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  • čas přidán 3. 02. 2023
  • August 22nd, 1985 - British Airtours Flight #28 is taking off from Manchester Airport for the Greek Island of Corfu. As the aircraft is accelerating, a loud ‘thud’ emanates from the fuselage, and the pilots abandon takeoff. They believe a tire has blown, but passengers on the left side of the plane see the real problem - one of the engines is on fire. Within seconds, thick black smoke fills the cabin, panicked passengers struggle to escape, and just six minutes later, the aircraft is completely ravaged by fire. 55 people die. Can investigators determine how a minor emergency turned into one of the worst disasters in British aviation history?
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Komentáře • 776

  • @Elizabethpacey
    @Elizabethpacey Před 4 měsíci +43

    Captain Terrington comes across in this video as a really lovely caring man profoundly affected by this disaster, which was not his fault. He is so gently spoken, humble & reflective. I have just read that he died in 2016 & he was indeed deeply traumatised by the accident. He had survivor guilt & questioned every day whether he could have done more to save lives. He clearly had a big heart & a wounded conscience. His wife said (an article in Manchester Evening News on date of his death) he mentioned the disaster almost every day & went to the annual memorial service. When he retired he became a counsellor for lonely older people with depression. That seems to capture who he was; a caring, feeling human being. He also lived with Parkinson's disease which is obvious from this video. RIP Peter Terrington

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      Dog not allowed ect

    • @dianebuckle5093
      @dianebuckle5093 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Aww poor fella sometimes we just have no control sad he struggled for the rest of his life

    • @markbradley2367
      @markbradley2367 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I had the honour of bringing Peter and his wife back from holiday after he had retired. He came to the cockpit to thank me for the bottle of champagne I'd asked my cabin crew to offer to them. We had a pretty emotional chat, but he was such a lovely gentleman. For any pilot or any member of a crew to have to live through this experience is inexcusable. All the recommendations that were suggested by the AAIB were known problems, yet it needed people to die before anything was done ,for example, no extra leg room at the overwing exit... toxic materials used in the cabin ...while I have huge respect for the AAIB I do not believe smoke hoods for passengers would be a good idea. We had to practice putting them on once a year for our safety training and they are horrible. Such a sad event BUT at least safety recommendations were implemented.

    • @nealadsett8484
      @nealadsett8484 Před 2 měsíci +1

      RIP captain

    • @user-jk8sh2zm3l
      @user-jk8sh2zm3l Před měsícem

      @@markbradley2367no one bought your bs 😂

  • @Shujaa24
    @Shujaa24 Před rokem +142

    Who tf decided it was a good idea for the pilots to go through a 4 page emergency checklist during an evacuation 💀

    • @markreed3160
      @markreed3160 Před 4 měsíci +15

      A Person who had no concern for human life 😢

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Dog not allowed ect

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@markreed3160suicide not allowed

    • @markreed3160
      @markreed3160 Před 4 měsíci

      suicide Rebecca ?

    • @gg79139
      @gg79139 Před 3 měsíci +5

      My question is why WHEN THE PLANE IS ON FIRE!!!

  • @maxgodtankspubg3089
    @maxgodtankspubg3089 Před rokem +717

    Hands up if your day is made whenever there is a full episode👋

  • @eilinodea209
    @eilinodea209 Před rokem +278

    Such HEROIC actions from that air hostess and the lives she saved by returning to that cabin, risking her own life over and over,finding the little girl, and saving her, physically pulling the little boy out from being jammed at the exit door, she is a hero, an understated one but definitely a HERO!!

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Před rokem +22

      I looked up this disaster in Wikipedia, then read about her and immediately thought: wow. She handled the 'traffic jam' caused by all the passengers trying to get through the narrow passageway in the plane. Without her, there would have been many more deaths.
      *note: her name was Joanna Toff but she married and in the documentary her name is Joanna Caston*

    • @TriggerplayzOfficial
      @TriggerplayzOfficial Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@AudieHolland thanks for the wikipedia

    • @louiseogden1296
      @louiseogden1296 Před 11 měsíci +8

      Heroes don't always wear capes. Hats off to her.

    • @saralampret9694
      @saralampret9694 Před 11 měsíci +5

      🥹🥹 she is indeed a hero 😍

    • @johnkern7075
      @johnkern7075 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Brave woman!

  • @NorwayT
    @NorwayT Před rokem +62

    Joanna (Toff) Caston… What a HEROINE! Going back into that Inferno must have been absolutely terrifying, but she did and saved a little girl. That's what I call being made of the Right Stuff! I Salute You, Joanna! She deserved a Polaris Prize for her actions!

  • @chasugc3740
    @chasugc3740 Před rokem +13

    A four page check list after a fire? That's crazy. Set the brakes, shut down the engines and evacuate. Forget the plane. Passengers should come first, not last.

  • @simon1italy
    @simon1italy Před 11 měsíci +92

    I feel bad for the captain. He seems to have been broken by this experience. Hopefully he managed to live a normal life after it.

    • @cureforintroversion1262
      @cureforintroversion1262 Před 10 měsíci +9

      It seems he has severe Parkinson’s

    • @aleksandardjordjevic95
      @aleksandardjordjevic95 Před 9 měsíci +9

      Maybe they should stop with f*ing checklists and evacuate people immediately

    • @jenslaustenhansen3081
      @jenslaustenhansen3081 Před 7 měsíci +11

      ​@@aleksandardjordjevic95I think it is a good idea to shut down the engines before evacuation.

    • @albecky123
      @albecky123 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@aleksandardjordjevic95exactly...PLUS, I don't think the pilots should have evacuated out the flight deck window...thought the captain is supposed to go down with the ship...they could have gone back into the cabin area to see if they could help get people out.

    • @karoleenascottage
      @karoleenascottage Před 5 měsíci

      @@cureforintroversion1262 I think it’s extreme anxiety from answering questions and talking about this crash.

  • @Marielou813
    @Marielou813 Před rokem +80

    I remember hearing about this disaster for the first time in 1985. To think how worse this could have been if the plane had left the ground. Hope all those who survived that day are well and may all those who lost their lives rest in peace.

    • @katrobins
      @katrobins Před rokem +3

      Amen to that.

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 Před 11 měsíci +2

      It's notable though that they didn't list another major air crash that year. 200 people died on June 10th when Aeroflot Flight 5143 crashed in Siberia which was the deadliest air disaster in the history of the Soviet Union.

    • @louiseogden1296
      @louiseogden1296 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@MrMarinus18 Yeah, the USSR was rather fond of covering stuff that didn't conform to the image of a wonderful socialist utopia. It was only a year or so before Chernobyl blew that approach out of the water. Had they come clean about it it maybe wouldn't be forgotten. (And yeah, Russia was terrible. If you saw a description of a western disaster on TV, you know something similar had happened in the USSR -- they played footage of Three Mile Island just after Chernobyl, for example, before they were forced to admit to the problem in their own state. One heartbreaking story is of a random family whose daughter left for Moscow on a trip and never came home again. They just had to assume she'd been hurt in an accident and carry on with no recognition that the tragedy had even occurred. I can't imagine what it would be like for that to happen at all, let alone regularly.)
      Also, fun fact -- 1985 was the single deadliest year for commercial aviation. My instinct is that it was basically the year when demand had got so high but regulations hadn't caught up with it, and also more people had access to media reports. Infrastructure was at capacity, studies needed to be done into safety measures to prevent recurrences, and in a lot of cases of non-aviation accidents the issues were solved by improving outdated and crumbling buildings. It was a pinch point where we couldn't go forward if we didn't radically improve things.
      (Even terrorist attacks like Air India could have been prevented if there had been more thorough inspections and reconciliation of baggage to passengers. Of course that assumes that terrorists didn't want to be on the doomed plane and not become suicide bombers, but it was a way of forcing terrorists to find another way of attacking airliners.)

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@louiseogden1296 Actually your theory is incorrect. There were good regulations but they were rolled back. The 1980's was a time of rampant deregulation and 1985 actually made governments back down from that policy somewhat.
      I also feel we today live in the same position as the USSR in that the establishment wants to keep convincing us that market magic is the perfect tool and we live in a utopia right now. Not allowing in any notion that capitalism isn't perfect and needs to be regulated and balanced by the state. Just like the USSR was unwilling to allow any notion that socialism isn't perfect and that people need to have the space to take initiative and do things outside the mandates of the government.

    • @publius1252
      @publius1252 Před 11 měsíci +1

      “There were good regulations but they were rolled back”. Good regulations which are rolled back create a situation where there are poor regulations, Einstein.

  • @calvind98362
    @calvind98362 Před rokem +63

    A FOUR page evacuation check-list? Are you kidding me?

    • @kramshiron
      @kramshiron Před rokem +13

      Yeah how ridiculous

    • @sista-mwas
      @sista-mwas Před rokem +11

      Evacuate means get out now,4 pages is just ridiculous!!

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x Před rokem +3

      You guys seem to really want to see passengers try to evacuate while the engines are still spinning and the plane is still rolling.

    • @Shujaa24
      @Shujaa24 Před rokem +2

      ​@@cessnacitation-x Did you not watch? The plane had already stopped!

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x Před rokem +3

      @@Shujaa24 You do realise that this is an animation right? And passengers cannot evacuate while the engines are running unless you want human soup at the rear of the plane.

  • @IronRation1231
    @IronRation1231 Před rokem +203

    Props to the cameraman who survived all of these crashes

    • @BunkerFox
      @BunkerFox Před rokem +40

      You think he'd be banned from flying at this point, every plane he boards seems to crash.

    • @IronRation1231
      @IronRation1231 Před rokem +10

      @@BunkerFox the cameraman crashes the planes for views :skull:

    • @Unbreakify
      @Unbreakify Před rokem +6

      @@IronRation1231 nah he just finds it extremely funny and he wants to share it with the world

    • @sarahmihelich3195
      @sarahmihelich3195 Před rokem +3

      Thank you for the giggle

    • @user-ge9uk1nb5n
      @user-ge9uk1nb5n Před rokem +11

      I get this is sarcasm, but the sad truth is that many people probably believe this statement and think that the cameraman really does survive these accidents instead of understanding that is a reenactment.

  • @5GreenAcres
    @5GreenAcres Před rokem +35

    Out of all of these shows that I have seen so far, this one ticked me off the most. SERIOUSLY.....the 4 page checklist before evacuation. OMG!!!! When does COMMON SENSE kick in?

    • @tarafficstory
      @tarafficstory Před 6 měsíci +2

      They need to follow it to make sure the engine is not sticking people in or the fuel is not all around the hot red brakes or if it is simply possible to evacuate. Nowadays the evacuation checklist is about 2 pages

    • @5GreenAcres
      @5GreenAcres Před 6 měsíci

      @@tarafficstory" Simply possible to evacuate?" You say? I guess you are one of those people who will justify ignorance? It makes more sense to take your chances of getting burned a bit outside, than to for sure burn alive inside. But then again what do we expect when we have a nation of sheep who FEAR everything. They fear things that don't even exist. Ex: Aliens and a flu that doesn't exist. To the extent that they will have a mercury filled concoction injected into their veins which is a guarantee that they will get sick. To make matters worse we have to deal with people who are so used to texting that they forgot how to use punctuation. Your message makes no sense at all.

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@tarafficstorydog not allowed ect

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@sqoopdog not allowed ect

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      Dog not allowed ect

  • @ronnyrono782
    @ronnyrono782 Před rokem +98

    My heartfelt condolences to those who experienced loss

  • @well-blazeredman6187
    @well-blazeredman6187 Před rokem +77

    Very informative. Not mentioned: that all 4 of the cabin-crew were awarded the Queen's Gallantry medal. Two of these awards were posthumous. Two firefighters were also honoured with QGMs.

  • @Wren6827
    @Wren6827 Před rokem +223

    You know it’s a good a day when they upload a full episode
    Edit: thanks for 200 likes

    • @sunnyfon9065
      @sunnyfon9065 Před rokem +4

      It’s a surprise to me, since full episodes aren’t free to watch and therefore aren’t allowed to be uploaded to CZcams. I’ve seen lots of full episodes on CZcams getting taken down due to copyright.

    • @boutainabrhmgsma4393
      @boutainabrhmgsma4393 Před rokem +1

      So true

    • @TylerGutwein
      @TylerGutwein Před rokem +2

      @@sunnyfon9065 ummmm....who gave you this information??? Because that's not how that works

    • @Grizzles56
      @Grizzles56 Před rokem +2

      Yesssss sir

    • @Zczrzyz
      @Zczrzyz Před rokem +1

      @@TylerGutwein it is true

  • @toddkurzbard
    @toddkurzbard Před rokem +34

    Notice how the pilot shakes when he talks about this. As you would expect, he is clearly highly affected by this.

    • @hallelujah7304
      @hallelujah7304 Před rokem +7

      Yes. Poor man.

    • @well-blazeredman6187
      @well-blazeredman6187 Před rokem +10

      He suffered from Parkinson's in his later years.

    • @5GreenAcres
      @5GreenAcres Před rokem +4

      Probably haunted by abiding by the 4 page exit checklist IN AN EMERGENCY!

    • @user-ge9uk1nb5n
      @user-ge9uk1nb5n Před rokem +4

      tell me you don't know what Parkinson's is without telling me you don't know what Parkinson's is.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj Před rokem +1

      @@5GreenAcres Yeah thats BS, has boeing updated this so that getting the people out is item one on the checklist?

  • @antonybaines4230
    @antonybaines4230 Před rokem +24

    I heard about this disaster and my family watched it all on the news. I was born in 1989 and i asked my brother how did this happened. I heard the captain who was on the plane started suffering from PTSD after what happened.

  • @mikelyttle8011
    @mikelyttle8011 Před rokem +56

    My father, Samuel Lyttle, received a QGM (Queens Galantry Medal) for bravery in this disaster. (Fire Fighter based at Manchester Airport) Never forget the trip to Buckingham Palace 🏅 👑

    • @rmelin13231
      @rmelin13231 Před 9 měsíci +5

      That is awesome. I hope your father is very proud! Fire fighters too often go unnoticed for their bravery.

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      Dog not allowed ect

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@rmelin13231don't die as a disbeliever

  • @heatblade
    @heatblade Před 7 měsíci +13

    Come to re-watch after witnessing the JL516 escape at Haneda. Glad that lessons were learned from past disasters.

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      Dog not allowed ect

    • @user-lv7ph7hs7l
      @user-lv7ph7hs7l Před 4 měsíci

      Still a miracle. Many aircraft would not have survived hitting a regional jet on landing, especially not come to a stop with everyone alive. A350 is a tough bird. I remember when they doubted the strength of composites in airliners. Still the evacuation was too slow. It was 20 minutes before the flight crew left the liner, the captain being last. How it held together that long while engulfed in flames is beyond me and it adds to the A350s credibility as well built aircraft. Still 90 s after coming to a stop it should have been evacuated. It took 13 times longer than that. Fortunately no one brought their luggage, it wouldn't be the first case of a liner coming to a stop on fire with everyone alive but people slowing everything down by taking luggage end up costing many their lives.
      How anyone survived in the Q400 is also a miracle. Of course it's the guy who caused it... but that thing was obliterated. Nothing remotely aircraft-like was left.
      And everyone has been saying it will happen, what was it 40 serious runway incursions in the US last year alone? It was bound to happen. When you have close call after close call eventually it will happen and some of the systems being proposed now, would have prevented this. They spent a long time on the runway, hearing the A350 get landing clearance on that same runway.

    • @user-lv7ph7hs7l
      @user-lv7ph7hs7l Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@REBECCA12341 The only fatalities aboard JAL516, the Airbus was in fact a dog and a cat. Unfortunately they were checked in so you couldn't just open the cages and at leasr let them have a chance. When we moved continents, we had two cats and a dog in the cabin (in cages of course and mildly sedated). It wasn't fun and I'm sure it annoyed people but I'm glad. Gets cold down there. And if there is an accident a loose cat or two is not going to slow things down.
      But pets often don't fare well in disasters. I believe 12 dogs were aboard RMS Titanic. A passenger did ask for the key and go down to free the dogs from the kennel. It's why in some Titanic movies you see dogs running around.
      Two made it off, both small lapdogs, hidden in purses or under a coat.
      One first class passenger refused to leave her great dane behind and died after going below to look for the dog.
      Jenny, the ship's cat of Titanic had herself previously served aboard the older sister RMS Olympic, like much of the crew, including the Captain and were promoted to Titanic once she sailed. As both ships were identical the crew was already intimately familiar with the vessel having operated Olympic for a year (and almost sunk once after colliding with HMS Hawk).
      Anyway Jenny had kittens and jumped ship at Southampton, carrying her kittens one by one. It is typical for ship's cats to raise the kittens on land and return to the ship after that.
      One fireman saw Jenny leave and took it as a bad omen so he too left the ship. Of course had he stayed he would likely have died as of the 300 crew on the boiler rooms only 60 or so made it out.

  • @flightsim_clips495
    @flightsim_clips495 Před rokem +40

    It shows how every second means a large percentage of your survival

  • @hyuka_ningningforever
    @hyuka_ningningforever Před rokem +16

    Am I the only one who is so deathly afraid of flying, but continues to watch these

  • @mnpd3
    @mnpd3 Před rokem +15

    No one on a stopped and burning plane is going to remain seated until the flight crew reaches a decision point in some procedure to allow an evac. People will immediately move on their own to get off the plane, and if the crew isn't helping them do that, the crew becomes the problem. Even requiring smoke hoods is a time-costing step than no passenger will observe - all procedures must focus on immediate evacuation because that's what the passengers will be attempting regardless of the rules.

  • @vivanakashshivamak1563
    @vivanakashshivamak1563 Před rokem +31

    You have truly made my day with sending full episodes my boi!

  • @kennethnjoroge
    @kennethnjoroge Před rokem +22

    The planes of today are a perfection due to lessons learnt from the past. We are very lucky people

    • @sista-mwas
      @sista-mwas Před rokem +3

      Nothing's perfect njoro,God tu!!!

  • @Dovietail
    @Dovietail Před rokem +16

    If the "wool" in the carpets and upholstery had been actual wool, rather than petroleum-based synthetics, passengers would be FAR better off.

  • @fishoutofwater57
    @fishoutofwater57 Před 7 měsíci +3

    I remember the day well. I was in Lanzarote & our flight back to the UK was delayed for most of the day owing to MCR airport being shut down because of the accident. A couple of years later I took part in the evacuation trials at Cranfield where we given different positions on a plane & told to get off as quickly as possible. It wasn’t a perfect representation of what would have happened but it gave pointers. I still believe that the disaster was worse on the day because this was a holiday flight with families on board who would have tried to leave in a group rather than as individuals escaping. It was a privilege to take part though, to try & help anyone affected to find out why so many lost their lives when they could maybe have escaped the fire.

  • @donaldpalmer6299
    @donaldpalmer6299 Před rokem +12

    Holding an evacuation exercise and offering money to the first people off shows me how so many people can get hurt in a real emergency.

  • @DNTMEE
    @DNTMEE Před rokem +74

    They didn't mention that another thing that was done was to use materials which didn't give off such poisonous smoke. And using materials that are less prone to combust so rapidly (or at all) in the first place. Overall, the measures taken pretty much made smoke hoods unnecessary. Though it wouldn't hurt to pass them out to disabled and elderly passengers as they come on board.

    • @BantamsOnline
      @BantamsOnline Před rokem +11

      Yeah there’s a few things they didn’t mention. This was another. I have commented about how it is now standard for aircraft to stay on the runway not turn off if they have a fire.
      Tbf handing smoke hoods to the elderly would slow things down even more than just handing them out to everyone. They’re probably the main reason for not having them as they’re more likely to take longer putting it on and then moving out of the plane.

    • @bookcat123
      @bookcat123 Před rokem +6

      Honestly that seems a much better solution. You really think panicking people who weren’t paying attention to the safety briefing (because you know people don’t) are going to both remember to get their smoke hood and successfully put it on when the first breath already left them disoriented?

    • @Gonken88
      @Gonken88 Před rokem +1

      "Welcome aboard sir, here's your smoke hood"..... Ryanair maybe?

    • @larrybe2900
      @larrybe2900 Před rokem +2

      If both doors had been opened people would have made it out.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj Před rokem +4

      @@larrybe2900 What a shame boeing didn't design the doors better in the first place, bad design in aeroplanes costs lives.

  • @komiksization
    @komiksization Před rokem +51

    The stewardess did an exellent job and saved as many lifes as she can.

  • @kyleyuen245
    @kyleyuen245 Před rokem +19

    This is one of the few times I can recall an abandoned take off, most of the time it's always too late

  • @steve3291
    @steve3291 Před rokem +10

    The graphic on exits failed to mention the over-wing exits. Clearly, the left exit was unusable because of the fire, but the right exit was serviceable. It not near the front, I always aim for the over-wing exit row.

    • @angelagendreau3586
      @angelagendreau3586 Před rokem +5

      It's what I do. I always look to see my exits. I've watched a lot of these. Seconds count.

  • @louiseogden1296
    @louiseogden1296 Před rokem +35

    I remember this being on the news -- we were driving on a holiday. We'd just started flying quite a bit to get to my grandparents in Ireland, so at almost 6 it was not the best thing for a kid to hear about!
    Besides that, I really like when American documentaries cover British disasters etc. I like seeing the different perspectives etc.

    • @peterborg3340
      @peterborg3340 Před rokem +4

      What s really interesting is, to watch British docus in comparison to US docus. The British are not hysterical and they are not trying to present everything as the biggest/worst a s o

    • @bungersinyourarea
      @bungersinyourarea Před rokem +1

      @@peterborg3340 they have to dumb it down for people who absolutely nothing about aircraft, and still manage to get simple facts wrong.

    • @adrinathegreat3095
      @adrinathegreat3095 Před rokem

      Read comments from American plane accidents in America and you'll find many comments from people claiming they'd sooner die helping others out first than live with the guilt of knowing they lived and someone else died..
      But that's easy to say on CZcams, but when your lungs start to burn and eyes start streaming it's a survival instinct to rush for fresh air, it really is the case of the first out stand the best chance...
      I mean it's hardly like in a battlefield when faced with gunfire, reality there is you may or may not get shot, you might get captured, you might get Injured..
      Here there's no might about it, it's a case of you will die if you don't get out

    • @MaidenCanada
      @MaidenCanada Před 11 měsíci +2

      Actually its a Canadian documentary series, titled Mayday . Several countries including the UK broadcast it as well ,but using a different narrator and title . In the UK ,it's called Aircrash Investigation . Jonathan Aris is the narrator

    • @louiseogden1296
      @louiseogden1296 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@MaidenCanada Thanks for the correction -- yes, you're totally right. It's still interesting seeing these things from the outside perspective.

  • @stevemcdonald806
    @stevemcdonald806 Před rokem +14

    My hands are "up" I totally agree,I love these full episodes! I do think on this particular plane,that escape exits should be added to the centre of the passenger cabin. It is quite a long plane & the 4 exits,in an emergency are too far apart. Does anybody else agree?

    • @mindwalk2007
      @mindwalk2007 Před 11 měsíci +2

      They do have over wing exits but the ons on the port side could not be used in this case due to the engine fire.

  • @MONi_LALA
    @MONi_LALA Před rokem +17

    This made me just don't want to go to crowded places. We could literally kill each other by just having too many of us panicking.

    • @angelagendreau3586
      @angelagendreau3586 Před rokem +1

      Yeah, if that one lady hadn't lost her sh*t and tried to get off the plane, things probably would have gone better. She started a panic in my opinion and probably should have at least been reprimanded. I think if they had forced her to stay in her seat, things would have gone differently.

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      Suicide not allowed

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@angelagendreau3586 suicide not allowed

  • @tt14life90
    @tt14life90 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Fire is the one thing that people will panic over more than any other.

  • @hancecrawford
    @hancecrawford Před rokem +24

    Sincere condolences on those families who suffered great loss

  • @arianmalek2908
    @arianmalek2908 Před rokem +8

    I think when the situation was so bad and they were. Suffocating from smoke and there was just one way out they could use the windows of cockpit as the captain and co pilot used ,to accelerate the evacuation because there were a lot of people (sorry for my bad english grammar)

  • @moiraatkinson
    @moiraatkinson Před rokem +35

    Love finding these episodes which really examine one accident for 45 minutes. 🤲✋🙋‍♀️🤚🖐️🖖👋🙌

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x Před rokem +1

      🤝👐🙌🙏🙌👐🤌👈👇👆🤞🖕🖐️☝️🤘✌️✊👉👉🤲🫰🖖🤚🤟🤙🤙🤙🤟🤲🤟🤲👉👌👉👌👉👌👉👌👈👈🤘👇✊👈?

    • @moiraatkinson
      @moiraatkinson Před rokem +2

      @@cessnacitation-x What happened here?! I’m so sorry, I had no idea that all those hands had ended up in my comment 😳. I kept dozing off while I typed it - I would *never* have deliberately added a load of spam like that. How embarrassing!

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x Před rokem

      @@moiraatkinson ☝️✌️🙌🤞🤝🤌✋👆👌👏👌👐✊👇✍️👈✋✌️👆👈👈👌👉👌👉👌👉✊👉🤚🤲✌️! ✋👆🙌🤝?? 🤞👏👉👆🖖.

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@moiraatkinsonsuicide not allowed

    • @REBECCA12341
      @REBECCA12341 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@cessnacitation-xsuicide not allowed

  • @jlh4jc
    @jlh4jc Před rokem +8

    "1985 the deadliest year in aviation history". I believe it. It seemed like every morning just before my parents would drop me off at summer camp, the morning news was reporting some air crash. TWA getting hijacked and Air India blown up in June. Then August with Delta 191 in Dallas, JAL 123, and the Manchester fire. Then later as a 5th grader the Newfoundland crash in December just before Christmas break to bookend it.

  • @Dovietail
    @Dovietail Před rokem +8

    Funny how the evacuation test passengers are ALL fit, able-bodied adults--unlike EVERY flight in the whole world ever. 🙄

    • @peteconrad2077
      @peteconrad2077 Před rokem +1

      Funny how:
      1. The test takes account of that.
      2. That’s good crews can evacuate aircraft in real emergencies within the time.

  • @lepanhman
    @lepanhman Před rokem +5

    For such a massive airline with such a huge fleet of aircraft British Airways has comparatively had a very small number of accidents.very safe airline & one you can fly in confidence

  • @aeroaxeyt
    @aeroaxeyt Před rokem +4

    I love watching these right before going on a flight

  • @brokensync
    @brokensync Před rokem +15

    The stress the pilot is showing recounting this all these years later......

  • @julierobinson3633
    @julierobinson3633 Před rokem +7

    The air accident investigators say this shouldn't have happened as the aircraft didn't even make it into the air or run off the runway - but let's face it, there have been buses and trains caught fire with similar fatality numbers. A plane on the ground is just a higher up version of those (and one with far more flammable fuel) with the same bottle neck difficulty when it comes to evacuating passengers in a fire.

  • @missliverpoolcatlady
    @missliverpoolcatlady Před rokem +6

    I shouldn't watch these things because I hate flying but I like going on holiday 😂 especially Corfu ❤️😁

  • @loretta_3843
    @loretta_3843 Před rokem +18

    Poor passengers! First the plane on fire and then a visit from Margaret Thatcher 😕 Now they're really traumatized!
    (Sorry, I couldn't help it🤷🏻‍♀️ In all seriousness though, I can't imagine what these poor people went through. I'd be hiding under the covers 24/7 for years!)

    • @robertdaniels5601
      @robertdaniels5601 Před rokem

      Despicable! Keep your politics to yourself. Shame on you

    • @5GreenAcres
      @5GreenAcres Před rokem

      Agree. Like some of the other heroes are awarded metals from Puppet presidents too.

  • @atikulhussain7614
    @atikulhussain7614 Před rokem +6

    Wowww..
    Smithsonian have treated us all with a free episode!

  • @microfarmers
    @microfarmers Před 10 měsíci +2

    I have watched all least 50 Air disaster documentaries. I recommend, everyone who flies should do the same. You can learn alot from others failures and success.

  • @MrBsbotto
    @MrBsbotto Před rokem +31

    I can't think of a more horrific and depressing job than investigating a severe airplane fire with many fatalities. The last, agonizing minutes of the victims' lives are tragically written in the remains of the crash.
    The investigations are crucial in reducing future accidents. Many thanks to those who conduct these inquiries: you are better men (or women) than I.

    • @Roscoe.P.Coldchain
      @Roscoe.P.Coldchain Před rokem +3

      I can , been one of the passengers 🤔

    • @saralampret9694
      @saralampret9694 Před 11 měsíci

      I mean, it's an exiciting job too. A particular one. What about a rescuer/first aid responder, not sure about the name, people who are called on accident places and rescue people who will most probably not even survive. There are many really important jobs and I'm sure yours is important too, maybe not in the same way but I bet you are a great person. 😍❤️

    • @saralampret9694
      @saralampret9694 Před 11 měsíci

      I mean, it's an exiciting job too. A particular one. What about a rescuer/first aid responder, not sure about the name, people who are called on accident places and rescue people who will most probably not even survive. There are many really important jobs and I'm sure yours is important too, maybe not in the same way but I bet you are a great person. 😍❤️

    • @MrBsbotto
      @MrBsbotto Před 11 měsíci

      @@saralampret9694 Thanks for the reply, sara. You're right, just about any job has some importance and nobility to it, at least if you perform it with diligence and honor.
      I was about to say passion, but that's probably a bit much if you're a janitor or a factory worker! (Both jobs I have held briefly but with distinct lack of passion! )
      Bottom line, we're all humans, so you have to respect anyone who works hard for his pay, yes?
      Sorry, sara, I'm rambling here, so cheers and thanks for the comment. Bye.
      PS: You said you bet I am a great person. We-e-ll, I have to say you are spot-on there, I truly am a fine human being: wildly handsome, super-kind, intellectually superior and...darn it, I ran out of adjectives!
      Sorry, it's 3 AM and I am spinning. Apologies for rambling.

    • @Farting_On_Trannies
      @Farting_On_Trannies Před 10 měsíci

      Well according to the video it was mainly white people who were killed so who cares? This is a picnic!!

  • @requiscatinpace7392
    @requiscatinpace7392 Před 8 měsíci +3

    You can stick your 4 page checklist right where the sun doesn’t shine.
    Step 1 - Passengers Out
    Step 2 - Crew Out
    Step 3 - Who Cares

  • @GorgFlodGeming
    @GorgFlodGeming Před rokem +4

    "When we get a terrible air crash of this kind" when it never got into the air :D

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 Před rokem +9

    What a terrifying experience! 😔✈️

  • @plasmareciprical5122
    @plasmareciprical5122 Před rokem +1

    It is the voice that keeps me coming back

  • @eggypankakes
    @eggypankakes Před rokem +9

    Yeeeeeeesssssssssssss I need these full length uploads

    • @RaisedLetter
      @RaisedLetter Před rokem +1

      Look up Mayday Air Disasters
      It's the Canadian version of the same show. Only difference really is the narrator.

  • @alvinromo
    @alvinromo Před rokem +3

    Flying becomes much safer after each accident.

  • @nohandleimposed
    @nohandleimposed Před rokem +6

    No investigator wanted to mention the very narrow alleys and cramped seats.

  • @maxmackinlay618
    @maxmackinlay618 Před rokem +9

    I would like to know what caused the cabin door to jam, it seemed unrelated to the accident and caused a lot of unnecessary deaths.

    • @johnvonhorn2942
      @johnvonhorn2942 Před rokem +3

      It does say, Max right at the end; the emergency chute deployed too early and caused the door to jam. Boeing have subsequently redesigned it so that can't happen.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj Před rokem +1

      @@johnvonhorn2942 What a shame it wasn't designed properly in the first place! Some design needs to be failsafe.

  • @Dovietail
    @Dovietail Před rokem +23

    So basically, by bolting out of her seat, this lady started the panic, which is completely contagious. I wonder if she even realizes this?

    • @ronburgundy8423
      @ronburgundy8423 Před rokem +16

      i think i'd have done the same had i been sat over the wing that was blazing with fire

    • @deancole962
      @deancole962 Před rokem +9

      Even if she did, she isn't to blame. Most people don't think logically in an emergency. Self-preservation is a strong psychological response.

    • @louiseogden1296
      @louiseogden1296 Před rokem +2

      Yup. Also developing better evacuation procedures was one result of this crash IIRC.

    • @mil7498
      @mil7498 Před rokem +5

      its totally situational, you cant blame her. we can all say what we "would have done" but we can never really know until we are in that situation, which hopefully noone ever is again

    • @angelagendreau3586
      @angelagendreau3586 Před rokem +3

      I doubt it because no one pointed it out. Other things like this flight attendants have gotten aggressive over it. 'Stay seated until we tell you to get up' and this is probably why. People died and as awful as it is, she's partially responsible whether it was an accident, reflex etc.

  • @andrewwmacfadyen6958
    @andrewwmacfadyen6958 Před měsícem

    This disaster had profound lasting effects on airline & airport operations, airport fire services and of course aircraft design and maintenance

  • @Truth4Lyf
    @Truth4Lyf Před rokem +10

    It'd crazy to think if they passed their decision speed, when it happened this could've been so much worse.

    • @peteconrad2077
      @peteconrad2077 Před rokem +5

      Likely not, since the airflow would have kept the fire off the fuel age and they’d have shit it down and come back. It’s very likely it would have been a very minor incident.

    • @Truth4Lyf
      @Truth4Lyf Před rokem +1

      @@peteconrad2077 True

  • @erikr100
    @erikr100 Před 11 měsíci

    1:45 I too check a flashlight by looking directly into it lol

  • @user-fv2xv8xh3b
    @user-fv2xv8xh3b Před 9 měsíci +2

    I would say the backword brake thrusters is what made it spread to the plane, it was forcing flames backwords

  • @jasonhare8540
    @jasonhare8540 Před rokem +3

    This is why I hate to be crammed in with other people . What could have been a straight line out becomes a free-for-all ... I know they can't help it but damn it all I hate it ....

  • @Jagster7k
    @Jagster7k Před rokem +2

    Why didn’t the pilot shut down the second engine immediately once he knew it was on fire and evacuate everyone.

  • @nice2meetyou869
    @nice2meetyou869 Před 7 měsíci +2

    MORAL OF THE STUDY- CHECKLIST IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PASSENGERS LIFE

  • @warriorkingagonysound8446

    What about someone like myself that’s in a wheelchair every time I travel they always put me way in the middle it would’ve been smart put me at the front close to the exit

  • @VinceChepkwony
    @VinceChepkwony Před 9 měsíci +1

    0:53 I love the hawker siddley

  • @cathybiller9203
    @cathybiller9203 Před rokem +2

    I'd be dang if I'd sit there doing a checklist

  • @oscrrrr
    @oscrrrr Před rokem +7

    china airlines 120 is another example of how these people changed aviation safety so much-the plane exploded after everyone got off after an engine fire

  • @DJRickValeOfficial
    @DJRickValeOfficial Před rokem +4

    I'm addicted to it and I don't know why

  • @maryshellsmith6627
    @maryshellsmith6627 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Flight attendants really aren’t paid enough to deal with situations like that.

  • @satierkumaa
    @satierkumaa Před 9 měsíci +1

    How stressfull that some boeingplanes have a door opening issue. Too crazy in case of emergency

  • @CN-dv9nj
    @CN-dv9nj Před rokem +2

    It's a first responder and other healthcare professionals first semester of fundamentals teaches that fire is not what ends lives whether alone or in a crowded situation of fire consuming everything and everyone. Smoke inhalation triggers instinctive mechanism that closes and blocks airway as if you had swallowed a towel. Smoke is as toxic as the fue it is burning. So wood or plant material just the smoke can trigger the closing of the airways. THis wasn't just smke but actually gaseous poison inhalants. It acts like acid in gas form that one breath in would begin to melt the delicate sponge-like tissues of lung lobes. I remember when this happened. We were an AirForce Family and all things aircraft was on our radar. That research showing the toxicity of the plastics and foams etc began the overhaul of materials approved for EVRYTHING ie baby loths, kid pj's, mattresses LR furniture even. RIP all the ones lost so abruptly.

  • @sunnyfon9065
    @sunnyfon9065 Před rokem +20

    It’s a surprise that Smithsonian Channel started uploading full modern episodes

    • @lottienilsson
      @lottienilsson Před rokem +1

      Just enjoy the ride 😉

    • @Unknown_Ooh
      @Unknown_Ooh Před rokem +5

      These episodes are not modern lol

    • @RaisedLetter
      @RaisedLetter Před rokem

      Technically they've been around for years. Just the Canadian version though. Only difference is it's called Mayday Air Disasters and the narrator is British.

    • @thenameisgsarci
      @thenameisgsarci Před rokem +1

      And also, no need for a VPN.

    • @alieffauzanrizky7202
      @alieffauzanrizky7202 Před rokem +1

      And no need to stay up very late to watch it on national geographic

  • @priscamolotsi
    @priscamolotsi Před 6 měsíci +2

    15-step checklist and the last item is getting customers off?😳😳My goodness!

  • @hancecrawford
    @hancecrawford Před rokem +4

    How often are emergency exits doors checked as we saw a lady struggled with the door

    • @YanilleCastillo
      @YanilleCastillo Před rokem

      💯 … that’s exactly why I pray and pay attention be alert and vigilant…

  • @mtsbr78
    @mtsbr78 Před rokem +6

    Please translate these wonderful docs into Portuguese and subtitle them and make them available here on YT. Brazil no longer has a Smithsonian Channel. I'm orphan of your good docs.

  • @user-fv2xv8xh3b
    @user-fv2xv8xh3b Před 9 měsíci +2

    Most likely the passengers were completely out of hand,,,,panic kills !

  • @0.Abdulrahmannn
    @0.Abdulrahmannn Před rokem +18

    I think it is a good idea if aircrafts are fitted with isolated exhausts that activate when smoke is detected and get's it sucked out of the plane.

    • @BantamsOnline
      @BantamsOnline Před rokem +6

      They have something similar in the cockpit but it only works in the air because to do that the plane needs to be pressurised and then depressurised. But if the plane is already depressurised before activated it has the opposite effect and spreads the fire faster due to the oxygen introduced.

    • @MrBsbotto
      @MrBsbotto Před rokem +5

      Abdulrahman - That sounds very reasonable and - more importantly- achievable without major expense. I agree you would need the exhaust adjustments to deploy automatically, you don't want to rely on someone making manual adjustments in the middle of a chaotic emergency.

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj Před rokem

      @@MrBsbotto Sounds good but would it have some unforeseen negative consequence in some situation ?

  • @bbbhhhggg4518
    @bbbhhhggg4518 Před rokem +4

    I don't understand how a 3 minute evacuation can take so long and cause death the true meaning of when it's your time is your time

    • @peteconrad2077
      @peteconrad2077 Před rokem +1

      The problem was they were already panicking and climbing over seats before the evacuation was initiated.

    • @trevorhart545
      @trevorhart545 Před rokem +1

      Only ONE EXIT initially then later TWO out of FOUR plus Panic.

  • @adidas7481
    @adidas7481 Před rokem +3

    Was wondering - the flight attendant with no mask on goes inside the fuming plane to save more people, yet the firefighters with masks on continued adamantly to spritz the plane

  • @justlucky8254
    @justlucky8254 Před rokem +4

    I can't remember what channel this was on before, maybe Mayday Air Disasters, but they had this full episode here on CZcams long ago.

    • @YatikIslamiyahShorts
      @YatikIslamiyahShorts Před rokem

      Wait a second, what?

    • @dougschwieder3627
      @dougschwieder3627 Před rokem

      Yeah, I saw all of these in 2014 after the MH370 flight disappeared. Must have been uploaded by somebody else though. I can't find these episodes that were uploaded back then now.

  • @geffreykapembe9409
    @geffreykapembe9409 Před rokem +2

    Thank you so much

  • @shobhitchaudhary1650
    @shobhitchaudhary1650 Před rokem +4

    Sensational

  • @nayhardy463
    @nayhardy463 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Tha air hostess is a pure angel

  • @tommcglone2867
    @tommcglone2867 Před rokem +12

    Oh.
    My.
    God.
    Despte it being 38 years on this year from it. This disaster still haunts us in Manchester. So many died when they could so easily have survived.

    • @sexynelson100
      @sexynelson100 Před rokem +1

      an eerie similarity to hillsborough.. which also happened around that time..

    • @hectortas1
      @hectortas1 Před rokem

      just like the Vietnam war

    • @michaellee3538
      @michaellee3538 Před rokem

      Hillsborough was 4 years later, 1989. The Heysel disaster was 3 months before this disaster though.

    • @tommcglone2867
      @tommcglone2867 Před rokem

      @@sexynelson100 more or less. Im actually a born and bred Mancunian so i know just how hard this tragedy hit. It was as bad as the 1967 Stockport Air Disaster which was actually even deadlier.

    • @dashcan8479
      @dashcan8479 Před rokem

      So sorry Tom

  • @iaexo
    @iaexo Před rokem +7

    Interesting - they changed the narrator but not the script. Feels weird hearing the exact same words from a different narrator

    • @RaisedLetter
      @RaisedLetter Před rokem +1

      Play dueling narrators. Make every other line be said by the other narrator.

    • @iaexo
      @iaexo Před rokem +1

      @Raised Letter LOL that would be hilarious

  • @sovietsky5039
    @sovietsky5039 Před rokem +2

    I love video like this

  • @csgamer1904
    @csgamer1904 Před rokem

    Just done a sub. I love your videos!

    • @csgamer1904
      @csgamer1904 Před rokem

      Btw I really want a full episode of Colgan air flight 3407

  • @MaxLai_0104
    @MaxLai_0104 Před 10 měsíci +2

    although bucket reversers were cool, they were a lot more dangerous due to debris flying into/onto the wing, possibly getting jammed/stuck and lowering lift, and also causing backfire to effectively be deflected straight into the aircraft body

  • @shaukatsamad1563
    @shaukatsamad1563 Před 6 měsíci

    Excellent

  • @bwktlcn
    @bwktlcn Před 11 měsíci +2

    But can you imagine if he’d turned left and the wind had blown the fire around the front of the plane, where the only two working doors were? They might have lost almost everyone on board.

    • @verytonk
      @verytonk Před 10 měsíci +1

      ...the rear doors were inoperative *because* of the fire, so no

  • @lllucky13
    @lllucky13 Před rokem

    i was working at manchester airport at the time of the airtours accident.. i was fitting windows in the balcony restaraunt and seen this happen

  • @Mr.llIboeing
    @Mr.llIboeing Před 5 měsíci

    I feel bad and and sorry to all who where lost in this disaster 😢 🙏

  • @thomaskeil1437
    @thomaskeil1437 Před 11 měsíci

    It was a genuine pleasure when the narrator said vacation and not holiday. 🎉

  • @H11T09
    @H11T09 Před rokem +11

    I was born in 1985 and on 11 Sep (World Trade Centre). And have worked in aviation for 9 years and counting. Bet i was a passenger on one of these flights in my last birth !!

    • @kellyclarke8754
      @kellyclarke8754 Před rokem +2

      I flew on the day you were born. American Airlines. Houston to Dallas and Dallas to Nashville.

    • @5GreenAcres
      @5GreenAcres Před rokem

      You mean world trade center inside job mossad/CIA right?

  • @TysonEmmy
    @TysonEmmy Před rokem +5

    Why no episode Made till this day upon PAN AM 73 Flight , story of Neerja Bhanot and IC 814!

    • @verytonk
      @verytonk Před 10 měsíci

      it wouldn't make a particularly good episode, seeing as the incident didn't involve a plane crash or similar accident

  • @anilrock6615
    @anilrock6615 Před rokem

    Such a good story

  • @adiakiyes6354
    @adiakiyes6354 Před rokem +1

    That 15mins. Completion of the check list is a damn. It is standard but there's a fire. And why the rear middle of the plane dont have exit door?

  • @poliwentpoli
    @poliwentpoli Před rokem +7

    next full episode is gonna be good i can feel it

  • @gasturbo
    @gasturbo Před 3 dny

    In an air crash someone has to die so that others can fly safely. Designers improve design, recommendations are made, procedures are improved that's the really sad part lives are lost to learn