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I love how you make your KZfaq videos with unconscious dogs surrounding you

"Do you need help? I'm a pilot!" "Perfect, yes! Thank you! Could you read the checklist?" "Sure! I made my own!" "Whut?"

"Both engines failed. This is not good." - This is the legendary art of truthful understatement that a pilot requires when using the public address system.

Sad to read in the comments below that Capt Rasmussen suffered from PTSD and never flew again, and that Capt Holmberg, who had gone into the cockpit to assist, also experienced problems. His input into the critical situation was vital and makes me feel that there should always be three flight crew in the cockpit. An extra pair of eyes, an extra set of experience and aviation skill could really help in emergency situations. I'm so pleased to hear that everyone survived, it really is a miracle as you say.

Those dogs have prefected the art of napping...😂👍

This crash is the reason I never take my shoes of when flying. I have a friend who was on this flight, and he had some nasty cuts on his feet after walking out of the aircraft without his shoes on. Fun story, he had a mobile phone (they were very rare 1991) and actually called a cab to the crash site. He then took the cab home (obviously in shock) and there was a bit of a confusion before the emergency team could clear him on the passenger list.

The off duty pilot who just happened to know exactly what was happening, just happened to be on the plane is amazing.. these are the things that make me love life XD

I spoke to Captain Rasmussen about 20 year’s ago while sharing a common hobby. He mentioned that, while waiting for emergency services on the field the crew had to prevent several passengers from re-entering the broken aircraft. The passengers wanted their “duty free” booze and cigarettes. 😳

I love how you always bring the cabin crew into the story, their job and their professionalism.

the third pilot sitting in cabin is a truely dedicated person to his job since he made his own checklist!

As he was describing the start of the crash, the wing torn off by the trees.... I started to tear up thinking how sad it was everyone was killed after such a valiant effort to save the plane. Then he says all 129 passengers and crew got out of the airplane alive with only one serious injury! I love a happy ending. 💓 Thank you, Mentour for this great video!👍👍

Must have been a helluva night if those teenagers in the cabin weren’t woken by a huge passenger plane crash-landing-breaking into 3 pieces!-in a nearby field in the morning!

Both engines fail, first the right and then the left. "This is not good" might be a bit of an understatement.

@Mentour Pilot Well this is one of the cases where it's clear how important these reports are - not only from a "learning to prevent further accidents" standpoint - but also from an assigning of blame standpoint. I was 12 (I'm from Denmark BTW) when this happened - and I CLEARLY remember how much shit was thrown at Cpt. Rasmussen - saying he was to blame and how bad of a pilot he was. I particularly remember how he was basically forced into a press conference where he was bombarded with "why did you do this and that" questions. The man was CLEARLY in distress - and - though I didn't realize it at age 12 - he was clearly suffering from PTSD. Though I didn't know what it was - I CLEARLY remember feeling soooo fucking sorry for him - as a child - wondering how the hell adults could treat someone that way! The man did everything he possibly could - and no one could have done it better with the information/education SAS had given him. The other captain and the 2nd pilot were amazing too - so was the cabin crew.... why the hell media needed to draw blood from this amazing display of skill, courage and - coolness under pressure is beyond me! ... All of this led to Rasmussen never returning to flying - and don't tell me the incompetent media attention didn't help make sure he never would! Only later did he and the crew receive their due recognition for their accomplishment. He did eventually get a Danish knights cross ... though that sort of feels like a sub par reward for what he went through - the repercussions to his health (PTSD and Tinnitus) - which has led to him being a bus driver today. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with being a bus driver.... but is it really a "happy ending" for a hero pilot who got hurt from the crash where he saved 129 souls - and from the cruelty of "modern media"?

I came across this older video after binging like 50 others and man the growth in the quality of your videos and story telling is incredible. You’re ok here but you are amazing now. Way to go consistency.

Continental Airlines retired captain here. Excellent, clear, and concise description and analysis of this potentially tragic accident. Although I never had the pleasure of flying the MD-80 during my 20-year airline career, I had close friends who did at CO, Frontier, and also American Airlines. In US airlines' operation of the "Super 80" in the 1980s, the ice ingestion problem from super-cooled fuel creating clear ice on top of the wing roots during short ground times in all types of weather conditions was well known. I can't recall what the corrective action was (wing root heating panels?) After several damaged fans and compressers occurred, fortunately without accidents, the problem was effectively eliminated, and fan/compressor damage from clear ice ingestion ceased throughout the US airline MD-80 operator fleets. I am quite surprised that SAS and presumably other foreign airlines were still unaware of this problem as late as 1991! The solution is not just training pilots on how to react to ice ingestion-induced compressor stalls and overriding the thrust recovery system, but elimination of the source of wingroot clear ice formation in the first place! This could be a classic case of failure of the manufacturer, the FAA, the Swedish aeronautical authority, and the airlines' failure to share critically important operational safety information which could easily have prevented this potentially multi-fatality accident. The international commercial aviation reporting system is designed to prevent this very situation from happening. In this case it obviously failed in several respects.

As I remember the interviews afterwards was that Stefan Rasmussen was a highly respected pilot with an open and friendly attitude towards copilots and cabin crew and also passengers. So he always created a really good atmosphere aboard and was known for this. That, I think, contributed to the fact that the cabin crew and copilots knew that it was ok, and felt there was room to act, to take responsibility. The team was the hero that day...

I felt so bad for Captain Rasmussen. He really was deceived by his own aircraft, and he never recovered from the trauma sufficiently to ever fly again.

I love how chill your dogs are while you tell harrowing stories.

I absolutely love the attitude of Mentor Pilot: always positive, highly respectful towards people, excellent pronunciation of the names of his brothers- in-profession, so to speak , very enthusiastic about an aviation and his voice is really sympathetic to the victims of any tragic events. ❤❤❤

As I remember it, this became the last flight Captain Rasmussen ever did, right?! (He lost his confidence and got really bad PTSD from that crash.) People often forget about the after mass from a crash. He never came back. We have no idea how this miracle affected the rest of the crew and the passengers. There are some untold stories there. (We can only guess the burden they carry.) A miracle yes, but also a tragedy in other ways.

Mentour Pilot should have his Netflix show. The way he covers material is so meticulous and interesting.

Your newer videos don’t have enough dogs in them. :-)

As a Swede myself, this is easily my favourite video of yours and I keep coming back to it. I also listened to the P3 documentary during my latest roadtrip. The way Pär Holmberg has been treated after this is so sad. He really did a heroic thing and deserves proper recognition for his actions.

IIRC this caused a sad ending to Cpt Rasmussen's career; after getting cleared of all accusations he tried to return to cockpit, but failed. This incident turned out to be an overwhelming mental burden for him :(. As an ATC officer I can imagine the horror at their side of the radio as well. Seeing a plane slowly losing altitude and eventually fading out on the radar, as it reaches the ground level, is one of the worst nightmares of an air traffic controller - being second only to a mid-air collision.

The dog on your right opens one eye stretches and looks at you as if to say “who is he talking too ?” Until this moment I didn’t even know that was a dog. I thought he was a fluffy pillow .

Synergy is the perfect word. This crew perfectly filled in each other's blanks. Capt: Controlled the aircraft under crazy circumstances, but unfamiliar with failure mode. FO: Recognized failure mode, but had no resolution. Asst. Captain: Brought resolution (his own checklist in his head), kept captain focused on flying. And MEGA PROPS to cabin crews everywhere! Survivable accidents are only survived because of them.

This pilot is a KZfaq Gem, tells stories better than my Grandpa. Nice job thank you!

22:17 - Tuckered out white floof silently conducting her own concert. It's so cute. Surprised no one else caught it.

Am I the only person who ever wonders why there is always those few people that hit the thumbs down on such a great and informative video? You want the real story in a nutshell, come here. You want ridiculous drama, watch a couple of the other air crash shows. Those deserve the thumbs down. Thanks for another outstanding video!

Completely different situations, but the similarities between this accident and the United DC10 at Sioux City, IA are striking. Particularly in flight crew resource management, cabin crew performance, and a off duty pilot who had been thinking about this exact situation being a passenger and steeping up to help!

My two uncles were pilots, three cousins and my younger brother are all commercial pilots, I have an engineering degree and always love to work on car engines as a hobby. I absolutely respect and commend your knowledge about airplanes its technical, mechanical and aro dynamics, Love your channel

I read that this really messed up Captain Per Holmberg's life, he got late injuries that made him unable to work and pretty much ruined an entire decade of his life and he had to fight to get insurance pay from SAS which didn't get payed as insurace but as regular pay so half of it tax. There were also people within SAS that criticized him for going into the cockpit to help

This story still tears my eyes up to this very day. I remember it very well, as it dominated all Nordic news back then of course and of course here in Norway. I was 21 back in 1991 and I have flown A LOT in those planes. I remember how happy we all were here in Norway that no one died and we considered it a miracle as well, and we understood that the pilots would have had to have made an absolutely fantastically heroic job. Thank you so much for explaining this yet again. I have seen other Swedish documentaries and US ones about this but none of them explained it as clear and as well as you have done here. Thank you so much again. All the best from Oslo, Norway. Cheers from Øyvind.

Always nice to see a shout-out to the team of flight attendants. The team showing initiative and working to make this event survivable was no accident. They knew what had to be done and got on with it. Communicating in more than one language was a particularly professional and admirable measure.

They were truly....out standing in their field. Sorry, I couldn't pass it up. 😂 Thank you for this amazing story, Mentour!

Holy crap! This happened to me! I am not a pilot. I was a passenger. I forget what type of plane I was on but it was in the US, mid-80s, with two engines at the rear of the plane. Back then I smoked and you could smoke on a plane. I was in the very last seat (back end was the smoking section), the engine cowling partially blocked my window. This is why I remember this vividly. I was literally next to the engine (or at least as close as was possible in the cabin). As we accelerated down the runway there were two big "booms" next to me from the engine. Kinda big "whumps". Not sure how to describe it except to say it scared me (and everyone else but especially me since I was next to the engine). It was not catastrophic but you couldn't miss it and remain calm either. The engines immediately spooled down and we coasted a bit and went back to the terminal. No one got off (was never an option) and we were later told all was good and we went again and flew with no problem. Personally, I wanted a new plane but no one asked me or gave me an option. The pilot told us that during takeoff there was a crosswind which interfered with air going in to the engine so the plane was fine, freak occurrence, nothing to worry about. I have no idea if he was lying or not. (And FTR I quit smoking long ago...it was a different time back then.)

I loved the detail about the teenagers waking up to 125 people on the property with a disassembled airplane in the background. "Yeah, like, you know, there's like a gob of people outside coming from a busted plane..."

E X T R A O R D I N A R Y. Yes, a miracle. Sad to hear that two of the pilots were emotionally affected to never fly again. But they saved every life on board.

I was there on that day, leaving on a flight later that day. For us in the airport we couldn't get any information about what had happened other than we noticed there were lots of additional police, but when we arrived in Florida 16 hours later it was already in the US newspapers "Christmas miracle in Sweden". Quite a memorable day...

Thank you Mentour Pilot! There are many "Air disaster" or "Air forensics investigations" channels on YT that I occasionally watch, but they are boring and depressing. Your storytelling instead is bright and exciting. May be a new branch of aviation for you to report, professionally and without being boring. Regards,

Swedish teens are bold. They continued sleeping while an aircraft crashed in front of their accommodation.

It's quite interesting that a several of these close-call ‘miracle’ saves are made possible by the addition of another pilot on board as a passenger who realized something is wrong and comes to the aid of the crew.

Jag bor nära Gottröra, kommer ihåg denna men visste inte så mycket du beskriver. Tack för videon!

I remember this event very clearly. A few years later, 1994, I did my military service as an airport firefighter at Arlanda & Örnsköldsvik. . We had a printout of the completed air crash investigation report. It had all the events with actions and communication timed second by second from takeoff to the crash. I read it with a stopwatch. What struck me then was how quickly everything happened, only seconds between each event and need for evaluation and decisions..

As a retired RAF pilot I love your very informed videos, but your little dogs are so sweet! Bless them. We have just got a little puppy to replace our much-loved Yorkie who passed away in September. Keep up the good work and fly safe!!.

The cooperation of each person involved, from pilot to passenger, and the way various skills came together in this event really gave me chills. I hope the one severely injured woman was able to recover in time, or at least come to terms with her situation. I think stories like this are why my dad has always pushed everyone to learn a wide array of knowledge: you never know who you'll be able to help...with an oddly specific checklist you thought through for yourself! 😳

I'm so thankful that everyone survived this crash. I dearly wish it would be so for every emergency in planes. You make your stories so real and do such a great job of explaining what went wrong and why it did. I cannot say enough good about your amazing gift in talking about these happening. Thanks for being there. Also--I love your two little dogs. They look to be Toy Poodles? Very pretty little dogs.

Paxti and Molly should do a SkillShare in advanced napping

I met the pilot of this flight in 1998 if I recall correctly. Solid man. An honour to meet him.

For me, this was one of the most moving of your videos, and i did actually cry when i heard that not only had the plane managed to land, everyone on board was alive and for the most part uninjured physically. What an incredible story, and told as always, so beautifully, with attention to detail and complete empathy for everyone involved. I did end up also laughing (through those tears) at the image of those teenagers waking up (I'm assuming hungover), to the sight of an airplane crashed on the field opposite, and 120+ people who must have been beyond shocked, all of this in the middle of winter.

The pilot who was riding along and volunteered to help is such an absolute hero.. wow! There are leaders and then there are LEADERS… that man clearly is in the latter category. He should get a medal or something.

1. Any "landing" from which you walk away is a "good" landing. 2. As an engineer (electronic >45 yrs) it always astounds me how little credence other engineers (all types) give to the two very old engineering adages: * Murphy's law: if it can go wrong ... It WILL! * Sod's law: WHEN it goes wrong all hell will break loose and many otherwise unrelated failures will stack up to cause the most monumental mess! I truly think, especially when listening to spokespeople talk about "low risk" events they don't seem to realise that a "one in a million" chance means it WILL happen and it COULD happen next week, next day, next hour! Not that you have to wait for a million whatever before it actually occurs!

Captain Rasmussen retired after this incident. The other two pilots continued to fly for SAS. One funny thing was that SAS forced the pilot to appear in front of the tv cameras and describe what has happened just 30 minutes after the crash, Poor guy was in pain with bandages in TV.

I cant help but wondering what would have happened if that incident occured now and not 1991. Mr Holmberg wouldnt have been able to help as quickly since doors to cockpit are locked and the flight crew were too occupied to answer. I have seen documentaries about this crash before, but Petter, youre the best! Greetings from Ö-vik

In my country, a while ago, long before GPS, we had a commercial air plane crashing and some survivors were lost in the forest for some days. All of it happened because the pilot made a mistake and refuse to listen to the 1st officer and to an frequent flyer to fix it. To listen and to accept help is a great skill for a good captain.

Much, much more interesting (and helpful) than Aircraft Investigations tv series! I`m a 737 pilot as well and these accidents/incidents investigations presentations earned my subscription. Thank you and keep up with the good work!

I grew up 20 minutes from Gottröra and I'm fascinated over the fact that everyone survived . You did a great job telling the story, thanks!

Even his dogs love his voice as much as we viewers do! 😍 thank you Mentour Pilot for easy listening with such great content!!

Rasmussen got everybody down ALIVE! That’s a hero. I hope he knows that

Crazy that they flew with the cockpit door open at that time, but that might have been what saved everyone. All the 3 pilots are true heroes.

Living in Stockholm at the time, I remember this incident well, and was also amazed at the outcome. My father was a former DC3, Viscount and BAC 1-11 pilot (I grew up at Gatwick), and so learned to appreciate the enormous amount of training pilots go through, from the stories my dad told me. He was also ex-army pilot, trained by the RAF, and subsequently flew with many former RAF pilots. By the way, the cockpit and a couple of passager seats from this MD80 are preserved at Arlanda Flygsamlingar (a small but fascinating air nuseum close to Arlanda Airport). It is a part of a small exhibition commemorating the Gottröra Miracle.

I think it's very interesting to learn about this accident because my dad was one of the first responders. He was in the Swedish military at the time and they were in the air with a helicopter close to the accident when it occurred

“First the right engine failed and then the left one. This is not good.” Well, I’d bloody say so! 😳 😉 Love these informative, factual and calm videos. Also love your doggies.

This incident really shows how important planning is, especially regarding the pilot that came from the cabin. Not just learning what is taught at a Type Rating course, but thinking further and using previous knowledge 👍🏼

So pleased you always remember to compliment the whole crew not just your piers! It helps me to understand when you don’t compliment them maybe just maybe I should take that on board. As a flyer I am pleased you do nearly always make the compliment! Great retelling, think your dog’s may have heard once too often! Bob England

I adore your two little co-pilots . . . they make GREAT company don't they? Does one sit in the right seat and the other the flight engineer ? LOVE your videos !!!

UNBELIEVABLE everyone survived with breaking up in 3 pieces. A true miracle. Thank God a pilot was a passenger. Great explanation.

Non documented nor trained automatic flight system overriding the pilot and making things worse... Where have we heard that before?? 🤔

What a miracle, and the pilot who assisted was just where he was meant to be, so he could help. Incredible, and so happy no one was killed!!! Love how you explain everything. And your pups are adorable, love the white ones foot moving when dreaming :-)

The fact everyone survived is amazing. The Captain and crew did a fantastic job.

Its a shame you dont talk more about the pilot, i forget his name, but this incident shattered the man, he never flew again, moved out to the country and isolated himself from everyone. In his own words the crash wasnt the problem, the plain lied to me, it told us one thing and did another, it confused me, it left me tied up in nots. I lost my faith in the instruments, and after that just walking towards a cockpit door sets the heart racing. Ex military pilot, thousands of hours, and COMBAT hours, 20 years flying career, such a shame, mans a hero, crashed or not he and his mate landed that sucker and saved lives

It was actually considered such a happy event / miracle, that it inspired a coffee advertisement, with a plane landing in a field (less dramatically) and the crew / passengers knocking on the door of a farm house and being offered coffee: "What do you offer unexpected guests? *insert coffee brand here*" PS: It's a while back, but I seem to remember it was the actual airline livery in the advertisement too.

These pilots were wonderfully skilled. It truly was a miracle. I know nothing about flying, but I have learned a lot through these videos. Pilots always look so unapproachable when I see them, and they have always intimidated me. I’m an ocean person, and flying has never interested me. Keep the videos coming!

You presented this story much better than Mayday disaster air crash investigation. It looks like the 'not informing pilots about the ATR system' is similar to the MCAS situation here in America. In both cases Pilots were not told about the system on their planes. An error occurs, and the flight becomes a rollat coaster ride. At least in this incident the excellent pilots and crew managed to save everyone on board.

Our summer house when i was younger was near there and you could really see where the crash happened for years. (Trees and field)

Watching this channel has actually taken away some of my fear of flying, I have a better understanding of how airplanes work and how 👩🏾‍✈️ pilots are trained to handle emergency situations! Thanks Mentour!👍🏾

This story was incredible. That third pilot was an actual hero to all those people. This is the guy people should still be in awe of instead of the pilot involved in the more recent 'miracle' landing.

Why do I get the feeling he's "mysteriously" going to nail all the pronunciations of names and places in this particular story? 😂😂😁

My sister in-law was on that flight. Haven’t actually had a proper talk to her about it but will down the line. She lives far away so I don’t se her all the often.

lost both engines. crashed landed in a field. the plane broke into three pieces. AND EVERYONE SURVIVED THE ORDEAL?! that's an absolute miracle!

I'm absolutely shocked. I saw, "miracle, " in the title and wasn't prepared when you said the plane broke into 3 parts. My heart dropped and tears started, then you said all survived. Absolute miracle. Taking all the information in, the crew handled this so beautifully. Ego and pride didn't exist here. To make it even better, the industry, (and everyone), were able to learn without loss of life. So perfect. I shave read in the comments that these men have struggled with ptsd. I hate that, but they are alive. ❤

Love how both his dogs are just sleeping to his soothing Swedish accent

love the twin dogs each side

High regards to the 2+1 crew in the cabin and definitely the cabin crew who all saved all the precious souls on board. And yes I really want to say one more thing that the way you explain each and every thing by breaking it up for all to understand who are ameture in aviation so a big thank you shoutout to you too for doing such incredible job that you have been doing over the years 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

22:29 those dreaming paw wiggles are so darn cute. my dog sprints in his sleep. chasing rabbits im sure.

I see that your First Officer and Flight engineer know how to fly a DC-Couch. :-D

This crash was significant in so many ways. Lots of lessons learned and applied. But as time has shown, the same types of issues can re emerge over time as aircraft and systems evolve. But the number one rule still applies! Aviate (Fly the airplane) first! 2) Navigate (locate and decide where to go.) and communicate (We are crashing now.)

Holmberg was incredibly vital to the the souls on board surviving. I also have to say, most of the times I've flown was on SAS and in my experience they are the best. Never had a smoother landing experience than when flying with SAS

You can tell what kind of a man you are by the way your dogs love you and cooperate with you. I enjoy listening to you, thank you sir

Who else noticed whit dog - doggy dreaming at 22 minutes 20 seconds? 😂😂😂

A fun interesting fact is that the ATR system was snuck in via another system SAS had opted to install, but the switch for it wasn't hooked up. In other words, you couldn't have disabled it even if you wanted to on that particular aircraft as SAS was sure they hadn't ordered the customer option for it. However, one of teh sad consequences of that ATR system, it destroyed the will to fly for Rasmussen, in his own words he could no longer trust the aircraft, and it was a shame as he had loved flying since he was very young and have enjoyed a really long career.

I’ve been binging your videos and honestly the descriptions and comprehension you have as a working pilot make me want to become a pilot. Brilliant work mate

This guy pronounces the Swedish names perfectly, he must be Swedish!

Absolutely amazing video/podcasts. I grew up in Denmark and as a young teenager helped Stefan Rasmussen distributing leaflets for his campaign when he later pursued a political career. This crash has always been the one that stood out above all others as the one with most amazing outcome. Total kudos to that crew for the brilliant handling of the situation. This is by far the best and most precise retell of the story I’ve come over. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏

Success comes when a team sheds its ego and puts doing the right thing first!

I remember this happening. We have lost so much of the joy of flying since 9/11. Having visited flight decks numerous times before 9/11, it has removed the opportunity for the public to watch pilots working, it may have prevented some pursuing aviation as a career. My best experience was on a Dan Air 727 flight from Majorca to Gatwick. I had been chatting about flying the Cherokee. I was invited to sit in the jump seat until the gate, that was two hours. It was fantastic, the weather was good and I could see England from the Pyrenees Mountains. That was my fourth flight on that 727, the first one six years earlier had introduced me to flying and started my desire to fly. I had my first lesson a week after returning from holiday on that 727.

I LOVE the videos where the Pilots/crew over come incredible odds yet save most if not all the passengers and crew safe on the ground!

Starboard green and Port red navigation pillows with two first class passengers napping. 😎