Runway Collision At Los Angeles (USAir 1493 & SkyWest 5569) DISASTER BREAKDOWN

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In early 1990. Two planes collided on a runway at Los Angeles International airport in California. Two planes were effectively cleared to use the same runway at the same time. USAir flight 1493 on final approach onto Runway 24L collided With SkyWest flight 5569, a small commuter plane where the two planes burst into flames.
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  • @DisasterBreakdown
    @DisasterBreakdown3 жыл бұрын

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  • @Rombbb

    @Rombbb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can you share the name or link of the background piano music at 6:09 ? It's really nice. Thanks in advance. Super channel by the way !

  • @dashcan8479

    @dashcan8479

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @KingLucifer27

    @KingLucifer27

    Жыл бұрын

    @trashcan Yeah, that sounds really professional. I'd totally believe you. LMFAO!! 😜

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980

    @Eric_Hutton.1980

    Жыл бұрын

    @DisasterBreakdown Wouldn't the SkyWest flight have been listening to the same frequency as the US Air flight? So couldn't they have chimed in and say were still on the runway?

  • @emmap8280
    @emmap82803 жыл бұрын

    I cannot imagine the guilt that poor controller felt - while ultimately she put those two planes on the same runway, I know how stressful that job can get, especially with reduced staff and the lack of a functioning tracking screen. I hope she is doing okay, whatever she ended up doing

  • @SkyrimCZtutorials

    @SkyrimCZtutorials

    3 жыл бұрын

    She is not in the prison?

  • @dannicolmatthew

    @dannicolmatthew

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SkyrimCZtutorials No. While she did make mistakes, her mistakes were mostly caused by how bad ATC conditions were, such as the tower's postition, the malfunctioning ground radar, the lights that made it hard to see the smaller planes, and also the fact that she was being overloaded. ATC is a stressful job to say the least lol

  • @danielabackstrom

    @danielabackstrom

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Travel with Tony surely she uploaded selfies to instagram and TEXTED someone BACK IN 1991 🤣😂😂😂😂 🤡

  • @dannicolmatthew

    @dannicolmatthew

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielabackstrom Yeah he's trying to go straight for stereotypes lol and it's not working. Dude gotta take this a bit more serious

  • @danielabackstrom

    @danielabackstrom

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Travel with Tony oh, you should know since you're a man, lord knows you can't do 2 things at the same time 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @powwowken2760
    @powwowken27603 жыл бұрын

    Oof... Usually in this type of scenario it's easy to blame the controller for messing up, but a single person, juggling at the very least 6 aircraft, across 2 runways, in the dark where they can't see the planes themselves.... Honestly it's amazing that more of these types of accidents didn't occur, I sure as hell wouldn't want that job

  • @KabbalahSherry

    @KabbalahSherry

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me neither 🤷🏻‍♀️😕 You know they probably ain't paid right. smh

  • @eliasbiditza

    @eliasbiditza

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KabbalahSherry idk about usa, but in germany those people get paid VERY well. Like quite a bit above average.

  • @busking6292

    @busking6292

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think one possible mistake was the smaller aircraft deciding to position itself for take-off in the middle of the ACTIVE runway(probably to save time/fuel) I think all take-offs should start behind the line although in this case it might not have made a difference.

  • @MalcolmCooks

    @MalcolmCooks

    2 жыл бұрын

    @The Silenced controller *error* does not mean controller *incompetence*

  • @scooby1992

    @scooby1992

    2 жыл бұрын

    and an airport which is probably one of the busiest in the world with no ground radar system that might not have prevented this crash but would have made the chances of it happening vastly reduced .

  • @Powerranger-le4up
    @Powerranger-le4up3 жыл бұрын

    The Vancouver Canucks hockey team actually witnessed the accident and the pilot of their plane managed to get away from the flames. It really shook the team up and they were beaten 9-1 the next day.

  • @bassett_green

    @bassett_green

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pfft, amateurs. The Sabres are able to lose games 9-1 even without aviation disasters

  • @Train2589
    @Train25896 ай бұрын

    after what happened in Tokyo today, this crash came to mind almost immediately for how similar the crash seems to be playing out minus the reports that the other plane was told to hold not forgotten like the accident here.

  • @Sammie551

    @Sammie551

    5 ай бұрын

    Seems like the ATC didn't look out the window

  • @kcindc5539
    @kcindc55393 жыл бұрын

    Ugh that was an awful night. I was working in LAS for America West that night, and I knew one of the Skywest passengers - he was the station manager for Skywest at Palmdale. They closed the airport which halted the last seven of our 15 daily LAS-LAX flights. Most people were understanding given the circumstances… but there were a few jackasses I wanted desperately to haul off and slug the crap out of them. Such a sad day.

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your comment.

  • @kristita_888

    @kristita_888

    3 жыл бұрын

    It never fails to shock me how selfish some people can be in times of disaster!

  • @saladasss2092

    @saladasss2092

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kristita_888 2020/2021 in a nutshell

  • @kristita_888

    @kristita_888

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@saladasss2092 Oh my gosh - yes!

  • @pauljordan4452

    @pauljordan4452

    3 жыл бұрын

    KC in DC: I don't blame you at all.

  • @senabecool7232
    @senabecool72326 ай бұрын

    History repeats itself, a JAL A350 has collided with a Dash-8 at HND in similar conditions to this accident

  • @Perich29

    @Perich29

    6 ай бұрын

    The 737 300 are metal in these days while the A350 900 are plastics.

  • @Sammie551

    @Sammie551

    5 ай бұрын

    Seems like we didn't learn anything did we ☹️

  • @dew9103

    @dew9103

    5 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@Perich29since everyone made it out of the A350 and some people passed away in the 737, plastics are more fire resistant than metal

  • @connork5339
    @connork53393 жыл бұрын

    My brother went to college with a guy who's parents were on that SkyWest commuter plane. He told me that the guy had a lot of issues during his college years as a result of the loss of his parents. Very troubling and sad.

  • @edmundkempersdartboard173
    @edmundkempersdartboard1733 жыл бұрын

    ATC must be one hell of a stressful job with thousands of lives in your hands every shift. Add to that the kind of hours they have to work and the amount of variables they have to juggle...

  • @Sammie551

    @Sammie551

    5 ай бұрын

    They must be paid a lot

  • @jupiterzombies

    @jupiterzombies

    25 күн бұрын

    @@Sammie551 lol

  • @Sashazur
    @Sashazur3 жыл бұрын

    Sometime in the 80s, I was a passenger on an airliner in the USA getting ready to take off. Our plane made a final turn from the taxiway onto the runway and then immediately the pilot started the takeoff roll. We were going pretty fast but hadn’t rotated yet, when he hit the brakes hard. After we stopped he came on the PA and said something like “Well folks, there was another plane on the runway ahead of us. I thought he was going to get out of the way in time but he didn’t”. It was a hard enough stop that the emergency vehicles came out, but we didn’t have to evacuate. I don’t remember whether we took off later on the same plane or had to switch planes. I just thought the pilot was an idiot to start takeoff when he KNEW there was another plane ahead of him on the runway - maybe it was in the process of taxiing off, but still he should have waited until it really was clear.

  • @Glibzer

    @Glibzer

    3 жыл бұрын

    He should not be a pilot

  • @lizpurr8402

    @lizpurr8402

    2 жыл бұрын

    Holy crap that’s scary! Thank God your plane was ok and no one was hurt.

  • @Neopumper666

    @Neopumper666

    2 жыл бұрын

    You have to take into consideration that proper procedures and clearances need to be followed And he probably had the green light and the other one was cleared but failed to follow up A lot of the aviation accidents are caused by this, directly or indirectly as it almost happened to you

  • @luxmar1

    @luxmar1

    2 жыл бұрын

    A.

  • @w00llee14
    @w00llee143 жыл бұрын

    This accident was witnessed from another plane which was carrying the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team, naturally they were shaken by what they saw that evening.

  • @NERGYStudios
    @NERGYStudios5 ай бұрын

    Cannot believe that the exact same thing happens in 2024.

  • @ErzengelDesLichtes
    @ErzengelDesLichtes3 жыл бұрын

    Why don’t airports have redundant systems? Airplanes have redundancies out the wazoo, but these disaster reports keep saying “the ground control radar wasn’t working” or “the glide slope beacon was undergoing maintenance” or whatever. WHY DO YOU ONLY HAVE ONE???

  • @tinyoctopus9948

    @tinyoctopus9948

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some higher ups probably don’t want to spend the money, even if it would be safer. Especially since it’s not guaranteed that they would ever use the backup, they probably did some calculations and decided it wasn’t worth the cost. Personally I would prefer to spend more money and not have people die, but I’m also not a rich businessman

  • @ErzengelDesLichtes

    @ErzengelDesLichtes

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tinyoctopus9948 Pretty sure the higher ups don't want to pay for the airplanes' redundancies out the wazoo, but they're mandated so they don't have a choice. I'm wondering why the same "mandate safety" mentality isn't applied to airports, too.

  • @samhhaincat2703

    @samhhaincat2703

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ErzengelDesLichtes It's pretty simple: Capitalism.

  • @truedarklander

    @truedarklander

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ErzengelDesLichtes Perhaps, infrastructure shouldn't be for profit at all

  • @richardcranium3579

    @richardcranium3579

    Жыл бұрын

    @@samhhaincat2703 uh no. It’s called greed. It’s a basic human trait. Ever wonder how Millions died in the Gulags of the Russian “utopia”? There was no capitalism there and yet millions died……….? Since airports are operated by state, local, and regional entities (governments) that lays the answer at their feet doesn’t it?

  • @chiroquacker2580
    @chiroquacker25803 жыл бұрын

    My aunt and two of my cousins, who were young children at the time, were supposed to be on the Metroliner. My aunt was in the US Navy and was returning to the states from Japan, where she had been in communications. According to her, she had a bad feeling about the flight and decided to take a bus to San Diego instead of the flight. She may have just been tired of flying after many hours of long flights, but she does say a 'bad vibe' was at least a factor in her decision. Flying is the safest form of travel and the odds of being killed in a crash is in the same ballpark as the odds of winning the lottery, but there are people who beat the odds and win the lottery.

  • @LogieT2K
    @LogieT2K3 жыл бұрын

    This in my mind is just a tragic case of everything that could of gone wrong going wrong. I find it impossible to place any fault on anyone involved

  • @moviemad56

    @moviemad56

    3 жыл бұрын

    ... Except the executives who decided to *cut* staffing at the world's busiest airport...

  • @LogieT2K

    @LogieT2K

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@moviemad56 i was more meaning dorectly involved but yes, they are definately at fault

  • @saladasss2092

    @saladasss2092

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LogieT2K usually the ones who aren't directly involved are at fault. like the airlines cutting staff or the maintainance crew working sloppy.

  • @samhhaincat2703

    @samhhaincat2703

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yip, it even affected your ability to spell.

  • @mikipav1064

    @mikipav1064

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually, only two things went wrong here: 1.) The usual: Shortage of staff because greedy management cutting costs 2.) An ATC-Controller, overwhelmed with work, making a human, but a terrible mistake because of the shortage of staff. You don't watch a lot of airplane disaster videos, don't you? Because this accident is one of a very few airplane crashes, that actually has a pretty simple and straightforward cause. Most airplane accidents have a much more complex chain of events that lead to disaster. I recommend you to watch a documentary abou the famous tenerife aircraft disaster. It was also a runway incursion, but with many more events that led to this very unlikely disaster. It has a much longer and complex chain of events.

  • @TinyTroglodyte
    @TinyTroglodyte2 жыл бұрын

    Being an air traffic controller seems so stressful, too much for me at least.

  • @raquellofstedt9713
    @raquellofstedt97133 жыл бұрын

    I remember my mom saying that my dad called in before this even hit the news saying frantically to my mom that he wasn´t on that Sky west.. Before he even knew what one was crushed. he was waiting to get his boarding pass on Sky west for Fresno.

  • @fluxerflixer1
    @fluxerflixer12 жыл бұрын

    There is one factor you didn’t mention. When landing to the west at LAX during sunset the water creates a blinding glare that pilots had complained about for years. The water is very close to LAX. USAir was landing to the west at sunset during this accident. I read in reports that this was most likely a major factor in NOT noticing the Metro lined up and holding at that intersection. Just wondering if you heard about this?

  • @scraggledy
    @scraggledy2 жыл бұрын

    We need to appreciate the amazing work ATC does.

  • @AviationNut
    @AviationNut3 жыл бұрын

    I just love these episodes you make and everytime you make these i say oh i already watched Air Crash Investigation about this crash, but i watch anyway and you always have so much more information and details than the ACI episodes. Excellent work my friend i am definitely a subscriber for life. Keep making these awesome detailed episodes and you will be at 1 million subs in no time. I share your videos with everyone I know and I always leave a like even before i watch the video because I know it will be awesome.

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I am thrilled you enjoy my content. I have no plans on slowing down as of right now :)

  • @kristita_888
    @kristita_8883 жыл бұрын

    Disaster Breakdown has uploaded...my Saturday is now complete. 😁 Thanks for another impeccable production!

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, glad you are still liking the videos!

  • @vandraiss
    @vandraiss3 жыл бұрын

    I remember this accident very well. My doctor's daughter was on the Sky West plane. She was returning to Palmdale from enrolling in Mt Saint Mary's college.

  • @dew9103
    @dew9103 Жыл бұрын

    the missing ground radar is in my opinion the biggest contributing factors in the collision

  • @catsario7512
    @catsario75123 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the upload even when you’re on vacation!

  • @wc6220
    @wc62203 жыл бұрын

    The Tenerife accident wasn't a runway incursion. The Pan Am crew had been told to enter the runway by atc in the tower. They were confused as to which taxiway exit to turn off at. The KLM crew mistakenly thought that they had been cleared for take-off when infact they had only been given an airways clearance for after take-off. Thirdly the controller could not see the runway due to fog. A classic chain of events that led to disaster .........

  • @XaviMacBash

    @XaviMacBash

    2 жыл бұрын

    by definition it was, 2 airplanes on the same runway, one landing/taking off, but ur right it wasnt a textbook runway incursion

  • @Giratina575

    @Giratina575

    2 жыл бұрын

    There was also a heterodyne that caused the klm crew to miss an important message that the pan am had not cleared the runway

  • @shuttle_aero9399
    @shuttle_aero93993 жыл бұрын

    Good work Friend!

  • @lucidityZ
    @lucidityZ3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks again for another excellent video!

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @helenwilliams7065
    @helenwilliams70653 жыл бұрын

    Great job, as always!

  • @Mochrie99
    @Mochrie993 жыл бұрын

    Another great video! Thanks so much!

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @lh1tmaN
    @lh1tmaN3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video.

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome

  • @mbob4337
    @mbob43373 жыл бұрын

    We have so much fancy equipment today. But you'd think someone would have tried to fully illuminate the entire length of a runway. So visually landing planes can't miss if an object. Not just a plane, has entered the landing strip. Or maybe have it be motion sensitive. Where ever a plane taxi's and waits. Bright lights will stay active on the spot. Til the object is moved.

  • @theborg6024

    @theborg6024

    3 жыл бұрын

    id be worried there about having a massive miniature sun point at the runway, better to have lights on the plane themselves, which they do and somehow were missed here

  • @alexburke1899

    @alexburke1899

    2 жыл бұрын

    The smaller plane didn’t have it’s strobe lights on per company policy at the time. Not blaming them I’m just saying the technology they needed was sort of there but not in use. I think the airline policy was to not turn on strobe until takeoff clearance but it should have been as soon as they entered the runway.

  • @HK_Aviator
    @HK_Aviator5 ай бұрын

    Sounds like the 2024 Haneda Airport Runway Collision

  • @noka1979
    @noka19793 жыл бұрын

    Thanks again for the great content.

  • @aliccolo
    @aliccolo3 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see you cover the Linate Disaster, another runway incursion.

  • @jaki8739
    @jaki87393 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou for another great Brakedown

  • @Bigones111
    @Bigones111 Жыл бұрын

    An interesting tidbit to note: David Koch of the Koch Brothers/Koch Industries was onboard US Air 1493. Koch would never again fly a public airliner after this

  • @86gakusei
    @86gakusei3 жыл бұрын

    Just found your channel! I've been binging your lineup. Might I suggest looking into the 1986 mid-air collision between Aeromexico 498 and a Piper airplane over LA.

  • @grampabadger
    @grampabadger3 жыл бұрын

    Just remember, this actually happened in 1991.

  • @gordonbergslien30
    @gordonbergslien302 жыл бұрын

    I remember this mishap well. Our family had just gotten home from dining out. We turned on the TV and there was live coverage of the accident. I initially mistook the wing of the 737 for the vertical stabilizer of a DC-10. We were all freaked out because, at the time, my brother-in-law was a FE on 10's. RIP to all of the victims.

  • @stevetherentguy
    @stevetherentguyАй бұрын

    I was on a Northwest flight from MSP that landed minutes after this on runway 24R. I will never forget it. There was still fire. Emergency vehicles everywhere. Very sad and troubling! When we were landing a young girl seated in a row forward of me said "Look mommy, that airplane crashed!" RIP.

  • @TransistorBased
    @TransistorBased2 жыл бұрын

    This is one of those incidents where it's easy to figure out where the blame lies but it's very hard to actually do the finger pointing. With the information presented here, it sounds like she was doing her job to the best of her ability and in the hustle and bustle the little plane just slipped out of mind. Hopefully this was a wake-up call to The LAX overseers that they needed to maintain their equipment better and push harder for hiring.

  • @scraggledy
    @scraggledy2 жыл бұрын

    My uncle worked at LAX at the time, (and does now). He remembers this vividly, though he did not witness the incursion itself. Wild.

  • @RedDed228
    @RedDed2283 жыл бұрын

    Sadly at least every one who has died in the past from aviation disasters won't have their lives taken I will vane because especially in the aviation industry we heavily learn from our mistakes to make sure we don't do them again.

  • @lizpurr8402
    @lizpurr84022 жыл бұрын

    USAir used to be literally the only airline we flew in my family. Flew them tons of times as a UM, and flight attendants were always so sweet and kind to me- and to all passengers really. I always felt so safe on their planes. I think they were mostly MD-80s and B727s with the occasional DC-9 in there a few times. God Bless and keep the precious memory of victims of this crash and their families. RIP ❤️🙏

  • @vincesbardella3838

    @vincesbardella3838

    2 жыл бұрын

    Liz: I thank you in behalf of my former employer, USAir, originally Allegheny Airlines, and which later became US Airways, now in control at American Airlines, as a result of the 2016 merger.. I retired in 1993, as an MD-80 captain. Ironically, Captain Colin Shaw, who died in this tragedy, flew his first trip as a USAir copilot, with me in the BAC 1-11 , in the late 70s. Not only was he a very competent and thoroughly efficient pilot, but a very pleasant person with whom to spend three days in the cockpit. May he RIP.

  • @Joostmhw
    @Joostmhw2 жыл бұрын

    ATC: makes a sad, but understandable mistake given lack of safety care by superiors Also ATC: out of a job, not the ones who allowed such a situation to happen though

  • @Mochrie99
    @Mochrie993 жыл бұрын

    Also, the fact that an airport the size of LAX has only 4 runways strikes me as crazy. Granted, I don't know much about the airline industry, if at all, but surely that doesn't sound sufficient for the number of flights in and out of that airport.

  • @theatheistmonk4385

    @theatheistmonk4385

    3 жыл бұрын

    London Heathrow only has two runways

  • @heatdeath5535

    @heatdeath5535

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I admit that I don't know anything about this topic, but here's my opinion anyway"

  • @XaviMacBash

    @XaviMacBash

    2 жыл бұрын

    it can be slightly more dangerous but london heathrow only has 2 and they've never* had a fatal runway incursion incident *as far as im aware, there might've been an incident that i dont know about

  • @localmenace3043

    @localmenace3043

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@heatdeath5535 Better honest and wrong than confidently wrong.

  • @LeolaGlamour

    @LeolaGlamour

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theatheistmonk4385 Wow did not know that.

  • @Bobshouse
    @Bobshouse28 күн бұрын

    Every time I flew out of LA for Santa Maria we would taxi out to the runway and I'd look out the window and see the landing lights of 3 or 4 planes coming in for a landing and always worried about something like this happening.

  • @ToLWaM
    @ToLWaM3 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, glad you like the content

  • @justlucky8254
    @justlucky82544 ай бұрын

    Great videos! I'd like to see diagrams that correspond with the descriptions of runways, taxiways, and other pertinent locations. My slow brain just cant update the map in my head fast enough.😂

  • @SimPilotMika
    @SimPilotMika3 жыл бұрын

    This is such a coincidence because I was just thinking about this crash. Because yesterday I discovered that billionaire David Koch was a survivor of that crash!

  • @neillp3827

    @neillp3827

    3 жыл бұрын

    It would have been good ig he had been, then waco wouldn't have happened

  • @MrJohnlennon007

    @MrJohnlennon007

    3 жыл бұрын

    Evil people tend to survive big incidents.

  • @shrimpflea

    @shrimpflea

    Жыл бұрын

    Which raises the question, what in the world was a billionaire doing on a US Air flight?

  • @SimPilotMika

    @SimPilotMika

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shrimpflea I know 😂

  • @stuporspoon
    @stuporspoon3 жыл бұрын

    This background music is giving me palpitations, man. 😂* * I do genuinely enjoy your videos and the effort you put into them.

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you like them!

  • @terezap5756
    @terezap57562 жыл бұрын

    I love your show 👍But at the same time I just can’t fly anymore Just too scary 😧

  • @trumooperdue1320
    @trumooperdue13203 жыл бұрын

    3:11 hearing one of my closest cities in videos like this always gives me the creeps

  • @HaesslichG
    @HaesslichG5 ай бұрын

    I wonder if there were any similarities to the Haneda crash a few days back.

  • @barrierastiss8877
    @barrierastiss8877 Жыл бұрын

    So many things combined together made this action unfold

  • @pop5678eye
    @pop5678eye2 жыл бұрын

    This is another set-up-for-failure tragedy. We may point fingers at one person or another but the set up was so risky to begin with that if it didn't happen that day it would just have happened to another two planes soon after. It is similar in nature to the Uberlingen disaster. The system was set up so risky disaster was bound to happen sooner or later.

  • @warsepticagaming9527
    @warsepticagaming95275 ай бұрын

    This seems....familiar

  • @rationalbacon5872
    @rationalbacon58722 жыл бұрын

    This makes me so very thankful that the worst thing that could happen to me at work is the photocopy ink toner exploding on me.

  • @kylewilford
    @kylewilford3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video. Just subscribed

  • @vincent412l7
    @vincent412l75 ай бұрын

    SkyWest 5569 sat on the runway while USAir was given landing clearance, on the same frequency. They just sat there quietly and never let anyone know they were there.

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980
    @Eric_Hutton.19802 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why but this video reminds me of something that my dear late mother said. She said, "the one thing you never wanted to hear your pilot say was oops. Because oops covers just about everything so you don't know it was something major or something minor that happened."

  • @bjr4567

    @bjr4567

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only one who should have been saying oops in this scenario was the air traffic controller.

  • @peggy7079
    @peggy70793 жыл бұрын

    I 💜 this channel 🏅🏅🏅

  • @DisasterBreakdown

    @DisasterBreakdown

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @robertshotzberger
    @robertshotzberger4 ай бұрын

    I need clearance, Clarence.

  • @jamessimms415
    @jamessimms4153 жыл бұрын

    My Guard unit was @ KKMC in Saudi Arabia getting ready for Desert Storm when I heard abt this over AFN radio.

  • @ToxicScorpionnnn
    @ToxicScorpionnnn11 ай бұрын

    I cannot imagine the pasengers on the planes near the collision the horror they felt after seeing that collision. Rest in peace😢

  • @jjameson3035
    @jjameson30353 жыл бұрын

    Excessive ads. I am Never getting the KZread premium due to the Beligerant advertising.

  • @krozareq

    @krozareq

    3 жыл бұрын

    I use New Pipe (on the phone). Open source YT client

  • @peteconrad2077
    @peteconrad20773 жыл бұрын

    Runway incursion doesn’t require two aircraft. If a single aircraft enters a runway when it shouldn’t, that’s an incursion.

  • @krozareq

    @krozareq

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep and doesn't even require an aircraft. It can be a vehicle or person entering the protected runway area. Controllers can get hit with a runway incursion too for not maintaining proper aircraft distance.

  • @EvanEscher
    @EvanEscher3 жыл бұрын

    3:05 is that image from Santa Barbara airport?

  • @terezap5756
    @terezap57562 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel 👍 But I am to scare to fly anymore 😥😥😥

  • @chrisarthur3577
    @chrisarthur35773 жыл бұрын

    Again, all of these commercials are being interrupted by something called Runway Collision!!

  • @medicinaemdia4895
    @medicinaemdia48952 жыл бұрын

    Should I say …. You don’t try cutting corners when it comes to aviation? I’m a doctor and I do my best to avoid making mistakes that will be bad for the client. If you try to do thinks quickly you are always going to make mistakes.

  • @pauljordan4452
    @pauljordan44523 жыл бұрын

    What's our clearance, Clarence?

  • @staticbuilds7613
    @staticbuilds7613 Жыл бұрын

    Trying to keep track of where planes where and what they were doing during this video was hard. Can't imagine what she must of felt like doing this and more. This seems more like a badly designed airport with overworked and stressful conditions and -hard to see runways type of problem than the error of a person.

  • @sd70m2man
    @sd70m2man2 жыл бұрын

    How did you simulate the crash with the model of the metro?

  • @sd70m2man

    @sd70m2man

    2 жыл бұрын

    Like where did you ge tit

  • @whoever6458
    @whoever64583 жыл бұрын

    Collisions are likely in the car just trying to drive into that airport complex but it's hard to get a good international flight from any of the many other airports in Southern California. Every time I left the US by air, I started flying out of LAX even though there are at least two airports within a half hour of my house that are called international airports. Even for flight inside the country, I have always had to go to the airport that is further away even though there's one in the same valley where I live and close enough that I could technically ride my bike there.

  • @sonic23233
    @sonic2323310 ай бұрын

    I know people who worked for USAir and I was never told about this

  • @beylonjames394
    @beylonjames3942 жыл бұрын

    I like how when he was referencing to to ren Faye he said the da of the dance of 540 people

  • @paulazemeckis7835
    @paulazemeckis78353 жыл бұрын

    At least the piano piece was beautiful.

  • @pauljordan4452

    @pauljordan4452

    3 жыл бұрын

    Paula: are you related to film director Robert Zemeckis?

  • @user-ej2xz3lx2e
    @user-ej2xz3lx2e3 жыл бұрын

    I feel bad for Robyn

  • @jamesx4952
    @jamesx49525 ай бұрын

    What’s the music that starts at 8:34

  • @ederss7
    @ederss7 Жыл бұрын

    A question for other controllers: from 0 to 10, how bad was her mistake?

  • @skidkev6421
    @skidkev64213 жыл бұрын

    4 minutes early today 😁

  • @Sammydx1
    @Sammydx1 Жыл бұрын

    Would have the small commuter plane be listening to the radio and realize wait.... IM ON THAT RUNWAY !!!

  • @SteveBueche1027
    @SteveBueche1027 Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, most airports didn’t buy more land around them for expansion.

  • @redpillfreedom6692

    @redpillfreedom6692

    10 ай бұрын

    And LAX ultimately can't expand because it's surrounded by suburbs on three sides and the Pacific ocean to the west. There is literally no room.

  • @Zions_Awesome_YouTube_Show8479
    @Zions_Awesome_YouTube_Show8479 Жыл бұрын

    I love ❤ your train wreck videos can you 🥺 please do the 1993 sunset limited train wreck

  • @yagoalmeida7004
    @yagoalmeida70043 жыл бұрын

    Good video! nice job! Can you talk about the flight Gol 1907 that crashed with a Embraer Legacy N600XL??? Thank you!

  • @jamest2401
    @jamest2401 Жыл бұрын

    LAX may be one of the largest and busiest airports in the world, but from a passenger/traveler perspective it’s also one of the suckiest. I hate flying in & out of LAX. If I can avoid it, and choose Burbank, in the Valley; or Ontario, in the Inland Empire, then I’ll pay extra for them, respective to my destination.

  • @SlavaUkraini85
    @SlavaUkraini853 жыл бұрын

    what about ground radar?

  • @donwald3436
    @donwald3436 Жыл бұрын

    Why would you ever have an aircraft PARK on a RUNWAY?

  • @UPB78

    @UPB78

    Жыл бұрын

    She probably just forgot they were there thus never clearing them for takeoff. Faulty radars and understaffed ATC terminals will undoubtedly be fatal sooner or later. Even nowadays, with so much more technology, runway incursions and and near collisions are happening at a very high rate, which is terrifying.

  • @donwald3436

    @donwald3436

    Жыл бұрын

    @@UPB78 She hadn't forgotten about them while telling them to park.

  • @UPB78

    @UPB78

    Жыл бұрын

    @@donwald3436 She told them to "enter the runway and wait for further instructions", i'm sure her intentions were to clear them for takeoff once WWM5006 responded to her instructions to cross the runway, and that's when she forgot about the Skywest.

  • @kuromyou7969
    @kuromyou79692 жыл бұрын

    Why TF are they running a skeleton crew for such an important job?

  • @pgbrown12084
    @pgbrown120843 жыл бұрын

    Question from a non-expert- Why didn't the Skywest flight crew say something to someone when another plane was cleared to land on the runway they were on? Aren't tower communications open for anyone to hear? Granted, I understand that the crew likely weren't listening to every communication that wasn't directed at them. But a landing clearance on a runway I'm on would have at least caused my ears to perk up a bit. I dunno. I wasn't there.

  • @nono-fb8tr

    @nono-fb8tr

    3 жыл бұрын

    The whole reason everything got fucked up was because they changed their radio frequency and the ATC and general traffic couldn't get a response from them, part of the reason why they got forgotten.

  • @pgbrown12084

    @pgbrown12084

    3 жыл бұрын

    From what I understand from the description starting at 7:00, the controller was distracted by a different flight that had changed frequencies; WW5006. She was still communicating with Skywest because she cleared them to enter the runway and hold. I might be misunderstanding something regarding this incursion.

  • @danielhartin7680

    @danielhartin7680

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wondered the exact same thing. Imagine hearing a commercial jet was just cleared to land on the same runway you're waiting on for takeoff clearance.

  • @madchocolettechip2397
    @madchocolettechip23972 жыл бұрын

    "it is the only intl airport of the us in the modern day which is a hub for all major airlines" NOPE absolutely not there is many intl airports in the us and some of the biggest are New York JFK or Atlanta H-J both making an enormous amont of traffic. I'm pretty sure those are sheltering some big airlines there too. (excuse my bad english)

  • @LeolaGlamour

    @LeolaGlamour

    2 жыл бұрын

    Atlanta def has hubs but it’s not a hub for all major airlines? I could be wrong but I think that’s true. It is a delta hub for sure.

  • @arpsichord7474

    @arpsichord7474

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry what? Atlanta isn't a united hub. New York isn't an Alaska hub.

  • @LeolaGlamour
    @LeolaGlamour2 жыл бұрын

    Why is Skywest blamed?! Even if they didn’t have lights on, shouldn’t ATC be responsible.

  • @Rombbb
    @Rombbb3 жыл бұрын

    2:07 there is not 1 international airport in the US in the "modern day" right ? I mean, I'm a layman but no way. On a sidenote, anybody know the name of the music at 6:09 , it's so soothing :-)

  • @bigmaclexa2981

    @bigmaclexa2981

    3 жыл бұрын

    "The only international airport in the USA in the modern day, which is a hub for all major US airlines."

  • @Rombbb

    @Rombbb

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bigmaclexa2981 still makes zero sense. Or it's just formuluted very poorly if it's meant to say an intl airport Ánd a hub for all airlines, but even that doesn't make sense because there are more of those. LA isn't even the busiest. That whole sentence is just confusing as a ....

  • @bigmaclexa2981

    @bigmaclexa2981

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Rombbb Yes. It's trying to say that LAX is the only international airport which is also a hub for all major US airlines. Of course there are other international airports. None of those is a hub for all major US airlines, though, apart from LAX.

  • @Rombbb

    @Rombbb

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bigmaclexa2981 Thanks, understood !

  • @Ricky40369
    @Ricky403693 жыл бұрын

    The lawyers, and I grew up with one of them, are the only winners. Pathetic beings.

  • @SaltExarch
    @SaltExarch4 ай бұрын

    I always think it's crazy how people talk about the air traffic controller in this disaster versus ATC and pilots in other disasters. Like, don't get me wrong, I do have some sympathy for the controller here, but she WAS the main cause of the incident. She lost track of two aircraft and put them on the same runway. Of course there were other contributing factors like the lack of visibility on the runway and being overworked by management, and definitely those are negative points that should rightfully be addressed, but what's the difference between that and a pilot who caused an air disaster? Yet when it's the pilots who make mistakes, we come down super hard and say "how could a pilot do such a thing?" even when there are equally rational excuses, like somatogravic illusion, fatigue, or genuinely not being trained for the situation their aircraft put them in. Not to mention how, in other disasters, people often say "How could ATC tell them to do that when it wasn't safe?" or "ATC should've never authorized this clearance", and yet when it comes to this disaster SPECIFICALLY, "oh, it's hard to find fault with the controller."

  • @Zyphera
    @Zyphera3 жыл бұрын

    This is what you get from greed.

  • @ryanhess7504
    @ryanhess75042 жыл бұрын

    My mom was on this flight.

  • @petdetail
    @petdetail3 жыл бұрын

    My friend, it's Loss Ann Juh Less not Loss Ann Juh Lees.

  • @arandomthing2489
    @arandomthing24893 жыл бұрын

    Random, but I was just at LAX on Monday

  • @AviationNut

    @AviationNut

    3 жыл бұрын

    Congrats

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