A Routine Takeoff Turns into Every Pilot's Nightmare (With Real Audio)
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- Find out how a distracted air traffic controller cleared an Airbus A330 and a Boeing 737 for takeoff and sent them on a collision course at Logan Airport, Boston.
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The FO who noticed the other aircraft and said to keep the plane down was Jim Dannahower. He saved 381 lives.
Jim Dannahower, God love and keep you... ALWAYS! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥲🥲🙀💖💖💖
he sure did.... even if he had overshot the runway before wheels up , lives still would most likely had been saved as well. Water collisions are dangerous at those speeds with a dramatic slow down but would've been pale in comparison to hitting another jetliner.
Off way!!
Great work Jim and FO! Literally saved many lives
I can't imagine anybody thinking that having separate tower controllers managing intersecting runways on separate frequencies was a good idea.
I do wonder about that!
Doubt that that is the only near miss they've ever had at that airport!
That's quite normal actually, plus there are measures in place to prevent accidents. Unfortunately, one of the controllers made a mistake. Sucks but it happens...
@John Smith i meant that it's normal for locals to be split at your core 30/busier 30 airports.
Yeah, I was appalled reading that too. I can’t believe how unbelievably lucky people have been not to have had earlier collisions either.
It's Boston, lots of things there don't make sense lol!
There was a crash at 2:36 involving two vehicles, apparently everyone survived.
haha
Two bags had a ripped zipper…
Happy to see the pilots who saw the conflict coming and kept the plane down until they passed were recognised for their action, that was some good work in a potentially terrifying moment.
100% agreed. I think the FAA needs to regroup and extend these runways another 1,500 feet at major airports so these incidentals have recovery time. I know that may see impossible to some of these airports that have been around for years around ponds and marshes and bays, but having extra runway would help out so much. More expensive in real-estate, yes, but geesh why construct bare minimums on runway lengths?
Case & point - BUR- Burbank, Ca near where I live is always a hard landing every time. Overshooting the has happened more than once. Runway 15/33, which is 6,885 feet long and aligned in a northwest-southeast direction, and Runway 8/26, which is 5,802 feet long and aligned in an east-west direction.
Hats off to US Airways Pilots, they had saved lives of two planes. Great job Flight Channel.
It give me flashback worst airline accident where two planes crash each other during foggy weather.
@@TomRxtroWav397 yes I remember.
@@TomRxtroWav397
In Tenerife
@@marpass8763 Yes. I lost middle of spelling lol.
@@TomRxtroWav397 😉👍
Can you imagine being in that cockpit? Not only did you just avoid slamming into another plane but now you have a couple if seconds to rotate before you end up in the fucking drink! Incredible skill set demonstrated.
Or on the AL plane, fervently praying that the US pilots had seen you and delayed their own rotation. Clean underwear required all around I suspect.
At least he had lots of velocity so when he rotated, lift-off was immediate.
Amen!
@@DCM8828 good point!
Ikrr, there's just so much that could have gone wrong
You're talking "Tenerife" levels of disaster there. Amazing work by flight 1170.
Tenerife was two 747s, the deaths here would not have been as high as Tenerife but still would have easily became the worst accident in US history had both planes been lost.
@@krashd What could have been the worst air accident in history (not just US) was when the Air Canada pilot lined up to land on the taxiway in San Francisco which was parallel to the runway where numerous fully loaded and fueled airliners were lined up ready for departure. Thankfully the Air Canada pilot realized what he was doing at the last minute and pulled up, missing the waiting aircraft by like 70 feet or so.
I will never be convinced tenerife was not an intentional act of a mad dutchman.
I am sure there is plenty commercial rated pilots following this channel also but damn, the US Airways pilot made so many right decisions. He saw the other plane departing the other runways, at that time, he judge the trajectory of it, looked at his V1 speed, then analyzed they wouldn’t be on a crash course of each other. Then obviously rotated after the near miss. I mean wow….. incredible
*Hats off to the FO on USAir, he has a GREAT pair of eyes and was doing an incredible job of monitoring the airfield!*
Not just his eyes--his brain and his balls. The intelligence and guts to say, "well, I'll just go under him then."
They are also lucky in 3 ways: the Aer Lingus pilot did not delay getting off the ground soon enough for US Air to pass underneath, there was daylight, and the weather was clear!! God.bless them all!!!
Amen to that.
@@user-lp3cf5yn5b The Air Lingus was pretty much already rotating when the US Air spotted it. The two aircraft were on different frequencies.
@@user-lp3cf5yn5b The two aircraft were on different frequencies - there was no means for them to communicate with each other.
Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. In this case, a near miss resulted in a change of proccedures, it could have been a complete catastrophy with the loss of many lives that forced this change. Brilliant airmanship and awareness on the part of the USA crew and a well deserved commedation. Superb as always TFL
Thanks for the spoiler. Now I don't have to bother watching👎
@@donnabaardsen5372 Everyone knows you stay out of the comments if you haven't finished the vid!!
As George Carlin asked, why do they call it a near miss? It's a near hit... If they "nearly(almost) missed" each other there would have been an impact. That's a near hit.
@@michaellee860 Near doesn't mean "nearly" in this case but is an indication of low distance between two objects. So near miss is correct. "Near" (object was close to impact point) "miss" (object did in fact miss)
Intersecting runways does seem to be an accident waiting to happen, or at least a little bit risky
There’s another collision at 2:36 that needs to be discussed 😂
bwaaaaa
This reminds me the climax of the movie 2:22
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂 took me a few times looking at it but when I saw it 🤣🤣
I saw that too
Some of the best advice I've ever been given was "We all make mistakes. So when you make one, don't try to fix it with another mistake (lying, cheating, etc.). Own it, and then make it right the best you can." Well-done by the pilots.
My dad, an airline pilot, had a message about mistakes he learned from his Air Force flight instructor. "You can't live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself."
at 2.35, you'll see a truly horrific loss of separation by an air-stair and luggage tote. To my knowledge, there was no loss of life, but several suit cases are unaccounted for to this day.
I spotted that too. Still a cool video though, as always.
I thought I was the only one that saw that!🤣🤣🤣
Good catch!
At that moment, one of them activated phase mode to avoid physical collision.
@@Indrakusuma_a Do you think Captain Kirk was somehow involved?.....
USAir pilots perhaps come from a top-notch safety culture regarding airmanship. Sully was a pilot for that airline, too, for example. Great video and audio, Flight Channel!
GREAT JOB, FLIGHT CHANNEL. THANKS! AND YES CAPT. SULLEY WAS FROM THAT WELL TRAINED GROUP!
@@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 really? I've flown with a lot of military pilots who sucked at flying. You can't say "Not USAir at all". Sully had 100 times more flight hours in commercial aircraft than military aircraft.
@@Dan_Bender Air Force mild maneuverng pilots. Like transports with 3 pilots on board. Navy? I think better. Aircraft Carriers dont pass the cunts.
yep, it's called the military.
Expert airmanship is an understatement. Wow. Imagine the responsibility of having just one “off” day where you’re just not feeling it, just goin through the motions, not really paying attention. Nope! Not these USAir pilots, brilliant
call to keep it on the ground, without s second guess the pilot followed instruction, quickly rotating once clear, averting absolute catastrophe. Kudos
This is why I have so much respect for Pilots! Quick thinking saves lives, luckily they didn't use up too much of the runway and had enough to takeoff.
Major kudos to the US Airways crew. That the First Officer, with all the responsibility he had during the take off, managed to spot the Aer Lingus flight was in itself remarkable. Professionalism personified on the flight deck that day.
Man, the amount of in-depth research that goes into these videos has to be astounding. Hats off to TFC for all the work that you do to pump out accurate content and education to us.
You mean how the content is copied, sometimes word for word, from Wikipedia? There is almost no research conducted in the making of these videos. The visual representation of what those Wikipedia pages explain, on the other hand...
@@reshpeck Yup, Wikipedia and / or the Mayday (Air Crash Investigation) documentary series. Word for word, like you put it.
@@reshpeck You mean the 500 page NTSB report, ive done a doc on my channel as well using the ATSB report
@@kartikvenugopal3211 *Hah yeah, I noticed that right away when I started watching a year and a half ago. He uses the same words, titles, and names from different episodes of Mayday/Air Crash Investigation/Air Disasters which is actually pretty cool. But yeah, absolutely no real "reasearching" is done, but there's nothing wrong with that.*
@@cameron8679 Yeah, nothing wrong with it. The visuals and the way the info is presented make watching these videos worthwhile. I just wish he would list his sources of info ... not a big deal, though.
As a Irish pilot it's nice to see my own country's airline on The Flight Channel with a good outcome.
But, to make this channel usually means something bad happened. Good outcome in this case (lucky some might say), but I wouldn't always be so happy.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 I wouldn't have mentioned it had it been catastrophic and I edited the comment for you, I mean I'm not stupid like.
that's... That's not a good thing.
@@SpidaMez What's not a good thing ?
@@Dash8Q400Channel usually in his video, the plane crashes and everyone dies soooo
Let me bow down in appreciation for the amount of efforts TFC has taken to make this video. The graphics, the research, the marvelous music and the flight audio. I mean it takes hell lot of the hardwork to come up with such a beautiful content with knowledge on CZcams
The US air captain and first officer are officially some goddamn heros! Well done gentleman. Well done 👏👏
That luggage conveyor vehicle at 2:32 to 2:45 seemed out of control, especially when it plowed right through that luggage cart.
lol---A fine observation!
Saw that too lmao
Rip everyone who passed on board the 2 cars. There may have been a near airplane collision, but this. This is just tragic.
Good, it wasn't just me. I thought my eyeglasses were playing up.
The pilots must've seen this as an omen, otherwise they wouldn't have seen the collision coming and react as fast as they did :-)
It was fortunate that enough runway length was available to the second aircraft (US Airways) to take off.
This was scary! These pilots saved all passengers aboard both aircraft's lives! At busy airports like Boston Logan and Kennedy, the pilots have to be the best of the best!
Always fix the problem after the near-disaster would've occurred!
Wow!!
Often, you don't know that a problem exists until a disaster, or a near disaster. Take the case of the DC-10 cargo door. It only became known as a potential hazard until it failed the first time on that American flight out of Detroit, that the pilots saved by reacting quickly and using differential throttle settings on the wing engines to control the plane. Even so, it wasn't rectified by Turkish Airlines before it happened again, and the worst single aircraft loss of life happened outside of Paris.
To not rotate the aircraft as they had done hundreds of times before, an action which is hard wired into pilots at this point on the takeoff roll, and to suppress that motor skill with almost no time to process what was going on shows amazing mental dexterity on the part of this crew.
Also, love that TFC saved the Aer Lingus incursion for St. Patrick's Day! ☘️ ☘️
Cool
TFC?
@@K1OIK the flight channel
@@Roundholesinsquarepegs I wonder what he did with the time he saved not typing he light hannel
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US Airways had some great aviators. This is yet another example of their proficientcy
I fly to the east coast a couple times a year, and every time, I think about everything I watch here on The Flight Channel. Without this channel, I would never suspect all the errors (both potential and fatal) that go on beyond my notice. Scary stuff.
Right after I read " the FO notices the A330, I thought to myself: "keep your plane on the ground, keep it on the ground as long as possible../" what the captain did, good job, good reaction!!
Wow this was a great one, these captains' reaction blew my mind. I don't think you can be prepared for that, they were just having a routine day. I seriously thought that they were going to end up in water, but they even managed to rotate safely. Kudos!
My husband says after their regular recurrent training time in the sim, the instructors will often throw out impossible scenarios just to see what the pilots will do.
Excellent job by the US Airways Pilots.
Thank you
@@rnsteve2265 🤣
God bless thses pilots for dong a great job god waa warching over u
@@cynthiadavid5282 god had nothing to do with it. This was all down to good airmanship and remembering their training. If god plays a part in aviation, why does he allow so many accidents?
@@musefan12345 Stop being triggered. God loves you too!
In loving memory of the 300+ pairs of underpants that were soiled that day 🩲
On a serious note, I used to fly in and out of Logan semi-regularly pre-Covid. Met my wife online in 2005, flew home to the UK after visiting her in Boston for the first time a week or so after this. (Wasn't even aware of this incident until I watched this video.) For such a major airport it's very constrained being located on a reclaimed peninsular of land jutting out into the harbour. Landing in particular always feels like you're going to end up in the drink. Very impressive view of the downtown skyline though I you happen to be sitting on the correct side of the aircraft. On the other it's just a few houses and small boats!
I've always wondered why these are called near misses, and not near hits. I worked in an industry with the same terminology and it always struck me as odd.
Held my breath on this one. Wow so happy they were ok. My sister flew for US Airways. Great pilots, flight attendants.
I'm sure it's probably good for productivity, but man, operating FOUR intersecting runways just seems unnecessarily dangerous. I mean, how hard would it be to just operate parallel runways???
In that configuration they normally just have two intersecting runways (9 and 4R) but the Shamrock needed the longer 15R (9 was too short).
It’s difficult and dangerous, but this rarely happens and many runways cross each over and managed fine every day.
Unfortunately all it takes is one slip up and bad timing to result in such disasters, and pays to be a pilot who listens to the radio near take off. Plenty of pilots have aborted take offs at near V1 after noticing another rolling at the same time.
@@OfficialSamuelC They should really look into railway operations in a way that there are mechanical locks keeping a track to be cleared in two directions at the same time.
@@SnakePlisskenDD Railways do not have to worry about wind direction, though. But your mechanical idea might be useful. Rather relying on voice, communication regarding runway status are indicated by lights, sort-of.
@@kewkabe speaking of runways why does 15L exist just seems silly
It is hard for me to imagine that anyone would want to be either a pilot or an air controller. So much pressure. The pilots who got the awards were deserving of them.
Lol at the ATC response - it was akin to "sorry brah..."
Hats off to the U.S. Airways Pilots - they saved the lives of many!
That was sure death and destruction for hundreds of people. The US Airways pilot was just calm and cool. " Probably no need to say this, but there was a near-miss there on take off.".
I'll bet 1170 had an 'enthusiastic' rotation and climb out. Really incredible engineering TFC to be able to animate the near miss with two aircraft (on the sim) so accurately.
My God that was close! Kudos to the quick-thing US Airways pilots for effectively avoiding an unmitigated disaster. I'd like to think all pilots of commercial aircraft possessed this level of piloting.
That could have ended in flames (collision) or in the water (runway overrun). The US Airways liftoff was timed perfectly!
Great job of the pilots of US Airways Flight 1170 for detecting a potentially dangerous situation that could have resulted in a loss of life. They kept their plane down until they passed the intersection. Just 70 feet of separation is too close for comfort, and they were able to take off with room to spare. This should never happen, and I’m glad that tragedy was avoided. The controller was to blame for this incident, hence the change, which prevents this from happening again. Great job and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
Do you write for Cliffs Notes?
A little bit of luck mixed in too, if that aircraft was anything larger than a 737 it might not have had the same ending.
70 feet? That's nothing. There was another incident where a plane began banking uncontrollably just ten feet off the ground due to a malfunction of the controls.. The first officer saved it.
@@RLTtizME Hahaha Haha 😂😂
You watched that video, too?! Wow, what a coincidence!
Oh this is the one where the US Airways pilot was cool as a cucumber!! I love this one! I really hope he never runs out of free beer.
The graphics in your videos, TFC, just blows my mind. You are insanely talented and meticulous! THANKYOU!
They are outstanding. But in this one, there's a tiny collision at about 2:36, where the ladder truck drives sorta through the other vehicle. The quirks of computer graphics.
The US Air pilot was probably a former military pilot! Like the woman who was a US Navy fighter pilot and landed that damaged jet in Philadelphia a few years ago! GO NAVY! ⚓⚓⚓⚓
Kudos to the first officer doing his job very professionally and the captain listening to his first officer and not questioning why
Awesome video! The pilots of US Air did a miraculous job!!!! Realizing all of the dangers of split second decisions. It was interesting that the captain immediately followed his subordinate, the co-pilot. Clearly the pilots had excellent training, experience and worked with each other prior, I would guess.
Modern CRM. Something they've been working on for decades, and now bearing fruit.
Problem, solution, reaction. Learning from errors and utilizing what is learned has made flying one of the safest ways to travel. I would rather fly than drive any day of the week. Great video! Great channel!
Sure, flying a commercial airline is about as safe as you could ever hope for. But flying on a small aircraft - not so much. I seem to read about small plane crashes every other week. I will never get on one.
@@shannonquinn8687 Cause commercial airlines a lot better engineered and a lot more regulated. Also pilots need way less experience for small planes. To fly commercial airliner, they need years of training on either small planes or military planes first
@@shannonquinn8687 commercial airlines are piloted by very experienced pilots, who have to have thousands of hours as a FO and intense training. small aircraft on the other hand can be piloted by your average joe who felt like he wanted to fly one day
I guarantee you, both pilots were going, "Oh, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
This is the best airline channel, bar none! Come on, peeps, show TFC love and subscribe. It's free!
Imagine the passengers looking out the windows. 😮😮😮😮
@@alm5693 oh, hells yeah! I probably would have had a code brown!
To be fair if they had started rotating 132 may not have known about it, maybe some passengers but considering 132 didn't even radio about it I suspect the pilots once the nose lifted couldn't see the oncoming 1170. Wouldn't have been there error of they had collided. Nor 1170 but for smart thinking and observations they avoided an avcodent not of their making. Also goes to show importance of good CRM and flight prep. If they'd still be organising last minute paperwork etc the F/O might not have been keeping peeled for whatever it was got him looking at the window.
The quick observation and response of 1170's captain that 132 was rotating and decided to stay on ground was incredible.
It's very rare for the crew to have such good unspoken coordination with other aircraft
It is first officer who asked captain to keep down.
Shamrock 132 already rotated, so its unlikely they see USAir 1170 oncoming.
Thank you! A well-explained commentary and the supporting maps are excellent. It's especially helpful to have the abbreviations LCW and LCE etc. explained via footnotes on-screen. For aviation numpties such as I, who is very interested in the subject but basically ignorant of procedures, those explanations are a great help. And what a story this is!😧
An Aer Lingus plane on St.Paddy’s day!
To demonstrate the luck of the Irish? Or to sing the song "we're flying over a runway crossover that ATC overlooked before"?
Imagine if both captains (both planes) takes the same descition to stay down. Everybody dies and even that , you have to award the captains beacause after all both had the same Quick reaction. Mindblowind
I think the Air Lingus was already off the ground, and likely did not see IS Airways.
The second tenerife
@@fluffy-fluffy5996 " you think" ok , case solve
That was good airmanship by the US Air pilot, going at formula 1 speeds and yet keeping in control of the whole situation, while seeing the end of the runway approaching. He was calm too after the incident, our hearts go out to him.
Its a weird system, maybe they should have a third controller keeping an eye on the two controllers.
When you're facing 2 problems in quick succession, you have to deal with the immediate one before dealing with the second. If they cleared the intersection safely, they had more than enough speed to take off before overrunning the runway. If they didn't clear the intersection, the second problem would have been moot.
The same incident held at Kempagowda International Airport, Bangalore on January 2022
People onboard two IndiGo flights had a miraculous escape when the aircraft were cleared to take off simultaneously in the same direction from the Kempegowda International Airport's parallel runways on January 7.
Luckily, a radar controller spotted the potentially grave error and alerted pilots in both flight decks. One plane swerved sharply to the left and the other to right to avoid a collision. The serious situation did not end then as local authorities allegedly tried to hush it up by not reporting it to DGCA, possibly to avoid a probe, and punishment.
Another near miss at 02:36. The two service trucks, lower middle picture.
If I ever decide to take a plane, I pray these guys are my pilots!
Not saying they didn't deserve the award, but what pilot would have done anything differently? All they did was delay rotation a few seconds.
@@reshpeck It does seem like a simple action, but it's not about the specific action they took to avoid a collision. It's more about the fact that they were observant enough to notice the problem before it was too late, and were cool headed enough not to panic and to take find a quick resolution which avoided a potential disaster. Perhaps another pilot might have simply panicked and swerved the plane, or completely froze, or maybe would have just taken off as usual and hoped for the best. Very often a driver on the road will be hurt or killed in an accident that would have be easy to avoid with a simple manuever, but the driver either wasn't alert enough to spot the danger, or simply panicked (perhaps due to inexperience) and didn't respond correctly to the situation. So I give these pilots alot of credit.
@@JukeboxBalowski That's why Defensive Driving helps so much, while driving, but humans don't always have the time to avoid an accident. Sad, but true. The Luck o' the Irish be with everyone!!! (Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day 03/17/2022) 😀
@@mawmawvee Thanks, my friend. And you as well!
@@JukeboxBalowski 🥰
I bet that co pilot was no rookie. His quick thinking and calm demeanour is the result of many years of flying experience. Well done!
I don't know exactly why but this is one of my favourite videos. Maybe it's because of the precise animations and multiviewing of the overflying moment or even that it was an "end well" situation...
Can't wait for the next one!
Three hundred and eighty one people on board both those aircraft.
Thank goodness for the quick thinking of the US Air crew.
I’d call that a good days work….!
The work you put into your videos and the quality-YOU SHOULD HAVE 10 MILLION SUBS!
Does that discredit the others who put a decent amount of effort into their videos?
@@Jijuane Don't turn a positive into a negative for your own amusement, you twit. No. It doesn't.
@@Jijuane No.
I agree with you simcast there awesome don't mind the trolls
This channel is for connoisseur's, ACI is for the masses
Hats off to U. S. Airways captain n first officer...👮👮🔥❤️ What an airmanship..
Great respect for the USAir pilots on this, they manage to help keep the aircraft down while the A330 rotates.
This near miss reminds me of the movie 2:22
He deserves world recognition.... what a hero.
Wow. This is the first I heard of this incident. That is truly chilling. Heads ups flying by that USAir crew. Kudos to them.
“Probably no need to say this, but …” are the funniest words uttered on this channel.
With a lot of people dying nowadays, this story is very uplifting. Great job to the pilots with good instincts and calmly telling the controller they almost died. Ty TFC.
Yeah, that pilot is just too cool that he says probably there was no need to report the near miss. But excellent presence of mind and situational awareness on part of the first officer.
Must say good job TFC in terms of content and quality
The pilot said "no need to say so" as a reference that the controllers already was aware of what happened. When said "for the record" he made clear that he made contact only to report the near miss 😉
Wonderful video. This was the first time I saw an aer Lingus plane in TFC. It gave me goosebumps but I was happy to find out that everybody survived in the end. The best of aviation, keep up the good work pilots 👍
This is a brilliant piece of work, The Flight Channel! I was enthralled and totally absorbed by the tension and the graphics, as well as the music at the end. As far as the incident... YIKES! Just how pilots develop their nerves of steel and keep calm and collected is to be envied and lauded.
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Must have been a heart in the mouth moment for the US Airways pilots. Terrific job, though.
Exactly. To know abandon take off or you will overrun the runway but hitting the other aircraft would be worse
I’m astonished that the US Air plane could leave the ground with so much scrotal weight in the front. You know, in the…uh, flight deck.
Totally agree !!!
YEAH DAVE WE GET IT..BALLS
scrotal weight.. must be an advanced avionics topic I haven’t come across yet within the texts lol.
"GET THE HELL OUT OF THE COCKPIT!"
"Huhuhuh, you said-"
"NOW!!!!"
y'all doing some lovely work on these, very clear to follow what's going on. kudos!
I've been following TFC since 2019. And I must say, the quality, effects, transitions, clarity of happenings and presentation has drastically improved! Brilliant work day by day, video by video. Can't miss even a single video 😁
TFC?
The flight channel
@@gunjankaursaini4424 What did you do with the time you saved not typing he fight hannel?
If it was stressful for me just to watch your recreation, just imagine being in that cockpit at that moment...
WONDER IF ANY ALARMS OR WARNINGS WERE SET OFF ON THE FLIGHT DECK? Like
"TERRAIN TERRAIN" PULL UP!
Imagine the passengers on the left side of the plane 😳
I don't know if the pilots on Aer Lingus ever saw US Air
Boston tower at the end: Uhhh, Roger
Its like a competition to see who can design the most confusing runway layout with the most similar abbreviations along with the fastest speaker. Logan wins.
Thanks to the pilots for saving the lives of all those Mothers, Fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and everyone involved! God bless you !!
The successful resolution of this near-miss relied on pilots of one plane keeping it down, while others going ahead with take off. There was no way for pilots to actually coordinate this in time. They both might've just as easily kept their planes on the runway hoping for the other to take off. Scary.
Maybe that's why they ended up only 70 m apart; the AL flight delayed the start of the roll 1-1,5 seconds?
This is so creepy. Imagine seeing this as a passenger!
exactly what i was thinking! especially as someone who isn't exactly comfortable with flying, that would've freaked me the hell out as a passenger
I would be saying out loud "This might not end well" as I shot it on my phone, and then immediately upload it to YT, after we lived.
Those seated on the right hand side of the Aer Lingus flight would have had a clear view of the approaching plane!
... their story would be interesting to hear.
So press your imagination down a bit :)
Super quality video with excellent attention to detail like the graphics of the runway intersections, and @8:41 the detailed visualization of the elevators moving to keep the nose on the ground. That is a very nice touch. Kudos!!
There are many you tube channels covering a wide variety of video and information.
There are few channels that can be as accurate or hard working as this to create and reconstruct these aviation incidents with breathtaking accuracy.
well done TFC and continued success you deserve it
OMG, that is terrifying. That could have been a huge disaster. Kudos to the pilots of the 737.
Can't believe the US Air captain sounded so calm afterwards, almost laughing it off (I guess he was probably in shock to an extent!).....and the ATC response simply "Roger" because of course they knew what had happened and whose fault it was even at that stage. This could have been unbelievably bad had the planes collided or had the US Air flight run off the runway into the water. The US Air crew must have felt their blood run cold when they saw the Aer Lingus aircraft, they reacted commendably well.
I was wondering why he didn't say "sorry". Is it because he has already been replaced/relieved from service and it's a new controller? Or is it because he probably should not admit any form of responsability on record before talking to his lawyers ?
Or is it just that he's still trying to figure what really happened in front of his eyes?
@@natanlieds4468 He would never admit it without a lawyer.
@@natanlieds4468 I think there must be some strict protocols to follow after a near-miss and you're right, the east and west controllers would probably have been immediately relieved of their posts (not least because they would be in shock too and not in a good frame of mind to keep working that day)
I wonder when they (or one of them) noticed their mistake. Apparently not right away or they would have told the pilots to abort the takeoff. The horror when they realized what they did ... then immense relief, total emotional rollercoaster. I guess they lost their job? Or at least the one who cleared the second plane?
A similar issue happened at Midway airport where planes with similar call signs almost collided because of crossing runways and one pilot not paying attention to their call sign takeoff clearance.
Flew in midway plenty of times, and i can say for sure that runway is too short
How calmly that captain radioed to Air Traffic about the near-miss ... so cool under incredible pressure. Bravo.
These get more realistic. Today than the older videos. Good work on these thanks 😊
Thank God for smart pilots, controllers who (hopefully) learn from terrible mistakes, and of course this great channel. Love the work you do putting out all these amazing videos. Thank you FC ✈✈✈
Fantastic instinct and good catch on the US First Officer. The calmness in the captain's voice was even more surprising. They 100% earned those awards, can't imagine being in a position like that.
I'm so glad the pilots of the US Airways got awards. I think things like this happen, and not enough respect is shown to the pilots. Great job! Great video!
Great video TheFlightChannel! So nice to see these videos with real audio, keep up the great vids!
Salute to the US Airways pilots ❤️🙏
Something tells me the audio we missed in the plane that held to the ground was much more Intense. I. Betting the FO and captain had a bunch of words in those 20 to 30 Seconds🤯🤯
Thanks for producing these videos and making airplanes safer.
Although the planes avoided a collision, seems like the ground vehicles weren't so lucky at 2:36 😅
great catch
As a student pilot, this is very upsetting to see ATC controllers almost causing a crash that will kill hundreds of people. On the other hand, being an Air Traffic Controller is super super stressful with all those planes taking off and landing, planes needed to be on time, planes requesting clearances and much much more. I don't think this was 100% the Controller's fault with all his pressure.
Actually it is ATCs responsibility regardless of the stress or workload 100% .
I certainly hope that controller was fired.
@@dpl2617 Have you ever worked with perfect everything with perfect rest the night before 100% of your working life, uh NO! My opinion ion Fired - NO, but with the controllers work prior to current day would be assured revaluation and with maybe a change in pace or location! Most likely the management of the shift, the controllers schedule, equipment and training was extremely reviewed in every way!
@@AmericaVoice In this particular case the consequences like forgetting is not acceptable (If your family or friends were on one of those planes you wouldn't be so quick to give a pass). Oops, my "forgetting" just killed several hundred people and millions and millions in damages. Well I'm only human and have a stressful job, my bad...
Try telling that to the FAA.
You mean "HER" pressure? She should have been immediatle suspended and investigated. I would love to know more about this. Why so few comments on this channel not condemning her?
If both the pilots had taken the decision of keeping the plane on the ground, then also, the airplanes would have collided on the ground. They both pilots were lucky that they didn't took the same decisions. Hats off to the airmanship of the US Airways' pilots!!
132 already rotated, so they might not have spotted 1170.
@@dbclass4075 Yes, even if they would have spotted each other and both took the same decisions, then the flights would have crashed into each other.
TheFlightChannel, your video's are amazing and I've been watching your channel for a long time - Great work!
Some pilots are just really good at what they do. Most of them actually. That's why most flights get you home safely. These pilots were really good though.
The corrective actions still rely on humans following procedures. It would seem to be a simple technical matter to make a device that, once clearance for a runway is issued, blocks clearances for all intersecting runways. This could be software, or a hardwired gizmo with buttons and lights. Were the Aer Lingus crew even aware that it happened? I'll wager some of their passengers were.
Well done US Airways crew.I also once had delayed rotation when i had spotted a large flock of birds overflying the runway just ahead of the rotation point.Helped save the day thank God!
Thank you TheFlightChannel.✔✈