The Controls DONT WORK!! Airbus Computer Nightmare

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You can tell Petter is Swedish when he describes temperatures of -13°C as "a bit crispy".

When "Did you try turning it off and on again?" goes wrong.

On one hand: absolutely terrifying On the other hand: for the trainees it can only go up from here!

that safety pilot knew his stuff, trying his best to keep a cadet calm, the captain calm, and then taking control in a situation where the Captain had a bit of trouble reorienting himself. All crew did such a amazing job!

This is probably the most insane and mind blowing save of an aircraft I've ever heard about. All the time I was anticipating the crash, but it thankfully never happened. I can't imagine the feeling everyone on board got when they landed safely. Massive props to the pilot and safety pilot for managing to save this situation. Truly, communication and staying calm in a situation like this goes a long way.

Ex SmartLynx pilot here! I remember hearing about this accident and seeing some leaked videos about it back in early 2018 when I had just started my course to become an airline pilot. Fast forward 3.5 years and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting two of the people on board that day, one of the cadets and the safety pilot, who even seated behind me during one of my line training flights. Both of them are still happily flying the A320 as first officers for SmartLynx!

I'm a HAZMAT Tanker Commercial Vehicle driver in the USA. I use things I learn from Petter to be a safer driver. I had to stand up to my company yesterday and cause them to lose thousands of dollars in revenue over a safety issue. Watching this video I finally feel proud of my decision, not just full of worry.

When the student who had been flying went back to the cabin, I can imagine the look he got from the other students, like “what did you do?”

I'm not a pilot but that narration had me right in the cockpit for a truly horrifying and chaotic situation. That using the wrong viscosity oil on a minor system could have led to such a unanticipatable cascade of failures is mind boggling. The pilots did an incredible job.

Damn, this one had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. What an incredible amount of research, presentation and editing!

Safety pilot was MVP there. Amazing work by the captain as well.

In my 43 year design career, I have been involved with numerous incidents/accidents involving system level failures, and that was the most complex and interactive series I have ever heard of. Your extensive knowledge and ability to explain it was key to this great video. I always suspected that as we moved into more and more complexity in our aircraft systems we would have accidents like this, but this was really mind blowing. Thank you for this video. It really reinforces my belief that the 1 minute news clips that we get from the main-stream media don't really tell us anything, and are a disservice to the public.

Oh yes, one of my favorite incidents (as a software developer, not a pilot). A great example of how 1) the most improbable scenario can still happen 2) safeguards can fail and safeguards for safeguards can also fail 3) the last safeguard should always be "beep loudly and hope the humans can solve it". Clearly things Boeing (and majority of less mission critical hardware and software vendors) seem to forget too often.

Imagine the thrill when you're a Mentour Pilot fan going through type training and then you realize Petter is your instructor. 😎

Hi, ex-airline mechanic here. I watched the video carefully with my attention fixed on the piston that activates the override mechanism of the horizontal stabilizer trim wheel and stop the auto trim during the touch and go. I was very curious to hear by the end of the video more details on what Airbus did to that particular element of the chain, as it appears to be what triggered the whole sequence of electronic oddities. I think this is the most complex and improbable electronic system chain of events that I've ever seen. It is a relief that it didn't close with a mishap.

Huge shoutout to the engine designers for designing the engines tough enough to take such a beating and stay running long enough to get the crew back on the ground alive.

The sheer fortitude of that support pilot sitting there as this barely controlled plane careens toward the runway, the captain is sweating and trying to fly using trim wheels and pedal controls, and then both engines cut out and the power turns off, and he turns to his colleague and calmly says: "Gear's down."

As an aerospace engineering student, one of my professors actually taught this incident in out aircraft subsystems class. Partly to show how the logic of the degrading flight laws works, and partly to drive home the point that you can never be too diligent when designing critical systems. No matter how unlikely a fault scenario might be, you always have to consider it and either prevent it, or define what needs to happen when it occurs to keep the aircraft and people on board safe.

Wow! Wow! Woe! I have 25,283 hours, am now working on my sixth type rating, and I LEARN from you. Undoubtedly what you teach me will help me keep my passengers safe. Thank you, sir.