Air Crash Investigator Answers Aviation Accident Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
Former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Air Safety Investigator Gregory Feith joins WIRED to answers the internet’s burning questions about aviation accidents. What’s the safest seat on an airplane? How likely are you to be in an aviation accident? At what stage of flight to most accidents occur? Can a flock of birds really bring down a jet? Why don’t planes have parachutes to prevent crashing? What happens if a window on a plane cracks during flight? And what really happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Answers to these questions and many more await on Aviation Accident Support.
0:00 Aviation Accident Support
0:14 Safest seat on a plane
0:49 Uh, this is your captain speaking
1:30 How can birds bring down a plane?
3:30 When do accidents occur?
4:31 Accident investigation reports
5:35 Malaysia airlines flight 370
6:44 Why do planes not have parachutes?
7:09 can planes fly and land during thunderstorms?
8:32 “I was intoxicated. I drank all of those days. I drank—in excess.”
9:23 What happens if a window on a plane cracks?
9:53 Captain Sully
10:31 The probability of getting killed in an airplane accident
11:03 Snakes On A Plane
11:12 Aerophobics
12:15 Falling with style
12:37 ValuJet Flight 592
14:07 The black box and what else?
15:42 The flight data recorder
16:34 EgyptAir Flight 990 and SilkAir Flight 185
17:15 Pilot training
18:22 What’s happened to Boeing?
19:10 GPS Trackers
20:37 Can pilots actually prevent crashes
21:47 Korean Air Flight 801
22:22 Airplane Mode on phones
22:54 Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Director: Anna O’Donohue
Director of Photography: Ben Dewey
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Gregory Feith
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Jasmine Breinburg; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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Ain’t no safe seat if the plane nose dive crash if ur in the back in plane going 175-225mph that’s how fast ur body going to fly forward on impact in if the plane blow up we be looking for pieces of the body
The safest seat on an airplane is on a train.
Okay, what is with that 747 model on the table?
It seems to have two engines only.
this video droppin 6 days before the azerbaijan plane crash and so on:
my pov: 💀💀☠☠🫨🤔
Plane most likely hits head first id say.
Dont sit by the wings. Sit in the back.
Theyll say were going down.
Dont sit near the engine.
Safest spot? The back?
As certain people are trying to get rid of safety regulations, let this be a reminder that those regulations are written in blood.
I've been in the airline industry for 24+ years and a pilot since high school (with four FAA certifications to my name so far). When I fly with my kids, I'll tell them, without looking, to explain where the nearest exit is and how far, then the same with the next closest. And it's not because I'm paranoid. I fly more just in the cabin of airliners in a month than many people do in years. It's just safety and situational awareness. It's the same reason you familiarize yourself with any new place you go or mode of transportation you're on. Also, if you're afraid to fly, it may be the fear of either the unknown or a lack of control. Try sitting in an A seat (left side window) because if you drive, it'll feel slightly more familiar.
"Bar none" except elevators which are the safest mode of transportation.
I feel like the plane could’ve depressurized and everyone was unconscious. The plan couldve flew itself to the South Indian Ocean. But then.. someone turned off the planes locator. It could’ve been a hijacking too.
like if you’re watching bc weird sht been going on with the planes lately
You can definitely build a bird proof aircraft. We just haven't done it yet.
Who’s here after the American Airlines accident?
when they this will neber happen again because we have so much better inspection process but then we find out a door panel blew off of a Boeing just because of poor inspection ( blaming boeing not not blaming ntsb)
don't tell me MH370 could be swallowed 2000 feet of silt and ocean floor in not a hard surface in that are 😮😢
Why planes don’t have an emergency parachute to brake them after landing (in case of landing gear or reverse failure – like Jeju tragedy)?
I have seen saw the Air Disasters episode Greg talked about with the air canisters. This was way cool to listen to him answer these questions. Air Disasters is another good way to learn these questions too.
with planes like this has there very been a time the propellers detached in someway mid run and entering the plane 4:11
I’ve watched a lot of air crash disaster videos on on YouTube and long ago I came to the conclusion that if you really are afraid of crashing in a plane or if you fly a lot and your chances are higher because of that that you should just vow to never flywhen it’s dark because so many of the crashes clearly would never have happened at the plane been flying in daylight
Why couldn’t the value jet pilot make a controlled landing in the Everglades?
I know the budget of the NTSB is $150 million and they have four and 36 employees and that works out too $334,000 per employee on average and of course that includes all the expenses but I also know the zip recruiter Says that it aviation crash investigator makes the most money in Alaska but they only make $92,000 a year less than 1/3 of what they’re spending per employee. I don’t know how much the board members make how much you made when you retired but that sure doesn’t seem like enough money to be paying the engineers with experience and degrees for prestigious schools and it’s clearly not enough money to be paying a board member who actually should be a board member as some of them should who have amazing resumes but will you tell us how much you were making when you retired and how much these other people make in general?
Hey greg, I don’t wanna be called discriminatory against white men so I got another question for you. were you there back when that plane crashed right after takeoff in Chicago because the engine fell off because they were using a forklift against manufacturer instructions to save hours when they replaced engines? Who is that DEI hire who jumped to conclusions and called a press conference where he announced they had discovered the cause of the engine falling off and he holds up a broken bolt that they found on the runway. what was his position? what was his biography And how could he be so ignorant?
I took a class in fracture mechanics also known as crack propagation at the number five civil engineering school in the United States UT Austin, and the dean taught the class and I had just started a masters degree there. it’s the perfect class to take if you’re going to do air crash investigations Because a lot of these crashes involve cracks that propagate over a long period of time. well as might be obvious to a lot of people, when you have a crack that takes a long time to propagate the part that cracked months ago or years ago is gonna have some corrosion and the part that just snapped right before the plane crashed is not.
You can see this without even using a microscope or a magnifying glass and a structural engineer who had taken the class I took would know to look for that to determine whether A part broke during the crash, or caused the crash. apparently the NTSB had a metallurgist who also can determine that.
I saw one episode of one of the air disaster air crash disaster shows interviewed the Metallurgist large but they didn’t interview the clown that made the announcement prematurely just so he could be on TV. then that show went out of their way to try and make it look like somebody under him Made the mistake and told him that and went out of the way to make it look like he was really competent other than that gaffe, which I find hard to believe but that’s political correctness for you. if I had been over him at the NTSB he’d be looking for a job.
so the obvious question to ask is did he break a rule by calling a press conference prematurely? who votes on whether someone’s theory is correct or not? I hope that the NTSB mucky mucks were not aware that he was gonna call that press conference and that he was just a loose cannon and lost his job over it but I’m know that didn’t happen.
How come Sully was never punished for breaking the sterile cockpit rule. Does everybody really think it’s a coincidence that he was admiring the Hudson and that was the first thought that came into his mind on where to land?
How come he didn’t get in trouble for hiding out along with the first officer in a hotel room for three days after the accident. Not only did that give them plenty of time to get their story straight, it gave them time for their hero status to build and perhaps more importantly, we don’t know, it gave them time for any evidence of alcohol or illicit drugs to disappear.
Sully was a PR genius and it made him a multi multimillionaire. He had been a union representative so he knew all the loopholes.
He didn’t utilize crew resource management and notify the cabin crew that he was ditching the plane. people say oh he didn’t have time. he’s a ham. he wants to be the hero. he took over flying the plane which pilots often don’t do in these situations especially with the first officer who has more experience on the plane than he does But that’s not his style. he took over flying the plane and he had to tell the passengers brace for impact. that’s the job of the cabin crew. he should’ve been telling the cabin crew “I’m ditching the plane” because they’re supposed to make sure the rear doors don’t get opened when they land in water. They didn’t know they were landing in water and it’s even speculated and nobody can say for sure that one of the flight attendants open one of the rear doors but even if they didn’t if you don’t know you’re landing in water you’re not gonna tell the passengers don’t open the rear door. It’s just lucky a bunch of them didn’t drown because the rear door was opened. the plane was full of water before the last person got out. Sully also didn’t flip the ditch switch. excuses are made for that too … oh they hadn’t gotten to it in the manual that told him what to do in the event that both engines Failed or some such nonsense. there’s these things called memory items. how can flip the ditch switch not be a memory items? the only time you ever flip it is in the rare event of a water landing and it’s called the ditch switch so how could you not think to flip that.
He’s given great credit for being the fast thinker and he’s given great credit for remembering to engage the APU anybody that’s watch videos on YouTube and never flown a plane of any size knows to engage the APU when you lose both engines.
Hi, that's the estadistc, but the chances of survive are less by plane accidents,than an in automotive.and I don't know,but that's my opinion, thanks for the comment.
Hi, that's the estadistc, but the chances of survive are less by plane accidents,than an in automotive.and I don't know,but that's my opinion, thanks for the comment.
Couldn’t we put a dome like fence cover over the engine opening. The air won’t be impeded and birds could bounce past the engine
I’ve had a crush on Greg Feith since the 90s. He’s smart, handsome and wears spectacular ties! ✈️✨♥️