First, I don't think any aircraft flying from one Island to another, in Hawaii, ever flys at 24,000 feet. Second, an aircraft that size would not have the time to even reach that altitude, before it has already flown over all the islands and well out over the Pacific.
The stewardess who climbed under the seats the entire time to assist and care for her passengers should have a statue at an airport. Talk about doing your duty under pressure. Absolute hero of the working class.
@YeaMan why would someone even make a bot that says this? There's no scam link, it isn't asking for your credit card number or anything else of value, why did someone go through the effort of creating a bot only for it to say this?
That pilot/copilot was unbelievably calm and professional sounding on that emergency call considering the extreme circumstances she was in the middle of.
In such a dire emergency, you have to choices as to what to do with your feeling of panic and stress. Give into it and panic, or channel it and use it.
My uncle is a retired commercial pilot, and his motto always was “keep flying the airplane.” Panic and you’re done, but this flight crew obviously kept flying the airplane.
how almost everyone on board survived this is a miracle in it of itself but my condolences to the people affected by such an event especially the hostess.
@@x808drifter hence why he said almost, and yeah in the past I did some digging on this person but not much surrounding her and the accident was found.
I actually used to live in Hawaii around this time and everyone was afraid of these planes. We called them "puddle Jumpers" because they traveled between the islands. We often joked that the turbulence felt like it was going to rip the plane apart....crazy to think how right we were.....I cannot believe the pilot was able to land this plane, much less that ONLY ONE PERSON DIED!....wow.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Yea, for that reason too. I dunno, maybe the term wasn't specific to Hawaii, but that's what I remember my dad always calling them. He was an Airmen during Desert Storm and he fucking HATED those things lol
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 they aren't called puddle jumpers because they are small. They are called puddle jumpers or island hoppers because they travel short distances between islands. The ocean is the "puddle" because the distance is so short.
Also shows how strong airplanes are if they only need half the fuselage to land. Another incredible story is that of Scandinavien Airlines flight 751. Commonly known as the "Miracle at Gottröra" where the plane crash landed in a field shortly after takeof due to double engine failure. The crash resulted in the plane splitting in three but somehow all passengers and crew survived. Largly thanks to a passenger who was an of duty pilot that rushed to the cockpit and helped the crew execute a safe landing.
even though it failed, it shows how well these aircraft are made. more than double the pressurization cycles before failure, half the fuselage blown off and still holding together well enough to fly even with one engine out
Outside of landing a nearly destroyed B-17 during WWII, this has to be one of the most legendary feats of airmanship and keeping your head cool. hats off to the professionalism of the pilots and crew.
Well, you would think, but- Ok, so there's multiple times where someone "pushed" another jet with their jet in the air. Sadly, they would both end sadly but in different ways. The first time the guy successfully pushed his wingmate out of enemy territory but he died after ejection because he couldn't get out of the harness and drowned. The second time both guys survived, but their government punished them for "damaging property"
Landing an F-15 with only one wing remaining is also a pretty badass move. What the pilots of JAL 123 did was also incredible. Keeping a jet aloft purely though fluctuating engine power. A 747 nonetheless, with absolutely no tail control surfaces. Though of course they eventually did crash.
That B-17 WAS destroyed. It no longer had the thrust necessary to maintain altitude and the crew had to throw every ounce of non-essential weight overboard. It only just made it to the runway before literally falling out of the sky.
The fact that only ONE person died from this incident is a miracle. The pilots and crew should have gotten medals for how calm and collected they were during the landing. Incredible story!!
I couldn't imagine how terrible they felt in that plane. When I was 16 I was on a helicopter tour when we lost the tail rotor to a bird strike. At the time we were already heading back to the landing spot. We didn't make it to the landing spot but thankfully the pilot was a retired Vietnam pilot and he managed to take us into an autorotation followed by an immediate crash landing. The helicopter was a total loss and we hit the ground so hard we both suffered spinal compression and I got a concussion as well. Luckily we both walked away on our own power. I will say the autorotation was the coolest and scariest thing I have ever participated in. It felt like we were flying a fighter jet for a second there. I will forever be thankful for that man saving my life.
Really??? What about the tail end of an American bomber landing in WW2? It was just the tail and the tail gunner. He survived. That would have to be up there.
As an aircraft structural engineer; very well put together and written video. You managed to be correct on the technical stuff while keeping it concise enough to keep the video consumable for non plane people.
It's incredible, honestly. The thing was under way too much stress with not enough maintenance. When it finally broke it still remained in a state that made it landable.
@@The-Okami-Project Maybe, but this wasn't a safe fail. It's not the designers fault either, because as Qxir said this thing had done twice as many cycles as it had been designed for.
@@dougerrohmer the plane didn't completely self destruct managed to make it to a run way and land on all of its wheels. With less than the bare minimum maintenance and twice the wear it was designed to withstand, on top of the stresses of a rapid descent in its condition. It still made it home with the majority of the souls on board still alive. If that's not a safe failure all things considered, given the catastrophic nature. What do you consider one to be? I am genuinely curious. Literally the worst case scenario. A explosive decompression at cruising altitude and what one person died iirc.
I'm an aircraft technician in training and I learned about this case in vocational training. The fact that this case was taught to us at all says a lot, I don't have to learn much about specific cases of damage occuring over time like this because I'm specifying in aircraft manufacturing and not in aircraft maintenance.
Commercial tech with a few years in now. Do your job right with assembling those airplanes. Study up every crash, and learn what you can from them. Like the good ones among us do. Good luck!
There's no shortage of these fight attendant stories... They seem to be some of the most beautifully spirited ppl in any profession. The care and concern many of them have is nothing short of impressive in these nightmare scenarios. God bless em...
If what I read is correct, Clarabelle was actually set to retire after that day of work, and she was loved both by her coworkers and her passengers. 1000 Ways to Die, the TV show from Spike TV, even made a segment based on this tragedy, but instead of a sweet middle aged lady being sucked out to her doom, it was an absolute wretch of a young woman.
It's a miracle that plane stayed in (more or less) one piece. A testament to the solid design of the venerable 737. Not many planes could survive something like that in anything resembling a flyable state.
@@Keithmmm That seems unlikely from the pictures. She'd have needed to be yanked almost directly downward from the 5th row, and there were seats and passengers on either side of her that remained firmly in place. The only way out of the plane for her was upward.
Just a nit pick but the silhouette at 2:12 is a 747, not a 737. Speaking of planes, I suggest looking into British Airways Flight 5390 - the captain got partially sucked out of the window, the flight attendants were holding onto his legs till the copilot landed - in an unfamiliar airport. The flight attendants at one point considered letting go of the captain, thinking he was dead, but feared that could damage the engine. Well, turns out, although he got knocked unconscious, the captain survived and even returned to flying a few months later
Also when he says they definitely wouldn't have survived if the nose gear hadn't come down, that's not true. Small chance, sure, but farrr from definitely.
@jons LG If the nose gear wasnt down, the cockpit would have snapped off. It would then likely bounce up and re-impact nose down or upside down. Aircraft do not have enough structural integrity to withstand this hit, and both pilots would be crushed (by metal, glass, the ground, the consoles in front of them) regardless of where it impacted and how it rolled. This isn't a matter of AcKsChUaLlY tHeReS a .000001% ChAnCe ThEy'D lIvE, this is what has been shown would happen through countless situations and real life tests. It is 100% fatal for the pilots if the cockpit separates. Quit being a smartass
@@No_Feelings true they knew they were dead if that nose gear didnt drop, even if they had a chance and knew it, them knowing the state the plane was in, that plane missing nearly half the fusealage wouldnt have a chance in hell of wistanding that impact. Some people just dont understand physics
this is one of the most amazing flight incidents i have ever learned about, and the story is a nailbiter even after knowing about it for a decade. the crew were amazing (RIP to Clarabelle Lansing), and god, so were the passengers honestly. i dont know if i would have gotten through it with my sanity intact.
Another unexpected factor that summed to this tragedy was that the salty air of the environment accelerated naturally the repair requirements due to it eating up the epoxy glue used on the plane
@YeaMan put your music out to the right demographic. Go to music pages were people are listening to music already and you more likely to get feedback and people checking your stuff out.
This is the most extreme level of administrative negligence. The crew are commendable though. The first officer being able to be so calm, collected and articulate the facts to the tower at Maui, clearly and understatedly, shows a great level of professionalism. I hope the crew were thoroughly compensated for their achievement, though it would be understandable if they never wanted to fly again after that hell.
9:54 Don't forget, huge props to the engineers that designed the variant of 737 flown in this situation. We've already seen examples of bad engineering with dire consequences on your channel, it's great to see an example of engineering done right. This plane didn't crack until long after it should've been refitted, and it was able to safely land with what, somewhere around 10%-15% of its mass missing and a dead engine!
This is a testament to just how well commercial aircraft are built. That it was able to stay in the air at all is credit to the engineers and workers who create these machines.
agreed....until Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglass in 1997. Boeing moved away from ground breaking engineering and time intensive but thorough quality control measures, and instead adopted the corporate culture of McDonnell Douglass. One where priority was instead placed on cost savings, and favoring the upgrade of old outdated models instead of the innovation and/or invention of newer models. This priority around cost savings directly led to the creation of the 737 Max, the model where they blatantly ignored and hid critical safety issues that later resulted in numerous plane crashes in 2019 alone, killing hundreds of people in the process. Boeing reputation is so unnecessarily tarnished, and I still don't understand how when Boeing bought out McDonnell Douglass, that McDonnell Douglass was the pervailing company calling the shots.
We studied this case in my mechanical engineering program in undergrad. This was how the professor introduced the concept of cyclical fatigue failure. The Comet airliner failures were how they introduced stress concentrations. Ever wonder why airplanes always have rounded windows? That is why.
The reason the passengers and flight attendants did not know if anyone was flying the plane was because, despite the cockpit door being missing, the plane was BOWED. BOWED. It is an absolute miracle that that floor held together.
If I'm on a plane with an opening to the outside world and the flight attendant asks if anyone knows how to fly a plane, I'm using this as a prime opportunity to experience skydiving in my lifetime
It's amazing the engineering and science behind how aircrafts behave and how they react to forces. The whole thing about pressure cycles is something I had never thought about, but fascinating. In terms of aerospace, every little detail counts. There is no room for error or you're dead. My heart goes out to everyone that was impacted by this. But glad it was more of a happy ending than not.
Reminds me of the one where the plane broke apart which separated the captains cabin from the rest of the plane. Imagine seeing the sky in front of you. Heaven forbid you’re the person in the front row, like a rollercoaster ride of a lifetime.
I remember this story when I was a kid. We lived in Kona and had a family friend that was flying from Hilo to Honolulu that day. Luckily he wasn't on that plane but this pretty much shocked the entire state of Hawaii. The footage on the evening news was indelible. The entire crew were legends.
I’ve lived in Hawaii my whole life and I remember my boss telling us this had happened after she’d heard an early, incomplete news report on the radio. It was a shock to see how extensive the damage was that night on TV.
Very good video. I am an Aircraft technician. We conduct lots of special inspection on the fuselage crowns skins for cracks to eliminate this from happening again. I feel sorry for the flight attendant and gratitude for the crew that saved passengers lives. Thanks for sharing
I remember when this happened. I was just 18 and working at an airport as a cabin cleaner. You spend every day, all day inside these airplanes, on the ground but still, you get to know them and feel like you understand their construction and then you see something like this on the news and it makes you think. I felt like I could really picture just what it was like to be in that plane when it happened. Horrifying.
Listening to that woman relaying information so calmly, so accurately while controlling that plane SO WELL, like the crew on that flight deserves a big reward!!
Another brilliant story brought to us from Qxir. It's just amazing how he finds these crazy stories that have been lost to time. Bravo Qxir Bravo And Bravo to the pilots and cabin crew on that scary flight. And thoughts & prays to the Flight attendant who lost her life
I happen to have been friends with one of the FAA investigators of this. He said the plane had been previously banded around that section due to a crack in the fuselage. A band is a temp patch used to make the plane able to reach a repair center only. But, greed being what it is, Aloha decided they'd get a couple more trips out of it before putting it out of service for repair. Because the band was only authorized to ferry the plane to be repaired and not rated for passenger loads, it failed. Side note. He also had showed me where MD 80s &DC9s would excessively corroded and fatigue cracks formed. Its around the bathrooms. Yes, I know 243 was not an md 80 or dc9. Just thought it was interesting factoid.
Thank you for making these videos! Another incident about fatigue cracking that you could make would be a video on could be the story of the first passenger jetliner called the de Havilland Comet. I think its story would make a great video!
Maybe it’s the beer in me, but like, I feel like this was once of the best videos from this channel. Kept me engaged and anxious. Usually I just watch these videos to help me fall asleep but this one kept me awake.
My father flew a 737 until he retired, great plane at the time. The crew did a stellar job here, and you can land on 1 engine. Thanks so much for covering this!
I admire your ability to bring all these horrible events with one unshaken voice throughout every single episode. Not a single hiccup of emotion seeping through. Again, I admire that. Your storytelling of these disasters often get me close to tears. Do you ever have to reshoot a scene cuz you started sobbing too? The world must know about this(!). Show us the blooper wheels haha.
Every time I see a picture of that plane I'm amazed it didn't simply break in half. I mean, more than 180° of the fuselage was missing! It's a tribute to the Boeing engineers who designed it!
Friend of mine has a very successful (plastic scraper) business today, all due to this incident. Before this accident, the caulking was routinely replaced by using metal scrapers to remove the old sealant and over time it would cause stress to the aluminum leading to breakage.
My respects and appreciation to those pilots and cabin crew out there that shine and take charge in the face of horrific danger. It takes a special kind of mindset to come away from these kind of events. Cheers
I've seen various accounts of this story and it still boggles my mind that the pilots were not only able to fly the plane while it was in that state, but LAND it, and that everyone but the one poor flight attendant who happened to be in the exact wrong spot managed to walk away with their lives. Truly insane stuff.
There was a DC10 that got ripped open when the cargo door (stupid design) unlocked in flight and sucked 9 people out. One of the dead young man's parents HOPED he was one of 2 or 3 that got immediately launched into the engine. They couldn't tell how many. That's how nasty it was.
I've seen this story done many times and know it well. This was a very good 2023 version on it with content and side stories that I haven't seen before. Well done.
I remember seeing a picture of this incident in a book about planes when I was a kid, I was surprised that all except one person managed to survive both the explosive decompression and debris resulting from the wreckage.
"Conquer reality" is a superb way to describe what the pilot and first officer managed to do. It outlines the pile of needles they had to thread in order to get everyone to safety while retaining the agency that a miracle would not have done.
Just months after this, a United Air Lines flight that left Honolulu for New Zealand also underwent an explosive decompression from a cargo hatch door not being shut correctly. That time, however, resulted in 9 deaths of people seated above the torn-open section; their seats were sucked out immediately. Two similar airline disasters in the same place a short time apart.
The fact that both pilots thought that landing the plane would cost their lives, but engaged it regardless; I just. Words cannot convey my admiration for them.
In 1991 we were Hawaii Island hopping. We flew in a twin engine piper. My first time in this style plane. Taking off wasn't bad. Landing scared the crap out of me. Nobody told me the plane would vibrate the way it did. After that I was good to go. By plane I've traveled to Bahamas and Canada. Atlantic to Pacific landing in a couple states along the way. I'm 50 now and never forget that piper plane.
I love air disaster stories where the pilots have the right mix of luck that the situation wasn't even worse and stone-cold badassery at their craft to bring to landing a plane that by all rights should have crashed. TACA 110 is my favorite, but they're all amazing.
Mine's the DHL Airbus A300 at Baghdad (I can never find the flight number but it was a freighter), hit by a missile on takeoff that took out a chunk of wing and all the tail controls, they managed to land by 'jockeying' the engines, ran off the runway and ended up in a minefield but still all in one piece.
No, they forgot to call more than one ambulance. There was no way to know beforehand how many would be needed. In the recording you can hear the air traffic controller say “an” ambulance has been called.
I remember when this happened. I graduated high school in 88. Hats off to the Co-Pilot / First Officer…that lady was calm, cool and collected. Pure Professional !!
The ultimate test of engineering prowess. An aircraft has a good chunk of the front end ripped off to the point where the floor was bending under the stresses, but it was still able to land safely rather than breaking apart
Can’t begin to imagine what it would be like to be doing you day to day job one minute, to being sucked out of a plane at some 32,000 feet the next, then plummeting all that way down…Going from pushing a cart, to being completely disoriented, to experiencing abject horror in a matter of seconds. One can only hope she immediately lost consciousness upon impacting the outside of the fuselage
Holy shit dude, I've never heard any of the radio or those passenger interviews you had at the end before. I've heard this story probably a dozen times before seeing your video on it (actually that's why I'm late to the game) but those things and the CG plane flying and landing really put me there and made me feel the terror again! Well done!
Both amazing and terrifying. Well done the Pilots and crew, and how strong was that plane. I have been up mountains at over 20,000 feet, it is very hard to breathe, even after acclimatisation, but to be suddenly exposed to this, and 400 mph winds at -30 deg C is the utmost extreme situation.(I just estimate the conditions). I knew the story, but thanks for your explanation.
I have seen this story told many times,never this well. you had the hairs on the back of me neck stickin out not unlike the souls on this flight! you are gifted.
that being said,quit yer gloatin,next Friday isnt that far away and you has a demanding audience(sorry,i live alone and dont have much of a life and talk to meself ,by times)
I flew on the one of those Aloha 737's as a 17 year old in December 1980 from Honolulu to Maui and back on a family Christmas vacation. I was surprised 8 years later that one of these same planes would lose its roof like it did. Horrifying.
Insane how calm the pilots sounded on the radio. Knowing you've got 90 lives in your hands and being able to keep your cool in a hopeless situation is fucking insane.
If I remember correctly a mechanic used a graphite pencil to mark out a piece of sheet metal. The carbon was then embedded into the metal in which the metal will weaken and eventually become brittle. As such the pressurizations continued to also weaken the metal leading to a explosive decompression. New regulations came out and pencils like wax pencils are now used. A terrifying experience for all involved.
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Did anybody end up dying AFTER though? Did the event cause any injuries that one of the 'survivors' ended up succumbing to?
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Drop top jet. Nice!
First, I don't think any aircraft flying from one Island to another, in Hawaii, ever flys at 24,000 feet. Second, an aircraft that size would not have the time to even reach that altitude, before it has already flown over all the islands and well out over the Pacific.
What happened to the laid back animation? this is not the qxir i know and love.
The stewardess who climbed under the seats the entire time to assist and care for her passengers should have a statue at an airport. Talk about doing your duty under pressure. Absolute hero of the working class.
you could say "lack of pressure" (in the cabin)
@@SlavicBoi lol i was thinking this.
Should definitely never have to spend her own money to get a beer for the rest of her life.
@YeaMan why would someone even make a bot that says this? There's no scam link, it isn't asking for your credit card number or anything else of value, why did someone go through the effort of creating a bot only for it to say this?
@@fibber2991yeah this is clearly sub-bot level IQ
That pilot/copilot was unbelievably calm and professional sounding on that emergency call considering the extreme circumstances she was in the middle of.
Shock is a hell of a drug
In such a dire emergency, you have to choices as to what to do with your feeling of panic and stress. Give into it and panic, or channel it and use it.
shock
Local pilot "too calm to die"
My uncle is a retired commercial pilot, and his motto always was “keep flying the airplane.” Panic and you’re done, but this flight crew obviously kept flying the airplane.
how almost everyone on board survived this is a miracle in it of itself but my condolences to the people affected by such an event especially the hostess.
Only a single person died.
One of the flight attendants.
Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing.
@@x808drifter hence why he said almost, and yeah in the past I did some digging on this person but not much surrounding her and the accident was found.
Speaking of miracle, there was actually a movie based on this event called Miracle Landing.
the worst part is she would have died alone, and seen the aircraft fly off into the distance and never could have known it would have survived
The short distance of the flight and relatively low altitude most definitely played a factor. Regardless, it had to be a horrifying experience.
I actually used to live in Hawaii around this time and everyone was afraid of these planes. We called them "puddle Jumpers" because they traveled between the islands. We often joked that the turbulence felt like it was going to rip the plane apart....crazy to think how right we were.....I cannot believe the pilot was able to land this plane, much less that ONLY ONE PERSON DIED!....wow.
I've heard them called that because they were very small planes, the kind w 2 rows and maybe half the size of a 747.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Yea, for that reason too. I dunno, maybe the term wasn't specific to Hawaii, but that's what I remember my dad always calling them. He was an Airmen during Desert Storm and he fucking HATED those things lol
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 they aren't called puddle jumpers because they are small. They are called puddle jumpers or island hoppers because they travel short distances between islands. The ocean is the "puddle" because the distance is so short.
And that 1 death mainly bottled down to “wrong place, wrong time”
@@antitroller101 its boiled down, not bottled down
Also shows how strong airplanes are if they only need half the fuselage to land.
Another incredible story is that of Scandinavien Airlines flight 751. Commonly known as the "Miracle at Gottröra" where the plane crash landed in a field shortly after takeof due to double engine failure. The crash resulted in the plane splitting in three but somehow all passengers and crew survived. Largly thanks to a passenger who was an of duty pilot that rushed to the cockpit and helped the crew execute a safe landing.
that’s one of my favourite aviation incident stories. i feel bad for the Pilot in command, though. he could never trust a plane again and retired
And there is still people who are afraid of flying cuz "its to dangerous"
@@JuanGamer0202 I'm more afraid of the transgender detector in airport security but yeah I'd rather take a train
@@user-fs9mv8px1y what?
Convertible airplanes when?
even though it failed, it shows how well these aircraft are made. more than double the pressurization cycles before failure, half the fuselage blown off and still holding together well enough to fly even with one engine out
That’s how they’re supposed to be designed. Most things around you are engineered to take double the load than what it says on the tin.
Ever heard of safety factor?
Calm down there Mr. Boeing rep, people still don't trust your planes.
Tell us if big B has your family
Outside of landing a nearly destroyed B-17 during WWII, this has to be one of the most legendary feats of airmanship and keeping your head cool. hats off to the professionalism of the pilots and crew.
Well, you would think, but-
Ok, so there's multiple times where someone "pushed" another jet with their jet in the air.
Sadly, they would both end sadly but in different ways. The first time the guy successfully pushed his wingmate out of enemy territory but he died after ejection because he couldn't get out of the harness and drowned.
The second time both guys survived, but their government punished them for "damaging property"
Landing an F-15 with only one wing remaining is also a pretty badass move.
What the pilots of JAL 123 did was also incredible. Keeping a jet aloft purely though fluctuating engine power. A 747 nonetheless, with absolutely no tail control surfaces. Though of course they eventually did crash.
United Airlines 232 as well, that was terrifying.
There's even a record of a heavily damaged b-17 landing by itself after the crew had ditched
That B-17 WAS destroyed. It no longer had the thrust necessary to maintain altitude and the crew had to throw every ounce of non-essential weight overboard. It only just made it to the runway before literally falling out of the sky.
The fact that only ONE person died from this incident is a miracle. The pilots and crew should have gotten medals for how calm and collected they were during the landing. Incredible story!!
One death isn't a miracle. Sure others didn't die but 1 death is unfortunate enough
@@Kreekyblockyeah but we should be grateful it was only one person
The real irony is tha, had the stewardess not been serving drinks, she may still have been strapped into her seat!
Also proving how absolutely crucial it is to ALWAYS wear your seatbelt!
It's one person from 90+ passengers and crew. It's a miracle that everyone didn't die in that situation@@Kreekyblock
Incredible that it stayed in one piece flying and LANDING like that!
and also the pilot managed to descend fast enough to avoid suffocating people in the cabin, while not breaking the plane in two.
We probably can guess the landing angle made it bend back to a proper state.
They don't make 'em like they used to.
I wouldn’t consider that to be “in one piece”
@@lolzers7986 Da phuck? That plane had no justification to survive a landing, but it -did-.
I couldn't imagine how terrible they felt in that plane. When I was 16 I was on a helicopter tour when we lost the tail rotor to a bird strike. At the time we were already heading back to the landing spot. We didn't make it to the landing spot but thankfully the pilot was a retired Vietnam pilot and he managed to take us into an autorotation followed by an immediate crash landing. The helicopter was a total loss and we hit the ground so hard we both suffered spinal compression and I got a concussion as well. Luckily we both walked away on our own power. I will say the autorotation was the coolest and scariest thing I have ever participated in. It felt like we were flying a fighter jet for a second there. I will forever be thankful for that man saving my life.
What a cool Vietnam vet helicopter pilot damn
That must have been an experience, I wouldn't be surprised if you never entered a helicopter after that..
my bro in law was on that flight-he and another guy were the last row of passengers--they were the only ones not hit by flying metal
at the end of the video my bro in law is the 2nd guy talking saying it was unbelievable they were able to land--dr eric becklin
Entire crew, absolute legends. Some of the best flying ever, including stuff due to wartime damage.
Really??? What about the tail end of an American bomber landing in WW2? It was just the tail and the tail gunner. He survived. That would have to be up there.
Especially Claribelle Lansing, she flew the best and she wasn’t even a pilot!
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@@mainframe1608 bruh
@@mainframe1608 Oh no you didn't....
As an aircraft structural engineer; very well put together and written video. You managed to be correct on the technical stuff while keeping it concise enough to keep the video consumable for non plane people.
It's incredible, honestly. The thing was under way too much stress with not enough maintenance. When it finally broke it still remained in a state that made it landable.
says alot about how safe planes are
The engineers did their job. The idea isn't to prevent all possible failures, its to make sure when it does fail. It fails safely.
It would have been a giant wind-scoop the whole time trying to fly it and hoping it all doesn't break-away.
@@The-Okami-Project Maybe, but this wasn't a safe fail. It's not the designers fault either, because as Qxir said this thing had done twice as many cycles as it had been designed for.
@@dougerrohmer the plane didn't completely self destruct managed to make it to a run way and land on all of its wheels. With less than the bare minimum maintenance and twice the wear it was designed to withstand, on top of the stresses of a rapid descent in its condition. It still made it home with the majority of the souls on board still alive.
If that's not a safe failure all things considered, given the catastrophic nature. What do you consider one to be? I am genuinely curious. Literally the worst case scenario. A explosive decompression at cruising altitude and what one person died iirc.
Outside the airline themselves, it really seems like everyone was a hero in this situation. The pilot, flight crew, even the tour bus company.
I'm an aircraft technician in training and I learned about this case in vocational training.
The fact that this case was taught to us at all says a lot, I don't have to learn much about specific cases of damage occuring over time like this because I'm specifying in aircraft manufacturing and not in aircraft maintenance.
Dude, samesies. This, and the JAL 123 crash.
Commercial tech with a few years in now.
Do your job right with assembling those airplanes.
Study up every crash, and learn what you can from them. Like the good ones among us do.
Good luck!
@@davecrupel2817 blah blah blah 🤡
So is maintenance based on hours or pressurisation cycles?
@@Snoop_Dugg generally depends on what the manufacturer states, but a lot of companies have both now, specifically because of this.
There's no shortage of these fight attendant stories... They seem to be some of the most beautifully spirited ppl in any profession. The care and concern many of them have is nothing short of impressive in these nightmare scenarios. God bless em...
Absolute mad respect for both pilots, for being able to land such a crippled plane.
If what I read is correct, Clarabelle was actually set to retire after that day of work, and she was loved both by her coworkers and her passengers.
1000 Ways to Die, the TV show from Spike TV, even made a segment based on this tragedy, but instead of a sweet middle aged lady being sucked out to her doom, it was an absolute wretch of a young woman.
Jesus.. That's so fucked up 1000 Ways to Die did that.
@@Isaac-ho8gh They did a lot of episodes based off real incidents, but usually made the victims awful people.
@@firemaker1258 yeah I know, it just feels quite tasteless.
The only clip of that show I’ve seen is the one where a dude dies from a spider bite because of how much sex he had that day.
@@Isaac-ho8gh yeah if I died and they did an episode on me you already know that studio would be forever haunted
It's a miracle that plane stayed in (more or less) one piece. A testament to the solid design of the venerable 737. Not many planes could survive something like that in anything resembling a flyable state.
Dumb luck. Usually this is catastrophic.
I feel so sorry for Clarabelle's family. No body found...that has to be rough.
Rip to Clarabelle wherever she ended up
The islands are just dots on the 1/3rd of the planet thats blue....and bodies often dont get recovered from open ocean
@@norml.hugh-mann I think she got sucked into the engine
@@Keithmmm That seems unlikely from the pictures. She'd have needed to be yanked almost directly downward from the 5th row, and there were seats and passengers on either side of her that remained firmly in place. The only way out of the plane for her was upward.
Hopefully the poor woman was killed on impact with the debris or knocked unconscious before she fell.
Just a nit pick but the silhouette at 2:12 is a 747, not a 737. Speaking of planes, I suggest looking into British Airways Flight 5390 - the captain got partially sucked out of the window, the flight attendants were holding onto his legs till the copilot landed - in an unfamiliar airport. The flight attendants at one point considered letting go of the captain, thinking he was dead, but feared that could damage the engine. Well, turns out, although he got knocked unconscious, the captain survived and even returned to flying a few months later
Would love to see Qxir make a video about this
Would be a great tales from the bottle episode
Also when he says they definitely wouldn't have survived if the nose gear hadn't come down, that's not true. Small chance, sure, but farrr from definitely.
@jons LG If the nose gear wasnt down, the cockpit would have snapped off. It would then likely bounce up and re-impact nose down or upside down. Aircraft do not have enough structural integrity to withstand this hit, and both pilots would be crushed (by metal, glass, the ground, the consoles in front of them) regardless of where it impacted and how it rolled. This isn't a matter of AcKsChUaLlY tHeReS a .000001% ChAnCe ThEy'D lIvE, this is what has been shown would happen through countless situations and real life tests. It is 100% fatal for the pilots if the cockpit separates. Quit being a smartass
@@No_Feelings true they knew they were dead if that nose gear didnt drop, even if they had a chance and knew it, them knowing the state the plane was in, that plane missing nearly half the fusealage wouldnt have a chance in hell of wistanding that impact. Some people just dont understand physics
this is one of the most amazing flight incidents i have ever learned about, and the story is a nailbiter even after knowing about it for a decade. the crew were amazing (RIP to Clarabelle Lansing), and god, so were the passengers honestly. i dont know if i would have gotten through it with my sanity intact.
incredible. God rest you ms. Lansing. And bless the hard work of the crew as a whole!
Another unexpected factor that summed to this tragedy was that the salty air of the environment accelerated naturally the repair requirements due to it eating up the epoxy glue used on the plane
Best storyteller on UA-cam, your drawings add so much life to them too, can’t get enough 😁
@YeaMan put your music out to the right demographic. Go to music pages were people are listening to music already and you more likely to get feedback and people checking your stuff out.
And that dry sense of humour...so far my favourite is WW2 on Meth. Masterpiece of storytelling and art...
@@yeaman3214a bot would be smarter
Mrballen is the goat also
There are no drawings in this video
This is the most extreme level of administrative negligence. The crew are commendable though. The first officer being able to be so calm, collected and articulate the facts to the tower at Maui, clearly and understatedly, shows a great level of professionalism. I hope the crew were thoroughly compensated for their achievement, though it would be understandable if they never wanted to fly again after that hell.
“The pilot conquered reality” damn that was powerful. I felt that❤
They rejected one reality, and substituted their own.
Dats unrealistic
How old are u?
@@trentonking5508 37
@@sarahwilkinson7846 your kinda cute.
9:54 Don't forget, huge props to the engineers that designed the variant of 737 flown in this situation. We've already seen examples of bad engineering with dire consequences on your channel, it's great to see an example of engineering done right. This plane didn't crack until long after it should've been refitted, and it was able to safely land with what, somewhere around 10%-15% of its mass missing and a dead engine!
This is a testament to just how well commercial aircraft are built. That it was able to stay in the air at all is credit to the engineers and workers who create these machines.
agreed....until Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglass in 1997. Boeing moved away from ground breaking engineering and time intensive but thorough quality control measures, and instead adopted the corporate culture of McDonnell Douglass. One where priority was instead placed on cost savings, and favoring the upgrade of old outdated models instead of the innovation and/or invention of newer models. This priority around cost savings directly led to the creation of the 737 Max, the model where they blatantly ignored and hid critical safety issues that later resulted in numerous plane crashes in 2019 alone, killing hundreds of people in the process. Boeing reputation is so unnecessarily tarnished, and I still don't understand how when Boeing bought out McDonnell Douglass, that McDonnell Douglass was the pervailing company calling the shots.
I give more credit to the laws of physics and aerodynamics than I would to some dumb guy and the metal plates he touched
how did those pilots not get awards for that safe landing and calm and collected demeanor the whole time? that's incredible
Truly the most epic window seat of all window seats.
I mean
We studied this case in my mechanical engineering program in undergrad. This was how the professor introduced the concept of cyclical fatigue failure. The Comet airliner failures were how they introduced stress concentrations. Ever wonder why airplanes always have rounded windows? That is why.
If this happened now, about 40 of the passengers would have been lost from taking their seat-belts off too early.
no because half of them would be too fat to get sucked out
Yeah. This!
From now on I'm never taking off my seat belt. Imma stay on the airplane forever!
And the 737 would have cracked in half from the extra weight of the beef fed passengers
@@naughtiusmaximus830 Imagine dying because a person from My 600 LB Life got on the plane before takeoff.
The reason the passengers and flight attendants did not know if anyone was flying the plane was because, despite the cockpit door being missing, the plane was BOWED. BOWED. It is an absolute miracle that that floor held together.
I mean you'd be surprised how much larger metal structures can bend and flex without breaking
If I'm on a plane with an opening to the outside world and the flight attendant asks if anyone knows how to fly a plane, I'm using this as a prime opportunity to experience skydiving in my lifetime
Without a parachute? Well, I guess the air is so thin that you'd pass out before you hit the ground.
You would skydive for a split second before you got sucked into the engine and turned into a human smoothie. At least you wouldn't suffer much 😂
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@@JoseMartinez-zr4xp he could jump out of the back...
@@JoseMartinez-zr4xp excellent imagery right there 😂
It's amazing the engineering and science behind how aircrafts behave and how they react to forces. The whole thing about pressure cycles is something I had never thought about, but fascinating. In terms of aerospace, every little detail counts. There is no room for error or you're dead. My heart goes out to everyone that was impacted by this. But glad it was more of a happy ending than not.
Reminds me of the one where the plane broke apart which separated the captains cabin from the rest of the plane. Imagine seeing the sky in front of you. Heaven forbid you’re the person in the front row, like a rollercoaster ride of a lifetime.
That's TWA Flight 800
Clarabelle Lansing, you are a hero. May your beautiful, heroic soul rest in peace.
Excellent, as always. Loving the accelerated schedule!
I remember this story when I was a kid. We lived in Kona and had a family friend that was flying from Hilo to Honolulu that day. Luckily he wasn't on that plane but this pretty much shocked the entire state of Hawaii. The footage on the evening news was indelible.
The entire crew were legends.
I’ve lived in Hawaii my whole life and I remember my boss telling us this had happened after she’d heard an early, incomplete news report on the radio. It was a shock to see how extensive the damage was that night on TV.
Great job to the pilots for bringing the plane to a safe landing and amazing job to the crew for calming passengers down and providing care
Very good video. I am an Aircraft technician. We conduct lots of special inspection on the fuselage crowns skins for cracks to eliminate this from happening again. I feel sorry for the flight attendant and gratitude for the crew that saved passengers lives. Thanks for sharing
I remember when this happened. I was just 18 and working at an airport as a cabin cleaner.
You spend every day, all day inside these airplanes, on the ground but still, you get to know them and feel like you understand their construction and then you see something like this on the news and it makes you think.
I felt like I could really picture just what it was like to be in that plane when it happened.
Horrifying.
Listening to that woman relaying information so calmly, so accurately while controlling that plane SO WELL, like the crew on that flight deserves a big reward!!
Another brilliant story brought to us from Qxir. It's just amazing how he finds these crazy stories that have been lost to time. Bravo Qxir Bravo
And Bravo to the pilots and cabin crew on that scary flight. And thoughts & prays to the Flight attendant who lost her life
I though the British Airways one where the pilot got sucked halfway out was crazy. And the Chinese pirated it, too!
@@worldcomicsreview354 yeah that was a crazy story too! Those pilots must have fingers like a steel vise
I happen to have been friends with one of the FAA investigators of this. He said the plane had been previously banded around that section due to a crack in the fuselage. A band is a temp patch used to make the plane able to reach a repair center only. But, greed being what it is, Aloha decided they'd get a couple more trips out of it before putting it out of service for repair. Because the band was only authorized to ferry the plane to be repaired and not rated for passenger loads, it failed.
Side note. He also had showed me where MD 80s &DC9s would excessively corroded and fatigue cracks formed. Its around the bathrooms.
Yes, I know 243 was not an md 80 or dc9. Just thought it was interesting factoid.
Thank you for making these videos! Another incident about fatigue cracking that you could make would be a video on could be the story of the first passenger jetliner called the de Havilland Comet. I think its story would make a great video!
Maybe it’s the beer in me, but like, I feel like this was once of the best videos from this channel. Kept me engaged and anxious. Usually I just watch these videos to help me fall asleep but this one kept me awake.
My father flew a 737 until he retired, great plane at the time. The crew did a stellar job here, and you can land on 1 engine. Thanks so much for covering this!
Thank you for recognizing what heroes the pilot and co pilot were. Truly good story tellin, mate!
One of the most amazing things that's ever happened.
Amazing in a bad way, right?
@@JimsyFlimsy probably talking about the crew landing the plane safley
@@trojanspyware Very much so.
What about the flight attendant who was sucked into a horrific death ?
@@billsmith5166 was that part amazing too ?
I applaud you sir for your extraordinary narration, you videos are always a delight you are severely underrated
Love your channel hello from Lancashire England 👍🏻
I admire your ability to bring all these horrible events with one unshaken voice throughout every single episode. Not a single hiccup of emotion seeping through.
Again, I admire that. Your storytelling of these disasters often get me close to tears.
Do you ever have to reshoot a scene cuz you started sobbing too? The world must know about this(!). Show us the blooper wheels haha.
Every time I see a picture of that plane I'm amazed it didn't simply break in half. I mean, more than 180° of the fuselage was missing!
It's a tribute to the Boeing engineers who designed it!
Christ that first officer was calm, and how that pilot managed to land that plane is beyond belief
Friend of mine has a very successful (plastic scraper) business today, all due to this incident. Before this accident, the caulking was routinely replaced by using metal scrapers to remove the old sealant and over time it would cause stress to the aluminum leading to breakage.
Major respect to the pilots. It takes a special kind of skill and tenacity to take on the fate of your nearly destroyed plane and win.
My respects and appreciation to those pilots and cabin crew out there that shine and take charge in the face of horrific danger. It takes a special kind of mindset to come away from these kind of events. Cheers
I've seen various accounts of this story and it still boggles my mind that the pilots were not only able to fly the plane while it was in that state, but LAND it, and that everyone but the one poor flight attendant who happened to be in the exact wrong spot managed to walk away with their lives. Truly insane stuff.
I couldn't imagine the horror of getting launched off the sky, so sudden and random.
There was a DC10 that got ripped open when the cargo door (stupid design) unlocked in flight and sucked 9 people out.
One of the dead young man's parents HOPED he was one of 2 or 3 that got immediately launched into the engine.
They couldn't tell how many. That's how nasty it was.
Why does it seem like all of my favorite youtubers are making plane accident videos? Idc I'm loving it!
Thank you for the story and how brave everyone was from the plot to the crew. Also cool Black Lagoon shirt.
The way you wrap that up, your closing narration - Well worded, well delivered and impactful. You’ve got a gift.🍻
its kind of eerie the first officer said 85 then corrected to 86... she was right the first time...
I think the correct saying would rather be 86 plus 4 crewmen instead of 5.
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@@thewizard1 Woman 😂😂😂 ☕
@@clementinebriar1898 Woman 😂😂😂☕️
I've seen this story done many times and know it well. This was a very good 2023 version on it with content and side stories that I haven't seen before. Well done.
Thanks for the entertainment man. Love the vids and channel
I remember seeing a picture of this incident in a book about planes when I was a kid, I was surprised that all except one person managed to survive both the explosive decompression and debris resulting from the wreckage.
"Conquer reality" is a superb way to describe what the pilot and first officer managed to do. It outlines the pile of needles they had to thread in order to get everyone to safety while retaining the agency that a miracle would not have done.
I know all air disasters are terrifying but I cannot imagine being on this plane.
Landing that thing was some incredible flying
The fact the cockpit of the aircraft didn't completely fold upwards is incredible.
The miracle here is the integrity of the fuselage even with half of it gone.
Just months after this, a United Air Lines flight that left Honolulu for New Zealand also underwent an explosive decompression from a cargo hatch door not being shut correctly. That time, however, resulted in 9 deaths of people seated above the torn-open section; their seats were sucked out immediately. Two similar airline disasters in the same place a short time apart.
The fact 243 landed and almost everyone survived is a miracle.
Fascinating and very well done!
The fact that both pilots thought that landing the plane would cost their lives, but engaged it regardless; I just. Words cannot convey my admiration for them.
You have to land at some point
How would it have cost them their lives?
@@greentriumph1643 without the nose gear they would've been the first to experience the initial impact and shock of trying to land.
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 No I want to live in the sky
In 1991 we were Hawaii Island hopping. We flew in a twin engine piper. My first time in this style plane. Taking off wasn't bad. Landing scared the crap out of me. Nobody told me the plane would vibrate the way it did. After that I was good to go. By plane I've traveled to Bahamas and Canada. Atlantic to Pacific landing in a couple states along the way. I'm 50 now and never forget that piper plane.
I love air disaster stories where the pilots have the right mix of luck that the situation wasn't even worse and stone-cold badassery at their craft to bring to landing a plane that by all rights should have crashed. TACA 110 is my favorite, but they're all amazing.
Mine's the DHL Airbus A300 at Baghdad (I can never find the flight number but it was a freighter), hit by a missile on takeoff that took out a chunk of wing and all the tail controls, they managed to land by 'jockeying' the engines, ran off the runway and ended up in a minefield but still all in one piece.
The air craft that landed in the Hudson River after Canada Geese were sucked into the engines causing flame out was an amazing story,too.
Qxir. You are a god. You have some of the best content on the net. Thanks man. And the pilots are awesome.
When your airline doesn't know whether it is coming or going (Aloha), who would expect nothing less than disaster at some point?
du dun tiss
@@therideneverends1697 THE TRANSLATE SAYS “you dun pee” 💀💀💀🤣🤣😭
This story is insane, can't believe I have never heard of it before.
Thank you for shedding light on this.
"the traffic controller forgot to call an ambulance"
hmm yes, tottaly makes sense after the crew announces an explosive decompression
No, they forgot to call more than one ambulance. There was no way to know beforehand how many would be needed. In the recording you can hear the air traffic controller say “an” ambulance has been called.
My new favorite channel. Great video!
Grandpa survived aloha 243 he said it was the scariest day of his life
I remember when this happened.
I graduated high school in 88.
Hats off to the Co-Pilot / First Officer…that lady was calm, cool and collected.
Pure Professional !!
The ultimate test of engineering prowess. An aircraft has a good chunk of the front end ripped off to the point where the floor was bending under the stresses, but it was still able to land safely rather than breaking apart
Can’t begin to imagine what it would be like to be doing you day to day job one minute, to being sucked out of a plane at some 32,000 feet the next, then plummeting all that way down…Going from pushing a cart, to being completely disoriented, to experiencing abject horror in a matter of seconds. One can only hope she immediately lost consciousness upon impacting the outside of the fuselage
Wow. Hats off to both of the pilots.
Holy shit dude, I've never heard any of the radio or those passenger interviews you had at the end before. I've heard this story probably a dozen times before seeing your video on it (actually that's why I'm late to the game) but those things and the CG plane flying and landing really put me there and made me feel the terror again! Well done!
this 2nd guy talking at the end is my bro in law who was on the flight-everybody was quite calm actually during the whole ordeal
Ah yes, the elements. Fire, earth, wind, water, and heart.
your channel is criminally under rated
when Tompkins said 85, then corrected herself and said 86, she was actually right the first time, but didn't know it yet........
You're story telling has become world class mate
Both amazing and terrifying. Well done the Pilots and crew, and how strong was that plane.
I have been up mountains at over 20,000 feet, it is very hard to breathe, even after acclimatisation, but to be suddenly exposed to this, and 400 mph winds at -30 deg C is the utmost extreme situation.(I just estimate the conditions).
I knew the story, but thanks for your explanation.
I have seen this story told many times,never this well.
you had the hairs on the back of me neck stickin out
not unlike the souls on this flight!
you are gifted.
almost,but not quite,as much as this flight crew.
that being said,quit yer gloatin,next Friday isnt that far away and you has a demanding audience(sorry,i live alone and dont have much of a life and talk to meself ,by times)
I flew on the one of those Aloha 737's as a 17 year old in December 1980 from Honolulu to Maui and back on a family Christmas vacation. I was surprised 8 years later that one of these same planes would lose its roof like it did. Horrifying.
Insane how calm the pilots sounded on the radio. Knowing you've got 90 lives in your hands and being able to keep your cool in a hopeless situation is fucking insane.
If I remember correctly a mechanic used a graphite pencil to mark out a piece of sheet metal. The carbon was then embedded into the metal in which the metal will weaken and eventually become brittle. As such the pressurizations continued to also weaken the metal leading to a explosive decompression. New regulations came out and pencils like wax pencils are now used. A terrifying experience for all involved.