Captain Liu was actually an experienced former bomber pilot in PLA and pilot coach. Also he had above 100 times on this airline so he could find the way back without dial's help. He is just a hero and heavily awarded after the accident.
@@Bravo-Too-Much pretty sure that nobody is denying that. People can be skilled and professional, yet they fall victim to a crash. Always take the win when luck comes your way.
Had never heard of this one. Truly amazing airmanship by the captain and one really fortunate first officer. All this caused by a simple leaky seal seems so unthinkable. Given a similar story from a British Airlines flight where the captain was the one who got sucked out and was held in by cabin crew, you would think that first directive to secure the harnesses upon seeing a windshield crack would have already been in place. Glad to learn it is now. Thank you for another interesting report on how things happened and what was learned. Enjoy your channel very much and look forward to seeing your next video.
Never heard about this one. I thought it was going to the similar British accident. Again no one died, but the captain spent the rest of the flight outside! The senior cabin crew member held on to the captains legs. Nice endings are more than nice. The British Captain and FO get together for a cup of tea regularly :) I loved the photo of the Chinese FOs shirt. Yikes!
I too hadn't heard of this one, but had watched a video about that British accident. Do pilots get a uniform allowance? As Christina T said in her comment, the pilots were both lucky and unlucky. I wonder if there is a redesign so that the oxygen mask can be reached by either hand.
@@bikeny Hi Stephen. My understanding is that pilots uniform cost typically gets charged against their paycheck. Don't know if there's an allowance, but it would make sense. Either hand for oxygen should be a must. You need it when you're in trouble. And of course, you're flight crew. Everyone else is in trouble too.
If you wanna hear the radio chatter from this incident VASAviation has the audio along with a flight path recording on their channel. iirc, it was released less than a week after the incident itself.
@@roderickcampbell2105 that's why Boeing did it right with flight yoke , any hand could be on the yoke . When I first went up the cockpit of an Airbus , my first question was , hey I'm a right handed , that means I would have to relearn flying with my left hand if I'm made captain 🤣
I'm dumbfounded that the captain just shrugged off cerebral hypoxia. What an absolute unit, it takes under a minute for most people to become fully incapacitated, he's a superhuman
@@millomweb That's not really how it works son. Run an oil heater on a cold, windy day with a gust blowing at you, and open a window. The room stays warm for a fair while. Why? Hot, dense air will always have dramatically more pressure than cold, sparse air by nature. The inrush of air has velocity, not pressure
@@millomweb On top of that, an A319 is much larger than any room in your house, it's about the size and volume of a moderate two bedroom house. Run this experiment again but open every door leading to that room in the house while the air is hot and dense. Same thing applies
@@millomweb If it's under pressure, it's denser. The air in the cabin is also denser than the outside air because the air is thin, hence why we can't breathe it. You're really dumb for a pedant, you know that?
I honestly thought it was going to be about the British incident because I only read the thumbnail. I’ve never heard of this incident and it’s honestly surprising because the pilots are true heroes!
What a superb performance by that young pilot. I am more impressed than I can say. Congratulations to that man. Everyone on the plane was very lucky to have you in control, Sir. Best wishes from UK.
A similar incident happened in the 1990's in Great Britain. In that case, the Captain was sacked out. In that case, the windscreen was replaced, held in by the wrong screws. Everyone survived in the British incident.
@@mduduzisibanda7840 Yeah, they ain't the most comfortable things to wear... No pilot is gonna willingly wear those shoulder straps for 3+ hours straight.
Maybe it's just me, but if I'm that FO and my windshield starts cracking randomly the very first thing I do is put my shoulder straps on, I've seen what happened on British Airways 5390
I read a news article that quoted the captain as saying they didn't see any signs that the windshield was going to shatter. It just did and fortunately, the co pilot was wearing his seat belt, although not his shoulder harness.
Same! And ALL immediately don Oxygen masks as a preventative measure and look, they needed it anyway a second later. I am a former FA and these just seem logical. I am sure many airlines have that as SOP after the similar BA incident many years before.
New addendum to check list : If windshield cracks appear, put on parachute. Just kidding . . . Thanks for the great upload. Amazing recovery and airmanship.
Which would have more force in a rapid depression from a cockpit window. The exiting pressure, or the amount of force the oncoming wind would. I don’t see how the poor guy even remained conscious. Given the air being sucked out of you that fast, and -40 degree wind hitting your face at 500 mph. Granted the depressurization helped offset that but still, very interesting. This is where pressure difference and the outside airstream meet head-on. Literally
Interesting video! This reminded me of British Airways 5390 where a cockpit window also broke, having been installed almost entirely with bolts that were too small (84 out of 90 bolts were undersized).
British Airways had a similar glare shield blowout. The captain was sucked all the way out with just his legs inside the cockpit. The steward and another pilot had to hold his legs all the way down to a runway. The 1st officer flew the plane and operated all the procedures including radios and emergency checklist and mayday calls and landed the plane. The captain survived. That 1st officer is my hero......
That’s 2 mishaps in a row I hadn’t heard about - I’m going to look at your list of videos more closely! At first I thought this was the story of the Captain who was ejected from the cockpit, after maintenance failed to use the correct screws to attach a new windscreen. But this is a well known accident and I couldn’t think you’d say nobody would have heard of it. This channel is created by someone knowledgeable, narrated well and deserves to succeed.
Airbus really should add a small shock absorber to the cockpit door that will not allow the door to just fly open and damage the circuit breaker panel like that. Or if that's not possible at least a door stop that the door can slam into instead of the electrical panel.
the door was never an issue until we learned from the muslims that those doors must be very heavy. No blowout panel in the door allowed thanks to a snack bar owner named allha
Idk about others but if i saw the windscreen starting to crack in front of me the first thing i would do before anything else is put on my seat harness.
Ya gotta add the detail that the second captain was resting in first class when this happend, but he decided to enter cockpit in concern if the flying captain was incapacity due to low oxygen, taking on the risk of being sucked out through the window leaving his seat. Then the crew couldn't vocal communicate so all of them used hand signs, the second captain took a crucial role of taking over communications to ATC while the captain can remain focusing on flying the aircraft. The real moving part for me is that during this whole time the second captain was hand signing OK to his captain and the F/O to calm them and he used his hand to friction the captain's body to generate heat because it was too cold.
discord/notification squad where you at? Great vid as always, I wanted to ask at the beginning why the door opened up especially since you mentioned the 9/11 thing in another vid, thought maybe the changes in policy didn't reach china yet? or maybe it was an older aircraft? but you still answered that question at the end of it :D Also thanks for the movie recommendation, I'll give it a try ;)
I heard about it. cause when it happened to a british pilot, and someone said "it's not the only time a pilot was sucked out of an airplane" I just *had* to find the other time.
I wonder if the fact that it was a front window that broke helped to keep the plane partially pressurised. I imagine that it might have a sort of ram-air effect as the plane speeds through the oncoming air, and that's why the captain stayed conscious and alert, even though he couldn't fit his oxygen mask.
@@AirspaceVideos The bizarre thing then is why was the FO in an icy blast - once the pressures had equalised, incoming air=outgoing air. I think it's bizarre Airbus decided to have the cockpit door open. Isolation would have been the better option - less air blowing the FO out AND keeping the pax pressurised. OR in a cabin pressure fail, cockpit would stay pressurised. Win-win surely ? And don't call me Shirley ;)
When that plane came to a stop after landing, I assure you that there was some applause from the back of the plane for the pilot and crew ! What an incredible job they did to bring that aircraft down safely... 👌👍🏆
I'm amazed that two similar incidents could happen twice. BA5390 was slightly different, caused by the wrong bolts in the windscreen, but it's amazing that "put shoulder harness on" wasn't added after that incident
a similar incident happened on a British Airways BAC-111 where the pilot's front windscreen glass blew out warning that sucked out more than half of the captain's body . . . but the cabin crew managed to hold onto his legs somehow until the first officer was able to do an emergency landing at a nearby airport . . . the captain survived with injuries & went onto fly for British Airways for many more years before retiring . . .
Are you blind or something? The plane landed in one piece- why do you expect everyone to be dead? I mean, if you meant the first officer, then thats understandable. But if you mean everyone, then... Idk if you could see or hear properly
No, I never heard of this incident. It couldn’t have happened in a worse place than the highest mountain ranges on earth! Captain: Quickly, let’s get this plane down to 14,000 feet. FO: Not unless you want to slam into somebody‘s base camp! Amazing airmanship, and very lucky flight crew. They could have been hit by so many things at such velocity that could have killed them. The oxygen concentration at 24,000 feet is 8.4 percent. You can survive that for a short time, but your thinking ability would be very impaired. When you combine that with everything else that was going on at the same time…. Unimaginable how well this ended! I’m just an occasional airline passenger, not air industry connected. I appreciate these videos so much! I’ve learned quite a bit because I’ve been watching these videos: I always pay attention to the flight crew safety demonstration, I count the rows of seats to the nearest exits, I stay buckled in. Should there be an emergency evacuation I will physically yank and scream at any passenger near me who is trying to retrieve their luggage.
The oxygen concentration at 24000 feet altitude is 20.9 percent, same as sea level. It´s the barometric pressure that decreases with altitude, not the composition of the atmosphere. At 24,000 feet, said barometric pressure (and therefore the oxygen pressure) is one third that of sea level.
Yo, I remember hearing the radio chatter of this incident on VASAviation. It's chilling to hear the extreme rushing of air in the cockpit over the radio. The fact that the captain could stay awake for so long at such a high altitude is crazy. What a baller.
This is the first time I've heard of this event. The fact that both pilots were able to remain consciousness is beyond amazing. The one thing that may influenced this is if they flew into Lhasa, Tibet, at over 10,000 feet?- often enough, remaining over, their bodies may have developed more read blood cells to compensate.
No, i'de never heard of this near tragedy. There was a similar incident with an American carrier in the '70s. The pilot was partially sucked from the cockpit and couldn't be brought back inside until they landed. i was surprised you didn't mention it! 🖖
A very similar thing happened to a BAC-111, except that windscreen blew with no warning at all and the captain spent the remainder of the flight hanging half-out of the cockpit. He survived, BTW, and resumed his flying career when he had recovered enough.
What surprises me the most is how the first officer's back or neck didn't immediately snap from being stucked outside the window. They got extremely lucky.. or unlucky if you'd consider that.
Wow, what a crazy situation to be confronted with! Glad everyone was ok. I've never heard of this incident. And great report as always! Question: have you ever experienced any emergencies yourself?
I had never heard of this story. In fact, when I saw the first part of the title, I assumed that it was the story of the British pilot whose window had come off and flown completely away before he was sucked out and spent the rest of the flight being held to the plane by his feet. Good thing the FO in this story had made proper use of his seatbelt prior to the incident. I wonder if the crew was aware of the incident with the British pilot. I would imagine they weren't aware of it or else they probably would have immediately put their shoulder harnesses on when the wind screen started cracking. That was the first thing that came to my mind at that part of the story but, then again, I am sitting in front of a screen that, should it crack, the only tragedy would be a broken computer at a time when I can't afford another one. It might make an entertaining science fiction novel if the breaking of the computer screen sucked one into the internet though.
Different trigger to the event, but almost identical outcome. Wasn't that one a case of the maintenance staff grabbing screws that were not the correct size to secure a flight deck windshield?
In the late seventys my brother was in charge of servicing Danair planes they had a problem with shattering wind screens they found the adhesive on the masking tape that the new screens was wrapped up in was the cause of the problem
Some time ago a Concord lost a part of it tail rudder while flying between Christchurch and Sydney. I believe it was attempting a round the world passenger flight speed record. I believe it was flying well above Mark 1 when it happened and that it continued and landed safely in Sydney. An in-depth review of this incident would be interesting to watch.
As soon as the crack appeared I would have put that seat belt harness on. I remember the British pilot that got sucked out the window all but his legs! 😫
I just saw the Germanwings video and wonder whether the pilot could have used decompression to either distract the rouge FO and enter the emergency pin or even blow the door open with that safety feature as shown
It’s possible as the door would unlatch but you’d to open a door which isn’t going to be easy and if you’re depressing the cabin, the pressure is working to pull the door closed since it open into the cockpit.
I love your videos and I was wondering if you could turn down the intro volume a little? Personally I find it a little loud compared to the rest of the video
Great video! But two thing need to correction, the first was after landing the aircraft was tun to the taxiway E8, not stop on the runway canterline, the second was the NO.3 and NO.4 tire didn't burst, it deflation because of to many engry on the brake so the temperature was too high.
@@AirspaceVideos when the temperature is -40 degrees. Temp (Deg C) = ((Deg F) - 32) * 5/9) = (-40 - 32) *.55555 = -72 * 0.555555 = -40 Deg C (to 5 decimal places) Great video. So sorry it took me so long to discover it.
I have a video, recorded by the F/O, of the window arcing and cracking over a period of time. The obvious action would have been to switch window heat off and open the 115VAC power supply circuit breakers instead of recording the event. Fortunately, everyone survived.
There is something wrong with this story. I used to work as a glasscutter, and that windshield would definitely have been laminated, not tempered glass as the story suggests. Tempered glass explodes like that, which is why it isn't even used in cars, let alone jet aircraft. Something may have happened, but not as described.
The FO WAS NOT SUCKED OUT!! He was blown out of the cockpit. Try to educate the public about pressurization. In the case of rapid 'D,' the high pressure BLOWS towards the low pressure....and, if your are the poor FO who is blown out of his seat in this case, it really sucks.
Oh wow. Thanks for creating this vid, cuz I’ve been fascinated by this incident after I watched a movie based on this incident ( btw clips of that movie is used in this vid)
Good presentation. Just think if Airbus gets approved for single pilot operations during cruise this would have resulted in a crash killing all aboard the plane. I personally like two pilots in the cockpit just in case the autopilot disengages during an emergency.
Captain Liu was actually an experienced former bomber pilot in PLA and pilot coach. Also he had above 100 times on this airline so he could find the way back without dial's help. He is just a hero and heavily awarded after the accident.
The guy is a legend nerves of steel.
I’m glad he got recognition. He did an amazing job.
YIKES. And to have this happen over a mountain range, to boot. These pilots were extraordinarily lucky, despite being extraordinarily unlucky...
What a succinct and clear way to express what happened. Agree entirely.
No, they were extraordinarily skilled and professional.
@@Bravo-Too-Much pretty sure that nobody is denying that. People can be skilled and professional, yet they fall victim to a crash. Always take the win when luck comes your way.
luck is not real and the pilots saved themselves
@@Bravo-Too-Much
I trust science & experts say they rely on autopilot.
Had never heard of this one. Truly amazing airmanship by the captain and one really fortunate first officer. All this caused by a simple leaky seal seems so unthinkable. Given a similar story from a British Airlines flight where the captain was the one who got sucked out and was held in by cabin crew, you would think that first directive to secure the harnesses upon seeing a windshield crack would have already been in place. Glad to learn it is now. Thank you for another interesting report on how things happened and what was learned. Enjoy your channel very much and look forward to seeing your next video.
Indeed, a very interesting case I think. Thanks for your comment!
@@AirspaceVideos Err, captain, it's time to end your EVA !
The pilots should always be strapped in in my opinion.
What a story... I find it truely amazing that the captain was able to maintain consciousness control the aircraft throughout this whole ordeal!
Chinese guys must be more acclimated to sub-zero temperatures compared to Western men. Hope we don’t have to fight them in the snow.
Never heard about this one. I thought it was going to the similar British accident. Again no one died, but the
captain spent the rest of the flight outside! The senior cabin crew member held on to the captains legs. Nice
endings are more than nice. The British Captain and FO get together for a cup of tea regularly :) I loved the photo
of the Chinese FOs shirt. Yikes!
Yeah, i thought the same as you man
... imagine if they would have just let go thinking l, as they actually did, that he was simply dead =/
I too hadn't heard of this one, but had watched a video about that British accident. Do pilots get a uniform allowance? As Christina T said in her comment, the pilots were both lucky and unlucky. I wonder if there is a redesign so that the oxygen mask can be reached by either hand.
@@bikeny Hi Stephen. My understanding is that pilots uniform cost typically gets charged against their paycheck. Don't know if there's an allowance, but it would make sense. Either hand for oxygen should be a must. You need it when you're in trouble. And of course, you're flight crew. Everyone else is in trouble too.
If you wanna hear the radio chatter from this incident VASAviation has the audio along with a flight path recording on their channel. iirc, it was released less than a week after the incident itself.
@@roderickcampbell2105 that's why Boeing did it right with flight yoke , any hand could be on the yoke .
When I first went up the cockpit of an Airbus , my first question was , hey I'm a right handed , that means I would have to relearn flying with my left hand if I'm made captain 🤣
Binged everything. Great channel man keep her going!
thank you!
I'm dumbfounded that the captain just shrugged off cerebral hypoxia. What an absolute unit, it takes under a minute for most people to become fully incapacitated, he's a superhuman
Did you not read the comment the pressure may have been higher due to inrush of air due to flight.
@@millomweb That's not really how it works son. Run an oil heater on a cold, windy day with a gust blowing at you, and open a window. The room stays warm for a fair while. Why? Hot, dense air will always have dramatically more pressure than cold, sparse air by nature. The inrush of air has velocity, not pressure
@@millomweb On top of that, an A319 is much larger than any room in your house, it's about the size and volume of a moderate two bedroom house. Run this experiment again but open every door leading to that room in the house while the air is hot and dense. Same thing applies
@@jackeldridge1319 Hot air is less dense than cold ! That's why hot air rises !
@@millomweb If it's under pressure, it's denser. The air in the cabin is also denser than the outside air because the air is thin, hence why we can't breathe it. You're really dumb for a pedant, you know that?
I honestly thought it was going to be about the British incident because I only read the thumbnail. I’ve never heard of this incident and it’s honestly surprising because the pilots are true heroes!
What a superb performance by that young pilot. I am more impressed than I can say.
Congratulations to that man.
Everyone on the plane was very lucky to have you in control, Sir.
Best wishes from UK.
Pilot : Ok I see window cracks forming. What should I do.
PUT ... seat-belt ... ON!
A similar incident happened in the 1990's in Great Britain. In that case, the Captain was sacked out. In that case, the windscreen was replaced, held in by the wrong screws. Everyone survived in the British incident.
This flight crew deserve medal, raises and a vacation.
The pilot is a true Hero!!!
Great video
In short; buckle the shoulder straps and seat belt when your windshield is cracking
If I was a pilot i would keep both straps fastened the entire duration of the flight
trust me, that gets unconfortable
@@mduduzisibanda7840 Yeah, they ain't the most comfortable things to wear... No pilot is gonna willingly wear those shoulder straps for 3+ hours straight.
@@mduduzisibanda7840 put it this way , when you butt and back is stuck with some sheepskin . After an hour it gets real hot .
Maybe it's just me, but if I'm that FO and my windshield starts cracking randomly the very first thing I do is put my shoulder straps on, I've seen what happened on British Airways 5390
Taking the fun out of everything :-)
This was my very first thought too. The harness would might have kept him in place.
I read a news article that quoted the captain as saying they didn't see any signs that the windshield was going to shatter. It just did and fortunately, the co pilot was wearing his seat belt, although not his shoulder harness.
Who was the Columbia Airlines FO in Airport 1975?
Same! And ALL immediately don Oxygen masks as a preventative measure and look, they needed it anyway a second later. I am a former FA and these just seem logical. I am sure many airlines have that as SOP after the similar BA incident many years before.
Thanks again Airspace !
l hadn't heard of this, glad everyone survived !
Underrated channel 🔥
New addendum to check list : If windshield cracks appear, put on parachute.
Just kidding . . . Thanks for the great upload. Amazing recovery and airmanship.
Which would have more force in a rapid depression from a cockpit window. The exiting pressure, or the amount of force the oncoming wind would. I don’t see how the poor guy even remained conscious. Given the air being sucked out of you that fast, and -40 degree wind hitting your face at 500 mph. Granted the depressurization helped offset that but still, very interesting. This is where pressure difference and the outside airstream meet head-on. Literally
I like that your show doesn’t have screaming people
i like your vids keep up the good work :)
Interesting video! This reminded me of British Airways 5390 where a cockpit window also broke, having been installed almost entirely with bolts that were too small (84 out of 90 bolts were undersized).
British Airways had a similar glare shield blowout. The captain was sucked all the way out with just his legs inside the cockpit. The steward and another pilot had to hold his legs all the way down to a runway. The 1st officer flew the plane and operated all the procedures including radios and emergency checklist and mayday calls and landed the plane. The captain survived. That 1st officer is my hero......
I spent most of the video thinking you had hired actors to better illustrate what happened.
Great vid! :)
As always, amazing video! Keep it up!
Thanks for the great work and videos man! Keep it up! 🤘🇨🇦
That’s 2 mishaps in a row I hadn’t heard about - I’m going to look at your list of videos more closely! At first I thought this was the story of the Captain who was ejected from the cockpit, after maintenance failed to use the correct screws to attach a new windscreen. But this is a well known accident and I couldn’t think you’d say nobody would have heard of it. This channel is created by someone knowledgeable, narrated well and deserves to succeed.
Wow.. Quiet an experience 😬
Great video as always :)
Well, that certainly isn't how you want your day to go. FO had surprisingly few injuries, lucky guy. glad they made it down safely.
Airbus really should add a small shock absorber to the cockpit door that will not allow the door to just fly open and damage the circuit breaker panel like that. Or if that's not possible at least a door stop that the door can slam into instead of the electrical panel.
I mean. That seems like a really simple. Easy. Inexpensive fix.
Ah. Nevermind. I see why it's not done.
the door was never an issue until we learned from the muslims that those doors must be very heavy. No blowout panel in the door allowed thanks to a snack bar owner named allha
@@dave8599 casual racism won't get you anywhere in life buddy.
Idk about others but if i saw the windscreen starting to crack in front of me the first thing i would do before anything else is put on my seat harness.
Ya gotta add the detail that the second captain was resting in first class when this happend, but he decided to enter cockpit in concern if the flying captain was incapacity due to low oxygen, taking on the risk of being sucked out through the window leaving his seat. Then the crew couldn't vocal communicate so all of them used hand signs, the second captain took a crucial role of taking over communications to ATC while the captain can remain focusing on flying the aircraft. The real moving part for me is that during this whole time the second captain was hand signing OK to his captain and the F/O to calm them and he used his hand to friction the captain's body to generate heat because it was too cold.
discord/notification squad where you at?
Great vid as always, I wanted to ask at the beginning why the door opened up especially since you mentioned the 9/11 thing in another vid, thought maybe the changes in policy didn't reach china yet? or maybe it was an older aircraft? but you still answered that question at the end of it :D
Also thanks for the movie recommendation, I'll give it a try ;)
I heard about it. cause when it happened to a british pilot, and someone said "it's not the only time a pilot was sucked out of an airplane" I just *had* to find the other time.
I wonder if the fact that it was a front window that broke helped to keep the plane partially pressurised. I imagine that it might have a sort of ram-air effect as the plane speeds through the oncoming air, and that's why the captain stayed conscious and alert, even though he couldn't fit his oxygen mask.
interesting thought.
Good guess
Yes, according to the report, the time of the cockpit pressure over 25000ft is 1min15s, after that the air pressure altitude was descend.
@@AirspaceVideos The bizarre thing then is why was the FO in an icy blast - once the pressures had equalised, incoming air=outgoing air.
I think it's bizarre Airbus decided to have the cockpit door open. Isolation would have been the better option - less air blowing the FO out AND keeping the pax pressurised. OR in a cabin pressure fail, cockpit would stay pressurised. Win-win surely ?
And don't call me Shirley ;)
That would require an airlock door, not a 2cm honeycomb sandwich with some kevlar...
When that plane came to a stop after landing, I assure you that there was some applause from the back of the plane for the pilot and crew ! What an incredible job they did to bring that aircraft down safely... 👌👍🏆
I'm amazed that two similar incidents could happen twice. BA5390 was slightly different, caused by the wrong bolts in the windscreen, but it's amazing that "put shoulder harness on" wasn't added after that incident
This is an amazing story. I can’t believe I haven’t seen any other videos on this one.
a similar incident happened on a British Airways BAC-111 where the pilot's front windscreen glass blew out warning that sucked out more than half of the captain's body . . . but the cabin crew managed to hold onto his legs somehow until the first officer was able to do an emergency landing at a nearby airport . . . the captain survived with injuries & went onto fly for British Airways for many more years before retiring . . .
Excellent investigation by techs and engineers to detail out causes and consequences of accidents. Well done video. Thank you!
how everyone survived is a miracle
Are you blind or something? The plane landed in one piece- why do you expect everyone to be dead?
I mean, if you meant the first officer, then thats understandable. But if you mean everyone, then...
Idk if you could see or hear properly
No, I never heard of this incident. It couldn’t have happened in a worse place than the highest mountain ranges on earth!
Captain: Quickly, let’s get this plane down to 14,000 feet. FO: Not unless you want to slam into somebody‘s base camp!
Amazing airmanship, and very lucky flight crew. They could have been hit by so many things at such velocity that could have killed them.
The oxygen concentration at 24,000 feet is 8.4 percent. You can survive that for a short time, but your thinking ability would be very impaired. When you combine that with everything else that was going on at the same time…. Unimaginable how well this ended!
I’m just an occasional airline passenger, not air industry connected. I appreciate these videos so much! I’ve learned quite a bit because I’ve been watching these videos: I always pay attention to the flight crew safety demonstration, I count the rows of seats to the nearest exits, I stay buckled in. Should there be an emergency evacuation I will physically yank and scream at any passenger near me who is trying to retrieve their luggage.
"They could have been hit by so many things at such velocity that could have killed them" - not many birds at that altitude, thankfully !
@@millomweb there’s that! I’m thinking more of stuff in the airplane that got airborne and took a detour into the pilots’ heads!
@@californiahiker9616 The FO was ok, he had his head outside in painful safety. ;)
Just FYI China uses Meters instead of Feet in Aviation
The oxygen concentration at 24000 feet altitude is 20.9 percent, same as sea level. It´s the barometric pressure that decreases with altitude, not the composition of the atmosphere. At 24,000 feet, said barometric pressure (and therefore the oxygen pressure) is one third that of sea level.
Yo, I remember hearing the radio chatter of this incident on VASAviation. It's chilling to hear the extreme rushing of air in the cockpit over the radio. The fact that the captain could stay awake for so long at such a high altitude is crazy. What a baller.
With ALL the things that could go wrong, it never ceases to amaze me that planes fly AT all.
This is the first time I've heard of this event. The fact that both pilots were able to remain consciousness is beyond amazing. The one thing that may influenced this is if they flew into Lhasa, Tibet, at over 10,000 feet?- often enough, remaining over, their bodies may have developed more read blood cells to compensate.
No, i'de never heard of this near tragedy. There was a similar incident with an American carrier in the '70s. The pilot was partially sucked from the cockpit and couldn't be brought back inside until they landed. i was surprised you didn't mention it! 🖖
True, that case was similar!
A very similar thing happened to a BAC-111, except that windscreen blew with no warning at all and the captain spent the remainder of the flight hanging half-out of the cockpit.
He survived, BTW, and resumed his flying career when he had recovered enough.
great story, I have an (old) video on that, too!
What surprises me the most is how the first officer's back or neck didn't immediately snap from being stucked outside the window. They got extremely lucky.. or unlucky if you'd consider that.
No I've never heard of it but I am very happy every one were safe, great piloting by the piolets ❤️👍👍
Wow, what a crazy situation to be confronted with! Glad everyone was ok. I've never heard of this incident. And great report as always!
Question: have you ever experienced any emergencies yourself?
Thank you!
I have not, no (whew!)
Amazing airmanship in getting that plane back on the ground.
Hey captain whatcha doing? Just hanging out.
I have never heard of this incident. But the actions of the flight crew were heroic.
I had never heard of this story. In fact, when I saw the first part of the title, I assumed that it was the story of the British pilot whose window had come off and flown completely away before he was sucked out and spent the rest of the flight being held to the plane by his feet. Good thing the FO in this story had made proper use of his seatbelt prior to the incident. I wonder if the crew was aware of the incident with the British pilot. I would imagine they weren't aware of it or else they probably would have immediately put their shoulder harnesses on when the wind screen started cracking. That was the first thing that came to my mind at that part of the story but, then again, I am sitting in front of a screen that, should it crack, the only tragedy would be a broken computer at a time when I can't afford another one. It might make an entertaining science fiction novel if the breaking of the computer screen sucked one into the internet though.
This also happened to British airways 5309
thats right
Different trigger to the event, but almost identical outcome. Wasn't that one a case of the maintenance staff grabbing screws that were not the correct size to secure a flight deck windshield?
@@commerce-usa yes thats right
@@subtolotox yeah, that one was also a remarkable story. It really is all about paying attention to the simple things.
There are cracks on my windshield. Oh, let's not put on any shoulder straps.
In the late seventys my brother was in charge of servicing Danair planes they had a problem with shattering wind screens they found the adhesive on the masking tape that the new screens was wrapped up in was the cause of the problem
that must have been difficult to figure out
Some time ago a Concord lost a part of it tail rudder while flying between Christchurch and Sydney. I believe it was attempting a round the world passenger flight speed record. I believe it was flying well above Mark 1 when it happened and that it continued and landed safely in Sydney.
An in-depth review of this incident would be interesting to watch.
'Mark 1', you mean Mach 1?
As soon as the crack appeared I would have put that seat belt harness on. I remember the British pilot that got sucked out the window all but his legs! 😫
Will you make a video about Aeroflot 593 crash in the future? I was wondering about your flying knowlege and thoughts about the incident.
I have it on my list, yes!
I just saw the Germanwings video and wonder whether the pilot could have used decompression to either distract the rouge FO and enter the emergency pin or even blow the door open with that safety feature as shown
It’s possible as the door would unlatch but you’d to open a door which isn’t going to be easy and if you’re depressing the cabin, the pressure is working to pull the door closed since it open into the cockpit.
I had heard of this one, but not that the captain had no supplementary oxygen. That is nuts.
Never heard about this incident before. Something very similar happened in England a long long time ago.
I love your videos and I was wondering if you could turn down the intro volume a little? Personally I find it a little loud compared to the rest of the video
thanks for the suggestion, I will!
Never heard about this one. Only the BA one many years ago.
I remember reading that there was a similar British Airways incident
Man this incident is very similar to British Airways Flight 5390 kinda except in that one the captain fainted
I already heard this before
Great video! But two thing need to correction, the first was after landing the aircraft was tun to the taxiway E8, not stop on the runway canterline, the second was the NO.3 and NO.4 tire didn't burst, it deflation because of to many engry on the brake so the temperature was too high.
As Data would say: Correction Sir, that’s „blown out“.
Correct! Because: Science never sucks.
So what you're saying is that Fahrenheit and Celsius are basically interchangeable
absolutely... well at -40° at least...
@@AirspaceVideos when the temperature is -40 degrees.
Temp (Deg C) = ((Deg F) - 32) * 5/9)
= (-40 - 32) *.55555
= -72 * 0.555555 = -40 Deg C (to 5 decimal places)
Great video. So sorry it took me so long to discover it.
Those pilots are bad ass! I may need to check that movie out.
I'd heard of British Airways Flight 5390 - the pilot's windscreen failed - but not this one.
This is like some crazy Fan fiction.
Haha cockpit go brrrrrrrrrrrr(voice fades away saying brrrrrrrr while i fly
I have a video, recorded by the F/O, of the window arcing and cracking over a period of time. The obvious action would have been to switch window heat off and open the 115VAC power supply circuit breakers instead of recording the event. Fortunately, everyone survived.
There is something wrong with this story. I used to work as a glasscutter, and that windshield would definitely have been laminated, not tempered glass as the story suggests. Tempered glass explodes like that, which is why it isn't even used in cars, let alone jet aircraft. Something may have happened, but not as described.
Never heard about this one before
How about shock proofing the breakers airbus?
How about a Piracicaba King Air PS-CSM Crash - 15 seconds after take-off Into Crashed???
If your windows are shattering maybe you should buckle up.
Hello airspace
hello yasser
Never heard about this one, I heard about the one with British Airways.
oh this 3 years old incident I remember
ive actually heard of this one
Is it just me or has the title of this changed about 7 times??
Movie name: The Captain (2019)
Or 《中国机长》
Obviously based on real life event on may 2018
Please can you make an episode about this accident (aeroflot flight 593 crash). thank you.
What do you bet
Look at the British Airways flight were the pilot was sucked out the cockpit and the co pilot had to land the plane.
The sucked out guys face was messed up, it was pixalated all over.
Design defect, manufacturing defect, or maintenance defect?
I just wat6ched the movie. So in the true story there wasn't any storm on the path of the plane after the incident with the window ?
not at all 🙃
Well, the bet in the title, u lost it. I knew about it through a movie made about it. Its on Amazon prime
The FO WAS NOT SUCKED OUT!! He was blown out of the cockpit. Try to educate the public about pressurization. In the case of rapid 'D,' the high pressure BLOWS towards the low pressure....and, if your are the poor FO who is blown out of his seat in this case, it really sucks.
yes, they just re-made British Airways 5390
We need to put bars over the windows.
This is why I always keep my seat belt on. Regardless!
The same as the B.A. BAC 1-11 over 35 years ago.
Oh wow. Thanks for creating this vid, cuz I’ve been fascinated by this incident after I watched a movie based on this incident ( btw clips of that movie is used in this vid)
What movie?
@@booya2002 “the captain” it’s in Chinese but it has English subtitles
Good presentation. Just think if Airbus gets approved for single pilot operations during cruise this would have resulted in a crash killing all aboard the plane. I personally like two pilots in the cockpit just in case the autopilot disengages during an emergency.
Oh yes, me too. I think the single pilot cockpit is a terrible idea... at least for the close to medium future