A Routine Landing Quickly Turns into a Disaster | Asleep on the Job
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2022
- Find out how falling asleep on the job doomed 174 people. Here's the story of Aeroflot Flight 3352, a Tupolev Tu-154 airline flight on a domestic route from Krasnodar to Novosibirsk, with an intermediate landing in Omsk, Russia.
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"The lights were too bright for their liking so they turned them off"
Priceless
The lights are so bright, they can blind you. I worked on a ground maintenance crews and since we are looking down all the time to see where we are working, we are constantly staring into the lights. The lights at the airport are a major factor, because there are no upright objects, all you see is the lights. So the ground crew would have asked permission to the control tower to turn the lights down or off, which obviously they did. Usually ATC would mark the runway inactive and presumably the ground crew thought this was the case. They just got on with their job...
@@clintoncollier wear sunglasses then
@@clintoncollier
They broke regulations.
It was raining and poor visibility.
They didn't get a response from the tower when they had questioned - that was critical.
At that point they should have either left the Runway or put their lights on.
Common sense & survival instinct tells you that.
The lights being on would have been a life-saver.
If you find the lights difficult, wear sunglasses or if it's that unbearable for you get a different job.
@@clintoncollier and that caused the death of hundreds
@@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794 Aeroflot
This is one of the most infuriating incidents I've ever heard of. The absolute negligence of the airport staff is unbelievable. Not to mention the sheer stupidity of the ground crew who SAW that plane coming and thought "meh, probably won't actually try to land here." Dudes, GET OUT OF THE WAY.
To understand you need to think like a Russian. You only need to look at the performance of the Russian military in the Ukraine as an example.
And you might think, “hey fellas let’s turn on our lights, just in case.”
This was under the Soviet system. Fear is a huge motivating factor. The ground crew probably feared that if they cleared the runway against orders and there was an incident due to the wet conditions, they'd probably end up doing the fifteen years the controller did. Don't really fully buy the 'they thought the plane wasn't going to land' explanation. They were probably just utterly physically terrified of abandoning their posts without authorisation and the 'it's not landing' thing was a rationalisation of that.
Even so they absolutely should, of course, have turned on their lights the moment they saw the plane. (Or, y'know, just actually done their jobs properly and had them on from the beginning)
@@deepthinker999 I am gonna report u because your comment has nothing to do with the video .
@@KurianfromIndia Your comment has nothing to do with the video as well so I'm going to report you too
I'm a Ramp Agent for a major airline. I'm out on the ramp all the time sending and receiving flights. It's reasons like these that I take my job extremely serious. I do everything by the book and take no shortcuts. I'd rather delay a flight than place its safety at risk. I treat each flight as if my mom or kids were on it. It's hard to comprehend just how ignorant the ground crew and controllers were in this case. The pilots; talk about doing everything right but still seeing all of those lives perish.
Awesome bro! Good that you know what you do and you are disciplined.
@@akshaypendyala Members here who are flight crew and fellow ground crew will echo my comment. We're always trained and re-trained. We do our job by the book. I can confidently say this for all airlines in the USA, and I'm sure most around the world do the same. The skies are safe because of this. I fly comfortably with any airline now-a-days. We've learned a lot and continuously aim to improve safety. Thanks for the comment.
@@ADPeguero Kudos to you guys for keeping aviation safe 👏
God bless you for that... hope your peers also are observing you and doing the same thing.
You are one angel among 200 others making EACH flight safe. Thank you !
^^ nothing spiritual here. Just a reminder for those having eyes only for the flight crew, they are just a tiny portion of the highly responsible and qualified men and women behind the scene : not a single plane can fly without them.
really feel for those pilots - to watch nearly everyone on their plane die like that for an issue they were not responsible for or answerable to. The survivor's guilt must have been unbearable.
I know right 😓
I was just thinking the same as I finished watching it, John. I can't imagine the pilots and crew ever wanting to fly again, after being the only ones to survive such a horribly avoidable accident.
I heard that the captain was so angry that he climbed out of the wreckage and rushed to the tower with his gun, claiming to kill all the controllers on duty.
@@jeffery7281 did he carry a gun on the cockpit?
@@CapFreddy could be the case, this was in the Soviet Union and almost 40 years ago 😹
So many errors here but for some reason the most shocking to me is that the maintenance crew saw the incoming plane and just assumed it wasn't about to land and carried on with their business. Unbelievable.
IKR?! Three calls for clarification and then no response so they continued on. Everything went wrong!
I don't want to be advocate of the devil, but the video doesn't depict the actual circumstances visually (simulator limitations) :
- tower is asleep and didn't switch runway occupied for other stations to notice (yes, double critical error)
- ground crew sees lights in the distance, contacts ground 3 times, no response (the like of "confirm no aircraft cleared to land"). They ignore it out of boredome because they have busy work to do before early arrivals, and anyway, *tower would warn them to evacuate the runway.* That's the procedure esp. under poor visibility, you communicate, you don't rely on visuals.
- pilots asks clearance if runway in use : clearance contacts ground, no response at first then inaudible response seemingly meaning "free". At 5 AM, what you do ? Run outside and knock on ground control door assuming it's nearby ? => looks at runway occupancy light => tells pilots it's free, assuming *pilots are also responsible to go around* for whatever fishy on the runway. Unfortunately, it's poor visibility and ground crew have no beacon lights. (also critical error)
- How come ground crew not seeing the plane land ? For those having been next to a runway for hours just minutes before an aircraft lands in perfect visibility, it takes AGES to watch that aircraft getting closer, but *all of a sudden,* things escalates : the aircraft you noticed a moment ago which appeared far away is now very close and about to land. We remind it was rainning : seemingly approaching lights were visible, but inconsistently cause of low clouds. Anyway, you are concentrating on your job, all you want to do is do it quickly and get away, you haven't slept yet, you don't waste minutes to look at lights in the distance. Also, your equipement is making a lot of noise that covers that of a plane, the air blast is putting you inside clouds on the ground. In your mind, the only thing that could make you stop is that *radio coming alive telling you to evacuate* for incoming aircraft. That didn't happen, they were caught by surprise.
3 critical errors made by two parties. Right.
But the subsequent chains of negligence is dependant on initial errors and the circumstances were of no help : poor visibility, the time, lack of a ground chief to have one person having a visual on the situation outside while the other operating communications, because staff starvation, same thing in the tower, would be great to assess potential fatigue concern on those staff. I'm not saying those guys are not lenient and irresponsible, but, *sometimes* you are out of options, like "just look" or "make sure you have a clear answer" are simply unavailable, when an aircraft is about to land. And you may get in deep trouble for making a stupid decision the kind of "we can't know if the runway is in use, so, please find another airport". Each still active parties just relied on the safety redundancy which ultimately fallbacked on the sleeping tower and the pilots eventually seeing something to abort landing : Tower was dreaming and ground crew had no beacons, the loop is complete. Crash !
Just reminds me of Air Canada about to land on taxiway at San Francisco. Among the 5 (6 ?) aircraft on that taxiway, only ONE, the 747 United put the landing lights on : the state of mind of most people is just "that's ridiculous one could fuck up that much" that they are focused on the unbelievable state of the situation than doing ASAP what is required to correct it... like telling tower quickly what's happenning instead of muttering in the com "what's is he doing ?" That's how I understand why the ground crew didn't put the beacons on immediately, not the proposed reason (testing them).
Subtle little things that, when you look carefully, are still lurking here and there today...
@@StephenKarl_Integral and how can they let a 23 year old tower controller work on his own at 5 a.m. with no back up assistant tower controller who would have prevented him to fall asleep or taken over if there was not enough time to wake him up?
@@anthonywilliams9852 We are in 1983, in soviet territory north of Kazakstan. This tells you we are in the past where many of the principles (rules) and beliefs (there are always at least two controllers) we know of today in the industry didn't even exist. We learned by trial an error.
The location and era also tells you the harsh context of a region poorly administrated, most of the soviet territories in the belief a mother national administration will provide food, goods and modernity (socialism = we learned a millenium later that doesn't work, like, at all, but there are still believers out there), and where it's winter all the year, noone is happy to work there, Omsk was not a "nice" town to live, alas, there was just no alternative.
In that era, you have no right to object what your superiors told you to do (Just imagine you have to move and work in middle of Alaska and you have nothing to say but agree). That's why I expressed my wish of a better investigation looking at the work condition of the controller, noone is willing to sleep on duty, reality is, that was fairly common in the soviet world of the time, mainly due to extremely poor staff management (you work 12 hours a day, sometimes you work 18 hours non stop alternating with a day off, welcome to socialism)
May I remind the Uberlingen collision occurred in 2002, 19 years later (!), in a western country (single controler in duty at night). The rules just started to tighten a few years before (regulations are written in blood, meaning, it takes several accidents and incidents to make safer regulations, while not killing the entire industry by overreacting). Single controller was not a soviet only habit, it was common worldwide, and you would be shocked it is still the case in some situations and places today. What have changed is, this is now so remote in the extreme case of sparse to no traffic, that the risk of incidents involving a single controller is close to zero, non null, but pretty close. They also learned since the seriousness of the concern when you are alone, you concentrate more on the duty and you rest accordingly, plus, there are safety procedures and better equipments to alleviate workload, when that happens, if that must happen.
There is no such thing as a perfect world, humans can make errors, (like the other controller may be late so you're on your own til he gets there), that's why you don't rely anymore on the redundancy, you conduct your part of the safety check by the book even if that means 300 passengers will get late or the incoming traffic had to hold or divert. This 1983 incident is a clear example of redundancy failure ... but it happenned again in 2018 with a Malaysia Airlines A330 at Brisbane, Australia, a close call when 6 people, yes SIX, failed each one after another (4 ground crew and both pilots) on their "own layer of redundancy". Shit happens when you rely on other to take decisions. Each person on earth is not born with that knowledge, we learn it by experience and training, and it is sometimes mandatory to explain the seriousness of the rules by reminding what happenned in the past that killed people, and why, excactly, it happenned that way. On the other hand, we don't do what's impossible : anyone would be eager to propose solutions and workaround, but usually fails to address the technic, managing and economic aspects of the thing. You do what it is required, but not at the expense of an industry millions of people over the world rely on.
I hope you have a better understanding on the circumstances. We can't use what we know today to judge what happenned back then, we must turn back in time, mentally, to analyse the failures in the event. Most concerns are covered, as of today, you have a pretty safe frame in the industry now. Unfortunately, there will be further human errors and further automation failures, I just hope our need of a "perfect world" just won't kill us all because of the "costs" of attempting to get there.
If you think this is bad -- check out what the Russian military is doing in Ukraine in later May 2022.
I'm surprised that the airport crew didn't get an award for efficiency, anything that they could have done wrong, they did it.
What could possibly go wrong when you have a bunch of clowns doing important jobs.
Old Soviet axiom; “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”
Love your dark irony
@@johncline7518 there has been gross negligence in several other airports that caused deaths too. Not a exclusively soviet thing
My employer apparently adopted that philosophy.
What a tragedy, and for such poor reasons. My next door neighbor, when I was a kid, was an Aeronautical Engineer, and he told us the biggest and most deadly aspect in his field was the complacency of people with important. but repetitive tasks to perform. Well recounted, TFC!
@R Garlin
*COMPLACENCY....but you don't ever hear that fact enough!*
Your post ought to be stickied to the top of the comments section.
I found myself driving with an abundance of complacency today and was horrified 🙀. Be safe
@@watershed44 We have large signs close to base gates and weapons clearing barrels that say "COMPLACENCY KILLS".
This crash also occurred in the dying days of soviet communism. The same kind of complacency is what caused Chernobyl. A Russian proverb at the time: they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.
@@Novusod Sadly that communism has spread to the west and even the USA.
My heart goes out to the pilots. They did everything they were supposed to.
They sure did !
I agree.They had no chance on a dark foul night☹
@@paullacey2999 yea
Rip Plane ✈️ 😔
The same thing happens but at much higher frequencies in vehicle collisions when drivers do everything they were supposed to do.
A life is a life to me and I just wish no one suffered.
@@alvinmortimer7536 In this case, all those innocent passengers were all (minus one) burnt alive. What a way to go.
So the maintenance crew seen the plane coming, but decided to stay on the runway anyway , jesus christ some people boggle the mind.
there are multiple checks in place and all failed due to chain of human errors these people though nothing like this would happen.
@@stadiumarcadium2351 but i agree with wayne.....you cant see a large jet aircraft landing????? really? once it hit the runway, you dont try to move the truck back, or get out of the truck?????
The same people will drive into an obvious Tornado. I chase storms and I see it EVERY single time. Later (if they survive) often they get interviewed by the media. They always say the same thing "I had no warning"!! despite the watch, warnings, associated sirens and not to mention a rapidly rotating cloud...on the ground. "I saw the plane"! and died instantly for it!!!
@@jackfrost3573
Regarding tornadoes:
Funny...I saw what appeared to be a low- hanging, irregularly-shaped funnel cloud (it was) headed down the river I was about to drive over.
So I pulled over onto the side, put on my blinkers, and just watched the show as it whipped over the bridge.
I didn't have a smartphone yet, no video. ☹️
...Thing is, if you live in tornado-prone areas, and you see a green or black sky, you might want to turn on the radar feed, or visually inspect the sky?
Point is, humans have to work at situational awareness a little, I think? Brains tend to laziness.
You stay safe out there, okay?
And not even turn on their lights.
Regarding the ground controller that was asleep, the fact it was already stated it was short staffed screams overworked and over pressured on that guy. It doesnt save him from responsibility, but does mean the airport was directly influencing the rise of human error.
I thought the same thing while watching this video. Of course the ATC guy isn't absolved from his actions, but he didn't deserve to be driven to suicide. Why was he the only one on duty? Where was the CHIEF CONTROLLER? If only the chief controller could give authorization for certain tasks, why wasn't s/he on duty? Sounds to me that the system was to blame more than the ATC guy. He was just a symptom of some major underlying problems, and they made him into the scapegoat.
The poor pilots! They were not at fault at all but I bet that they were haunted by this forever
The report stated that they ran to the fuselage to try to help their passengers but couldn't save anyone. My heart breaks for the controller as well. He fell asleep as he was exhausted from caring for his two young children, who were eventually left fatherless due his prison sentence and eventual suicide. It's one of the saddest crash stories I've ever heard.
not really. they proceed to land w/o ground communication. maybe there were terrorist activities for example.
@@Astro95Media possibly killed in jail. i wonder how a 23 year old got the job.
I heard that the captain was so angry about the controller's fault that he rushed towards the tower with his gun, claimed that he will kill all the controllers on duty.
@@Astro95Media Nay. He was drunk as a skunk. It's a Russian thing, you know.
As someone who grew up in the Soviet Union I'm afraid a lot of this seems typical. A total disregard for safety, people falling asleep on the job, people not turning up for work, absolute lack of organisation and professional discipline and then when it all goes horribly wrong throw everyone in jail.
Boris B, You are envisioning what's now happening in the good ol' US of A, except for the part about throwing everyone in jail.
@@Jakehava No, the USA also throws everyone in jail. The USA has a greater percentage of its population in jail (at 639 people per 100000) than *any other country on Earth* !!! Prisons in the USA are a large, highly profitable business using prisoners as slave labour. I am not exaggerating - do some research, the facts are not hidden. Russia has half the per capita prison population than the USA at 330 per 100000. The USA also has more total prisoners incarcerated than any other country (2.12 million people in 2020).
@@davemould4638, Those who should be in jail are not in jail.
@Jason B Yes, and that's exactly what is happening to the airline industry here - the government does not determine the salaries, but the commercial companies do.
@@davemould4638 when was the last time somebody was jailed for screwing up at work? The US never jails people for killing others. Even in the case of Alaskan Airlines 261, when the maintenance department falsified documents that ended up killing everyone, NO ONE went to jail. And of course, no one in management ever faces charges. At least in Europe and Russia they take a more tough stance. But in the English speaking countries, they never jail those whose criminal incompetence kills.
When I watch aircraft crash videos, I mostly just get sad and feel sorry for the people who did mistakes. After all, doing mistakes is human and happens to people with the best intentions and excellent work ethics too. In this case though, I get sad and very angry. Innocent passengers and crew were the victims of utter disloyal and reckless people who didn’t deserve any trust or responsibility. Virtually criminals! 😡 Rest in peace, dear passengers and crew. And for the single surviving passenger and four surviving crew members, I dearly hope they could still enjoy life after the accident.
Beautiful words, Erik.🕊🥀🌾
Making mistakes is one thing, gross negligence is quite another, especially when lives are at stake.
Not virtually criminals. They are actually criminals guilty of mass murder.
@@paulrelgne2149 Exactly. Too many videos of crashes from sheer negligence or stupidity...be it maintenance or flight crews.
@@jimharris4734 Yep, a LOT of these incidents COULD'VE been avoided. But, they've occured and we now know better.
Excellent video and a great example of the “Swiss cheese” model of accident causation. If any one of the safety lapses described here had not occurred this accident could have been avoided.
Mmmmm...
swiss cheese
They literally shredded the cheese on this one
@@railyatra8879 stop using the word 'literally' if you don't know what it means. Literally there is no cheese involved in the situation at all.
@@Cincinnatus1869 who invited the grammar police ??
@@railyatra8879 as with any kind of police , I don't need to be invited
It's crazy that the ground crews saw the plane coming in the distance but didn't get off of the runway. Another great video! I think I've see them all!
Or at least they could turn on the stupid vehicle lights!
@@lagflag "Hey is this a test? Leave your lights off if it is so they don't see us"
Exactly! How dumb was that to see the landing lights of an aircraft and know you're on the freakin' runway, and not jump in the vehicles to immediately move off to the sides and then radio in to ask questions after getting clear!? Stupidity and carelessness in all aspects!
Captain! Shouldn’t we go ahead and turn the runway lights on?
No. That’s exactly what they’ll be expecting us to do.
Atleast they should have keep a eye on the aircraft till it appeared.....
They saw the aircraft clearly... They also saw the landing lights On..... they should understand that aircraft is about to land..... Atleast they should have On the lights of their Trucks.... 😢😢😢The collision would have avoided.....
So, if everyone on the ground does their level best to violate every safety regulation, bad things happen. Got it!
Utterly infuriating!
Russia.
@@Ayeshteni More like the USSR, but hey, no big difference anyway.
In a way, it's a complete, utter success. The ground personnel did everything they could to maximize the risk with inevitable, fatal results.They made the flight pass through each and every single hole of the famous swiss cheese.
Welcome to the Soviet Union.
@@julosx I actually thought of exactly this - in IT I use the swiss cheese metaphor often and was thinking "damn, guess if they fly through all the fucking holes...".
I'm really glad they got stiff sentences. Especially the sleeper.
Great job with the graphics and depiction of the runway hazards.
Damn this one is painful, everything went well and just when the passengers were ready to unbuckle their seat belt , tragedy happened. What a terrible way to die. May they all Rest In Peace
The pilots, 1 passenger survived.
Last thing they saw was a fireball headed straight towards their faces. Melted alive.. terrible. 😞
I have a slightly-more-than-mild fear of flying. I always breathe a sigh of relief when the plane lands because I think “what’s the worst that can happen now?”
Now I know.
Thanks a LOT, flight channel! 🙄😁
Great content, as always.
The worst crash in aviation history occurred at Tenerife in 1977. 583 people lost their lives in a collision between two Jumbos, both aircraft were on the ground when the tragedy happened.
Yes.
That was due in no small part to the arrogance of the Dutch Captain of the KLM flight.
He NEEDED his plane to be fully refueled, in spite of pleas from both his first officer and flight engineer to refuel at Gran Canaria airport. That delay allowed the thick fog to roll in and was a major causal factor of that crash.
Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashed under similar circumstances in Mexico City. The CVR for that crash is brutal.
I understand your fear but you make it through. The worst flight I was on landed in water. Prior to that a small flight I was on veered off the runway....just a little. There was ice/snow on the ground.
I haven't flown since the water landing many years ago but I will again one day. You can't fear it. Good luck to you. 💜
That was a very precise description of your fear level 😅 I'm the same
I feel so sorry for this crew, I mean being the only one except for one passenger to come out alive, even if they did everything right going beyond by double checking their clearance, its still a plane lost...
@Joeri van Lier..... The passenger that survived... was he/she slightly injured or so badly injured he/she might have been better off not surviving 🤔😩
Those pilots did everything they could. Everyone else failed them. People died. Lots of people. Glad to see prison sentences handed out but also worried about the systematic errors - were they corrected?
Yes. I talked to them yesterday, they confirmed
Of course there were no corrections...just another day in the Motherland...
@@michaellusk2856 sad things that you are of this opinion about us. I feel deprived
@@pavelbogomolov6116I am not qualified not capable of judging whether or not the way air traffic, its controls, and situations and procedures surrounding what happens on airports is up to par in your country, although this probably was not something this is really 'systemic' (instead of 'systematic', as the OP describes it incorrectly). It is a fact accidents like this so not happen every day, so it probably is not that bad overall. One usually should not care too much for what any random person thinks about things, after all anybody can be an idiot here and how would you know they in fact are! It by the way is somewhat remarkable the English language, that usually contains an abundance of words to choose from, in this case doesn't offer a lot of choice for expression; but maybe you in fact mean that you feel 'depressed' instead of 'deprived' (destitute, bereft, underprivileged, poor)?
If the systematic errors in the Soviet union was corrected? It is a fascist dictatorship waging aggressive warfare against a sovereign neighbouring country! You are aware that Russias entire commercial aviation at the moment is based on stolen aircraft without spare parts? Accidents are going to sky rocket!
My heart goes out to the pilots and the families. Through no fault of their own they have to live with this loss.
the fact that every passenger was incinerated but a single one... and the cockpit split away leaving the flight crew unscathed... can you imagine the survivor's guilt these people must have felt? i can't imagine it...
Such a useless act of so many wrong things !!! It is a horrible tragedy that should never have happen !! My heart breaks for all the children on board n of course all those ppl that perished !! I am terrified of airplanes n will never step foot on one !! So many of these terrible stories r not due always to faulty airplane but all the ppl who maintain controlers pilots mechanics n more who one tiny mistake n it's always a nightmare !! So sad !!!!
@@lindabaner141
Those people died a horrible fiery painful death, all for negligence. So infuriating and sad.
Quote from the captain:
"The very understanding that I survived came much later that day. It was more difficult to survive the feeling that you stayed alive, and more than 170 people behind you - no ... After the tragedy, every year on October 11, I called up flight engineer Vitaly Pronozin, and we always said to each other: "Happy birthday"...."
It must be really hard for them, the survivor's guilt haunted them for long :(
@@royfokerpoker1802 meanwhile the jokers on the maintenance crew died on impact.
I sit here in stunned silence, shaking my head, almost at a loss for words as to what to say regarding this tragedy. This truly makes me tear up. This accident was so senseless and brought about by so many bad decisions. Those poor pilots and passengers had no clue what awaited them upon landing.
shocking to hear almost everyone on board died, wasn’t expecting that, may they rest in peace.
I love to binge watch these right before I fly, so the flights aren't so boring.
imagine doing it on the actual flight. I'd be terrified if I was your seat neighbour
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is this a joke for you Pete?? 😡😡😡
@@qaisbhaisaheb412 It's not for me; it's for people with a sense of humor.
It doesn't bother me to watch these Mayday Air Crashes videos just before flying, they just make me more aware of things during the flights.
Although he admitted his grave mistake, his deep sense of guilt forced him to commit suicide. What a tragedy.
After being sentenced to 15 years in a prison in Siberia you probably don’t need a sense of guilt to commit suicide.
@@V1RT8 unfortunately very true
@@V1RT8 Yeah, I imagine someone being in the Soviet prison system because they're responsible for the deaths of nearly 200 people would probably lead most people in that situation to commit suicide in fairly short order.
@@GhostWatcher2024 He set the whole thing up and then fell asleep.
So yeah other than that, nothing to feel guilty about. 🙄
@@GhostWatcher2024 We really have no idea what was in his heart
I enjoy all your videos. I’m an aviation geek and your attention to detail is awesome. Thank you for the hard work!!!
Me too. Was a ramp agent at JFK. Did my job meticulously but saw many errors from racing tugs to guys laying inside containers to avoid loading. I had to drive stairs to aircraft, luggage for others to load, load containers & drive 5 at a time to the departing flight. Thet throw luggage. I'm surprised some survive the flight.I marshalled planes was a eing walker and know how close a plane can be parked to another or a pole. Since Id been a mechanic for several years at the airforce and a private plane pilot for 3 years, I knew about clearing pitot tubes. Seems so small ,& insignificant, but it'a not.Removing chocks, gear pins ... all important.
I had never heard of Omsk, but now I've read enough about it that it makes perfect sense that everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
Russia, where there can be a city of 1 million that the average American never heard of because the city airport has only 1 plane coming in all night.
@@heard3879 Didn't realize Omsk was that big: I thought that the only million+ city in Siberia was Novosibirsk!
It feels like every time an avoidable crash happens, it seems like there’s no way that another crash could happen due to an elevated level of incompetence… I’m constantly surprised, but I HAVE to assume there couldn’t be another crash that has more combined incompetence than this one, right? If ANY of the people on the ground did their jobs the correct way, this never would’ve happened😢
Humans gonna human...
When Aeroflot lands, the passengers all clap. This happens for a reason.
@@deepthinker999 wow i vaguely remember those stories of clapping after landing in the past. Glad we're living in the future i guess.
Russian professionalism 💪 💪
An unbelievable set of serious and negligent mistakes by ATC and ground maintenance staff. But when such disasters happen it is rarely as simple as scapegoating individual employees - it is clearly first and foremost a SYSTEM and ORGANISATIONAL ISSUE that makes their mistakes possible, and that's always down to the big bosses at the top of the food chain.
I wonder if the company/companies involved were punished with fines or other sanctions? WHY was ATC so short staffed, for example? There were clearly serious safety issues due to a poorly organised and managed system, possible cost-cutting that compromised safety etc, and that is how such an horrendous disaster was able to happen.
The only blessing was the miraculous survival of the pilots, against the odds. Great reconstruction by 'The Flight Channel' - the standards are consistently high here, I applaud the artist behind it for his brilliant work.
Bureaucratic procedures in the USSR are very lax when compared to other developed countries. More simply, they don't give a damn.
Company? When everyone involved is an employee of the government? Aeroflot was/is the state airline of the USSR/Russian Federation.
If you're American, think Amtrak or the USPS
You're best-looking video to date, kudos on your production levels. This situation came about by a stunning lack of professionalism by everyone on the ground. Not even simple common sense was employed. Completely avoidable tragedy. Simply unreal.
I gotta say, this is the first time I feel genuinely bad for the pilots. I always feel bad in these situations but this one really stings
As an American I flew into Russia from Finland in 1998. I was unsettled to see broken discontinued planes right on the side of the runway. Sad.
You won't be doing that again :(
Another excellent video. I love the format that you use.. high quality animation, strictly factual text without emotional embellishments and a focus on the details of WHY and HOW an accident happened.
What a horrible accident and a senseless loss of life. Glad to see that people were held accountable for this tragedy.
Many accidents are the result of several errors that conspire together. Here, the airport did just about everything wrong.
No one ever thought people might die if they don't follow the safety regulation?
imagine how many times in the past this happened without consequences. ie the controller sleeping, the crew cleaning without proper authorisation and without lights on... then one day all these factors collide in an unpredictable way an accident happens.
TFC, another fantastic video. Your re-enactments and graphics are stellar. Thank you for all your effort put into making such wonderful videos! Such a sad outcome. 😢 From personal experience, I’ve always felt such relief when the plane touches down. I’m sure everyone on this plane did the same…..and then…..so tragic! 😭
If there's any up side in this one, the passengers most likely had only a very brief moment to register what had happened before they passed.
Uneventful flight, landing at this stop over on time, nice smooth touch down, and then that.
TFC?
@@K1OIK Stop trolling. You've asked the same question, and been answered; in other video comment sections.
And I will keep asking until people don't try to show others up.
@@K1OIK Or......it's all in your head. Pretty pathetic.
What a sad chain of events. RIP to those who perished. I wonder if that flight crew ever flew again.
Few small corrections.
1. Ground vehicles didn't see the actual airplane on final approach. They noticed runway lights being turned on, but could have thought it was for maintenance of some kind.
2. They also couldn't hear it cause of rain and their own equipment working (jet engines mounted on their trucks blowing hot air on the runway).
3. Few of convicted airport workers were released on parole after serving 2/3 of their time.
Another fantastic upload!!! Thank you! I loved the view out of the passenger window on push back. What a terrible tragedy. I’m so pleased the pilots survived and justice was served to those responsible. I don’t ever remember seeing an episode of ACI for this so grateful that you covered the story 🖤
Did u notice the rain driven dirt residue on that window? These recreations are so realistic you almost feel like you're experiencing the crash...(except when he narrates them! Then they become average documentary style flight simulations!)
I am constantly amazed by the superb quality of Flight Channel videos. Well done. This one is so sad - an 'accident' caused by so many people being so negligent all at the same time. If even one the many parties concerned had done the right thing the disaster would have been avoided - but none of them did. Must be one of the worst cases of negligence in air accident history.
I was twenty three, a chaffeur, working a weekend night at 330AM after a full day of driving, with a sleeping couple in my back seats. Dead tired, and desperate to stay awake until I could bring them home, I punched myself repeatedly in the thigh, making a fist with a knuckle protruding for more effect. It worked, the pain succeeding in awakening me for the better part of an hour. We all arrived home safely.
When I did long drives at night, years ago, I followed the advice of an old pro - I took off my shoes. Impossible to doze off if you're pushing the pedals bare-footed or wearing socks.
@@travelbugse2829 why is that?
@@anthonywilliams9852 I can't give a technical answer to it. I only know it works. Maybe due to the vibrations through the pedals, maybe the mild discomfort of having to make your feet push without protection...
That might be the worst aviation accident suffering-wise I feel awful for those people
Great presentation of truly a tragedy that should not have happened. . . Great work @TheFlightChannel!! 👍✈✈👍
This case almost made me throw up. The negligence of the workers is beyond belief.
seriously.???
Could you try researching about a Philippine Airlines flight next? Some flights you can recreate are
• Philippine Airlines flight 158, crashed on approach in a storm
• Philippine Airlines flight 206, controlled flight into terrain on approach
• Philippine Airlines flight 215, bomb explosion but not much is known
• Philippine Airlines flight 812, an aircraft hijacking that ultimately resulted in the hijacker jumping out
This is the deadliest accident in Russia and the second deadliest involving a Tupolev Tu-154.
Isn't the 2nd then a Tu-154 crashed into DHL 757 in mid air?
Oh my god... 🥺 because the tower, where fall asleep 174 People and 4 on the ground must die... 😳😢
9:42 isn’t correct. There is no altitude at which a go-around isn’t possible, it can even be done after touching down. The only limiting factor is the length of runway remaining which isn’t a problem if you aren’t yet over it!
He was talking about aborting landing, not going around.
Just clarifying, lowest altitude where one can go around without touching runway.
@@JCT75 There is no difference between “aborting landing” and “going around”. Not sure what you mean.
@Zac Kaplowitz
Might have been very low on fuel, back in Soviet times even jet fuel was in limited quantities in many regions
@@zackaplowitz There is one difference : a "go around" can also (and mostly be) done without the plane landing. At the video, it isn't mentionned a "go around" but only an altitude below the height they could have aborted the landing (which the pilots had no reasons to do so at this time !).
This channel produces the most remarkable content every time.
Thank you for this interesting story. You continue to educate me!
Nice one dude i love your channel
I absolutely love these videos! I don't know who you are but hats off to you, you do a fantastic job of re-enacting these incidents. Seems like it would a lot of work, so thank you.
This particular story really breaks my heart, even for the guy who fell asleep. Complacency is so dangerous. No one involved did anything with malice or intentional negligence, imo, yet they lost their lives and those of the passengers. So tragic. Those poor pilots who have to live with the reality of this. I wonder if they ever flew again?
The Flight Channel has done a service for me, I will never get in a plane again! I see most of these mishaps with most plane crashes are avoidable. It's the simplest of mistakes that get people hurt or killed!
Wow,this is such a unique case and i haven’t heard about it before.the video was nicely done and very informative as usual
Not unique
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Western_Airlines_Flight_314
Another one! Good job on the video.
Every time I watch these, I come to the stark realization on how chance plays such a large part in this thing called life. May all continue to rest in peace.
What a horrible calamity, caused by human failure all round. I feel so sorry for all involved, including the 23 year old who fell asleep on the job, he had probably worked for 48 hours owing to staff shortages.
RIP all. Great video. I worked in maintenance when younger and unfortunately, you did have these sorts of dudes there! Always cutting corners, always hating their job and wanting to sleep! Wish we could
Change the cultures of these types of work so people have pride but also understand why their job is so important! Dayumn!!!
There should always be at least 2 people in the control tower.
Wow TheFlightChannel... The video quality seems to be better than before including everything... Keep up the good work...!!!
Thank you.
Another great video. To make a slight correction, what you call the ground controller, you probably meant the "local" controller up in the tower. The approach controller is in a basement somewhere and only sees the radar. The local controller is the one who gives takeoff and landing clearances.
Such a horrible and barbaric tragedy. Thank goodness that the negligent people who pretty much allowed this disaster to happen were brought to justice and held accountable for their negligence.
I agree with you but if the same exact situation happened in the United States, I am almost certain no one would have gone to jail.
@@jasguy2715
I agree with you on that one, Jas, and thought exactly the same thing as I read about their jail sentences.
@@jasguy2715 I came down here to find a statement like yours as this was my first thought after seeing the punishments. What a world, eh?
@@jasguy2715 ...not true. It is very strict in the US.
@@stephenc2481 you're a little bit delusional aren't you? Many times they are given a directive in the form of advice to change something or to do something not being ordered to do something there are example out their example of that happening so you can believe what you want
Just horrible...unbelievable disregard for people's lives by several people/groups on the ground.
it was the ATC only--ffs man
@@TR-vr5pz ah man idk. Of course he s the "controller". But there's a plane coming up with its landing lights on, and you re staying on the only runway of the airport?? With 20 ton trucks? No way this couldn't have been avoided by the 4 guys, who sadly perished too.
+ you will have an eye on the plane, you will watch it coming closer and at some point you just run, it's so loud. Idk what they were thinking tbh
Oh my God this was probably one of the most avoidable crash I know of. When I saw the title I assumed the pilot slept and caused damage but it kept on getting worse and by the end of the video my jaw was on the ground. So many people could have managed to avoid this. My heart goes out to the families of the passengers and others who lost their lives in this accident. Can't imagine the "what ifs" that'd haunt them. I hope they've somehow found peace 😭
Another outstanding video from the flight channel!!!!
Recreating all of that in a simulator to extensive detail!
Just love your videos and the music.
This one is horrific but Aeroflot was notorious at the time for drunken pilots and controllers. You would think after tragic crashes like this one, Soviet, and then Russian aviation would have cleaned up their act but, as all aviation buffs know, things only got worse after the breakup of the Soviet Union when cash shortages, poor maintenance and a lack of competency all conspired to make getting on a Russian airliner a real crap shoot. Aeroflot 593, where a 12 and 16 year old brother and sister pair were permitted to sit at the controls by their pilot father ultimately crashing the plane, should have convinced everyone to stay away from Russian aviation. This recreation is a masterpiece... chilling and so realistic. Really brought this almost unbelievable tragedy to life.
Americans ... for you, everything and everyone from Russia is crap, we know that.
Well, you are a bit behind the world. Nowadays, Aeroflot is considered one of the safest companies in Europe, with one of the youngest fleets in the world.
@@yungsh0ttalex592 They were saying that back then too!
@@yungsh0ttalex592 : Hahaha! Are you Russian?
This wasn't Aeroflot's fault this time though
Wow. The negligence from so many is so huge!
I hope their stay was at a nice Estern Gulag.
God that was well done, astonishing that those guys saw landing lights, ignored them, and didn't notice they were getting bigger, just .. unbelievable. I wish this was narrated tho (I had to go back and re-read details twice and see what I missed by looking away once) and worry that the increasing number of channels that narrate will take a bite out of your viewership but perhaps not, if not for the JD and AH trial videos I'm addicted to I'd have plenty of time to watch ALL channels but even then, if eg Mini Air Crash Investigation and Mentour put out more videos or others come along, I ... dunno... I'll never leave, you were my FIRST ❤️
Greetings from germany :)
Maintenance crew don't see the big aircraft...!!! Unbelievable...😱😱
Even worse, they did see it and stayed on the runway anyway
This is easily one of my favourite CZcams channels!:)
I know these accidents have already happened but I keep rooting for the planes to get out safely. For some reason this one in particular hit me hard as the pilots did everything right and all the nervous passengers (like me too)always feel relief on landing yet here we are. Very informative video though. Thanks for all your hard work so we can understand what happened and why and you explain in a very comprehensive way - 😊
that is what needs to be done hold people accountable by putting them in prison
Russia is a sort of prison,anyway
We can only hope the suicide in prison was an assisted one.
Great video! How you made the vehicle scenes? It's a add-on? Or you used a simulator like euro truck and blended the images after?
After watching so many of these, it only reconfirms my learning - never fly on a puddle jumping airline that employs rookie pilots. Never fly into an airport that employs rookie controllers. Thanks again TFC.
You do this so well, thank you.
Of course everyone makes mistakes once in a while but to violate so many safety critical procedures in quick succession like that is truly staggering. As for how anyone can be working on a runway and see a plane approaching with its landing lights on and assume it's not on final leaves me speechless. Any sensible person who is uncertain as to the plane's intentions would get clear of the runway quick smart as they wouldn't want to risk an accident or worse, death.
It sounds like part of the problem was down to staff shortages. If there aren't enough staff available to safely operate the airport then surely it should be closed and any flights diverted?
Anyway this is an excellent video as always from TheFlightChannel. Producing a video every single week must be a huge amount of work
It reminds me of being on tracks at work telling a co worker a train was coming. He disagreed and continued working in the path of the train. The train had no headlights on. So he assumed nothing was coming. I got out of the way and last second he heard the train and jumped out of the way.
I hate to say it, but this incident is SO Russian. But i wonder why the cleaning crew, seeing the landing lights, didn't keep an eye on them, and then when it became obvious there was an airplane landing, why they didn't raise the alarm and exit the runway as quickly as possible?
Maybe they were also asleep
@@tabby73 true, cause they were still in their trucks....
Your videos are absolutely incredible, thankyou for all your hard work and keeping alive these vital stories💖💖xx
Wow... Very sad. But as always, very well done & in memoriam.
such a tragic accident so avoidable great pilots who tried everything
It's impossible to overstate the level of dumbassedness going on in and around Aeroflot and Russian aviation safety in general during this era.
You're not right. It is impossible to judge the safety of the aviation of the whole country on one occasion. Or do you have more examples?
Heartbreaking. A cautionary tale for these days of staff shortages & union busting rhetoric. As one who has worked nightshift, rolling shifts, 2 jobs, no days off in the past, etc, my heart hurts for the 23 yr old controller-I pray he is also resting in peace.
The graphics and telling of these stores are top notch. Well done
That's what happens when breaking the rules becomes routine.
Please cover the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team's crash from 2011. Great work as always!
Definitely, two of the passengers played for the Blues, my favorite team.
Feel so sorry for those poor pilots.
It was good to see those responsible for the crash were not given tiny jail sentences for their negligence, as has been done in the past.
I have a hard time reading and I love this channels. I would love for him to VO for the people who are blind or partially blind. Great content!
May I make a suggestion that is easy to implement and will improve your videos? The suggestion concerns the memorial flash screen that comes up at the end of the videos--in this video it reads, "In memory of the 178 people who lost their lives in the 1984 collision at Omsk Airport". There is a similar message at the end of most of your videos. Could you please leave that screen up longer, perhaps for 20 to 30 seconds? This would give the viewer time to read the memorial message, listen to the somber music, and recall the events we just saw that lead to the tragic result. Right now, there is barely time to read the message before the links to other videos appear and obscure it.
You are the no.1 aviation content creator ❤️
But still...
It's so realistic dude
@E Van Oh yeah that's a good channel too.
Check out the Mayday series on the Wonder Channel, or even Mentour pilot.
This channel is my least favorite because they can't bother to even do a voice over and if you look away for a minute you miss important stuff.
And this is why i do my thorough research and my due diligence on airlines i fly with, making sure i read up on their safety records and overall performance. I know accidents happen but i would rather be safe than sorry.
I always seem to find these videos in the weeks before I go on a flight. Seriously.
Dude this one is sick, with the Atc room and the guy driving the car, lots of attention to detail
I doubt USSR traffic controllers had flat screen monitors in 1984.
@@s.yemchenko5010 It was Aeroflot, they were definitely flot screen
@@Three-LeggedCat LOL
Russia still has a lot of aviation safety to catch up on. One of those crashes actually got caught on a dash cam video after it overran the runway.
That was Red Wings 9268 right?
ah yes like there are no crashes in america..ever
Talking like there is no plane crash happened around the world . And this incident happened during soviet era not even 2000's .
american pailots only break the tails in the middle of a flight🤔
Absolutely love these videos, puts me off flying a bit🤣🤣 keep these videos coming 🤣
I want to say how AWESOME the flight channel is, thank you.🛩