i recently saw this video both pilots are unconscious you're
the last hope to save a plane from crashing here's what to do
and i realized a new series called TikTok roast needed to be created because
some of y'all out there are giving terrible advice when it comes to aviation TikTok roast coming up
hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is kelsey i'm a 747 pilot my channel 7 4 gear
is all about aviation recently i've been getting a lot of dms on my instagram from people sending
me TikTok asking me if this is good advice or not from different TikTokers it seems these TikTokers
who have little to no common sense or knowledge about aviation are giving you tips so before you
watch one of these videos and do something that could kill me while i'm on a plane watch this
video if your plan is about a crash i'm about to save your life and make you millions of dollars
we are all told that if a plane is going down to assume this position but you do not when you're in
this position your back is gonna break including your spine and you're gonna die immediately
that's because if you survive a plane crash you can basically sue the airline for millions
and millions and millions of dollars you're gonna win that so instead of getting into this position
you're going to sit up straight and put your feet on the seat in front of you this picture's not
too accurate but it's it's hard to find on google so more realistically you're going to want to put
your feet up like this and your back is straight by doing that your legs will probably break but
your survival rate is a lot higher they literally want you to die so you don't do the airline and if
this ever happens to you hopefully it doesn't but if it does you'll see the flight attendants take
the position i told you but the one thing they are right about is you put your oxygen mask on first
then you can help other people with their mask we're gonna hope and pray this never happens
but if it does just remember the position and sue that airline get your millions
um so that's mostly all wrong when someone says this when you're in this position your back is
gonna break including your spine and you're gonna die immediately i mentioned before that i was
probably a c student in high school but if someone says they broke their back i don't know what else
they would be referring to except for their spine i mean maybe your shoulder blades i don't
know what else there would be back there you can break your back and survive it literally happens
all the time but you know it's harder to survive a projectile going through your head so if you're
in a crash now your very important head is sitting up here bouncing all around for parts
of the plane to fly through it's definitely going to ruin your day and with your knees up like this
your mouth and your knees are going to collide with each other i'm guessing your knee is probably
going to win that fight which means your smile is going to look something like this lovely lady here
and she is a lovely lady so that is totally up to you now let's talk about this thing she says
with the flight attendants if this ever happens to you hopefully it doesn't but if it does you'll see
the flight attendants take the position i told you that's also wrong a lot of times flight attendants
backs are facing the front of the plane if you've been on a plane you know what that looks like and
a lot of times there's not places for them to put their legs up in front of them and there'd be no
reason for them to put their legs up because their back is facing the forward part of the plane which
means that would be where the impact would be it doesn't make any sense for them to have their legs
braced when they're going that direction anyways with the momentum so you will never see a flight
attendant do that that makes no sense what you will see happen if you are ever in a crash or
about to crash you will see your flight attendant sitting up in their seat screaming instructions
for you like brace and a bunch of other things that they're taught and what they'll do is they'll
be sitting there and screaming that for the last probably 20 to 30 seconds before impact that's
what you will see you will not see them with their feet up in the air sorry guys then after the crash
those same flight attendants that were screaming all those instructions before impact will then be
yelling instructions because most of them are near an emergency exit so they'll be opening a door
and then they'll be yelling instructions for you to come and get out of the plane
that will be only applicable to those of you who don't have projectiles in your head or all of your
teeth in the back of your throat now my job as a pilot is to get you safely to a place where we can
land and in most every scenario that i can think of you're able to get a plane to the airport and
you're not going to be in a crash but let's just say that something goes completely wrong and you
are going to crash your pilots are going to try to find the best place to crash land that plane and
then the people who are more likely than not going to be the ones that are going to save your life or
your flight attendants they're the ones that are going to be evacuating the plane and getting you
off the plane so if you're there being a karen to them the whole flight you know how that's going to
work out now this point about being sued they literally want you to die so you don't do the
airline the airlines know if they crash a plane they're getting sued no matter what so whether
you die or not it's either going to be you suing them or your family suing them it doesn't matter
they're getting sued either way this is america we love to sue people so here's some better advice
listen to your trained cabin crew who are trained in crashes that involve aircraft or your flight
crew that are giving you instructions listen to them instead of tick-tockers we are all told
that if a plane is going down to assume this position but you do not okay first go back and
watch her video she is 100 correct and her advice is very good i can confirm that airline companies
want you to die whenever you get into a plane crash i used to work for an aerospace company
where we would make the airplane seats and i can tell you right now that every single seat on the
airplane including first class and business class are made up of metal frames tiny screws
double-sided tape and velcro and zip ties there is no actual like sustainability to those seats
the inspections that we would have to go through after seats were complete were for cosmetic looks
only and functionality not for survival rates those seats wouldn't even withstand a car crash
a miter one so when you get onto an airplane be aware that the seat that you're sitting on is not
meant for you to live through if you crash when i saw her say this okay first go back and watch her
video she's 100 correct and her advice is very good i was like oh this will be interesting to
hear what kind of magical advice this woman has for us let's first talk about this point right
here those seats wouldn't even withstand a car crash great news most pilots don't get into car
accidents while we're flying a plane been flying for many years have had zero close calls even with
cars while flying a plane so that's great and then on the ground the 900 000 pound aircraft that i'm
moving around on the ground there if that were to hit your car it would pretty much have zero impact
on me and would suck for you here is the plane that i fly kicking a tug along and that tug is
going to be a lot heavier than most every car out there planes have so many different backup systems
specifically to avoid a crash something like an engine failure makes front page news everywhere
because it's very very rare so when something like that happens people say oh we almost died well no
you didn't pilots are trained to fly on one engine and planes are capable commercial planes that you
fly on as a passenger those planes are able to fly on one engine without any problem so with
the plane flying on one engine they're able to come back in and land to avoid any type of crash
and all the people that were on that plane were totally fine but if that plane were to
crash let's say into a mountain you can put the fanciest car seat you want on it and guess what
probably not gonna matter when i see people spreading this type of fear it makes me
laugh because it's not even logical what she's saying makes no sense yeah okay so this seat is
made out of metal and zip ties and a few other things what does she want that seats to be made
out of they need to be light because the aircraft has a certain weight that it needs to make so it
needs to be light but there's i mean only going to be what roll cages in there for everybody and
you think that if your plane hits a mountain at a few hundred miles an hour that roll cage that's
gonna make the difference for you i don't think so both pilots are unconscious you're the last
hope to save a plane from crashing here's what to do when you first enter the cockpit don't worry
the plane is flying itself it's on autopilot you probably don't have time to figure out the radio
stuff right here set the altitude to around 4000 feet the plane will descend low enough for you to
catch cell tower service do not touch anything else get your phone out call for help they're
probably gonna get an air traffic controller on the line follow his instructions okay so i guess
in this scenario me and the other pilot up there have died or passed out and if i'm dead you can
follow this guy's terrible advice but if i'm not dead please listen to what i'm going to tell you
listen to what he says here right here set the altitude to around four thousand feet changing
this thing here to 4000 won't work just changing that number will not change what the plane is
doing i'm not going to explain to you how to get it to change down to four thousand feet or
descend down to four thousand feet because if we're flying over denver and you do that it's
really going to suck for everybody else in the plane and i don't want you to do that
so i'm not going to explain how to get it to do that because it's not necessary and i'm guessing
if you're following this guy's advice you probably also have me back in a seat somewhere propped up
with my back straight and then my knees taped to the tray table in front of me so that way
if we do have a crash i survive here's what you do want to do it's basically the exact
opposite of what this guy said when a pilot leaves to go to the bathroom or go get food or whatever
happens during a break period there's always at least two people on the flight deck and what that
means is that usually there's a flight attendant up there and one thing that i teach every flight
attendant or most flight attendants when they come up there is how to work the radio i tell them this
is the button you push right here to talk on the radio so you push this button and start talking
so what i teach them is this in this scenario that the pilots have died or whatever the situation is
first talk right here on the radio see if you can hear them push this button say something and then
let it go just like a walkie-talkie if that doesn't work then all you need to remember is
this frequency one two one decimal five dial it in like this and move it over i show them exactly how
to do it i say dial that frequency move it over tell them you're a flight attendant tell them
the flight that you're on tell them exactly what's going on we've had both pilots they have died and
i don't know what i'm doing these big planes that you fly on as a passenger these big planes if you
hit the right buttons in the right sequence they will come in and fly and land themselves and stop
on the runway you really don't have to do anything except hit all the buttons in the right sequence
so the air traffic controller who's there will get you somebody on the phone or on the radio
with you to help walk you around to come in and land that's the best thing if you go down to four
thousand feet one if you're in denver you're gonna hit a mountain if you do it let's say in
california or san diego area four thousand feet you're not going to get a cell service and so
now you're going to what keep going lower and lower and lower until you can get a cell reception
and then you're going to call what 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 is going to get air traffic control on the phone
i mean that's just never going to work and what if you go out of cell service that's just terrible
advice get on the radio the plane is designed to talk on the radio you talk in that frequency 121
decimal five and there will be someone there that will walk you through the entire process and get
you safely on the ground that's what you should do welcome back to andrew survives everything a
series where i teach you how to survive literally anything today i'm going to be teaching you how
to survive a plane crash when booking a seat the safest ones are the ones near the back in an aisle
and close to an emergency exit people in the back tend to survive the impact the most and people in
the aisle have easier access to the emergency exits and sitting close to emergency exits is
a no-brainer when the plane is about to go down remove any sharp objects just keys or pens from
your pocket because the last thing you want is the impact of the plane driving it into your body
and if you're wearing glasses like me make sure to take those off too because the last thing you
want is those smashing into your face really fast and also ahead of time make sure to count how many
seats there are to the nearest exit that way if the cabin fills up with smoke you'll still be
able to feel your way out and remember you might think you want to crawl to avoid the smoke but you
might get trampled that way so instead stoop so no one can trample you and most people play shooting
games know that when you're crouched you generally move faster than when you're prone and once the
plane does hit the ground [ __ ] run like it's the pacer test like it's the mile run just get
the [ __ ] away because the last thing you want is this thing blowing up and killing everyone a lot
of the first thing that this guy said is actually true and good advice statistically it has been
shown that sitting in the back of the plane is the safest place to sit in the event of a crash i did
a video about it a while back but when i booked my tickets i don't book my tickets based off of
this extremely rare scenario that i'm going to be in a plane that's going to crash that's kind of
like you bought a lottery ticket and i tell you hey just go buy your multi-million dollar dream
house because you bought them lottery tickets so you're basically set it's the same thing as
booking a seat in the back in the aisle next to the emergency row for this once in a i don't know
how many million chance that you're going to be on a plane that's going to crash something else
that he said that he liked was this when the plane is about to go down remove any sharp objects such
as keys or pens from your pocket because the last thing you want is the impact of the plane driving
it into your body in the event that you're in a plane that's crashing and you have the mental
capacity to think about the sharp objects that are on you then yeah you should take them out i
don't fly with any keys in my pocket or anything that's sharp i don't have any pens i keep it in a
backpack i don't have any of that stuff that's on me so it doesn't really apply to me and i don't do
that for the event of being in a crash it's just not what i like to have on me i also liked how he
talked about identifying how far you are away from an emergency row and flight attendants often brief
that have an idea where you are in relationship to the emergency row two rows three rows whatever
it is and which direction to go because in the event of an emergency there's going to be a lot
of chaos and you won't have a lot of time to be thinking about it at that time so if you know you
have to go three rows back then that's great to know three rows back instead of 15 rows forward
for example here's the part of the advice that he said that doesn't make any sense and you should
probably not follow and once a plane does hit the ground [ __ ] run like it's the pacer test
like it's the mile run just get the [ __ ] away because the last thing you want is this thing
blowing up and killing everyone so his advice is run off the plane as quickly as you possibly can
okay that's great but what if you're sitting on the right side of the plane and you just go
bolting out the emergency exit that's on the right side of the plane if the right side of the plane
is on fire and you just run through a bunch of jet fuel and other fire and all kinds of stuff or
your plane sitting on a cliff and you just come bolting out the side of that door
that doesn't do you any good what the best thing to do is listen to your flight attendants because
they are trained in this scenario what they do is they look out the window and verify what's
the best place to go the pilots will also be doing that let's say that they are live
if we are alive we'll say you know we'll evacuate on the left side or the right side or whatever it
is because what if you go out the right side the engines are running on that side well you versus
the engines of a plane that's never going to work out in your favor so it's better to listen to your
flight attendants if all of them are dead then look out the window before you go running out
the plane look out the window is there a fire no there's no fire okay then go out don't just
start just bolting out the plane without listening to your flight attendants or taking a second to
look and have a good situational awareness of what is going on before you leave that
aircraft if you want to see some extremely hard landings harder than what i would say would be a
small car crash check out this video here and if you want to see me roasting some people who spent
millions of dollars making a movie and never asked the pilot if it was realistic or not
check out this video up here i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up