DEADLY Attitude! The Truly Shocking story of Pakistan Airlines 8303

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Bossy and overbearing with below average intelligence is a terrible combo.

"Negative sir, we are comfortable we can make it. Inshallah" - As an Arab speaker with no prior knowledge of this particular incident, the second he said Inshallah, I knew that this flight was doomed. Inshallah literally means "if god wills it" and is something you never want to hear, especially from a cockpit in in the context of the pilots of PiA8303. It can be be used as a courtesy, but in in this context it is essentially a "jesus take the wheel" moment. In a cockpit there is no "inshallah" unless you have lost all engines and all controls.

Shoutout to every pilot that got me where I needed to go still alive.

It is insane how safe planes are. The sheer amount of incompetence and bad luck it takes to damage one, and the sheer amount of damage it takes to break one, makes it seem insane that anyone manages to do it - and yet some people take that as a challenge!

"He (the ATC) will be surprised at what we have done." - Captain of PIA flight 8303 (Before surprising whole world including themselves)

Im from Karachi where this crash happened. It was so tragic. This was the second major crash in Pakistan in recent years and both of them happened because of the Captain's arrogance. Unfortunately corruption runs very deep in our country and that's one of the reasons why people are where they shouldn't be at all.

As a retired B777/787 TRI & TRE, this presentation leaves me speechless. If someone would have told me this story, with all the details (without me hearing it from the news when it actually happened), I would just have praised that persons wild and vivid imagination. This was one of those accidents that should have never happened if the pilots would have had even the smallest and slightest amount of skills, professionalism and pride of what they were doing. Totally and utterly unforgiveable to everyone within this airline, who let these pilots in the cockpit and therefore allowed this to happen.

This basically explains my first Microsoft flight simulator approach

The fact that the pilots seemed to fully believe that as long as they managed to actually land they wouldn't be in trouble should be an indictment of the whole company

I mean, in the midst of the tragedy, the fact these guys could do every single thing wrong and still have multiple chances to land safe, even late in the situation, is pretty remarkable.

Kudos to the psychiatrist who had failed the capt in the beginning before he became a pilot and capt. Ignoring the doctors advice had proven to be disastrous in this case. RIP.

As a resident of Karachi, reliving that horrible memory, now with full details, I cannot begin to comprehend how idiotic the pilots acted. I always thought it was something that happened all of a sudden, but now I can see that this was almost as if Sajjad Gul wanted to commit suicide and take as many lives with him as possible. He didn't even crash into the sea. That arrogant, ignorant fool. Thanks @Mentour for the remarkably detailed explanation. It was very informative.

To me, that is one of the most horrifying incidents I can recall. There were so many opportunities to avoid it. That crew was consuming slices of Swiss cheese faster than they could be produced.

The sheer arrogance and incompetence of the captain is staggering. He is guilty of murdering the passengers and crew members who died at his hand.

If the goal was to ignore the most warnings possible in the least amount of time, this guy takes the cake.

My uncle, who is long deceased, used to fly a Cessna Skymaster because it had a redundant engine in-line. He observed every safety precaution to the letter, AND abided by every safety principle in spirit. He used to go all the way to the end of his home runway to take off, and by the time he passed the tower, he had already rotated and was usually about level with ATC. He and the controller had worked out a little routine. When my uncle passed the tower, the controller would deadpan, "Got enough runway, there, Cam?" And my uncle would reply, laconically, "Can't use runway you don't have." They engaged in this little routine every time he took off. He wasn't an especially humble person, but he was a very humble pilot.

"He will be impressed what we've done!" No my friend, the whole world will have a hard look at you and train everyone to not do what you did! Rest in peace all those who lost their lives! 😢

this story reminded me of that story where a religious guy is stuck on the roof of his house in a flood, and whenever someone tries to rescue him he goes "god will save me" until he drowns. Then he asks god why he didn't get saved and god says "I sent you two boats and a helicopter." The ATC here was the voice of god. And the pilot rejected every single life saving order he was being given. Such is the ego of man.

I'm not a pilot, and I totally lost count of the number of times I was shaking my head in disbelief through this video.