Chaos over Oslo! The Incredible Story of Iceland Air flight 315

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"What are you doing?!" This is a statement that never ends well if spoken in a cockpit.

This man teaches many important things about how to be a good pilot. This channel should be supported by airline companies and international aviation committees. Greetings from Rome Italy

That 757 is actually still flying as of today! A true testament to how good that plane is, that's old school Boeing!

After an incident like this is it incredibly important to give the passengers proper debriefing. A good friend of me experienced an engine failure after takeoff. They landed safely. Afterwards, my friend who was the captain, went to the cabin and briefed the passengers. When he asked them if they had any questions, an old lady raised her hand and asked: "When can we take off again?"

The 757 was designed back when Boeing was still an engineering company.

I am a non-aviator who recently found your channel. I’ve learned a ton! I really appreciate your commitment to non-blame. It is so refreshing in a world where who to blame is usually our very first thought rather than what factors led something to happen.

I know a person that was on board that flight. She mentioned ptsd symptoms from that experience and I was in some disbelief of it since flights in Iceland could get rather turbulent and eventful, especially back in the day, I thought it couldn’t be that bad. But now I think I understand how serious and possibly traumatising this was for the passengers. Good job on the video as always, it illustrates one of the worst thing that I am aware of in the history of Icelandic commercial aviation.

Having had a wonderful 43 year career as an airline pilot, now retired, I would like to emphasise the excellent advice Peter said about asking for more track miles. If you do that on a flight where you are high by the following day you would have probably forgotten about it( but wisely stored in your experience bag). But if you hadn't and end up with an event like we have just watched, you'll never forget it..... I think any new co pilot or F/o under command training would be very very fortunate to have you as their training captain.😊

I’m not a pilot or involved in the industry, but my son flies for American Eagle. I recommended your channel to him & he’s been bingeing your content ever since. Keep up the great work!

Hey Mentour. 767 captain here. Love the series. In the aircraft there are 3 ILS receivers unlike the 737. They are all tuned to the same freq via one receiver on the pedestal. The min equipment and MEL allows for Cat 2 approaches and in certain circumstances Cat 3 land 2 with only 2 receivers operating as long as the centre channel is functioning. So in this case a practice Cat 2 with the FOs receiver not function would be permitted. Keep up the awesome work.

My uncle was a pilot, captain, and then check pilot for three different Canadian airlines from 1969 until 2013. I know pilots have to be smart, but I had no idea they have to not only be excellent at flying a giant metal tube in the sky, be excellent communicators, have the ability to stay calm and think fast, and maintain good physical health, but they also have to be really good mathematicians, engineers, and meteorologists! I am pretty sure that is why most of the rest of us in the family are musicians. 😂

I wanted to applaud your team for the wonderful job on the animations. It really helps bring the content to life.

The understatement of the year, that made me laugh. At least the pilot came to his senses and reported the incident. Thank you for the video.

Your Tetris analogy is spot on. Things start to pile up and you have less and less time to rectify the situation.

Personally, I haven't boarded a plane in my entire life, but trust me, Mentour has taken me from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to London Heathrow Airport, to El Prat Airport in Barcelona, back to Rome-Fiumicino International Airport in Italy, and to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in France. Through this amazing story, it's been an adventure all over, and I've learned a lot from the aviation industry from this channel. This channel is doing a great job of educating the upcoming pilots and those who wish to be pilots. Continue with this great teachings.

I am a volunteer firefighter in Germany. When big accidents with losses of live happen, we get mentally assistance even still being on the accident scene. Also, the persons, who had a traumatic experience are not just taken away from the scene. Some prefer to still stay with the working colleagues. This helps better than just look them home without any further information.

My goodness, I think my hair nearly went grey just listening to that! I'm still recovering. It sounds terrifying, and in a way even more terrifying for knowing what was actually happening while the pilots weren't aware of it! It was so chaotic that I was half expecting a crash with no survivors, and it was a real relief to hear that they landed safely in the end. The pilot's announcement to the passengers that the first attempt at landing hadn't worked out is a true classic, but I can't imagine that his statement that they were going to try again was met with much enthusiasm by the poor passengers, after attempt no. 1.

Great advice. As the old saying goes, it's better to be 10 minutes late in this world, than 10 minutes earlier in the next.

One of the smoothest landings I ever experienced was landing at Keflavik in the mid 90's. We weren't even sure we'd landed until they opened the door. What made it even more impressive was the visibility was next to nothing. Standing at the top of the stairs, you couldn't see the ground and they had to tell us the direction to walk in order to get to the main building as we couldn't see anything except a blizzard. I doubt they'd be allowed to land in these conditions any more.