Safety is NOT the 1st primary concern of any airline regardless of what they may say. Money is... always.

GA pilot here. After getting my instrument rating I tried this one day - to go out and fly out over the pacific ocean, not far from the shores but facing the ocean and flying over a bay. Yeah FUUUUUUCK THAT. I was like staring into the abyss. The only time I was actually **afraid** for my life and I had a working GPS, two electronic attitude indicators, two working VORs and a working turn coordinator. I turned the lights on and wondered "If I hit the water will I see it coming?" Immediately went to the instruments and started flying the airplane on the planned course and after the planned turn looked out to see the city lights. What these pilots were faced with was terrifying. No instruments over the dark ocean. YIKES. Not even once. Its a miracle their nerves didnt fail when they realized it.

shit piloting. Why would you ask ATC your attitude when the transponder is linked to your non working instrument lol

Down right eerie. Chills to the bone. I love your videos. The absolute best voice ever. 🌈 Jax in Hawaii 🌴🌺

Plot twist: That was actually the initiation rite.

That incessant alarm is driving me crazy and I'm just watching on KZfaq. Seems to me pilots could think much more clearly if they could turn off those alarms. It's not like they are going to forget they are in an emergency. I can't even watch much of this video because of all the alarms. I'd rather kill myself then listen to that for 30 minutes.

Couldn’t they put a satellite phone as a backup?

Your videos are amazing but there are SO MANY ADS😢😢😢😢

Best channel about subject great clear narrator, great pacing and script love the music choices. Very good and professional.

Removed the Star of David from the tail in the recreation. Antisemites.

The last thing to do is read a checklist. What a terrible process.

As an aviation nerd, I've watched hundreds of YT videos covering a spectrum of military & civilian aviation incidents from close calls to crashes. This is the first video that truly terrified me!

Brilliant!

It took me at least 15 minutes to correctly spell and properly look up the term "off-piste"....is that mainly a European saying or am I just unobservant?

All because of the mantaince engineer not having his FIM, the captain's behavior, and Korean Airline's military culture.

I don't get why plane companies choose to ignore maintenance issues, like what do you expect to happen?? If it's money, you're going to pay a lot more in law-suits when 300+ families are suing you over the death of their loved ones than if you just kept up with maintenance 🙄. Guess some companies just can't be bothered to think ahead and of their customers, smh.

I develop software for my own business. No one dies in my biz, but there are mission-critical moments. I have learned the hard way to place tests in my own software that call attention to unexpected results. I’ve lost count of the examples in flight disasters I have watched where the behavior that precedes a crash is clearly displayed right where it’s supposed to do so, and that obviously was not sufficient even for highly trained pilots. Honestly, how many times??? Going to an all-glass cockpit requires different thinking to accomplish the same results that old school gauges tend to do well. The presumption that attention is being paid to a counting number in a field of fifty other similarly designed counting numbers is clearly a failure waiting to happen. To simulate old-school thinking requires highly visible changes in exactly that location of a busy UI. Yet one more audible alarm should be used as rarely as possible. We can process a lot of visual input if we know where to look. Why not design so we literally cannot miss what needs added attention. Improved heuristic engineering does exactly that.

I’ll never forget when I was young there was an ad for Qantas airlines on the TV which said “the airline without a single accident yet” and my mum said, “sounds like famous last words” 😂😂 that ad aged badly

I remember this on the news on a Sunday evening.

The first officer is to blame for watching the indicator and not taking action! He must have known it was dangerously banking!

Very interesting video!

It was the Helderberg. Not the Tafelberg as shown in your illustration.

boeing? well well well

Damn you captain!!

why was the windshield blurry

That was the worst plane crash to ever happen that year 😢

What an absolute hero, him and the whole crew

The only “Mystery part” about this unfortunate crash is HOW the fire actually started but everything else (including having a fire shortly after Takeoff) has been completely debunked. The fire, once it started , consumed the aircraft very quickly (within 20-30 minutes). Reading the actual report leaves very little in terms of “Mystery”. Also, Lithium-Ion Battery fires were not well understood at that time so even given the small size of the ones carried in the Computer equipment, the resulting fire, combined with the packaging material could have been (and clearly was) significantly more distractive then thought back at that time.

How did this narrator know the tiny details of the captain getting coffee?

What those 4 survivors must have seen after the crash is a thing of nightmares! Especially trying to help dying passengers but in reality probably just stayed with them as they went. RIP 🙏 x

Appalling airmanship and professionalism from all 3 crewmembers.. Could not find the correct runway ...ignored all their flight instruments and moving map.. They departed on a taxiway with GREEN CENTRE LINE TAXIWAY LIGHTING.. Who does that???? Even in Singapore?????

They were still flying a 732 in 2012? Wow. I thought all 732s had been retired by then. They had certainly disappeared from American airports by then.

I'm no expert, but would a fighter jet actually shoot down a potentially hijacked plane?

Was the black box of the plan found ? How we know what the captain did in the plan ?

Almost every aviation incident starts with “small problems that the pilots had been informed of before takeoff”

He did everything at hand, but to touch the speed throttle

I think the russians theory may have been correct. That would be an insane coincidense if the pilots accidentally left the plane on a heading DIRECT to their destination

The staff recordings dont add anything. Makes it harder to follow.

So they refused the help from the American military and refused to go and help by themselves, shame

No worries!… god got this!…. wait, what??? 🙄

Is iontach an seanchai thu, fear usual! You are a great man to tell a story, sir! Ni raibh me in ann aon rud eile a dheanamh nuair a bhi to ag insint an sceal seo. I wasn't able to do anything else while listening to this story!

12 superconductor engineers on the same flight, working for the same company with all their families defecting and 2 ppl with illegal passports, add in a nifty Boeing uninteruptable autopilot that is designed to take over a flight remotely, there's a great conspiracy theory in here somewhere... Cheers

AR being pronounced OR is a bit confusing.

wtf why does this always start with 747

I’m glad you explained how they fixed this problem 😅

19:30 they are mach 6.

Captain: Sum Ting Wong Co-pilot: Wi Tu Lo Engineer: Ho Li Fuc 1st officer: Bang Ding Ow

Never trust computers 💻 but, captain sulivan and the crew and the passengers survived 😂

This flight crew was the most oblivious to any signs of misgoings. I am suprised