Botched takeoff ends up in disaster at Massachusetts Hanscom Field - 2014 Bedford Gulfstream crash
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- Reconstruction of the takeoff attempt of a Gulfstream G-IV N121JM registered to SK Travels LLC and operated by Arizin Ventures, which was carrying american millionaire and philanthropist Lewis Katz and six others, including 2 pilots and 1 flight attendant.
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My very first week of getting my PPL I was told: Never, ever, ever, ever think you've memorize the checklist and get complacent. Read it each time like it was the first time.
If only MDs followed this advice. I lost 2 friends to botched surgeries/hospital acquired infections.
TBH, I have wondered about this. If pilots get so much training, why do they need a checklist? Why can't they remember procedures?
@@Holliethedog It's a good question but the answer is multi-faceted and takes a long time to explain everything that can go wrong memorizing a checklist. I can share a common one though: A checklist has many pages and is performed throughout the startup, taxi, takeoff and up to cruise. While you're taxiing, you continue down the checklist but many situations can distract you including calls from ground or ATC. If you lose your train of thought based on memory on what you've done so far and what's left to do, you can see where this can become a problem. I hope this helped.
Yes, we were ALL told that. Unfortunately, people get big heads late in their careers and don't think they have to do that "beginners stuff." It usually ends badly.
If YOU can’t memorize a checklist…you SUCK! And should NOT be a PILOT!!
Incompetent complacency on a staggering level. Any low-hour student grandmother knows you perform a minimum of two "full and free" control checks before even thinking about taking off. Their blatant disregard killed innocent people for no reason other than they couldn't be bothered. Unbelievable.
A hugely experienced ex-US navy pilot killed himself in a light plane because he forgot that check and a gust lock was on.
Should I insist from now on that my flight's captain and first officer each be a low-hour student grandmother ?
@@joemag6032 or insist upon a dei pilot
@@richardhead3211 Well, when it comes to pilot performance, "dei" is much too close to "die" to suit me 😞
@@joemag6032 LOL made my day
Trying to take off with a warning light on your instrument panel staring you in the face. And you just take off anyway?!
Maybe it was Friday.
Yes, I thought that was very unprofessional and wrong, to say the least.
Very negligent to say the least. Should have been a rejected takeoff when they first saw they didn't have enough power.
This is not supposed to happen with 2 Two experienced pilots, one should check the other but nothing.
It does when complacency sets in. I will take the newer crew
A silent checklist is the same as no checklist at all. This was horrifying negligence.
@@claytonsanders508 You ever fly single pilot night freight?
Tip - anything colored red in the cockpit is usually important and worth scrutiny. All of those years, flt hours, and training and wound up no better than having untrained idiots flying the plane. They killed all of those people. In some countries had those pilots survived they would been charged with crimes.
@@acbulgin2well said. I'm not a pilot yet I have met many. I would only add to your comment that arrogance is disturbingly common among pilots...at least, the ones I have met.
@@acbulgin2 It doesn't have to be recklessness, arrogance or egoism; it simply also can come out of decades of flying the same aircraft for thousands and thousands of hours. You then get used to things so much that they go automaticly, also in your mind, even when you look at a paper list...and if you then forget something you don't notice it as in your mind is the standard list which you cover. I always compare it with delivering newspapers which I did when I was young. The first few days you have to look at a paper with all streetnames and numbers, after less than a week your mind knows all and no paper is needed anymore. However, if then a few weeks later you get a notification that the day before you not delivered at street X nr Y you can not remember nor imagine: in your mind you have done it so often over and over again that your mind will tell you that you did deliver it to that address.
Even with checklists, it still happens that people forget to put flaps/slats before takeoff, or that they move the wrong lever...(remember we are no robots)
Red, means STOP! 👌
You’d just assume 2 pilots with this experience level you’d be totally safe. Guess it speaks to the fallibility of human nature.
I always think it will be forgetting to set flaps and slats for takeoff that will be the cause, but this may be worse. For two pilots who have been flying for so long, it’s inconceivable that they would try to take off with so many obvious warnings and issues. Numbskulls.
All those combined flight hours, and still failure. Checklist. Checklist. Checklist. It was drilled into me. Even when I fly alone I call out the items.
Good for you! Stay safe!
My first assignment at the NTSB ...my new career after leaving the Airlines as a tech. Unfortunately, a reoccurring cause of death. So glad I'm retired now. I never learned to understand pilot egotistical mindset and embedded arrogance. Good job with the video. Someone asked me to check out your channel. 👍
Thanks and welcome
The thing about licenses and check rides is on one specific day you met the minimum requirements to pass the task. Does not guarantee good future performance.
All the warnings were there. This is why I'm always nervous on an aircraft. Some pilots are idiots. The worst ever aircraft disaster was caused by the actions of KLM's most senior Captain.
After watching a LOT of aircraft disaster videos, they fly an alarming amount with well known equipment problems, often not fixed to save money. Problems with planes, equipment at airports, maintence (cost cutting, wrong procedures, etc).
Flying gets safer over time, re commercial flights, but still -- no much nonsense that COCULD lead to big trouble is tolerated -- to save money.
@rogergeyer9851 not only money
@@rogergeyer9851 You are correct. Although flying is statistically low risk there are still many dangers lurking.
Very true!
That was a combination of factors. KLM had strict rules about pilots not getting overtime even for a delayed flight and punishments for captains who did regardless of circumstances. That was a policy that killed all those people. That captain was their senior trainer. He didn't want to lose his job. He gambled in the fog and lost. He disregarded the tower and lost, he didn't listen to his copilot, who at the time didn't clearly state his concern, and lost. Today, pilots are taught to communicate clearly and not see the captain as the commander of the cockpit but rather, the other person flying the plane. Communication has improved greatly because of crashes like that one.
Can’t believe 2 experienced pilots could be so unbelievably complacent, so sad.
I am a low time GA pilot with several thouusand hours. It's hard to believe that two experienced, knowledgable pilots would BOTH forget to disengage the gust lock before starting the takeoff roll. Makes you afraid to fly charter.
It is almost beyond belief that these two highly-experienced jet pilots would leave the control lock on. People rightly wonder, "How could that happen??" Easy! Two highly-experienced pilots who've flown with each other many, many times can become complacent. And that is apparently what happened here. They landed in Boston during daylight. One of them set the control lock for some reason (maybe it was gusty?). It was probably something that they normally didn't do. When they returned to the aircraft, it was dark. Jet cockpits are typically not brightly lit at nighttime. In their complacent and "silent" way of accomplishing checklists, the "Gust Lock - OFF" item was missed. It must have been in an unlit area of the console. Ironically, their jet had just enough play in the throttle lock to allow them "some" movement - enough to taxi and get the aircraft accelerating down the runway, evidently. They futzed around, trying to get the gust lock off, but it wasn't happening once air loads were imposed on the control surfaces. We can all chant, "They should have..." this, or "They should have..." that, but they did not do the thing that would have saved their (and their passengers') lives: Abort the takeoff at the first sign of trouble. Hey, even the best of us can make a mistake, I reckon.
Go right on reckoning I reckon.
That wasn’t a mistake that was incompetence
This is really a strange one based on the experience of the two pilots. These excerpts are from the NTSB report:
"The PIC, age 45, who was seated in the left pilot seat, held an airline transport pilot certificate with a multiengine airplane rating and type ratings for the Gulfstream G-1159(Gulfstream G-II/G-III), Gulfstream G-IV, Beechcraft BE-400/Mitsubishi MU-300, and Gates Learjet LR-JET airplanes. He had commercial privileges in single-engine airplanes and held a flight instructor certificate with single-engine airplane and instrument airplane ratings."
"The PIC’s FAA medical records documented that he was a passenger in an airplane that crashed in 1992. As a result, he suffered multiple facial injuries, a fracture dislocation of his ankle, and a closed head injury; he was hospitalized for about 4 weeks."
"The SIC, age 61, who was seated in the right pilot seat, held an airline transport pilot certificate with a multiengine airplane rating and type ratings for the Gulfstream G-1159(Gulfstream G-II/G-III), Gulfstream G-IV, Gulfstream G-V, and Lockheed L-1329 (Jetstar/Jetstar II) airplanes. He had commercial privileges in single-engine airplanes and held a flight instructor certificate with single-engine airplane, multiengine airplane, and instrument airplane ratings. The SIC also held a mechanic certificate with airframe and powerplant ratings and a current inspection authorization... the SIC reported that he had accumulated 18,200 hours of flight time as PIC and 2,800 hours in G-IV airplanes."
Wow my jaw just kept dropping with every screwup and the end result. Just wowwww.
I live not far from Hanscom and I remeber this incident and its aftermath/investigation/findings very well. Nothing short of criminal.
At the very least, you don't takeoff with a warning on your instrument panel. Wow. I had a last hope they would turn the plane somewhere safe to make it "drift" and have a better chance... I've seen that on other reproductions and it did make the difference. But gust lock let them do nothing but accelerate and try to brake... what a sad accident.
To the many pilots who transport millions of souls daily....thank you for doing your checklists! Kenny Nash ABE ENTERTAINMENT
Very sad and unprofessional that these before-take-off checks were not done, but why is it possible for this machine to be configured for flight and for the take-off roll to commence with the gust lock engaged? Why is there simply not an interlock mechanism to prevent the thrust levers being moved to take-off thrust if the gust lock is engaged? I can't conceive of a situation where take-off thrust and an engaged gust lock would ever be needed concurrently. At the very least an unignorable alarm, surely?
As a retired ER doctor I understand the mental fatigue that comes with doing the same thing (ie, the same discharge instructions) many thousands of times. It’s not just numbing, you begin to resent it. Especially as you get older. When you get to the point where doing the same thing repetitively causes you to do anything to shorten it it’s time to stop and do something else.
The former PA Governor Rendell was offered a ride to go on that trip but was unable. Best decision he ever made. Some may have been disappointed.
Who would have been disappointed ? Your imagination really pinpoints people.
@@carlwalker3557 Those who didn't like that governor, obviously! Come on now. I assume you're not thinking clearly.
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If I'd looked at the history of both pilots I'd have had no reservations about travelling on that plane.. Obviously, the pairing of the two of them together over such a long period had led to departures from SOPs... maybe a good reason to monitor QARs periodically to pick up any anomalies developing as a result of overfamiliarity due to repetition.
My husband is a Challenger 604 pilot he is early sixties. The plane you computer generated is not a G4.
Yep, the Cessna logo on the yoke was a dead give away.........
Wow... thanks for clearing that up! /s
Yeah, which computer simulation matters, that will change things.
@@carlwalker3557 /s...
Not a challenger either
Really rediculous especially for Two trained experienced pilots. Then the last minute attempt to abort when the pilot knew how long it would take stop and how short the remaining runway was.
I’m guilty of doing checklist items by memory e.g I do flap/trim settings, idle check, control check and instrument checks during taxi and the run up in a sequence manner. However, I always read out the checklists after completing my sequence memory items to make sure all was covered.
Very similar to the Detroit 87’ crash where the TO configuration was set wrong (apparently they took out the circuit breaker to stop the visual/ audio warnings. Also, how is a 61 year old “First officer” not promoted to captain by now?
Not sure if he was only a F/O.
Two pilot ops I think are always designated…
PIC and F/O, even if both are Captains.
@@57Jimmy I’ve seen many videos where they state their ranks and state “acting as first officer” …also, when “flight engineer” was more prevalent to see one in their 50’s one would think they would want to be promoted to a Captain at that stage?
I’ve been flying Boeings for most of my career and Boeing normal checklists are short and to the point, covering only items that have the potential to be catastrophic if overlooked. Flight controls being one of them.
Interesting.
Crazy. I was just telling someone about this entirely preventable disaster a few days ago, (I think because I'd watched a video recently with similar cause and outcome) as the destination airport is not far away. This particular incident came to mind, but I couldn't recall Mr. Katz's name at the time.
So unfortunate (not to mention egregiously careless) that such experienced pilots are even capable of such recklessness. But as humans, such lax attitudes and results are always a possibility, however remote, and will remain so.
THe issue is too many flights together that they developed blind amnesia to the potential issues. False trust was built up by familiarization. What are the regulations regarding crew members switching up their flying partners?
It's instilled in every pilot to conduct a flight controls check prior to flight. Sad.
Blessing and prayers to all involved, to their families and friends. Seems like compliance and mental fatigue happens in all professions. It seems to happen to those more ‘experienced’ too. Especially when in a rush. It needs to be studied a lot more and with ongoing training. I am not a pilot, so I wonder: is there a way for an aircraft to automatically ‘prevent’ the start of a takeoff, if ANY warnings exist? Sorta like you have to pass a checklist test. -The stakes are so high it would be worth it. Thx.
“Silent” checklists are recipes for disaster. Probably one of the worst cases ever of flight crew complacency. A simple “three free and correct” box flight control check would have saved all on board. Not the easiest thing to taxi a Gulfstream with the control lock on but these guys managed to do that as well.
Likely used differential braking?
All of the Gulfstream have a “tiller” used by the left seater to maneuver the aircraft on the ground, and it is not disabled by the control lock. Still mystified as to how this crew got enough power when starting taxi as the control lock significantly restricts throttle movement. They lined up all the holes in the Swiss cheese.
Never ceases to amaze me I guess it’s just human nature or perhaps I am just OCD which having Tourette’s I probably am as it goes together LOL but anyway I’ve ridden motorbikes for 45 years and because I know what tarseal tastes like , every time I ride, I check over the bike if I hop on it and something feels a bit odd. I stop straight away But as I say it never ceases to amaze me with aviation when you’re even more committed than you are on a road going vehicle that people see something not right but they just continue rather than say it’s a shitload harder once we try and get it in the air let’s stop and see what that light is etc
Total non sequitur, but on Christmas Eve 2014, (around 12:30AM) my wife and I saw 9 lights hovering above Hanscom that suddenly sped away and over the horizon in mere seconds. My only UFO sighting (and hers)
And the earth is flat. /s
Take the nonsense elsewhere.
When I live near there .
@@rogergeyer9851HA HA HA HA HA HA HA the joke is on YOU doofus. I've had a UFO experience, seen a sasquatch and experienced paranormal activity in my home.
Because YOU haven't seen a UFO, they're all fake, right? What a kindergarten mentality.
Secret USAF research done there. You may have seen Aurora.
I watch a couple of CZcams pilots who never seem to run through the checklists except from their memory and they scare me. I commented on this a few times and their "fans" blasted me off their channels...
I don't get it. Checking controls for free movement is ingrained from early PPL training.
I'm not giving the pilots a pass by any stretch of the imagination. It's inconceivable that any pilot of any kind of rating, I don't care how many hours, (2 or 20,000) would attempt to take off without checking freedom of movement of the flight controls. But it's also concerning That a G-IV has an indicator light that determines that rudder movement is limited, but didn't take the design a step further and configured that sensor to prevent an attempted take off! So many clues. Two clueless pilots. This is hard to watch.
It's amazing how pilots with so many hours logged could make such a careless mistake. There are checklist for a reason. I find it reckless what they did.
Complacency has no place in aviation. It doesn’t care how much experience is up front, it WILL kill you and just like the agent behind the glass at the Dept of Motor Vehicles…coldly say…
“NEXT”😢
Would that be part of the preflight checklist ?
Wonderful camera work, especially @ 4:14
Mauricio PC eres tu en ingles?
...complacency can kill.
Not a pilot but if I was having trouble with the controls I might move the giant red lever to a different position maybe.
A silent check list is never a good idea.
As a non-pilot...
I keep seeing these videos where the automated safety system causes the crash.
So the authorities load more automated safety systems on the pilots ...
Who actually have no idea how little control they have.
Whats the nice sombering music there at the end?
The visual is not a Gulfstream 4. The gust lock works on the ailerons, the rudder and the elevator ... not the "wings" as stated.
If you're going to pretend to know about these things, you could at least do some elementary research.
How on earth do these fools get to fly an aircraft it's utterly ridiculous 🤬
Manufacturer needs to improve “ communication “ between the planes electronics and a pilot......such that when a warning light pops on.....a second light should pop on that states....” TO attempt will fail”
not even close to a g4
That's flat out, Insane. What a waste, isn't there oversight to pilots actions in the cockpit, I had more oversight driving a semi.
Hard to believe two experienced pilots were so negligent.
They had plenty of chances to catch the error, but many aircraft have a "config warning" that would have set off an alarm. Hard to believe an aircraft as expensive as a Gulfstream didn't have this.
Complacency kills.
Was this an act of suicide? Complacency is one thing but a critical fail indicator in your face before taking off is, inexplicable.
I am betting the families of the deceased sued Gulfstream over the Gust Lock when it was clearly the pilot's fault for not following the pre-takeoff procedure.
I remember this. Very tragic. Some things fundamental were forgotten and everyone died because of it (they likely all burned to death) Even a non-pilot would know this should have been a rejected takeoff when they had time to. And never bothering to do check lists for that long (175 flights?????) Sheer insanity.
Complacency kills... Sad for the pilots and all on board. And the familys.
There is a reason they have those checklists!
Ummm....
This is not a G-IV, this is a Cessna Citation/750
The more you know I guess, but GulfStream G-IV videos are plenty and easy to find.
The video depicts a Cessna Citation Ten, or 750.
Happy Hanscom AFB serves the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). at Ft. Devens
It is safer to fly with rookie pilots since they are hyper-focused on not screwing up. Veteran pilots are complacent because they think they know everything.
Becoming a millionaire. To die because of a knob. That's my luck. What a stupid way to die. Without any control of it. A damn knob.
Peer pressure. One of the two is the main culprit, and probably bossed the other into disregarding the 'boring' checks, and the stronger personality wins in the process, but loses in the end.
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Thanks and welcome!
I sure hope the families sued the shit out of that company and not only got millions but made them bankrupt.
The company should have such insurance for accidents.
A friend of mine (who became a captain in a regional later) got his ppl hours here.
Absolutely mind-boggling that with so many combined hours of experience these two clowns would continue with a takeoff knowing there was an issue with rudder control. And then not reject takeoff when lack of power was observed. Staggering complacency.
The crew simply was complacent and did not go through the checklists required.
When in doubt, don't!!!
the fuel tank was ripped open by a FAULTY ground mounted 'BREAK-AWAY' antenna bolt. Otherwise a runway overrun. PINTO! PINTO! PINTO! don't blame the driver.
This is the result of not performing safety checklist. This didn't need to happen.
I worked in the chemical industry. The mantra there was "You get what you inspect, NOT what you expect".
And not even the checklist if they had just done full and free control check which every single takeoff I did when I was learning to fly they would’ve picked the gust locker in
Everytime I would see a plane running toward takeoff on a runway, I would wonder what would happen if it couldn't actually take off, for whatever reason, once the runway ends. Now I see what'd happen.
4:41 Why couldn't the co-pilot release the lock?
These two incredibly arrogant Pilots are now “LEGENDS” in the aviation community…
They will ALWAYS be talked about, and will teach others how NOT to become “legendary” like themselves.
Wonder why the copilot who has way more total hours plus hours on type plus has been with the company much longer is still just a copilot?
He and the pilot were in a relationship?
didnt do the check list and checked out
Sadly, those passengers and Flight Attendant lost that lottery. Just pathetic piloting with multiple opportunities to find and resolve the issues. Lazy, unprofessional behavior.
Read the NTSB report. From the responding firefighters to the jammed exit door. This whole situation was a clusterf&#k from the get go.
Incompetence on everyone’s part.
Lou, the owner, was very good to these pilots. They got a chance to visit family on trips, etc.
It's unfortunate that they weren't on the ball with routine tasks.
Sad, these pilots weren't just incompetent, they were bad people.
It sounds an aweful lot like pilots who liked to be high in the cockpit. No check list, tons of experience but missed three opportunities. High.
After 21 years of airline bouncing, I looked for some stability (if there is such a thing in aviation) in 91/135. Unfortunately, none of the elements of this crash are a surprise in the light jet “world”.
That's why you don't ignore warning lights
Not GIV in video
Another tragic example of cockpit complacency.
Complacency kills, almost every disaster is caused by it.
why didn't you recreate this using the correct aircraft , a G IV ?
The exact model is not in the sim
@@MPCFlights got ya .
Good video
Checklist,checklist and checklist is the only way to work safe !!
no anti collision light
Lazy pilots took innocents with them….
I live near Hanscome Field Bedford mass. Great private airport. Why did this happen, also why did the plane catch fire for.
Did you watch the last few minutes of this video?
Complaceny and familiarity killed everyone. This would not have happened with a major airline - billionaires take notice.
You forget the accidents where they forgot to put flaps/slats before takeoff? Spanair 5022, NWA 255, Delta 1141
You mean a major DOMESTIC airline. Not third world foreign airlines where you are taking a chance flying with them.
Pass this along to everyone you know that fly's