Air Crash Investigation - Flying Blind Part 3

[battwann88]

Could it be an UFO incident? They are known (allegedly) to cause instruments to go haywire.

[waddlerobloxxxx]

what the f*ck happened to the computer??

F*cking Windows 95??

[YanYan1337]

why dont they turn on their landing lights.....

[taylorover9000]

@YanYan1337 Or ALL of their lights?

[gflyer95]

I´m peruvian, so its sad to see this. :(

[eneity7]

The pilots were trained to follow instruments especially at night. The contradicting warnings telling them they are too fast and too slow led them to believe that nothing could be trusted. They relied on the tower providing altitude and alas that too was incorrect. They were truly flying blind and the only hope was the rescue plane finding them so they could follow it back to land but it came too late.

[luckypatrice2]

lol at emirates plane @ 1:34 they dont even fly to peru

[fdsajklj]

Raise the speedbreaks!!! :(:(:(

[fdsajklj]

220 kts groundspeed means it's not overspeed.

[andysoxd]

TOO LOW...TERRAIN!

[EagleHawk175]

i can't help noticing that the copliot seems to smile sometimes :/

[nial12345]

Pherhaps the landing lights could of helped the pilots to spot the see? Im not an oficial pilot but i think that they should of put on the landing lights in order to see the ground

[md65000]

I'm amazed that even in this modern age we have so many accidents occur at night that probably wouldn't have happened during the day (or at least would have been more survivable). Now I pretty much fly only during daytime and I sit way in the back - well unless I can get a free upgrade to 1st class.

[MsYumo]

This is a terrible incident, however, the NTSB guy's sound effects at 3:09 are pretty funny

[lyssaryan77]

This sucks. TH=he poor guy thinks he's helping them, but he's using their junk info. Bummer.

[WackoX1337]

There are lights underneath the airplane, why can't they see the reflection of the sea against the light?

[oke139]

Well i can state that, I , who hasnt got any experience flying planes, would have gone to cruise thrust and slow climb.

Seriously if you got engines at idle for about 1min and you got your speed brakes deployed, how the hell can you stay at 10,000feet with speeds climbing and dropping rapidly, by that info i would have trusted my logical thinking and do whats safest until i got time to think this one out.

[PurpleJade83]

@oke139 amen to that! u think it would be obvious!

[mechatengu]

why didnt the pilot JUST CLIMB. why risk it.

[netlord]

@mechatengu

They were 100% confused with all the alarms going off. It probably got to a point where they didn't know what alarm to trust.

But they should have known that you must trust the pull up warning.It's an accident after all, such a small thing like a plastic tape was the main culprit.

[StupidBlech]

is there an alarm that says the airplane is too high?

[loch70]

@StupidBlech No..becouse you cant fly to high..the plane will lose power and fall down. You will notice by the aircraft behavor.

[eatmoremonsters]

Pause at the real footage at 8:15. isn't that fella on the left a little bit young to be an emergency rescue crewman?

[ThePowerofThe0tak]

why aren't they able to climb back up after the initial impact?

[FLT111]

@ThePowerofThe0tak that what confused me at one stage aswell. Apprently it impacted and the left engine took in ocean water after this the plane climbed up 221 feet before plummeting down.

[iiiset]

[sigh] ok trained pilots... the stick shaker is physiological- it can't lie.

[oke139]

@iiiset I could be wrong but isnt the stick shaker attached to the computer?

[iiiset]

@oke139 No. The stick shaker works because air passing too slowly over the control surfaces literally shakes the controls. The airplane itself is designed so that happens at too-low airspeeds, no matter what the computers and instruments do. (The voice may well be connected to the computer, I don't know)

[AlucardPR]

The freaking stick was shaking! Is that not enough signal to know that they are stalling?

[amazedwhat]

I like this guys voice better then the other guy ....

[SidB8]

@amazedwhat

I actually like the other narrarator's voice because Its less scary to hear than this one.

[LOLMAN22]

@amazedwhat right on! He also narrates 48 hours on A&E

[961470]

You can see nothing

[961470]

it's night-_-

[Scott1821]

why dont they just look out the window

[dreampilot2]

@Scott1821 If you have ever been in the cockpit of a plane "airliner" at midnight over the ocean it's like turning off the lights in the room and cover your eyes with a blanket.

[GamertownUSA]

Always trust stick shaker.

[Laurynn1111]

LMFAO

MR. KILBERTUS

[sammy27slammerjammer]

ahaha my drama teacher is in this!

[AndyMcArren1356]

what? With a possible collision with a mountain or skyscraper? what the hell they are in the ocean!

[FLT111]

flight 603 was over land well close so they turned the plane around note NATGEO has cut off alot of scenes from this episodes because it was long you need to watch it on the DVD there are more scenes youy havent seen yet

[surfco]

Whoop Whoop! Pull up!

Too low terrain!

[EricGodClapton]

unreal..what a tragedy. intense experience.

[volks1234]

lights are located on the landing i think

[uchilledfrance]

I'm probably a bit naive here...but when you have a Ground Proximity Warning and you are actually so darn close to the ground or water, won't the plane's powerful lights be able to pick up something on the ground as a visual for the pilots?

I know it was night and dark but the water would have shone off the plane's lights, right?

[toakodan]

On question about that light thing... they don't need the light on unless they're taking off or landing.

[uchilledfrance]

Thanks for that. However, my point is this: When they were flying blind not knowing whether they were too low and when the ground proximity warning went off, wouldn't it have been a good idea to switch on the powerful take-off/landing lights at least to check if they were close to the ground/water? That could have helped!!

[contemporarymonk]

you are talking ab out landing lights, these are used for departure and arrival, located in different places on different aircrqaft. but once you are airborne then you normally turn them off at around 10,000 feet, or even lower. so in their case they would have been turned off (9,700ft)

you got other lights like beacon and navigation, but those are not visible to the pilots and they dont make that much of a reflection on water.