Catching fire SECONDS after takeoff! American Flight 1400
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September 28th, 2007
Seconds after takeoff from St Louis, Missouri, the engine of an American Airlines MD-82 erupts into flames. Alarm bells ring loudly in the cockpit, as the pilots grapple with the emergency. But they soon discover that this is no normal emergency. Within moments, the captain’s instruments fail, and the aircraft begins to lose vital systems. Will the crew be able to make it back to the airport, or will the fire spell disaster for everybody on board?
This is the story of American airlines flight 1400.
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All Comments (21)
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I can't believe the captain told the first officer, "hey can you fly the plane I gotta take a call", while the first officer was in the middle of... putting out a fire in the left engine. And they let the fire burn for another minute and a half
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It’s always awesome to hear a aviation problem that ended up with no fatalities 😌
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"THERE'S A FIRE IN THE LEFT ENGINE!!! Let me go talk to the stewardesses about this."
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A rare case where basically everyone was at fault
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I appreciate that you're not spoiling the story for us by indicating whether the airplane survived or not. I like the suspenseful feeling all throughout the video.
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I understand this happened because of damage by the screwdriver but if you ask me this is a pretty big flaw of the engine. This could also happen without the screwdriver, stuff breaks. Such a small defect should not be so catastrophic as this was.
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When he finally calls the deadheading captain up Im like "you waited that long?!" When I was a new captain years ago I was operating dfw-lga... I had a 767ER captain on my jumpseat, and we had gotten into a low fuel situation due to atc reroutes, holding, etc. My field of vision was narrowing quickly so I turned to the much more experienced jumpseater and said "I need your help." He jumped into action and started giving me a list of things to do, solutions, and things to consider. We landed in LGA with 300lbs of fuel above the minimum landing fuel!
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On page 13 of the NTSB report, the mechanics did exactly what Boeing said NOT to do when doing a manual start. This was a known issue in the mid-90s with the MD80s that Boeing addressed, yet the STL mechanics ignored.
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Although the pilots were a little too relaxed and worsened some of their problems that was still some impressive flying
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It shows how a non sterile cockpit completely changes the way a sudden emergency is handled compared to a sterile cockpit and why it's so important!
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You have taught us so well, GDA... when you start saying at 5:56 that the captain commented on his retirement during taxi I immediately blurted out loud "STERILE COCKPIT!"... now my roomate thinks I'm weird.
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"The pilots could not get the APU to start" Isn't there someone with a screwdriver who can wing it?
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Brits, Irish, and Ausies saying: st. Louie is always funny to hear. There aren’t French here anymore so we just say st. Lewis 😂
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Always a relief when everybody makes it
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My evening is sorted! Thanks
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What an excellent video! Professional production, riveting writing and marration but still technically robust and nuanced... Keep up the good work Green Dot!
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Some Checklists require that the most critical steps be memorized and completed before reading the rest of the list. That would have gotten the fuel shut off and the fire bottles discharged in this case.
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That commercial was so Smoove 😂😂
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If my memory serves me correctly, pulling the emergency gear lever would remove the hydraulics from the gear and the latches that hold the gear up would be released allowing the gear to fall using the force of gravity. It doesn’t take very long. Also, there is a mechanical indicator on the pedestal just below the pitch trim indicator that will pop up if the nose gear is down.
