Icelandair B767 Landing in Antarctica!
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Please push Subscribe. B767-300ER landing at Troll airfield in Antarctica in January 2022. Icelandic pilots and crew operated this flight and landed on the icy runway with scientists. I got these clips from the pilots and mechanic and did the editing for them. This is pretty cool and the crew was fortunate to do this trip from Cape Town in South Africa.
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Runway overrun continues for ...200 miles of more ice. Great video and ground prep! When I was in the USAF, a C-141 Starlifter (4 jet engines) at McMurdo Station in 1974. First time a heavy cargo jet did this and it set a ground taxiing record for continuous taxiing (miles) until they were sure that the ice pack was good to shut down. It was part of Operation Deep Freeze. The 141 was the predecessor to the USAF C-17.
This aircraft, FI-ISN, once visited Stockholm Arlanda Airport in 2019 and I was part of the team handling it. I walked under this aircraft and stuff, very cool to see it in Antarctica
Very cool! I like the pun!
Let us hope we handle it at SSH !!!
Well done
TF-ISN (3:36) - FI is the operator prefix :)
Cool
Imagine the kudos having Troll airfield in your pilots log book 👍
Bragging rights at the bar
We do a little trolling
@@ZMW7 We do a little too much trolling
Trololololo~
So this is why they like to trigger flame wars.
Takes icy conditions to the next level
Takes "ICELAND AIR" to the next level.
leokimvideo
What level is that then?
Thats very nice
@@georgebosse9393 yes now it is a reel Icelandair
The journey from pole to pole.
I worked for Boeing for nearly 39 years before I retired 6 years ago this month. SO MANY GOOD MEMORIES!!!!. I was there for the 757/767 buildup, the overtime money we earned then helped us save enough for the down payment on the house I still live in today. I am a tool & die maker and there were so many challenges then. Many of the drawings were still done on drafting tables and retrieving drawings had to come from the microfiche files. It seemed like an endless firefight to keep up with the changes but, those 2 birds eventually were in the air, where they were designed to be! I REALLY do miss being in the shop building aircraft tooling, but, retirement offers it's options and I have my primitive wood shop to keep me occupied now. As the old saying is, "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going"! I will not hesitate to fly on any aircraft we built, then or now.
Thank you for this nice info. The B757/767 are such great airplanes. I have flown them for 15 years and love them
Boeing is not the same company that it once was.
"If it's not Boeing, I'm not going"! Tell that to the threehundertfortysix 737max fatalities who died because of Boeings incompetent leadership.
What about the people who died on the 2 737Max aircraft built by Boeing...............?
@@jeepman1467 lol you have no idea what you are talking about
Haha! Those air hostesses wearing their high heels on the South Pole. Classic.
First dead than simple!!
One of them was also wearing short sleeve...
They didn’t land at the South Pole. Not even close. You might want to look at a map
One air hostess even has a big grown man sitting on her shoulders. I think her high heels 👠 have gone through the ice with that man's weight on her.
this is their summer vacation
I have seen hundreds of aviation videos, but this is out of this world. Simply stunning.
Oh great thanx
The Carpenter
It's actually in the Antarctic.
@@redblade8160 😄
Beautiful landing. That snow really gave you an idea of how much power and the sheer size that aircraft has.
My first thought too - just a glass-smooth landing. Or should I say, ice-smooth... 😃
I have thousands of hours flying the 75/76 and this video is amazing! Once in a lifetime experience! I'm really jealous of those pilots.
Glad you enjoyed it. The pilots said this would not be topped in their careers.
me too!
These old Boeings designed by the old-heads of Boeing are a true marvel.
Specially the 767. Cargo haulers love them and use/abuse them daily with no complaints.
Back when Boeing was run by engineers rather than marketers and accountants.
@@mkkm945 There is a reason they are still in production in 2022. FedEx absolutely loves these things!
@@fixpacifica More like stock brokers.
An Aztec on steroids. A flying Dodge Power Wagon. The 67 is a joy to fly. Big, comfortable, and very very capable. You take off at Max Gross Weight with 7 hours of fuel and it still goes uphill like mad. Stuff can break en route and you're still good to go. It's a beast. I think that landing it here was probably easier than at many of the airfields where it typically operates. Now, keeping it nice, dispatchable, and warm till you can get it back out of there is another story. Now here's an interesting tidbit....I was told that this was a McDonnel Douglas product and Boeing got it during their shotgun marriage. It was originally going to be a MCD tri-jet, the replacement for the DC-10. For instance, the Center Hyd System is THE BIG one. Why put the large system in the middle when there's no third engine? So Boeing had to put on huge Air-Demand HYD pumps on the center system. The main cabin door is a Douglas door, it retracts inward and upward, not a plug and swing like the Boeing. I forget all the other touches but there are a ton of them that point at Douglas. Differences training (from the 57) was a four-day class. BA got the plane on paper and just kept going with it, shoving the 57 cockpit and systems integration into it. They wanted to make it a single Type (with the 57) because they could see the genius of the Airbus model.
I’ve always loved the 767, such an underrated plane.
Breathtaking. Must be one of the best experiences ever for the crew
Yes they said that this was the top of their careers. Impossible to top
Icelandic pilots are some of the most experienced in the world .
Iceland ROCKS!
From one end of the planet to the other. Wow. I love this.
"...from Cape Town in South Africa."
@@utar88utar They're originally from Iceland.
Plan et.
1:23 “Bjánarnir ykkar. Djöfull er gaman að vera með ykkur hérna” 🤣👌
😆👍
Heathrow Airport: Flights are delayed due to snow and ice on the runway.
Icelandic Air: Hold my beer
Awesome video! For those who didn't know, Troll is the Norwegian Antarctic research station. Good to see Icelandair on the South Pole again. Nobody knows snow and icing conditions like Icelandair.
Is the plane model particularly suitable for landing on snow?
@@Rich72James Not really, but the 767 is a very reliable and proven model. And it has the range and payload capacity needed. There might have been some large cargo items in the belly of the plane requiring a certain size of aircraft.
@@Republic3D
That's just for ballast
Awesome... air crew in high heels in Antarctica! Now that's gotta be a first. Go Icelanders !!!!
3:07 'Yes Sir, Let's do it man' Absolutely class
Yes and when they landed the captains words can be heard in Icelandic (translated): welcome to troll, bless it, you silly guys, god damn it’s fun to be here with you”.
The only landing strip where you could slide off the runway and nobody would notice. 😁
Or care.
I've never landed on snow. I'd imagine that the depth perception would be hard to figure out. What a smooth landing. Reverse thrusters applied before the nose wheel touched down! Great video and can't wait to see what lucaas does with it!
Part of the requirement for landing is having enough contrast to discern the surface..
Luckily, no one was injured
Radio altimeter really helpful in this conditions
I think it would be amazing
TR's are typically opened as soon as the mains are on the runway. And then when the nose gear hits you can honk on them. They take a few seconds to fully deploy and during this time you lower the nose.
Pretty incredible what such a small country does in the world.
Flying a plane to Antarctica? Yes, absolutely astonishing especially with all that snow. And in high heels too!
@@voxer99
Why do they wear "high heels", are they all gay?
I assume you're talking about Norway which has a year round research station in antarctica and also make and run the airport services?
@@ThorsteinKlingenberg Norway isn’t a small country not in comparison with Iceland anyway
hehe, I guess. Kind of small compared to the other nations operating in Antarctica.
I bet the performance in that cold dry air was phenomenal.
Yep, especially on the way back, maybe with very little cargo!
What an impressive footage!! Amazing job made by Icelandair crew! Fantastic filming under such conditions!!! Good job!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
My same thoughts!
ATC: "Icelandair clear to land and clear to taxi and clear to takeoff and clear to do basically anything you want."
“… this is a recorded message”
Well, if there is no traffic, why bother controller...
Even at uncontrolled fields they'd still call their position in the pattern, just good habits that you don't really loose, and to give updates to the ground crew. On another note, that snow runway is nuts, way above the burning oil barrels or tree branches we see in the North sometimes!
@@umi3017
It's a waste of time even having a controller.
ATC: "wtf AM I even doing here?" *Throws headset in snow*
Lots of comments praising the airplane and the crew. And while the crew is definitively skilled the real impressive feat is making an airport down there, complete with a tower (a guy in a pickup truck with a radio, but none the less), refueling facilities, a fire truck, air start carts, ground power units, equipment for prepping the field, measuring the friction, weather data, etc. They even have runway lights for use during the winter months, if they have to operate emergency flights. And during the winter all this is supplied and maintained by six - 6 - people.
True, thank you
Stunning images of a 767 in Antarctica. Wow.
Great video! Would you be okay with me using parts of it in an episode of my series Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited in the video and in the description.
Yes thank you, I like your channel. I allow with credits in the video and link in description.
@@ExtremeAviationIceland Thanks!
@@lucaas hey bro
@@lucaas cant wait for the next one!
Luckily no one is injured.
The aircraft made such a long journey from Iceland. Perhaps the Icelanders got curious about life in the South Pole, being so close to the North Pole.😃
They took off from CapeTown South Africa
@@TurboPumperX well yes, but it was prepared in Iceland it had to stop in 2 places before reaching the pole due to fuel and picking up the scientists going there
The Icelanders did a crew change for the Norwegian station down there
The ski poles are a touch of class
Airplanes are such amazing machines, we take them way too much for granted!
patham9
Tell that to all the aircraft-crash victims and their families!
@@redblade8160 what about all the automotive fatalities ?
@@cogs11
Comparing two wrongs is not the answer to the problem, this is not a competition between companies to see which ones have the worse fatalities; it is all bad.
@@redblade8160
Denying facts is not the answer to the problem. If you see a problem, the you fix it and engineer a solution. If you don't know how to, then reduce the ego in UA-cam comment section and just use/don't use the product instead of giving opinions without a solution. Where's your version of a 100% non-lethal plane ?
@@cogs11
You're the one with the ego problem, just look at the nonsense you are spouting out!
2:17 Antarctica - they can handle it, high heels and all - respect!
Nice landing. Kind of reminds me of the 737 landings up in Northern Canada with gravel runways,kicking up all that snow with reverse thrust on 🙂
I had the goosebumps when he took off; great job, pal.
I worked on a charter like this but with a DC10. You need some great pilots to pull this off. Great work!
The DC-10 and Antartica...not a good mix.
@@shrimpflea if you mean the ANZ crash in the 70’s, that didn’t have anything to do with the aircraft type. That was an incorrectly programmed navigation system. DC-10 was actually perfect for landing in Antártica because of the three engines.
@@shrimpflea There were still small pieces of it on the side of Erebus 30 years ago.
@@BUCKMAW
Do you mean "Mount Erebus" or one of the Erebus planes?
What a great testament to human travels. I liked that the pilots engaged the reverse thrusters before the forward landing gear was grounded. Great job!
comaca
Only elite humans are allowed there and when a plane has a crash in Antarctica, you won't get to hear about it...
This is awesome. I thought he was skimming the ground on approach then i heard the 500ft call and my perception re calibrated. Great to hear the pilots excitement too. Exit runway via taxi way 'white' 😎
something very special about watching people living the dream.
Wonderful!!! What an experience for that crew!!
Stunning footage. Tough seeing the runway covered in snow like that
They land on ice.
There's no paved runway underneath the ice 😂
It IS snow haha 😂
That is the funny thing about snow: if you just have _enough_ of it, and it is _cold_ enough, it actually has quite good traction.
@@MrSveinnOskar Not true, if they landed on ice they would not be able to break!
Icelandic pilots are the best in the world. 👍
Incredible! I've always been well treated and impressed when flying Icelandair!!!
Glad to hear
Same here. Always a nice experience. Greetings from Finland.
Absolutely INCREDIBLE feat...!!!
The jet engines must have been happy with the cold and dry air.
The 767 was the first wide body I ever flew on, it was surprisingly quick on the climb like it's thinner 757 sister but very comfortable. Great aircraft.
Seriously cool, no pun intended. Very few pilots are able to get there. Well done to you all.
Who needs a twin otter? Awesome flying. Thanks for sharing.
Very difficult to see the runway, great job by the pilots and ground crew, the 767 is stunning.
757/767 and 727 are my favorite aircrafts
@@multiomer1997
The "Super VC10" outshines them all...
I believe he was number 1 for landing.
1:23
"Velkomin til Troll, blessi það! Bjánarnir ykkar; djöfull er gaman að vera með ykkur hérna!"
Translates roughly to:
"Welcome to Troll, bless that! You goons! Damn how fun it is to be here with you!"
Einmitt. Velkomin til Troll. Blessi það, bjánarnir ykkar
Takk, ég heyrði ekki fyrri partinn! Ég tók mér bessaleyfi og uppfærði fyrri færslu :)
Algjörlega frábært ævintyri fyrir Icelandair og Crew.. Magnificent take off and landing.. this blue sky color is awsome.. love this bigtime.. Thank you kindly for sharing and have a beautiful day everyone.. Stay safe ✨️✌️💖✨️
Takk fyrir það. Já þetta er ævintýri og það eru ferðir í gang núna á B757.
The reason they started turning left right after departure was to avoid the ice wall at the end of the flat earth off their right. 🤣
The first time I flew with Iceland Air was around '79. We had arrived in Chicago and hustled across O'Hare with a one hour connection time. As it turned out, our aircraft had some issues and wouldn't be leaving until the next day. It was an old DC8 Stretched. It was this impossibly long tube with a set of wings amidships. I'd done a fair amount of traveling having lived in the Alaskan Bush for a half dozen years. So, we're seated in the back, the airplane taxi's to the end of the runway and pivots around into the wind. The pilot winds up the four engines, releases the brake, and move accurate forward.....albeit somewhat slowly. A dog outside the fence out accelerates us. Finally the plane starts to gather speed, we rotate......and the wheels continue to have contact with the concrete........Finally the pilot in an act of desperation to get airborne retracts the gear, the plane settles back toward the runway.....more flaps....slowly we lift...probably some weird ground effects saved us. The pilot tickled us skyward.....slowly....so as not to disturb the sky gods. He held an altitude.....as the fuel burned, we lifted higher, we were able to clear Greenland for a stunning close up view of her glaciers. Finally the pilot put down the gear, and if by magic, we had landed in Keflavik.
Thank you for the nice and funny story😄
Very good morning !
Heartily congratulations to the Captain and his crew!!
Simply beautiful
WOW, just wow 👏
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing!
Thanx
There is something especially lovely about the fact that in Antarctica, you don't plow the runway -- you groom it. ;-)
Beautiful and perfect day for such operation! Kudos to all.
Congrats to the crew, this is a difficult approach and landing 👏🏼👏🏼
Daniel
Impossible for someone like you, but these pilots are used to these landings.
@@redblade8160 that 500ft announcement was a trigger for them. I bet they could feel the distance due to experience..
Just lovely this! Liked!
Thank you
Wow what a summer in Antarctica
The FA with the man perched on her shoulders made me laugh! Good show of strength. :)
Absolultely. Amazing.
👏👏👏👏 que espetáculo maravilhoso!
Amazing job by the pilots and IcelandAir braving all odds and doing a smooth landing and takeoff a feat indeed
That landscape shot in the beginning is beautiful
Amazing, the pilots and the crews have lots of experiences in landing and taking off from the snowstorm. And they are so good with the runway so hard to see.
Though you don't typically land on snow covered runways in regular commercial operations ;)
@@rkan2 the answer is YES, very high risks, but in those countries during the winter may be hard to avoid, the main thing is to make sure the runway is cleared like we saw in the video. I used to landed or took off in Denver's airport having similar conditions as we see in the video.
@@rkan2 FYI, most of the brakes systems are tested to land in the snowy conditions and have computer control assists.
@@mutualview3038 Ehh... No paved runway is graded with few centimeters of snow on the runway :D They are cleared as best as possible. For some unpaved Alaskan runways it might be true.
@@rkan2 You absolutely do. I live in the city of Tromsø, Norway and during most of the winter the strip is covered in snow/ice, and a typical day has like 60 takeoffs and landings.
Nice Landing ... Classic crew ... Probably born When people had God,Class, and minds ... Godspeed
Boeing 767s taking off and landing on the snow are very cool!
I wonder what Sir Ernest Shackleton and crew would have to say about this video. I for one would think that they would feel quite proud. The weather in the Arctic Regions (north and south) can change instantaneously... and complete total visual "misconceptions" are a norm. Thanks so much for this video, really great to see, Three cheers for Shackleton, his brave crew, and the Ross sea party on the other side of the continent and their desperate struggle for survival and the loss of those who perished in the fight (RIP).
Yes I have read the book about Shackleton journey. Amazing documentary on youtube as well
I think he would say : OH NO,Norwegians got here before me again :)
That was freakin AWESOME!😃
That was 'Icetastic';-)))
me parece increible que un avion comercial se este posando en pista semejante, bueno no es que no aterrizen aviones heavy en nieve, pero es maravilloso ver uno comercial 100% en paisaje tan especial, estupenda tripulacion, pronto un aeropuerto regional....hermosa postal.
Wow, just wow!
Used to fly the 767, she was such a beast! Doubt Boeing will ever make a better machine than the 57 and 67!
They did...the 777
@@bmstyle great plane but can’t compare to either of those. There’s nothing comparable to the 757 in terms of MTOW, thrust to weight ratio and it’s the only narrow body that can do Munich-JFK (as an example)
@@bmstyle the 777 is a great aircraft and the 767 too but the 757 can fly non stop from a 6500ft runway on Kauai to Denver with a full load or land on 5400feet in Orange County or on a 6400 foot runway at 6500msl in Jackson Wy.
757 truely a great aircraft. Proud of my almost 30 years flying it off and on.
@@islandcactus1508 It always seemed the 757 came off the runway and climbed faster than any jet I've been on. The 727 felt like it would never get off the ground.
@@Thomas1701E No doubt about it, the B757 is the Porsche of the commercial heavies.
I know businesses are sometimes named quite literally after the services they provide...but this is overdoing it!
They should be named Antarctic Airlines then..
An airline from the top of the world operating at the bottom of the world !
I am awestruck. Nicely done!
ben on a Icelandair flight, great crew. This is a normal day for Alaska Air guys only they do it in 737S
What do you mean “ a normal day ?
Awesome 👍👍
The most nice movie of the year.
Congratulations amazing.
Thank you
stunning video! Those pilots will never buy another round in a bar ever again hahahaha, I can not imagine how difficult it must be to keep that "runway" smooth and compacted like that, 24 hour non stop job for sure... Well done every person involved, lots of preparation in something like this
i saw that when it took off from oslo heading cape town
The fact that this airfield is called "troll airfield" is pretty comedic.
I just came here to see the effect of jet blast on the snow and I wasn't disappointed.
I was expecting to see skis but no. Then remembered gear couldn't be retracted. Great video. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed
Conditions were better than 9 out of 10 days at Keflavik. Easy flight ;-)
Nefnilega. Never this quiet in KEF
Incredible!
Shows you how tough modern aircraft are, thanks.
Bravo Boeing 767! The widebody that took the world by storm!
That was great !!
Boeing sure knows how to make 'em.✌🏻
No airbus better
@@monkmodemalik8225 is it a contest?
both are good
Beautiful plane, beautiful landing. Thank you for sharing!
You are welcome
Simply beautiful and charming!
Oh yes
That's awesome!
Thanks!
Wow that’s a long way for icelandair who normally don’t venture that far south.
They would have had to stop, refuel and depart from one of the three southern hemisphere continents or NZ. I believe this trip departed and returned from Cape Town SA.
lots of frequent flyer miles
Most airlines don't normally venture that far south!
@@SafeTrucking
Qantas, Latam and SAA go the closest.
@@AUmarcus QANTAS does some overflights, not sure that they land though. I wasn't aware of the SAA and Latam flights.
Stewardesses impeccably dressed for the occasion, like James Bond showing up in a tux!
Icelandair...Appropriate airline to be operating down in Antarctica. 👏😁