cultures where its eloquent non-direct, receiver-oriented language structure may not have worked inside a cockpit. After this incident, Korean Air only allows spoken English in the cockpit and maintains excellent record to this day, Mr. Gladwell wrote. (I forgot the name of the book... Tipping Point, Outlier, What the Dog Saw.) Thanks for the video, great work.

This is all too common, or used to be. Sometimes first officers and other crew members are too scared to tell a captain he's wrong, and they go to their deaths in silence.

IMHO, I’m not a fan of the AI voice. I prefer real audio or subtitles. AI just doesn’t seem to fit.

The other thing I noticed, and this goes to crew training, was the pilots complaining about their hours and company policy instead of focusing on the job at hand. The whole sterile cockpit thing.

Korean culture is very hierarchical. The ones in their junior positions rarely challenge their seniors. I am sure this was the case here which partly contributed to the crash.

Them not knowing they would leave this earth in 7 hours once they got on the plane is so sad

One thing that wasn’t touched on was South Korea’s cultural values having an effect on the airline because Korean culture often has a hierarchy where the younger people are less likely to speak up in fear of dishonoring their elders.

First off your channel is the gold standard of this genre... So with much love I ask to never ever use voice overs or AI.. Detracts so much from your very streamlined and smooth style.

If that was real ATC communications after the crash, those guys had the worst "Meh" reaction.

Something about the ATC keeping a neutral tone kind of weirds me out. I do believe that they found it necessary to remain as calm as possible, however, I, myself, would have been having an emotional meltdown if someone told me about that. In addition, I found the quality of communication between pilots and controllers to be beyond unacceptable.

I know these are slowed down to get all the information but I wish at least once we could see it at full speed to determine how difficult it is to make timely decisions in that situation to save the flight?

Anyone else always think of having a Pepsi when the see Korean Air?

I really appreciate the amazing work of an art done by the flight channel.

No AI voices please✨ Love your work!

I always find your content fascinating. I remember this tragedy and it was interesting to watch the reenactment. But I have to say I don't like the added artificial voices. I can read the quoted dialogue and find the fake voices distracting. Cheers!

This was very sad. There are quite a few airports worldwide surrounded by high hills and mountains, making it difficult for pilots to land in bad weather, and to even consider building one in dangerous areas like this is a disaster waiting to happen, especially back when they didn't have the high technology built into commercial planes as they do nowadays, even with all the tech it's not easy. I'm sorry to the family members who lost loved ones in this horrific crash, may they all R.I.P. ✝

We had a case study in our ready room about this flight about a month ago. Korean Air had pretty low safety records during this time. Today, their safety record is superb! Also, the Korean Air simulator did not have the Nimitz VOR properly located in their simulator. The VOR was next to the airfield in the sim.

I worked with the approach controller of this flight for many years. He was a very conscientious and competent controller.

Most realistic plane explosion ever.

Man these crashes always get me 😢. In the last moment i was getting up in my chair gradually and yelling "cmon pull up, pull up, pull up"

No more AI voices please

My Platoon Sergeant was a private fresh out of basic training when his first drill with the Guam national Guard was to recover bodies of this crash.

This happened just as my family had moved to Guam where I took a job as a junior high school band director in Dededo. The crash was a couple of weeks before the start of school and I worked with recovery (and rescue) workers. One of the saddest memories of my life. Incidentally, after this crash there was a sudden drop in the number of tourists from Korea. Tourism is the main profitable industry of Guam, with most visitors coming from Japan and Korea.

RIP EVERYONE

I don't like the computer-generated voice. Do we get a poll to vote on it? 😂

The ATC voice is also “Chilling Encounters” for all you scary story fans…

Great video! Can you do a future video of the Blue Angel crash that killed Captain Jeff Kuss in Smyrna, Tennessee in June 2016? I would be curious to see what went wrong.

R.I.P 228 souls on board include CPT Park yong cheol, F/O Song kyung ho, F/E Nam suk hoon

Lived there for many years. The approach into AB Won Pat isn't easy, but not as difficult as many

I have seen far too many of these videos, where the crew doesn't understand a very straightforward command from the tower (glideslope not working), and then completely ignores all the warnings in their cockpit. These are highly trained professionals, as well as multiple people involved in the decision making, so how can they as a group make such stupid decisions.

This accident is proof that the introduction of aviation quality GPS has eliminated most controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accidents. With good reason: flight crews now know their exact position, including altitude, to at at least 30 feet, or even down to 10 feet with ground transmitter assist.

Maybe the island started to tip over make the terrain higher than anticipated... I hear that's a concern to some. Why it's even been debated in congress.

Love your work. Your content and channels have been great and improving so much, but an honest criticism is that the Voice Overs really don’t fit your style and really aren’t necessary.

chilling audio coming from air traffic control. you can hear the shakiness in tower's voice and disbelief coming from all parties.

😢 in 1960 my brother was flight engineer on a plane that crashed into Nimitz Hill only 15 people survived. It was on takeoff so the crash was on the other side of Nimitz hill from this crash. Amazing so sad the airline was a World Airways, out of Oakland, California September 1960😢😢

Nice video. First, it was incumbent on the flight crew to understand the terrain around the Guam airport. At least one member of the flight crew should have beeen someone who had been there before. That the airline would provide an incorrect map is unacceptable (updated map? Nimitz Hill has always been there. The map is either correct or it isn't). Next, Korean Airlines at the time had a huge culture problem: the captain i always correct and the first officer or second officer should not contradict him. In the years since the crash, Korean Air has seen improvements, but in a country where hierarchy is prized, overcoming that problem has taken enormous effort. Lastly, I agree with the criticism of the control tower. Their monitoring was not appropriate. I will also add that I have always believed ATC shouldhave both surveillance and height-finding radar, or use a 3-D radar so as to receive important data independent of what the aircraft transmits. Today, as the US Navy begins to retire the SPS-48, why not donate the sets to civilian air traffic control?

LOVE the real audio segments

Always so sad when there is a disaster that could have been prevented. RIP to all who perished and their families.

Tbh i don't like these AI generated voices. Either please use original recordings or just put in text.

Very well done as always...RIP to those who lost their lives

I had flown to Seattle a few days ago 1st time in 40 yes have to say ..I was nervous prayed kept my mind on God tht gave me peace.

The 'generated audio' voices are horrid. Vids are always great, tho, probably getting close to the 100 mark. Lots of good ones - thank you!

So much of this was avoidable. They were complaining of being tired and over working these flight crews really must be stopped. Also the air traffic seemed really lackadaisical, too. 229 souls lost RIP Thank you for another great presentation.

The 747 Classic is such a beautiful plane. My favorite. They should treat these pilots like princes with personal flight attendants.

I swear, nearly every time I watch, the last thought I have is "DAMN!"

I think if the altitude selector on the MCP only increments in 100s, you're suppose to ROUND UP, so for 560 feet, you'd set "600", not "500".

Love your videos. I've gotta say, the AI voices are just a distraction though. While it's nice when you have the actual audio from the events sometimes, that's more of an added bonus. The AI voices were just weird and took away from the video.

I was just watching a video of yours, wondering when the next would come out.. Anyways on a more important note, rip to those who lost their lives, this crash was so easily avoidable in my opinion.

As a person from Saipan, thanks for making this video!

Great video. Pity about AI. Please don't ruin such good work with AI. Part of the appeal is the quietness, other than engine noises etc.

I love this channel, but if I may give a suggestion; please don't use AI voice. Real sound is the best, but better not at all if there's no actual voice. Great video as always!

Looking at the online chart that shows where the survivors were seated on the aircraft, one would think the majority would be found in the rear section. But in this instance, that's not the case.

idk why, but korean air are famous for their runway overruns that occurs even to this day

Sometimes, it’s hard to believe that there are survivors in accidents with large planes.

Nice video

Wow Maan !!very emotional at the end

Not a fan of the AI voices. Would rather just have the text if no real audio.

So sad that this crash happened, could have been easily avoided.

Not a big fan of the AI voice.

I like your new channel

I was waiting for you to do this video! Idk if you have the Ethiopia Air crash one tho.

Corporate culture has improved this case! Maked safety KAL. There were a lot of accidents. R.I.P crew and passengers

This is my childhood channel I was here wenn I was a young kid and was watching ur videos

You always have good videos but tragic endings 💔 😔

How come we never get the names of the flight crew, the total amount of crew and passengers, and how many lived/passed away, anymore?

People just can't perform nearly as well when overtired, as I think the Captain was. And flying in the wee hours only makes it worse.

When the GPWS sounds, stop whatever you are doing and pull up immediately. Not sure why they were ignored and caused so many crashes.

I remember that sad sequence of crashes involving Korean Air and Asiana aircraft along the late 90s. Actually it was the reason I ended up working with FSB (Flight Safety Boeing, later FSBTI-Korea, later ALTEON Training) as a Training Center Instructor & Examiner for six and a half years, as of March 2000, at Korean Air Training Center in Incheon. Was an interesting learning curve, they studied a lot but cultural issues were a factor (if not the factor)...it was hard work, especially along the first 2-3 years.

Great video.I understand there were nevertheless miraculously a large number of survivors of this crash. Would be good if you include this information.

YOU are a naturally born story teller.

I don’t know how many times we have to complain and tell them to leave voices out of it unless it is real CVR. Creator stubborn as hell.