The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
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So can I suggest bricks?
Stone bricks?
clay bricks?
Maybe you could do a video on planes
@@ultrainstinctgarfield2661 yeah I heard about this one flight to Israel with a bunch of passengers on it, maybe HAI should look into it
The flight attendant's safety talk must have been hilarious.
“Fasten your, uh...”
@@dougthedonkey1805 "You know what? Just hold onto your butts. Also, in case of a water landing, we're probably all going to die, but that's less likely than you all dying if you stayed in Ethiopia so bonus!"
What flight attendant?
GildedBear To be fair, there wasn’t too much water between Addis Ababa and their destination, so the chances for a water landing probably wouldn’t have been too high. On the other hand, I don’t think that a non-water landing would have been much better.
@@pilum3705 true, but when I fly between chicago and portland there isn't much chance of a water landing but it's still in the safety briefing. That is why I thought it would be funny.
Must be what inspired the business model of Ryanair.
You should've seen the Emirate Air executives when they contemplate Haj pilgrimage configuration for Airbus A380. That ultimately never came to pass.
I've used RyanAir a few times holy hell the first time.. it's a flying bus. 😂
Then they would ban fat people from flying if that's the case.
😂
If it was Ryanair, they would have spent longer than they had (on preparing for the flight) in calculating what surcharges they could have added.
I won't show the borders of Israel.
5 minutes later: He shows it.
Yeah and he even shows the wrong ones
Also, acknowledging its existence and showing its flag should be enough to piss off its opponents.
@@matthijsdeboer9932 i thini every one accepts it existance. Many and maybe even most dispute its legality though.
He actually showed the border when he zoomed out and showed the whole world.
This is a joke, I dont think Jews are taking over the world, in case anyone with the powers to kill me is reading.
@@yakithekaki2769 I believe those are the de jure borders.
Imagine being the captain of that flight... must feel good when you finally land and 1.000 people are finally safe
Just imagine someone entering the cockpit saying "2 babies have just been born"
*"Two babies were born on the flight"*
Oh god, I can only imagine
Howww??? How are you here?
Deonte Smith he is Just some guy without a Mustache, clearly he is god.
@@webforder4201 definitely
yeah... imagine TWO of them
You AGANE
first thought on the 1,088 flight: it was a Ryanair plane. probably got a special CRJ-100 for the occassion.
Lol yup
No probably a cesna caravan
@@darraghmartin7326 brruuuuuuuh wdym, they got an 2 for that
Can you imagine what would it be like if Ryanair was flying A380's instead of 737?
@@darraghmartin7326 a Cessna 172 should make it
"What's the difference between an airplane and a truck?"
*One's expensive and one's really expensive*
I should call 911 cause I almost fucken died of laughter
This time, it also turned out better than when they were all crammed into trucks
One is a fast way to move things...
The other is a much faster way to move things...
Difference between an airplane and a truck?
Environmentalists arent constantly bitching about airplanes
@@michaelmccarthy4615
One has heavy regulations and the other has even heavier recgulations
4:39 ''they had the option to fly with United, but they decided that this would be more comfortable'' that made me laugh
Poor united lol
Imagine the babies crying in that plane
Oh no...
Lol. Never fly Air China.
Imagine the line to the bathroom....
Especially considering the ones that were born on the flight...
@@michaelmccarthy4615 Since it's Ethiopia, I don't think anyone required the bathroom
"airports used to be places people went" lmao
Today:
- A Wendover video WITHOUT planes,
- An HAI video WITH planes.
What is up with that??
Don't worry, at 5:47 in the video czcams.com/video/NtX-Ibi21tU/video.html he talks about planes, don't raise the alarm just yet
Self collab
It's called taking a risk
@@wnphn7653 also called losing it due to travel restrictions.
uh oh
Relative to payload, that one C-17 that left Kabul with 823 passengers was the equivalent of a 747 carrying 1,710 people.
I think it was 640ish passengers
@@Richardlizhu So, still tonnes more than that 747
@@alinaqirizvi1441 You're right, I was not disputing that
Did this guy really take the time to see where the nearest Taco Bell to Ethiopia was?!
There weren't many Taco Bells in the Old World in the 1980s so that would be quick to figure out. Even now there aren't many.
Not quite, there's one at the Ramstein Air Force base which is closer.
@@ihatethesehandles But was it open yet in '91?
With the KFC reference as well, it was probably sneakily sponsored.
its an important fact
This was actually an incredible story. I can’t believe I had never heard of it before
you'd be surprised how many other ethiopians don't know this story
-an ethiopian
@@neby_nebs yup, it called a secret for a reason
Cause you not Israeelii
This one was 3/4 as interesting
@@timmccarthy9917 banger comment
2 babies born on the flight?
What a flight that must have been!
Ikr not just one but two
The 2 babies as soon as they're delivered: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *inhales some air* WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA@AAAAAAA
Probably a record in of itself too.
Some people complain hearing babies cry on planes, while Ethiopians had to stand through two actual births!
@@thomashuang5053 🤣🤣🤣
2:22 Actually, there is a Taco Bell in Ramstein, Germany. But you cannot simply go there due to the US Military.
was it there in 1991 though?
Theres also one in Brighton, on England's South Coast, that would be closer than the one shown in London.
There definitely is in Spain to but don't know about the 1991 though
Was it there in the 90s tho?
The UK one only opened a year or two ago, so much for fact checking!
If they had flown on United they probably wouldn't have gotten the record since half of them would have been forcibly dragged of the overbooked flight
I don't think getting the world record was the main reason for the flight
@@alexglikman8629 r/whoosh
@@AlphaGeekgirlr/itswooshwithfouros
@@andrewpinedo1883its actually r/woosh which is the original
2:45
>AAEJ
>says AAEG
I cannot tell you how many times I've confused my Gs and Js
Everytime you watch a GIF, right?
American Association for Ethiopian Geuse
Had to do a double take there
Probably part of Mistake Correction Video #3
It’s even worse when you speak English and try to learn the alphabet in French
"Fun" fact, El-Al planes come automatically equipped with anti-missile countermeasures
Dang
HAI's addiction to planes is getting out of hand
NEVER TOO MUCH PLANES
Am I the only one not complaining though?!
And the problem is?
1:53 he even built an airport miniature. This is getting out of hand.
I'm fine with that, if he keeps the quality good. It's planely important that he makes his videos with quality.
"The fastest mass departure untill audiences walked out of Rise of Skywalker."
Bruh Lmaoooo I lost it. Coming from someone who liked TROS.
I liked it to
Me too.
I'm so sorry you did.
I can see why people can like it, but even they would admit that the plot was mismanaged.
I liked it and I genuinely have no idea why people dislike it.
Lol I clicked on the video and before it even started I was thinking, "but those flights with the Ethiopian Jews were the most!"
Me too, I guessed it was one of my nation operations to get our Ethiopian brothers back to israel and i was right
I remember raising money for Operation Solomon in school.
Let's talk about a different topic that we haven't done before:
Planes!
Jews
@@launchpending i was gonna say something but then decided against it
One Half is Planes and the other Interesting?
@@muscovymapping8896 HAI more like HAIFA
That useless Taco Bell fact is the stuff my silly brain lives for
Med Ilyes Oudhini same 😂
I'm pretty sure Taco Bell would not be kosher though.
We have one? Who knew
But it‘s actually wrong. Some US Airbases have Taco Bells so maybe there‘s a closer one in the middle east. And if there isn‘t the ones in Germany are still closer than the British Taco Bell
@@timalexander1811 you had to ruin it didn't you
3:14 Ah yes, the United States of Kentucky. Or should I say the Kentucky Fried States of America
Definitely the latter
The United Fried States of Chicken ;)
Thank God the whole US isn't like Kentucky. You think there's problems now? Lol my fellow Kentuckians are something else. It is a beautiful state though.
That’s the Canadian flag just with the kfc logo
@@KdubbleYT you mean your state has a KFC *and* a Taco Bell? Lucky fellow...
I remember that Saturday well. Here in Jerusalem, we heard planes flying overhead all day long, very unusual for a Shabbat in Jerusalem. When we found out what happened, it seemed like a miracle. The ingathering of the exiles.
I....I never really thought there's such a thing as Ethiopian Jews. Are they and the Jews in Israel culturally similar? What is the attitude towards Jews from different parts of the world? This is all very fascinating stuff to me.
@@prozergter2 Apparently, they claim they are descendants of the lost tribe of Dan. The former royal house of Ethiopia also claim to be descendants of King Solomon.
I would NEVER have expected a pikuach nefesh reference in a Wendover/HAI video.
That's a great anecdote. It makes me happy to hear about a community being so supportive of working hard to help other people.
@@prozergter2 Unfortunately European Israelis make life pretty hard for them, as far as I've heard.
The first *1088* people to sign up...
Toby Farman oh no
“The fastest mass departure until audiences walked out of Rise of Skywalker” lmao
When airports used to be places where people used to go to.. xd.
rip
Ah yes... the good ol' days. Only 20s kids remember
It’ll be like that again some day. Give it a couple of years. It might seem like a while, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not.
At least this wasn’t a united flight.
**says El Al 747**
Dad: why are you crying so damn loud
I’m the only one who really gets this joke.
@@tomney4460 no
@@tomney4460 is it because el al only got 747s in 1994?
Jonathan Gazit they got rid of them very recently
Jonathan Gazit IKR
Flight: *Has 1000 people*
Virus: *Its free real estate*
*AIDS: it’s free real estate
@@webforder4201 AIDS is caused by a virus. Also, it is sexually transmitted.
Every other airline :Have enough space for people
Ryan air: let's have people standing up on planes.
that's a total galaxy-brain/chad move.
I mean standing up for more than 5 hours is no big deal right?
For Ryanair these numbers are nothing, pretty sure my flight to Lanzarote a few years ago had 10,000 people on board. And 99% were crying babies
@@ladofthedamned7796 Yeah! They can get the retail workers to do that cus that's what they do for a living and they're used to it!
Very topical that this is posted today, as the Memorial Day for Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel was commemorated yesterday (Thursday) in Israel
Netflix has a really good movie called Red Sea Diving Resort that talks about this
That’s about one of the earlier operations, “Moses”
One of my favorite movies
"Airports used to be places people went to"
I don't know why but this hit me hard, like it's not even a joke it's reality.
I mean... jokes can be reality, but yeah
Only until vaccine is found
Good thing the Ethiopian Jews had to travel through 400 miles of jungles and temperate climate, if it was the desert they would have never made it on time!
Many died on the journey
@@vikkran401 Well, considering the significance of the number 40 in Judaism, that would have been very fitting.
Baby: *gets born on plane*
United: well we're landing with the same amount of people that we took off with one way or another
4:09 uh oh he showed the borders, internet gonna get mad now huh
reeeeeeeee
I am angry.
He fucked it up as well.
Israel controls the west bank, but doesnt control gaza.
He drew gaza inside israeli borders, but left the west bank out.
You can draw the borders in many ways depending on your ideology, but the way he drew the borders doesnt make any sense
@@justaguy1182"internet gonna get mad now huh" here's the first pissed off person under this comment
The thing I love the most about Jewish law is its respect for life. From what Ive seen, there are barely ANY Jewish laws that cannot be broken if it would preserve life. It's like all their laws have an asterisk after that reads "unless it would save a life". (Obviously, this generalization doesnt apply to the Ten Commandments or laws regarding the handling of the Ark of the Covenant.)
There are a few that aren’t followed any more that have the death penalty, such as insulting or assaulting your mother or father
Actually they do cover the 10 commandments and the handling of the Ark of the Covenant.
The only exceptions to the "unless it's to save a life" clause are Murder, Adultry, and Idolatry.
Jewish law is really strict, the only reason to make a point of "saving lives" being an exception is that it would be disasterous without that exception.
"Neon crop tops were in"
*shows picture of a sports bra*
Close, but no cigar.
“He was on the verge of falling”
sounds like a old person that got pushed
Thank you for posting this today, on the memorial day for the Ethiopian Jews that died during the journey to Israel.
will he put planes into this vid ?
edit: 1 second in, he did
no, it's actually 14 seconds in. you have to remember about the beginning sponsor part.
Well, it's in the title...
Will he put planes in a video about planes? 🤨
would like, but you have 69 likes and i dont want to ruin it.
@@jamespigeon1399 169 now lol
It's really strange that this video is being recommended after the recent events in Afeganistan.
I believe only the ones on-board count...
I wish you briefly mentioned that Ethiopia after the fall of the Derg ended up having far more stability than what was feared; the country gets enough bad press.
Yes. Now one of the most stable African countries and flights from Tel Aviv to Addis Ababa are regular.
@@dannyhershtal1247 aged well lol
@@aviaspotter32 what can you say? When I wrote this Tigray was quiet while half the cities in the USA were on fire.
@@aviaspotter32 war is basically over now.
2:15
The beacons are lit! Gondar calls for aid!
And Israel will answer
Where was Gondar when Israel called?
Actually, there's a very good chance that that is where the name comes from. Tolkien was in to Jewish history, and the Jews of the Gondar region manged to defend themselves for a long time.
An alliance once existed between Ethiopians and Israelis. We come to honor that allegiance.
Good job, really enjoyed it. Keep it up.
Also you mispronounced AAEJ as AAEG.
American Association for Ethiopian Gews
American Association for Educational Guns
American Association for Every Gay
that star wars joke was as brutal as Disney's murder of everyone's nostalgia for the franchise
When aviation is in trouble, so Sam brings out old aviation storys
I can see why this video is now being shown after the 800 passengers on the flight from Kabul to Dubai flew on a 150 passenger plane.
KFC? I’d like to have a deep fried NY with a side of Florida
How many palettes would you like. i can start you off with 100
I thought your dead Kim Jong-un
Tornado Alley as desert?
Finally I spotted a mistake in one of you videos. In 1991, at least one Taco Bell was nearer to Tel Aviv than the store in London: The one inside the US Airforce Base in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Honestly I was more expecting to see more of HOW these 1088 give or take crammed in the plane rather then WHY.
Afghanistan soon: And I took that personally..
Never before have I went to the comments so quickly
I once flew with EL AL, the flight was so crowded, I thought we had more than 1088 people on board
אוקיי
You think that's busy?
How about waiting in line for toilet tissue in 2020?
*T O I L E T T I S S U E*
*Toilet tissue*
wtf is a toilet tissue
You forgot my favorite fact.
They made the initial measurements with Israelis and expected to fit 800 odd people in the plane but, and I quote "Because the passengers were so light, many more were squeezed in."
Also my mother happened to work as a flight attendant at the time and saw small chairs being crammed into a cargo plane and was wondering why the heck were they doing it. (Eventually they didn't need the chairs and just crammed everyone in)
I did not know this part
“The Red Sea Diving Resort” is an amazing movie!
2:44 I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve said ‘gee’ for the letter J. You are forgiven for this slip lord Sam
I cried a little when said , “...or in this case 14,500 lives.” Didn’t expect that.
Wow! I'd really love to hear from someone, or a descendant of someone, who was on this flight and how their lives are now. Incredible video!
Our (Israel's) current Deputy Minister for Internal Security, Gadi Yeverkan came in 1991. Don't know if he was on that specific flight but he was among the 14500 and all the planes were crowded to capacity. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadi_Yevarkan
Who dislikes this guy as soon as they see the video?
What did this guy do to you?
They were probably offended he didn't show the borders of Israel
I swear there is a small percentage of ppl who dislike just to see the world burn. I've seen channels with the exact same number of dislikes on every video
bruh I swear I've seen youtubers who even dislike their own videos lmao
@@mrfloppydonkey7287 One guy started disliking his own videos as soon as they went up and found that the one dislike he always seemed to get stopped happening. Some person who probably didn't even watch the video just wanted to be the first to dislike it.
i swear some people just make dislike bots for whatever reason
Thank you for not being afraid of the backlash that could be received for covering this topic.
4:09 Finally someone said it
They were actually originally offered to by flown out on United Airlines planes but it was decided that these people had already suffered enough so it wasn't done 🙃
There was a recent movie about a similar effort in 1979 starring Chris Evans on Netflix (Red Sea Diving Resort)
That one was about Operation Moses.
This sounds like a brilliant concept for an action blockbuster, or just a really interesting full length documentary.
Red Sea Diving Resort with Captain America
@@yihezkel that is about operation Moses earlier, but the story and action lines are even better!
I was just listening to this and for a few minutes I really was wondering what „ethiopian juice“ is 😂😂😂
The Israeli embassy is near my home. It is one of the most secretive and guarded compounds in the country. Even once the security team intercepted my neighbor from being robbed while on duty.
"The fastest mass departure until audiences walked out of Rise of Skywalker." - I think you should extend that to all of the sequels.
Which sequels?
@@juancodina7842 Star Wars sequels. The entire sequel trilogy has received a ton of hate for an inconsistent story, poor character development, apparently being ultra-feminist, weak characters, and stealing ideas from the expanded universe.
Do you know what's really busy...
Brilliant because you can learn something new every day
Just found this channel and cant stop watching your videos. As a history and geography buff I find this so entertaining and hilarious HAHAHA
Every top comment:
Has this format:
I am sick of it
Yes
Y tho
It's because:
10 year old kids think it's funny:
And kids have the time to watch 10 hours of CZcams each day
☝️ well they’re not in school and can’t go outside, what else are they going to do?
I like this format anyway, but the Am I A Joke To You?, Hold My Beer and It’s Free Real Estate jokes are getting really old now
Half as interesting :
Me : I’m gonna head towards COMMENTS
that plane could fit my entire town 2 times over
Pikuach nefesh is very important in judaism (saving lives), and right now that does mean, staying inside and wearing PPE.
Yes! Thank you for saying it. I just wish some other of our communities would listen and agree.
@@elliez.3561 Most luckily have, but a few have not and have been publicized.
Exactly. In fact (for those who don't know), it is the single most important thing. You can break every single law of Judaism if it means saving a life. Tbh I don't know why that isn't just a thing that everyone in the world follows.
@@netsch20 except for the big three.
"What??! You want to pack us standing up on a flight of 1088 refugees, 2 of which are about to give birth?? I don't think so"
"Well...we could put you on a United flight.."
"Uhh...we're good"
Anyone else think that Operation Moses would've been a better name?
Like stated in the video, Operation Moses was already used.
@@drewros Also, Salomon had relationship with Sheba, queen of Ethiopia, so it would be better name anyway...
@@KuK137 Exactly
The first rescue mission was called operation Moses until the Ethiopian Kessim (Rabbis) pointed out that this was ominous because Moses never made it to Israel. At which point the Military Planning Board renamed it Operation Joshua.
Ryanair taking notes
Imagine if A380s were around back then. They could probably fit around 2000 people in one plane.
Rise of Skywalker joke was the best one I've heard in years
"And, the nearest taco bell was here, ..."
Damn, that must have saved a lot of deaths
Well this record was probably broken
Wow we had planes in 1088?!
My next door guy was in that flight, we was the guy who looked at the person on his side and said " It wasn't me".
"Airports used to be places where people went to."
This video isn't gonna age well. I hope.
2:23 There are like 20 Taco Bells closer to Ethiopia than the London one. Even if there weren't one outside the UK, the one in Brighton would be closer.
Please adress this huge mistake in your next video about false things you said.
Nowadays, not in the 1980's though
Let's hope that this becomes the most contraverial topic in the comments haha
@@dylanrowe3590 How do you research where taco bell locations were in the 80's?
@@n.m.8802 Can you help me research this? I want to know the taco bells for the year I was born but the historical information isn't on the taco bell website :(
On 29 December 1974, Qantas flew 675 passengers on a "normal" (ie seats not ripped out) B747 from Darwin to Sydney as part of the evacuation of Darwin after Cyclone Tracey wiped it off the map on Christmas Day 1974.
Half as Interesting + Half as Funny = Whole as Amazing.
Great video!
People should watch the film Red Sea Diving Resort on Netflix about evacuating the Ethiopian Jews
It's insane that a thousand people are on a plane
Agreed. One would think that it isn't possible.
No they got off when they landed
A modern day exodus to a promised land. It's almost enough to bring tears to my eyes
Thanks I needed a plane video lol, it’s dry times for plane vids
3:23 Longest, most awkward handshake ever.
Nobody:
Airplane: I can take over one thousand people up In me
This is very heartwarming
wait, TWO babies born mid flight?!?
Is that also a record?