Nearly Crashing a Boeing 777 in Dubai Immediately After Takeoff | Near Catastrophe
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- Find out why Emirates flight 231, a Boeing 777-300ER bound for Washington, D.C., almost crashed into industrial and residential buildings to the north side of Dubai Airport just after takeoff.
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I'm speechless. Focused only on flight directors and even after passing V2 no rotation? "sounds good".
"Okay we barely took off. What's this, the aircraft wants us to land on a building? Sure thing! Let's pitch down."
This is the type of mistake even the least knowledgeable simulator people would never do. Good that no one was injured.
good that no one was injured...and good too that all the passengers were not died😉.
It’s common sense to Rotate even if the flight director is showing to stay at level
There where so many warning signs that the pilots ignored
Seriously! All I could think while watching this video was "what in the fuck are they doing?!?"
@@treysimmons2589 Apparently, not much. I had my hands clenching my iPad, thinking the same as you. I also was thinking of all those on board witnessing a flight, of chaos. A bunch of goons, in the cockpit. Thank God, the plane didn’t crash.
@@ivangranger8494 what makes it worse is the fact that those fools decided to fly all the way to Washington, D.C. even after they had struck something! I swear if I was a passenger on that plane I'd want to fight those "pilots" for playing with my life and everyone else's on board! It's truly mind boggling!
This was literally a miracle that this plane made it to DC safely after that take off
It was also a miracle it took off right by the end of the runway.
@@DynastySheep and missed all those buildings
I’m picking the crew elected to carry on to DC because they were afraid of being thrown into prison if they returned.
Also feel for all those in their homes or apartments with a 777 flying that low at 3:00 a.m.
Then you need to study what happened when an Airbus leaving Sharja airport in the UAE turned right, not left on the runway and took off along the last 500m of runway facing incoming aircraft. Clipped the lights at the end (beginning) of the runway and continued on to Salalah. And then, it returned to Sharja ffs! Stern warnings were handed out!
The graphics and attention to detail used to make these videos are really amazing. I've flown with Emirates extensively over the years and must say these videos look like the real thing, even the airport terminal.
LOL coz this was filmed in a game called flight simulator lol
@@solotrippin09 ok and why the LoL? Are people not allowed to comment on anything anymore without someone giving or making sarcastic comments?
@@OscarD001 so you're restricting my freedom to use lol? lol
@@solotrippin09 I'm not restricting you to anything but you reply to my comment with an Lol as if to say that i should've known that the graphics and whatever comes from a flight simulator and if it does, does it make my comment less valid? What you could've done was just say hey they use this type of software to do this, but you didn't.
You are typical of what is wrong with young people in this world today. You think you know everything, sit behind a computer or your smartphone and try to make people seem less intelligent than you by making snotty comments then try to start an argument when you're called out for it.
@@solotrippin09 He never said it wasn't a simulator. He just said graphics look quite close to reality. Internet is seriously full of toxic people these days.
This is a very sad example on over reliance to automation. Regardless of the flight director position, the pilots should have rotated to about 15 degrees initially and established a V2 + 10 on climb out, to 4,000 feet. It is hard for me to believe if all 4 were sitting in the cockpit how no one spoke up.
Maybe a flight crew with a Captain that the others were scared to point out the obvious, not uncommon in some countries.
@@DigiMannen Sad if true.
The flight director shouldn't have been flying the plane. That's the pilot's job. Instead they were flying the flight director.
@@lakerenegadepilot6211 Unfortunately its very true, the standard of the local's within Emirates is shocking, very bad ego problem, will not listen nor take advice. Your wrong i'm correct! Just look at the other two near misses this year. This is all coming home to hit them hard, they fired a lot of crew over Covid and haven't replaced such, they come straight out of the academy, straight into a 777, ILS to ILS trained, hardly any hand flying skills, its drilled into them automation. Expats are worked to the bone, over hours, no unions, if you stand up & utter a word, you're a marked person ready for firing.
@@adotintheshark4848 The pilot was flying the plane, he was simply using the flight director to tell him when to rotate.
Must be missing something. So, the lesson learned was regarding the setting of the altimeter after landing? What about four pilots missing the takeoff checklist, unaware of their excess speed, unaware of lights indicating near end of runway, unaware of low altitude and didn’t follow procedure and return to airport to check for structural damage, etc. Are these pilots still flying?
Yeah, what you said, and I sure hope they aren't flying. They should not be allowed to fly passengers commercially after this clusterf**k of obliviousness.
It is a miracle they didn't crash and I can't believe they didn't turn around after literally striking something with the airplane. I hope the passengers didn't know how much danger they were in from the moment they took off and that at any moment of the rest of that flight that plane could have had a catastrophic structural failure or total loss of control.
I believe they were terminated
I think the airline should be investigated and fined after a near miss like this if it is found out that the culture among their pilots is to cut corners and basically ngaf. I assume they all fly together so I would struggle to believe that this sort bold negligence is an isolated thing.
I suppose as it only happened very recently, we don't have all the deets yet. But yeah something doesn't add up.
yup life is cheap!!
Unbelievable! These four pilots should have been grounded and forced to go back to school with 1/3 pay, or none. What if the heavy, fueled plane went down in that city?!
But it didn't. If you were the pilot it would have.
@@snowman2834 why so rude??
@@robbiebunge859 He has adequacy issues, obviously.
Unconfirmed reports say all 4 pilots were fired. Pilot's licenses get revoked for lapses far less serious than this one.
@@Jay-320x We should all hope this is true. On the scale of human negligence, from forgetting about your pet in a hot car (which would be 1 on the scale) to, say, driving drunk and killing a family (probably 100 on the scale; felony reckless endangerment), how would burning to death 250 airline passengers and crew along with a $75 million aircraft, plus incinerating people on the ground in their houses and apartments... How would that rate? A prison sentence of several years would not be too harsh for these "pilots", if you could call them that. They should count themselves lucky. It was depraved indifference, reckless endangerment, and implied malice; three felonies worth many years in most countries.
I would just like to add, I can't get my head around the fact that they elected to fly on to DC instead of returning back for a structural assessment of the aircraft. Two potential disasters in one flight.
Is Emirates style...the branding and marketing are very good in covering all and everything
Imagine how frightened these passengers must have been. I was on a flight once where I was looking out the window at the wings which were accumulating ice quickly. I spoke up and told the flight attendant and she quickly reported it to the cockpit and immediately the boots inflated and cleared the ice, LOTS of it. This was on an ATR-72 also, just like Roselawn. This was long ago but a few years after Roselawn which was still on my mind when I boarded. I wonder if, had I not said anything, I would be here years later sharing this event. Lesson: if you see anything that concerns you, speak up!
You really saved the day. It's amazing that you can believe you're in expert hands and not speak up when there is danger. You really saved many lives besides just yours
@@donaldhove6236 What amazes me is how few people are willing to speak up. The flight in this video for example; how many people do you think spoke up, saying something to the FA like "miss, why are we nearly clipping trees 5 minutes into this flight? Shouldn't we be at about 3 thousand feet already? Would you please mention this to the captain?" I don't know if my speaking up did anything, perhaps they were getting ready to inflate the deicing equipment before I said something but how could anyone sit and say nothing? I wonder if the engine was on fire if anyone would say anything!
@@chefjimmie1 well put
@@chefjimmie1 because we live in a world full of sheep. For example masks or I call them face diapers do nothing. But millions and millions and billions put one on wherever they go because their television told them to.
@@chefjimmie1 though most are sheeple, consider from what country the flight originated/departed. Not a lotta free speech there, best to err on the side of caution, no?
As a flight attendant , I would be so pissed off. OMG! Are you freaking kidding me , checklists and four crew.
EXACTLY! This upsets me to the core, since I flew on Emirates for the first time ever recently, taking my child to Greece to visit relatives for the first time! While I was impressed with the food and service, just knowing their flight crews can be this egregiously incompetent is very upsetting! And there were FOUR of them who missed this critical function! FOUR!
Hey now. You're both acting like the 4 flight crew decided not to pay attention to the obvious, almost eye level, dial set to zero.
Exactly
be quiet and keep serving my coffee. with milk, no sugar.
many people became aviation expert by just flying as passenger, watching movies or serving drinks. that's more idiotic than those 4 pilots' mistake.
@@tufan759 Yeah I am really baffled by the responses of most people here, they suddenly became aviation experts. LMAO
How could 4 experienced pilots fail to notice their autopilot altimeter was set to 0. They have to go through a checklist before they take off and should have set the altimeter to 4000, while they were configuring their V1, Rotate. Also if the plane ✈️ is about to roll over the very end of the runway “of course something is wrong!!” They should have immediately pulled back to rotate after they reached a very high speed. If I was a passenger I would have demanded the crew turn around so I could get off the plane. The majority of plane crashes are caused by pilot error but the problem is some airline pilots rely heavily on the autopilot to fix their errors, take off and land the plane. I heard in the USA that pilots have to manually take off and land the plane and only engage the autopilot when they reach 10 000 feet or higher. At least that technique keeps muscle memory for the pilots to take full manual control of their airplane and not relying on automatic systems.
It was not that the altimeter was set to 0, it was the autopilot alt.
How could 1000+Boeing engineers even plan a plane where is an option that you can takeoff with altimeter set of 0, with autopilot or not.
More importantly, how could ALL 4 not have been relieved of duty for failing to return to the airport, and instead flew to DC?
@@Lilith218 They could climb, the performance is always calculated for each flight.
@@jammyn7368 because they belong to 'special' influential families. If there was a Western pilot he would have been sacked of course.
It must have been horrifying for the passengers looking out their windows right after takeoff and realizing that they were barely missing all those buildings. Then a massive relief once the plane finally began to climb. I wonder if the crew said anything to the passengers about it, or if they continued on their own merry way as if nothing happened?
Er.. probably didn't know how to switch on the intercom either🤔
@@iconicshrubbery Excellent point sir.
My thoughts exactly! I always sit in a window seat, and if I'd been a passenger on that plane, I would have had a great view of narrowly missing buildings and been seriously frightened!!! So what could the pilots have announced over the PA system after they figured out the problem and started climbing normally? Perhaps something like this: "We had a little technical problem, but everything is okay now. Hope you enjoy the rest of our flight to Washington, D.C. We'll be landing in about 14 hours [or whatever the flight time was], and the weather in D.C. is forecast to be [whatever it was for the date]"...etc., etc. 😮
Ooops!
@@BrigidSamhain Right. Or maybe something like, "Ooops! Haha! Did anyone shit in their pants? Sorry guys. We figured it out. Hopefully we won't make any more mistakes and we'll all get to our destination safely. Please accept this complimentary drink on us!"
I really like the stories of near, but not deadly, accidents. Especially with no loss of life.
For real
They are the best.
I understand your view, but this is censorship of reality in my opinion.
Me too. The fatal accident stories feel too prurient. Also too depressing. I want to see people survive, not get killed.
That part where the pilots actually LOOK out the window and aviate... Yeah... that... not being locked into what a "flight director" is telling them to do... Yeah... that.
12:03 That the airline has to issue that warning, that too! Anyone working for Hertz want to know why your rental car gets returned by a Brit with the language set in Traditional Chinese?It's because I can change it!
And if the visibility is poor, then what?
@@scottfranco1962 I dunno, check your altitude and realize you are 175 ft off the ground? seems logical.
@@jv8296 And you check your altitude by looking at instruments. Like the flight director for instance. Going in a circle here.
@@scottfranco1962 - The bottom line is that they never looked up to see the runway was running out. That's why you aviate and don't get locked into flying your instruments and forget to fly the aircraft except in instrument flying conditions. And this was a takeoff, not a instrument landing situation.
I’m totally baffled… you’re telling me that this crew was just blindly following the FD, and nothing else?! The PM no longer calls out “rotate”, and you don’t pay attention to your actual altitude and airspeed on takeoff?! Neither captain or FO caught this until they were borderline about to either crash or tear the plane apart?! WTH?!
The video maker has it all wrong.
@@EdOeuna There are several inaccuracies, but this wasn't one.
@@lbowsk yes it is. Everyone has got it wrong. They rotated at Vr and that part of the take off was perfectly normal.
Also, did the relief pilots just sit there watching the two in the front whilst they did this?
They were/are totally dependent on the flight director and completely unable to fly their plane on raw data. This is a very scary trend these days and indicates a total lack of basic airmanship skills. It's hard to even call these guys "pilots."
If I was Flight Ops Manager, the entire flight deck crew would be fired on the spot, require full ground school recurrent training, & check ride to regain license. The aircraft grounded for fatigue stress x-ray, and restricted flight ops for over-speed. This is unacceptable pilot behavior.
Those pilots have been fired from what I’ve heard
@@Lilith218 Fired after returning to Dubai unless there were pilots in DC scheduled to fly the plane back and brought them back
They don't need more check rides. Instead, they need some basic airmanship skills. Scary...
That takeoff was very terrifying, I can only imagine how the passengers and crew, as well as the people in the residential area, were feeling. I am so glad that everyone made it to DC alive, and may this be the last time that this error ever happens on any aircraft operated by any airline.
M so scared my hubby is cabincrew... Til the time he is nt back home I keep praying... After watching this I can't explain u want n feeling right now....
Imagine having to fly 15 hours after that …
@@helenamondragon8817 I knw dear....
Trying to imagine a 777 at take off power passing 75 feet over my house. Must have rattled the windows some.
It had to be deafening for those residents, not to mention scary as all hell!!
and at 3 in the morning. that would be a rude awakening for most people.
Yeah and it wasn't really at take off power, it was nearly twice as that. Must have been loud as hell.
At 75 feet, I'm surprised it didn't take a few roofs off of their houses.
@@jarheadcharlie2315 that’s why it was callous of the pilots not to go back to airport to check for structural damage.
This seems like a classic example of over reliance on automation when in reality the pilot should of just been stick and rudder and as they say.. just fly the damn plane - they should be able to tell through experience that they are bombing towards the end of the runway without liftoff and not staring at the computer screen
Classic, absolutely classic, couldn’t this of more of a classic than this classic example of classic.
Com3 on, not watchingmout of the window to see your runway has been ended and you ara near tomshaving the tv antennas of the neigbouring houses? Very scary to see that pilots are taking off unaware of their environment
Imagine this, its 3am, and your house rattles and a loud deafening engine sounds 75 feet above you. What a way to wake up. So scary. Hope these guys got fired.
This plane should have broken thousands of windows in Dubai as well.
The truly disturbing thing about this is that the crew continued the flight as though nothing had happened. That is scary. Surely EK can't have been 'ok' with that?
No one looked out the window for even 1 second? Heck if it wasn't for Aerodynamics they would've crashed into the localizer antenna
They all had sore necks. It's no big deal, give them a break. It's not like they literally struck something as a result. They'd be idiots who should never fly passengers again if they did that.
@@Mattreyu199 No, they are idiots who should not fly passengers who would have hit something if the plane literally didn't freaking shove itself into the air by force...
@@fortcrafterbossbehold9027 I agree, I was being sarcastic
@@Mattreyu199 Oh my bad, I failed to detect your sarcasm. Maybe I would have done so if I wasn't staring at the flight director the whole time.
How you can miss setting zero in the MCP altitude window (everyone in the cockpit) is hard to understand, but to then not look outside to worsen their situation indicates this young female Captain needs to return to the kitchen
As a former cabin crew for Delta Airlines considering the fact all four pilots forgot to set the attitude to 4000 let's me know this was a Reserve crew "Set Of Newbies" Around that time of the year alot of senior pilots and cabin crew would call out or take vacations leaving the Reserves to fend for themselves by the way Reserve is a Airline term to indicate a person status which means they are on call employees intill they build enough seniority to be remove from that list best way I can explain
Hold up ☝ I was doing plane spotting and delta air took up at idk what thrust but the shit was loud💀 my ears was even hurting, thanks for the earrape❤
This explains why the pilots were so stupid. I can't believe they just sat there waiting for a computer to tell them when to pull up while running our of runway. It's one of the most idiotic things I've seen. They must be newbies if they weren't sacked.
Incredible stupidity and incompetence. There's no excuse for using the autopilot to fly the plane on takeoff WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE RUNWAY, the airspeed, or the artificial horizon!
@@riverwildcat1 They not using the auto pilot to fly the plane, but yes its insane, 4 people
Yeah Emirates doesn't have this. This is something found almost exclusively in America.
Firstly, let me simply pay an excelling homage to your absolute mastery my friend. From where you started, your own 'flight' has only taken upwards into the stratosphere. The quality of this video is simply amazing. The music, the imagery recreated, the portrayal of the business centre in Dubai from the airport, the entire video being spell binding and haunting; I bow to thee. Simply stunning.
Secondly now, what an absolute travesty was this! The four ***** who were responsible for so many souls and forgot to check the very basics of their flight instructions during take off. What disaster could it have been goodness forbid if the mega bird somehow could not continue its path. How grateful we all must be that the plane somehow managed to reach its destination.
Thirdly, I am an avid Emirates fan. Just booked my flights to and back from Dubai. Arriving around similar time, so heavens help me. Emirates! Clean up this mess please.
I agree with your comments on all counts my friend beautifully written and so true.
The passengers on that flight were very lucky to make it to Washington DC
Shout out to the person that creates all the subtitles and visual effects I bet it's time consuming
They do a beautiful job.
I am appalled that this could happen in the presence of 4 pilots. That is ridiculous imo.
Two weren't on duty, so they headed to the minibar.
I'm pretty sure the reason why it happened was BECAUSE of the 4 pilots... in my opinion, it caused a false sense of security or distraction. Also, I think it's possible that each of them assumed somebody else was monitoring the situation, when in reality, nobody was.
Pilots? I thought that maybe the airline held a raffle for the passengers and 4 "lucky" passengers got to fly the plane. Hmm...
@@russojap1864 thats a very good point didnt think of it that way.
@@truckermike99 this is emirates not spirit airlines
Very well made video with good explanations. I flew the B-777 for more than 10 years before moving to my current fleet, the A-380. This incident reminded me of a departure I had out of SFO on the B-777. The MCP settings were correctly set. However, when I hit the TOGA switches for takeoff, the vertical mode went to ALT instead of TO/GA. The FD pitch bar dropped to below the horizon. The aircraft was already rolling and after a quick scan to check that there were no other faults, I decided to continue the takeoff and reverted to basic flying and disregarded the FD pitch bar. The FMAs and FD eventually returned to normal during the climb out and the rest of the flight was uneventful. A post flight investigation conducted by Boeing found an anomaly in the system design which was eventually rectified.
"The pilots SOON realised ... " ?
Uhm NO they did not.
Not until they had an opportunity to restructure several moderately tall buildings with a 260 knot 777.
This is absolutely shameful. I think I had briefly read some .. thing about it. Just happened January this year.
This video SHOULD help start to name and shame all involved, and lose Emirates a lot of customers.
Boeing doesn't come out of this all too rosy either.
This is as major an incident without fatalities as you can get.
This shouldn't be tucked away in the "Ooops! - but we got it now" files.
Great helpful insights in to some of the issues by a lot of the comments here, as usual, by people in the industry. Thanks to you all.
This is just a graphical video not real
I don't want to be defending Boeing when they killed hundreds of people with the 737 max fiasco, but how exactly did they do anything wrong in this case? I don't think they can account for pilots being absolutely braindead.
@@scoobiusmaximus9508 I agree I was always pro Boeing v Airbus and their side sticks even before AF447 (?), until the Max calamitous failure - but if the initial climb altitude is set at 0000ft (I'm no trained pilot) nothing happens if the pilots reach Vr and do nothing? It will continue on take off thrust with what little lift there is?
I've been reading aircraft incident reports in journals on and off for 35 years and I'm still learning things.
So normally the aircraft would lift itself off if its set that way, all the way to the set altitude.
What happened to triple redundancy features we were told about since the '70's.
It's the avionics supplier who supplied it, but Boeing signs off on it.
I just think it didn't look good that this could happen, but I bow to more knowledgeable people. :)
WOW, this is disturbing! 4 pilots/professionals on that flight, and NO ONE figured to check that critical setting?! Do the pilots not go through a critical checklist before takeoff? They should have all been fired! And to think my child and I took an Emirates flight to Greece last summer!
Dude if you had taken that flight you would surely be greased!!
Thats not near a critical setting. Rotate the plane when it should be rotated and fly a pitch to maintain a safe airspeed with a positiv rate, then figure out what is the mistake. Really basic flying skills 🙈
Exactly. Some individual in that cabin kept them distracted. Maybe a bragging Saudi Prince?
Unbelievable. A fundamental check missed by all 4 triple seven rated pilots. Training please?
@Tina Bulea How is this relevant to a video about a nearly catastrophic airliner take-off?
This needs to be asked; what the hell is going on with Emirates' flight crews? This is not a convoluted, swiss cheese model incident. This is really basic stuff - one level up from failing to set your flaps. Taken with other recent Emirates incidents, the suspicion is that their training is very heavily process-based and parrot-fashion, to the exclusion of awareness and aviating principles.
I keep seeing Emirates crews seemingly being overly reliant on automated systems. The threshold for taking manual control shouldn't be this high when you notice an anomaly with the automation.
Exactly! Their situational awareness is masked by automation reliance instead. Very, very dangerous way of doing business.
They were so focused on their instruments that they didn't notice what's their plane doing....
Well, a few weeks later they almost had a catastrophic runway collision when an Emirates captain decided that takeoff clearance procedures didn't apply to him.
Agreed, even the words they used to remind their pilots they don’t need to set the alt on the mcp to 0 sounded heavily automaton. Zero mention of the practical approach to aviation, or using judgement. Nothing along the philosophical lines, to deliver a human message. Pure corporate verbiage, why don’t they drive another 500 SOPs down their pilots’ brains that ought to fix it. Obviously SOPs are needed, but the reliance on automation is going too far and it’s just the beginning it seems.
I'm surprised that the flight crew gets away without any penalty with those very serious mistakes.
Being sacked is something of a penalty I'd say.
@@krashd no action was taken against them. they should be fired
This may not be fully factually correct. The 777 has a bug, where if the FDs are switched on before the altitude is changed from 0, then they stay stuck on 0. What may have happened is that the pilots did set the altitude to 4000 but the FDs had bugged. Regardless, this is no excuse for terrible piloting, and Emirates is going downhill given this is the 2nd close call within a few months. Just a few weeks ago, they nearly surpassed the Tenerife distaster
Any details about the earlier incident you mention?
9:17
why would the pilots bring the nose down 175ft away from the ground and the buildings just because the flight director is telling them to descend back to 00000ft?
Possibly because they were stressed and trusting the instruments over what they were seeing with their eyes. Stress does crazy things with the brain. Training is aimed at counteracting these natural reactions.
@@tomwilson2804 Thats no excuse for the stupidity they did. Fire the lot.
@@flexairz I agree it's not an excuse, only an attempt to explain why it might have happened.
@@tomwilson2804 yuno what, you're right, I didn't think about that
Possibly they don't hand-fly the plane up to 10,000, and switch to autopilot sooner.
This was hilariously incompetent, screaming to the end of the runway, anyone fancy pulling back on the yoke, no thanks! Then climbing precariously just above buildings, let's follow the flight director and push the nose down! It tells us to fly the plane into that tower block so lets go with it!
copilot - "The end of the runway is coming quick! We need to rotate!"
captain - Stop looking out of the windows! It's distracting you from channeling all of your focus and attention to the flight director that we totally programmed like we were supposed to. It'll take off when it's ready. Hasn't failed me yet.
They didn’t scream along to the end of the runway. They rotated at Vr as normal. Someone came up with that idea and all of these pseudo-pilot channels have swallowed that mis truth and run with it.
@@EdOeuna Wrong according to everything I have read. This from Aviation Herald - "According to Mode-S data transmitted by the aircraft's transponder the aircraft remained on the ground until accelerating through at least 216 knots over ground about 4400 meters/14400 feet past the runway threshold and about 90 meters short of the localizer antennas, was airborne at 75 feet AGL at 234 knots over ground already over the first residential houses past the runway (5640 meters/18500 feet past the runway threshold), then climbed out to safety."
So, maybe you're wrong? I'll trust the Transponder hits myself.
@@lbowsk - everything you’ve read is wrong then. They rotated at Vr and the take off was perfectly normal. They certainly didn’t forget to rotate or reach the end of the runway still on the ground. It’s amazing how one person has come up with that and everyone is now reporting it as fact.
If you have NO take off flaps you need that high speed .....an long Takeley off roll. ???????
They can set it to 0 if they want but its the duty of the crew who are departing to change the MCP selections as It's part of the Preflight checklists on the 777! Also how can you not realise that the plane is flying low by common sense??
Emirates did this several years ago at Melbourne airport too and actually took out the threshold lights with the aircrafts landing gear.
Yes. Watched this here last night: czcams.com/video/gm8kcadMTW4/video.html Holy shit, Emirates…
I was literally hearing that plane so loud above my apartment! Holy crap I am so lucky that plane did not crash
Bugger the flight director, didn't one of them look out the cockpit window and actually see that something was badly wrong? And with their knowledge of DXB didn't any of them realise where they were along the runway and think "hey. we should have got the V1 call by now, look at the speed?" I hope that these guys are now selling fruit and veg down at a street market and not flying airplanes.
They had V1 called, but then despite TOGA power set they didn't think to rotate 5 seconds or so later. Does make you wonder, at this point in the flight the automation is doing very little so the human element should be paying attention to the aircraft in this critical phase.
Been flying 44 years,can't imagine someone flying can't see what there doing like this
It's "they're", but yeah....how can the pilots not wonder when they're supposed to start pulling back on the yoke? "Gee, seems like we shoulda pulled up by now. Well, never mind....we'll just blindly follow the flight director and keep on hurtling down this runway until we reach the end and crash."
Emirates has their own Flight Academy to train it's pilots as well as hires experienced pilots. But I am noticing, not only with Academy trained pilots, but also with "experienced" pilots that they don't seem to have the "Right Stuff."
Garbage in garbage out
This seems so obvious. I just can't understand how no one notices the altimeter, all the lights directly out the window, etc. They were not even in a nose up attitude, so if neither of them noticed they were at 75ft off the ground, what were they looking at?
It does makes you wonder what would have been enough to gain their attention - all four of them.
Possibly they recited the checklists rather than doing the checks as they went along, and possibly they were looking at instruments rather than looking out the window. By the time they started hand-flying, assuming they did so, they had plenty of downward inertia to overcome. Hate to say these planes wallow, but they're not as maneuverable as a fighter jet.
Is it any different to truck drivers going by what the satnav tells them as opposed to using the mark one eye ball to determine that their vehicle will not be able to travel down width restricted roads, negotiate certain junctions or bridges which seems to happen fairly regularly
What were they looking at? The FD on the attitude display and literally nothing else, apparently.
I also dont get it. How come they dont realize and act immediately to rotate the plane if they are so low as they had enough speed for apparently
This is a mistake that I wouldn’t even do in my flight simulator, and I’ve had zero commercial piloting experience. These guys have FOUR pilots, compared to me being by myself, and none of them were able notice the million different things that were wrong before and during their takeoff role? Maybe Emirates should hire me then
I'd probably trust a stranger who regularly plays realistic flight sims over these "pilots". I don't get how people with real training can have such poor judgment and lack of awareness.
As someone who just got back into flight simulator just in the past month (I was a big fan as a kid -- but I've watched tons of these videos over the years) I came here to say the exact same thing! This one is just so bad, even a hobbyist simmer could've flown better.
To be fair, this video is simply speculation based on internet rumors. Lets wait till the reports come out. And no, you probably wouldn't make this mistake (if this mistake was even what happened), but you'd probably make dozens more that this crew wouldn't. Lets wait till the facts are out and learn from what really happened, not some flight sim youtuber's guess
@@Jamenator1 that is a good point. Most of the videos on the channel do go back to preliminary or official reports but now I see after doing a little more research (and probably evidenced by the unusual timeliness of this video) that it is in fact based mostly on pilot speculation and what can be gleaned from online flight trackers.
@@Jamenator1 Oh, didn't realize that. I take back my criticism of the crew until the facts are out.
Pilot monitoring is supposed to announce ‘rotation’, then pilot flying rotates to 15°, as a 777 pilot I would never think of following the FD during this particular phase
Exactly sir, this just to tell you how dum is the guy doing this video without knowing any thing about flying the jets either 777 or any other jet , at Vr call rotate which I believe had happened , but the “flight radar app” which I beleive this video maker took the info from recorded low altitude as still on the RWY, all the standard flying I beleive is happened , but the confusion was in very diffrent subject .. I know the crew . And I will tell them about the bullshit in this video , and beleive me this guy will be suede to the court by telling wrong info for people
Thanks for these really interesting examples like the flight director bars. Really helpful!
My mind is blown as to how this incident happened with FOUR pilots on the plane. They should have been fired as soon as the plane landed.
The most amazing thing is that my $1000 drone knows perfectly what altitude it is, before, during and after the flight.
Love your work mate beautiful videos every week I can never wait for the next one!
I think, of all the CZcams channels out there, this is number one, due to the music, graphics and overall informative nature of each video. Although I doubt flying as a passenger will get any easier. Good work FlightChannel.
Would be cool to obtain cabin audio comms for this case
Wow these pilots forgot one basic thing. Fly the plane! If you see that you are too low and that you reach takeoff speed you should be able to correct it by actully flying the plane not relying on the flight director. That is like relying on a Google maps and ending up in the middle of nowhere. Use common sense if the plane is too low pull it up. If your at rotate speed pull yp the plane. Stop relying on technology too much.
Exactly. The only aspect of this crew being professional is being paid button pushers. I see no evidence of aviating ability at all.
This is beyond appalling. I have no words for this incompetence.
How would you know you were at rotate speed?
@@krashd They were so focused on the flight director or basically the gps that they ignored everthing else including how far down the runway they were.
@@krashd
The pilot not flying makes callouts and they would both be monitoring the airspeed indicator.
So normally the non flying pilot would callout V1, then Vr, and the flying pilot would pitch the aircraft to the appropriate pitch attitude for takeoff, regardless of the flight director indications, especially if the indication is to remain level when the airspeed is passing V2 and rapidly increasing.
I know we aren't supposed to be armchair aviators, but come on. VFR conditions and they don't notice 1) the approaching runway end, 2) the airspeed 3) the proximity to the ground 4) the unusual time delay before positive rate and gear retraction 5) the sound. Unbelievable lack of situational awareness. And hey, if your initial climb is going to managed by autopilot, wouldn't you check that setting as an absolute priority equal to checking flaps settings?
Haven't watched this channel since verbal audio began, glad to see we are back to normal. Loving it thanks.
My sister was at the airport waiting for her flight to London on EK7, which departed at 3:10am, when this happened. She could’ve witness a crash happen before her eyes as she was sitting at the gate facing the runway. 😖
damn
shit man thats wild, anyways back to eating my sandwich
I was in Dubai about 5km away and flew home the next day. Luckily I didn't hear about this until I got back home.
I actually flew that plane in April, weird to think that *Could* have been me
Proof: czcams.com/video/GEkGZ6wl_kE/video.html
I saw that plane flying above my apartment super low. I thought it was descending
So it was four idiots on a jolly in the cockpit rather than four professional pilots? This is shocking beyond belief. Great video.
The flight guidance panel set up is normally indicated on at least two check list. Cockpit preparation and taxi check list. The initial climb altitude is normally set on the altitude selector when the departure clearance has been received and it’s part of the take off briefing, because both pilots (Pilot Flying and Pilot Monitoring) have to agree on the initial climb altitude and point a finger to the altitude selector to confirm that the read out is the altitude they have been cleared to.
This crew should be grounded, for deviating from the checklist and for continuing to destination with an airplane who exceeded its limitations and therefore it could have sustained structural damages.
imagine how freakin LOUD it was to have that plane fly 260k 75 feet above your roof!!!
Imagine how loud it would have been if you were out on the street without a roof over you, and with some of the most powerful jet engines in the world, to top it off.
thought the same thing lol mustve been super damn loud
Whew…and there were FOUR pilots in that cockpit!!! Checking that data should been part of the preflight checklist.
I don’t think you ever said if there were any passengers on the plane. Was it just the four pilots?
Indeed, I’m sure they all needed some hemorrhoid cream after they landed. They should have been reprimanded at the very least, formally on paper, in their personnel files, but terminated, quite publicly was called for. If I was a passenger on that flight I would have flipped out and that would have caused them to have to return to the gate. No way would I stay on that flight for another 14+ hours. Most of the passengers were probably sitting in their own shite for the entire trip.
Gross negligence all the way!!
This is one of those times when common sense should immediately override what the computer is instructing the pilots to do.
Also i'm surprised the pilots didn't rotate the plane manually after hearing V1. It seems to me like they were over-reliant on tech.
Brilliant video! How have I not found this channel before? Subscribed!
I was expecting this video, good job mate
You know, I'm just a VFR recreational piston pilot, so maybe I don't know what I'm doing, but do you mean to tell me that not one of the flight crew looked out the window and said, "We're going awfully fast to still be on the runway. Shouldn't we have lifted off by now?" or, "We're awfully low to be going so fast, and we're not climbing. Shouldn't we be in more of a climb attitude?"
This is what happens when you rely too much on automation. Always keep an eye out for the unexpected.
Wow what a cool video TFC. I still can’t believe this happened recently last year in December. I’m also shocked 😯 at how close the pilots were from total disaster but at least they managed to pull it off at the last minute and continue their safe flight ✈️ to the U.S.
Graphics and sound effects absolutely spot on. That vibration feeling on engine start up exactly as if I'm sitting in the 777. Great work. If only videos could have a smell effect, the smell of fuel at engine startup would make it 100% realistic. Hopefully soon with the metaverse 😂
The FD says aim for that backyard. So I think I'll aim for that backyard.
I understand that they all somehow managed to forget about setting the autopilot. But don’t you have eyes?! The aircraft tells you to land on a populated area and you are fine with that?! At that time, you should f the rules and just power the aircraft to a safe altitude
I remember when I was young (Not A Long Time A Go), my mother and I were on a flight to JFK Airport with Emirates, it all seemed normal at first we were landing, and we felt the thrust slowed down, after 3 seconds when the aircraft touch the runway the pilot Full Thrust and went up ASAP it took like 1-5 seconds for us to climb back I was terrified and prayed to God it would all end good and holding my mother hand as like a Good Bye thingy after we landed everyone was in relief I guess there was a Plane on the runway and the ATC instructed "Go Around" oh well we're still alive today.
@@HiHi-ek1dd yeah it was a go around. First Time go around experiences are quite terrifying I imagine specially considering you were a kid. I'm lucky I never went through one.
Automation has killed the old skills. With buttons, it is now monkey see, monkey do.
Exactly! I find that far more unforgivable than missing the setting.
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My all time favorite channel! Every time a new video pops up I’m stuck like glue
This happened to me so many times, When my brother visits me from San Francisco every time he uses my car he lifts the hand brakes when he turn it off (which we never use in Illinois because its so flat) so i get and the car and drive 5 miles before i realize the the brake light on the dash
Passengers are really putting their lives in pilots hands. It's disturbing to think about. Thank God everyone was safe
Awesome presentation by this channel, just love it, really heaterning as it wasn't a fatal incident and everyone was safe.
Everyone here being experts and talking about firing or grounding the pilots as if that was the magical solution are being very shortsighted and completely missing the point. There is a much bigger problem at play here. As you were all so eager to point out there were 4 pilots, which sheds light on the whole training and safety culture at the airline. It isn’t about punishing anyone, it’s about understanding why this happened and making sure it doesn’t happen again, and the only way to do that is for the airline to take a good look at how they train their pilots, and how bad their automation dependency is, how the roster is affecting their sleep, leading to fatigue and impaired judgement. And many other factors. It’s a problem with the whole system, so blaming it on 4 people and sweeping it under the rug isn’t going to magically make those problems disappear, they’ll just happen again with a different crew, and with a much worse outcome.
Surely you jest.
@@thiswasnoboakingaccident6368 It is a regular occurence. Emirates is notorious for close calls that nearly end in disaster, and that are the result of oversights on the part of pilots that were found to be fatigued / poorly trained.
There have been two incidents in Dubai in these past few weeks, the one in the video being one of them, the other being a near runway collision.
A crash landing at Dubai and a tail strike followed by a runway excursion in Australia a few years ago, both incidents where the aircraft was written off, are also other examples. The list goes on. It’s a quite well known issue among us pilots when it comes to Emirates, and the debate has been going on for years. Something needs to change before their luck runs out.
Stop giving excuses to incompetence or reckless mistakes.the whole crew should be fired like yesterday!!
@@edwin2963 The very fact you think this is the solution tells me you’re not very educated about the aviation industry and don’t know much about leading a group of people towards success, let alone about operating an airline. This type of response is quite lazy and will not allow for improvement of our industry.
This to me seems like the same phenomenon that causes people to blindly follow their satnav in their car and drive straight into a lake, or to France when they meant to go somewhere in the UK. Scary. I reckon they deliberately continued to their destination so that the CVR would get recorded over.
Good point.
As I have mentioned before, it is sad that you have material to present! I don't feel like we can ever engineer our way out of human error. Thanks for posting this video!
MAN, your animation is getting good!
Although The pilots are initially not noticing takeoff procedures, at the end they somehow managed to land safely.. That's what is needed.. Thanks God..
Would have loved to hear the cockpit conversations going on! Luckily everything worked out.
Found the transcript: DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
It goes on like that for ~14.5 hours with little variance.
Why do you think they flew on to D.C.? The flight crew knew the cockpit recorder would have been overwritten 3-4 times before they landed.
@@Mattreyu199 hahaa!!
Irresponsible pilots taking a chance with all aboard by continuing the flight
OMG! Thanks TFC for another brilliant video!
Thank God no damage has been done and everyone is safe now. I m big fan of this channel .
Take a moment here to reach out to those poor local residents who had a 777 nearly parked on their rooftops. That must have been terrifying, and imagine the noise.
I would have enjoyed the crap out of that jet engine ear blasting music, if of course it wasn't connected to the fact that a 777 was trying to itch its tires on my house at 260 knots...
This really is hard to believe, so many clues that were ignored for so long, speechless.
Thanks for the high quality work TFC.
Great video. 👍 Reminds me of flight OA411 in 1978 but that flight had an engine failure and the pilot flew 9 feet over the mountain! Can you do a video on that great save? Thanks.
Very well done. It goes beyond the graphics. There are examples included in the video. Etc. Which means a lot went into the production of this video. And we all benefit. Thank you.
There’s an interesting video titled “Children of the Magenta” which focuses on modern pilots relying so heavily on automation that basic flying skills are eroded. This is a classic example of that theory……It amazes me how often highly trained airline pilots display a complete lack of basic flying skills….Air France stalling into the ocean from 41,000’ is just one of many WOW instances.
The Air France one is almost unreal how utterly dumb, obvious, and avoidable that disaster was. I get a little mad just thinking about it lol.
Did Flight Channel cover that?
Emirates was one of my favorite airlines but now they are becoming something almost unsafe
You can still like the airline, even if they're just ordinary. We rarely hear about the near-miss incidents, this one was too obvious to ignore. The flight crew managed to avert a crash, so maybe they're not so bad after all.
@@sawning3449 lol
They had an unfortunate event few years back when the plane literally burned on the runway. Not to mention fly dubai airplanes crash in Russia. Very unfortunate events by the same group. Some said that they are over working their staff leading to issues like this.
Supposedly a great airline to fly with, but not so good to work for. Overworking your staff and treating them like crap is maybe not such a good idea when they're being entrusted with millions of dollars worth of aircraft and hundreds of human lives.
@@rich_edwards79 given that their equipment and material are top notch. The only issue that can be causing a failing operation would be Human Resources. I’m no air flight statistical analyst, but from my POV, they have had more accidents in the last few years than any other airline in the region.
Wow! This happened last December! This is just like the 747 Olympic Airlines flight in 78’ that almost crashed in downtown Athens!
Thank you for this high production video, I always like to discover narrowly avoided tragedies I don’t hear in the media.
Keep up the good work! By the way, do you use Flight Simulator for your videos?
Hats off to flight captain ... This shows how much knowledge he gathered over the years...The flight channel should give applauds to the captain instead of a "Disaster" video tag...
Are you the captain?
Great video. I am pleasantly surprised that, despite the usual censorship curtains from this particular part of the world, you managed to put together an interesting video. I hope they won't force you to take it down
My experience has been that in most of Asia, pilots seem to forget how to fly by the seats of their pants. The Asiana crash at SFO also happened because they forgot how to prepare their approach land by hand even though they had thousands of hours of flying time because they only knew how to fly their airplanes using knobs and instruments, relying on the computers to do their flying for them. This sort of thing is not unusual. Furthermore, because of paternalism in society and unfettered fear of causing loss of face of elders if the captain makes an error the other pilots usually will not correct him even though they know there is an error. Hence, if the captain didn't notice the altimeter setting was wrong and didn't adjust it, it is possible the other three pilots didn't have the courage to inform him, hoping for the best and, thankfully, all's well that ends well. I have seen this occur in the cockpit over in SE Asia all too many times.
Emirates crews hail from all parts of the globe though and employ a lot of pilots from the west. Quite different to the likes of Asiana.
Not speaking up against elders hasn't been a thing among professional airlines for over 30 years, questioning your captain is now one of the biggest rules in flying.
Excellent representation as usual!!!
Thank you
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Thank you for this high quality, yet terrifying, high quality production. Am I correct in assuming the crew skipped a vital preflight and vital check list? Were the pilot's reprimanded in any way? And let's not forget, landing in IAD, which is in one of the busiest east coast air spaces with a broken airplane and/or crew, put the public''s safety at risk?.
Kinda crazy no one looked out the front window and said why am I'm flying towards these structures and trees..
Is Emirates hurting that bad for pilots?
The overspeed was a blessing in disguise under the circumstances. Saved it from stalling.
This is the real life equivalent of that scene from The Office where Michael drives into a lake while blindly following his GPS. "the machine knows!" haha XD
Wow, I bet getting buzzed by _that_ woke a few people up. 😳 I live kinda-sorta under the approach of a major airport, and something like that...😱
Wow! Emirates says that it has the best pilots. I agree-the best pilots who miss visual cues during the late takeoff and the most important of all, forget reading some instruments
Good Work TFC
i was waiting for this!
Nice video ✈️👍🏼