holy crap I was not expecting that craziest Aviation stories 2019 coming up
out hey 74r crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is Kelsey I'm
a 747 pilot my channel 74 gear is all about aviation today I'm here in Nagoya
Japan and this is the view from my hotel room all of you in the 74 crew
have been fantastic about sending aviation memes to my Instagram I also
get a lot of news articles from people asking me what are my thoughts on this
particular situation let's see the craziest aviation stories the 74
crew sent to me in 2019 let's get into it
holy crap I was not expecting that oh my gosh he drove right through oh and
there's the lady drinking cup oh my gosh how did the truck get through all of
that oh this is it on the on the remote well that guy was flying he was going so
fast across the ramp there at 3 in the morning can you imagine 3:00 in the
morning if nothing going on you're just drinking your coffee or water whatever
and some comes blazing through there probably like 80 miles an hour that is
nuts I just read the article about what happened with that truck it looks like
he was running from the cops drove over the fence on the perimeter of the
airport across the airport across the ramp and through that wall what's crazy
to me is that he lit as he drove through that wall and all the way across and
then stopped by at a car rental place which is good because he probably needed
a new car now I know GMC is not going to be using this video to promote the
safety of their vehicle but the fact that a vehicle can go through all that
stuff and have the driver live is amazing whoo I feel really bad for is
the lady that was behind the counter drinking whatever she had there in her
thermos I got some water or juice or something like that I know at 3:00 in
the morning when you're sitting there in an empty airport it is so quiet and all
you want to do is go to sleep and the last thing you expect is you're sitting
there at 3:00 in the morning is to have a truck come blazing through the wall
like the kool-aid man
man glues himself to the top of British Airways jet
I remember hearing about this something else that's really crazy about this though is
I remember reading in the article that the guy was afraid of heights
the other thing that strange is that it said he glued himself to the plane but
you can see he's wearing a shirt so I'm not really sure what they mean by glued
himself at first when they said that I thought that meant like he didn't have a
shirt on and he had put paste all over his chest and then literally glued
himself to the roof of the aircraft but it seems like maybe he glued his hand or
he didn't glue anything because he was obviously able to climb off of the top
of the plane there but apparently he is afraid of heights now had I'd been
involved in this at all and had I known about his fear of heights I probably
would have addressed this in a different way I would have went out there with a
flight crew and said hey man we're about to take off so that's fine hang out and
then just got in and actually started to do things like the plane was gonna push
back and take off and I'm sure he would have never thought of gluing himself to
the top of an aircraft again am i evil I don't feel evil mechanic disables
navigation system oh man I was actually in Miami when this happened basically a
mechanic wanted to disable the navigation system so before the crew and
everyone got on board he went in and tinkered with something in the
navigation system I also remember reading in a statement somewhere that he
said he didn't want to hurt anybody and I don't really understand how you
thought it was gonna play out a plane leaving from Miami headed down to the
Caribbean I don't want to hurt anybody I just want you all to get lost and run
out of gas somewhere over the ocean the thing is that most every commercial
aircraft has a lot of redundant systems so there's a lot of different checks and
balances that happen before you even take off that we're doing and that the
plane is doing on itself so the fact that this mechanic tried to sabotage it
is not really what concerns me in McKenna's truly are some of the most
underappreciated people in the aviation industry in my opinion they're out there
working in the hot and the cold and doing everything to protect everyone
that's flying on the aircraft and us the pilots the entire crew so they're really
underappreciated for what they do for everybody the thing that honestly scares
me the most is this individual who's been working on aircraft for a number
years didn't understand the systems well enough to know that a check-and-balance
was going to verify that this system was not functioning correctly and that the
plane was not going to take off that honestly is what concerns me more than
anything if you've worked on planes for 20-plus years that is something that you
should probably know man drones closed Heathrow Airport oh yeah I
know this happened at the end of last year and then again at the beginning of
this year this is actually just a couple of weeks after the Heathrow Airport was
shut down for several days when a pilot was flying his drone over the airport
and I think it was something like over a thousand flights got canceled in those
few days that was there and let's be honest it was probably some 747 youtuber
trying to get some cool footage to grows Instagram channel is so thirsty right
now Russian solely oh okay there are two things that are really crazy about this
if you didn't read the story some of them are calling this the Russian solely
and again no mention of the first officer who hopefully didn't look
anything like this
if you aren't familiar with this story basically this captain who started
flight school at 32 so for all of you that are wondering if you're too old to
go to flight school this captain started at 32 I believe now
he's 41 and so he's 41 now and the captain on an Airbus but this captain
basically had a very similar situation the soli except he wasn't over water he
was over land and some cornfields I believe so he was able to set the plane
down in those cornfields the statistical likelihood of that type of thing
happening again with not that many years apart is crazy I imagine he's a super
celebrity in Russia kind of what like solely is here in the US a second really
crazy part about this as well it's just several days before that crash happened
I put out a video explaining why the airlines and engineers don't put meshes
and grates in front of the engines of an aircraft to prevent birds from actually
going in there if you haven't seen the video where I explain why they don't put
mesh and grates in front of those engines I'll put a link to it right here
I look forward to hearing from you until then
keep the blue side up