When Pilots treat the Aircraft Like a TOY! | Air Crash Investigation

Do you want to see Another INCIDENT where the Pilots were misbehaving? This one is really upsetting but with a better outcome 👉🏻 https://youtu.be/ifZyclQ5QCQ

As a non-pilot, my take-away from this video is this: My car's 140 mph speedometer doesn't mean that it's a good idea to try to drive my car at 140 mph.

"Professionalism means doing it the right way even when nobody is looking."

My first flight instructor regularly reminded my that FAA regulations are written in blood. The two most dangerous words in aviation are "Watch this".

I am a nurse, and I think your point at the end is so important. In my profession, there are so many times where nobody is watching, and I see nurses cut corners or do things against procedure. And just like here, tragic fatalities can result when people are being cavalier and not thinking about safety. I am not a pilot and never will be, but I love watching your videos because it always motivates me to act "like a pilot" in my job and be as safe as possible.

I think one reason why they may not have treated the situation more seriously initially is because they felt guilty for having caused this and were hoping to solve the issue quietly so they wouldn't have to pay such high consequences. Of course, eventually they paid the highest of all consequences.

The painful thing about this for me isn't really the actions that led to the engine failures - that was recoverable from - it's what came next. I suspect they felt embarrassed about what had happened, which led to them not being completely honest with ATC. Had they been more honest more quickly, they could have got out of this situation, but they weren't and it cost them their lives. It's tragic.

We use to have a saying in the US Navy. Integrity is doing the right thing all the time even when no one is looking.

I became a dispatcher for Pinnacle right after this crash. It was still very raw and fresh. We had to watch the recreation of the flight as filmed in a simulator. They really wanted to drive it home that this wasnt a joke.

The biggest thing to learn here, and I think this applies to any profession, is to be honest and transparent. The pilots were so worried about getting in trouble that they ended up getting themselves killed and endangering the lives of others. It always ends badly when you don’t own up to mistakes and start rectifying them

Oddly enough this incident demonstrates what makes aviation such a safe way to travel. It would have been so easy to write of this incident as a couple of knuckle heads goofing off and move on, but instead the investigators really dug deep into the causes and came away with some important lessons that could benefit the safety of all flights. I'm sure today just about every CRJ-200 pilot knows about core lock and how to prevent it because of this crash.

I was on a CRJ-900 once with only 5 passengers, including myself. It was rather creepy actually. None of the normal sounds of air travel, other than the engines. They were the only noise. No rustling of cloths, no talking, no kids, no coughing or sneezing, no creaking of seats, nothing from the galleys. Just the engines. It was very early in the morning too, so dark outside and the cabin crew had the lights off. Never experienced anything like it in over 100 flights.

When you explained what the "keeping the gear up" line meant I became very sad. And then the pilots' last words were concern and regret about likely hitting houses...I started tearing up. Then you said that there were no other injuries and I just started sobbing. I don't know why, but some mix of the pilots' final thoughts being concern for the lives of those they would likely hit and the revelation that somehow no one other than the pilots were harmed just completely broke me. This story, for whatever reason, has had the most emotional affect on me out of any of the videos I have watched from you.

I was an airline pilot for 23 years, a Captain for 10 years on the Airbus 330/340/350 and this is such a sobering and sad story since the loss of life was totally avoidable. I commend you on your clear presentation, enthralling for me as a pilot and yet easily understandable for laymen. I learned about core lock for the first time (as it was not applicable to my engine types). It's so true about maintaining SOPs at all times and I spent the whole video thinking, "They are really asking for trouble here." It's a terrible shame they didn't live to learn their lesson. My son wants to be a pilot and encourage him to watch more of your excellent videos which I have no doubt will help him to become a better, safer pilot. Thank you.

Remember: Getting fired is better than getting killed by your own mistakes.

I got tears in my eyes when you said the pilot said “don’t put down the landing gear.” They made horrible mistakes they sadly did not recover from. I feel sorry for their families.

It’s absolutely insane to think that if they had just done one incredibly simple thing when the initial stickshaker warning occurred the entire sequence of events that followed would have never occurred. Pitching the nose down would have increased speed and lift preventing a stall as well as cooled the engines enough to start spinning and start up and they could have carried on without incident and with a greater and healthier sense of respect for their aircraft and aviation as a whole.

Lesson learned: When you push the limits, some times the limits push back.

it's so sad to me because, while their actions were really unprofessional and should have NEVER happened, you can also see how much the pilots love aircraft and flying, and how passionate they were. RIP.

As a student pilot I understand that my piper warrior is a very very different aircraft to the type you talk about but still, seeing any other response to a high altitude stall being anything other than "nose down, gain speed" blows my mind. I get that the mind defaults to training in crisis, it's a shame the training that was defaulted to was not far back enough.