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  • čas přidán 15. 02. 2021
  • Investigators looking at the January 8, 2016 crash of West Air 294 know the plane’s IRU was faulty. But it doesn’t explain how a plane goes from level flying at 33,000 feet to a 600 mile/hour impact in just 80 seconds.
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Komentáře • 289

  • @ryanmanoghan5136
    @ryanmanoghan5136 Před 3 lety +139

    To the ppl who's never seen this series. If you watch it, it's gonna become an addiction.

  • @teabag9050
    @teabag9050 Před 3 lety +773

    No lie but they could seriously have a million subscribers if they uploaded whole episodes.

    • @kevinbosma4047
      @kevinbosma4047 Před 3 lety +2

      fr

    • @user-zf5bw3mi5g
      @user-zf5bw3mi5g Před 3 lety +51

      bruh they litterally own the show if they did what's the point of buying the episode they wont make enough money and therefore the show would be closed due to failure

    • @user-zf5bw3mi5g
      @user-zf5bw3mi5g Před 3 lety +11

      @@teabag9050 they earn more money from airing shows

    • @jmceditions6719
      @jmceditions6719 Před 3 lety

      W

    • @unbekannterkanal7318
      @unbekannterkanal7318 Před 3 lety +11

      they have a second channel with 3 million subscribers

  • @theshermantanker7043
    @theshermantanker7043 Před 3 lety +212

    Ironic that the aviator's golden rule of don't trust your senses trust the instruments was what ended up killing everyone this time :/

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety +6

      @Marc Chew different situations . This crash was really a bad one . Big time mechanical failure

    • @miguelsalami
      @miguelsalami Před 3 lety

      That was back in the day when the instruments were Made in the U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    • @lruy360ng
      @lruy360ng Před 2 lety +1

      i wouldve thought gravity would be enough to tell them that they're about to plummet into the ground.

    • @notme9049
      @notme9049 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lruy360ng if they sense that theyre falling they would think its a stall due to the nose being up.

    • @DiegoTheGreat89
      @DiegoTheGreat89 Před 2 lety +4

      There's also a rule to crosschek your instruments before making a decision. If only he had done that

  • @Mar.lxqmzzz
    @Mar.lxqmzzz Před 3 lety +220

    I'm finally not 6 years late

  • @Rushmore222
    @Rushmore222 Před 3 lety +97

    Wouldn't the simple cockpit addition of a small globe filled halfway with easily visible liquid help pilots determine pitch and roll accurately?

    • @Kromaatikse
      @Kromaatikse Před 3 lety +45

      No, because that doesn't actually indicate pitch and roll in a moving reference frame. A very similar device is used in small aircraft to indicate *slip*.
      If you look carefully, however, you can see a backup vacuum-driven attitude indicator (with its own gyros) in the middle of the instrument panel, between the two pilots. It's shown with an almost completely brown aspect - ie. a steep dive. This is indeed what the aircraft was actually doing. It's intended for use when the "glass" instruments fail, perhaps due to an electric fault. If the pilots had cross-checked the "glass" instruments with the vacuum one, they'd have realised they were getting a false indication on the Captain's side and switched to the FO's.

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Kromaatikse they didn't do it though. This was big time mechanical failure. It is possible that the second IRU was also faulty. But more likely the captain didn't understand what was going on and crashed the plane at high speed. Unfortunately that's the truth.

    • @vmsh9810
      @vmsh9810 Před 2 lety

      Physics arent so easy, Momentum and G force would make the water always look leveled, but honestly i dont know how to explain myself so i'll just show this video
      czcams.com/video/g99ho_ExApU/video.html

  • @HypeMaster080
    @HypeMaster080 Před 3 lety +78

    Crazy how this happened.
    Prayers go out to them

  • @kcnairnair7299
    @kcnairnair7299 Před 3 lety +75

    Don’t put questions to us. The reason we see your videos are for answers!

  • @agungtriharyadi9689
    @agungtriharyadi9689 Před 3 lety +58

    "Hit the ground with 600miles/hour" even if superman sits in that plane he will die

  • @gaithrislife
    @gaithrislife Před 3 lety +32

    Was surprised to see a stock image of my beautiful city before clicking on the video. R.I.P to the pilots

  • @mozartpiano23
    @mozartpiano23 Před 3 lety +8

    I remember dad told me that machines don’t make mistakes after I told him it’s the computer cause he seen my grades

  • @bennetto5872
    @bennetto5872 Před 3 lety +78

    Noone:
    *SMITHSONIAN AFTER A PLANE CRASHES AND EVERYONE DIES* : Its brighter here

  • @karlzen86
    @karlzen86 Před 3 lety +8

    I have been on that plane many times and met both of the pilots multiple times since I work at the postalservice loading the plane with mail and parcels. It was sureal when we got the news the next morning that It had crashed and both pilots lost their lives.

    • @ramblingaly2364
      @ramblingaly2364 Před 2 lety

      Same here ! I used to work for westair and knew the co-pilot quite well. I couldn't believe it when I got the call 😔

  • @chewybuoyeel
    @chewybuoyeel Před 3 lety +14

    Trust your instruments, until you shouldn’t

  • @shinchanindia6306
    @shinchanindia6306 Před 3 lety +8

    rest in peace for both of the pilots may there soul go to heaven and there familese move on and live a happy life

  • @ill.2ur
    @ill.2ur Před 3 lety +18

    Wouldnt you feel that you’re literally going straight down and then inverted?

    • @aussiesam01
      @aussiesam01 Před 3 lety +7

      Not necessarily, in theory it would be possible to maintain 1g for the most part, but I'm not saying that is what happened. However, you would notice the pitch and airspeed information telling you that maybe your other instruments were wrong, but then the entire thing happened so fast you would hardly have time to thunk about it and figure out what was wrong.

    • @boeing-ys7wr
      @boeing-ys7wr Před 3 lety +8

      Not necessarily, it’s quite possible for planes to “feel” like they’re flying normally, while in reality, the could be inverted, banked, pitching up, etc. This is why instruments are so important for flying in clouds and at night

    • @ill.2ur
      @ill.2ur Před 3 lety +2

      @@boeing-ys7wr oh ok thx

  • @limeeirfan6896
    @limeeirfan6896 Před 3 lety +3

    I watched it on TV just now, and Smithsonian already uploaded it

  • @mrrolex1364
    @mrrolex1364 Před 3 lety +7

    I love aviation and this channel

  • @wanamirwantafkir3597
    @wanamirwantafkir3597 Před 3 lety +20

    How do you go from level at 33,000 feet to 1,000km per hour impact in 1 minute 20 second ? 😱

  • @devingraves8044
    @devingraves8044 Před 3 lety +4

    They really putting emojis in titles about videos where people died lmao

  • @danielfairfield1255
    @danielfairfield1255 Před 3 lety +6

    Such a sad crash, the aircraft failed both the crew

  • @gtaretard
    @gtaretard Před 3 lety +12

    I'm Early and I'm from Sweden myself. I Love this channel!

    • @lucassteen4050
      @lucassteen4050 Před 3 lety +2

      Hände detta i Sverige?

    • @Daze2Op
      @Daze2Op Před 3 lety +2

      Me too❤️

    • @reyker1144
      @reyker1144 Před 3 lety +2

      Hi sweden I'm from finland

    • @gtaretard
      @gtaretard Před 3 lety

      @@lucassteen4050 Jag tror att det hände i Sverige...

  • @kabeertheavgeek
    @kabeertheavgeek Před 3 lety +31

    youtube logic:
    0 views
    38 likes

    • @alexwatt19
      @alexwatt19 Před 3 lety

      That is weird.

    • @alexwatt19
      @alexwatt19 Před 3 lety

      That happened to me

    • @Velehokala
      @Velehokala Před 3 lety +1

      ​@@alexwatt19 stop begin idiots please. its know thing from beginning of youtube. it always shows that when video is released if it have enough watchers

    • @captainbossman1016
      @captainbossman1016 Před 3 lety

      Kowalski analysis

    • @ArnBrickJeff
      @ArnBrickJeff Před 3 lety

      @@alexwatt19 Idiots youtube cant load views but can load likes

  • @coolguy13333
    @coolguy13333 Před 3 lety +3

    The plane hit the ground so hard that every pice just tuned into shards after it hit

    • @bletrick3352
      @bletrick3352 Před rokem

      The most instant death in the history of instant deaths. Most passengers never knew it happened.

  • @pr3yal0l
    @pr3yal0l Před 3 lety +2

    If I was an Investigator, I'd be confused too

  • @king_kalo
    @king_kalo Před 3 lety

    this clips are addictive cant stop watching😊

  • @jeffreygosselin1143
    @jeffreygosselin1143 Před 3 lety +5

    This is getting scary with computers taking over. Bring back dial gauges!!!

    • @StickandGlider
      @StickandGlider Před 3 lety +2

      All airliners have backup analog gauges. If there’s a power failure, or a disagreement, the pilots can revert to the old-fashioned way.

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety

      @@StickandGlider but this wasn't computer failure but an instrument failure. It was major one though

  • @spd_bird
    @spd_bird Před 3 lety +3

    1:34 That backup attitude indicator must not have helped lol

  • @zahidurrahman6422
    @zahidurrahman6422 Před 3 lety

    Where can I see the full episode??

  • @Sevisstillalive
    @Sevisstillalive Před 3 lety +5

    reminded me of flight 93 when it hit .

  • @737tech
    @737tech Před 3 lety +3

    The resent Amazon 767 crash is the opposite of this. The pilot felt like the plane was pitching up and drove the plane into the ground.

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety +2

      It is called somograhic illusion or something like that . In 2016 there was another crash because of this in Russia.Basically the pilot thinks he is pitching up and pushes the plane in a dive . In fact he is flying straight .

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety +1

      It is not opposite . Both pilots crashed the planes in a dive. But while that was pilot mistake here it wasn't .

  • @racingalienhcr2
    @racingalienhcr2 Před 3 lety +2

    What I don't get is how the FDR is able to record the actual pitch but the instruments failed to record the actual pitch. Shouldn't the FDR and the instruments record the same pitch? Both use the same IRU.

  • @adityatiwary2221
    @adityatiwary2221 Před 3 lety

    How to watch the whole episode?

  • @ghosttgirl9805
    @ghosttgirl9805 Před 3 lety +1

    Please have full episode's

  • @sharonhaywood2818
    @sharonhaywood2818 Před 2 lety +1

    They have to remember that humans put those aircraft together and whatever human put together is subject to fail

  • @heyy_itzsneaky5755
    @heyy_itzsneaky5755 Před 3 lety

    What's the Season and Episode?

  • @shinchanindia6306
    @shinchanindia6306 Před 3 lety +1

    moral of incident sometimes machines can also be wrong and it can cause you really bad

  • @especiallyninety_751
    @especiallyninety_751 Před 2 lety +1

    Hits the ground 600mph
    “It’s brighter here”

  • @goodccvoid
    @goodccvoid Před 3 lety +3

    The air crash investigation episodes always get more views than the astronomy ones

    • @alexchristopher221
      @alexchristopher221 Před 2 lety

      Wait until we reach the age of interstellar space travel.

    • @WingNuts2010
      @WingNuts2010 Před rokem

      Only from those interested in plane crashes.

  • @minetubequest
    @minetubequest Před 2 lety +2

    After watching the video I see that the pilots follow only gyroscope. But for some reason my mind says if they dive at that rate they would feel a very high g-force. For that reason they should have been able to realize they are diving!

  • @Powerranger-le4up
    @Powerranger-le4up Před 3 lety +23

    I’ve seen this episode and this is not the first accident I’ve watched that not only resulted from pilot error, but from the drawbacks of continual advances in technology in aviation. Technology may help prevent a lot of accidents, but some of the drawbacks is the failure rate. It fails so rarely that pilots sometimes become mystified and some airlines have become complacent and are relying too much on the technology to fly the plane instead of the pilots whom they are supposed to train for all potential situations. And with all the knobs, gauges, and technology onboard, it is also becoming more difficult for pilots to find and solve problems in the cockpit.

    • @spacemarinechaplain9367
      @spacemarinechaplain9367 Před 3 lety +5

      Yeah, it might be prudent to reintroduce a third crew member in the cockpit because like you said, it’s getting to the point where it’s getting too much for two people to handle especially in a stressful situation.

    • @Trippy-Salamander
      @Trippy-Salamander Před 3 lety +5

      @@spacemarinechaplain9367 Some planes have a Pilot, Co-Pilot and an Engineer in the cockpit. It may be time to bring that back into widespread practice.

    • @boeingdriver29
      @boeingdriver29 Před 3 lety +2

      The only part of your comment that is accurate is that airlines have over the last 20 years encouraged pilots to use more automation rather than hand flying which has to a degree de skilled them. There is no evidence that improvements in technology has led to increased systems or indication failures, in fact its the opposite. The amount of knobs, switches, buttons has vastly decreased over the past 2 decades due to glass cockpits and automated systems. In my 35 years as a B737, 767, 747 captain the only failure of note was having to shut down an engine because of a high oil temperature indication which turned out to be a thermocouple error/failure not an overheating engine oil scenario.

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety

      @@spacemarinechaplain9367 this crash was hardly a pilot error. The captain got major instrument failure . It was hard for him to know what to do in this situation. No pilot error here

    • @bayouflier6641
      @bayouflier6641 Před 2 lety

      @@kirilmihaylov1934 You and the Chaplain are both wrong. They had 3 ADIs in the cockpit. One took a shit, and had they crosschecked the two that agreed, this would have been a non-event. Totally pilot error and NOTHING to do with automation.

  • @Meghnaaad
    @Meghnaaad Před 2 lety +1

    When you are falling you feel it right?

  • @elirovowskiThela
    @elirovowskiThela Před 2 lety

    Mans literally said looks like im going for a swim

  • @soniashammiakter4588
    @soniashammiakter4588 Před 3 lety +1

    Last time a airplane was upside down 😂

  • @latasha3472
    @latasha3472 Před 3 lety +1

    Damn 600 mph😯

  • @WillDoesTransport
    @WillDoesTransport Před 3 lety

    Plane: Crashes
    Smithsonian Channel:(Happy Music) It's brighter here.

  • @ChrisC1946
    @ChrisC1946 Před 2 lety +2

    How do they mistake that do you not feel the G force and the feeling of free falling

    • @alexchristopher221
      @alexchristopher221 Před 2 lety

      It's almost like the pilot intentionally nosedived to the bitter end.

  • @idknils2920
    @idknils2920 Před 3 lety +3

    No one
    Smithsonian : 😲

  • @MOLDOVIAMAPS
    @MOLDOVIAMAPS Před 3 lety

    I have a question did it happen 3 days ago?

  • @fluffy-fluffy5996
    @fluffy-fluffy5996 Před 3 lety +1

    That first picture of Stockholm makes me miss it so much 🤐

  • @user-rc2bd2zd3q
    @user-rc2bd2zd3q Před 3 lety

    I would like to see the New York midair collision as a future episode

  • @mariosantiago2088
    @mariosantiago2088 Před rokem

    You don’t feel it going which side up or down?

  • @ponloksne2644
    @ponloksne2644 Před 3 lety

    Wow it was great

  • @ajelceballos1267
    @ajelceballos1267 Před 2 lety +1

    How come the first officer wasn't reacting to anything?

  • @kas8887
    @kas8887 Před 3 lety +1

    It's shocking these planes actually do crash

  • @shobhakiran5699
    @shobhakiran5699 Před 3 lety +8

    FULL VIDEO PLEASE

  • @ellenroux5748
    @ellenroux5748 Před rokem

    I’m not a pilot but can’t the pilots feel In momentum if the planes nose is up or low? Ya know when you are driving car? In a car when you feel your going to tip in one direction or the other you try to correct it.

  • @cleansoap628
    @cleansoap628 Před 3 lety +2

    Bruh how only 85 k subs

  • @CosmoLuminesce
    @CosmoLuminesce Před 3 lety +1

    The altitude indicator shower it was descending

  • @alisonstewart6077
    @alisonstewart6077 Před 3 lety +1

    Dose any one know what happened to it

  • @ZeDestroyer262
    @ZeDestroyer262 Před 2 lety

    i think the sensors were kaboosed and the co pilot's IRU maybe faulty idk but if the sensor was showing false readings wouldn't the pilots know that they are level by looking at the horizon? let me know in the comments.

  • @paulretsas66
    @paulretsas66 Před 6 měsíci

    All the captain needed was a visible spirit level mounted to a flat surface… no second guessing.

  • @koushikborah2081
    @koushikborah2081 Před 3 lety +4

    Investigators in stockholm talking in american accent.keep going 🤭

  • @michaeljosephdimaano2802
    @michaeljosephdimaano2802 Před 3 lety +1

    Yeah, so they didn't felt that they're nose diving?

  • @bandiswa1592
    @bandiswa1592 Před 3 lety

    RIP 😔😔😔

  • @abdulrahimify
    @abdulrahimify Před 3 lety

    Reminds me of KAL8509 except in the air.

  • @PlayBarbie
    @PlayBarbie Před 2 lety +1

    i think pilots should also get a training and also pay attention to viberation also

  • @lambokr3497
    @lambokr3497 Před 3 lety

    this could be a movie...

  • @ArnBrickJeff
    @ArnBrickJeff Před 3 lety

    Pls do SJ182

  • @IrfanKhan-sx1it
    @IrfanKhan-sx1it Před 2 lety

    @3.25: to the 5th grade investigator : plane goes 33,000 ft at 1000 km/hr in 1 second because it reaches Mach speed. Probably Mach 3.0

  • @Mushiiiii
    @Mushiiiii Před 3 lety +1

    the callibration system was not working simple

  • @young-pepsea
    @young-pepsea Před 3 lety

    🔥🔥

  • @kirilmihaylov1934
    @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety

    That was a bad one. The captain had no way of knowing what was going on

  • @felixsephiroth4174
    @felixsephiroth4174 Před 3 lety +1

    Upload the trigana air crash

  • @southpark4151
    @southpark4151 Před 3 lety +1

    Is it true that the software programmers and software design team are the ones that should be jailed or sacked over that amateur software system? When critical flight data is detected to have discrepancies between the two or more sets of measuring systems, then a very loud computer voice should have said on the cabin loudspeakers ------ 'warning - mismatch in pitch measurements ----- IRU1 likely to be in error, IRU2 likely to be functioning correctly - due to two out of three agreement condition'. And also have big red flashing lights to draw attention. And also - the little yellow 'PIT' indication on the screen should definitely have been programmed to remain on the screen. It should never have disappeared in any case. But also - one must admit that it's pretty stupid to have the little yellow 'PIT' light come up (even if if it did stay on permanently). It's better to have a big flashing PIT symbol (along with a loud but calm computer voice warning) - that also shows more information about which display panel or instrument had likely developed an issue. So basic common sense programming would have easily saved those two pilots.

  • @rhushsnr
    @rhushsnr Před rokem

    Now I think I can fly a airplane by watching all episodes 😅

  • @donnaking7439
    @donnaking7439 Před 3 lety

    It cut off before we heard the mystery explained.

  • @xi8roblox
    @xi8roblox Před 2 lety

    2:11 maybe he's thoughts his IRU was a faulty IRU (Maybe)

  • @dsmp_bee6238
    @dsmp_bee6238 Před 3 lety

    Placing 2 levels in the cockpit would have avoided this

  • @TheSuperPsychoKiller
    @TheSuperPsychoKiller Před 3 lety +26

    Pilots need to stop being heavily dependent on flight instruments and more reliant on common sense.

    • @yebosuwa
      @yebosuwa Před 3 lety +3

      True but their taught to always trust their flight instruments. So when in trouble such as this, what does one do?

    • @isaacwoohoo318
      @isaacwoohoo318 Před 3 lety +1

      They weren’t aware of a faulty IRU. They did what they should have done, pushing the he nose down.

    • @Leo-pu2nw
      @Leo-pu2nw Před 3 lety +6

      They're trained to rely on their flight instruments. There are hundreds of crashes where the pilot relies on their common sense and disregards their instruments, as well as vice versa. John F Kennedy Jr died this way. Didn't trust his altimeter and virtual horizon and crashed his plane.

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety

      @@Leo-pu2nw I thought the pilots did what they should . This was major failure

  • @SG_aviation_traveller
    @SG_aviation_traveller Před 3 lety +1

    Big crash there....

  • @erumzehra01
    @erumzehra01 Před 3 lety +1

    Edit it to its nightmare here

  • @dank1518
    @dank1518 Před rokem

    After much reflection have decided not to fly….especially if Smithsonian film crew is hanging around the airport.

  • @pistachiocracker4477
    @pistachiocracker4477 Před 3 lety

    What do you mean it’s brighter here?!?! Stop it with that jingle

  • @ouiiouliukuykuykuy8451

    united 232 plssss

  • @warszawianek
    @warszawianek Před 3 lety

    Similar to Qantas 72 but it's a bad ending

  • @ChrisC1946
    @ChrisC1946 Před 2 lety

    How could a pilot mistake that

  • @godsaveve
    @godsaveve Před 3 lety

    I wont fight any more

  • @kirilmihaylov1934
    @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety

    When was that ??? Full video please

  • @hillbilly4555
    @hillbilly4555 Před 2 lety

    Aviation, Not a single video about September 11, nice going CZcams

  • @8346324970712
    @8346324970712 Před rokem

    Don't always trust your instruments.

  • @djmorry8748
    @djmorry8748 Před 2 lety

    Is it silly of me to ask you people who are tech minded , why the main flight computer did not immediately warn that he pitch of aircraft was critical nose down and cut in with over ride pull up and audio warning to get back to leve lflight at the same time?

  • @gme213la2
    @gme213la2 Před 3 lety +2

    Incomplete documentaries smh

    • @johnnytarerio3186
      @johnnytarerio3186 Před 3 lety

      Yeah they make these episodes for people to pay for them. The fact they post any content at all on YT is amazing, but if you want the full episodes then stop begging and pay for them.

  • @dennismitchell1934
    @dennismitchell1934 Před 3 lety

    It appears a cabin leak caused the loss of oxygen putting both pilots asleep and fell forward (limp) on the yoke. Down it went to the ground up-side down lickity split
    KA-BOOM !

  • @arkfn912
    @arkfn912 Před 3 lety

    Have a flight today

  • @miguelsalami
    @miguelsalami Před 3 lety

    Never Trust your instruments or your planes computer!

  • @xinadado9780
    @xinadado9780 Před 3 lety

    I already watched this as my first episode

  • @draco2xx
    @draco2xx Před 3 lety

    But I thought they say, always trust your instruments😩

    • @ndeso94vlogrider41
      @ndeso94vlogrider41 Před 3 lety

      Thats right. But of the instrument failure,,,, you know what happen next....

    • @kirilmihaylov1934
      @kirilmihaylov1934 Před 3 lety

      @@ndeso94vlogrider41 this was major failure

  • @Interdictiondeltawing
    @Interdictiondeltawing Před 3 lety +2

    The IRU Faulty caused the accident

  • @22YT_
    @22YT_ Před 3 lety

    maybe CRJ 200 is the dumbest design that make pilot confused

  • @angel110885
    @angel110885 Před 3 lety

    Oh yeah btw uhh the first offifecer is corect cause i saw it on the video u made a few mouths ago