Crashing Just 20 Seconds After Takeoff (The Invisible Killer)

Greetings. How do you do sirs?

My father always said, when you're not gaining altitude, the throttles go thru the instrument panel and you pray.

I remember watching your videos 6 years ago. Great job on every video you made.

I don't worry about Windshear in my Nissan.

Old re-uploaded video

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That second one was just plain stupid, as opposed to the first crash which was unavoidable due to lack of winds shear technology.

That is why I would never have a house near the ends of runways either end. Side on is much safer if you have to live near an airport.

Wiki says: The damage was such that the aircraft was initially a write-off, but to preserve its reputation Qantas had it repaired at a cost of approximately AU$100 million (the exact figure was never disclosed by Qantas).[4] Returning the aircraft to service enabled Qantas to retain its record of having no hull-loss accidents since the advent of the Jet Age, and also proved to be the more economical option for the time, as a new 747-400 was listed close to $200 million.

Why would they travel in bad weather?

This is a great video shows the visual of the plane and how it reacted while explaining it.

Anyone else finding it hard to get on a plane.....after watching too many of these videos ?

With a forecast like that, I'm staying home - especially nowadays when you might have a couple of DEI hires in the cockpit, incapable of flying their way out of a wet paper sack with a radar vector.

Was Longreach the name of this Qantas 747 or were they all called Longreach?

Just completed a buffalo-atlanta flight and the return trip. Happy to say, my flights will NOT be featured on this channel 😅

Not trying to be sarcastic but when reading the notes I dumbed it down to, "oh windshear is just air pushing the plane to the ground." Got it

The story of a very lucky plane, and a very unlucky plane.

I remember when this happened because I was home and lived in New Orleans East. The aircraft crashed one block from my friend's house (he was at home when it happened) and saw the carnage. NTSB tried to blame the crash on "pilot error", then changed their accusation when they discovered that a microburst had occurred at that moment. It went down as we were going thru a typical thunderstorm which happened all the time in the South. All souls on the aircraft and some on the ground were lost and it was a very long time before the neighborhood recovered from the tragedy.

Another reupload...

I remember the PanAM Flight 759 crash. I lived in nearby Metairie, LA.

Fun fact, the Qantas 747 was repaired and put back into service. Qantas are still ranked #1 in safety for never having a 'hull loss' accident. Mentour pilot has a good reaction video to a turboprop encountering a microburst on take off. Scary to see!

That's interesting they found the cause of the accident 42yrs ago when technology didn't even exist back then for investigators to piece together. Microbursts musta been somewhat new to aviation, not knowing exactly how it worked.

Who buys a house at the end of a runway

I met this Southwest captain who was flying that day and they were ahead of the Pan Am for take off, he lined up, looked at the weather and canceled his takeoff and decided to wait. He knew it did not look good. He said he saw the Pan Am lift off, bank a little and flew into the wall of rain and clouds and never saw him again

Dear Lord this has to be one of the worst I’ve seen.

Hey could you do the recent fedex landing (when theirs more info)

Will be a sad day when an A380 video is made

Is this TheFlightChannel? Something has changed. The quality is lacking.

I had a retired airline captain tell me a long time ago that he and a group of pilots flew that New Orleans scenario in one of the airline's simulators multiple times and none of them could make that plane fly no matter what they did.

thank you for not starting the video with the end.👍

Another reupload?!?! Done with this channel, will stick with GreenDot Aviation...

Aw, this was a very sad and tragic accident which I clearly recall. Pan Am (1980) had acquired National Airlines which gave PA immediate access to domestic routes in the US. Pan Am had previously been well known for her international destinations. This Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas, San Diego trip was formerly National's - a solid airline back in the day.

Says the pilot in the 727 took off at 7200 feet down the runway. Did those old 727's take that long to get airborne??? Or did the pilot perform a reduced power takeoff?? You would think that with a thunderstorm you would want full power, those engines screaming to get you airborne and build up airspeed(more lift) and altitude as quick as possible.

Not sure the pilots of the Pan Am flight could have done anything in the short time space and I'm not sure how you train for this situation either. Puzzled as to why the Qantas flight was part of this video: was microburst a factor here too?

The Pan Am crash was just so sad. They really never had a chance. RIP 145 souls. Quantas was really caused by the Captain, just interfering with his First Officer without letting him know what he was doing and why. Luckly no deaths, but there were 38 injuries.

That was a cheap flight. What the hell do they expect for thirty bucks?

The pilots should never of left the Airport.

Let me say, Any Take off or Landing accidents where most people or pilots are Okay, Let us praise they are good souls.

I remember the terrible accident in Kenner (near New Orleans airport). It was a gloomy rainy day. The tragic loss of lives on the airplane and in the neighborhood was devastating. It was summer and kids were home, most who died or injured were children and their mothers. One infant girl miraculously survived because she was covered by a mattress or other type cushion. I knew three families who lived nearby but were not in the direct path. Thank you for the informative video.

Quantas flight 1 must have been devastating to Rainman.

I would never live near a airport...never.

Im born and raised in New Orleans. I was 11 years old when flight 759 crashed and will never forget hownit affected people here.
Im now a mail carrier in Kenner where the airport is located. Ive walked the mail route where 759 crashed and if you stand in the spot where the main wreckage came to rest at the corner of Taylor St and 18th St. and look back in the proper direction the plane came in at, you can actually still see the line through the trees leading right where the plane hit the ground.
It actually gradually rolled left as it descended and the left wing hit first.
Of all the death and destruction, there was one amazing survival story when a few hours after the crash and 8 month old(i believe) young girl was pulled from a destroyed home. In 2022, on the 40th anniversary of the crash the local news did a story on her and the firefighter who saved her.

My uncle was a lawyer in New Orleans and said that an acquaintance of his missed this flight because he was so drunk.

How about all the people on board? Any casualties?

Curious what was the point of combining these two incidents? They didn’t seem to have any significant correlation. And I’d say the quantas flight got off easy given how many mistakes were made.

C'mon TheFlightChannel, PanAm 759's next schedule stop was Las Vegas. The flight went from Miami to San Diego with stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

Microbursts are Mother Nature body-slamming a plane out of the sky. Shit is no joke.