The Pilot That Did The Unthinkable | The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Plane Crash
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This is the story of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl disaster. On the 7th of september 2011, a yak 42 operated by the charter company yak service was operating flight 9633, from Tunoshna airport in yaroslav to minsk in belarus. They were ferrying some very important passengers, the Lokomotiv yaroslavl ice hockey team. They were part of the KHL and they were very popular in Russia at the time and in the world of hockey. They were superstars in their own right.
That day the weather was good with light winds and tons of visibility. The yak 42 entered the runway and lined up with the centerline all ready to go. The runway was 9800 feet long, more than enough for the yak 42s takeoff run, if things went to plan they'd just need 3900 feet of runway. The pilots were satisfied and advanced the throttles to takeoff power. The plane began rolling down the runway, gaining speed with every second. It was hurtling down the runway at about 130 knots, but the plane did not lift off something bound it to the earth.
But the plane was running out of space, the runway soon came to an end and the plane still wasn't airborne. It traveled past the end of the runway on the ground for another 1300 feet and it finally lifted off. The plane struggled to stay airborne, swaying precariously from side to side. It couldn't climb but it was off the ground. But luck soon ran out for flight 9633. In the planes flight path was an antenna, the plane at this point was only 20 feet off of the ground and it could not clear the antenna, the left wing clipped the antenna and the plane came crashing back down. The plane broke up during the impact. The tail section of the plane ended up in the volga river, the rest of the plane was strewn down the extended centerline of the runway.
Of the 45 people on board only one person survived. No one from the hockey team survived.
Right after the crash a ton of attention was put on the carrier, yak service. It wasnt the best airline out there. For example in 2009 the airline was investigated by the european commission for safety concerns, even russian authorities imposed sanctions on the airline. Moreover the airline was forbidden from flying into europe in 2010 for a few months. This airline was not in good shape.
The investigators had a mountain of documents to go through and they had some stories to tell, they found that the training given to the crew was sub standard. The training that were done were marred with brakes and holdups, it wasnt a continuous training program.
That was not all these pilots were trained on both the yak 40 and the yak 42, and they flew both planes. The yak 40 and the 42 arent that different, the Yak 42 is just a newer more modern version of the yak 40, but there were enough differences that pilots needed additional training to fly the yak 42. Usually pilots are trained to fly one and only one type of aircraft. If they want to fly another type of plane even from the same family theyd have to undergo simulator training and tests so that theyd understand the new plane really well. Here they went back and forth between both planes all the time. On this plane the first officer was the more experienced pilot, he infact held a high position in the company but he only had a few hundred hours in the yak 42 and that's why he was in the first officers position. - Věda a technologie
My dad, in one job, had to be qualified in two aircraft at the same time. I can't swear to whether he ever qualified in all three of the aircraft his organization flew or not, but what I DO know is that he went through some very, VERY serious training and simulator time, both initial training and recurrent, so as to NOT have the kinds of issues this crew had. Also, my dad retired at 60 even though he was still VERY capable, because he wanted to make sure he ended his career on an absolutely perfect record and had not even the slightest concern there could be a creeping medical problem he didn't know about. (Can you tell I am very proud of him???
Sounds like you should be very proud of him. He sounds like an excellent airman. 💝
@@HellcatMad I love him. ❤️ He’s even said, though with all respect given that we all have at least a small amount of mental decline as we age, that he aims to make sure he stops driving at the right time too, so he doesn’t become a road hazard. He’s far away from that at the moment but it certainly reassures me to know that. (His grandmother was also very practical and smart like that too and also stopped driving and moved herself to assisted living at the right time too. I think that may be part of where he inherited some of his smarts from.)
@@nerysghemor5781 oh wow he sounds amazing. A very smart man
How old is he now? What a great life
@@Amandaaaaaa123 He’s in his late 60s, retired, and having fun. 👍🥰
Pavol Demitra played with our NHL St. Louis Blues for many years and was well respected here. A friend obtained a Lokomotiv jersey with his name and number. It's probably the coolest hockey jersey I have ever worn to a game, amazing graphics and a memorial to a great player. Thanks for the video, what a tragedy...
this sounds like something that could have happened in 70s or 80s, to think this happened in 2011 is unbelievable
It couldn’t have happened in the 70-80s, during soviet times, here in Russia.. the rules and professionalism actually meant something back then..
Then we had a decade of lawlessness where rules and professionalism didn’t even exist as words in the vocabulary (I mean we had a drunk for a president and the country was literally run by organized crime syndicates)..
Then from 2000 finally somebody came to power who started restoring order from the chaos we existed in and restoring the country (that was falling apart).. and that takes a long time - it’s always harder to build something than to break it 🤷♂️
@@splifstar85
Interesting insight, thanks for sharing!
@@splifstar85 like chernobil couldn't happen.
2011 or 2021 aren't some magical years without mistakes or human errors.
@@Blakut
If you'd know anything about Chernobyl's meltdown, you'd know how exceptionally unlikely and unexpected that event was.
The Swiss Cheese model used for explaining airline crashes would be very appropriate there....
Which actually indicates that professionalism may very well have been better before the USSR collapsed than the decade after.
A well- (or poorly-) timed ad made the video go like this for me: “the observing pilot would call for a checklist by saying SO THE REASON I LOVE HELLO FRESH IS”
Lol 😆
From the sound of it, that would've been an improvement.
Pilot saying ‘ YOU’RE MATTRESS SHOULDN’T JIGGLE’
Got an ad before i could hear how many people died on board. So i thought one person died not 40
For me it was a quorn ad. “The observing pilot would call for a checklist by saying MEAAAAAAAAT” 😂
i remember when this happened i was getting back into following hockey again. despite only really following north american leagues, it was crazy how many of the players i knew of. lost a lot of good dudes in this one.
Håkan Liv was a big deal here in Sweden, and a great guy and goalie. Wish he'd signed up for the NHL.
Pavol Demitra was one of them I think.
@@stevencooke6451 Yes he was, we have a hockey stadium named after him and also a memorial in my hometown. He used to train and play here and also lived here with his family so the funeral ceremony was held in the stadium...horrible tragedy really, he was a legend and the whole country gieved for him ...
It is a Bad Fuel that cause this, not the "pilot hitting the breaks".. I remember this accident..
@@erublind You mean Stefan Liv right? Also, he did play in NA, but in the AHL. He never really could get into the Red Wings team so he went back home to HV71.
My husband and I switch cars a lot. My gear shaft is mounted on the wheel. His is in the center console. This accident makes me think of how many times a week I reach for the shifter in my husband's car and inadvertently turn on the wipers instead.
That's called being a woman hun. 😅👍
@@georgebrandy3896 just
dont
@@aquatikat 🤣👍
That sort of thing makes me think that automotive type rating should be a thing. I mean, a lot of people drive their cars without even knowing basic things like its dimensions, powertrain, if it's front, rear or all wheel drive. Knowing how your car handles and operates can prevent a serious accident.
@@icecat2025 The problem here is not so much being unfamiliar with your car (though I agree that's a problem). It's when swapping from one car to another. My car has indicators on left, wipers on right; my wife's car has them the other way round. Very easy to use the wrong control when hopping from one car into the other.
I remember this well. Three Czech hockey players perished on that flight, two of them world champions of 2010. It think it would be easier to accept if it was a rare technical malfunction or bad weather, but it's very painful to know how unnecessary and preventable this crash was.
All because a pilot didn't want to lose his job.
Human greed.
Yak-42 is not the derivative of Yak-40, it's a completely different airplane. Not to mention the size (almost twice as much), the 42-nd got the swept wing whereas 40-th had the straight wing. Yak-42 is basically like Tu-154 or Boeing 727, but Yak :-) and any crew switching to 42 from 40 definitely would need a lot of training.
You're right, they're very different. The Yak-42 carries over twice the number of passengers as well (maximum 120 vs. 32 on the Yak-42).
@@Starchface Not to mention, its MTOW is almost quadrupled relative to the Yak-40. In terms of mass, a Yak-42 is farther from a Yak-40 than a 777-300 is from a 737-100.
@@corisco8817 wow
Is it compatible to the lada niva?
@@w210black ah a niva, a little beast, my dad has one
Out of this crash, there was one survivor, an aviation engineer Alexander Sizov who was a passenger in the last row. Alexander Galimov, one of the passengers from the hockey team also survived the initial crash, also sitting in the last row, but died in the hospital.
Alexander Sizov, after he recovered, worked in Yakovlev design bureau, but left his job sometime before late-2020 when local journalists tried to contact him, and pretty much disappeared.
When journalists start looking for you in Russia it's usually best to disappear.
Probably survivor guilt. Amazing that he made it.
@@patriciamariemitchel As i've read he was rather upset at journalists when the initial report of his survival was published (in Russian state media), they posted a photo of another man from the hospital, not him. The relatives of the victims tried to contact him when he was appearing on public during the trial against the airline, and he initially was open to that, but decided not to leave any contact information. But his whereabouts until recently were known in general.
@@commerce-usa Rather curious how statistically being in the last rows contribute to survival in disasters. One of the reasons he survived is attributed to him (don't tell this to anyone) not buckling his seatbelt (don't do this, always buckle your seatbelt during the entire duration of the flight), the same can be said about another initial survivor.
@@Vokabre even more reason the man was so fortunate. The back is statistically better for survivability, they put the flight recorders in the tail for a reason. 😉
The simulated video shows no flaps on takeoff - so I assumed you were going to say the problem was caused by not applying the flaps The brakes explanation is very thorough and well explained - it makes sense.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing -- it failed to take off due to no flaps.
Just guessing here but: i thought it was because the simulator might not have an options to make the plane fly like in the accident. Meaning the simulator might not have an option for 'take-off throttle + little bit of brakes'. So the dude who flew the sim, decided to just not apply flaps so it wouldn't take-off. Again, just guessing why the video showed no flaps.
@@alaric_ I think it's MSFS. If so, there are brakes. I use the brakes with the keyboard, so brakes are either full on or off, and it's all of them. They can be mapped to analog inputs, depending on what controller(s) he's using. I believe you can map the left and right side brakes to the toe on the pedals, so you can use differential braking to steer on the ground, just like a real aircraft.
It may just be that he didn't deploy the flaps, so it wouldn't generate extra lift too soon. Or he didn't worry about it for this particular simulation.
actually this was a case where braking the plane ended up breaking the plane.
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This is why we need all those rules and policies, as tiring and annoying as they may sometimes be.
Moreso, this is why we need to get rid of pilots, replace by a DUMB version of artificial intelligence (auto pilot), even that will be way better!
We have had checklists for more than 100 years, lousy pilots ignore them - lots of lousy pilots, AI always does the right thing.
I know how bad pilots are. I’m a pilot and an Electrical Engineer, specialized in controls. Pilots ARE THE WEAKEST LINK - unionized incompetents!
When someone produces an autopilot that can land a trijet with no centre engine, no hydraulics, and less than 90% fatalities, then you can persuade the general public that airliners with no meatbag pilot are acceptable.
The rules and policies need to be thoroughly worked over with pilot input. They are the ones who will be following them and there are pilots with a lot of good judgment who are interested in getting it right. No surprise there.
@@grommile This is an irrational position to take. It is obviously true that humans will sometimes be able to save a plane that an automation system would not be able to save. It is *also* true that there are cases where automation did (or could have, if not overridden by humans) save a plane where humans could not.
The correct question is "How often does human intervention *cause* accidents versus how often does automation cause accidents?" This isn't an easy question to answer, but... Given the increasing complexity of passenger jets and the corresponding increase in automation there *must*, eventually, be a point where having a human in the loop becomes a net negative from a safety perspective. *Where* that point of is and how close we are to it is highly debatable -- but Airbus clearly believes we are fairly close, as it overrides human input under certain situations (alpha floor / stall protection).
It's worth pointing out that we have *already* reached that point in regards to spacecraft (the "pilot" in a Dragon capsule is almost exclusively limited to selecting between options generated by and executed by automation) and are actively working towards implementing full automation in personal passenger automobiles (see Tesela, for example). While these aren't exact analogs -- spacecraft have far fewer survivable options when things go wrong, and car drivers lack in-depth training -- they are still useful to see which way things are going.
Everything is a technicality until something goes wrong.
If I heard this right, the runway was 3 times longer than needed.
So, once you pass the half way mark, and are still not airborne, it seems that calling an abort would be an ‘oh shit, abort’ moment.
Get-there-itis overrules logical thinking during takeoff "attempts." With some pilots, wishing the aircraft up into the air is apparently more than enough to accomplish it.
I like the ones who fail to deploy flaps for takeoff.
At 4:53 he notes they did not have enough runway (because of their choice of taxi pattern) in case they had to reject the takeoff for any reason.
@@flagmichael : Yeah, that's what he said, but it's not correct. If you have "more than enough runway to take off", then you have more than enough runway to abort a takeoff. This is especially true here, where the runway was more than twice as long as necessary for takeoff, even after subtracting the 984 feet that the pilots "forfeited" by choosing not to go to the end and turn around.
This accident was caused by the copilot applying the brakes on takeoff (WTF???) and the failure of the pilot to abort the takeoff after it must've become clear that they weren't accelerating briskly enough.
The “point of no return” during a takeoff is called V1. It means you’re past the point of aborting the takeoff. It’s based on type of plane, cargo, several important factors that must be checked and rechecked. It’s why we have checklists. This pilot threw a dart and hoped it would be close enough to the right number. And missed horribly.
This is what I don't understand about so many of these unnecessary crashes. Why they push forward in spite of sense and visual cues, instead of just rolling to a stop and figuring it out. I don't buy the whole "money" or "time delay" angle, simply because the cost of a disaster is proven in dollars and cents (not to mention human lives) to far outweigh a delay. It's like PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL is the only reason I can realistically see here. Even if you drive everyday, the one day there's a problem you can't use the "I drive everyday without an issue" kind of illogic to assume that there never will be an issue.
This was so heartbreaking. Pavol Demitra was one of my favorite players growing up. Rest In Peace everyone on that flight.
It's incredible that you can be applying the brakes and not know it. The plane should notify you of something this wrong, such as, "you're trying to take off and braking at the same time"
Right??! Surely there should be a light somewhere that signals this… idk this is such stupid thing to happen in general, but for it to happen in 2011 is even worse…
Oh yeah.... I remember that day, I was in the forest with grandparents looking for mushrooms... And on the plane was one of the best Latvian ice hockey players of that time...
What was his name?
@@williamellis9499 Kārlis Skrastiņš
@@latvianprogamer6327 that goes for other nations as well, Slovakia lost one of their great players too, other countries in similar way. It was tragedy on so many fronts. It is and was, in some way, the consequence of post ussr block negligence and ignorance to safety etc. I've seen during one flight show many years ago, fighter planes from ukraine and russia, they were rusty, some was there talking to the guy obviously guarding that plane, talking about flying on one engine of two only, like "whatever" i do not care that one engine is dead, i got here that way all over from russia...
I remember vividly as a young hockey fan, hearing that Pavol Demitra had died in a plane crash. Having watched the Vancouver Canucks playoff run in 2011 I knew very well who he was and how good he was, but it wasn’t until now that I found out the details of the crash… heartbreaking that so many talented people were lost to such carelessness
Just yesterday on my FB feed there was a DoT PSA about obeying speed limits in school zones because otherwise you might not have enough time to avoid running over some kid. The thread was FILLED with outraged drivers who took it as a personal affront to their driving skill, and how drivers should be free to drive the speed THEY felt they could stop safely at.
This story is a perfect example of why pilots (or drivers) should NOT be free to self evaluate in this direction.
No wonder if there's no driver's education and parents "teach" their kids XD
Also, why is it even physically possible to drive over the speed limit in a school zone?
The USA seems to have very dangerous standards for road design, with lots of mixing of fast and slow traffic, and very little attention to solving systematic problems.
@@rogerwilco2 Do you mean to say that cars should be able to detect school zones, and slow to the speed limit during them? I don't really have a strong opinion on it one way or another, just curious as to what you're advocating for.
@@NotAghostSpeedruns no he's saying that the road system should be changed so it is not mixing traffic speeds. Or having confusing speed patterns
@@NotAghostSpeedruns Look up "traffic calming". You don't have to build it into the cars when you can build it into the roads.
RIP Stefan Liv, Swedish hockey goalie. He won the Olympic gold 2006 with the Swedish hockey team, albeit as reserve goalie, along side absolute hockey giants like Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin, Niklas Lidström, Henrik Zetterberg, the Sedin twins Henrik and Daniel, Niklas Kronwall and of course legendary goalie Henrik Lundqvist. (I had to stop myself from just listing the entire roster, my goodness what a team Sweden had..!)
I worked for The Colorado Avalanche in the video scouting dept in the early 2000's and knew and spoke with Brad McCrimmon many times. We were always in contact with coaches around the league in case of potential trades and they wanted footage. He was such a nice dude and everyone in the hockey community thought well of him. I didn't know he was coaching in Russia and I heard about this crash and we were all devastated.
Then we heard Crimmer was on that plane and it hit home harder. Pavel Demitra was on that plane too. God bless the families of these young men.
Yes, I remember it clearly because of a fellow Swede that died in crash. Stefan LIv was a professional hockey player and today is 10 years. All the Swedish newspaper has remembrance articles on him today.
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A Czech hockey player from my home town, Josef Vašíček, was on that team and on that flight. Czech hockey players do venture into KHL from time to time (as they also get to NHL - Vašíček played there before that as well), sadly, bad things do happen.
Monday just got better. Reading up on this is, well, terrifying.
Hopefully we’ve learnt our lesson
Love your format, great choice of stories.
When the country that gave us _Aeroflot_ bans a carrier service, you know they're not kidding.
Soviet-era Aeroflot was true Russian roulette: You were lucky to land in one piece. After the fall of the Soviet Union, however, Aeroflot really cleaned up their act during the 90s. They modernized their fleet and bought a bunch of Western aircraft. They're a pretty good airline now in the 21st century.
I'm afraid the reputation Aeroflot made of itself with all those horrendous accidents during the dark era of Russian 90-s will remain for a while.
Hah, NO SHIT! XD I've heard some stories from my dad about Aeroflot in the mid-90s. As a a US Air Force cargo pilot who took his job very, VERY seriously, he was unimpressed. And that's putting it mildly.
@@Great-Documentaries LOL. Go back to Moscow you stupid troll.
1950s: 136 accidents for 1,157 deaths
1960s: 184 accidents for 1,976 deaths
1970s: 347 accidents for 3,541 deaths
1980s: 209 accidents for 2,217 deaths
876 accidents for 8,891 deaths in 40 years. And those are only the ones the Soviet government allowed to be publicly reported.
No other airline in the history of the world has a safety record as awful as Soviet-era Aeroflot.
@@hostrauer Astounding statistics, do you have a link?
A new video - my Monday improved a lot! Thank you for your great work
Thank you for watching!
I remember that... I'm from Latvia and ice hockey is basically the local religion.
One of our own players was on that plane. Kārlis Skrastiņš, nicknamed Iron Man.
Played in 3 olimpic games, 9 world championships, played for NHL teams Predators, Panthers, Avalanche and Stars, then transfed to KHL and.....
His body was recieved and buried with military honours, and the funeral was held at the biggest hockey arena in Rīga, Latvia.
Kārlis was my favorite player when he was with the Predators, he also wore mt favorite number, #3.
I was in Rybinsk, near Yaroslavl, the week after the crash. We went to the cemetery to place flowers on relatives' graves. At the cemetery gate, people were gathered around two enormous piles of flowers. We heard that these were in memory of the two hockey players from Rybinsk killed in the crash, Nikita Klyukin and Maxim Shuvalov.
Thanks Mini, been getting into aviation channels and yours is very informative. Keep going!
This accident reminds me a lot of LAPA 3142, in 31st August, 1999, in Buenos Aires Argentina. The airline flew precarious airplanes with little instrumentation and fake alarms blasting off all the time and poorly experienced pilots, in the cockpit before take off, the pilots were talking to the flight attendants about making a party when they got to their destination and we're very distracted, they didn't follow the take off procedure and didn't deploy the flaps while tracking down the runway, even with a loud alarm warning them of their error, they crashed on the outskirts of the airport, you should consider covering that disaster!
Your narration this morning was...🤔
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Quality content! Your animations continue to improve. !:-) 👍🖖
Great video! I can't believe that there isn't more information on this crash considering how important the team was
such a tragedy. i liked the straightforward, reasonably complete yet brief format. subscribed
Yak-40 and Yak-42 are substantially different. Yak-40 is 27-passenger regional jet. It flies lower and slower than jets usually fly. Yak-42 is a mid-range 100-passenger plane.
Ah good, I was just looking for something to watch and my new obsession drops a vid!
You’re too kind
Right ? Lol. #GrabsSnack
It’s only new to you now. In 20 years it’ll just be something you’re still obsessed with.
this his close to home because my favourite hockey teams goalie died on this plane. they couldnt even do the season premiere for the team because of this crash. we still remember him and all those hockey players. RIP Yaroslavl and RIP Stefan Liv
As a Commercial pilot of Czech descent and a long time coach and referee in minor hockey, I see all sides and I grieve over the loss of those players! The Airline was totally derelict in training and the first officer must have had a death wish to fly being medicated. A professional would have self-disqualified. I understand the cockpit chatter and the flippant manner of the pilots given the circumstances! This is a really sad tragedy for all concerned! Thank you for sharing this terrible situation!
This reminded me of the Chapecoense football team tragedy on LaMia flight 2933. Could you please do a video on that. Also the flight witch killed football star Emiliano Sala would make an interesting video.
It won t be easy with Sala s flight as there were no CVR nor FDR in that plane. Interesting anyway
LaMia ? !!! Damn arrogant rule-breaking Captain/Chief Pilot/Aircraft Owner/Company executive might as well have well 'executed' his passengers before they boarded. That flight was doomed from the start !
Only the part about not doing the calculations.
They crashed because the plane ran out of fuel
@@skz5k2 The 'running out of fuel' was entirely predictable. To make it even worse, apparently the engines were running while their coach made them do some exercises before boarding too !
@@grahamstevenson1740 Predictable especially when you load just enough fuel for the flight, without considering any problem
I remember FC Rostov came to play Portsmouth for a charity football match after the tragedy, before kickoff they read out the names of the dead and we were there clapping for nearly 5 minutes because there were so many names. It was one of the most sobering moments I can remember all because of incompetence from the pilots. RIP.
Great Video! Thanks for your work, I really like your Air Crash Investigations!
Another excellent analysis ! Keep the good work going !
These are very well-researched and well-presented, easy to understand videos. Such awful tragedies, but the detailed explanation of what happened is very welcomed. Keep up the awesome work on your channel.
Would you still feel the same if the video left out some potentially important details, and chose to only focus on the brakes and the cockpit dynamics? -.-
I agree. Its read in a way that has smaller sentences, and with a pace thats easy to absorb. Very nice for my adhd haha
Unfortunately his voice is quite obnoxious.
"Something bound it to the Earth." That's a force of nature that Sir Isaac Newton may or may not have dubbed, "gravity." Also, a John Mayer song of some rare credibility.
That wasn't it, something was keeping the NOSE down (more than the rest of the airplane)... When aircraft (and some drag-racing vehicles) are accelerating, the torque (moment of force) will tend to LIFT the nose, but in this case the brakes were keeping it very much pitch-down.
@@irrelevant_noob You may have missed the joke there buddy...
@@Ragedaonenlonely that's likely, since when talking about an aircraft accident i don't really expect to encounter jokes about the reasons which caused it. -.-
@@irrelevant_noob You encounter jokes about everything mate. That was pretty obvious sarcasm.
I never heard this story before, what a tragedy. With that length of Runway you think the pilot would have afforded. So sad. I appreciate your channel, keep up the good work.
This is one of the first non-9/11 flight crash I can remember, I wasn't young at the time or anything just not very attentative to flight crashes. RIP Stefan Liv
So this is how a jet powered locomotive looks like
@Jurgen Raven locomotive is the hockey team name.
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God that dark humour
Yuu kun 🤣
So this is how a jerk powered mind looks like
Wonder how many of pilot errors like this had slipped past flights that did not crash
*Imagine reading about the failed pilots of Saudia 163*
There was that JAL one (forgot the flight number).
Captain went to toilet, leaving first officer who's more used with another aircraft control layout, Captain returned requesting door to be opened, first officer complied but, accidentally trimmed the plane down due to different control, stalled the plane, and saved it.
Apparently more than a dozen times F-8 Crusader pilots have taken off from carriers with their wings still folded....
Plenty of times pilots have landed on the wrong carrier.
Taking it to the next level though during the Battle of Coral Sea, confused Japanese planes mistook a US carrier for their own and attempted to land. Though even the Americans were confused and US planes in the air even mistook the planes for their own. It wasn't until one of the bombers was low and basically almost touching down that both sides realized something was wrong. The plane gunned the engine, and the one behind it realized too, as AA also later opened up...at anything that was in the air.
Another GREAT video!
Great case review, and very well done. Thank you.
Rip Slovak legend Pavol Demitra 😔 best player
Good job as usual, keep it up!
One thing though, PIC or pilot in command is the captain. I think you meant PF - pilot flying when referring to the first officer. The captain (PIC) was then PM - pilot monitoring.
Neither was qualified to be called a “pilot” in the first place.
Another great episode my friend, you never disappoint. I don't know if you remember me but I subscribed to your channel back when you only had a little over 400 subscribers and i always told you that your channel will suddenly explode in popularity and i am amazed how fast your sub count is growing. I always shared your video with anyone i knew and whenever i was watching an aviation video on a different CZcams channel i would go down in the comments and tell people to go check out your awesome channel, hopefully that helped a little also.
May you, your family and friends stay safe and healthy in these crazy times.
You are now officially my favorite air disaster channel! Be well and stay safe... 🖖🐢👣
@6:30 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains is the billions of highly-probable things you didn't think of.
Indeed. That Conan-Doyle saying is responsible for lots of ignorance-fueled mistakes.
The worst ones are the ones who were easily avoidable,
I just discovered your channel (sorry it took me so long)
You provide all the necessary information needed to understand the event without wasting time in bullshit.
I love it so l instantly subscribed
PS l m not trying to undermine other flight channels
great video as ALWAYS!
This sounds like me playing FSX after a few months without flying.
Tbh, my first ever take-off in MSFS was better, than this
_"If they want to fly another type of aircraft, even from the same family, they'd have to undergo simulator training and tests, so that they understand the new plane really well."_
*laughs in Boeing*
...but great video, as always! Thank you!
lol
Well, modern Boeing, back in the day they were renound for their safety records
@@kommandantgalileo and they're still tryna Coast on those days...
Then again, Stateside company, Stateside mentality, I guess...
Thanks so much for sharing. 😎👌🏼
And i was about to ask where is the next video lol. I'm glad you upload so often
These pilots failed in the two components that makes a pilot a pilot.....safety and knowledge.
When the safety equipment works so well it starts to endanger life
At least they have safety equipment. During the Soviet Era this accident wouldn't have been that noteworthy, given how Russian airliners were crashing on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis 😬
@@petergray7576 Not exactly true
How terrifying and the loss of life is absolutely horrific! Thank you for a well done video. Thank you for posting!
Great video. keep 'em coming.
My days, now this was a disaster in every stretch of my imagination atleast...I mean the flight was literally doomed from the moment it was assigned to fly.
Was it? Seems to me like if whoever was pushing the breaks just moved their feet back a bit this wouldn’t have happened.
@@lemo4739 That's exactly what i meant bro...which is, had these two inadequently trained pilots weren't assigned to fly, then this accident would have been avoided...meaning as soon as these two donnies entered the cockpit,the flight was doomed...and that's exactly what i wrote in the first place.
@@priyanshuhazra8644 did you watch the video? It’s not that simple. All because a simple action could have corrected it doesn’t mean the recognition of that action being the right one to take is easy.
@@priyanshuhazra8644 bro XD it was ONE of the two pilots who was on the breaks.
@@lemo4739 +l
Isn't there a red light on the instrument panel that comes on when the brakes are applied?
maybe not, russian designs sometimes have small oversights like that
How red light will help? They should have abort take off, when they see that plane does not gain enough speed. No matter what lights are lit. But they could not watch even speedometer. It is called a tunnel effect, when a person concentrate all it's incoming information on a few parameters. They both were pulling up, instead one of the pilots should have watched the parameters, and suggest abort taking off.
@@enosunim
Yes, and a red light for the brakes would also help.
@@djg585 you should watch other videos, when pilots got multiple checks lit, and will turn off audio alarm, and continue to their fail strategy. So you can add lots of lamps and indicators, but they will not help, if pilot will not look at them.
@@enosunim
I would assume that pilots do generally look at their instrument panels.
Very nice to see a channel that narrates the scenario
Nice job on this one. Your really coming into your own. Keep plugging away...see you on the next one....
Can you do an episode on Pan Am 843
the crew successfully lands a plane that had half the right wing blown off from an engine explosion
What would have happened to the FO if he had reported his neuropathy, making him ineligible to fly? I imagine most people wouldn't report a health condition -- particularly something that would SEEM minor like neuropathy (until it goes absolutely, totally sideways like this) -- if they knew it would end their career with no viable replacement.
Some pilots cover up health issues because they know they’ll lose everything. It has contributed to quite a few crashes.
@@5roundsrapid263 I'll have to look more into that. It doesn't surprise me that it's contributed to more than just this one. It's just unfortunate, putting someone in the position of "self report and lose your livelihood, maybe your home, heck, maybe everything, or don't self report and pray that it works out okay for you and all those people whose lives you promised to protect"
I love this channel and I love aviation so this is the perfect channel great vids
Nice presentation dude👍
Peripheral neuropathy - losing feeling the legs and extremities - a sign of advanced diabetes ......
"Heels on the floor." That's what most instructors tell their students starting with their first takeoff. They'll say it again when the student is ready to land, and many times thereafter.
My uncle has this exact condition of P.N. We’ve been concerned perhaps he shouldn’t be driving. But they have an RV and drive their normal car on quite a few trips and my Aunt never drives those. She’s sot of a “hometown-only driver”. Is my uncle doing something dangerous?
@@Syclone0044 Older men, whether flying airplanes or driving, are very reluctant to admit that it's time to hang it up. They still need to believe that they have 'The Right Stuff'. But for their own safety and the safety of others......
Check out Kathryn's Report for plenty of sobering evidence of this fact.
I have it due to major spinal surgery that affected that nerve group. Cold makes it worse, in my case. It can be pretty gnarly....
@@sarahalbers5555 Many airplanes have brake pedals just above the rudder pedals, making it hard for those with PN to feel them (as this depressing video makes all too clear). Not sure how it would affect car drivers. Perhaps have the car modified for hand controls.
@@Syclone0044 Yes, going from the description of your uncle and aunt.
I know they talk about pilot shortages, but the standards for pilots need to be tougher
Nah, i think the standard for drivers should be higher first.
There's so pilot shortages, there is only a shortage of experienced pilots, plenty of fresh atpl pilots but it's hard for them to get a job as they have 0 experience.
Hey another great show,,thanks
Also Wikipedia says one of the pilots forged his credentials
And this, sadly,was the result. Lives lost for nothing
It pains me to think that some pilot in denial suffering, possibly from some sort of neuropathy may have been the cause of this crash. Why can't people just gracefully surrender as their skills decline?
Your channel has come such a long way since I first encountered it about a year or so ago, both visually and audibly.
Why thank you kind sir
@@MiniAirCrashInvestigation No worries.
You'd think, even with neuropathy, he'd be able to feel that the plane was being unusually slow and, at worst, reject the takeoff. But no. :/
"Why can't people gracefully surrender?"
Well... it's Russia, shortly after the global crash of 2008. And he was a pilot.
There's not a lot of same-paying jobs available if he'd stopped being a pilot.
I read on couple of occasions that Russian medical requirements for civil aviation pilots ("medical-flight commission of the civil aviation") are quite strict, even stricter than it is overseas, (especially strict in comparison when it comes to certifying private non-commercial pilots). This might contribute to pilots, lying not to face an inevitable loss of a job, when they consider themselves to be "not that bad".
There's another potential factor, as civil aviation pilots in Russia have a right to retire if i recall correctly at the age of 55 for men or 50 for women, earlier than people in most other fields. The pension civil aviation workers receive is pretty good compared to the rest of the workforce. The pilot who was hiding his condition was 49 years old, and could've been hoping to pull through to retirement.
Looks a lot like the LAPA Airlines Crash of 1999. Plane didn't took off and crashed at the end of the runway, just because the pilots just forgot to switch the flaps to take off position. Also they didn't follow any of the clean cockpit rules.
Awesome video, but that is just sad!
Could this happen with any other aircraft type?
I would imagine that applied brakes should trigger the take off configuration alarm..
Not on Boeing’s.
@@boeingdriver29 You mean it would not happen on Boeings, or it would not trigger an alarm? I doubt that brakes would trigger an alarm or it would be going off all the time while taxying.
@@cr10001 no alarm if you accidentally operate the brakes.
@@boeingdriver29 I suppose they could arrange for an alarm to only operate if at takeoff thrust. Though it must have seemed to all manufacturers to be sufficiently unlikely a circumstance to not justify bothering about.
If this crew had done their calculations, would they have noticed the lack of acceleration in time to abort the takeoff? Possibly not, since apparently the brake engagement only happened late in the takeoff run.
@@cr10001 Boeing pedals are similar to the larger Yak. Heels are on the floor making it impossible to actuate the brakes unless you have size 17 feet. You have to physically slide your feet up the pedal to commence braking. These guys were pretty slack with their briefings and as Takeoff is the most critical stage of any flight a concise clear discussion about any failure prior to or after V1 is vital so everyone is on the same page.
They should relocate the brakes to the left and right hands to be sure no one stamps on it while flight take off.
Brakes should be on the rudder pedals to help with steering. Ive never had a problem with that setup.
@@ShitboxFlyer Aren't those the rudder pedals? Isn't the youtuber just being a pepeg?
Man, there is no way you got stopped on that landing at the end xD You were more then halfway down the runway when you landed haha. Good video!
Great job!!
"The pilot in command, that is the first officer"
Did you mean pilot flying?
Depends
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 no, it doesn't.
Pilot in command = captain
PIC seat can seat either in CM1 or CM2
First officer and captain alternate PF and PM (pilot flying and pilot monitoring).
But in no way FO can be PIC
@@MrMonteillard sometimes the captain doesn’t fly the plain .
@@melaniesouza3174 yeah... Read again. Captain is still pic even if he is pm and fo is pf
@@melaniesouza3174 fly the "plain" ????????
I was a commercial pilot for 40 years. With all these explanations of lack of safety I probably will never fly again commercially. Airlines in that part of the world are notorious for lack of regulation and safety. I would rather take a horse snd wagon to get somewhere than fly in one of those airlines.
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Great video - always appreciate Russian aviation stories and this was another one that I was not familiar with. Thanks
I was thinking it was a story about the plane that was about to crash but then the pilot did something unthinkable to save it , lol
Couple things. You don’t “do the calculations” when they’re called for on the checklist. You should have already done them and the call out is verifying that you’ve done them. Not using full length is extremely common. Called an intersection takeoff. I’ve done a lot of them and if you’ve flown commercial much there’s a good chance you’ve been on a plane that didn’t use full length.
I had to laugh when he said rotation speed, take off distance etc. is calculated right before take off
Well done explanation and animation.
There was one famous Slovak hockey player on board and three Czech players. All died. It led to national mourning in Slovakia.
Yes!!!! This is what we need, more accident investigations from Soviet airliners - too many of these investigations on CZcams involve western aircraft. Well done, more of these please.
Just finished watching, what a tragic story - even sadder to know it was entirely preventable.
Yeah definitely agree. Something so simple :/
With a name like "Yak", it's no surprise they didn't get off the ground. A Yak is a large domesticated wild ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, they can have a terrible temperament, and they smell pretty awful. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever gotten a Yak launched into the air, although I have heard stories a time or two when a Yak managed to launch a human into the air...
This was a really hard one. Knew about it and tough to watch. All those fine young guys. Brutal.
Excellent!!
"Even the Russians authorities put Yak service under sanctions." Ok lets put our famous hockey team on it.
It’s a good video except for making out the hockey players to be more “important” than other people. To anyone who has lost a loved one in a crash, the persons who got killed were “very important people.”
I mean yes. I get your point. But those were guys that could cheer the whole countries. Everybody loved them. And beside that Mini always pays respect to all victims of these accidents.
This reminds me of an air crash in Brazil where someone thought it would be smart to place the transponder circuit breaker next to the foot rest.
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Why is there a Russian flag in the tail and a Ukraine flag near the door