59 Seconds of Chaos! The harrowing story of FlyDubai 981

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I feel so bad for the First Officer. Sounds like he really tried and knew what he was doing the entire time.

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The fact that this accident could have almost been avoided is so heart breaking. I can't even begin to imagine the fear everyone was facing onboard that plane. R.I.P

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The copilot was a friend of my brother and I from years before the tragedy. We knew him quite well from those years. He was smart, and thorough. I investigated all that I could of how and what happened, and I saw he tried to save this situation as much as possible, but the captain was tremendously confused and deep in tunnel vision to back off his decisions and start trusting instruments in time. Very very sad. RIP Alex

I live in Rostov-on-Don and this tragedy really shocked all of us. And unfortunately someone I know were affected and lost the members of their families. I’ve read a lot of investigations and different articles about this catastrophe, but only here and now I really understood what happened. Thank you for this video and explanation. And may all the crash victims rest in peace 🙏

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Wow, you have to feel sorry for the first officer - did pretty much everything right. Shows just how quickly things can go from routine to unrecoverable. Spatial disorientation can happen to anyone but it's surprising that it happened in such a modern airliner with so much extra instrumentation and a HUD, which you would have thought would have provided some visual references. I have to say I agree that being 4am had alot to do with this especially after being essentially bored for 2 hours and then suddenly being asked to perform (again) a high stress rarely practised manouvere. RIP to all involved.

Unlike most of your covered incidents, this seemed much less a Swiss cheese model and much more a tragic plethora of challenges and confusion happening all at once. So sad, since the crew had been so professional and cautious.

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Oh wow... throughout almost the entire video, right up until you told us that the GPWS warnings were too late, I had been thinking that this was going to be one of those "near miss" incidents, where they went through some terrifying loss of control, but were able to pull through in the end. I hadn't ever heard of this accident before, and figured that if it had ended in a fatal crash, I'd have known about it already. That ending was such a gut punch. Just shows how quickly things can change in the cockpit.

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