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This is Why You NEVER Take Your Luggage From a Plane Crash · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: On May 5, 2019, Arrowflot Flight 1492 was scheduled to fly from Shermit Yevo Airport in Moscow to Vermont's Airport in Russia.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: With 73 passengers in five crew onboard the pilots completed their pre-flight checks and lined up on the runway.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: At 1803, they took off and began their climb.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a little bumpy, but they'd handled worse.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Five minutes later, however, a deafening boom rock the entire plane.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden, the plane jolted, the primary radio went dead, and the autopilot became inoperative.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it was okay, the pilots knew this was a minor electrical failure.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing major.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: What they didn't know, though, was that in less than 30 minutes, the life of every passenger on board would be on the line.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not just because of what the pilots were about to do, oh no, because of the dangerous decisions that passengers themselves made next.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: That fateful day as they weren't lining up on the runway, flight 1492 had found themselves facing towering, cumulon-nimbus clouds, but are known to mean US thunderstorm clouds.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: While passenger planes are designed to handle stormy conditions, pilots can request storm avoidance clearance, a kind of navigational assistance given by air traffic controllers to help them avoid the worst of the turbulence and many electrical disturbances from lightning.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: But flight 1492 didn't request this, and instead took off with the intention to turn away from the storm once they were in the air.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: As they climbed to 8,900 feet lightning struck the plane.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: The right-hand angle of attack sensor, right-hand ice detector, temperature probe, and upper sections of the fuselage were all damaged.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: The radio and auto pilot also cut out entirely.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Almighty crack of the lightning or rock the plane and had passengers clinging to their seats and terror.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: But luckily, they were still airborne.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Without a moment to lose the camp to activate their secondary radio, restored communications with the air traffic controllers at Cheromethevo and flying manually, began their return to the airport.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Turning back, the plane overshot its initial approach, so it had to turn around in a circle of a genet's approach again.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: As it descended to runway 24, the pilots checked that they had all the right settings in place.
• 2:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was looking good, but suddenly as they hit a thousand feet and alarm began blurring, go around when she or a head.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: When sheers a sudden change in the approaching winds velocity or direction with strong wind shear making airplane landings difficult or even impossible.
• 3:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: The alarm went off in flight 1492's cockpit five times, but for reasons unknown the crew never acknowledged it and they continued their descent.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: When the plane hit 180 feet another alarm sounded, glide slope.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: This alarm, which is part of the terrain avoidance warning system, indicated in an excessive downward deviation from their instrument landing system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, the nose of the plane was angled too far down.
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: To land even in strong crosswind conditions like this, a plane aims to get its back landing gears down on the ground first and then lowers the nose landing gears to prevent the plane from bouncing.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: The captain tried to raise the nose up by increasing the plane's air speed to a 170 knots, 15 knots above the recommended threshold.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the nose wouldn't pitch up in time.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: At 1830 the plane landed heavily on all three of its landing gears, 3,000 feet beyond the runway threshold, at a speed of 158 knots, about 181 miles per hour.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: The aircraft bounced to a height of six feet and then two seconds later when an attempt to engage the reverse thrusters failed, the aircraft touched down again and bounced to a height of 18 feet.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Passengers still had their seat belts on but they were being thrown around like this.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ragnar's panic, the captain hit the thrusters attempting to take off to salvage the situation, but it was too late.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: The aircraft hit the runway for a third and final time at 140 knots, roughly 161 miles per hour.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was this huge final bump that collapsed the plane's landing gear rupturing the wing and the fuel tanks were then them.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: The leaking fuel quickly set fire to the back half of the plane and it slid down the runway with a thick plume of smoke and fire trailing behind it.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, it came to rest between two taxiways and golfed and flames.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The fire was spreading so fast that passengers and crew had no time to act.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dick Black smoke was filling the cabin and an alarming rate in cabin crew initiated evacuation as soon as they could.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Three seconds before the official evacuation order was given.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: They instructed everyone to leave their bags and evacuate them immediately.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: One crew member kicked open the forward-right exit door and triggered the inflatable escapes line just eight seconds after the aircraft came to a halt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The first passenger slid out of it after just 17 seconds.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: A steady stream of passengers evacuated the burning craft with the first officer clambering out of the cockpit window via a rope.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: After 70 seconds the final passenger to make its slid down.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: But as they were all running to safety it became clear that passengers hadn't just saved themselves, many of them were carrying their hand luggage.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievably as people were crawling along the aisles to avoid the smoke from the back end of the plane trying desperately to save themselves, some passengers had found the time to block the aisles and get their belongings from the overhead compartments before exiting the flaming craft.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: It undoubtedly cost those passengers and crew further back that precious seconds they needed to escape, which made it all the more terrible when it was revealed that only 37 of the 78 passengers made it out.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now experts claim that passengers and crew in the rear of the plane stood a very limited chance of survival once the fire had taken hold, and yet that chance might have increased had these passengers thought about anything other than their own possessions.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: As utterly outrageous as this incident is, it isn't an isolated one, far from it and happens all the time.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2015 British Airways like 2276 suffered catastrophic engine failure in caught fire on a runway in Las Vegas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While it forced the terrifying evacuation of all 157 passengers in 13 crew, astonishingly, almost every person on the tarmac was seen carrying luggage, including wheelie bags.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if those bags at puncture the inflatable slide or trip their owners in the aisle?
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Viewing the scenes online, flight attendants around the world branded the passengers' actions as selfish and pathetic.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm tempted to agree with them, but for a moment, let's give these people the benefit of the doubt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if they hadn't heard the instruction to leave their bags?
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I find that hard to believe, if the incident aboard United Airlines Flight 1658 is anything to go by.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: When the plane landed in Denver, Colorado reports of smoke and fire under the plane triggered an evacuation.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite the loud repeated warnings for people to leave their bags and get out, numerous people could be spotted grabbing their belongings with several overhead bins and shot clearly open.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: These people had no idea how severe the fire was and yet still prioritized their possessions over their own safety.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, it was a small fire and all 157 passengers evacuated without issue.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: But what about on a crash landing?
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Surely flight 1492 was an anomaly.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: People don't really prioritize grabbing their bags when they know they're in imminent danger, right?
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, passengers aboard Emirates flight 521 proved otherwise.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Similar to AeroFlock flight, 1492 back on August 3rd, 2016, flight 521 was landing in Dubai, UAE, carrying 282 passengers in 18 crew.
• 8:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly, significant wind shear caused major complications which saw the plane bounce collide and skid along the runway.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite being told to evacuate people were blocking the island scrambling for the overhead bends instead of getting themselves their children and their families out of there.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: By some miracle, despite this insanely selfish behavior everyone made it out with only a few minor injuries reported.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: and not a moment too soon.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just nine minutes after the aircraft came to a full stop, while only the pilot and copilot were on board checking out passengers and made it out, planes reached the aircraft's center fuel tank and the plane exploded.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Both the pilot and copilot survived though, they almost didn't.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: When that said, in the event of a plane crash, passengers should never prioritize their bags over their lives.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: You never know how fast a fire might be traveling, if there's even a fire on board or if an explosion is imminent.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if ever you find yourself in that situation or remember that your carry-on luggage can always be replaced, but your life and the lives of people behind you aren't so easy to restore.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Leave the bag, Karen.
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now currently there are no laws against taking your bag into the emergency, but maybe if there were, people would be less likely to do this?
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?
• 9:58
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• 10:01
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• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, well, let's put that debate aside for the moment and take a look at even more things passengers and pilots should never do on a plane.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You'd assume that if someone has enough brain cells to purchase a plane to get they'd know not to try and damage the plane they're traveling on.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, back on September 14th, 2022, cabin crew on board Pakistan International Airlines flight 2300 restrained a man who were attempting to kick out the windows of the aircraft while it was in the air.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: This same passenger had caused several disturbances by lying down in the aisle to pray, begging cabin crew to let him off the plane while they were 36,000 feet in the air before being asked and then forced to return to his seat.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: While that was more and annoyance to the cabin crew than a major issue, the windowkaking was just downright dangerous.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Airplane windows are specially designed to deal with the pressure difference between the outside and inside of the plane where upwards of 10,000 feet, the air is much thinner.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: As standard modern cabin windows contain two bands, the inner of which is made of stretched acrylic, which is about 0.375 inches thick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These bands can withstand roughly 4900 pounds of pressure, and with the average human kick, lucky in it, about 1,000 pounds, there's little chance that a single kick will blow one out.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: For a peated gigs however, theoretically could, and that's where problems start.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because of that aforementioned pressure difference, if a window was broken air from inside the aircraft would rush out at incredible speeds as the pressure outside and inside equalizes.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyone too close to that window could be sucked out by the incredibly strong rush of air.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This would also trigger oxygen masks that drop from the ceilings, allowing passengers to keep breathing in the new thin air environment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So all round, trying to kick a window out mid-flight, held a dumb decision.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, once the plane landed, the spesky passenger was handed over to security forces before being deported and banned from ever-flying with the airline again.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty grounding punishment if you ask me.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: At the start of any passenger flight, everyone will be given the same old safety brief by flight attendants who have performed the same instructions a thousand times over.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it can be dull and the attendants are probably more sick of it than you are, but it's important to pay attention.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: If not, you could make a mistake that literally costs people their lives.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're lucky, you'll just end up being a ridicule at on social media, as passengers on board Southwest Airlines flight 1380 discovered.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: On April 17, 2018, the flight which was in-round from New York to Dallas experienced a left-engine failure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hearts of the engine, cowling, broke off and shattered one of the windows resulting in explosive decompression.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the broken window scenario from before?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But real.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oxygen was immediately sucked out of the plane partially and fatally, sucking one passenger out the window, while making it hard for all others to breathe and putting them at risk of hypoxia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oxygen masks drop down from the ceiling to counteract this, however, having apparently not paid attention pictures from the inside of the crampship passengers wearing their masks under their noses.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, come on, it literally says on the bag to put the mask over your mouth and nose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's designed to create a seal around your face, breathing through your nose helps you remain calm, but if you're taking deep breaths of air that isn't there, it might as well not be wearing the mask at all.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: While passengers were dragged on social media and the news, they made it down without losing another passenger.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, they're simply saying the masks look like they might be uncomfortable.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, which do you think is more uncomfortable, a plastic mask or a dime from a high box, yeah?
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I have a survival question for you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, you're on a plane that's had to make an emergency landing on the water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got your life jacket on and you're getting up out of your seat and suddenly you see water rushing into the plane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When do you inflate your life jacket?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That very second.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: B.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When the waters at Wastide or C. When you're out of the aircraft.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The frequent flyers among you might know the answer, but those afraid of getting their hair wet probably said A.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your B.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The answer is always C. If you inflate your jacket before the plane is landed or while you're still in your seat, if the plane does go underwater, your vest will float with the water filling the plane making it even harder to get out.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: This exact scenario happened back in 1996 when either Yopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It crashed into the water, but many passengers prematurely inflated their life jackets inside the cabin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because of this, many were trapped on the sinking plane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And of the 163 passengers just 44 survived.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: So in order to escape, even if the water is at waste height and it's threatening to ruin your hair, you need to wait to inflate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Next up on July 22nd, 2019 passengers and one emotional support dog boarded American Airlines Flight 3306.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: As one of the flight attendants reached across the seats to provide a passenger with their sick bag that supposedly support dog lunched forward, it bit the flight attendant on the
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: less than two years before a similar scene had unfolded on Delta Flight 1430.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Only this time during takeoff the agitated emotional support dog was set between its owner and another passenger when suddenly, entirely unprovoked it bit the stranger on the face repeatedly.
• 15:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: How would this happen not once but twice?
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: While back in the late 2010s emotional support animals were a pretty common site on flights all over the world, especially in the US.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're a rare sight today, but passengers who can travel with these animals on the plane don't have to pay the usual fee of up to $1,000 to stow them in the cargo hold, and used to have almost no limits on what sort of animal they could bring.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: The one role they did in force was that passengers had to provide a letter from their mental health professional to prove their emotional support animal was the real deal.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And to that end, airline rules stated that these animals are expected to respond to the direction of the owner.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: The only issue is that these letters are very easy to get hold of with online forms that can be filled out in minutes.
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Almost anyone can claim their pet is an emotional support animal and not pay the fee for them to fly.
• 16:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: But planes are stressful environments for even the calmest animals, especially those that haven't been specially trained to cope in stressful situations.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so there was a huge influx of fake emotional support animals misbehaving on flights, some with dire consequences, as Hannibal Lector the Hound proved.
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Airlines have since become more stringent with their emotional support animal policies limiting the types of animals that can fly and refusing requests at their discretion.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So while it may be tempting to try and bring Fido on a family trip for free, don't do it.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you want to risk him showing down on another passenger's face, like it's made of baloney.
• 17:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: But not only animals could lose control in the air, back on February 13th, 2022, American Airlines Flight 1775 was heading from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., when suddenly the plane felt like it was in free fall.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Passengers Panicked as the plane made a terrifyingly rapid descent and later landed at Kansas City Airport.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: law enforcement were called to the plane and when they got there the scene that greeted them was something else.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Several passengers and cabin crew were holding a single passenger against the ground restraining it with anything they could, including a coffee pot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What the heck had he done?
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: According to eyewitness reports and pilot transcripts the passenger had started acting paranoid and was distraught before attempting to enter the cockpit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now while in flight cockpit doors are generally kept locked with a minimum of two pilots inside to prevent hijacking attempts.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: By actively trying to open the door you can be charged with interfering with a flight crew which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of trying every door you see, maybe ask what of the cabin crew which way the bathroom is next time.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it's not just passengers that put other travelers' lives in danger, captains, pilots, and even air traffic controllers have their fair share of the blame to shoulder.
• 18:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Though none, perhaps as harrowing, is what's become simply known as the Tenorif Airport Disaster.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Back on March 27, 1977, KLM Flight 48-05 was lining up on the runway to take off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A bomb threaded Grand Canaria airport had diverted a lot of traffic to the much smaller loss for Deus Airport, which was well equipped to deal with such a huge influx of traffic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To make matters worse, a thick fog had blanket at the area reducing visibility to around 330 feet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Flight 4805, a Boeing 747 passenger plane, hit the throttles and began takeoff procedure, before the copylate noted that they hadn't been given clearance to take off,
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: radioed the air traffic controller.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: They said, we are now at takeoff, we're going, uh, non-standard statement to which the controller responded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, another non-standard statement.
• 19:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, okay, units own as ambiguous as hell, and didn't specifically confirm the controller had understood what the copilot meant.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because what the controller interpreted from that was that the plane wasn't takeoff position, not already ruling down the runway.
• 19:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: He then added standby for takeoff, I will call you, showing he had not, in fact, given takeoff clearance.
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was a huge problem because on the same runway flight 4805 was now hurtling down in very low visibility, Pan Am flight 1736, another Boeing 747, which had just landed, was still on the runway.
• 20:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to the fog, the planes could not see one another, neither air
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In effect, nobody had any idea what was about to happen until it was too late.
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: By the time 4805 clocked, the 1736 still on the runway, they were moving at a breakneck 160 miles per hour, too fast to stop.
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: They desperately tried to rotate the aircraft and take off to clear the plane,
• 20:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: When it left the ground, it's nose landing gear, cleared the plane, but the left engines lower fuselage and main landing gear struck the upper right side of 1736, ripping it apart.
• 20:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Shredded materials were sucked into 48-05's left engine, and while they were very briefly airborne, the plane stalled, rolled and hit the ground.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's right engines crash through 1736's upper deck just behind the cockpit.
• 21:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Both planes were destroyed and of the combined 644 occupants in both planes just 61 survive, less than 10%.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The tragedy led to major reforms in the use of standardized phrasology and radio communications with words like takeoff now only spoken when actual takeoff clearance is given or canceled.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly, hearing pilots repeating instructions word for word and asking for clarification repeatedly seems less OCD and more OMG.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, most of you will be too young to remember this, but back in the 90s it was pretty common for kids to be invited by the captain to visit the cockpit.
• 21:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: sometimes even during take-offs and landings.
• 21:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's rare now thanks to the events of 9-11 and the resulting additional security measures, but there was also one other flight that made Captain's second guess having a kid in the cockpit ever again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Harold Flott 593.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On the 23rd of March 1994, this air bus flight from Moscow to Hong Kong carrying 63 passengers and 12 crew took off without any issues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alongside the pilot and copilot, a third relief pilot was also in the cockpit ready to take over should one of the other pilots need a break on the long journey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and with him, his kids who were traveling on their very first international flight, a 12-year-old daughter in 16-year-old son.
• 22:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were all in the cockpit when, with the plane's autopilot turned on, but still against regulations, the relief pilot let his kids sit at the controls.
• 22:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: His daughter took the pilot's front-left seat and he adjusted the autopilot heading so that when she used the control column it responded, and she thought she was actually flying the plane.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: The sun then took up the pilot's chair, but he placed so much force on the control column that it contradicted the autopilot for 30 seconds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This triggered the flight computer to switch the plane's airlarons, aka the flaps you see on each wing, to manual control.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This kid now really was flying the plane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A silent indicator lit up to alert the pilots to this disengagement.
• 23:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, all the pilots on board who weren't familiar with this model of aircraft had previously flown in Soviet design planes that had an audible warning for a partial disengagement.
• 23:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so horrifically they failed to notice it.
• 23:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't until the sun mentioned the cramp was banking right that the pilots realized something was wrong.
• 23:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the autopilot was still engaged, they all boxed for nine seconds as the plane banked further from 45 degrees to 90 degrees, steeper than the design allowed.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: The plane quickly began to descend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The autopilot without use of the flaps tried to pitch the plane's nose up, which caused
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Battling some significant G-Force the pilot scrambled for control of the craft, and only when the autopilot disengaged completely did they notice the issue.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: At this point the pilot was finally able to retake his seat from the boy where he pulled the plane out of the dive, except he over-corrected which put the plane in an almost vertical
• 24:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually the pilots leveled out the wings and gained control, but it was too late.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They'd lost too much altitude and hit the ground at an estimated 140 or 160 mph.
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: There were no survivors.
• 24:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say, this should never have happened in regulations detailing that only licensed pilots can be at the control columns during a flight should have been followed.
• 24:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, since then measures have been reinstated to all pilots across multiple airlines to ensure this insane level of oversight never happens again.
• 24:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, at least something good came out of this.
• 24:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: As heroine as those stories were, have you ever been on a plane that encountered a passenger-related problem?
• 25:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, I haven't and hope I'll never be.
• 25:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Touch wood.
• 25:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening.
• 25:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you next time you want to be amazed.