WHY was this Captain SILENT?? | Iberia 610

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NOT paying your pilots, particularly as a form of punishment, is a sure way to leave them angry, distracted, and disengaged from their job. Clearly, that must impact on passenger safety. The airline should have been held at least partly responsible for this crash. I can't see how the airline's behaviour was anything short of criminal negligence.

It's unfathomable that they would design a plane to have the same tone sound for 2 separate alarms, that's just madness

I'm an active Captain for Iberia,and I must say you nailed the accident.Specially,the Captain's absent mindedness after the furlough without pay,his discontent with company,flying by the book,and the difficult reading of those Colleman altimeters.Nothing was briefed,and the abbreviated procedure flying direct from Domingo Vor to the 13nm fix,with a 45/180 turn,exiting heading 076,for an inbound course of 301.If you reached the fix at 7000,you had to speed the descent down to 4500,slowing down before and using speedbrakes.They got confused with the altimeters,hit the unchartered antenna flying too low and then...That is no excuse for any crewmember,but we are all humans,and this accident is very interesting from the Crm point of view.May God have mercy on all of us who cross the skies.

It is surprisingly common in Spain, or at least it used to be, for employees to be owed 2 or 3 months salary. As a freelancer there it was a nightmare to get paid - 6 months, 56 phone calls and five visits to the highly solvent company in one case. As pilots earn good salaries they also have plenty of outgoings. Not paying a pilot - who is doing a highly responsible job - is causing him unnecessary stress and in this case led to huge loss of life. What a spiteful little country it can be.

Your narration skills are genuinely amazing. The way you unpack all the small details gets me so interested in every single video.

You and Mentour Pilot are the best when it comes to air accidents. Bravo. And I'm glad that GPWS and EGPWS are a thing now. There's nothing that gets a pilot's attention like "TERRAIN TERRAIN PULL UP". RIP everyone involved in this accident. Bravo also on 100K.

I am so surprised by your coverage of this very little known accident in the Basque Country, and you gave a ton of details I didn't know about, like the fact that the final report didn't even mention the lack of GPWS. The plane crashed into Mt. Oiz, near where I live, and my parents remember this accident and all the media coverage it got at the time very well. A piece of information that struck everyone was the fact that only one intact body was recovered from the wreckage: the body of a dead person inside a coffin, flown here for burial. Thank you so much for your video. This is one of the worst air disasters in Spain and the worst in the Basque Country, and it was great to see it covered on your channel.

It's so interesting to me that my training was a direct result of a lot of these crashes. I got YELLED at ONCE when not calling out altitudes even though I had it in my head. My instructors needed to know that I did.

I'd like to hear more about the striking pilots and Iberia's management history from this time period..

I found this channel a few days ago and I have been addicted and binging every single video. So much more refreshing and interesting when it’s not a extremely dramatic overacted TV Drama. Using flight sim to show buttons, lights, and other aspects of the flight is incredibly genius and provides beautiful footage. I need more !!

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They also failed to mention they always always have to pay their employees. Even a janitor would quiet quit when not being paid and they don’t have hundreds of people relying on them for their dear lives.

It would be a crime if the report didn't tell airlines to pay their pilots.

When you said "But their plane didn't have a ground proximity warning system", I exclaimed "FUCK!!!" so loudly my husband came from another room to check if I was ok. Awesome storytelling.

Fascinating! You’ve picked another not so well known accident, analysed it in a technical but clear manner and explained how and why it happened in an entirely plausible way, giving us an insight into the psychology behind the pilots’ decisions. Well done, 10/10!

As a B777 driver and having basically all my flight experience on B737NG/300 and B787 (and now B777), it’s unfathomable that the altitude alert and the autopilot system was this complex back in the day. Truly incredible! Also, that the GPWS was optional in the 80s 🤯 Also also, how am I just discovering this channel? It’s truly amazing! Great job guys.

Found your channel a few days ago. I can't stop watching these. And lo and behold I'm early for an upload! Thank you for all the great content on aviation.

This is so well explained. You can just see how several unrelated factors came together to cause this. It’s a textbook example of how disasters are never caused by a single event.

The storytelling behind every single one of these are phenomenal. I’m in suspense every time I watch these, and despite a few, guessing which plane will recover or fucked up so bad they won’t be able to. And it makes it all the more tragic. Thank you for sharing these peoples stories, and what happened behind the scenes because there stories deserve to be told.