Viral debrief.
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Hey, 74 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.
I want to thank all of you in the 74 crew for sending me
all these different videos.
Honestly, without all of your help,
I wouldn't be able to keep making this series.
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In this first video, you'll see the pilot looking in the back.
What he's looking at is this door of the back of the plane has actually opened up.
Now that you know what they're looking at,
let's get into it!
I just sped this part up because it's kind of long
so I don't want to make this super long one video.
It's a long landing role.
Since the audio isn't hooked up to the Gopro,
you can't hear exactly what he's transmitting.
You hear the mayday mayday mayday call
but what I was happy to hear is it was nothing like this.
Some of the people that sent me this clip asked me why did he land in the field.
I can't answer why he would have landed in the field
when there was a road nearby
but something you have to take into consideration
if you're ever in this situation is
a lot of roads that are on remote areas like this
have telephone lines or electric lines or things like that running by it.
So it's something you have to factor in if you are ever in a situation is that
what are the things that you could hit.
Obviously in the middle of a field like where they landed,
there's not going to be generally any cables or anything like that
that are going to interrupt the aircraft's flight.
And just like what I talk about with Sully,
at the end of the day you have to look at the results
and they both lived and the plane was fine
and it's hard to argue with that.
As an airline pilot though, it's a little bit different.
In the scenario that you were to have a door come open
which would be very hard to do
but let's just say it happened,
you'd have an explosive depressurization.
And in that scenario, you can't just dive towards a random field like this.
You have to get as quickly as possible down to ten thousand feet
so everybody can breathe.
But you generally don't want to ever accelerate the aircraft.
The reason behind that is that you know that at this current situation,
the structure of the aircraft is holding up
at this current speed
but if you were to speed up,
it's possible that you could injure or damage the aircraft even more
and it could create a much more serious problem.
One of the things that the pilot is trained for is this exact situation
and explosive depressurization and getting to ten thousand feet as fast as possible
without accelerating
so that way at ten thousand feet most every person can breathe fine
without needing any extra oxygen
and then the people who were freaked out
and screaming for the two or three minutes while you got down to 10,000 feet,
will start breathing again normal air even if they're passed out.
So we're gonna assume that there was wires or something like that
that made the pilot choose to land in a field like this.
Fair enough.
He did a great job coming in and continuing to fly the aircraft
and he kept the landing very soft on this field.
Something else that he did that you might notice here is
that he's pulling back on the yoke.
I've talked about this in other videos but on smaller aircraft like this,
you don't want to have too much weight on the nose of the aircraft
because what can happen is it can flip over
so by pulling back on the yoke like that he's keeping the weight off of the nose
which is preventing in case he hits a rut or something like that in the field,
it prevents a plane from actually flipping over.
Now all in all he did a great job
and I was very excited until I saw this part of the video.
He's still moving very quickly along some cow pasture
but instead of waiting to come to a stop, he decided to turn around
and grab his Gopro and film the door.
I mean, I get it.
I've known people who've climbed up the emergency hatch of a 747
to take a picture for the gram.
But just wait till you come to a stop and then film the door.
For those of you that don't know,
you never want to hear that horn that you're hearing.
You never normally want to hear that.
That's a stall warning horn.
It says your plane is about to stall.
So you don't ever normally want to hear that
but you also don't want to hear the only engine that you have on your aircraft
stop working.
Honestly, that's one of the best parts about flying the 747.
It's very, very rare that a turbine engine
is actually going to break and not work anymore
but on 747, if that happens, you have three more so
it's kind of easy to go to sleep at night while you're flying over the ocean
and no, everything's going to be okay.
Every aircraft has a glide speed.
It means that at that speed your aircraft is going to be able to fly
the furthest amount of distance.
So with that horn going off,
I'm assuming that what the pilot is trying to do
is keep right at that speed to get as close
to the shoreline as he can for the people.
Obviously, he didn't make it all the way to the shoreline
and I don't know on this particular aircraft because I've never flown it
what that speed is.
And if it's because it's full of people that
at that speed it's got the horn going off,
or if he's just trying to get as far as to the coastline as he can.
I don't know specifically what he's doing.
You can see here though
the pilot is moving his hand on this wheel near his leg.
That I believe is the trim wheel.
Which is going to get the plane set for a specific speed.
Something else that surprised me here
is look how calm everybody is.
This is either a plane full of people that are really in shock
or it's just kind of that hawaiian way where things are just:
"Hey man, it's all going to work out okay".
Something else that I notice and I don't blame the pilot
because obviously he was very focused and I'm not sure if he was a single pilot,
meaning he was flying just by himself,
but they were obviously focused on getting to the shoreline.
But had they told everyone to put on a life vest,
it would have prevented a possible death
and that right there just highlights how important
having flight attendants on a commercial aircraft is.
Because while the pilots are busy trying to get the aircraft
into the safest possible place for everybody,
the flight attendants are going to be there to make sure
you safely get off and away from the aircraft.
When this first happened what I ended up reading,
is someone accidentally put on a child life vest
instead of an adult life vest.
And again, having a flight attendant there
that's screaming and yelling and telling you what to do
is probably going to prevent or possibly see that you have the wrong life vest on
and help you get off the plane safely.
I don't know anything about what led up to the cause of the failure here
but from what I can see in this video the pilot did a great job
getting as close to shore as possible
to increase the likelihood of being saved
and obviously the closer to shore people are going to see that plane
and hopefully be able to get out to the plane as quickly as possible.
You can do it!
This also got sent to me a lot.
And it's a little bit of an interesting one.
See how aggressively the pilot pulls back on the nose here?
Pulls back so much, it looks like the tail here is about to hit the ground.
What can happen is if you pull back too aggressively on the nose,
you can actually have the tail of the aircraft hit the ground
before it flies off of the ground.
If you pull back too early on the yoke and you pull back aggressively like that
there's not enough speed on the aircraft for it to continue to accelerate.
So, in essence, the drag that's being created by the wings
is actually inhibiting its ability to fly.
The second one you see here is less aggressive on the yoke
to pull it to get off of the ground
and this time you see it picking up speed
and fly away and the pitch of the aircraft actually starts to increase
which is what's supposed to happen.
I've mentioned this before but it's important
that you understand with jets and all aircraft
is that when you pull back on the yoke you want to pull back
so that the angle of the aircraft is pitched up to climb away from the ground
but you also want to let that aircraft fly off the ground.
At the regionals I would see every now and again a pilot would grab the yoke
and actually yank it back.
Now that's dangerous aerodynamically,
but besides that for the people that are in the back
it's very aggressive and very abrupt and it's not necessary.
If you pull back for whatever the pitch angle is for your aircraft
maybe it's 15 degrees,
you pull back to 15 degrees and let that aircraft fly itself off the ground
and that's going to be the smoothest for the passengers in the back
and it's what the airplane needs to fly.
Yet, some people get so aggressive to get it off the ground
they'll pull back even more when it starts not climbing away from the ground
and that actually is counterintuitive
and prevents the plane from continuing to climb.
The fancy technical channels have all kinds of cool tools
to show you the pitch angle based on the pictures
but I'm just not that fancy.
Look here at the rotation angle, the first try
and then watch as he tries to do the second attempt
and you'll notice they nosed over to speed up and then they took off the second time
and then they continued to increase the pitch.
Now it's possible that they rotated too early
meaning they pulled back on the yoke too early as far as for the speed.
That's one potential situation.
The other possibility is they pulled back too much
and they didn't have enough speed
so then they lowered the nose over to pick up speed
then we're a little bit more gentle to get the pitch of the aircraft off the ground
and then it doesn't have the drag of the wheels
that are going along the ground there.
So now that it's got off the ground, it gets the gear up
and now with that it has a lot less drag and now you can pitch up more
and it can climb away from the ground faster.
Now, I'm just assuming those things because I haven't seen a report
that explains exactly what happened
but if there was some other situation
these pilots probably didn't have a lot of runway left
and they had already decided they were going to take off.
So at that point,
if you factor all that in they did a great job getting off the ground the second time
because I'm sure there wasn't a lot of runway left
when they took off the second time.
There's not a lot to explain here
but I'm sure that the drone operators when they see this,
the professional drone operators,
it must make them furious to see people do things like this
because it gives them such a bad reputation.
Obviously, it's nice that it didn't go into the engine
because that would have been a much worse situation
but even so as it ripped off that winglet right there,
had it hit middle or in the middle of the wing anywhere alongside there
it wouldn't have ripped the wing off.
And I just want to clarify that.
Those winglets are designed for fuel efficiency.
That's really it.
I've had some people ask: "Are they there because they look cool?"
No, there's nothing on planes that are there because they look cool.
it's really to save gas.
So for those of you with a fear of flying realize
that a single drone like this,
would have a very difficult time causing an airliner to crash.
if the drone had hit in the middle of the wing,
it would have just crumpled into the wing
and had it gone into the engine?
The engine would have had to be shut down
but as we've seen in the past,
a plane can fly fine with just one engine.
Something that's important to know about this video
is that it never happened in real life.
But it got sent to my Instagram so much
I wanted to let you know if it did happen you would be okay.
If you want to see more of these Viral debriefs,
check out this video here.
And if you want to see a flight attendant who is scared of flying,
I take her flying in a small plane.
It is hilarious,
check out this video here on 74 burger.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Until then,
keep the blue side up.