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@devingraves80443 ай бұрын
The people leaving the plane at 2:07 are perfect examples of why you should look at the safety card and listen to the flight attendants' safety brief
@HAL-9000x3 ай бұрын
I noticed that too. Clowns. I also like those who approached to take video/photos.
@retrorealtorteam3 ай бұрын
People really thinking the wing is a few feet off the ground 😂
@worawatli89523 ай бұрын
It looks like they were thinking that it led to the gate or something, lol.
@Gregowski3 ай бұрын
@@SDuapveer11 They can't. They need to stay inside to make sure everyone gets out.
@mrmosk20113 ай бұрын
I think a lot of people already have backpacks in hands or ready to put on. I do not see anyone with a suite case. People have to decide what’s the best that helps the situation, follow the rules strictly or just find a way to get off the plane quickly. Will putting away the bags help speeding up? I certainly hope no one slows down to grab bags, we will see what the report say later. As for the ground crew, I Also wonder why no one got a fire extinguisher. But I can see some of the ground crews tried to move things out of the way for the slides. They are responsible to clear the path for evacuation. It took about 1’30” to open the first slide from the time the fire started. It took about 2’ for people to get off. I think that is reasonable, but I heard someone mentioned regulation is 90”. It feels a lot longer watching the video.
@drew253113 ай бұрын
Holy crap, the response time was so long that even the fire was like, "All right, well, I'm bored so I'm gonna head out."
@julien20843 ай бұрын
the whole video is 5 min long so really not that bad considering they were probably not in ready mode until that guy in front of the airplane ran back to alert people of the smoke coming out
@user-cs3hj1pr3n3 ай бұрын
Workers doesn't even have fire extinguisher handy. Everybody is like I'm outta of there not my job not even to help passengers to evacuate. Pitiful. Fire department response is not quick enough.
@codycoyote69123 ай бұрын
Agree, too slow considering there are fire trucks on site.
@mackydog993 ай бұрын
As an aircraft mechanic for over 35yrs I cannot believe the exceptionally slow response to an obvious emergency situation! There's fire fighting equipment all over the place!
@samspade21313 ай бұрын
My thoughts exactly. But maybe there’s a rule that ramp workers aren’t allowed to get involved v
@rs232killer3 ай бұрын
This is my first reaction, why isn't the ground crew grabbing extinguishers?
@1zanglang3 ай бұрын
@@samspade2131I guess that anybody is alowed to get involved when the fire is so small, and can be put out quickly, with a couple of extinguishers. As soon as the flames spent there were three "brave" workers who rushed to secure the site... Pathetic. Even the people wrking in offices receive some basic training on how to use a fire extinguisher to put out a small fire...
@mackydog993 ай бұрын
@@samspade2131 Anyone and everyone working there is trained in fire extinguishing. P.A.S.S. Point, aim, squeeze, and sweep. There is no reason to let that fire keep burning like that.
@quietghost16423 ай бұрын
As someone who has worked on the ramp, I’ll say that taking on an electrical fire of that magnitude with hand held extinguishers is more risk than worth. The ARFF response taking 4ish minutes, yeah I dunno…
@Flight--tz5nf3 ай бұрын
The plane itself didn't malfunction. It was the power cord they plugged into the plane that was the issue. She will be repaired and will fly again.
@idkjames3 ай бұрын
Dont believe the airbus propaganda. But FR it GPU hookup and location dont appear to align. Could be. Hard to tell unless more came out since.
@Star-bp5jj3 ай бұрын
Boeing at it again, I can tell defective 737 when I see one.
@Flight--tz5nf3 ай бұрын
@@idkjames Airbus propaganda? I am a Boeing guy. But have flow on Airbus aircraft (A319 and A320). Solid aircraft. You can see the ground crew hook up power to the aircraft right where the fire started.
@idkjames3 ай бұрын
@@Flight--tz5nf was facetious. Yeah but hard to tell if cable or behind the earthing point on the connector. Have looked at the diagram for that system but they are all basically the same.
@williamreid20533 ай бұрын
No GPU was hooked up at the time
@grriceman7823 ай бұрын
The most comical thing are the first few idiotic passengers who leave via the wing exits and start walking down the wing of course with their luggage!!
@kevinframe7573 ай бұрын
like a stroll in the park :P
@JediTev3 ай бұрын
Typical Seattlites, "hey look, it's a wing! Let's walk on it!" This is the crowd that thinks the Seahawks didn't exist before 2012 and that 1 Super Bowl ring is more than 5. It does put some perspective on Boeing's issues.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
The most comical thing is you whining in the comments section over something so meaningless that didn’t result in any injuries to the people involved. You gotta have one pathetic and boring life to whine like this.
@ElliottMoreno-nd2hh3 ай бұрын
@@lo2990that’s not his point, he’s saying that had the emergency been more dire those who took the luggage could’ve delayed the evacuation
@ryannrjohnson3 ай бұрын
Can call me whatever, if I’m exiting a plane they say is on fire I’m liable to do a forward flip off the wing onto that luggage conveyor as long as it’s getting me away from the plane.
@xcalibertrekker66933 ай бұрын
Thanks to the quick reactions by everyone involved it was a TOTAL clusterfrak.
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
No? Not at all.
@RedPills-bk9nu3 ай бұрын
lol the luggage handlers where like ' not my job'
@mitchlza2 ай бұрын
Took ages for fire trucks to arrive! It was obvious smoke but people were just standing around watching @@dfg-rg3pd
@IcyPelican3 ай бұрын
In the Air Force we had fire extinguishers by each plane, the complacency of the ground crew shows lack of training
@youlianou3 ай бұрын
Absolutely to the point !!!
@sgtkasi3 ай бұрын
You get what you pay for, unfortunately. Ground crew have extremely high turnover and low pay.
@Yonkage-ik5qb3 ай бұрын
Assuming that civilian airports are run exactly like the air force is the kind of narcissistic arrogance I'd expect from someone who was in the air force.
@johnathanmcfadden89783 ай бұрын
Having worked for an airline for 6 years I can confirm if an aircraft is involved we are not allowed to do anything. It's not lack of training but actually listening to the training...
@Wingman8133 ай бұрын
Those annual training modules become muscle memory and create complacency.
@alexbattenberg56383 ай бұрын
"Passengers are directed to leave all items behind in case of an emergency evacuation!" ... well, that seemed to have worked out well. Everybody had their belongings in their hands.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
Yeah, this is the worst time to have an emergency evacuation, since everyone is already gathering their things..
@pedrito773 ай бұрын
Terrible.
@huanjiesheng16103 ай бұрын
They just arrived and many people must have luggage in their hands. I don't think it's a terrible idea to take their stuff with them otherwise it might block the aisle.
@djijspeakerguy46283 ай бұрын
90 SECONDS!! That’s how long it took to evacuate that crashed A350 in Japan, and that was a much larger jet . Everybody survived, but nobody took their belongings with them, which contributed to the timely evacuation. If they were Americans like the majority of these people, they’d probably be dead, and I say that as an American man. Our population in particular seems to have developed a culture of ignoring the safety messages on our flights. Yeah, these strike me as the same kind of people that ignore fire alarms in our apartment buildings and public buildings, even though the schools here train us to evacuate by conducting fire drills with the same freaking alarms!! Most upsetting thing is, I live in Seattle. I wonder how many people I know, including my own parents, would take their belongings with them.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
@@djijspeakerguy4628 To be fair, we as a society don't care about the safety of others. Watching the number of people using their cell phones while driving is maddening! (I watched a guy in Seattle use his cell phone while executing a turn, the literal worst time to not be paying attention.) There also is the issue that in the US we design vehicles for occupant safety, we don't think anything about the safety of others outside the vehicle, so we get vehicles that'll hit average height male pedestrians in the torso, which is a much less survivable collision than being hit in the legs like most sedans.
@JimMacintosh3 ай бұрын
The response time to all of this was horrendous....
@gordongott1273 ай бұрын
Yes it was !
@DJDAVINCI3 ай бұрын
Epic fail.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
@@DJDAVINCIYou’re a terminally online bum with no understanding of how firefighters work. It’s not an “epic fail” you are just laughably ignorant.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
@@gordongott127No it wasn’t, They don’t have flying fire trucks. You have no idea how to be a firefighter or what response times look like. Stick to whining on KZfaq
@lo29903 ай бұрын
Are you mentally challenged? This is a massive airport, they don’t have teleportation for fire trucks, you aren’t a firefighter you are just an ignorant keyboard warrior who watches firefighters on KZfaq. You have no experience in this field
@Collateralcoffee3 ай бұрын
The most unbelievable part of this video is NO ONE HAS A FUCKING FIRE EXTINGUISHER?!?! SERIOUSLY?!??!
@HFL-123453 ай бұрын
Every vehicle has an extinguisher. It is just you won't risk your life if you don't know how it happens, or if you are just working for an airline
@MRCruise243 ай бұрын
Electrical fires are hard to put out and require a specific extinguisher
@jace11133 ай бұрын
There were fire extinguishers but no one remembered where they were.
@quantumbits3 ай бұрын
It is a electrical fire. The solution is to cut power. When they did it went out suddenly.
@DangerZoneGamingYT3 ай бұрын
There would be no point of using a fire extinguisher if the power was still on
@charlesthistlethwaite3 ай бұрын
To see the number of Delta ground staff doing their jobs either unaware or ignorant of the spreading fire is truly frightening. 90 seconds is all the FAA allows to evacuate an aircraft.😱
@marianneodell76373 ай бұрын
That’s what I was thinking! Couldn’t they SEE the fireball? Where was the fire extinguishing equipment? Why did it take so long to disembark the passengers? Holy 💩 I won’t be flying anytime soon!
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
@@marianneodell7637 You're way over exaggerating this whole thing.
@WiseWik3 ай бұрын
@@dfg-rg3pdI don't think he is. Everyone seems like they're sedated or something - ground crew, passengers just not having any urgency.
@bianchi833 ай бұрын
Il fuoco lo vedi solo te, sono archi voltaici, il problema sei te che in un caso del genere ti fai prendere dal panico e scappi facendo prendere fuoco all'aereo, basta isolare la linea elettrica, e comunque per precauzione hanno fatto evacuare i passeggeri senza problemi
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
@@WiseWik What can the ground crew do? If you know anything about evacuating an airplane, it MUST be taken slowly and calmly. Too many times people would rush and get seriously injured, or worse. To me, everything went perfectly well in terms of the evacuation and emergency response time.
@pepoqoio79733 ай бұрын
Everyone shouts for a fire extinguisher but no one ever tried to extinguish an electric arc😂
@nua12343 ай бұрын
Totally agree. What surprised me was, how long it took for the power to the cable to be turned off.
@genethebean75973 ай бұрын
Very True. But it would at least extinguish or guard any unintentionally exposed bits in, near, or around the GPU connector, preventing the fire's proliferation.
@auxityne3 ай бұрын
It's an Airbus A321neo, before the stupid snowball really gets rolling in the comments.
@IN10THRC3 ай бұрын
Forget it. "Stupid" outspreads even Covid.
@timothyj673 ай бұрын
Its a 350 not 321
@JAMESWUERTELE3 ай бұрын
You going to go with that? Ok 😂
@germanaircraft3 ай бұрын
@@timothyj67nuhh uhh
@ft2bme3 ай бұрын
@@timothyj67 N504DZ is an AirBus A321-271NX registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N504DZ
@chevyimpala81973 ай бұрын
Sparks coming from GPU external ground power cable, after engines shutdown jetway bridge own electrical power cable is connected to aircraft electrical network. Looks like short circuit of the GPU.
@danielhawley68173 ай бұрын
this former aircraft mechanic agrees. classic electrical fire.
@joseph3005see3 ай бұрын
@@danielhawley6817Would not inserting the power cable properly cause this?
@bartphlegar82123 ай бұрын
The sparking was coming from the shore power plug, which tends to indicate that there was a problem with the inverter on the jet. All they had to do was kill the switch at the jetway...But this was infinitely more entertaining... 😏
@Kalvinjj3 ай бұрын
That explains why it kept going SO DAMN LONG, I imagined the avionics bay being there up front but no crew worth the air they breathe would let the APU running feeding an electrical fire nor batteries would have lasted that long if they even are up front there.
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
Don’t they have any circuit breakers???
@jjjjrrr6783 ай бұрын
Even the fire was: "fuc* this, Im out of here, these people are useless" 😂😂😂
@Paul1958R3 ай бұрын
4+ minutes from first smoke to first firefighters arrival
@pulidoggy3 ай бұрын
Even worse... Judging from the surveillance camera time-stamp the first flash can be seen at 9:38:40 and the fire trucks arrive at 9:44:30, thus almost _six minutes_ after 🧐
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
That's really good response time.
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
@@pulidoggy That's not bad response time at all?
@spatrompete26013 ай бұрын
We don’t not when the call the station has been made but they should have been 150 seconds after the first call at any point of the airport 6 min first truck let say 2 min looking at the slow reaction going in there 1 min dispatch 1 min to get to the trucks I would say that time is pretty good well done 😅 ironically when they arrived the fire stopped. And to anyone saying use fire extinguisher I think the most common one is foam on airport I would not recommend to use it when electricity is involved I can ensure you that mistake you will do only ones :-p I’m unfamiliar how it works on a plane but on a EV if the plug is in the electricity could come from both directions so turning it off is not always save to assume it will not shock you
@gmarie7013 ай бұрын
Half those 'hero' firefighters probably ended up in the local ER for taking 'smoke'. Paid leave now until next fall. Typical government hacks.
@planemad3 ай бұрын
This just shows things can go wrong even at the end of you're flight and you're at the gate thinking about getting home
@cageordie3 ай бұрын
It's almost like the ground crew didn't notice the fire.
@user-tc2ky6fg2o3 ай бұрын
It went quite well, no slide opened into the bridge, and no one sucked through the engine nor get drowned into the Hudson. 👍
@donaldjz3 ай бұрын
What bridge?
@flyoverkid553 ай бұрын
And virtually no one thinks to try an extinguisher before the fire gets rolling. Not even one person. There had to be 2 or 3 nearby.
@stevenrobinson23813 ай бұрын
YES. Either the baggage tugs or the belt loaders should have had extinguishers on them-as well as the hydrant cart for refueling the aircraft-it most certainly has at least 2 properly rated extinguishers.
@Matthew_M113 ай бұрын
How would that help with an electrical fire? It would just reignite until the power source is removed.
@flyoverkid553 ай бұрын
@@Matthew_M11 I don't know that it was, in fact, an electrical fire. We can see something dripping and igniting, I suspect an hydraulic leak being ignited by a hot brake rotor. Even if it is electrical, dumping some CO2 on it is better than just looking at it.
@Matthew_M113 ай бұрын
@@flyoverkid55 Good point, will be interesting to see what the report finds. To be honest, the whole response looked very clumsy.
@imkeerock3 ай бұрын
Are the ramp staff not allowed to drag a fire extinguisher up to the fire and start using it? And why didn't the rampers unplug the external power when they finally noticed the fire? Did they at least turn it off? Great job by the flight crew.
@lutomson34963 ай бұрын
I thought there was an extinguisher on wheels in front of every aircraft in case of fire, im shaking my head why this happened in the first place and nothing was done by the staff they ran away like rats we werent trained that way in the military
@christinaG233 ай бұрын
I work on a ramp. If there is a fire we are supposed to get clear and let the firefighters deal with it. We are not allowed to do anything besides that.
@christinaG233 ай бұрын
@@lutomson3496We could actually loose our jobs attempting to fight a fire ourselves where I work. We are not trained for it and they don’t want us risking our lives.
@tomc.75203 ай бұрын
@@christinaG23 Thanks for the info. Stupid rule.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
@@lutomson3496 This wasn't in the wheel well, it was at the electrical connection point.
@datainmotion3 ай бұрын
I guess I'm old enough to remember when there was a cart with an extinguishing device at every (or every other) gate. Good times.
@meddyven3 ай бұрын
Some gates do have fire extinguisher bottles, but we are not advised to use them. If it got out of hand, I know how to use them, and would until fire rescue arrived.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
You clearly aren’t old enough to understand that they aren’t supposed to use the fire extinguisher for fires like this
@osasunaitor3 ай бұрын
@@lo2990 and you are not old enough to understand that there are extinguishers meant specifically for electrical fires like this one.
@warsurplus3 ай бұрын
@@lo2990 You most certainly can use almost any chemical extinguisher rated for BC fires on an electrical fire. You don't know what you're talking about. You wouldn't use a water bottle rated for only type A fires, but those are not the type available on the ramp.
@ReneChewbaka3 ай бұрын
Yes there are fire extinguisher stations within in proximity to each gate. And we at American are trained on how to use them and which type to utilize depending on what is fueling the fire.
@GIJO3 ай бұрын
I dont understand why people are walking around and just watching, just ridiculous!
@Errr7173 ай бұрын
That Airbus is gonna be out of circulation for awhile. I'm surprised none of the service trucks or has a portable fire extinguisher.
@starfallatdusk3 ай бұрын
if it was alaska they would have kept it in service 😂😂
@TheSouthernMale3 ай бұрын
Less than a 4 min response time is actually very good, for a ramp response, airport fire departments setup for runway accidents.
@PL-rf4hy3 ай бұрын
Just an idea here: Maybe baggage handlers should be trained minimally at least in some passenger direction/control measures in the event of a gate emergency evac. The baggage people seemed to just hover around looking on while the passengers were spilling out all over the tarmac and going every which way.
@jimbob20883 ай бұрын
Just another idea here: Maybe pay them a wage to actually consider risking their lives? I sure as heck not going to risk my life for $19-23 per hour. Not especially when the fire fighters are being contracted out at $50+ per hour for even a rookie in training.
@pushslice3 ай бұрын
they are not well paid, and their union uses their further 'cut' of that pay to advise them never to do anything considered 'extra'.
@Yonkage-ik5qb3 ай бұрын
You would think responsibility for evacuation would be on the flight attendants who actually do the evacuations. It wouldn't be hard for one of them to exit the plane first and then corral the passengers once they get onto the ground.
@jeanaimar88263 ай бұрын
I don't understand, are there no fire extinguishers on the airport???
@johnbrown80593 ай бұрын
They decided to defund them because they were racist fire extinguishers. You know, because they spray WHITE stuff only.
@Mika-ph6ku3 ай бұрын
Can't put out an electrical fire with normal extinguishers.
@Mark-pp7jy3 ай бұрын
Having worked on the ramp during countless arrivals and departures, why didn't anyone grab a fire extinguisher? There probably wouldn't have been any need for an evacuation.
@lostinlife6478663 ай бұрын
It takes 8 minutes to get from the onsite fire station to this plane ?? Did you stop at Starbucks for a hot brew and a slice of lemon cake ??? Your response times are unacceptable !!! A volunteer company could have done better !!!
@abruegger0073 ай бұрын
That lemon cake is good!
@The_Dudester3 ай бұрын
I was in a good volunteer fire department for 12 years. It took 3.5 to 4 minutes to get firefighters to the station. At 5 minutes, trucks are rolling. At the 8 minute mark, we are arriving at the fire. But because we pulled booster reels, it took 30 seconds to put water on the fire, unlike present FD's that stretch miles and miles and miles of hose and then huddle to create a plan to attack the fire.
@danevannett38043 ай бұрын
They often times need to wait and get clearance by ground control to cross runways and taxi ways. They don't get to just go trough busy intersections like a regular fire truck Look up the AARF truck collision between it and an airliner in Peru, recently you will see what happens and that was a planned drill.
@jmWhyMe3 ай бұрын
I agree. That regular line fire rigs got there before the ARFF rigs did is unbelievable. And the ARFF truck didn't appear to approach the hazard like it's supposed to. 😊
@rocketmanpm3 ай бұрын
So much for the 3-minute drill....
@RF_NY13 ай бұрын
Where are the airport's fire trucks located? Across town?
@lo29903 ай бұрын
It’s a massive 10 ton fire truck. You’ve been watching to many Hollywood movies, they don’t teleport to the fire
@RF_NY13 ай бұрын
@@lo2990 Okay Genius. Look up some NFPA stuff on response times/locations and then come back and enlighten us since you're the smartest person commenting on youtube.
@twisterman101new43 ай бұрын
@@RF_NY1Okay genius look up the requirements for the trucks to move on an active airfield lol. Dummy doesn’t understand that just since there’s a fire you can’t go guns blazing through the taxiways.
@judymarlene34143 ай бұрын
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
@@RF_NY1 It took them barely 5 minutes. That's really good response time. Stop whining.
@johnguariglia42913 ай бұрын
if it was a Boeing aircraft the media would be all over it...pffft
@avengersprime54313 ай бұрын
LOL so true.
@olyokie3 ай бұрын
That shiteheads running Boeing have brought all that legitimate criticism on themselves. Get up off your knees.
@macyus33673 ай бұрын
Looking for this coment, notice how nor airbus nor the model is named in the video title, if it was a 737 or any boeing it would be in all caps and repeated like 3 times with different #tags in the desc. Clickbait is getting out of control in what is supposed to be "unbiased news" as all news outlets should be.
@christopherkozal79873 ай бұрын
Yep!
@riftryderz3 ай бұрын
Although I do look down on Boeing quality control and methods, it's honestly frustrating how the media portrays some news stories involving aviation or Boeing specifically, Boeing's reputation is already tarnished enough.
@brentbeacham96913 ай бұрын
There were passengers on the ground running around and I saw a Delta jet rolling right down and to their gate. Along with lots of vehicle traffic. Shouldn’t aircraft be stopped entering an area that has customers running around blindly?
@lo29903 ай бұрын
You do realize there’s a massive fire right? Nobody is sitting around doing traffic control while a massive 50 ton hunk of mental and jet fuel is desperately trying to deplane. You got a brain? Use it, please
@osasunaitor3 ай бұрын
@@lo2990what??? Where is your "massive fire"? Did we watch the same video? Also are you insinuating that ground control crew stop working in the event of an emergency???
@AV1AT1XN3 ай бұрын
@@lo2990 There is multiple people sitting in the ATC doing traffic control. Delete your comment, you look stupid.
@brentbeacham96913 ай бұрын
@@lo2990 your ad hominem attack shows you are not logical or human.
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
@@brentbeacham9691 You people are so incredibly toxic...
@philiproseel35063 ай бұрын
I actually clicked on the KOMO news link, then cancelled it. That is NOT where an accurate description of the incident will be.
@keirandownie17223 ай бұрын
Good to see everyone took the time to get their carry on bags.
@CPcamaro3 ай бұрын
To be fair in this case, based on my experience flying, by the time that fire broke out at least 75% of the people on that plane had already jammed into the center aisle and retrieved their carry on bags.
3 ай бұрын
Silly comment. Passengers had already retrieved their bag and were disembarking the plane before they were aware of the fire.
@outby503 ай бұрын
@@CPcamaro Yeah. Normally, I'd be right there with "why are these dolts all taking their carryon?" but this is an edge case. They already had it in their hands. Would dropping it right there in the aisle have been better?
@Kalvinjj3 ай бұрын
Regardless of what you all are saying, the complete idiots going down the slide with a backpack on their freaking back sure is one way to help tear the slide and leave the others trapped there.
@Mika-ph6ku3 ай бұрын
@@KalvinjjYou got knives sticking out of your backpack or something?
@artfromcalifornia1043 ай бұрын
There is plenty of fire extinguishers at the bottom of the each gate, the thing is those are for Jet-A fuel fire, not for electrical fires.
@SebiKoerner3 ай бұрын
Any ABC extinguisher can handle small electric fires.
@TheSuperSpeeder3 ай бұрын
Delta probably gave them a drink voucher for their next flight...
@pushslice3 ай бұрын
"2 for 1" coupon
@austinado163 ай бұрын
A bag containing 7 stale nuts has been mailed to each solo passenger, or each family, unless in business class.
@AI_MIT_713 ай бұрын
Is there anyone who watches or listens to the flight crew’s demo?
@meddyven3 ай бұрын
Most passengers are idiots, I hate to say, but it's true. They'd grab their bags before helping a person who needs assistance evacuating!
@jamesrecknor67523 ай бұрын
Yes, if the FA is gorgeous.
@Yonkage-ik5qb3 ай бұрын
Even if they do, they don't care. This is America. If you ask the average passenger whether they'd rather lose their luggage or let everyone else on the plane burn to death, they'd grab their bag.
@bobbyb35033 ай бұрын
Why is NOBODY hitting the big red power off button??? 🆘️⚡️🚨
@aspuzling3 ай бұрын
I got off a flight yesterday and walked right past what must be this exact button or at least something like it. Even though I will probably never work on the apron of an airport, my brain still made a mental note of it for some reason.
@seanchang12023 ай бұрын
Reminds me when the F-35C skidded off the flight deck and fell into SCS, the deck crews pulled out the first fire hose and sprayed foam probably less than a second after the jet hit the water. That’s efficiency.
@PlaneSpottingBerlin3 ай бұрын
Pulling into the gate: Cabin Crew disarm the slides. 1 min later. This is the Captain speaking, Arm the slides, evacuate, evacuate, evacuate 😅
@searchanddiscover3 ай бұрын
Given the plane was parked and people will start grabbing things even before the jet bridge is connected I am not as critical of the luggage thing this time. I mean it’s better than wasting time putting it away in the middle of an evacuation or worse just putting it anywhere so it can become an obstruction for others. If anything this just reinforces why people shouldn’t be allowed to get up from their seats and start getting their stuff until the plane is actually de-boarding.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'm kinda there. Admittedly they could've just put it on the seats, but thats lots of thinking.
@brentbeacham96913 ай бұрын
search and Nick… smart comments.
@soccerguy24333 ай бұрын
people were already exiting the aircraft via door 1L before the sparks happened.
@gorak90003 ай бұрын
Or, you know, maybe they could do some preventative maintenance on the ground power cables once in a while too?
@iancumming37083 ай бұрын
Oh my days! No ramp staff got access to fire extinguisher's? Passengers walking out onto the wing not using wing slides, most passengers have got their carry on bags with them & no one on the ramp has any idea on were to guide the passengers they just mill about. What an absolute shambles.
@joesterling42993 ай бұрын
"Fire? Where? Can someone direct us to the fire, please? Is it this plane . . . or, this one?"
@dfg-rg3pd3 ай бұрын
What?
@waldoinaz3 ай бұрын
Somehow the media will attempt to blame Boeing for this.
@Hammy27Sammy3 ай бұрын
This is airbus
@richardmesser10913 ай бұрын
Hillary
@brentbeacham96913 ай бұрын
It was Obama’s fault. Lock him up. 😂
@joarom3 ай бұрын
It’s an airbus
@Hammy27Sammy3 ай бұрын
@@brentbeacham9691 what’s so funny
@crisrose5213 ай бұрын
Dear Operations Manager at Tacoma International , YOU ARE HEREBY TERMINATED .
@michaelbishop82983 ай бұрын
Don't forget the Fire Chief too! Eight minute response? The jet could of been fully involved by the time the FD showed up. No excuse for that response!
@crisrose5213 ай бұрын
@@michaelbishop8298 not sure what the protocol is for that particular airport or how soon ( or late ) the FD on standby was notified . Airports have their own FD and emergency personnel, but 8 minutes is definitely a very long time to respond. The operations MGR is obviously inept . Thanks 🙏
@joarom3 ай бұрын
Fire rescue came a wild amount of time after.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
It’s called driving. There is no teleportation for fire trucks
@robertfajardo22393 ай бұрын
fire went home by the time the firefighters were coming in lol
@rrrobinson972023 ай бұрын
Civilian airports could use some military airports ideas like have fire bottles near by to put out fires a lot faster than just watching sparks and flames that could even kill people.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
People who work on the ramp have commented here that for safety reasons they're not allowed to fight the fire.
@michaelbishop82983 ай бұрын
@@NickCBax It's a contractual agreement between the FD union and the airport. Their union mandated that only FD personnel can fight a fire. Talk about job security.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
@@michaelbishop8298citation? Given the materials in and around airplanes and the special training ARFF units get, it seems more reasonable that the ramp worker’s conveyance that they’re not allowed to fight a fire is more reasonable than a simple union contract. And tbh, I can’t see how anyone ethically could make that restriction. (It’d be like saying anywhere near hospital grounds the only people allowed to do CPR are nurses and doctors, instead of saying anyone who is properly trained with a current CPR certificate can do CPR.
@tstahler54203 ай бұрын
I like how the crew opens the doors over the wings and just sends people out to wander around on the wing. 😂
@erniecolussy17053 ай бұрын
That is not crew error. That is passengers failing to read the safety card during the pre flight safety briefing.
@tstahler54203 ай бұрын
@@erniecolussy1705 😆 ok
@lo29903 ай бұрын
And yet they all got out fine while you being a terminally online keyboard warrior is whining in the comments.
@outby503 ай бұрын
@@erniecolussy1705 Or look down at the markings on the wing directing them.
@vw727133 ай бұрын
The overwing exits are passenger operated. Only the big so called floor-level exits are manned by flight attendants.
@WestCoastRailProductions3 ай бұрын
Being an airline ground operations employee myself, I know that that spot on the aircraft is the port for the ground power cable that provides electrical power to the aircraft when the APU is not running. This is most likely the result of someone plugging in the cable while the ground power is on. It could also be that the cable is faulty too though. As this is a newer aircraft (an Airbus A321NEO), it’s not likely an issue with the aircraft itself.
@passqua3 ай бұрын
The welder forgot to wait till the passenger got off the plane before start working on it.
@JAMESWUERTELE3 ай бұрын
We have a pitot tube arc welder? Dang it.
@sanitman14883 ай бұрын
HEY WAIT A SECOND. It’s a Airbus not Boeing.
@whaloe.builds15433 ай бұрын
Everyone needs to realise two important things here: (1) ground crew are trained to handle bags not fires (2) the plane can only evacuate one certain procedures have been followed such as the shut down of the engines. This can take over a minute. Once the evacuation started it was well within FAA regulations
@stuartstravels16403 ай бұрын
The response time here is absolutely shocking!. I can’t believe that there weren’t any ground handlers that didn’t see this!.
@ak1ranger3 ай бұрын
Firetrucks like....I don't see a fire? Ya'll sure this is the right plane? WTF with the Port of Seattle? Was it dinner time? And WTF isn't there a fire extinguisher somewhere?? That fire wasn't huge, could have been put out quicky. Ramp crew didn't even seem to be doing anything. Jesus.
@johnhtexas3 ай бұрын
When seconds count and lives are at stake, passengers take time to grab their carry-on luggage. Incredible.
@Collateralcoffee3 ай бұрын
People outside the plane with their luggage should get fined and banned from flying for life.
@harrisonc9853 ай бұрын
its the difference between waiting 2 hours to be able to get your bag back and leaving the airport immediately
@TheReduxGB3 ай бұрын
The main issue is that they will already have the luggage in their hand as they are at the gate awaiting to deboard. If it was at any other point, far less would have their luggage.
@aliciamarsh-evans61353 ай бұрын
It looked like they were doing a typical deplaning where people get their stuff then wait awkwardly until it’s their turn. So the people with bags probably already had those on before the emergency exits were deployed and time became critical. At that point they can either get moving and get off or take extra time to ditch their backpacks. Due to the circumstances, taking their bag with them might have been the quicker option.
@SergioFrid3 ай бұрын
nothing happened here
@XxChaRbSxX3 ай бұрын
I like how 8 baggage cart guys were able to come over before the emergency vehicles
@turk2233 ай бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen, please be sure to bring all of your carry on items with you.
@conner_b_griften3 ай бұрын
Look at those people cutting off others on the slide. Same people who stand in the aisle and try to move forward on deplane.
@ferociousfrankie3 ай бұрын
No one had a fire extinguisher down there?
@warsurplus3 ай бұрын
Why didn't any of the ramp workers attempt to extinguish the fire with a portable extinguisher bottle of which there are many on the flightline? Servious lack of resourcefulness and training.
@forkoffgoogle3 ай бұрын
The years of intense training that the ground crew received in dealing with emergencies is clearly evident in this video. If not for their heroic actions on this fateful evening all would have been lost!
@jsundberg55423 ай бұрын
they're all gonna sue for ptsd even though they were filming the whole thing. lol.
@robinrichards62753 ай бұрын
Not 1 fire extinguisher on the ramp?
@warsurplus3 ай бұрын
@robinrichards6275, that cannot be true. There must be portable extinguishers on the ramp for the occasional electrical / hydraulic oil leak fire from all the portable machinery on the ramp. I think these workers don't seem to know where they're located or how to implement them. If there really are none, them I'm astonished.
@spiculum18363 ай бұрын
Surprising no one had a fire extinguisher in their vehicle.. No fire extinguisher anywhere to be found. Crazy. Always must have an extinguisher handy to put out small fires before they get big... real big!!
@MrMonteillard3 ай бұрын
People walking on the wing, people with luggages, people running aimlessly in the airport, people being slow, it scares me for the future of this world.
@mattdaugherty78653 ай бұрын
Wow! Not a fire extinguisher in sight!
@lo29903 ай бұрын
Are you mentally challenged? They aren’t supposed to use the fire extinguisher even if they have one. Instead of making up nonsense about fire extinguishers maybe do a shred of research?
@InterCity1343 ай бұрын
Sooo many questions about ground operations at SeaTac that appear to be awful here. No one in the ground crew can unplug the ground power and get a co2 extinguisher on that? No guidance to the passengers , it’s just ever wondering around Willy Nilly on the tarmac causing a hazards and security concern. Then the fire fighters show up which seems a month too late (when were they called ) and proceed to block the operations by jamming the apron with a dozen vehicles and no action taken on the fire. Was Yackity Sacks playing with this video?
@gorak90003 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure the ground power cable is what failed - probably all frayed at the plug from rough treatment. You want to unplug it when it's arcing? That said, there should be a switch or a breaker to turn it off. One even might guess there should be an E-Stop type button easily accessible somewhere to turn the power off...
@SeamusOR3 ай бұрын
That was the GPU connection right under the nose. It’s located there in the a320’s. It’s connected to the GPU which provides power to the aircraft while it’s on the ramp.
@AndreSomers3 ай бұрын
It mainly shows the painfully slow reaction of any emergency services and people on the platform just idling around observing a fire in progress in a plane filled with passengers.
@stevetaxpayer66643 ай бұрын
Slow as molasses.
@canadian_aviation3 ай бұрын
"A bOeInG aGaIn" no, before the comments go wild, its an Airbus A321Neo
@Jake-12343 ай бұрын
This was a Boeing. It was the 797.
@canadian_aviation3 ай бұрын
@@Jake-1234 no it was a Tupolev 787 Neo
@Jake-12343 ай бұрын
@@canadian_aviation No it was definitley a Boeing. It is very easy to tell.
@markmichal29523 ай бұрын
Ground power plug to airplane fail. Most likely the jetway power plug and not the airplane caused the problem. Either way, the airplane has the more expensive repair....
@GarryJones613 ай бұрын
Anyone caught leaving the plane with their bag should receive a life sentence in prison. If this was the case nobody would.
@christinaG233 ай бұрын
To everyone criticizing the ground crew for not fighting the fire. It’s likely that the rules are they are to get clear and call the fire department. That is the way it is at the airport I work at. We are not trained to fight fires, do not have protection and the company doesn’t want us to risk out lives and potentially make things worse. We could get fired for attempting to fight a fire ourselves.
@norbertdx3 ай бұрын
But the video shows a ground person saw the issue, so does policy keep them from at least running around yelling fire?
@christinaG233 ай бұрын
@@norbertdx I can’t speak for that. If this was the airport I work at we would be away immediately. Not standing on equipment and looking at it.
@erniecolussy17053 ай бұрын
At your airport, are there disconnect switches to make it possible disconnect power to the power connection? If yes would it be permitted for the person making the cable connection to throw the disconnect switch? Those were the first questions I had. I also wondered about the directing of the evaluated passenger to avoid accidents with the fire equipment or other airport equipment. But I am suspecting that this is such a low probability event that this type of training doesn't happen.
@christinaG233 ай бұрын
@@erniecolussy1705 Our ground power units have emergency stops. There is also buttons that stop power flowing.
@erniecolussy17053 ай бұрын
@@christinaG23 Thank you.
@PilotHaudi3 ай бұрын
Ther Firefighter has Holiday and no fire extinguishers nearby
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
People who work on the ramp have commented here that for safety reasons they're not allowed to fight the fire.
@soccerguy24333 ай бұрын
they were there within 5 minutes. sparks & smoke at 09:38:48. 1st firetruck on station at 09:44:31
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
@@soccerguy2433and even more to their credit they might not have been called for 30 to 60 seconds after the first sparks and smoke.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
Are you mentally challenged? It’s called driving, they don’t just teleport to the fire, you’ve been watching too many Hollywood movies. Second, They aren’t supposed to use fire extinguishers genius. Maybe you should research before spewing the nonsense you made up?
@zunkman13 ай бұрын
@@soccerguy2433 That's almost 6 minutes.
@shark1803 ай бұрын
Ground Crew walking away from a plane that is on fire like, "if I just ignore it, it'll go away."
@ocker20003 ай бұрын
This should be huge wake up call for airports everywhere, training for fire, even for those overworked, underpaid, groundcrew workers must be implemented immediately! This could have been much much worse.
@proehm3 ай бұрын
By the clock, over 6 minutes for airport fire to respond?
@SergioFrid3 ай бұрын
they were finishing their evening cup of coffee
@JFirn86Q3 ай бұрын
Passengers carrying their bags... oh jeez
@searchanddiscover3 ай бұрын
They were parked at the gate meaning people as usual were grabbing their things before the doors were open. I'm not sure its a smart idea to have people spend time putting away everything they just took out. I feel like that would take more time than just taking it and go.
3 ай бұрын
Silly comment. Passengers already got their bag before the fire broke and were already starting to disembark the plane.
@JFirn86Q3 ай бұрын
@@searchanddiscover There was someone who was stuck getting out of the wing exit because their bag and jackets were snagged, sitting there tugging on them... good lord. Just sit whatever you have down on an empty seat.
@JFirn86Q3 ай бұрын
You know full well only the people in the aisle are able to stand, and even then no one gets their bag out until the aisle in front of them is clear. Just lucky that fire didn't quickly progress, or start filling the inside with smoke. Super stupid.
3 ай бұрын
@@JFirn86Q No. Most passengers get their carry-on as soon the seat belt sign is off. Would have been better that passengers left their bag in the aisle or on a seat slowing down the evacuation process? Did the crew tell them not to get their bag? In this particular situation, I cannot blame the passengers for getting out of the plane with their bag as they were not aware of the dangerous situation when they got their bag. I am much more concerned by the slow reaction of the ground crew. They don't seem to know what to do.
@cndvd3 ай бұрын
No one slipped of that wing. “Whew !”…. Said Delta
@wordclock54453 ай бұрын
For me the most unbelievable part is how it took so long for the emergency vehicles to get there.
@lullimuppi3 ай бұрын
Are there no fire extinguishers in the USA?
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
No, too much liability.
@chiplarkin40693 ай бұрын
When you have a plane on fire at the terminal, it should be an Airport All Stop so emergency crews can be expedited to the situation. All pilots are prepared for emergency go arounds. This could have been catastrophic. They are lucky.
@lo29903 ай бұрын
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read, you’ve been watching way too much Hollywood. They don’t call an “all stop” because the situation doesn’t call for it.
@judymarlene34143 ай бұрын
Joey,have you ever seen a grown man naked?
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
Right, the aircraft flaring to land should stop midair.
@tristantriton81153 ай бұрын
For the ignorant commenting on why no one used nearest fire extinguisher, the wrong fire extinguisher on an electrical fire would make the matter much worse.
@jfermx713 ай бұрын
The ground staff are completely useless. They stared without trying to put out the fire. If they had responded appropriately they would have avoided the evacuation. They need more training or empathy to deal with these cases.
@JimWhitaker3 ай бұрын
Will we see an NTSB report?
@hewhohasnoidentity43773 ай бұрын
No. This event doesn't require an NTSB investigation.
@johnthompson57413 ай бұрын
They require reports for in flight fires so maybe not
@dragonsong10233 ай бұрын
The video was sped up, but what was the real time for anyone to put out the fire? @ 3:40 the video speed goes from normal to sped up. None of those first vehicles or the ambulance that pulled away, had a fire extinguisher? I guess it's a union job to put out the fire.
@kikastra3 ай бұрын
There's a time stamp in the upper left corner. You can figure it out with that.
@petermattei85103 ай бұрын
Yep...Seattle's a union town. You're in serious trouble if you step on FD's terrain.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
Cut the union bashing. If there wasn't a union management would cut the number of fire trucks to the minimum, and work people to the maximum. Unions built the middle class of this country.
@NickCBax3 ай бұрын
People who work on the ramp have commented here that for safety reasons they're not allowed to fight the fire.
@kikastra3 ай бұрын
@@NickCBax It's ridiculous to say things like "Unions built the middle class" or any such statement such as that (ie "it's the rich that drive the economy"). The reality is, there are numerous factors that build things, and yes unions have been a part of that. But don't pretend it's impossible to have a middle class without unions, or that unions don't come with a plethora of their own issues. Don't pretend unions are beyond reproach. They aren't.
@MatchaCocoaDog3 ай бұрын
Holly cow!!! Glad everyone is safe! 😱
@bumbleecorp98243 ай бұрын
People in the comments talking put fire extinguishers, you not realize that is not fire but an electrical arc? You cant extinguish those, you can unplug or do pther stuff but electrical arcs cannot be extinguished with anything other than breaking the circuit.
@LurkMe3 ай бұрын
TIL civilian airlines don't have fire bottles at their terminal
@KennyLamTravel3 ай бұрын
I am happy that everyone got their luggage. LOL
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
They had 4 minutes of gathering their stuff before the emergency evacuation. So you think that it would have been better if they all dropped everything in the isles????
@timj413 ай бұрын
Whatever happened to “leave your stuff behind”?
@kickedinthecalfbyacow75493 ай бұрын
When an aircraft parks people get up and start to gather their stuff, the evacuation didn’t start for several minutes after it parked. So you want passengers to put their stuff back into the lockers before they evacuate. Genius 😂
@fluffyfour3 ай бұрын
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 Lives depend on it. YES they should leave the luggage behind. Apart from anything else it can cause damage to the slide and hinder people getting out - hence lives are still in danger BECAUSE of the luggage idiots!
@kickedinthecalfbyacow75492 ай бұрын
@@fluffyfour except they all evacuated safely, so maybe take a breath and remember, it’s none of your business
@scottm54253 ай бұрын
That was just a very poor response by everyone, lots of lessons to be learnt from this.
@RobinPMac3 ай бұрын
slow response from fire department
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
Do you know when the call to them was made????
@bushpilot2233 ай бұрын
How did NONE of the ground crew have or think to grab a handheld extinguisher?? There are probably a dozen extinguishers within a 10 second jog of this aircraft. Edit: just read through some comments… it seems that ramp crew are not allowed to try to extinguish any aircraft fires whatsoever, basically because the employer is worried about the employees’ safety. What a load of rubbish. This world is so ass backward these days… it’s crazy that someone has to worry about losing their job for trying to put out a minor fire like this, that easily could’ve turned into a full blown inferno. All because maybe they’ll get hurt and some Karen or their Karen family might sue them because why, the Airline didn’t tell them that fire is hot?? Common sense goes a long way in situations like this. If the fuel tanks were ablaze obviously don’t get near it… but a potential major catastrophe could’ve been avoided if just a single person had just disabled that Ground Power Unit and sprayed down that nose gear with a handheld Halon or Special K extinguisher.. which undoubtedly there were several within very close proximity to this incident. Thankfully no one was hurt, but things could’ve easily gone much differently.
@rolandruesch68623 ай бұрын
If you have no idea what is burning, the wrong fire extinguisher could spell disaster. Airport firefighters are specially trained.
@wavey613 ай бұрын
Hindsight this is a minor fire. However as it was happening, there's no way to know if this will suddenly grow, or even explode. The rules are there for a reason. The airline industry is one of the safest industry for a reason.
@soccerguy24333 ай бұрын
ground crew is hiring. go do it
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
Liability
@AcysLounge3 ай бұрын
Unbelievable slow and bad reactions!
@nikolatesla79833 ай бұрын
In my long experience, I think the captain installed the CD Player/AM FM radio/loudspeakers on a not official assistance and they messed around the wires causing the fire when it turned on . Sure.
@pedrito773 ай бұрын
Wow. Those people left with bags and all. 🤦🏽
@norbertdx3 ай бұрын
And the one lone passenger coming out.
@johnp1393 ай бұрын
They had 4 minutes of gathering their stuff before the emergency evacuation. So you think that it would have been better if they all dropped everything in the isles????