Plane Loses Power in all 4 Engines Just Over the City of Portland | Air Disasters | Smithsonian
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- December 28, 1978: as the engines on United 173 flamed out one after the other, it soon became clear that they’d run out of fuel. The plane’s incredulous captain now switches his attention to a perilous emergency landing in a densely populated urban area in the US.
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I was so scared but then got a lot of relief when they did the passenger interview
When I see a passenger interview it makes me happy that some ppl survived
Me, too.
Same
Yeah man
Yes exactly
It always amazes me how the cameraman stays so calm when everybody else is losing their minds.
camera dude really chill, he just wants his paycheck
He must've put a lot of hours on JustPlanes channel lmao
😂😂😂
They rebuilded the scene
@@gabrielytemikalo610 no they don't lol this is actual footage from the incident with narration added later
The fact that they had run out of fuel probably saved 100's of people from an explosion. Great flying from the flight crew.
Not only did the landing gear fail but his fuel gage was also failing so he had no clue that he had no fuel until it was too late, literally a pilots worst nightmare and he still saved 171 peoples lives. Crazy respect.
Fuel gauge never failed. The captain was too focused on the landing gear problem that he never asssessed how much fuel he had left.
Some of crowd even went multiple times watch from window whether landing gear is locked but captain still focused why it's light wasn't on. Only then captain realized what happened when engines started failing. Plane didn't malfunctioned outside of lightbulb but captain didn't believed it.
On fact, if plane would've still had fuel when captain was forced to make crash landing after failing previous decisions, crash landing would've likely ended to huge explosion.
It was much better that it was this point completely without fuel.
@@Mikke_Goldenroad Truth. Dude was even confused as to why the first engine flamed out when it did. He was told "Fuel" and didn't believe it.
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Salute to all the pilots who suceed their plane crashes and survived
but we need a rip ceremony for the ones who died.
This crew caused the crash. Look it up
@@EpicIsMySkill I never said they "deliberately" crashed the plane. I said they "caused" the accident. You can cause an accident with a mistake. The mistake this crew made, was allowing the plane to run out of fuel while diagnosing a landing gear indicator. The landing gear was down. The only thing wrong with the plane was a lightbulb. The Captain fixated on a lightbulb until they ran out of fuel. This was a terrible mistake, and people died because of it. They are not heroes.
tHeY aRe NoT hErOeS. The flight crew didn't gave up on saving the passengers, how's that not considered a heroic action? You wouldn't survive on that kind of accident if you have a pilot who doesn't care about your safety even every seconds from disaster they could at least do something like these pilots. Really a black and white statement.
@@EpicIsMySkill almost everyone survived. Only 10 out of the 189 total people died. The fuselage stayed mostly intact because of how they managed to get super lucky when putting it down in the middle of Portland.
@@EpicIsMySkill also there were only 24 injuries. No ground casualties.
Cause: The captain was too focused on the landing gear since the light wasnt turning on, they circled for an hour (or more) and the plane ran out of fuel and the rest is what shown in the video.
Was asking for a more complete video. But seeing this, the responsibility falls on, not just the Captain's final decision, but the flight engineer who is the one monitoring fuel consumption..🤷🏻
@@ibrahimf.1619 UA-cam deleted the comment so im telling it again, all episodes are on facebook.
this explains why the plane didn't catch on fire
@@noahthesarcastictd got the link?
@noah On fave book tell group / page name
Recently I flew A330 343 and the landing was not succeeded and in early 90's I couldn't imagine how heavy to keep that big body moving without all engines. Incredible piloting❤️
I feel like ur lying
@@khat8994 lying about what?
@@ruwansri6544 yes you are lying about flying
@@khat8994 he's lying he has a music channel
@@104Aviation haha..I'm currently under the training pal. At the first time, I was unable to land the aircraft with visual flight rules. That was a windy day, gusting to 20 knots made it difficult for me to get the aircraft down and I had to initiate a going around. As the a330 - 300 body quite larger than narrow body aircrafts, a little wind can slip it away from the localizer path. That was all about flying manually. Not a precious approaching or an intrument landing. But now you can see me flying that big bird above the indian ocen to far east regions. Do you mean that a pilot who loves music doesn't deserve to have a misic channel?? Ewwww that doesnt make any sense🙂
If you don't give up and wants to see your family again for them and for all passengers. Let's make it. That's the spirit captain hats off 👍👍
I agree! There's this one comment said those pilot are not heroes yet clearly they didn't gave up every second of it. You can look it up, the username is mylehigh on Ridwan Tantong's comment.
@@cupofjoen The situation could've been avoided in the first place, other pilots in cabin even warned about fuel but the captain was fixated, watch a proper breakdown video with info from their interviews and the cockpit recorder, not this drama commercial stuff, *you* look it up.
@@IENiGMAI the pilots back then were lack of training especially CRM. Why? Because CRM haven't exists. Therefore because of this crash, CRM exists. That's why I don't judge all the old accident because I understand, people are plain stupid back then in terms of safety procedures. The flight crew in this accident did a great job tho, for at least they're good at hand flying the aircraft even though they're dumb at CRM because CRM doesn't officially exist back then.
You also pay attention to your crew when they tell you "We're low on fuel"..
@@cupofjoen That's not stupidity thats arrogance
Brought a tear to my eyes when the narrator said most of the passengers including the pilot survived. This is how real heroes look.
why tear for the likes
That "most" is making me sad
tHe PiLoTs WeRe HeRoEs
Actually, the pilot was culpable. He was not monitoring how much fuel they had, then they ran out. Several people died. A little girl lost both parents and siblings. 😢
@imani6547 he also has to look for a safe place to land aswell as monitoring about a million different things. U don't know anything about the pressures of being a pilot so stfu
Applause to the pilot to save so many lives even after engine failure 👍
The engine was failed because of the pilot error..
Non-applause to the captain (pilot) for those who know the cause of this incident. lol
Yes pilot error was the cause of the crash… the pilot was Focused on a little light bulb 💡 that didn’t light up for the front landing gear ⚙️ and kept flying in circles until they ran out of fuel
majority of engine failures result in safe landings.
@@joshuamartinez2389 wasn't that the eastern airlines crash though?
It’s amazing that most of the people on the plane survive and the plane was still intact, at least at the fuselage. It’s also amazing that no one on the ground was killed.
2:33 Imagine being a resident of that apartment that day only to see a big plane almost hit your roof
Imagine if they were looking out the window when it came into view. Would've freaked me out.
I was living in the area where the plane went down. The pilot was too busy, trying to diagnose a landing gear problem. A Crewmember even told him that they were getting low on fuel, but the captain ignored him.
After watching those episodes I think it's a miracle that any plane reaches its target
Thank God they are all safe. Thanks for sharing this story
There were ten fatalities. 8 passengers and 2 crew
On December 28, 1978, the aircraft flying this route ran out of fuel while troubleshooting a landing gear problem and crashed in a suburban Portland neighborhood near NE 157th Avenue and East Burnside Street, killing 10 on board
I literally said OMG out loud when the narrator said everyone survived. This is amazing!!
Nearly everyone, 2 crew 8 passengers died.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173
It was such a big relief to watch narration of a passenger. Good job 👍
2:50 McBroom doesn't give a 😂😂😂😂
the pure determination from the captain amazes m. he was trying to steer through the trees and save himself as well as the passengers.
lets take a moment to salute this man and other pilots and captains flying out there.
Yeah, he did a great job with the landing spot and saving so many lives. Unfortunately, it was his fault to begin with for not recognizing his plane was out of fuel and this whole accident could have been avoided to begin with. Avoiding complete fuel starvation is more important than a potential landing gear malfunction.
@@VicenzoV at least he tried to fix it and got most people to safety
@@ThaiAnimations He also ignored the flight crew when they were yelling at him that "we are running out of fuel." The landing gear failure was a bad bulb, not a bad landing gear. He had no CRM but instead the Captain-is-god mentality. This is crash caused the airlines to incorporate CRM.... cause of this guy.
Hello there how are you doing today
@@danhamilton5049 it also seemed like he didnt inform the passengers to brace...the vid says they thought they were about to land like normal at the runway when they skimmed the trees wtf
And I thought carefully ditching a crippled airplane in a body of water was hard…
A google search shows that this plane ran out of fuel because the crew circled over Portland while investigating an instrument problem with the landing gear. In retrospect, they could have landed the plane safely, but they spent too much time working the problem. The plane ran out of fuel, and 10 passengers died. The NTSB faulted the captain for management failure. The captain lost his pilots license afterwards. The NTSB went on to create new rules concerning shared responsibilities among flight crews.
When You see Smithsonian camera-man in a plane, Just run.
The first rule of flying is to make sure you have enough fuel to land safely at an airport. The captain and crew failed to monitor the fuel level, therefore causing this emergency situation. Their attention to the landing gear issue should have become secondary when fuel began to run low, resulting in the lose of ten lives. Captain McBroom was lucky in finding the only suitable place to crash land.
Big salute to all Crew
The man just did not give up till the last sec !!
I was at seminar in the '90s where Captain Al Haynes, United Airlines Flight 232 pilot, spoke. That man was a true hero. Although the plane last all hydraulics, and hence the ability to control it, he and his crew came up with a way to at least steer it by adjusting the engines' thrusts. He was very close to making a flawless landing until one wing dipped and hit the ground, but he saved 184 of 296 passengers. RIP, Captain Haynes.
They ran out of fuel while the captain was trying to fix the landing gear problem
More like a CRM issues.
@@cupofjoen yep, this, along with Tenerife and Eastern airline crash were catalyst for today's CRM
Salute to these brave genius pilot
But after that captain survived
Geniuses? They caused the crash. Look it up
But if you say there was a engine problem runway short cannot make they take decision like sully
@@azizgulzar5515 they ran out of fuel because of a burnt out lightbulb on the landing gear indicator. The crash should never have happened. Bad pilots crashed a good airplane. Sully landed a plane that was already damaged.
Your correct but the time of disaster that time taking a good decision is everything
@@azizgulzar5515 if he were making good decisions, the accident would not have happened. They are not geniuses.
1:42 i see an airport below it anyway?
Where…?
Hats off for the captains who give priority to passenger's life
I'll never get on the plane if I see Smithsonian crew get on the board
It really feels very nice to see a single person isn't injured during a crash landing...
10 died
10 died
Was sitting in my apartment that night when the lights went out for about a minute. Plane crashed a few miles away. Went as close as you could get a few days later (a few blocks) and you can imagine how strange it was to see the tail of that jet sitting in the trees of a neighborhood.
The pilot managed to crash land with no injuries that should be part of the"RESPECT" list
bro what are you on about, a simple google search tells you that 10 people died
@@t.jsadhu4699 But still that plane can contain at least 322 ppl and 10 died in the crash landing and the survivors cane out with out injuries
Respect? He’s the reason their lives were in danger
@@oneday5572 and he greatly reduced the amount of casualties by his thinking. Imagine if they HAD landed in a more populated area, or an even harder spot to land killing more passengers
@@randombuildingintorontocan8962 his “thinking” is what got them in that situation in the first place. He was stressing so much about some freaking lightbulbs that he wasted an hours worth of fuel smh. He’s not a hero. You can’t be the hero AND the villain. It’s like saying “Hey I stopped that kid from getting shot!” Yes, but you’re the one who pulled the trigger!!
It’s always a breath of fresh air when you hear that the pilot/s survive
Awesome story. Keeping the cool to crash land an out of fuel aircraft without a single fatality is stuff of legends.
10 people died. Including 2 crew members. The pilot is an idiot.
Ten people died in this crash, 24 injured.
Mayday, a throat swelling word for any pilot.
Thanks to the pilot and supporting staff for managing the plane despite the drawbacks, positive things to hear in these terrifying investigations is that most survived, I saw on the net that out of 189 in the plane, 179 survived......
That is the flight which ran out of fuel only because the captain dithered about dealing with a landing gear problem. He wasn’t sure if the gear was down and locked, so he circled until he ran out of fuel.
Usually when there are landing gear problems pilots are told to circle around until they reach a certain amount of fuel because if they crash it’ll be an explosion. I’m not sure how exactly he got to the point that he completely ran out or was too far away from the airport to land afterwards, but that is protocol for landing gear problems.
1:55. Oh really? See I thought landing the plane into an orphanage for children with terminal cancer would've been the best course of action. Thank for clearing things up, Captain Obvious.
Hatts off to piolts. ❤ and psengers . Brave and cofident pilot who saved lives
Hell of a Captain. Great job
Happy Landing….Nice Job Captain!
How the pilot deserves the world for not killing anyone! Bravo!
Except he caused the accident by running out of fuel. He was told multiple times to land for over an hour but ignored them because he was fiddling with a burnt out landing gear lightbulb.
That pilot deserves a medal that was some insane skill.
It's really Impressive that the Pilots suscessfully landed a quad engine plane in the middle of a high density populated city and had a few casaulties only. A big applause they deserve.
you didn't learn anything did you ???
@@mollyhatchet7075 th do you mean?
@@EdinBasic12 this accident happened only out of a human's mistake .... The captain was unfit to fly and caused the accident out of being a stubborn jackass . so praising him is ridiculous ...
Everyone congratulating the crew, but may I remind everyone that they simply flew circles near the airport until their fuel ran out ?
Was asking for a more complete video. But saw a comment were it states, the Captain circled the airport for more than an hour due to landing gear green light, and ran out of fuel. So, the responsibility falls on, not just the Captain's final decision, but the flight engineer who is the one monitoring fuel consumption..🤷🏻
Same issue with an Avianca Boeing 707 years ago crash landing in New York. Bad choices, and a few did loose their life.
Well, old schooled cockpit with captain as God with his fellow crew didn't raised enough voice or intervened
Thanks to the heroic act of the pilots the passengers survived :)
Not only was it the pilot's fault, 10 of the passengers lost their lives.
Thank god everyone survived
That pilot has insane skill, as a lot of people in the comment section have said he needs a medal.
@Red yes, I will say it possibly could have been prevented to casualties on the ground, but if he did not do what he did it would have been even WORSE, even if he caused it, he did his best to fix it.And how murder is the deliberate action of killing someone.DID YOU THINK HE WAS SOME HITMAN HIRED TO CRASH A PLANE AND KILL 10 INDIVISUALS ON THE GROUND
@@Not0nSaturn sir/madam, have you read more about this crash? The flight engineer informed the captain multiple times about low fuel and he still was circling. The FE instructed him to go to the airport and that there wasn’t fuel left for more circling but he still didn’t care. It was the captain’s incompetence that caused the crash, he deserves a prison sentence not a medal. Sadly, the flight engineer was the only cockpit crew member to die, so all accounts after the accident have been from the lens of the surviving pilots who were at fault.
@@jatterhog I only saw this video and the comments,I haven’t read the wiki on a crash.Well guess he didn’t do what he could have done.
„Most of passengers and crew are alive“ - Well, thats one way to frame that 2 crew members and 8 passengers died
When you think about it. A large plane crashing into a city can happen any moment. There have been multiple times a plane takes off and needs to go back to the airport or the most well known case, land in the Hudson river.
For a professional pilot to run out of fuel is almost beyond comprehension. There's a lot more to this story than has been told in this video.
Such a legend pilot ❤️
The investigation concluded he actually was at fault for the crash due to multiple errors he made during the flight. He lost his pilot license because if it.
@@aoht06 at lest he doesn’t have to fly again 🤷♂️
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations.
Salute to all the pilots who suceed their plane crashes and survived. Well done indeed!!!
Guys dont give this guy likes all he does is copy and paste the same comment and he also copied the top comment
imagine stealing comments. smh get a life you just copy and pasted the most popular comment
Why? You're gonna cry?
@@cupofjoen not gonna cry, this guy just needs a life instead of copy and pasting comments that have lots of likes
@@thatweirdguy_ben this guy has a life off his screen while you're stuck on whining in the comments. Ironically, you're the one that need to spend more time in real life.
The plane ran out of fuel because they kept circling around the airport trying to troubleshoot an unsafe landing gear indication. Yeah so.. Pilot error.
even though he saved hundreds of lives on the ground he should get an award
@@miggis but there were 18 fatalities aka 8 passengers and 2 crews
sorry i meant 10 fatalities
he tried his best
How bad was the landing gear issue?
The captain of this plane was 100% responsible for this error. He failed to see the low fuel error signs and dismissed his fellow co-pilot telling him about it many times. It was completely his fault this crash landing happened.
@Jinadath Except the FE was telling the CA that they ran out of fuel. CA chose to ignore. It was always the CAs fault: PIC authority has always made the CA responsible
So setting down in a suburb with trees without injury? The crew in the passenger cabin didn't even have a chance to get anyone in their crash positions or put the occupants in a pre terrified state?
Looks like that miracle is used up!
Interesting trivia about this crash. There was a prisoner being transported on this flight. He went towards the front and helped other passengers get off the plane safely, then disembarked and disappeared into the night. He was eventually caught, but was a hero.
Heroic save, but this accident was also very avoidable. This is why there was no airmanship award for this accident.
I read up on this accident. Apparently there was a problem with the landing gear and the crew spent an hour flying over Portland with the gear and flaps down without any of them monitoring the fuel levels and noticing that they were burning fuel at an accelerated rate because of the gear and flaps. Sounds like a crew error problem.
I remember this. This aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in the Parkrose neighborhood in northeast Portland just a few blocks from my Aunt and Uncle's home, skimming the roof of a grade school. I believe no one died in the crash but there were many injured and minor damage to a few homes. I don't remember many of the details from the 1978 news report on KGW TV News but there was an extensive investigation.
Wow!! I did not expect that ending 😮
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing
I remember when this happened. I wanted to go drive out and see it but just never did. Now I live even closer to where it happened.
Salute to the pilot
Incredible aviation skills. And another reason to plant trees for us!
Thank God all are safe its a miracle👏
I remember this. I grew up in Portland. The piolet should have put on his Sully and told ATC, we'll be in the Columbia.
Geniuine badass, I commend you McBroone
Imagine being confused thinking your at the airport, then turns out your in F***ing Gresham
They knew they were not approaching the airport. The Captain was delaying the landing, but he delayed too long.
The fact that they were out of fuel was ironically a saving Grace as it meant there was no post crash fire
I am happy and relieved everyone survived and I am also glad no one was there/ working on the roof of the building @ 2:33.
10 people died. He even says "Most of the passengers on board survived."
The real tragedy is having to land in Portland.
Even in a safe landing they'd probably be landing in trees
That’s…… not what he was saying with this joke.
One among some beautiful aircrash stories " EVERYONE ALIVE "
These animations are so addicting
The Bible promises that our prayers will be answered before we ask. I was listening to the tower that evening when I heard that a United heavy had just crashed in SE Portland. We prayed that most of the passengers would survive and walk off the plane alive. We asked that no one would be killed on the ground. What you hear in the video explains the miracle of answered prayer. Later we found out that a little girl from India was on that plane, flying to America to be adopted by a couple from our church. God answers prayer before we even ask.
Lack of attention to fuel gauge led to revolution in crew resource management
The crew were watching the fuel, but the Captain dilly-dallyed while it was running out. This was all on the Captain.
Conclusion 13 (from the NTSB report): "The captain failed to make decisive timely decisions."
All about the pilots and their decsion making this pilot is a hero
The crew was to blame for this accident, they allowed themselves to be distracted by a blown fuse until the jet ran out of fuel ...
Remember there was little to none CRM training to the flight crews and because of this accident, air travel is getting safer everyday. A CFI once said that most of the air regulations and trainings were written in people's blood.
@@cupofjoen It was this very incident that caused major changes in flight crew training, defining everybody's responsibilities and prioritizing tasks.
...when a passenger or captain is part of the interview. Phewks!
The ending was very happy
Hell with the miracle on the water guy, this pilot makes him look like a cab driver?
This is pilot error! captain failed to monitor fuel quantity when all pilots were busy focusing on a technical issue.
I remember this well as I was driving a service truck for a company and I was nine blocks away when it hit what a mess
Passengers 181
Crew 8
Fatalities 10 (2 crew, 8 passengers)
Injuries 24
Survivors 179
This _is_ a gripping video, but it also leaves out the conclusion that the pilot himself was responsible for the accident. The engine flameouts are portrayed in the video as spontaneous, but as it says in the description, they lost engines because they ran out of fuel. And they ran out of fuel due to the captain failing to monitor the fuel usage, which was much greater due to a problem with landing gear being deployed and increasing drag.
the most goated pilot in the world
2:27 W hotel
There was an airline advert before the video came on 😯😂😂🤣🤣😅😅😆😆
Hat's off to all captains that land safely!!
Apparently it's also his fault this whole event even happened. So no houray for him.
Camera man never dies lol
me: rollercoaster
Pilots: *CONCERNTRATION*
Everyone else: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
This is truly incredible
Love this channel bcz it jumps right in....
That was a gripping story. And a GREAT video. Well done, Captain MacBroom. 🏴
Thank God they're all are alive
What a legendary captain
The ten people died because of him. Fortunately he limited the consequences of his own stupidity.
Legendary for his lack of situational awareness.
The pilot was a dumb a-hole.