the same way you find a odour ! you invistigate ! the job of the cabin crew is not only make sure the passengers are ok and well fed it is also to make sure it is safe ! and the job of the pilot is to give the most information possible if there anything they need to know in the ground to improvise a safe rescue !!!
Mauricio Morro, you’re not kidding! Getting my husband to the bedroom via a wheelchair, I go down Lima(living room), take a right on Delta(dining room), exit to the ramp(hallway) into gate 1(bedroom)!! This stuff is so addicting!!
I do the same thing! They’re addictive but my husband is shaking his head in amusement when he walks by now so apparently not everyone gets the appeal. I’ve stopped telling him about the really good ones thinking it’s better for our marriage.
It seems likely that this was a 'fume event' where bleed air from the engines which is used for air conditioning and pressurisation was contaminated with engine lubricating oil as a result of failed engine bearing seals. It has the characteristic 'dirty socks' smell and contains an organophosphate additive which can seriously affect people, making them nauseous or weak and may have long term health issues. NOT to be joked about.
@@OfficeLinebacker the passengers were ill too, but I imagine the pilots were unaffected due to distance and having doors between them and the source of the smell, possibly?
I was on this flight. Would not recommend - the flight attendants were coughing badly. The pilot's tone addressing the cabin was almost identical, including at least 2 "A-Okay"s
@@Madmax0620 we didn't get a great answer. I couldn't smell anything, though whatever it was seemed to be towards the back of the cabin/rear bulkhead. I chatted with some flight attendants afterwards and they were also guessing that if whatever it was was lighter than air it'd be the flight attendants who get affected the most, but really no one had any clue. Generally seems like a third of the passengers smelled nothing, another third said it smelled like rancid socks, and the remainder said it smelled like burning. The whole process of getting us rebooked at Logan was an adventure in it of itself.
A lot of people are smell-blind to certain things. I'm smell-blind to skunk, for example, and it doesn't bother me at all. I'm also smell-blind to body odour, which is why I stank for most of my youth. I can smell swamp-ass, but not "dirty sock smell."
@@noahweinthal6516 When I was in high school somebody sprayed a tiny bit of pepper spray into the air. Next thing I knew there was this mass hysteria going on and I couldn't smell a thing. Panic travels through people like it does a heard of animals.
This pilot is amazing. I love after he explains everything he's like "and I think Boston is the PLACE to go.." I almost expected him to be like " great restaurants,.great entertainment, great city all around! " he was just so upbeat!
Pilot: "Something on this aircraft smells like swamp-ass". Co-Pilot: "Yeah... that's gonna be a vector direct Boston." Pilot: "But we just left London!" Co-Pilot: "Well..."
ive seen in my 16 year of ground handling experience weird stuff ! the best one was a 270 passengers get tourista in a 7 hour flight !!!!!!! they quarantine the airplane for 2 month
Can someone explain why i enjoy this so much? I am not into planes. I certainly can't fly them I barely understand what they are saying. But i watch hours of it O.o
That pilot the guy you'd want to have sitting near you while being enclosed by fire in a burning down building. He would calmly sit there, eating a melting ice cream while declaring an emergency and giving GPS position to the fire services. In a nutshell, everything would be A-OK!
Now I am not declaring an emergency at this time, however we are experiencing what I would call a fire. Now there is the slight smell of human flesh burning, my hair is 80-90% gone, and my femur is admittedly somewhat visible through my skin, but we would just like to continue eating this ice cream for now and advise in case if further developments, American 728.
ATC was right on top of the situation with regards to having to manage the two, actually three destination changes, and the need for possible quarantine. The clear and concise transmissions used in this episode are 'textbook effective' with respect to their getting the emergency rerouted, and the situation well and confidently controlled. There's no question, that this was a well-seasoned flight crew.
5:27 Kudos for the exchange around turning at NOLEY vs VOCUS. The pilot being ahead of the airplane; the controller having a good plan; everything getting coordinated clearly.
"Uh, had a slight ventilation malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?"
This was likely what is known as a “fume event “. A fume event is caused when the air used to pressurize the cabin is contaminated by any of the various fluids such as engine oil, hydraulic fluid or deicing fluid.
Kudos to these pilots. Many pilots may have poo-pood the situation thinking people were being dramatic or something, but it sounds like these guys were like "hell no, we are going to turn this bad boy around"...
Imagine that you are 10 years old and flying from Frankfurt to Nuremberg and everyone on the plane gets sick, passengers, stewardesses, pilots. It happened to me in 1962 on Lufthansa as we flew from London. They gave everyone on the plane a choice of apple, tomato or orange juice. A few minutes later, the plane hit an air pocket or clear air turbulence and we dropped 7,000 feet in a minute and then another 3,000 ft, The problem was that the whole plane was vomiting. They ran out of vomit bags, People were vomiting into the seat backs, the floor, even their coffee cups and hats and the flight crew was vomiting too. At 10 you don't have much of a life, but I swore never to fly Lufthansa again. They recovered and we landed safely and I asked the Captain how far we dropped and he told me. They had to scrub out the plane and it was awful inside.
these pilots are amazing calm, clear and aware of their surroundings and even how they fly the aircraft so as not to make the sick people worse ... claps and awards for the pilots.
On 21 October 2019 flight AA729, an American Airlines Airbus A330 departed from Heathrow at 11.14am, destination Philadelphia. It was diverted to Dublin. This was only one day after it made the emergency landing at Boston. AA claimed it was spilled cleaning products in the galley. But people are suspecting the APU, as it was described as “wet with oil”. The APU was also replaced a day later by AA maintenance crews.
Oh my Lord! I love this pilot! He’s awesome! And comforting and adorable. I desperately want to know who he is to let him know that he always makes me smile. What a terrific professional and a sweet person! He makes everything A-OK🥰😇🤗
this is a BIG issue in the airline industry. it poisons passengers and crew. Pilot have died from it. vaporized oil getting into the air acting as a neurotoxin. I have experienced it myself. The "dirty sock smell" is no joke at all.
This is what i thought of and I don't think it was an afterthought that the pilot told ATC that it was a dirty sock smell at all. He wanted it recorded.
Every day there are many interesting things happening in the air. A few decades in the past I used to listen to ATC on my little multiband radio and there were many stories but I could sometimes hear only the pilot transmissions.
"HI this is Taco Bell airlines flight 458, we are reporting a high amount of flatulence in the cabin at this time. Pilots are a-ok but experiencing the onset of stomach gurgles"
I find so interesting about how in these ATC videos they always talk about ‘the company’ for everything as if it’s some CIA movie. As a civilian, I never thought pilots would be calling AA to push back, use exit stairs, etc.
Yes, most likely. Skydrol is aircraft hydraulic fluid, it goes by a couple of different names based on the company that produced it. It's a phosphate - ester based fluid. Really bad stuff, when it's heated and atomized it smells just like dirty socks, and has effects that of tear gas or CS gas! In it's fluid state it will produce a burning sensation of your skin! We had several events of flight crews experiencing this on mostly MD80's a while back!
Some minor fixes: 0:43 - "We call it a dirty sock smell" 0:54 - "We would appreciate expedited handling" 7:54 - "Bravo'll probably be easier -- less turns for you as far as taxiing inbound." (she cuts off "easier" and changes to "less turns...") 8:29 - "Right now we're just trying to get things cleaned up right here" 8:42 - "That's correct, we had an odor in here and they were all starting to feel sick so we wanted to turn around and come back instead of going across the pond."
VASAviation is so bad with translating the captions. I can't think of a SINGLE video he has uploaded that doesn't have some transcription errors. I know he isn't from an English speaking country, but if that's the case, he needs to at least consult with someone before uploading videos. Some of these errors are a bit too pathetic lol
@@insanomonkey like you said, he's not a native English speaker. Given the quality otherwise I think you can forgive it easily and we can help him out as a community. Probably better for all of us instead of acting like a prick.
@@insanomonkey Why don't you ask him for your money back? You did contribute, right? I mean, you're not some deadbeat who watches a video for free and then whines about it, are you?
Having seen a bit of Durian empty out a dining room you could be right! Fortunately I'm in the group that cant smell its onion rotted socks garbage aroma. To me it smells like peaches and cream but if I've eaten it I sure dont smell that good to others. Maybe a durian lover belched :)
I’m a little surprised that this didn’t trigger a HazMat response when the Flight Attendants started becoming incapacitated? There’s kind of a difference between “a reported smell of dirty socks” and “all 9 flight attendants overcome with nausea, dizziness, etc.” And no everything is not A-ok. That it is mainly hitting the FA’s probably means whatever it is, is lighter than the cabin air, and is collecting in the head space above the aisle, between the overhead bins. Which is in itself worrying as the most common lighter than air things on an airplane are byproducts of something burning.
That pilot is funny. He almost sounds annoyed that they have to turn around over a smell lol. I can just here him “are you fucking kidding me? Now we gotta turn around because of a smell. Ain’t that some shit” 😆
Thank you for the video~~ I hope all the attendants are fine now. And this is one of the videos show how professional the commercial pilot can be!!! Well done~~ Precisely deliver the intention and eliminate all the unnecessary misunderstanding of ATC..
If it was funky feet,nothing beats the incident with Al (Married with children) when he took his shoes off, caused all the oxygen mask in the cabin to activate!!
Not sure the airframe but there is most likely an air cycle machine water coalescer which is used to remover the extra water from the conditioned air system. It can build up with junk over time and give off a foul smell. Ive changed several. They can get really smelly.
Pilot was very creative in his description. 😂 He must have seen that commercial about an air freshener that showed a teenage boy's room smelling as though there were dirty socks all over the place. Just glad everyone was OK and a great job by all concerned.
The dirty sock smell is actually a characteristic of a neurotoxin found in engine oil of an aircraft. That’s what they are told in school is that very prominent dirty sock smell is never a good thing. That stuff kills people within hours.
It sounds to me like this is a typical case of Tricresylphosphate (TCP) poisoning in the cabin of this aircraft! One of the typical signs of it is the smell of stinky socks like in this case! This issue is related to the intake of air through the engine and the valve between the engine and the intake system of air is damaged and makes it possible for the TCP - which is a fluid to prevent the oil in the hydraulic system of the engine to get thick in the cold air in this altitudes and let them run properly - to get mixed in the air for the cabin inside the aircraft! This TCP has serious side effects on people who got in contact with it and it is a serious problem for all people inside aircraft's! Airbus aircraft's have a lot of problems with it and pilots and flight attendants got very sick because of this problem, but Airbus doesn't want to change the system which is responsible for this matter! During the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner there was a similar incident during an American Airline flight with a Boeing 767 which brought 13 people in hospitals after the flight and this incident has made it that Boeing changed the system for the intake of air through the engine in its new developed Boeing 787 Dreamliner and separated it completely so this problem won't happen in this aircraft at all! That's what I can say about it! Lovely greetings from Captain Sarah Sutter (Boeing 747-400F and Boeing 747-400BCF) 🙋💖✈️
Maybe not a crazy scary emergency but one step removed from it. If the cockpit oxygen system failed for any reason, they’d have been in very dire straits.
[The ‘dirty socks’ smell is known to be emitted by infiltrated engine oil fumes getting into the cabin. They say that this is caused by worn out corroded seals. The reason they make people sick is that they contain sulfur additives which assist in the lubrication abilities, but which are toxic to humans and corrosive to the seals.] This was found in an article. QUESTION: How come this odor only made the flight attendants sick and not any of the passengers?
There has been a few cases of certain hydraulic oils and such leaking and entering the cabin air system via the engine intakes, leading to sickness....in fact there is a growing call to investigate some of the chemicals and such that the flight crew and attendants are exposed to with flying so much, that has potentially led to elevated levels of sickness among flight attendants, and even cancers. No proof of anything yet, but it's somewhat concerning if you fly regularly.
i was really wondering why they were sick but no passengers. I was going to blame them for all partying too much the night before, but this is a good explanation.
I got on a train once where somebody had poked a banana skin down the side of the seat so it sat on top of the radiator. The stench was unbelievable. Had to hold my breath until the next stop then get off and run to a different carriage.
I ain't even joking but it sounds like there was an unclean passenger on the flight. The same exact thing happened on my flight last year except not to the extent of returning to the airport we departed from. There was a guy sitting about midway in the plane that stunk to high heaven and everyone complained about the smell. Planes are sealed tighter than a can of tuna, even if you crack the smallest of farts in the first row, the back row is gonna smell it eventually.
Yes but there is also an outflow valve to relieve cabin pressure so eventually all the air is cycled. In the planes I used to fly this outflow valve was located in the cockpit so you could literally fart all you wanted and it would never smell.
I wonder if Cpt Maggie follows you (she should!). I hope she realises that comments like Trek001's are meant as compliments although, actually, they aren't. (Killjoy nitpicker signing off now with a new band name....)
Company and ATC: Hey Thompson727 how high would you like your cruise to be? TOM727: yes! ATC: Alright, hey Speedbird 170, how bout you? BAW170: Yes, as well.
@@KingoftheJuice18 Generally that "dirty sock smell" is associated with engine oil fumes leaking into the bleed air system. Generally those fumes gather near the top of the cabin, so FAs who are standing may be affected before passengers, who are seated and lower down. Additionally, FAs are working, and therefore increasing oxygen (and fume) intake as compared to the passengers who are sitting.
@@KingoftheJuice18 They might've been in the plane for more time, also they run around the cabin, while passengers stay still. Thus they'll be breathing in more.
I kept reading comments they were hilarious. " Airplane " what a movie and still has many people laughing. When someone says airplane, rite away every part of the movie comes to mind.
It's interesting that only flight attendants got sick. None of the passengers reported sick. Maybe the entire flight attendants crew ate/drink something together which started to affect them at high elevation conditions. Drinks maybe.
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*Clear and concise*
I wanna meet these pilots someday. Kudos to all pilots, FAs and ATCs who were very helpful.
VASAviation - any chance of an update if they publish any findings on what the odor was?
Absolutely
Agree
The pilots sound great! Hopefully everyone recovered.
I completely agree. Top marks to the pilots and ATC.
Let me tell you the story, about the time I took my shoes off, on a flight over the Atlantic.......
Dang, so it was you! Pay for it!
@@VASAviation lol!!!
😅 😅 😅 😅 😅
Almost fell out of my chair laughing!
Might want to see a podiatrist
Oh yeah? Let me tell you about the time I ate an all-you-can-eat burrito dinner before boarding a flight to London.
Legend has it the pilot is still a-ok
He'll always be A-OK
@@VASAviation He's A-OK in my book!
Love those southern pilots.
Who's more A-OK, this pilot or the Kalitta 66 pilot?
@@VASAviationis that OK- best -ok good ok bad? which one
Started watching these videos 6 hours ago.
6 hours ago: this is just a bunch of jibberish
6 hours later: what a riveting story
Try out Primitive Technology videos on youtube next, itll be the same experience lol
@John Mc not those but the original Primitive Technology
Ngl I’m kinda glad I wasn’t the only one down the aviation rabbit hole with no prior interest to begin with lol
This is me today
Requesting immediate de-scent !!
this is g o l d e n 😭😂
Take my upvote.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 I thought he said he originally wanted to return to Philly
holy shit 😭😭🤣
Hahhahhah
Love how the captain says the smell is coming from the cabin "around row 22" lmao. Called out!
Damn hippies !! 😬
Dont want to call anyone out just smells right over top of seat 22b
Avoidant personality disorder/procrastination/bit of depression.
You watch it to avoid responsibilities, studying etc. Just like we all do.
the same way you find a odour ! you invistigate ! the job of the cabin crew is not only make sure the passengers are ok and well fed it is also to make sure it is safe ! and the job of the pilot is to give the most information possible if there anything they need to know in the ground to improvise a safe rescue !!!
😂😂😂😂😂
I have been binge watching ATC videos for way too long. Can't even go to the bathroom now without a vector
Lmaso
Mauricio Morro, you’re not kidding! Getting my husband to the bedroom via a wheelchair, I go down Lima(living room), take a right on Delta(dining room), exit to the ramp(hallway) into gate 1(bedroom)!! This stuff is so addicting!!
Proceed to the bathroom WITHOUT DELAY.
I do the same thing! They’re addictive but my husband is shaking his head in amusement when he walks by now so apparently not everyone gets the appeal. I’ve stopped telling him about the really good ones thinking it’s better for our marriage.
@@TexasRose50 Hope you never need a fuel dump
It seems likely that this was a 'fume event' where bleed air from the engines which is used for air conditioning and pressurisation was contaminated with engine lubricating oil as a result of failed engine bearing seals. It has the characteristic 'dirty socks' smell and contains an organophosphate additive which can seriously affect people, making them nauseous or weak and may have long term health issues. NOT to be joked about.
True but why only the flight attendants?
@@OfficeLinebacker the passengers were ill too, but I imagine the pilots were unaffected due to distance and having doors between them and the source of the smell, possibly?
@@redwitch95 apparently it was only flight attendants. It's stated in the video in the end
@@OfficeLinebacker maybe because they were standing and the fumes resides in the roof? Just a wild guess
Aviation additives can be anti life if not handled properly . like say Prist . You get any of that on you and you in for a really short future ..
I was on this flight. Would not recommend - the flight attendants were coughing badly. The pilot's tone addressing the cabin was almost identical, including at least 2 "A-Okay"s
Why were they coughing what happened
Yeah so what was wrong. Why none of the passengers was affected ?
@@Madmax0620 we didn't get a great answer. I couldn't smell anything, though whatever it was seemed to be towards the back of the cabin/rear bulkhead. I chatted with some flight attendants afterwards and they were also guessing that if whatever it was was lighter than air it'd be the flight attendants who get affected the most, but really no one had any clue. Generally seems like a third of the passengers smelled nothing, another third said it smelled like rancid socks, and the remainder said it smelled like burning. The whole process of getting us rebooked at Logan was an adventure in it of itself.
A lot of people are smell-blind to certain things. I'm smell-blind to skunk, for example, and it doesn't bother me at all. I'm also smell-blind to body odour, which is why I stank for most of my youth. I can smell swamp-ass, but not "dirty sock smell."
@@noahweinthal6516 When I was in high school somebody sprayed a tiny bit of pepper spray into the air. Next thing I knew there was this mass hysteria going on and I couldn't smell a thing. Panic travels through people like it does a heard of animals.
Very important: In situations like this don’t forget to properly inflate the autopilot.
Yes, because you're flying on instruments 😂😂
You don't want to have to manually inflate that Autopilot or next thing you know it's kicked back smoking a cigarette.
I just want to tell you both,good luck.We're all counting on you.
Over Macho Grande'?
Roger, Roger!
This pilot is amazing. I love after he explains everything he's like "and I think Boston is the PLACE to go.." I almost expected him to be like " great restaurants,.great entertainment, great city all around! " he was just so upbeat!
"How much damage can we do to Boston now anyways?
"On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia"
lol..........me too.....
"We're Irish so it's Boston or bust. 728 Heavy."
"Wilco!"
Pilot: "Something on this aircraft smells like swamp-ass".
Co-Pilot: "Yeah... that's gonna be a vector direct Boston."
Pilot: "But we just left London!"
Co-Pilot: "Well..."
I can see all the FAs going, "dude, you gotta come back here and smell this" to eachother lmao
“Every passenger on this plane had fish for dinner will become violently ill in the next half hour.”
Most people will not understand where that reference is from...I understand the co pilot had the fish also...and don't call me Shirley
ive seen in my 16 year of ground handling experience weird stuff ! the best one was a 270 passengers get tourista in a 7 hour flight !!!!!!! they quarantine the airplane for 2 month
Now arriving at gate 9, gate 10, gate 11, gate 12....
Surely you can't be serious....
Marc vachesus what is tourista
Can someone explain why i enjoy this so much?
I am not into planes.
I certainly can't fly them
I barely understand what they are saying.
But i watch hours of it O.o
You love aviation and you yet don't know.
Same, I even bought an app so I can listen to the local towers.
My son has a piper and a Cessna. We fly and of course Foxie Dog fly's and get out acting like she needs the red carpet!
same here..
@@VASAviation
If I cash in enough I may get myself an old B732. 😊
That pilot the guy you'd want to have sitting near you while being enclosed by fire in a burning down building. He would calmly sit there, eating a melting ice cream while declaring an emergency and giving GPS position to the fire services. In a nutshell, everything would be A-OK!
Now I am not declaring an emergency at this time, however we are experiencing what I would call a fire. Now there is the slight smell of human flesh burning, my hair is 80-90% gone, and my femur is admittedly somewhat visible through my skin, but we would just like to continue eating this ice cream for now and advise in case if further developments, American 728.
@@danielc386 Hahahahaha!!! I laughed out loud for a good minute at that.... "what I would call a fire"...made my night!
@@danielc386 Can't ... stop ... laughing!
melted ice cream lol
Unless it was HIM who felt sick............
The clearness, confidence, articulation, everything about this emergency/comms just screams pure professionalism. It almost does not sound real-life.
You can tell he has been at this for a longggggg time and it's not his first emergency.
I love how the pilot first reported their problem, perfectly clearly so ATC had practically no questions to ask, and even with a bit of humour! 😁
The pilot was feeling A-OK when he got that good o2
So calm.. really liked both the controller and the pilots demeanor in this recording.
Me too
"Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to ask at this time if anyone knows how to fly an airplane, who has not had the fish?"
‘We had a choice, chicken, fish.’
“Ah yes I remember I had lasagna.”
I speak fluent jive if you guys need me, just let me know lol
I just want to let you know, we're all counting on you
@@amyshaw893 (3 months later) I just wanted to let you know, we're all counting on you.
And stop calling me Shirley :D
ATC was right on top of the situation with regards to having to manage the two, actually three destination changes, and the need for possible quarantine. The clear and concise transmissions used in this episode are 'textbook effective' with respect to their getting the emergency rerouted, and the situation well and confidently controlled. There's no question, that this was a well-seasoned flight crew.
5:27 Kudos for the exchange around turning at NOLEY vs VOCUS. The pilot being ahead of the airplane; the controller having a good plan; everything getting coordinated clearly.
"Uh, had a slight ventilation malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?"
"Who is this? What's your operating number?"
@@MusingMageofDisney
"Boring conversation anyway"
*CHOOM*
"LUKE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!"
@@MusingMageofDisney
🤣 Great stuff
*blasts comm*
"Well, we had a choice: steak or fish." "Ah yes. I had lasagna."
This was likely what is known as a “fume event “. A fume event is caused when the air used to pressurize the cabin is contaminated by any of the various fluids such as engine oil, hydraulic fluid or deicing fluid.
Mr. Vaughn I think that the flight attendants were contaminated by alcohol the night before.
and|Or -FOOT ODOR
But wouldn't passengers be sick too?
@@BrianKushner accumilation...I'd bet it was tinny unnoticeable till that flight but the crew was breathing it on the flights before it was noticed
No, not even in the slightest. Deicing fluid? lmao
Always admire how well pilots and ATC handle stressful situations, so calm!
It's easy to stay calm when you know it's a bunch of BS
@Michelle Green all 9 FAs and some pax sick and diverting to BOS? I can promise you this was a serious matter to the professionals up front.
Yea definitely not BS but can't be as stressful when the pilots are feeling well, the airplane is not having issues, and you know you'll land safely.
“With that being said, we’d like to turn around and land back at Philly” made my day
Kudos to these pilots. Many pilots may have poo-pood the situation thinking people were being dramatic or something, but it sounds like these guys were like "hell no, we are going to turn this bad boy around"...
Some of the subtitles were wrong, but overall it's still an A-OK video ;)
:D
Yes, welcome to VAS
What a great captain. He is trying to keep from turning to sharp and making everyone sick
And shortly after the incident, FAA and NTSB had the Taco Bell restaurant closed at Philadelphia airport
I do find it somewhat amusing that they were blocked from docking at the gate by all the emergency vehicles!
Imagine that you are 10 years old and flying from Frankfurt to Nuremberg and everyone on the plane gets sick, passengers, stewardesses, pilots.
It happened to me in 1962 on Lufthansa as we flew from London.
They gave everyone on the plane a choice of apple, tomato or orange juice.
A few minutes later, the plane hit an air pocket or clear air turbulence and we dropped 7,000 feet in a minute and then another 3,000 ft,
The problem was that the whole plane was vomiting. They ran out of vomit bags, People were vomiting into the seat backs, the floor, even their coffee cups and hats and the flight crew was vomiting too.
At 10 you don't have much of a life, but I swore never to fly Lufthansa again.
They recovered and we landed safely and I asked the Captain how far we dropped and he told me.
They had to scrub out the plane and it was awful inside.
Why would you never fly Lufthansa again? I mean CAT can happen with literally any airline, and there’s really no way to avoid it.
I’m surprised they didn’t treat this as a hazmat/toxic environment scenario.
After covid 19 I’m sure they will.
@@rizwansyed7857 I don't think covid works that fast...lol
these pilots are amazing calm, clear and aware of their surroundings and even how they fly the aircraft so as not to make the sick people worse ... claps and awards for the pilots.
On 21 October 2019 flight AA729, an American Airlines Airbus A330 departed from Heathrow at 11.14am, destination Philadelphia. It was diverted to Dublin. This was only one day after it made the emergency landing at Boston. AA claimed it was spilled cleaning products in the galley. But people are suspecting the APU, as it was described as “wet with oil”. The APU was also replaced a day later by AA maintenance crews.
I just wanted to tell you both good luck, we’re all counting on you.
You could definitely tell this pilot has been at it for a while and that this wasn't his 1st emergency.
So-called "dirty socks" odor problem was likely costly, so who had to "foot" the bill? Cheers!
Oh my Lord! I love this pilot! He’s awesome! And comforting and adorable. I desperately want to know who he is to let him know that he always makes me smile. What a terrific professional and a sweet person! He makes everything A-OK🥰😇🤗
When things are not just merely OK, but full on A-OK :D
Imagine when he's not working an emergency AA-ok
this is a BIG issue in the airline industry. it poisons passengers and crew. Pilot have died from it. vaporized oil getting into the air acting as a neurotoxin. I have experienced it myself. The "dirty sock smell" is no joke at all.
Check out 'bleed air' - it's real and it does make people sick.
Thx for the info.
@@developingWithPaul i mean kind of. bleed air is normal but when the bleed air gets contaminated, that's where the issues are
This is what i thought of and I don't think it was an afterthought that the pilot told ATC that it was a dirty sock smell at all. He wanted it recorded.
@@mangos2888 exactly, wet/dirty sock smell is the standard descriptor now for this type of suspicious fume event.
Every day there are many interesting things happening in the air. A few decades in the past I used to listen to ATC on my little multiband radio and there were many stories but I could sometimes hear only the pilot transmissions.
"HI this is Taco Bell airlines flight 458, we are reporting a high amount of flatulence in the cabin at this time. Pilots are a-ok but experiencing the onset of stomach gurgles"
I find so interesting about how in these ATC videos they always talk about ‘the company’ for everything as if it’s some CIA movie. As a civilian, I never thought pilots would be calling AA to push back, use exit stairs, etc.
Imagine being the guy whose feet smelled so bad it caused a plane to turn around
Dirty sock smell, Skydrol (hydraulic fluid)!
Yes, most likely. Skydrol is aircraft hydraulic fluid, it goes by a couple of different names based on the company that produced it.
It's a phosphate - ester based fluid. Really bad stuff, when it's heated and atomized it smells just like dirty socks, and has effects that of tear gas or CS gas! In it's fluid state it will produce a burning sensation of your skin!
We had several events of flight crews experiencing this on mostly MD80's a while back!
Cool! Now I have an excuse when I take my shoes off at home........"babe, it's just hydraulic fluid." LOL
Close. Pyrolized engine oil.
@@danvanleeuwen1974 Nope, Skydrol! Hydraulic fluid
This needs to be top comment I kept searching for an explanation!
I bet someone wore Axe bodyspray
😆
Wait a minute, I've been wearing Axe for a long time? Shower Gel and deoderant.... Am i wrong?
@@JustinOhio yes dude. axe is notorious for obnoxious marketing and smelling nasty.
Someone's cologne is made with bits of real panther...
Dude I love the smell of Axe. I don’t mean like the smell of the boys’ bathroom in high school where they’re drenched in it. But I love the smell.
Some minor fixes:
0:43 - "We call it a dirty sock smell"
0:54 - "We would appreciate expedited handling"
7:54 - "Bravo'll probably be easier -- less turns for you as far as taxiing inbound." (she cuts off "easier" and changes to "less turns...")
8:29 - "Right now we're just trying to get things cleaned up right here"
8:42 - "That's correct, we had an odor in here and they were all starting to feel sick so we wanted to turn around and come back instead of going across the pond."
VASAviation is so bad with translating the captions. I can't think of a SINGLE video he has uploaded that doesn't have some transcription errors. I know he isn't from an English speaking country, but if that's the case, he needs to at least consult with someone before uploading videos. Some of these errors are a bit too pathetic lol
@@insanomonkey like you said, he's not a native English speaker. Given the quality otherwise I think you can forgive it easily and we can help him out as a community. Probably better for all of us instead of acting like a prick.
@@insanomonkey Why don't you ask him for your money back? You did contribute, right? I mean, you're not some deadbeat who watches a video for free and then whines about it, are you?
@@insanomonkey is always in every video vasaviation uploads and he only complains about the captions lol. You are an ass, insanomonkey
@@roudydogg1 lol wait what? This is the first time I've commented, you fuck. But cool story bro
Imagine your feet smelling so bad that they declared an emergency and had to turn back to land.
There must be someone carring Durian on the flight
lol not many peoples gonna get this joke
Probably opened it hahaha
Having seen a bit of Durian empty out a dining room you could be right! Fortunately I'm in the group that cant smell its onion rotted socks garbage aroma. To me it smells like peaches and cream but if I've eaten it I sure dont smell that good to others. Maybe a durian lover belched :)
Ha ha. I don't think the smell is as bad as the taste. It taste like onion flavoured yogurt.
Maybe someone was cooking tuyo with a Cricket layter for in-flight snack.
I've watched a lot of these videos and I've never heard the ATC pronounce it de-scent like this guy did :)
This is the guy I want piloting any flight i'm on.
I’m a little surprised that this didn’t trigger a HazMat response when the Flight Attendants started becoming incapacitated? There’s kind of a difference between “a reported smell of dirty socks” and “all 9 flight attendants overcome with nausea, dizziness, etc.” And no everything is not A-ok. That it is mainly hitting the FA’s probably means whatever it is, is lighter than the cabin air, and is collecting in the head space above the aisle, between the overhead bins. Which is in itself worrying as the most common lighter than air things on an airplane are byproducts of something burning.
Thanks again for another great video! All your videos are awesome
Thank you Alex!
That pilot is funny. He almost sounds annoyed that they have to turn around over a smell lol. I can just here him “are you fucking kidding me? Now we gotta turn around because of a smell. Ain’t that some shit” 😆
These pilots are fantastic. Textbook perfect
Oh my gosh the pilot was so cool! Definitely deserves this job.
Thats the last time i bring a surstromming sandwich on the plane
I bet there is a law about that, somewhere
Thank you for the video~~ I hope all the attendants are fine now. And this is one of the videos show how professional the commercial pilot can be!!! Well done~~ Precisely deliver the intention and eliminate all the unnecessary misunderstanding of ATC..
Thank you for the vids! Oh - and NOW I see the incident dates. How did I miss that?!? Great channel.
Such a great pilot. Staying calm and getting his ppl help
If it was funky feet,nothing beats the incident with Al (Married with children) when he took his shoes off, caused all the oxygen mask in the cabin to activate!!
Not sure the airframe but there is most likely an air cycle machine water coalescer which is used to remover the extra water from the conditioned air system. It can build up with junk over time and give off a foul smell. Ive changed several. They can get really smelly.
nice... great job by all, but begs the question... i think they all had the fish? :D
Surely you can't be serious! 😂
@@josephkarl2061 I am serious...And don't call me Shirley
@Guss Ruffee but, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol!
Best reference about the best movie.
Naww, they’re all A-OK because they had the lasagna
Pilot was very creative in his description. 😂 He must have seen that commercial about an air freshener that showed a teenage boy's room smelling as though there were dirty socks all over the place. Just glad everyone was OK and a great job by all concerned.
The dirty sock smell is actually a characteristic of a neurotoxin found in engine oil of an aircraft. That’s what they are told in school is that very prominent dirty sock smell is never a good thing. That stuff kills people within hours.
@@loganw3298 Thank you. Very good to know.
Maybe someone smuggled some durian .. that crap stinks like death and socks!
But taste great
@@phina8392 it taste like it smells🤣
It sounds to me like this is a typical case of Tricresylphosphate (TCP) poisoning in the cabin of this aircraft! One of the typical signs of it is the smell of stinky socks like in this case! This issue is related to the intake of air through the engine and the valve between the engine and the intake system of air is damaged and makes it possible for the TCP - which is a fluid to prevent the oil in the hydraulic system of the engine to get thick in the cold air in this altitudes and let them run properly - to get mixed in the air for the cabin inside the aircraft! This TCP has serious side effects on people who got in contact with it and it is a serious problem for all people inside aircraft's! Airbus aircraft's have a lot of problems with it and pilots and flight attendants got very sick because of this problem, but Airbus doesn't want to change the system which is responsible for this matter! During the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner there was a similar incident during an American Airline flight with a Boeing 767 which brought 13 people in hospitals after the flight and this incident has made it that Boeing changed the system for the intake of air through the engine in its new developed Boeing 787 Dreamliner and separated it completely so this problem won't happen in this aircraft at all! That's what I can say about it! Lovely greetings from Captain Sarah Sutter (Boeing 747-400F and Boeing 747-400BCF) 🙋💖✈️
I know this isn't a crazy scary emergency or anything... but I think these are the guys I want flying if anything bad _does_ happen, lmao
Agreed
Maybe not a crazy scary emergency but one step removed from it. If the cockpit oxygen system failed for any reason, they’d have been in very dire straits.
It was a "dirty diaper" in row 23 that was left over from the previous flight.
At least Everyone was ok
I love your VASAviation nice job 👍
Also could you do some more Real Atc no emergency pls
You have a bunch no emergency videos on VASAviation ;)
Yes sir
A-OK
[The ‘dirty socks’ smell is known to be emitted by infiltrated engine oil fumes getting into the cabin. They say that this is caused by worn out corroded seals. The reason they make people sick is that they contain sulfur additives which assist in the lubrication abilities, but which are toxic to humans and corrosive to the seals.] This was found in an article. QUESTION: How come this odor only made the flight attendants sick and not any of the passengers?
It must have been some sort of chemical fumes. Nausea, coughing, dizziness that’s sounds to me something is leaking from somewhere.
There has been a few cases of certain hydraulic oils and such leaking and entering the cabin air system via the engine intakes, leading to sickness....in fact there is a growing call to investigate some of the chemicals and such that the flight crew and attendants are exposed to with flying so much, that has potentially led to elevated levels of sickness among flight attendants, and even cancers. No proof of anything yet, but it's somewhat concerning if you fly regularly.
compmanio36 thanks for the information and explanation mate
And that only attendents had the biggest trubbled ....maby accumulated over flights till the leak got big anofe to officially smell
i was really wondering why they were sick but no passengers. I was going to blame them for all partying too much the night before, but this is a good explanation.
I got on a train once where somebody had poked a banana skin down the side of the seat so it sat on top of the radiator. The stench was unbelievable. Had to hold my breath until the next stop then get off and run to a different carriage.
I ain't even joking but it sounds like there was an unclean passenger on the flight. The same exact thing happened on my flight last year except not to the extent of returning to the airport we departed from. There was a guy sitting about midway in the plane that stunk to high heaven and everyone complained about the smell. Planes are sealed tighter than a can of tuna, even if you crack the smallest of farts in the first row, the back row is gonna smell it eventually.
Nope, I’m pretty sure that was a leaky gasket inside one of the engines that was contaminating the bleed air with oil vapors
@@VoltageLP hes not joking btw. Omegalul the guy thought hes right probably til this moment
@@darugdawg2453 I know, I've read a couple articles in the media about smelly passengers getting escorted out of the aircraft haha
Yes but there is also an outflow valve to relieve cabin pressure so eventually all the air is cycled. In the planes I used to fly this outflow valve was located in the cockpit so you could literally fart all you wanted and it would never smell.
So there I was, sitting in row 22 when I realized I forgot to put on deodorant...
I've cleared a room with the emanations from my butt, but never have I made people sick! That must have been some powerful spicy food!
Says you!
This legit sounded like an attack by the umbrella corp and a starting plot for a new resident evil game
Maggie would have cracked open the door for some fresh air and kept going
Yup-and also put some air fresheners around the plane.
Most underrated comment here!
Who is Maggie?
I wonder if Cpt Maggie follows you (she should!). I hope she realises that comments like Trek001's are meant as compliments although, actually, they aren't. (Killjoy nitpicker signing off now with a new band name....)
@@ghytredstillghytred7617 They are compliments... Maggie is the greatest pilot who ever lived
thanks for all your efforts VAS !!
Definitely sounds like a scene from Airplane! 😂
Surely you can't be serious!
Company and ATC: Hey Thompson727 how high would you like your cruise to be?
TOM727: yes!
ATC: Alright, hey Speedbird 170, how bout you?
BAW170: Yes, as well.
[8:45] We had an odor in here and they were all starting to feel sick so we wanted to [turn] 'round'n come back [instead of go across the pond].
Dirty socks = burning oil. Likely from the APU. The smell is actually documented in the manuals.
Can you imagine if it really was just some gross person taking their shoes off lol.
But then it's really hard to understand why all the attendants were affected and no passengers!?
@@KingoftheJuice18 Generally that "dirty sock smell" is associated with engine oil fumes leaking into the bleed air system. Generally those fumes gather near the top of the cabin, so FAs who are standing may be affected before passengers, who are seated and lower down. Additionally, FAs are working, and therefore increasing oxygen (and fume) intake as compared to the passengers who are sitting.
@@KingoftheJuice18 They might've been in the plane for more time, also they run around the cabin, while passengers stay still. Thus they'll be breathing in more.
@@rkan2 I hear that possibility, but it would still be strange to me that NO passenger was affected.
Passengers were affected too. Check out 3:12
I kept reading comments they were hilarious. " Airplane " what a movie and still has many people laughing. When someone says airplane, rite away every part of the movie comes to mind.
At 0:56 - ‘extra handling’ should be ‘expedited handling’.
Very professional and excellent communication
Had to laugh....emergency vehicles blocking the path to the gate......brilliant........
And apparently with nobody inside them
Reading through the comments, and I don't see anyone explaining how it was that all of the flight attendants and none of the passengers got sick.
My boi Kevin from The Office took his shoes off lol
Ahh the famous Dirty sock smell.
Somebody is not cleaning their bellies.
All my fellow Airbus techs know what im talking about. 👌
he was scared it would be declared an emergency and he’d have paperwork and scrutiny to deal with
First time the "garlic clams," served before take off, brought a plane down.
at 8:48 it's "[...] come back instead of going across the pond"
Kind of reminds me of when I saw a pilot bolting food before takeoff. He was in the bathroom twice during a 3 hour flight.
The audio quality is great
It's interesting that only flight attendants got sick. None of the passengers reported sick. Maybe the entire flight attendants crew ate/drink something together which started to affect them at high elevation conditions. Drinks maybe.
Sounds like bleed air contamination caused by a leaky gasket in one of the engines
I prefer to blame Bob in seat 22b
The capitan has the most reassuring voice possible