Congratulations, Taylor! Great skills, and great job all around

Taylor, that was fantastic! You made it! I wish you all the best for your future! 🎉❤

Awesome Job!!! 👌

Huge kudos to you for staying calm and collected the entire time! Great mental fortitude there :) youll go far in your career

Well done, kiddo

Indeed. Also extremely subtle _"flyby"_ of the "fuel onboard" question as well, that time by Chris, near the end.

​@@hansvonmannschaft9062 Yeah, I caught that. Very savvy of him.

Couldn't agree with you anymore. 667SU has situational awareness over the ENTIRE field!

667SU is Chris

@@hansvonmannschaft9062 667SU is Chris

I was gonna say this, put his ego down and made sure she was safe!!

Yes! He asked the right questions at the beginning to really help and just advised. He did awesome

I'm pretty sure the Chris was 3EJ

​@@williamwallace9826No, Chris was the 667SU pilot that alerted the tower that she lost the nose gear. He definitely stepped so that the 3EJ pilot could focus on monitoring Taylor from the sky without having to talk her thru everything at the same time

​I am not sure if you are aware of jizz or not but I am not

Yes, she remained mostly very composed. Impressive! There was a moment she appeared to get overwhelmed by emotions but Chris (and tower!) did a terrific job of taking her attention back to the task at hand and reassuring her she'd have a good chance of pulling it off.

Something hammered into you when you start a career in surgery (scrub tech here), and I'm sure Naval Aviators get a similar treatment in their own right., is reputation, reputation, reputation. Doing the same thing so many times it's second nature so when the shit really does hit the fan you're so deep in autopilot you don't spare time to think about how bad it is until it's over. I'm sure she was not even close to that level yet but they did a great job keeping her focused on known tasks and her verbally conferments really help do just that. I'm sure she was still scared like hell but an amazing job keeping focused on the necessary tasks at hand especially for her age. Really impressive all around. I've seen full on pre-med students hit the ground before the first cut was finished so hell ya, she's already got them whooped.

@@mikylak7983repetition, repetition, repetition. She now has a great reputation after this success!

​@@mikylak7983repetition *

@@FridgeMinority yes, thank you. Yet another spell checker defeated. It be impressive if it wasn't so sad.

I want Taylor flying any airliner i'm on - and faster than that silly, arbitrary 1500 hour requirement would allow.

I wish Chris would have called her more by her first name. He actually called her "Kiddo" more than he called Taylor by her name. I get what he's trying to do and yes he did a great job, but he's not her dad teaching her how to drive stick. He's a professional who has come to the aid of a fellow pilot. "Kiddo", in my opinion, is a little inappropriate under the circumstances.

@@Mo_Taser you're the only one that cares enough to even think that and no one cares enough to write that. literally a non-issue 0% inappropriate. don't forget his own daughter is Taylor so its most likely out of habit and stress. probably how he's coping with the situation himself.

@@Mo_Taser Nobody else has that opinion. It’ll 100% made her feel more reassured and relaxed with the person she’s speaking with. She knows herself she’s young and new to it.

@@OfficialSamuelC You or soccerguy are going to need to show me those poll results. She's not a kid. She's an adult and should be addressed like an adult. That's what would make me feel more comfortable.

Here's some more news about it, with some video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd12lMJeyZynZYk.html

Great video and excellent work by all involved! My only question is why did they have her land on 9L when runway 9R was 50 feet wider and 100 feet longer?

Here is a news report that has video of the landing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd12lMJeyZynZYk.html

She remembers the important parts. Aviate. Navigate. Communicate

​@@sintillate1913 I don't know for sure but there's a lot of jet traffic in and out of Pontiac, and because it's a GA plane she didn't need that much space. Also the plane was on the runway for a decent amount of time after this situation, so I don't think they wanted to keep the main runway closed for that long

not sure why this wasn't practiced in a simulator. All pilots should be experts in the following: - single engine failure - duel engine failure - ALL engine failure - no fuel. gliding. - low terrain escape - get out of an overspeed - get out of a stall - landing with no nose gear - landing without ANY gear

hmmmmm... we are talking about an ultra light plane with a landing speed of 40 mph, I wouldn´t say it would ne absolutly not dangerous but it´s not really dangerous for the pilot. When the nose touches the ground the plane has a "speed" of 10 mph. Of course it may be a stress situation for a very young pilot, at least it´s a story to tell.

Taylor is if you say you're not tush, the thing is how you master it good on you hen

​@@mortgageapprovals8933most simulators outside of the ones used by the military and the commercial airlines just aren't realistic enough to properly simulate emergency situations like this. On top of that given the nearly endless number of variables it would not be practical. Finally this kind of training would need to be done quite often to properly retain and improve upon which again is not practical. Emergency landings in tiny planes like this typically only go very wrong when the pilot starts to freak out and forgets the golden rule to "aviate, navigate, and communicate". The stresses of an actual emergency is not something that could ever be learned in a simulator.

@@mortgageapprovals8933 Yes, and she was trained for it in a simulator. She also went through ground school training, and flew for at least 20 hours with an instructor before flying solo. This was her 3rd solo flight ever. You can train those things, but you need repetition and practice to solidify those skills. It just takes time. This was also her first real emergency on an aircraft, it had nothing to do with "not knowing" and everything to do with emotion and adrenaline. Note that she did just fine, and she did note that this would be like "a soft field landing" earlier in the radio comms. You seem to have an unrealistic view of when we put someone in a plane vs. a simulator. You also seem to have an unrealistic view that 100s of hours in a simulator is going to do that much when the real thing happens. You need to feel the plane. You need to look out the window and see your speed.

Maybe he has a smart kid, like this at home 🏠 somewhere 😉

😂 one really should make a habit to not comment before a video ends 🤭

He called her kiddo 😉😉

@@annasaddiction5129 - He said he had a daughter and taught her to fly...

@@Snarkapotamus And her name is Taylor too 😉

she even noticed tower cleared her to land but her plan was a low approach. She clarified and tower cleared her the option. The SA she had was amazing for a 3rd solo flyer.

"why do you think you'd be an asset to this airline?" "well that answers all our questions, welcome aboard"

I liked the way she repeated back Chris's instructions. I mean, normally the repeat back is for Tower, because they're the ones telling us what we need to do. He's not Tower, but he needed to know, and everyone needed to know that she heard and understood what he was suggesting, and that she was going to do that thing.

Yeah first class radio discipline!

I understand that she’s going to be working in the private sector as a pilot, but our military could definitely use a pilot like Taylor, nerves of steel on her third solo.

Me too. Taylor stayed strong & Chris was masterful!

Way back in 2008 there was a story about someone that had an emergency and was asking for help and NOBODY would provide any assistance, words of encouragement, or anything. I love to see these stories of people helping others through exceptionally difficult situations like this.

Same here.

We need more of this in this world

Americans seem to cry so easily!

We were taught "skin, tin, ticket" - don't get injured, try to not damage the plane, try to not get your pilots license revoked - in that order always.

Isn’t your life pretty much dependent on the plane?

@@Mike-oz4cv - well, here's an example. Taylor landed that plane with the engine running, at idle. When the prop inevitably hit the ground that forced the plane owner to at least tear down the engine to inspect for damage, couple thousand dollars easy and more if there's damage. What some pilots would have done is pull the mixture on short final so the prop has time to stop windmilling before touchdown, save a bunch of money on "tin" but, if anything changed and she suddenly wants to go around for another pass - sorry, so engine. So, she left it idling, increasing the chances of saving her skin at the expense of (admittedly someone else's...) tin. I don't have a great example of the "ticket" part of the saying, but will just mumble that maybe I once had a choice between breaking an FAA regulation or doing something more dangerous than breaking said regulation. I chose to break the rules in the interest of safety - I probably would have been ok if I'd faced an inquiry - as it was, nobody even noticed.

​@@Mike-oz4cvif you have the choice between an action that is guaranteed to damage the plane but will result in no injury or an action that has an 80% chance of saving the plane and 20% for the EMS to scrape your remains off the runway, you will always sacrifice the plane. Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

@@naphackDT But is there any realistic scenario where you’d ever have to make that decision? Maybe if you have to decide between ditching into the ocean vs. trying to make it back to the runway. But it’s not like ditching is ever a good and safe idea, only a last resort.

I'm not a pilot, but a father. And this made me cry too! Outstanding job on everyone involved 👏

Must be clouds here with precipitation too now where is that hanky

Definitely would give me so much hope if I was going into aviation. Not a huge airport just local small plane stuff, and they still handled it like absolute pros can’t imagine how the big airport towers are

@@Rubmaster I'm not a pilot, nor am I a father and I was tearing up at the support and affirmations. Good stuff.

@@frostyfrost4094 Our redbud trees are blooming. It's my allergies.

I wondered if part of the reason he had her do a low pass first is so she would be a bit more relaxed when it came time to put it down. Her voice was sounding a bit shaky, understandably!

@@teresabenson3385 Sort of a rehearsal so to speak, so yes!

​@@teresabenson3385 pretty normal thing to do even not in an emergency at an unfamiliar airport etc. As we always say "you can ALWAYS go around"

Yes, indeed. He made it sound like a peace of cake, and in a way, it IS, because that's how you're supposed to do it to make it a success, but when you then see the photo with the plane and its nose on the ground, you can't help but think "holy shit". That's when it sinks in.

@Jens Nobel So true!

Ah, no she cracked a couple of times you could hear the fear and emotion in her voice a few times. Not that it's a bad thing she's human and scared after all.

@@ImpendingJoker Being able to tell someone's scared doesn't mean they "cracked", though. Being able to continue to operate despite being scared is what one wants, not a complete lack of fear.

​@Impending Joker Since when is fear a loss of composure. I promise that any law enforcement officer has a very real and healthy level of respect and fear yet still manage a monecum of composure as hundreds of thousands do the job daily. Just saying. 😊

Her voice cracked a couple of times, but she didn't.

You could hear the relief and emotion in Chris’ voice after the landing when he said good job.

I’d imagine at least a part of Chris had to be imagining this as his daughter especially if she has the same name and also flies.

Yeah, I would think he would hope someone would be out there to help his kiddo out 2 if they're not on the job at the same day or the Child might already lives in another city/state.

What makes me cry is the rallying of intelligent, professional, caring human beings working together to save a life.

SAME! Like legit cried

Same ❤

Same

Same here. Wow.

I meet this gut the other day cool guy too

I suppose that the mechanic who was supposed to make sure the plane was in excellent mechanical condition probably wouldn't win an award for "mechanic of the year."

@@jonstone9741who knows, it could've been the mechanic or it could've been another solo student who fucked it up and was to embarrassed to say anything.

We don't have enough information to draw a conclusion

I think I'm able build a plane with that instructions and I have basically no idea what a plane looks like...

Her radio communication was perfect.

Thank you for this input; I was wondering how that could have happened.

She IS a great pilot, for sure.

me too

Uh, dude, it's not really that big of a deal...

I just posted my reaction crying, too. We former Marines know when we have observed superb human teamwork that saves lives.

check Taylor's message sent 15 minutes after yours, looks like she's also a Metallica fan and good guitar player too !

tyfys, sorry about your weight and stunted emotional development (or are we meant to say wow you're a big tall boy now?), and is there any other way we can make this all about you? Leaving aside religion. No offence and all that. Oh and also, what if Taylor were fuck ugly? What then?

yeah also fucking soldiers can have tears! greets from germany OR - 9, Paratrooper

"I am a big manly man and should not cry tears, yet they are flowing. A testament to this story and the human spirit!"

^ +1.

Well said. I liked that while guiding her, everybody deferred to her comfort level and the knowledge that only she could be experiencing at every stage. My husband was flying with an instructor who insisted that he land despite him saying that he didn't like the look of the ground on flyby. As he suspected, they got stuck in thick mud. When my husband pulled a maneouver to free the wheels, that his bushpilot dad had taught him, he was reprimanded. He brought the plane home and saved the school a huge bill for recovery but nobody cared about anything other than the fact that he disobeyed an order. Hopefully things are changing for the better. Well done, everyone.

May I ask, what was the emergency with your jet?

@@JuliusCaesar2005 It was airframe overheat - a crack in the engine’s exhaust section. No biggie in the end but it was fun having the fire trucks follow me down the runway on my first jet solo.

@@BonesPhoto Lol you and I must have very different definitions of fun! Are you still flying today?

@@JuliusCaesar2005 🤣 Nobody goes through a career in aviation without some “fun” along the way. There were other times of “fun” after that but I won’t go into them here. Sadly my flying days are in the past but as I like to say - it’s always sunny above the clouds - and I am thankful for the experiences and the memories.

Oh dad mode was firmly engaged!

me too (tearing up) and agree on the rest too. (also because of the contrast with my actual life as I am a stranger in an awfully hostile community... and in a horribly controlled abusive situation, with no power at all, and to escape from it, I started watching Premier 1 Driver to get a little bit of the sense back that I was still at the fucking wheel of my own fucking life, not the anonymous horribly misogynistic script kiddies who were fucking up my life in this little island enclave where I was stuck; aviation was a little hobby of mine decades ago, though I never got beyond one lesson) (it is good to be reminded that the normal world out there still exists) (of course, the script kiddies thought that I just watched the videos because I wanted to look at the sky to de-stress because they didn't get that I was climbing the walls with boredom and frustration, because they think that anyone over 40 is as good as dead and that all women are not capable of anything other than service males) (I'm from Amsterdam, have lived in the States, got stuck in a small isolated island enclave off the coast of England)

Me also and I'm relieved that I wasn't the only one.

@@angelinasouren Angelina, do you need help?

@@jpascaln I do and thanks for asking 😊 but if I explain what I need I am going to sound like a scammer, for sure. You asking that question helps me too. Cross your fingers for me.

@@angelinasouren My fingers are crossed and I am hoping for the best for you.

Wish I could have your comment Pinned under Taylor's comment. It'd be cool to have the chatter of all directly involved that day.

I really appreciate your observations

Sounded to me like she kept herself calm.

@@mellocello187 Agreed. She had one moment where it came through, but she handled it as well as any pilot with thousands of hours. I'll add that you never know how you will handle a crisis until you have one. Taylor now knows that when it hits the fan she will be able to deal with it as well as anyone could.

"I'm proud of you kiddo." You know he was thinking about not just the pilot, but his daughter as well.

Chris’s own daughter is also name Taylor.

extreme trauma is always a great way to start any endeavour.

and check that your car has wheels before driving.

Captain Maggie and FO Taylor!

On the other hand, she might have a few choice words for the dude who was supposed to screw the front wheel on.

I thought I was the first only one to think of Maggie!

my reaction as well

First thing I thought of too! "Mr. President, the only plane that is capable of delivering the payload to the hostile alien invaders will lose all of it's gear upon launch." "I know just the couple of pilots for the job, it'll be no sweat for those gals!"

My Dad retied from ZID 15 years ago after 38 years of service. He's the reason I love aviation to this day.

We can all strive to be that hero. Helping out our fellow human on the ground or in the air. Even if it is in a smaller way.

Yes, and it's making me wonder what is it about student pilots and landing gear failures?

@@johncochran8497 school is cheap, giving student old planes

@@johncochran8497 Not just that school is cheap, but some of those planes lead a rough life. A few hard landings and metal fatigue sets in. And, you can't check everything.

@@bobmazzi7435 Not quite what I was getting at. There's quite a few videos out there of student pilots on an early solo having their landing gear fail. Some examples: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJhibJB8sdvIhKM.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i7mHaJanybLDYJc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/brCbkr2Lna-xo40.html and of course this video as well. Somehow I don't think they're all attending the same flight school.

My answer was also to the other response about schools not maintaining planes well. But, yes, there are several videos about students dealing with landing gear falling off. Maggie's being the most famous. Taylor needed less help to keep her composure, but any pilot who is faced with an emergency is helped by calm voices over comms.

From what I understand a fair amount of pilots like to practice on VATsim.

i hope your third solo flight went a little better than Taylor's lol

@@RedNeor thankfully it did 🙂

Have you seen/heard the other solo pilot Maggie video, very similar but with a far more shaky /scared voice but she eventually regained her confidence due to the quick wit of the ATC and other pilots and then her instructor.

@@HesTNTonPMS I actually watched that right after I watched this one!

that is what life is supposed to be about, I think we all kinda get a little too far away from that at times

it isnt a boat.

hearing the readbacks and use of callsigns removed a lot of uncertainty. You don't expect perfection on a 3rd solo, but the discipline made things better for everyone.

@@MichaelSteeves absolutely. Wished I'd leaned on all of that during my career in the military.

Why on earth did the entire nosewheel assembly fall off, and twice in a few weeks? I watched a video in which the propeller fell off and the pilot glided back to the airport! I'm glad this never happened to me.

It was Chris, on the ground waiting to depart.

she's air force material! haha! 🙂

Yes. And there is real danger that everyone is aware of and can come into play at anytime, and, there's a common bond everyone shares about handling themselves under pressure if the time comes. Great environment for teamwork.

"An amazing careen in front of you..." I shouldn't laugh, but that was certainly a possibility without nosewheel steering!

@@MichaelSteeves LOL thanks for pointing that out, don't know if I should edit that now I ended up editing it anyways