The Worst Crash That Never Happened

She told AA to hold position just as AA was crossing the f...n runway.

And now they hiring people just for a sake of diversity.... We are going to see a lot more content on this channel in 2024. Pilots gonna identify themself as immortal and send it to full runways. This world is fcked.

Booty-didged should not be the transportation minister…

weducing noiwse powution 🤓

When they AC jet called the tower for confirmation the runway was clear, they controller could have simply mentioned that the lights were off on the other runway and the runway they were to land on was the only one lit up.

Did anyone else recognize the unus annus music?

It happened

that's poor piloting and I promise a taxi way looks nothing like a runway at night.

Actually, the runway closure would’ve been in plain sight on the ATIS

So many obvious problems which aren't fixed

In the first incident; never turn off the ground lights of the other landing strip again

Damn that was so dodgy 😬😬😬

I'm impressed by the quality of this video. amazing

Pilots have a very ! severe incident that they WERE aware of and did NOT SAVE the audio (they have to do sth after the landing, pull a lever, or it will be written over with the next flight). There is enough space on the recording device - so the talk AFTER the successful landing would not have cleared the recording, there is more space on it.

It was not only "we forgot about the voice recorder, we were in shock", because the protocoll should kick in at least by one of them. After all they WERE in safety. And of course they knew there would be an investigation.

It was intentional to obfuscate. They knew they had messed up, and it could have been catastrophic. Nor sure maybe what they had done wrong, but they did not want to know, it was a Save-my-ass move. (if they were tired, and it was confirmation bias - then they are not irredeemable. Howerver, there was time to read the NOTAMS. All of it. Even if it is boring and there are several pages).

That intentional action to not secure the recording - not their mistakes - should be reason for terminating them and maybe even putting their licences in jepoardy.

In this case they MUST have noted their mistake, they must have seen the other airplanes (at least the one that illuminated in the last seconds) - almost too late.


On the Captains inner clock it was around 2 or 3 am and he had been awake for 19 hours (and only got 5 hours of sleep before). The First officer had been awake for 12 hours (and also it was 2 - 3 am on his inner clock).

I would think during the flight they have enough time to read the NOTAMS, even if they are several pages long. And even if they are boring.

It somewhat similarly happened this year in the form of JAL516, landing on a dash-8

The fact that NOTAMs are still cryptic gibberish in 2024 is so frustrating, and infuriating when it almost leads to the death of 1,000 people.

The feb 4 close call just wholly pissed me off

The music used on the video is wild

Do they ever tell the passengers who were in the planes about these near misses?

One thing I will say as a pilot who has been flying for over 25 years is that the competence and professionalism of air traffic controllers has deteriorated a lot in the last 4 years. This is partly due to a lot of experienced older controllers retiring, and partially due to the degradation of ATC training due to FAA budget cuts.

In particular, controllers used to ride along in the cockpit every so often to see what kind of workload and distractions the pilots are dealing with, and also to see what airplanes can or cannot actually do. This training is no longer provided, and some of the newer controllers may have never even been in a cockpit at all.

I've also noticed that some newer controllers react extremely negatively, to the point of being quite unprofessional, if we inform them that it is not possible/safe for our aircraft to comply with their instructions, especially if those instructions are given at the last moment/too late.

I feel that the program of having controllers ride along on airline flights needs to be reinstated, and that controllers should be required to hold at minimum a private pilot certificate with instrument rating. More opportunities for us pilots to tour control towers would be good as well.

If we continue on the current path, there will be major air disaster, and probably sooner than later...

Dose this remind you of something

Great video and visuals. Earned my sub. And it's amazing these things don't happen more often

reminds me of narita this new year

you should talk to a speech therapist man

Considering there can happen anything that makes a takeoff impossible in a set time frame, rules allowing a plane to use the same runway when there’s another one about to land, 3,5 miles away, is incredibly stupid.

"But due to maintence, 28L was closed."
Asiana 214...

How are there 18 meters in 7 feet?

Contrails disrupt local weather patterns that disrupt global weather simulating global warming.
Your Welcome!!

“Where’s this guy going?”

A perfect disaster; No one gets hurt or killed or completely disappears, but they still get to learn and make improvements from it.

He could have landed on the taxi way if he landed in the same area of the touchdown zone of the other runway

The thumbnail immediately let my brain go:
"Two bros (/planes)
chilling in a hot tub (/mess)
five feet apart, because they're not g@y"


I am sorry!

Lights in the run way is very important ❤

Lights in the run way is very important ❤

the place from gta?

"DUDE YOU ALMOST KILLED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND CAUSED A HUGE ACCIDENT!" "oh shit mb"

Wow, this deep dive is so in detail and interesting, I'm subscribing immediately.

A simple fix would be using red led light to indicate a closed runway

peope who can't distinguish runways lights from other lights shouldn't be flying planes.

those Aca better have lost their jobs after that

Why VFR at night time is even allowed while ILS system is operative?