SECONDS after takeoff | Air Florida flight 90

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Wow at that captain. He was deemed "unsatisfactory" when it comes to: 1. Departures 2. Cruise control 3. Approaches 4. Landings Those are literally all phases of a flight, aren't they? What was he good at, then? 🤣 Edit: this is a great channel, by the way! Having discovered it just recently, I watched a mix of older and newer videos and I must say, it's incredible how much the quality improved 👍

One of the few initial survivors, first name Arthur (if I recall correctly), was tangled up in wires and cables, so he asked the first responder - and the bystander who jumped in to help - rescue the others first. He died waiting those moments, bless him. It’s my understanding that bridge was renamed in honor of him. RIP all who perished.

The rescue of the survivors of this crash shows great heroism: Roger Olian volunteered to enter the water with a long tether attached to him to rescue the survivors and when he reached them the helicopter arrived so he was pulled back, Lenny Skutnik jumped from the bridge into the water to save Priscilla Tilrado who would have drowned if not for his actions, helicopter pilot Don Usher flew his chopper so close to the water that at some points a skid entered the water.

I have always felt so bad for the co-pilot in this situation. His awareness of the aircraft’s performance and the icing issues could have saved so many lives. This is why the importance of CRM cannot be overstated.

The only air crash channel I still consistently watch. It never feels like you're wasting time with tangential information.

The Air Traffic Controller has to share some of the blame for allowing a plane to land on a runway when another is taking off.

So so sad, the final exchange between the pilots is chilling.

A coworker’s dad was on the bridge, stuck in traffic. She said it haunted him for the rest of his life. He and other people ran toward the cars that had been hit, and there was just nothing to be done for 4 of the people. The only good thing about it was they got Flight 90 as high as they did. Just a little lower, and the engines would have hit the bridge, ruptured the fuel tanks, and the bridge would have been a fireball and nobody on the plane or bridge would have survived. The bridge might have even went down. My coworker was a little kid when this happened —he just knew his dad would never let them go to Vail for skiing, or fly down to Disneyworld in the winter. Finally, he sat my future coworker down and explained why they would never fly in snowy weather unless it was an emergency. He had severe PTSD, and fought panic attacks when he had to cross the bridge in bad winter weather. I’m sure he wasn’t the only one.

Seems like they were very nervous about their situation, and dealt with their apprehension by ignoring it as much as possible. Great for staying calm. Not so great when you really need to be paying attention.

So many mistakes by the crew here... One might think they'd have been especially cautious in conditions they were not accustomed to.

It's disheartening to hear the first officer begin to doubt his intuition when thr captain waved off his concerns. Despite his inexperience in this type of weather, he could tell something was wrong but trusted the seniority of his captain.

The Captain came from Air Sunshine which was a mom and pop airline in Southern Florida. So did the surviving flight attendant. I was 12 years-old and watched the rescue live from my home in State College, Pa. We had the same snowstorm hitting. It was terrible and we got let out of school early. I'll never forget that crash! I didn't even know Florida had an airline! Now I'm 53 and a flight attendant who's had a great long career. Always think about Palm 90 on Winter days.

Wow so many details I've never heard before, such as a plane landing on the runway as they were still on the take off roll. Splendid job.

Appreciate how you spent 99% of the time discussing the mistakes made by the pilots and not on the rescue efforts themselves which have been covered ad nauseam on other programs.

A post script to this event: a few days after this crash, I was on 395 to go over the 14th st bridge. It's always slow, but it was crawling. Once I was about 3/4 over the bridge I saw why...the tail end of the aircraft, last few rows on seats included facing me, had been towed to the wharf. I've never forgotten this. Just awful and heartbreaking. RIP to all the victims.

As a long time major airline pilot I'm safe to say that this channel is excellent. You took this down to its component parts and left nothing unclear. Going even past that you took it to a personal level like mistakes that the captain was making on account of poor performance. Honestly, I almost expected to hear what they had for lunch.... Well done

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I don´t understand how they can be so anxious about ice and yet not put on the de-icing! It´s bonkers!

The captain on this flight behaves exactly like my boss