This is similar to driving while tired. Most people think it’s not a big deal, but driving while tired has similar effects as drinking and driving. Your reflexes and decision making are impaired.

My brother-in-law drove trucks, he said tired long-distance drivers could become hypnotized while driving behind another vehicle. His story saved me while driving in New Mexico, when I felt it happening to me. I got off the road & stopped for coffee to refresh myself. When I got back on the road I was ok again.

look my friend. your videos are top class.. There is no need to put a big picture of flames on the thumbnail. There was no fire so why make us think there is going to be??? your better than that.

I'm an air traffic controller at this airport. 29 years on the job. The Air Canada and MK B747 someone spoke of earlier was on runway 05/23 (24), not 14. Missing in this video are the weather conditions (low 500ft ceilings and rain = wet runway), the ILS 14 was the only one operational. Runway 23 only had the RNAV-LNAV approach available so the decent decision limits were higher due to construction activities (ILS 23 was U/S, as well as LPV and LNAV/VNAV). Add to this the approach lights on 23 were U/S due construction. ILS 14 afforded the lowest decision limits to the airport at the time (200 ft above ground) with a serviceable lighting system to ascertain the landing environment in IFR weather conditions. One Important point for all, when somone on the other end of the mic questions a decision you're making, stop and rethink whats going on around you. This applies to both pilots and controllers.

TheFlightChannel. You make good content, so why ruin it with that stupid click bait thumbnail with all of the flames? We both know this accident had no post crash fire. It’s misleading and takes away from what is generally really great work. Cheers

I'm a former International Airline Captain, and it is so common to perform long hours of duty with very little rest with quality...The lack of sleep is the worst cenário in aviation environment. At the end of an ordinary journey, like 18 hours of flight, the crew member barely remember his/her name because of the fatigue, but the operators are normally concerned in profit. So...

I love that your videos always cover multiple contributing factors, and never fall victim to the fallacy of there being a single "root cause". Safety is a wonderful area of study, and there's nothing more damaging to creating a culture of safety than the human tendency to assign blame to a single factor.

Luckily the crew survived, and 'only' was slightly injured. That is the most important fact.

I’m an airline mechanic at this airport. The public road that he stopped just short of is my route home. Twice since I’ve lived out there the road has been blocked by a 747 crash. The first one, an MK airlines freighter was worse, with seven killed.

No one died...and no major injuries. That is the most important thing.

For viewers who have no ! idea what a "deadheading Captain" is: The most common form of professional travel for a pilot is called deadheading - a term that encompasses a crew member, on duty, riding in the passenger cabin on his or her airline or another airline, to be re-positioned to an airport for the purposes of commanding another flight.

Thank you for being a source of my entertainment for 5 years mate. It means a lot to me.

FJOR- WE - is the song used at the end for anybody wondering. Apple Music.

I think I could hear the pilot yawning in the communication with ATC.

It's amazing how that huge and heavy plane just snaps into 2 or 3 pieces. Glad everyone was OK.

Runway 14/32 at Halifax Stanfield International is 7,700 feet long. A pilot deciding to land a widebody jet there needs to seriously consider a go-around if the approach speed is higher than normal for any reason, and the height at the runway threshold is higher than normal. If you then add rain or snow to the mix, it makes that decision more urgent. Runway 05/23 is 10,500 feet long; clearly even with the first section of runway closed for work, the rest of it is longer than 14/32; on this night there would not have been a tailwind there. In summary, the pilots did not read the NOTAM, disregarded the tailwind they knew was affecting their airplane, and after touching down further along the runway than they should have, made bone-headed mistakes like advancing engine thrust, which canceled the spoilers, and delayed deploying friction brakes. I assume their errors also included not using reverse thrust. Instead, the pilot focused on keeping the airplane on the center line. This crew included a senior captain very familiar with Halifax. Why didn't he warn the others about the impending danger? Lastly, though, I don't want to absolve theair traffic controller. Given that the NOTAMS changed to advise the use of Runway 23, I would have liked the controller to mention it explicitly. Instead of "did you read Tango" and "Ids Runway 14 still acceptable" how about "Are you sure you want 14 instead of 23? You have a tailwind. Break off the approach and I'll line you up with Runway 23."

I fly into and out of YHZ pretty routinely (was there 4 times last week) and I have never seen anything larger than a 737 MAX 8 use 14/32, even with a 15-20kt headwind component. I have seen a few larger aircraft accept a significant crosswind in favour of the longer TODA/LDA on 05/23 (10500' vs 7700'), 767F, 777F, A330 and so on. I'd be interested to know what the landing roll was for this particular flight, I don't fly the 747-400 but I imagine a 7700' runway is tight even in the best of conditions (we have a couple 737NG operators here in Canada and in their flight operations manual, a 7000' runway is the shortest they can operate onto). Unfortunate that the plane was lost but glad the crew escaped relatively unscathed.

The good thing is no one died 😇. But the incident caused a 747 to be written off, which seems pretty expensive 💰.

Another great video TFC! Ive been watching you for years and you havent let your fans down once! Keep up the good work!

I know this is not the worst one you have shown but if I were in it, I would still have panic attacks the rest of my life.

The Flight Channel music now gives me a feeling of excitement and anticipation on its own, as I know I’m going to view a quality video and you never disappoint. This is the gold standard of aircraft mishap channels.

I have no idea how you produce these videos, but they are incredible. Thanks!

Get this man to 2 million subscribers

Is it my ears or do many of the ATC featured in your videos mumble? I know they're dealing with multiple flights all the time but I'd struggle to understand what some of them are saying. A pilot in another video asked the controller to speak louder and clearly. I empathise.

When speaking to the tower, the Pilots voice sounded somewhat “weak” and tired.

The deadheader had an interesting ride!

I bet they haven’t done before landing checklists when the ATIS changed from Sierra to Tango, that shows the auto brake was not armed. Moreover, they could’ve observed speed and runway centreline at short finals and could’ve opted to go around. Absolute pilot error.

The soundtrack for these are really excellent. Kudos to whomever does the sound design.

On the upside, no one died. No matter what inventions come along, what new technology disrupts our lives or improves it, there's still nothing like a good night's sleep.

Flight crew writes off a Boeing 747 due to incompetence. Nothing was wrong with the aircraft, only the quality of the people flying it.

I'm surprised that the pilots didn't use thrust reversers immediately after touchdown. Why were they so surprised about being off the centerline and why did that stun them so much? They were off only slightly. I'm an amateur pilot and my landings are almost never dead center. As soon as I touch the ground I reach for the thrust reversers, which are the most reliable means of stopping, even on short runways. Steering and course correction as well as checking the spoilers and autobrakes are secondary at that stage.

I'm not a pilot, but if I were a pilot and they asked me if 14 was still acceptable, I would have asked why they were asking. Obviously, the controller has another runway available or is concerned that 14 is too short for you.

So grateful all survived!! I was afraid the gas might explode or something else catastrophic. Looks like it was a whole cascade of errors in judgement going on. I wonder if they pilots were held accountable in some way for what happened, but there was also the miscommunication about the availability of the longer runway. Thank you for another great presentation.

Another excellent video!

Thanks for sharing this exciting video!!! 👍👍🙂

I was curious what the four Chinese characters on the side of the aircraft said, so I opened google's photo-translate: "Fish every year" was the answer. I think it's broken! 😂

You can always go around to be on the safer side if you aren't sure of something, its gonna cost some fuel, but still worth it for your safety.

Good lord, imagine coming to work in the morning and seeing that giant plane stuck in the dirt and missing two engines. How do you even begin to get that thing out of the way?

I've flown into Halifax airport a few times and you never know what the weather will be like. My first time flying in a big aircraft we circled over Halifax airport for about 45 minutes but couldn't land due to fog snd had to fly to Montreal Quebec, where Air Canada put us up for the night. Thankfully my next flight was able to land on Christmas Day; there was a winter storm and I actually prayed while we were landing because I kept thinking about my first flight there. I've been driving there now; 2 days and 1 night. It's worth my peace of mind, though it does get a bit scary driving through Montréal at times!

Please make a video on saudia flight 763 and kazakhstan flight 1907

That is one beautiful airplane.

surprising, such an experienced flight crew not opting to abort landing & initiate a touch & go . . . as a result of the extended roll post touchdown . . . such complacency is appalling . . .

I've been waiting for this

Technology and computers are good to a point, I am old school therefore I want to be in control of the plane.

Hold on. Tower sees him flying an approach to runway 14. Then Tower asks if 14 acceptable? Another pilot error..no ‘airspeed, feet remaking’ checks by the FO, who should just be monitoring speed, feet remaining? Go around!!

I love this channel

I wonder whether the experience of the crew worked against them here- not enough adrenaline in a very dangerous phase of the flight. It sounds like they had difficulty assessing what the aircraft was doing on rollout, so maybe a longer runway would have helped, or maybe not.

This should never off happened.The communication between all,was the Fault.

The pilot monitoring was out to lunch. A whole chain of errors, inaction, and shortcomings went unnoticed.

In plain straight forward English, they made a right cock up of things.

Great video, thank you very much. 😊

No mention of the use of reverse thrust.

Very good video

outstanding job !!

I get goosebumps chill when the sound track 10.38 starts playing, especially with "Angelic" chorus

Just one comment, if I may: The NOTAM didn’t say that Rwy 23 are not authorized. They did say that the arrival procedures (ILS and RNAV) are not authorized.

Hopefully that captain never flew again - incredible level of incompetence!

After watching (great video, as always) I went back to see if the airframe was a total loss. Sure looked like it but was this plane written off? Did the pilots get penalized/fired? Thanks

In other words, the crew was knackered.

Thank God they survived!

Working around the clock is good money for the pilots and the company 😅

Is it me,or do Cargos have more incidents then passenger aircraft per cap?

Hi bro i really appreciate your great content but why you deleted the qatar airways video of 787 sudden descent please upload it again 😢😢😢

Where from you get the video graphics, do you have your own team or it's outsourced? and what about the conversation between tower and flight crew?

Considering there was a 7 knot tailwind, I wonder if simply using runway 32 instead would have been a better idea.

I'm glad to see a video of an airline crash with no deaths.

THATS ALOT OF DAMAGE!

That end of the runway has has claimed at least 3 aircraft. This one, the Air Canada A320 that landed short in a snowstorm, and a 747 that crashed on takeoff with a load of lobster. The lobster crash claimed 4 lives if I recall. Halifax can be a tough airport in the fog.

Great job of telling the story as it unfolded - although certainly not a pilot, I too have experienced reduced decision making capabilities due to stress and lack of sleep (I often have to work through two days, no sleep) - so I can understand what happened here. Just lucjy no lives were lost.

This is amazing, thank god no one was killed during the incident. Those pilots did amazing, god bless them!

How can it be so hard to just brake...

Arhhhh..... so thats why my Alibaba parcel never arrived.... also there was no mention towards the end of the above idle thrust of engine 1, resulting in retraction of the flaps and autobrake. Great video as always though

We’ve had multiple 747 runways overruns in Halifax. Seems if you sit around here long enough you’ll probably see one.

During this entire sequence I never seen either pilot use reverse thrusters, you would think they would have applied them right after touch down, or at least after they realized that the end of the runway was rapidly approaching them. In fact the left seater pushed #1 engine up for directional steering, engines 2,3 & 4 were still at flight idle.

Remember when u uploaded Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crash? The intro song is VERY good and I love it so can u add it to ur next video?

I feel sorry for the AIRCRAFT!

what game is this because your videos are so almost realistic and awesome

Usually or most of the times landing accidents on the ground are due to pilots fatigue, this is so obvious from just watching this fabulous channel, thanks a lot for the upload

Can anyone please tell me what it means when a pilot and the tower are communicating, what does “ Heavy” mean?

Woo-hoo! Halifax represented!... lol I remember this crash.

I am struggling to understand where the co-pilot was in this event. He does not get a real mention as to what he was doing ?

Hull loss??

In the end game the plots accepted the approach they briefed but the performance decrease of a 7 knot tailwind, and a crosswind on a runway that was 2800' shorter than the available into the wind runway 23 was worthy of a "let's talk about this" conversation, which did not occur. Any one of the pilots in the cockpit could have called this. A 7 knot tail wind is a big hit on landing distance and especially a 7700' runway for a 747. Lots to take away from this one, but this was the biggie.

I so happy no one was seriously hurt.

Que en paz descanse el avión

Ouch - the list of contributory factors is horribly long, many of them the result of sub-optimal performance by the crew. I worked in the safety services division of an international airline for several years. One of the pieces of analysis we did for all safety incidents was to assign a range of plausible weights to each contributory factor and then calculate how many factors were necessary in order for the incident to occur. With only two or three contributory factors, the results are not particularly illuminating, but this crash would make for very interesting study.

Did the cargo still get to the customers on time ?

Which flight simulator do you get this

Zipping through the verbiage way, way to fast! Come on guys, you’ve got a great channel, don’t blow it! Give people time to read it!

Nothing worse than actually reaching your destination and then crashing 🙄

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing right?

no WAY you did actuallly using msfs2020 now!

Crazy how many Boeing 747's have crashed in the history, makes you concider twice about flying this plane

What I notice in the video is the thrust reversers not activating at touchdown. Much later.

wow, what a scene that would be, cameraman did you take the shot 😅😮😊

Crazy

The video this time does not match the position and what is happening iaw the radio communication

Two flight crews got time off. And the difference from sierra to tango atis would have said landings on 23 and not 14. Somebody (copilot) doing radio affirmed they had information Tango

I was working as a crop duster, on a modified Cessna 150, but I am also a truck driver. I never take anything for granted/granite. Seems to me, a lot of these crashes occur because the crew thinks everything is hunky-dorey. The Captain traveling in the upper level supposedly knew, and was acquainted with this airport, one long runway, and a shorter one. At 3:34 a weather report and runway change is reported "but/however/whatever" , and the runway change is not conveyed to the crew. Oh well no biggy, just a big 747 headed that way. But yet runway 14 is still clear, a shorter runway. 4:07 The only significant change is the bigger runway 23 is open. Everybody is supposed to read minds. All hunky-dorey. Blazz-AAA. I always ask questions and double-check. The tower is also responsible, but the Captain rides the beef when trouble comes. When he lands, and such a beautiful landing, by the way, he hits the auto-brake, and reverse thrust levers. Four levers you pull back, then engage the brake levers forward which cause the spoilers to go up. At the same time engine throttle one moves forward, and nobody sees that, or feels it. WTF how can they be so dense. Okay, so when barreling down the runway, the end is coming, not even an effort to do a go-around. Well most likely to late at this time, but these are all super errors. Bad ones for a bunch of professionals.

Can anyone answer a question for me? In so many of these videos, I hear them saying like in this video: “Sky Cube 4854 *_heavy_* “ - why is the word “heavy” added? What does that mean? Thanks a lot for explaining! 🤗