Wrong Turn! Singapore Airlines flight 006

My dad was supposed to board this flight that night. However, my mom had just gone to the hospital that day and discovered that she was pregnant with me. So she convinced my dad to stay in the office as she felt that it would be safer for him to take the next flight when the typhoon had passed/become weaker. As my mom was a ground staff at the Singapore Airlines check-in area at the time, she was able to get my dad a ticket on the next flight out. So my dad went to sleep in the office that night and when he woke up, he discovered that he had a lot of missed calls on his work phone. His colleagues all thought that he had boarded the flight. It turns out that had my dad boarded the flight, I would've most likely grown up without knowing him. His seat was located at the front of the plane on the upper deck, and would've likely died in the crash. So I'm very grateful that my mom as able to talk some sense into my dad, as he has helped me out tremendously through my life and I don't know where I'd be without him.

as a nervous flyer, I really apreciate that mentour pilot explain every incident in a calm informatic manner and not making it into a horror film like other shows.

After learning stuff like this, I will never ever get frustrated if a flight takes a bit long to take off or land=)

I watched the mayday-episode on this accident and I felt so bad for the pilots. The captain was so cautious and tried to do everything right and was very aware of the bad weather and the implications this had. It just shows that even when you have the best intentions and really try to do it right small mistakes and lead to catastrophic events.

I lost a colleague and good friend in this crash. He was in the prime of his life, a very successful business professional and a very friendly and gentle person. He had Dutch nationality and was working based in Singapore, for a US company, for which he was on his way to LA. He left behind his wife and 3 children, at that time age 6, 4 and 6 months of age. In the investigation it turned out he was in a seat on the upper deck, row 19. The crash event itself did not kill any person on the upper deck, so he survived that part. Then the crew rushed out of the cockpit and tried to open the left hand door, which was not easily done. They turned to the right hand side that also did not operate. The left door finally opened, but the slide did not inflate, leaving a high jump for the people. The crew exited first (so much for captains leaving the ship last), and abandoned the scene. My friend helped the purser get people on the slide and down to safety until the deck below their feet collapsed due to the very high heat from the fire on the deck below. Both perished, as well as the people that had not been able to exit. His wife found all this out by investigating herself and talking to all the people that did get out alive. Many of them were consumed by feeling of guilt, as the person that helped them out had not made it himself. She told me she would have maybe preferred to have had a little less heroic husband. I did what I could to help her get her life on a new track, which she did beautifully. Still I also would have preferred a different course of history.

Losing situational awareness like this is a horrible horrible feeling. It happened to me once during my PPL when i was flying solo to yuma in a small piper Archer. I had been there once before with my instructor and so I wasn't completely unfamiliar of the airport layout, but Yuma being a shared military airport has some long wide and intersecting runways and a fairly complicated taxiway map. On my solo i was given taxi instructions for an intersection take off, at first i accepted the clearance and started taxiing but soon i started feeling really uneasy about whether or not i was going the right way, So i fessed up and requested for a full runway departure WITH progressive taxi and the controllers did a great job of getting me back on track but more importantly helping me get my situational awareness back. When in doubt always take a step back and don't be afraid to ask for help

I'm a surgeon and just yesterday i had a case where i forgot to do a small step. it was more just a minor inconvenience in the long run -- but I'm still rattled today that it had slipped my mind. makes me realize how easily big things can also fall through the cracks. your words on listening to that inner voice rang so true. as i was closing yesterday, i couldn't shake the feeling that i had missed something... sadly even though i did take a moment to consider, it still didn't click until I'd already scrubbed out. i should've just stopped what i was doing completely and ran through the steps one by one... i think we should have checklists in surgery too. idk why we don't. our nurses do -- that's they count stuff that can easily be left behind (sponges, etc). but we just rely on our very fallible brains, despite that in the heat of the moment one can easily forget something.

Hey, Singaporean here. I want to make a correction to something about this video, because people are not going to be familiar with Singapore slang grammar. At 13:27, the pilot is actually rushing. He's saying something more along the line of "If we don't get out soon, it's going to get worse." He is in fact, rushing.

Weird how the slides can't operate in winds that are OK for takeoff. Seems like they should design a safety slide that works in all operating wind speeds, if possible of course.

This shows how important ground lights and the pilot language they use for taxiways is. Also this is as always the best presentation of the accident made by amazing video creators!

Retired now but, I used to work in a hospital emergency room and when things started getting really out of control, we were always taught to check our own blood pressure first (slow things down) before making rash decisions. Love your break down of these events.

I've watched most of your videos, and this stands out as one of the scariest and saddest. Making a wrong turn in the dark feels like such a simple and human mistake, as easy to make as accidentally taking the wrong highway exit in a car. I can only imagine the guilt the pilots must still carry over it.

the amount of runway disasters like these in history is slightly concerning, glad they aren't heard of anymore

Ok, the pilots missed a couple of visual clues given by their instrumentation that correctly told them they were lined up on the wrong way however, why the freaking hell is a runway not in use, and with construction equipment on it lit up like a ruddy Christmas tree? Was the accident avoidable? Sure it was. Is it understandable how the mistake was made? Likewise, sure it was. Another masterpiece of presentation and explanation Captain Petter, I always so look forward to your content regardless of the subject matter both on this channel, and your Mentour Now

A colleague (he was a good friend) died in the upper business class on this one. His colleague was assigned next to him, but decided to move back to the tail of the aircraft, where a row of 5 seats was available to sleep on. He survived.

Airlines and airports are usually so meticulous. I would have expected at least a physical sign at the start of the closed runway saying "Runway Closed". It shows you can never overdo safety and alert information

I feel bad for those pilots, yes they did not fully use all the cockpit instrumentation, but the weather, no ground radar, air traffic control, and runway taxi lights all played a part. rest in peace for those who lost their lives, may those who survive find peace in the lives.

I watched the Air Crash Investigation episode on this incident only a few days ago. Very excited to hear Mentour's presentation of it! I find these videos tend to include more of an interesting perspective on how pilots make the mistakes that they do and a focus on how these mistakes can be prevented. This was a very sad incident and I do feel for the pilots.

The FO was my lecturer in Polytechnic. He did a presentation on the events of that night and when he revealed himself everyone's jaw was on the floor.

I lost a good friend and colleague in this accident. He, his young wife, and a year-old son were returning to CA from India after a vacation. I remember how much I wept when I saw the news on Yahoo! It was surreal. First, it was -- oh a Singapore Airlines had an accident at Taipei on the way to LAX. Then a few seconds later it suddenly dawned on us ...wasn't "J" and his family on this flight? Followed by a silence, then hope that there were survivors, then despair when we saw his name on the list of the deceased. It was a horrible, horrible, time. Just thinking on how gruesome his death was and how much he would have suffered, along with his wife and his young son; imagining his despair at not being able to protect his young family...