NO ONE Was Ready for THIS! What Really Happened To Birgenair Flight 301

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  @tomstravels520 · 1 year ago

  Remember this. Blocked pitot tubes do not cause crashes, the pilots reaction and response to the loss of airspeed is what causes the crash

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  @AnotherPointOfView944 · 1 year ago

  I have seen this sort of thing numerous times in past aircraft crash reports.<br>One thing that stands out to me as an engineer (non-pilot) is that instruments that show faulty readings NEVER fix themselves. They just don&apos;t.<br>If there is a clear fault with one of the redundant systems, and acknowledged by the crew, then that system should NEVER be trusted again until it is serviced, regardless of whether it &quot;springs into life&quot; again. &nbsp; This fact should be drilled into all pilots.

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  @MrNicoJac · 1 year ago

  It is so sad to have reached the point as a Mentour Pilot fan where you just <i>know</i> halfway through the video how it&apos;s gonna end 😢

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  @outdatedTV · 1 year ago

  My friend and classmate died in this, along with her parents. She was only 16. They have a monument in Frankfurt and in Puerto Plata. I remember watching the &quot;Mayday Air Disaster&quot; episode and how it additionally focused on some captain-copilot cultural dependency caused by huge difference in seniority. Not sure. 170+ people are dead, many much prematurely, procedures were enhanced after this and Birkenair went bankrupt instantly. My heart is with all the families and friends of the victims.

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  @Mrmelody85 · 1 year ago

  I just can&apos;t understand how the captain could have believed the plane was truly in overspeed, given the nose up attitude &nbsp;and power settings. Surely with so much experience, one would immediately question the IAS on his side, especially after the anomaly immediately prior to takeoff?<br><br>Another fantastic video Petter, great job as always by you and the team!

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  @aaron6806 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Three pilots, two functioning airpeed indicators, and nobody looked at the artificial horizon? Never noticed the nose-up attitude? This is infuriating, and terrifying.

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  @sprogg2001 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Hi Peter this story really resonates with me I was onboard a ATR42 that slammed on the brakes in an aborted takeoff approaching V1 during take off when the co-pilot read zero airspeed. After we taxied back to airport, &nbsp;engineers where called in and we watched the aircraft thunder up and down the runway in tests... Eventually engineer arrived and the fault turned out to be a mud wasp nest blocking the pitot tubes

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  @corpuscollossus · 1 year ago

  Easy to see the fault in retrospect, but that they mentioned that the third instrument was correct then ignored that insight, seems an unacceptable level of incompetence.

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  @jimrockford2335 · 1 year ago

  I could never be a pilot because I would panic and freeze up in a situation like this. You’re a different breed, I have huge respect for all you professional pilots.

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  @Trentster1123 · 1 year ago

  This channel is so much better than Mayday: Air Disasters. What a difference a real pilot telling the story makes.

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  @sdaniels7114 · 1 year ago

  Wow, a 25k experience level pilot didn&apos;t feel a stall coming. That&apos;s hard to process.

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  @cccherry05 · 1 year ago

  Nothing traumatizes me more than the accidents where &quot;pitot probe tubes&quot; and &quot;jackscrew assemblies&quot; have to be explained by Petter int he first half.

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