Plane Disintegrates Mid-air Over Japan - BOAC Flight 911 (Reconstruction)
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- Call sign "Speedbird 911", was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation using a Boring 707 registration G-APFE, with 113 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
- Krátké a kreslené filmy
There were 5 very notable passengers that were supposed to be on this flight but ended up missing it. They were the 5 most important people in the James Bond movie franchise. Albert Broccoli (Producer), Harry Saltzman (Producer), Ken Adam (Set Designer), Lewis Gilbert (Director), and Freddie Young (Cinematographer) were in Japan at the time scouting locations for the next James Bond movie “You Only Live Twice”. They were hoping to see a live ninja demonstration while in Tokyo and it wasn’t until they were actually leaving for the airport that they received a last minute invitation to go see one. So they ended up missing their flight to go see the ninja demonstration instead 😊
Even then downwind was no place to be. SCREW UP. RIP
Five are lucky and survived and canceled from trip
Without their top-5, the Bond franchise would have been chop-chop-suey.
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Another irony is that.... Ken Adam WAS born in Berlin, yet, became an RAF Hawker Typhoon Pilot (!)
His squadron mates attested that Ken WAS most venomous against his Ex-countrymen during attacks
Diving a Hawker Typhoon towards German Flak each day took enormous courage & skill (& Luck too)
The fact that he & many others survived the Normandy & Falaise Gap attests to their luck holding out
When I first saw images of the falling BOAC 707 it hit me hard, as 707's are tough old beasts !!
I once spent a full hour onboard a 'Kentucky KC.135' which has these old (J.57 ?) engines onboard
Inside the cockpit, I spent 1/2 hour talking to it's Crew Chief & he stunned me with what he said...
"Is this old girl going to be scrapped, or, mothballed at Davis Monthan ?"
"Nope, she's going back to Boeing next month to be re-engined with Pratt & Whitney Turbofans"
Like many that still fly today @ Mildenhall, Suffolk, they have fiscal serials dating from 1959-1963
Just goes to show what an amazing design the 707//135's are & were....
AND still going strong ('135's) during 2024 !!
They went to see a sumo event.
Can you even imagine being a passenger on that flight and getting an eyeful right next to you of the devastation from CP 402 the night before….. unbeknownst to them they too would meet their own fate just minutes later… what a bizarre set of catastrophes.
I'LL NEVER FLY AGAIN, NOT ON BOEING ANYWAY. THEIR JUMBO 747, DISINTERGRATED MANY TIMES, 3, 740 PEOPLE HAVE DIED ON THOSE ALONE.
@@MrDaiseymay Talking about the crash at Tenerife? pilot error JAL 123? improper repair of tail strike. Next question
@@MrDaiseymay Yes, and Airbus is so much safer....go home little boy
@@MrDaiseymay Do you wear a diaper, Daisey?? Turn in your man card, champ.
I thought the same! Horrifying!
One of those accidents that haven`t been documented enough and to me is one of the most shocking in the industry next to the Lauda Air incident.
Thank you for doing this.
BOAC: sightseeing captain. Lauda Air: uncommanded thrust reversers approaching cruise.
There are documentaries out about it
@@Dilley_G45
Where?
(Don’t tell me to google)
I remember reading about the disaster. It began with the proverb, "When the sky is blue, Fuji is angry."
"Air Disaster Vol. 1" by Macarthur Job?
@@GCarty80A brilliant book.
The sequence of this accident is that the sudden up-draught of the rotor that had formed on the leeward side of the mountain, caused such a rapid de-acceleration that the main fuel tank ruptured, and passengers and crew in the forward part of the aircraft drowned in the kerosene. With that de-acceleration the engines detached,and continued to operate for a short while on residual fuel. The engines were found some distance from the main wreckage.
As the aircraft slewed, the tail fin detached and then a wing detached. The forward section of the aircrafts cockpit and fuselage also broke free. By this time the aircraft had little forward motion, and came down like a sycamore leaf. My father was a BOAC Chief Steward, and had flown this route a week earlier. He knew the Captain and crew. Captain Dobson had been a RAF Lancaster pilot during the war. He was also keen on photography, and this was another reason why he decided to fly close to Mount Fuji.
My father also flew on the Vickers VC10, and there was much speculation that a VC10 would have survived the turbulence. A British Caledonian VC10 encountered similar intensity of turbulence over the Andes. It suffered damage, but stayed in one piece. Further inspection by engineers found that the wings were bent upwards about four feet at their tips indicating that the torsion box, where the wings join the fuselage, was distorted.
MacArthur Job wrote a series of books explaining aircraft disasters and this flight was in one volume.
The VC10 was a much tougher bird than the 707
My Grandfather and Grandmother died in this crash.
So sorry for your loss.
MPC Flights, This is awesome! I subscribed because I want to see more!
Thanks for the sub!
I've never heard about this disaster - thanx for posting!
That 707 looks beautiful.
It’s a Boeing 720 that’s used in the video, not a 707.
In one piece it does
If its Boeing.im not going.
@@stringer-ik1pc Add in AF447's airbus and you won't have much choice of equipment. Embraer?
@@randomscb-40charger78With 2 pairs of overwing exits, it corresponds most closely to a Boeing 707-138. The B720 had one such exit on each side
There is a cine film taken by a passenger and shows the decompression and break up, carpets flying around.
The film was show on newsreels at the time, as was the actual crash.
They would have been fine had they stayed on the upwind side of the mountain. We used to fly Mt. Rainier tours after taking off from SEA in our 737s and Airbuses, and we always knew from which direction the wind was blowing - usually from the west. We always circled from the north through west and then the south before climbing away toward our destinations. It was always smooth and enjoyable. We never fully circled the mountain. Nope.
@megadavis5377 so does that mean that plane was at a 90 direction from the downwind side for the vertical stabilizer to rip off? I flew a Cessna 172 around Mount Rainer a few times and I was always a bit nervous of the East side because I would always loose about 1000ft. The winds on that side would literally push the plane down and I have GoPro videos showing the needles moving down. But.......the videos and photos don't do justice of the experience of that beautiful mountain.
People fly gliders in mountain waves all the time but in the smooth wavy laminar flow part, *downwind* of the mountain range. I've done it myself. Carrying Oxygen is essential.
@@cadenza3210 Carrying Oxygen is essential. - well depends, many times we fly wave produced by little hills high around 500-900 meters and gaining some 3000m. Absolutely fine without the oxygen...
Turbulence over and in the lee of high ground was known long before. Sir Sefton Brancker ( lost in the R101 airship disaster over the Beauvais Ridge in 1930) had previously experienced such a sudden fall in an airliner beyond the same Beauvais Ridge in N.France that the passengers dented the roof of the cabin. I remember with shock this BOAC crash.
Deliberately flying into an area with forecast turbulence to see the mountain? They did things much differently back then. As a pilot I would certainly object to doing something with that sort of risk.
As the video said,the turbulence is not very known to everyone
erm....you missed the part where it said 1966. They were not even Aware of any risk. Those poor sods probably had no idea what happened to their plane, as they fell out of the sky.
@@swanvictor887. Em….you must’ve missed the pert of the video that read “the pilots prepare for the turbulence that typically surrounds the mountain”. Are you trying to tell me that in 1966 pilots were unaware of mountain waves (horizontal rotors) or Lee waves discovered in the 1930’s? Or trying to say that pilots of commercial jets were unaware of the dangers regarding any area known to produce such turbulence? Clear air turbulence could even be forecast in those days by a significant drop in the airstream temperature, or various other factors. In fact, what the hell are you trying to say?
@@robertclark9 Relax. The world is not binary - aware/not aware. Probably the severity of these occurrences was not known at that time.
@@andy99ish The world comes with a set of theories, and a set of facts. What it does not come with, is a set of truths. That’s a luxury only the delusional can embrace. However, there is a price. And delusion is a rapacious creditor.
Thanks for this story. Really unaware about it. Pretty sad what happenned
Super terrifying. I've never heard of this one.
Another Excellently Documented Video And Beautiful Graphics ..... Exactly How I Remember The BOAC 707s, Thanks For Doing These Vids .... Only Just Noticed Mine Was The 911th 'Like' .......
Quinny
Thanks!
I wrote about this accident many years ago in my book Wreckchasing 2. A few points. This would have been a better video with a more up to date flight sim program. The paint scheme in your video was almost correct, the accident 707 was in the BOAC CUNARD scheme, not the later one depicted in the video. In the cockpit portion the FD/ADI is shown with a blue/black display. The BOAC and later British Airways 707-436 used an all black display instrument. In the inflight breakup the forward fuselage around station 600 also broke away in the descent. One last thing, the RR Conway engines did smoke a bit at takeoff power, but not much at cruise power as shown. Otherwise, not too bad at all with this video. 🙂
Aand the missing rear stabilizer
Espectácular video muchas gracias super realidad saludo 🎉🛫🙏🙌Bendiciones 🕵️
I flew that flight in 1966 from SFO to Japan
Excellent video
You just never know if you're going to be on the one that goes down. Such a terrifying thought.
Mayday/ACI really missed the boat on this one. They only mention this in ONE epi passingly, during the one about the rudder servo mechanism on the early 737's.
Very good video, lovely graphics on the seven Oh. What must those passengers have thought looking at the smouldering wreck of that CP DC8? Not knowing their own imminent fate 🙏 apparently a relative mourning on the anniversary at the foot of Fuji was killed by part of a departing jet that fell off. RIP all of those souls 🙏
Do you know of any official report pertaining to the PDA incident you speak of?
Incredible that it was actually filmed at take off and you can just imagine the conversation about the wreck the night before. Its hard to imagine back to back days with such terrible loss of life. The 707 was such a beautiful plane , but we had yet to learn all the lessons of both building exceptionally engineered aircraft as well as piloting the known and unknown. God rest you in peace and it sounds crass but thank you for your sacrice it was not in vane, never the less trafic. 😢😢😢
Well the captain certainly made it memorable 😢
Nice capturing Bos
I remember the cine film of this accident, the aircraft fluttered down like a leaf.
Makes you wonder if the plane was doomed from the start with that flight number.
That's a logical deduction - NOT!
911 wasn't even a thing back then. Not even as an Emergency number, let alone the 2001 terror attack 35 years later.
The 707's always seemed to emit a lot of black smoke from their engines.Water injection on take off apparently to increase thrust.Wouldnt fare well nowadays with emissions awareness.
Tree huggers wreck everything.
AFAIK the only 707 to use water injection was the original 707-120 with the (underpowered) JT3C turbojets.
Brilliant MPC flights fantastic !
Thanks!
I remember seeing a front page photo in the /chicago Tribune of the 707 taxiing past the wreckage of the night before that some one had snapped a photo of.Very Weird.
I remember this from when it actually happened. There was a big write up in that issue of Life Magazine which my family received at the time.
There is a video of this flight taking off from Haneda on CZcams plus photos of the breakup in the air . I flew over Fuji many times departing Narita and Haneda and always kept to 280kts until above FL250 thanks to this incident . Always making sure I wasn’t directly downwind of Fuji.
Also a USN A4 was sent to look for this aircraft and experienced 9 G , the aircraft was a right off after landing at Yokohama Naval Air Station.
Amazing simulation video quality. Best I’ve seen.
Glad you liked it!
There was also the Northwest Airlines B-720 that broke up in turbulance over Florida.
My dad was a newly qualified BOAC 707 flight engineer in 1966 … I will ask him about the aftermath and what it was like at the time.
Hope he married a pretty stewardess.
So, they lied to us when they said turbulence won’t ever bring a plane down. Got it.
That's the ghost plane! No pilots there!
The landing gear lever had the great down on the visual of the control panel. 😆
I noticed that too. 😂 nobody’s perfect I guess.
@@robertclark9 But the lights were all out, so the gear must have been properly up.
G-APFE had a somewhat different paint scheme from that shown in the simulation. The navy-blue cheat line was narrower around the windows, extending from just above to just below. Between the front door and the cockpit the blue flared downward sharply, wrapping under the nose. In the flared area were the initials B.O.A.C., in gold italic letters. Also, 707-436s (-420), with the Rolls-Royce Conway engines (only 37 built) had cabin turbocompressor humps on all 4 engines; the model used in the simulation has no TC hump on #1 - an arrangement typical of the much more common -320.
At least their deaths were not in vain. The Air industry learned from this phenomenon
YEAH , SHALL WE VOLUNTEER AS GUINEA PIGS ?
They didn't....they knew about it before....
@@daftvader4218not that it could break a modern airliner apart
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The pilots perhaps did not reduce their airspeed, knowing turbulence was an issue around Mt Fuji, to reduce the chance of structural damage on the aircraft.
Nice video ! But May I consider some observations , just to increase the real stuff in your next videos :
On the scene of the cockpit at 16 miles to Mount Fugi, the landing gear lever is in the DOWN position, while it should be in the UP position. The RATE OF CLIMB instrument shows a down RATE , maybe because it is said that they descent from 17000 feet to 16000 feet, but the ALTIMETER does not READ any ALTITUDE. And at last, there is NO such Alarm Sound in the B707, like the first one. But yes, there is a FIRE BELL like the second alarm. I flew as a Copilot in the 707 for a Cargo Airline, for more than 3 years. Take care , and happy landings !
The gear handle could be in the OFF (middle) position, though it's not clear. No gear lights are on, which would tend to indicate that the gear was properly retracted.
@@smwca123the LDG GEAR lever on the B 707 has three positions: DOWN, UP , and OFF. Where it should be placed after the full cycle of lifting the geras, and they are stowed , and all the doors are closed. This is the normal operation.
I noticed on the instrument panel display that while the attitude indicator showed straight and level, the turn and bank indicator showed a left turn exceeding the 15º mark. It would have been nice for the cockpit instruments to be correct and timely. Also, this is probably the flight that took the lives of my friend Ralph's parents. We were teenagers at the time.
What's with the black exhaust smoke all the time? That's a big error on your part.
Xplane 12 is almost a little to real it looks like real life
👍👍 @MPC Flights - Nice video! Is this X-Plane 11?
Thank you. Yeah.
Those leading edge flaps on that 707 version don’t appear correct. They only exist just inboard of the outboard engines, similar to the KC-135.
This is because this 720,a shorter version of 707
Idk but the minute I see my flight is numbered 911 I might back out and find a new one. Obviously in 1966 maybe those numbers didn’t hit the same though.
Do you think they could see into the future? And how can a mere flight number affect flight safety?
@@gzk6nk Well, it was always odd to me that the Korean Airlines 747 that the Soviets shot down when it drifted into soviet airspace, claiming the airline was actually a U.S. spy plane trying to photograph top secret facilities on the Kamchatka Peninsula, was flight #007.
@@dcorman So, maybe it was flown by James Bond, eh? I don't think you are a rational being . There is no way the coincidence of flight numbers affects flight safety. Why do I even have to state something so obvious?
@@gzk6nk No. But I think there is a good chance that it was a 747 being used as a cover for the CIA to "accidentally" fly over Soviet military installations and photograph their silos and bases.
Wow, what sim is this? We need a 707 in MSFS!
Great video! Amazing graphics!
You know, I've heard that turbulence is not dangerous because planes are designed to withstand turbulence, but I also heard turbulence can damage the airframe and/or lead to loss of control of the plane. Which is it? Is turbulence dangerous or is it NOT dangerous?
Clearly it is dangerous
Had it been a VC-10?
When sight seeing goes wrong.
Fuji would be covered in snow in March.
"... flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation using a Boring 707 registration G-APFE"... Make that "Boeing."
Cubby Broccoli had a secret deal with the captain to scout-out potential Ernst Stavro Blofeld volcanoes. Mt Fuji was very close to the nominal flight path and some previous flights most-likely also took the sightseeing route -- depending on the weather, delays and discipline of the captains.
No good deed goes unpunished......Regrettably.....
Didn't one of the pax have a camera and filmed it?
And for some reason it’s not being released
A movie camera was found in the wreckage. The film was recovered and developed; the camera mechanism had jammed at one point, so a few frames were skipped.
Do Northwest 710 please!!!!
I thought 707s were equipped with Pratt and Whitney JT3D engines.
The 707-4 variants used the Conway
*Transcontinental variants*
707-120 - Original with P&W JT3C (J57) turbojets
707-220 - "Hot and high" with P&W JT4A (J75) turbojets
707-120B - P&W JT3D turbofans, more powerful than JT4A but more fuel-efficient
*Intercontinental variants*
707-320 - P&W JT4A turbojets
707-420 - Rolls-Royce Conway turbofans
707-320B - P&W JT3D turbofans
707-320C - P&W JT3D turbofans, convertible for passengers or cargo, improved leading-edge flaps allowing removal of ventral fin
707-320B Advanced - P&W JT3D turbofans, pure passenger variant with same aerodynamic improvements as -320C
*Flight 911...No wonder!*
It’s a BOEING not a Boring 707! Typo? 😂
Sounds like over use of the vertical stabiliser during turbulence similar to the American Airlines A300 crash in New York. Stabiliser detached as did an engine and the jet sadly crashed.
I doubt it was overuse of the rudder as in the case of flight 587 since this turbulence pushed the aircraft into a steep climb right away that is when the tail broke off. That is not what occurred in American 587 as the black boxes recovered there revealed.
Namaste, to those who learned from experience, so that we could learn from books.
On the upwind side would have been fine.😅
I was at school with the son of the captain
this video does not explain much. long mountain wave, especially in clear skies, without the humidity and without the typical altocumulus lenticularis clouds, can be a trap for a fast moving passenger aircraft, especially the rotors at the lee side of the mountain. the captain showed them mt. fujisan, anyway... remarkable show...
Dam...I ain't buyin' it!!! These 707's are tough Hombres, & w/beautiful weather, no others lost before or after due to "Mountain Wave" mumbo jumbo, that ain't what brought this sucker down. Obvious she had previous undetected damage most likely via severe turbulence. I've actually seen MD-80 on approach, turbines @flight idle, & w/few second notice of peril, that had Capt go full gas/flaps, gear up entering severe microburst's downdraft, disappearing into woods, but finally arose. Capt's entire Crew injured as had been checkin' belts, plus 1st Ofcr knew he was dead. It took NTSB 3 yrs to finger out WTF happened, & even then it was result of bar dinner napkin w/entire incident laid out for 'em! Capt had met State Hwy Pickup Driver that had alerted him to danger drivin' aholedly up on 2 wheels to warn him! State Pickup had just been slammed by bottom of downdraft so severe, it picked truck up & slammed it down at 45 degree angle to I-96 so hard it bounced & alit again!! Driver glanced up, and there was airliner where obvious all would be soon dead. For shts & grins, Driver flipped on Beacons, slipped up thru window w/pickup on 2 wheels, while pointing at Capt WTF up there, hopin' for a miracle! Capt's actions so immediate, he saved all 154 souls aboard. As for aircraft, it was different story. Capt made most perfect landing ever, but as slowed, both wingtips scaped along runway as had 5 breaks in main wingspar! While pullin' Oak Limbs from belly, Capt arrested & cuffed by GRPD for Evidence Tampering, plus Joyriding aircraft. It was at International Airport, so w/o antennas, Capt had no COM w/Tower, had given self clearances for Approach, Landing, Taxi, Approach Concourse, and Park in his spot. 1st Ofcr not operational, so shut down of aircraft was done solo, & by time finished, injured had been removed, and Company deplaned the Passengers as well, so Capt slid down late luggage stairs to check plane, but got arrested instead. Cops was so happy to have pinched such a desperado, Capt dragged in front of his deplaned passengers to terrorize them more up to the proper FAA Standards! Plane was a write-off as exterior pummeled by woods, interior destroyed, and possible salvage of engines flown thru woods questionable. When State Hwy Driver next met Capt, it was several years later at TPA's Pilot's Lounge, after Capt had finally been returned to air. He was so conscientious, he was teachin' what he knew about Windshear, to 3 other Airline Pilots. Only hiccup was, Capt couldn't remember order, or even what his Emergency Actions had been! MDOT Driver that had warned Capt yrs ago said, "Capt, you went full gas/flaps, wheels up, nose down, disappeared w/flat plummet into woods", when Capt growled, "AND HOW IN THE HELL WOULD YOU KNOW THAT"? Silence....but 1st Ofcr suggested release of neck might help. Capt loosened grip, & Driver said, "I have MDOT ID", showin' it to him. Driver's hamburger had just arrived, Waitress tryin' to protect it, but Capt glanced at it, then said, "You look more like a T-Bone Man to me...Waitress can give Hamburger to someone in need", throwing Driver into one of their chairs. Anyways, that's how NTSB got scenario that satisfied ALL unknown parameters of Incident scribed by MDOT Driver on Bar Dinner Napkin. Captain had said all injured healed up somewhat, but longtime friend, Stewardess, & workmate got broke spine, confined to wheelchair, but was made NWA Executive Secretary! After initial reading of NTSB Incident Investigation, they were both there, & while leaving, she pulled Capt down to her, saying, "They weren't there, they didn't have a clue, and Capt, you do know that we all still love you...RIGHT??" Capt said that just broke his heart, so gave her a smile, firm side-hug, & was on his way as nobody would wanna fly with a Capt that cries...RIGHT?? I retired from MDOT last day of 2010, and still drive a pickup, but it's my own!! For re-opening of NTSB Investigation, in 1996, they sent a real Craker-Jack. He followed every clue to ground, especially Investigators coerced NWS to certify Microburst/Windshear impossible, & coerced MDOT to certify No Departmental Equipment anywhere near Incident Scene, even though knew hadn't even checked!! Anyways, there's your example of how much damage an airliner can receive from a windshear in an instant!! The current subject of "Wings over Japan (temporarily)", may be solved by thorough inspection of previous Incidents, repairs, and recorded adventures of subject aircraft!!
Shortly after the accident all 707/720s then in service were inspected for hairline cracks in the tail area, which could have been a contributing factor in flight 911. Bernard Dobson, who from most accounts was one of BOAC's most seasoned 707 captains, apparently thought honestly but wrongly that a 707 could handle the winds around Fuji. It didn't help that G-APFE had neither FDR nor CVR.
@@smwca123 G-APFE did have an FDR (no CVR) but it was in the cockpit section which was completely destroyed in the post-impact fire.
An A-4 Skyhawk sent to look for the wreckage encountered the same extreme turbulence and its pilot feared his own aircraft was also going to break apart. He managed to land safely but the aircraft was grounded for inspection because it had been subjected to +9 and -4 G.
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There's the 2nd plane in Japan that loses his tail..
747
Decompression caused by wrongly repaired aft pressure bulkhead after a tailstrike I think.
Nose gear is too far back
Its interesting to compare this with the recent truculence event where one passenger died from a heart attack and it got global coverage. We have become complacent to the risks. Its also interesting to see how attitudes to aircraft wreckage have changed, I recall flying in the 60's (as a young passenger) and it was not uncommon to see aircraft wreckage bulldozed to the side of the runway. Seems unimaginable now.
Totally different sort of turbulence..
Both cases of a total lack of professionalism and basic airmanship.
@@daftvader4218 So we know what the recent event was? I'm lumping it all under CAT.
I once heard turbulence can never cause a plane crash
As a graphite pencil sketch artist I've actually drawn a B.O.A.C Boeing 707
Flight 911…. 🙄
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Wrongful pilot
Was the aircraft repaired and returned to service ?
Nope, it ended in catastrophically bad conditions, its why all passenger where lost.
@@chocolatebar4654look up the word irony!
Yes now it's better known as air force one
Built by the Rainbow of Diversity and Equity.
Mount Fuji is a sacred mountain whose surroundings should not be violated
Since then, no plane has been allowed to fly over it.
Ahhhh! I see the problem. It was a Boeing 😄
Poor airmanship and professionalism.
Some people leave this life in terror
Flight 911?
That is very superstitious
You know. 9/11
that is what hollywood does, its done for cut up on the floor later