A Race Against The Fire On Flight 111 | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster
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- čas přidán 6. 04. 2022
- During a seemingly routine flight, Captain Zimmerman smells smoke. He decides to try and find out where the source of fire is located before total failure.
What happened to make pilots leave the cockpit?
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Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 1 Episode 3 "Fire On Board": Everything is normal as Flight 111 leaves New York City for Geneva. The captain is Urs Zimmerman, one of Swissair’s most experienced pilots and a trainer for the safety conscious airline. But 56 minutes into the flight, Captain Zimmerman smells smoke. He contacts Air Traffic Control to declare an emergency. He is told to land immediately at the closest airport - Halifax. Captain Zimmerman is busy going through the Swissair checklist, shutting off electrical circuits one by one to isolate the problem. He knows he must get down on the ground as quickly as possible but the plane is 30 tons too heavy to land. It’s a race against time to dump fuel and land.
Fire can go from a nuisance to a catastrophe in no time. On board Flight 111, there is suddenly a major failure of all electrical systems. Co-pilot Stefan Loew tells Air Traffic Control that he’s lost all his main instruments. He declares an emergency. This is the last transmission from the plane. Radar records show the plane flying on for six more minutes before crashing into the Atlantic, killing all on board.
Fire on Board asks why the fire spread so destructively, so quickly. When the pilots switched off all non-essential electrical systems, they thought that they had switched off the in-flight entertainment system. It turns out that the way it was wired meant they could not de-activate that circuit.
When a cockpit fills with smoke, pilots are forced to leave their seats. Investigators believe that there was no one at the controls of Flight 111 when it crashed. Passengers and crew knew they were doomed.
The Canadian Coast Guard picks up bodies and wreckage on the surface of the water. The black box and the cockpit voice recorder both stopped at the same time as the last transmission. Experts study the remains of the cockpit to discover the source of fire. The investigation finds the in-flight entertainment system provided the spark and the insulation that covers the entire inside of the aircraft provided the tinder.
The discoveries are not new. These fire hazards were known. It’s the snail’s pace of regulatory change that killed people.
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I really like how authentic this flight reconstruction looks. And I am very sorry that all this really happened. Гt's so scary, the sky is still an alien space for us.
After many years of only having the Seconds From Disaster episode available, we finally have the Mayday episode too
The Swiss tennis 🎾 player Marc Rosset was supposed to be on that fateful flight back home to Geneva after his first round exit at the US Open, he changed his plans in the last minute and decided to stay in New York for another day eventually saved his life, he was so lucky he wasn't on that doomed flight, when the news of the tragedy hit back home in Geneva he called his parents and friends that he's still in New York alive and in good shape, that last minute change of plans could indeed save your life.
Similar happened with the flights involved in 9/11 in that a number of well known people were due to take those flights that day but changed their plans.
I have to say, as a pilot and a mechanic, the installation of this entertainment system without corporate approved wiring documentation is tantamount to irresponsible operation. If they got something from McDonald Douglas, it would have been FAA approved and would come with a cockpit checklist as well. That silver insulation has been inside aircraft that I have worked on for 40 years; I'm not suggesting that it shouldn't be swapped out, I'm just saying that the principal cause was wiring, not insulation. BTW, if you put non-approved electrical systems in ANY aircraft it becomes "Experimental" and cannot carry passengers.
Since ur a pilot...would u have just landed immediately?
@@sg7772 If you play the video again you will see that the post crash investigators determined that no matter what the crew did that there wasn't time to land, they were just too far from any airport, too far off shore to save the plane. The answer is Yes, if you have a fire on board, you land immediately. Go to timestamp 39:29 and you will hear what they are saying. TSB are the post crash investigators. Transportation Safety Board of Canada. BTW, as a pilot, if you feel you may go down, it is irresponsible to crash into the city, it is imperative to know your aircraft is under control before flying over populated areas.
@@peterolsen269 ty and why would he choose to dump FURTHER away from the airport?
@@sg7772 The fire was slow at first and then escalated very quickly. The pilots probably thought they had time to do that, but they didn't.
@@gregord556 so even if he had stayed near the airport it would've have helped but WHY DIDNT HE CHOOSE THAT OPTIIN DO U THINK?
Kudos to the Canadian investigators for their doggedness, and effort to find the cause of the crash.
These two pilots did not do anything wrong. They did not panic, they followed the procedures, they could not have made an emergency landing on water because of "some smoke" of undetermined cause. When they situation got worse, it did so at a rapid pace, and they still were 20 minutes from any airport whatsoever. They have been cleared of all responsibility -- and they should. This flammable material should not have been aboard a plane in the first place. They couldn't see what was going on above their heads.
Were y'all there?
@@RobertJamesChinneryHShe was there, I can confirm.
As a Canadian I remember this accident like it was yesterday.
Oh my
What are you talking aboot eh?
@phreak761 I know exactly what I am talking about and I don't have explain
@@annetteslife Tell me aboot it.
@phreak761 nope and you can't make me
When you have fire/smoke onboard; your number one priority is to get the plane on the ground as soon as possible at the nearest airport wether you’re familiar with the airport or not. Tragically, if things would’ve been done/handled differently, the outcome might’ve been different.
Well swissairs checklist didn't call for that. It should have but it didn't in 1998
The smoke came and went -- it does not always warrant an emergency landing, there can be smoke, coming from the AC and it doesn't mean that there is a massive fire going on above your heads as was the case for these two pilots. It was a material design error. That stuff shouldn't even burn despite faulty wiring.
Either way, they were too far away from any airport for an emergency landing. They wouldn't have made it.
There is no fire called good fire
Good point... especially on a plane...
Why is there no new air disaster videos. I know damn well there's way more accidents than what I've seen.
Because there’s no new episodes.
No money... you need money to make new episodes
350 G’s ..wow.pax were gone before impact
Competition actually brought down this plane.
So basically there were a lot of these European airlines and stuff and well in order to bring more passengers and get them to use first class and business, they installed the IFE and rushed to do so. And well it had many flaws.
Anyway flight 111 went down and well now LESS people used Swissair and then their debts started to rise. 9/11 happened, and even LESS people used it.
On October 2nd, they were really crippled and declared bankruptcy and stopped flying. The Swiss government had to fund Swissair until 2002, where Crossair (subsidiary) then rebranded to Swiss International Air Lines and became the airline we love today.
If you say I’m wrong, I know these events really well
ok so they re enact the re enacting of and old episode instead of creating a new one??
Just landing the plane anywhere close without a checklist without dumping fuel ?
Someone direct me to an episode I haven't seen yet! 😭
Urs wasn't on his a game that night
The fact the pilots push the throttle together, is the most adorable teamwork gesture ever. 🥲
For who a little smoke is acceptable ~
@miggy yea, most people's mentality is a handicap and they bring it to work, in this case fatally consequential.
Shouldn't the air traffic controller be blamed? If they landed the plane in Halifax, there wouldn't be a plane crash occurred
Yeah, Canadian east coasters are really dumb. The ATC definitely lived up to their known level of intelligence.
No because they are too fast to land at Halifax and had too much fuel,so they had to make a circle since Thai Airways 311 did that so Swissair 111 can land easily.But i feel like JAL123 and China Airlines 611 tailstrike is for pilot error because JAL123 and CAL611 pointed nose too high.(Correct me)
What took place was there is no smoke without fire! It was portrayed the pilots were too slow and it looked like that. They should have reacted much faster to get that aircraft down on the ground. RIP to all those lost souls.
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It’s already late to do things being safe landing , why made such delay landing?
There was no way to land.
Swissair Flight 111 2 de setembre de 1998
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Today 24 years ago
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Well on my view here, dumping the fuel was not the first periority.expecially wen is a fire situation..that circleling time you have.utilize it to tje nearest airport near you.dump the fuel on your way..desparate situations needs deaparate sollutions.
Doesn't matter. There just wasn't enough time 🥺😔
@@vixen4327 they went aaall the to dump fuel to the ocean.and there is smoke ollover the cabin."smoke is a result of fire"
Problem is that if they hadn’t dumped fuel, this posed its own problems. Among these is that landing whilst too heavy risked the landing gear collapsing and causing a belly landing, which in itself risked a fire or explosion due to either friction between metal and runway, or because a wing or other part was sheared off and a spark caused the fuel tanks to then catch fire/explode.
Even if the plane had landed with the majority of the starting fuel on board, and there hadn’t been the landing gear collapse, then there risked other problems like the wheels popping or the plane being difficult to brake, which would then cause problems like potentially causing the plane to veer off the runway or overshoot the runway completely. This could cause major loss of life or serious injury.
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How does this have like 10 comments?
Probably because there are several videos on this accident on CZcams, and this happens to be the most recent, older ones have hundreds of comments.
WEF huh?? hhmmm
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Its because of the stupid wire transfer for the plane's computer
R.I.P FLIGHT SWISSAIR 111 the two pilots didn't do anything wrong, they did everything possible, they couldn't do anything else, they fought to the bitter end because both were very, very experienced pilots, especially the captain was very experienced
the father was N compme ass for leaving his wife and go start a restaurant
Right across your fckin waters.
Honestly, being from Ontario and moving to Nova Scotia recently, I expect this type of ATC error from an east coaster. They’re not the sharpest people that’s for sure. I’d wager Nova Scotia is the least intelligent province in Canada
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It was pure greed.
Then the captain bad decision making by delaying the descent costed his and the passengers lives.
If there’s smoke, there is fire. The first officer tried to decent, but the captain said no.
Human limitations whether you are rich or poor, is in our DNA.
Poor decision making is costing lives of millions.
Join the WEF? She was spared a life of evil.
If she didn't go to join it she wouldn't have died 🤯
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