The Horrific Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Safety | Mayday: Science Of Disaster | Wonder
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- American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Little Rock National Airport in the United States. On June 1, 1999, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Flight 1420 overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock and crashed. Eleven of the 145 people aboard were killed-the captain and 10 passengers.
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This special looked at the role of bad weather in aviation disasters and examines the US Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, Missouri, to see how information on weather is transmitted to pilots in the sky.
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It's always kinda hopeful when you see survivors being interviewed.
Those pictures of all those planes flying on the map give me an awesome respect for air traffic controllers. What a job keeping everything running orderly and smoothly. Awesome!
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I couldn't keep track, of all that.
My daughter and I went to Daytona on June 15th, we stayed for a week, and the day we were going home, hurricane was blowing in, we sat on that runway for three hours, and then we had to taxi back to put more fuel in, that pilot was without a doubt, very caring, and worried about his crew, his passengers and of course himself, there was so much lightning in the sky, the rain was just pouring down and we just taxied around for 3 hours... when we boarded the plane, they had put 500 extra gallons of fuel in so they could fly around the storm, however, when we got to the takeoff Runway, he decided, it was unsafe for us to take off, and so after three hours we text you back and they put more fuel in, and then we got to Dallas safely smiley-face we missed our connecting flight home, however, we got there safe :-) it wasn't just a job to him, he held all of our lives in his hand and decided to wait :-)
Bet he got fired for wasting all that fuel 😄
Awesome 😎
They don’t measure jet fuel in gallons do they?
Just curious
@@elaineroberts143 i think it depends on the country. some may use kgs, other may use gallons 🤷♀
I worked with a guy who survived that Delta Fight 191 that crashed trying to land in Dallas. He kept a scrapbook with pictures and newspaper articles about the accident. To say it changed him forever would be a huge understatement.
Lol that PA "we have a small problem, all 4 engines have stopped, I trust you are not too much distressed "
🤣🤣🤣
Flight attendants will always be there to make sure everyone is safe, sometimes they themselves forget to brace for impact🙂🙂🙂🙂, much respect and RIP to all who have died trying to keep passengers at ease
Absolutely!!
Amen to that! Absolute heroes!
To those that get mad when your flight is cancelled due to weather, be grateful instead.
Absolutely 💯
Our good friend was on Delta 191, sitting in the tail end smoking section because his plan to quit smoking was failing. He survived, but 1st responders did not realize that he was a passenger. He wandered away from the wreck in shock, and they thought he was rubbernecking. He nearly got arrested! He has no memory of the crash. He says "one minute we were landing in a storm, the next minute I was walking through a field, then I'm in an ambulance." But DFW on summer afternoons can be just hell!
I will always remember a flight I took in 1967. My dad and I were flying to Oklahoma to buy a Beech Bonanza. We boarded a plane in Dallas. As we were getting ready to start up, a baggage truck drove into one of the props, bending it. So we boarded another plane and took off. At 2am I remember a bolt of lightning hitting the plane right at my window. I wonder how close we came to losing it.
The real question is, how's the bonanza and when are you taking me up?
@@sourcenz Your comment has brought me back to a time I hadn't remembered in years. We tied down at the Palo Alto airport. There wasn't even a tower yet. And Continentals were still flying into San Francisco. What a beautiful time it was.
Planes actually has discharger things set up for that, so it probably dispersed back out into the sky as quickly as it hit the plane. If anything the temperature change of the air around the plane would provide a moment change until the plane was out of that space.
Dallas is one of the worst places to fly into/out of
@@ChevereJones Wow, why is that?
I can't imagine anything more British: _Calm voice_ "Just a minor issue, we have no engines and are dropping out of the sky, I presume this will not be too distressing" What a brilliant crew!
For those reading this comment, here's some honorable mentions before getting into our last example (even if some of these accidents didn't get their own episode at that time this episode was originally aired):
- Air France Flight 358
- Air Florida Flight 90
- USAir Flight 1016
USA army has killed more civilians than these planes accidents in the last 100 yrs.
Fun fact
@Marie 🌹
@Marie thank Marry for the rose, wish we can be friends 😉
@@BigBoss-rw4mn citation needed.
@@maralonent6257 Not really. A middle school history book gives numbers, come on now.
It's eerie being just old enough to have been flying when nearly all of the disasters covered by this tv show occurred. In the 70s and 80s, before cable news 24/7 or the internet, most crashes would just be a one-liner on a morning news report, or maybe a few inches in the back pages of a newspaper, unless it was local or something really big. So in many cases, like that Air Florida plane crashing into the frozen river, I'm watching this 30 to 40 years later to find out what actually happened.
At other times, I'm learning more about some scary problem like microbursts that was bringing planes down when I was a kid, and I remember being worried about it, but what could you do? Often these specials end with, "And the NTSB recommended the following safety measures, so now we don't have to worry about this anymore" and I think, "but I was flying before that!" or "my dad was taking business trips back then!" For this particular episode, he was flying from Atlanta to Huntsville often, and we flew to Dallas all the time to visit family.
So it's alarming. But on the other hand, it's a reminder that millions of people flew those routes without mishaps, even back when planes weren't as safe and we all got airsick from cigarette smoke.
It's a shame that it takes deaths to get something done.
I'm about the same age and I think I've been on 6 or 7 commercial airplane trips in my life! So for me these videos are really interesting, but I don't live the sort of life where I hop on a plane for a vacation or anything else...
They keep things under the radar they dont want to loose customers .
"We have a small problem all 4 engines have stopped I trust you are not in to much distress" 😂
Edit, from over a year ago: @ January 2023, video time stamp 45:02.
People saying "It's the best thing a captain can do".
Must not have flown, passengers knew, you feel the engines of the plane 🙁
hahahaha small problem all 4 engines have stopped xD
The greatest understatement ever said!
@@FaLaTiCi 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Typical British politeness
When I see someone telling the story that was there. I know it's some kinda good ending 😁 when he said engine 4 back online I got goosebumps. Everybody went home that day. 💪🏿👏🏿💯
It is definitely a spoiler of how it'll end, but at the same time I'm glad too when I run across survivors telling the story. It's even better when the pilots are the one telling it, as they're often the first ones to perish in a crash.
There is a show on iD - I forget which one, but they have actors appear as survivors and the outcome isn't revealed until the very end. The first time my gf and I saw this we freaked out. In shows like this it is a bit of a spoiler, nevertheless it does bring solace to know.
@@xSoNiCcRaCkErSx yes when I know they survives it really makes me feel good. These pilots have a hell of a job and they have always been heros of mines.
I really enjoy the accidents that nobody survives. It makes a better episode because the crash was so severe that nobody lived
It's always a relief
I don't think there is anyone as well spoken as Greg Feith.
Great episode on how planes avoid thunderstorms, microbursts, volcanic ash, and other weather hazards!
Wonder, can we fix the title? This is a mash up of high profile air accidents caused primarily by poor weather. Nothing to do purely with American 1420.
EXACTLY!
This!!
yeah
same with the aeroperu 603 german version of mayday
its 2 videos basically mixed together, aeroperu 603 only comes later in the documentary.
Rain, hail, wind. In a heartbeat, bad weather can make an ordinary flight a nightmare. That is true. But what is more true is that Wonder never keeps us down 👍🏻
@@bruhsucks5715 wouldn't they have permission from those channels....when I run out of Wonder videos I'm sure I'll be over there lol
I love the voice of this narrator. Love to hear his voice. Nice video
I met a survivor of this flight 1420. It had been several years since the crash and he still had issues with pain. He was thrown from the plane buckled into his seat. The person seated next to him was killed.
I love the documentary’s you post! Here in the Netherlands we had the crash in Amsterdam in the Bijlmer in a big living complex. I hope one day they make a docu like these about that! Would be very interesting to watch.
There's a 60 minute doc about that episode
@@paulsmithfield3045 oh nice thanks! I could not find it
One of the bumpiest, scariest plane rides I took was just this year. A short hop from Colorado Springs to Denver in an Airbus A319, and I swear planes that size shouldn't move that way. I didn't realize there could be turbulence from the mountains. It was terrifying.
My Dad was once on a flight from L.A. to Chicago and they flew through a hail storm. This was in the 1960’s. He said it sounded like combat. The last time he’d heard and felt something like it was being shot at over Korea. The plane didn’t lose power or crash, but it really freaked him out.
As a passenger, you FEEL that plane all of a sudden become a "dead weight" and FALL and FEEL the JOLT when the WINGS find "lift" again and thank GOD we were already 15-20 + K in the air and not on take off or approach. Learning about "WIND SHEAR" in the 1970's was a real EYE OPENER.
Yeah I was on a flight from LAX to DFW a couple years back when we hit terrible turbulence and that happened - felt like I was on Tower of Terror in Disney. If I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, I absolutely would have smacked my head on the baggage compartment above my seat. My drink spilled everywhere, a bunch of folks screamed. It was only a couple seconds at most but it was terrifying!
Sometimes the air itself can be deadly. In 1966, BOAC Flight 911 broke up in mid-air due to mountain wave turbulence from Mount Fuji after flying too close to it, killing all 124 onboard. It almost killed the James Bond producers as well, but they chose to cancel at the last minute to watch a ninja demonstration in Tokyo. Delta Airlines Flight 9570 crashed during a training flight as a result of wake turbulence in 1972. All four occupants were killed.
“Ninja denonstration?”
As far as I remember, the Japanese investigation on the BOAC concluded that it was an act of God.
@@Logo800 Yes, they were in Japan scouting locations for the fifth James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice, and wanted to see whether ninjas could potentially be used in the movie.
i think that airports should show these videos in the same way that driver’s ed shows drunk driving videos, especially during inclement weather. it’s frustrating to miss your destination due to flight cancellations, but it’s better than missing it because of a crash
Those little blue planes on the screen are trippy to watch.
"ladies and gentlemen, we have a small problem.... All 4 engines have stopped...." HA! THAT'S NOT A SMALL PROBLEM, DUDE!!!!
lol brits, i trust this isnt too much of a bother....
"I trust you are not in to much distress" 😂
It's a British thing.
45:01 biggest understatement ever.
I did see this before, but this one is narrated by a different guy (the regular guy). Hmm. Really enjoyed it again, though.
Yeah, it’s edited totally differently too. The other version started with the crash site rather than the weather discussion. It had the two boys on bikes and stuff
They recycle these for the various disaster channels. They are just about the same and I enjoy watching all of them.
That's because this is a compilation episode
@@DaneOrschlovsky Yeah, I realized later that this episode referenced a number of flights that had had their own episodes. This one is about meteorology and includes clips from episodes that involved relevant flights
@@treyn8070 I’m so glad I’m not alone in watching same story, different way. Sometimes I have accidentally rewatched one I had forgotten I’d fully seen too. 😳😩😆 always catch a new piece of information. My cousin is a pilot for the big jets. His father died in a small plane crash when my cousin was barely out of high school.
Damn that's a lotta planes in the sky on that monitor
It seams to have been a lot of airplane accidents during the 80s and 90s...
"We have a small problem, All 4 engines have stopped" This is by far the most hilarious pilot PA I have ever heard in my life 😂😂😂. Literally, this PA will be remembered in history. Captain moody being a bit moody at 37,000 feet with no power 😂😂😂👌
I was on a Delta flight leaving Denver International. There was bad wind in the air. The plane was rocking back and forth. I thought the plane was going to crash. My heart was beating through my chest.
DIA is notorious for turbulence due to the nearby Rocky Mountains.
Y'all, there is a full episode just on that volcano plume incident. It's a great episode. Obviously you've gotten some spoilers because they summarized it at the end of this mash-up episode, but I think it's still worth watching.
All of these episodes are worth watching on their own.
I love the ones that end with a smile 😁
45:01 "we have a small problem...... all 4 engines have stopped"
lol. Just a minor issue, go back to sleep.
I was in a six seater commuter plane back in my 20s going through severe weather in the dark. The plane was bumping all over. I remember not being afraid at all. I think I was severely depressed back then and probably couldn't care less if we crashed. We landed fine an hour later.
I feel you on the depressed part and not caring😂glad you alive still dawg💯
@@goochfitness26 I hope you're still not depressed. I listened to a cd set that immediately changed my thinking. Life changing. I think you can just watch it on youtube.
@@BrenB125 no where near what I used to be honestly. My depression is nowhere near the level it was. It’s been awesome 💯❤️
Still depressed and not goving a damn mostly.
Always thinking I will die in a car crash, train wreck, plane or via a flowerpot.
Life is boring.
@@LathropLdST lol ooook
Back in 2010 my family and I were flying home from Maine. We began to make our descend to land at KCI. Suddenly we noticed our plane stopped descending and then heard our pliot say we were holding due to severe weather. Nothing like looking out the window and seeing a funnel forming near the airport. 😳
Good lord ... Yeah I think that counts as severe weather!
Okay, whose brilliant idea was it to put metal columns at the end of a runway?
I remember being on a United Airlines flight to Orlando on Christmas eve, and when the plane was descending, we went through very rough and ferocious turbulence while flying through the clouds. It rocked up, down, side to side. I was like "C'mon, just get down to that runway as quickly as possible". When we finally broke through the clouds about 5 minutes later, the turbulence continued, until finally, we touched down on the runway. Then everyone started cheering and applauding after what we went through.
I actually have a video about that on my channel.
I had a similar experience in March 2021 on a Jetstar flight from Sydney to Brisbane. While landing into Brisbane, we passed through heavy turbulence going through a storm. Was that bad that even the flight attendant's were concerned, which is never a good sign. I can't tell you how much of a relief it was when we saw the lights below us (was a night flight). Have flown many times since and that I'd still the scariest flight I've had.
40:20 They must had felt like time travelling through a portal
The moment when the 747 Engines fire back up ALWAYS give me goosebumps, crazy story
Fascinating look at advanced aviation safety and technology..Very cool 😎
I thought planes were designed to handle bad storms, lightening, hail, excessive water in the engines and all that.
Wow I accidentally clicked this 9 seconds after it published.
Southern Airways Flight 242 🇺🇸
British Airways Flight 9 🇬🇧
Delta Airlines Flight 191 🇺🇸
American Airlines Flight 1420 🇺🇸
Wow it flew out of Huntsville.. Thats where I grew up
I think the British airline survived because the pilots on-board they were calm, they didn't panic and they had hope these three are important because when we panic during an emergency our thinking can be distorted. I really think they could learn from that.
True but then most flight crews are like that. That flight crew was lucky in a sense coz they could restart the engines. Tho where I think the best part of that story was that they also had to land mostly blind coz the ash sandblasted the windows. Cap moody tells the story pretty good in interviews
46:36 British Airways Flight Engineer: I can't believe it Engines 1 and 2 both back online
Excellent series 👍
What a great series with a great narrator.
Just a little over a year ago we had to circle over Dallas-Love Field (Smaller non-international airport to the west of DFW in Texas) due to a severe thunderstorm. We spent about and 1.5 hours circling and another 1.5 hours on the ground because they wouldn't let the ground crew out. I remember flying around the thunderheads and because it was late at night you could look out the right side of the plane and see a beautiful lightening show in the distance. Knowing that because of accidents/incidents like this we've increased the equipment capabilities and training of how to handle severe weather makes me both happy and sad. Happy that aviation has improved and become safer, but sad that we have to learn through fatalities most of the time.
To the EAST of DFW
They should play this at the airports to passengers who get mad why their flights are delayed when they clearly see the sky is spitting hell and no way to fly.
If the pilots could have diverted to another airport than that’s what should’ve been done. All planes should be grounded and flights cancelled or delayed during any kind of storm.
While I dunno if the few extra seconds would of made a difference or not, for the Microburst scene instead of the captain going "push it up, push it way up", I think he should of just called out "full power" or "full throttle". The co-pilot seemed to be confused when the captain said to push it up, and that costs them time.
Lol I had to check the wording because sometimes mayday changes it to be more understandable for layman. The exchange was only 5 seconds ending in the cap saying "that's it" tho the second officer also said it too? And than toga(take off go around thrust basically) was called like 15 seconds later. Lol also that's kinda irrelevant but idk I find it funny that in mayday they say "dogleg it's like a dogleg!" Like yo I guess no one told the script writer that's a 40° turn
Nice one. Very intense. I still can't figure out why people fly in the winter at all. Doesn't make any sense.
Eh modern aviation is pretty safe, the thing about these crashes is they happened a while ago so the whole industry has learnt how it navigate these issues.
In a hurry for a plane crash.
Bcs driving, especially in winter conditions. Is even more dangerous
47:05 I got so excited and I shed a tear!!
17:59 the amount of planes flying is surreal
You should never take a risk.We should accept that flights may be delayed or cancelled.
We're making a fortune just by being alive.
I couldn't remember this, as I was only 8 yrs old in '77. I can't imagine the stress on a job like that, tracking sto4ms for airplanes to avoid ??? I'd be a mess !!! Wow !
I really want to be a actor on this show, for some crazy reason I find it really cool to see my own demise in a plane crash
I hope it never happens to me but I'm curious as to what actress they could find to play me. They might have to teach a sow how to act to get an accurate portrayal haha
Wow, that last plane looks like they're traveling in hyperspeed into the Star Wars universe...
I'm excited for this
The ones where everyone-anyone survives are my favorite bc we can actually hear what happens. The volcanic ash one is honestly my favorite, like it’s something that you’d NEVER expect to happen let alone ANYONE survives that situation. Phenomenal.
Let's just say that I am up very late just to watch the Mayday episodes
Me too. 1:55 am.
Flight 191....damn those storage tanks. If they weren't there there would have been so many more survivors. I hated those damn tanks.
All 4 engines out🤯... "SMALL" problem😳🤦♀️
no bother at all, i was planning on dyeing today.
Great Channel! Great content !
Very instructive video, learned a lot of interesting and important stuff about meteorology, geology and the effects & impacts on aviation ✌🏽🤓👍🏽 - and how decent British Understatement even effects cockpit people : "... a *small* problem, *all* 4 engines off" 😎😂
The good thing about being poor is I can’t afford to fly anywhere
That’s great for you. Stop writing this on every crash video
Meteorologists fly directly into hurricanes. I am surprised that a thunderstorm would be a big deal.
I think the 1420 pilots were so stressed by flying in the bad weather that their desire to just get on the ground overrode professional judgment that they shouldn’t attempt the landing.
Can you imagine being on the planes that had to land with a crashed plane right there?
My husband flew into DFW the day after the crash. It really shook him up. He still talks about it to this day.
2021-1-1, you would think by now there would be some kind of way radar would pick ash from a volcano but then again ash is so fine in size but at the same time you get enough of it and it becomes real thick and I would think that s,the part radar would pick up.Really good story, well put together.Ive always looked at ash as being really fine like flour but apparently not, getting blown up in size it's the size of sand,i had no idea.
00:10 “I don’t how we’ll get through here Bill” .. “Yo Ted, pull the gnarly handbrake my bodacious bud”
"We have a small problem - all 4 engines have stopped" - something you wanna never hear, especially flying over the ocean xD
Almost the same happened to me on Delta from Orlando toCinncinnati. They flew directly into a severa thunderstorm. We were lucky enough that the pilot started the engines again and flew to Louisville to refule. While on the ground there I went to the front where the young pilot was standing. Since my husband flew a cessna I knew about pilots have to request a weather report. The pilot said that he requested it but he thought they could fly between the storms and that he had never experienced storms closing in so fast. That was in 2003.
A as soon as the hail hit the windscreen ... time for an alternate
Afraid to fly in the airplane.extreme aerophobia
The first video about Southern Airways is terrific! Bonus: Greg Feith is commenting !
I'm amazed at the risk some of these pilots are willing to put themselves and others into. Just divert to the other airport! Is it worth the risk to everyone's life to force a landing? For what, to save some time or avoid inconvenience to the passengers? If I'm a passenger on a plane that diverts to another airport or takes the long way, I'll be thanking the pilots on my way out for being safe.
They didn't mention the taca flight that landed in New Orleans
I was good friends with a girl all through school. Her dad was on the flight 1420 he has PTSD bad,
Timestamps for whoever might need them:
0:00 Intro
5:12 Southern Airways Flight 242
19:59 Delta Airlines Flight 191
27:49 American Airlines Flight 1420
39:24 British Airways Flight 009
Die Menschen müssen endlich kapieren, daß man in sowas nicht einsteigen soll!
Omg What a hell??? Prayers for everyone
If only the utility pole wasn't there, I think they would have made a perfect landing.
Nice Episode
Most of the time it is something BASIC, something EVERY PILOT should know/do just as ANY OPERATOR of a motor vehicle such as "checking your mirrors" "head checking" before changing lanes. With aviation, DO I TAKE OFF/LAND in this WEATHER is ONE. KEEPING an EYE on your HORIZON/altimeter/Ground Speed You HAVE to be AWARE of these at ALL TIMES!!! And I have only flew in VIDEO GAMES and I KNOW THAT!!!
My question is-why were they flying if it was bad weather AND at night?
19:14 i wonder which humanity can bear,72 dead via plane crash or short temporary headaches for 72 air traffic controllers?
"it sounded like I was in a metal barrel and people were throwing rocks at it" I mean, technically speaking, yes, you were, out war just nature instead of people throwing the rocks
The description is incomplete. I believe this is the episode Cruel Skies, S8E2. It discusses Southern Airways Flight 242, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, American Airlines Flight 1420, and British Airways Flight 9. These crashes already have their own episodes, but in this episode they discuss how severe weather affected all the four of them.
“Cruel skies” 😂
I wonder how flight 242 would of ended if they landed in a field
There was an airfield that was nearby, but ATC didn’t know about it.
@@quangminhnguyen2504 probably but I don't think it be as bad cause the hit a telephone poll. In a field you won't hit any thing like that unless there was a random tree in the field
would have been a happy ending
Wrong title?
Ah no.
Hey same what happened to Trailblazer flight 119
Try fight the control with dangerous storm really bigger nightmare
The passengers leaving the aircraft seemed like zombies in this recreated video.
She'll shocked 😲
4:24 "Ladies and gentlemen this is your captian speaking. In a few moments we will be entering the 4th dimension to get around these storms. The flight attendants will be coming by to prepare the cabin."
Captain not caption
Speaking not speeking
@@ba-kasbongiseninombalizabayeki nerd
@@kylewheeler2907 well spelling speaking as speeking, that's not an auto correct mistake by the phone, that's just sad, grown man in this part of the world should be able to spell properly, they were just correcting you, maybe trying to make ya look a little less um what's the word I'm looking for... Stupid, yes that's it. Lol ok I take it back, I see you corrected your spelling! 👍 Lol
He's referring to 'time' as being the fourth dimension. The reading displays the height of the cloud cells as well as obviously the length and width, and displays how it's moving over time
Pilots vs weather