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00:00it's halloween night in the year two thousand and a boeing seven hundred and forty seven crawls onto the runway at taiwan amid howling winds and piercing rain
00:10the pilots strain to see out their windscreens as they push their four massive engines to take off thrust they have no idea that just ahead of them a terrifying surprise awaits
00:21this is the horrifying story of singapore airlines flight six four in october thirty first two thousand it's halloween night in taipei and the weather was fitting typhoon
00:33zhang zhang was fast approaching and already its outer reaches were beginning to batter the airport winds as high as one hundred kilometers per hour buffered at the aircraft on the tarmac as heavy rain pelted the terminal but safely on board a boeing seven hundred forty seven operated by singapore airlines
00:50one hundred fifty nine passengers from twenty different countries settled in for what was expected to be an uneventful overnight flight despite the variety of nationalities on board most of the passengers were from the united states and taiwan
01:06seventy seven of them had actually boarded the aircraft hours earlier in singapore while the other eighty two had just boarded in taipei along with the flight crew that flight crew consisted of three well-rested pilots who had arrived in taipei twenty four hours previously
01:23the captain foon chi kong was a malaysian national and at forty-one years of age he had over eleven zero zero zero zero flying hours to his name he'd been repeatedly assessed by the airline to be an above-average pilot with colleagues describing him as one of the better pilots at singapore airlines
01:42he had also been described as a friendly and approachable person off duty the only nick in his record was that thirteen years previously he had done a bit of a noisy departure out of zurich in switzerland
01:54and received a letter from the airline asking him to stick more rigidly to the noise abatement procedure there not the worst of crimes although with the wind howling like it was on this night
02:07noise shouldn't be a problem the first officer was thirty six-year-old singaporean latif cyrano cyrano was much less experienced than the captain with about two five hundred hours of total flying time
02:19five hundred of which run the seven hundred forty seven colleagues had described him as above-average disciplined and not hesitant to speak out if he saw safety issues on a flight sitting behind the captain
02:29and first officer was another first officer thirty eight-year-old singaporean yunkang leng would be acting as a relief pilot for this trip taking over from the first officer over the pacific ocean
02:41he would have no specific duties up until this point other than to keep an eye on what the pilots were doing
02:47he was described as mature and disciplined with good flying skills and the potential to become a captain in due course
02:55it's worth pointing out here that singapore airlines had an excellent safety record its crews were well trained it had a fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft and in its twenty eight years of operation it never had a single fatal accident
03:09so at five past eleven local time when the plane pushed back from gate b5 at taipei the one hundred fifty nine passengers had little reason for concern
03:19they had no idea that far from setting out on a twelve-hour flight their aircraft would never even make it off the ground
03:26picture the scenario it's late at night the weather is poor and it's getting worse as a typhoon is fast approaching the pilots have a plane load of people eager to get to their destination
03:39if you watched a few of my videos you'll immediately have a sense of what's about to happen under time pressure
03:44i'm rushing to get airborne before the storm hits the pilots begin to make mistakes but this is not the story which is about to unfold from the get-go the captain set the opposite tone in the cockpit
03:57what's so strange about what is about to happen is the sheer mismatch between the pilots level of caution and the terrifying situation they would soon find themselves in as the most experienced member of the fight crew
04:10the captain elected a taxi the aircraft out to the runway he would be performing the takeoff and departure out of taipei as he taxied out he emphasized the need to do things slowly and methodically
04:23the first officer's duty as the plane rolled sedately out to the runway was to work through the checklists and assist the captain in preparing the aircraft for takeoff
04:34he set the flaps to twenty degrees and the captain confirmed the takeoff speeds the plane would be lifting off the runway at a speed of one hundred fifty six knots or about two hundred ninety kilometers per hour to put this speed into perspective
04:46the wind itself on this night was ghosting to one third of the takeoff speed of the plane about one hundred kilometers per hour as the two pilots carried out their duties the relief pilot listened into the at ice which stands for automatic terminal information service this is the service provided at all major airports which pilots can tune into to find out the latest weather at the airport it was a daunting weather report right on the verge of being too much
05:15to takeoff in there was less than 500 meters of visibility and the winds were gusting to almost 100 kilometers per hour rocking the plane as it slowly creeped its way through the darkness some of the passengers were getting nervous if these were the conditions on the ground what would it be like in the air but in the cockpit things were very much under control the captain's attitude was clear right now the wind's invisibility were within safe limits for takeoff
05:45if they stayed that way the plane would depart and if they got worse the plane would simply turn around and go back to the gate no rush and no pressure this attitude had served him well in his decades of flying and it had contributed to singapore airlines excellent safety record
06:02if you want to understand what's about to happen you need to look at this chart this is an exact copy of the charts the pilots were using on the night when air traffic control told the pilots to taxi this is the route they told them to take along the sierras of the west cross left down november papa
06:19and then up this way to take off on runway zero five left in the cockpit when air traffic control had given the pilots their taxi route the captain went through it with the other two pilots so that they would all be so to speak on the same page
06:26but while it was a straightforward route the pilots had to be a bit more careful than usual it had been more than three years since any of them had taken off from this runway they were much more familiar with runway six here at the south end of the airport so as flight six neared the west cross the captain confirmed with his colleagues that this turn was the one he needed to make and once this was
06:31confirmed he slowly began turning the aircraft to the right using using the gerekiyor Schmidt
06:52colleagues that this turn was the one he needed to make, and once this was confirmed, he slowly
06:58began turning the aircraft to the right using the tiller. He said that he was going to go very slowly
07:04so as not to skid the aircraft. In the turn, the last thing he wanted was to skid his $200 million
07:11plane into the mode the relief pilot from his position behind the pilots could easily see both
07:17of their primary flight displays. He could see that the winds were so strong that they were being
07:22picked up by the pitot tubes on the fuselage of the plane and then represented as changes in airspeed
07:28on the pilot's airspeed tapes. With the wind hitting the aircraft from the right-hand side,
07:34the captain's instrument and the first officer's instrument were showing different readings of
07:39airspeed. It was a peculiarity more than anything else indicative of the sheer strength of the wind
07:46on this night. As the pilots peered out their windscreens through the rain, they heard some
07:51good news over the radio. The runway visual range, which is the distance pilots can see along the
07:57runway, had gone up from 200 meters earlier to 450 meters at least. For the moment, conditions were
08:04improving, it was beginning to look like they would indeed be taking off when they got to the runway.
08:10But still cautious as ever, the captain continued taxiing slowly at just about nine knots or
08:1617 kilometers per hour. In a few short minutes, they would reach the runway while it was looking
08:22increasingly likely that the weather would hold up long enough for them to take off another problem
08:26now reared its head. What if they took off but then for some reason needed to go back to the airport,
08:32only for it to have closed due to the weather worsening after they had departed previously?
08:38They had agreed that if this happened, they could go to Hong Kong or Kaohsiung instead.
08:43But both of these had now been closed as the typhoon made its way north, with the storm closing in,
08:49their only option was now Taipei. The pilots were hoping that it would remain a viable option as
08:55they neared the runway. Despite the conditions, the pilots were calm and methodical as they discussed
09:00the issue. There was no sense of haste or pressure after a few minutes the plane had reached the end
09:05of the West Cross. The first officer looking at his taxi chart confirmed with the captain that he
09:11needed to turn left onto the November Papa taxiway, then go all the way down the end. Once there,
09:18they would be at the runway. The captain twisted the tiller counterclockwise on the 747 lumbered left
09:25onto taxiway. November. Papa, let's have a look at the chart the pilots were using on this night at
09:32this time. Taipei's airport was undergoing a significant change. Runway 05, right at the time,
09:39was in the process of being converted into a taxiway. The reason for this is that it was too short and
09:45too narrow to be of much use anymore. Given the sheer size of many of the aircraft, which now flew into
09:51the airport, it'd be much more useful as a taxiway, which would run parallel to runway 05, left the
09:58airport's longest runway. We'll see why this is so important in a moment. If you've looked out the
10:04window of a plane while at the airport, you'll be familiar with all the different colored lights
10:08around the place. There's green taxiway centerline lights, blue edge lights, white runway lights, and
10:14red approach lights. The color and positioning of these lights is completely intentional, and it's
10:18standardized across the world. There are also markings which can only be found on runways like
10:23these. White stripes here known as piano keys, which signify the start of a runway. But what do
10:30you do as an airport when you're converting a runway into a taxiway? What you're supposed to do is to
10:35change all of the markings and lighting so that they are suitable for a taxiway. But at Taipei,
10:41this hadn't happened and so on Halloween night in the year 2000, as the pilots of Singapore Airlines
10:46Flight 6 approached the end of taxiway November. Papa, they began to fall prey to a series of
10:52psychological and systemic errors which would put them in grave danger. It started at 15 minutes past
10:5911, when the tower controller cleared Fight 6 to line up on the runway. The first officer told the
11:06cabin crew to take their seats for takeoff, and he began to read out the before-takeoff checklist.
11:13Music. As he had his head down in the checklist, the captain was peering through the blackness out
11:18the windscreen carefully following the green lights as they beckoned him onto the runway. He again told his
11:25colleagues that he would go slowly as he turned. The white piano keys would be slippery. The controller
11:31couldn't see the aircraft through the heavy rain, and he also didn't have ground radar to see its
11:36position. If he had, he would have seen that Fight 6 was not lining up on runway 05 left, as he'd instructed
11:43them to do, but rather onto runway, 05 right. The captain was following the green taxiway lights,
11:50which were far closer together in the turn than on the straight path leading up to runway 05 left.
11:57In fact, there were only four lights in the 200-meter-long section of taxiway connecting
12:02runway 05 right. And left, legally there should have been 16 lights, and as if that wasn't bad enough,
12:09one of those four lights wasn't working, and another was unacceptably dim, in other words,
12:14as the captain followed the green lights curving onto runway 05. Right there was very little to tell
12:21him that to his left, there was another runway lying in the darkness, as the plane lumbered into
12:27position. The first officer commented that the PVD had not unshuttered the PVD, or power visual
12:34display is a unique device installed on the glare shield of some aircraft, whose purpose it is to give
12:40pilots a visual indication of whether they are drifting off the runway center line during low
12:45visibility takeoffs. There was a shutter in front of it most of the time, but when the aircraft
12:50detected that it was lining up on the runway, it unshuttered, revealing the barber pole like PVD.
12:58It struck the pilots as odd that this had stayed shuttered after they lined up on the runway. Of course,
13:04the reason it had was that they had tuned their navigation radios to the frequency for the runway
13:09they were supposed to line up on runway 05 left. They were now over 200 meters from that runway,
13:16sitting comfortably on what was now becoming a taxiway. What's more, the pilots knew that runway
13:2105 right was being turned into a taxiway. But in the darkness and lured in by the green lights,
13:27they simply never questioned whether they were in the correct place. What's more, as they sat poised in
13:33the threshold, bright green centerline lights extended into the darkness. That these lights
13:39were green instead of white, like normal runway lights, should have given the pilots a clue that
13:45they were on a taxiway instead of a runway. But they had already made up their minds that this was the
13:50right place. Besides these, lights had been green for the runway's entire history because it actually
13:57originally been a taxiway. Ironically, if the visibility had been worse, the pilots would have
14:02been safer. They needed to use the power visual display to take off when visibility was lower than
14:0850 meters. But on this night, they could see 500 meters in front of them. That's why, as they lined up,
14:15the captain told his colleagues that it didn't matter about the PVD because they could see the runway
14:20anyway. So at 16 minutes past 11, the captain put the windscreen wipers on high, switched on the
14:26landing lights, and pushed the engines to take off. Thrust the engines roared, and the massive aircraft
14:33began accelerating down the runway into the darkness. As far as the 159 passengers were concerned,
14:39they were now well on their way to Los Angeles, within a few seconds. Fight 6 was accelerating
14:46through 80 knots, about 150 kilometers per hour. The pilots peered through the void ahead of them as
14:52Morganway came into view through the fog, but moments later, just as they were about to reach
14:58takeoff speed, the terrible truth emerged out of the darkness sitting right in the middle of the
15:03runway. Lit up by the aircraft's powerful lights were bulldozers, excavators, two rollers and rows of
15:11concrete barriers. The captain shouted out, but it was too late. Traveling at 150 knots were about 280
15:18kilometers per hour. The 747 smashed through the concrete barricades and then tore through the
15:25construction vehicles. Part of the left wing was ripped off along with three of the aircraft's
15:30engines, sending the plane swerving to the left. The fuel tanks ruptured on a huge fireball ignited
15:36enveloping the plane, which split into three pieces, and then began tumbling down the runway in a matter of
15:42seconds. It was all over the tower. Controllers saw the massive fireball tearing through the darkness
15:48and immediately dispatched the airport fire service. Over 400 responders rushed to the scene.
15:55They were there within three minutes, but for money on board, it was already too late.
16:00These pictures taken the day after the accident show the extent of the carnage of the 179 people on
16:06board. Only 96 survived, including the three pilots. It was the first and only fatal accident in Singapore
16:14Airlines history, and the first fatal accident ever involving a Boeing 747-400. But the same question
16:23was on everyone's mind. How had an experienced crew made such a basic error in the light of day,
16:29the sheer senselessness of the mistake became even more apparent with the correct runway being so clearly
16:34in view beside the crashed aircraft? This was exactly what investigators focused on when they began
16:41their work immediately after the crash. They found that the pilots were misled by the lighting on the
16:47runway, especially considering that their home base was Singapore, where controllers changed the color of
16:53the taxiway lighting in front of the pilots to guide them to the runway, instructing them to follow the
16:59green, so on fight six, despite the pilots' caution about the weather. When it came to navigating to
17:06the runway, they reverted to their usual routine of simply following the green lighting to the runway.
17:12It didn't help that the closed runway still had its runway markings and bright centerline lights,
17:18despite not being in use. All of this meant that when the pilots turned onto the runway,
17:23they subconsciously ignored all of the information telling them that they were not where they were
17:29supposed to be. The unshuttered PVD, the off-center ILS deviation scale, and the green centerline
17:37lighting, they became victims of the same psychological bias that has taken so many lives in aviation over
17:44the years. Confirmation bias the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing
17:51beliefs. In this case, there was just enough information telling the pilots that they were
17:56in the right place for them to ignore all of the evidence to the contrary. But how do we improve
18:02aviation safety when it's vulnerable to such basic flaws in human cognition, partly as a result of this
18:09accident? Many modern aircraft like the newest generation Boeing 747, the Airbus a 350, and the Boeing
18:18787, among others, have moving map displays inside the cockpit. Where pilots can see their position
18:25live as they move through the airport, rather than relying on paper maps and charts, this technology
18:32alone would have prevented the crash of Flight 6. Pilots now also receive more training on what's known as
18:39threat and error management, which requires that they make a note of the dangers and possible mistakes
18:45they may make, as say they taxi out to the runway on Flight 6 if the pilots had discussed the possibility
18:52that they might mistake Runway 05, right for 05 left. This accident may not have taken place. Also, airports
19:00now face more stringently enforced regulations when it comes to signage and lighting. These layers of
19:06protection covering everything from human factors to avionics have made this kind of accident far less likely.
19:13But the crash of Singapore Airlines Flight 6 shows just how unforgiving aviation can be, especially in
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