Viral debrief. Coming up! Hey, 74 crew! Welcome back! If you don't know me,
my name's Kelsey. I'm a 747 pilot. My channel, 74 gear,
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Now there is a monsoon
or so it seems like outside. So if you hear a bunch of
weird noises in the background, it's all the rain that's
hitting the window. I am happy to be here inside instead
of doing a walk around right now, but let's get into it. I really empathize with these pilots
because I've been in a car crash before. I've had it be totally my fault. I crashed a car. So I know how that
feeling is on the inside. So I can only imagine, it must be significantly worse when you
crash your 300 million dollar aircraft. Something which is crazy, which
most of you will never see in real life is watch this
canister right here.
Watch what happens. It just got sucked straight
into the engine there. Now I've talked about it in some
of my Hollywood versus realities and some of the other videos, just how much air these
large engines are sucking in. So if you have the
canister there on the ground, it's relatively heavy, but it just sucked it right
in like it was nothing. So you can imagine if
there was a human nearby, he would possibly, or she
could get sucked into that engine. That's why our beacon is on,
which are these things right here. Every time the engines
are running or about to run. The next thing to look at is look
at the speed that they're coming in. I don't think the
tape is sped up because the beacon is
flashing at a normal rate. The 747 fully loaded
is a very heavy aircraft. The problem is is that when
you have a very heavy aircraft or anything that's very heavy, once the momentum
starts going in a direction, it's going to keep going
in that direction for a while.
However, typically taxing when
your aircraft is very heavy is easier. Any truck driver, and I know there's a lot
of truck drivers who watch these videos, any truck drivers will tell you,
driving with the full load is a lot easier than driving with
an empty trailer. It's the same thing
when you're having a jet. When you're flying a jet, it's
easier to fly when it's really heavy. It's easier to fly when
it's full of passengers or full of freight,
it's just a lot easier.
It lands easier. And then especially on something
like a wet or snowy or icy taxiway, having it heavy that gravity's
pushing it towards the ground. So it just taxis better. Holds to the ground
as less likely to skid. I don't know what the weight of
this aircraft is, but it did not go well. What surprises me is they
should be parking right here. So they way overshot their
entry into this parking area. But something they could
have done to slow down, if their brakes weren't working, would be to use
your thrust reversers. Now, are you supposed to use
your thrust reversers to slow down because you came into the
parking area like Lewis Hamilton? No, that's not what
you're supposed to do, but at the end of the day, if that's
what it takes to stop your aircraft from flying or skidding or
sliding into a bunch of canister or a wall or anything like that, then that's going to be
an easier conversation.
Sometimes what will
happen is your brakes, obviously are connected
to your tires on the ground. And if the ground is full of ice,
it's not going to do you any good. So you can use your thrust reversers
and that will help push your plane or slow your plane down. Now it's not ideal and
it doesn't always work. And you have to think it's going to take
a second for those things to spool up. And it's just not a normal
thing that you would do, but that is one thing
they could have done, but you would've had
to really thought that out. I've seen people do it in
real life, on really icy days, but I've never seen
that happen on a 747. What I'm really happy about
though, is there wasn't a wing-walker. Typically when the
planes are going in, you'd see a wing-walker
right in this area here. And they're there to verify that
the wing is not going to hit anything. If a wing-walker had been there, they could have easily
got sucked into that engine. Now I've taxied into this ramp and I've
taxied in this ramp with snow and ice.
And I've taxied in a lot of places
with snow and ice on the 74. And I usually try to go very
slow to prevent this situation. Because let's say
you're taxing in 4 knots and you hit a patch of
ice and you're on a hill and your plane starts to slide. And while there's
not a lot you can do, you can do your thrust reversers,
you can try to step on your brakes, but it doesn't always work
the way you want it to work. If that were to happen, and then you were going 4 knots
when your plane just hit a patch of ice and started skidding, that's an easier conversation
to have with your chief pilot than I came racing into the
parking like you saw here. When you're doing something
that's outside of the norm or something
that's really unsafe and then it goes bad, it's a lot hard to justify
and explain to them. There was a time once where
there was a bunch of planes that were getting
ready to take off.
They were on a taxiway and there was this
really stiff crosswind. And there was a little RJ, a little
regional jet that was sitting there and it started getting
pushed by the wind. Now they just happened to have
set their brake on a bunch of ice. They didn't know,
they couldn't see that. So when they set their brake, that plane out of all the 10 or
15 planes that were in the line, that plane just got pushed further and
further off to the side of the taxiway. And then they just
slid off into the ditch. Now they are
responsible for that aircraft. As soon as you show up as a
crew and you sign for that aircraft, you're responsible for it. No matter what, even if mother
nature is trying to be very mean to you and push your
plane into the ditch. However, when you
go to the chief pilot and you go have a review, or you talk to whoever
management about that, you're going to see, Hey, we pulled up
it right in the middle. We set our brake.
It
happened to be on ice. And we got push off the taxiway. That's a lot easier explanation
than these guys are going to have when they have to explain
why they were coming in so fast. I don't know what's going
to happen or what happened if their brakes
failed or whatever, but they were coming in
way too fast, in my opinion, for something that
has snow and ice. And at night, it's just a
lot of bad situations there. If you thought the last
one was hard to justify, it's even harder
to justify this one. It's in the daytime. He has wheels in a
truck and it's not snowy or icy out.
I think the craziest part of
this video though, is here. He totally knew that
he hit this aircraft. Obviously a couple of
flights got canceled that day. I don't know what the driver was
thinking as he hit that winglet there. I don't know if he was
thinking I better get out of here before they realize it's me. The thing is though, is that every
time a fueler goes and fuels an aircraft, they record the gallons
or weight or whatever it is, depending on where
it is in the world.
They record that and they give a
receipt to the crew. That crew verifies
that everything matches as far as the amount
of fuel on board. That's obviously something you want
to be very sure of before you take off. So there would be a
receipt from that fueler. I'm guessing he just
fueled that aircraft. There would be receipt that
that's who was that fueled it. So I'm not really sure where he
thought he was going to run off to and nobody would notice. So he ended up doing
a lot more damage by clipping that wing and then
running into the leading edge of the next wing.
