00:01In the sky, everything changes in a heartbeat.
00:04Are you ready to see how fast?
00:06What would you do if an engine went silent on takeoff?
00:09If the gear refused to lock while the runway rushed up?
00:13If a crosswind turned landing into a knife-edge fight?
00:18You're about to see raw, unfiltered moments.
00:21No reenactments, no special effects.
00:25Just metal, wind, and decisions made in seconds.
00:30Watch closely and stay to the end.
00:32Then ask yourself, where is the line between control and catastrophe?
00:37Strap in.
00:40We begin.
00:47December 25th, 2024.
00:50An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 from Baku to Grozny was crippled
00:56when Russian air defense missiles detonated nearby.
01:00Diverting toward Akhtau, Kazakhstan, it lost altitude and crashed.
01:0538 people were killed.
01:0729 survived.
01:12Snowy peaks and dense forests surround Bear Creek Lodge.
01:16An AS350 sweeps in low.
01:19The pilot eases back on the cyclic, and servo transparency hits.
01:24Hydraulic assist fades.
01:26Hydraulic assist fades.
01:26The rotor disc loads up.
01:28The helicopter snaps right.
01:30Control is gone.
01:31A few brutal bounces on the slope.
01:34A burst of white powder.
01:35Then silence.
01:37Was that low pass worth the risk?
01:54OK.
02:05We're done.
02:08Everybody's OK?
02:17Mid-flight, the engine coughs and dies, prop windmilling, cockpit suddenly quiet.
02:23With only open fields ahead, the pilot holds best glide and aims for a flat patch.
02:28A harsh, sliding touchdown follows as dust fills the frame and the camera never cuts.
02:59A long shape of a solid fire at the bottom of the tower is a top of an inch.
02:59The cramp is big enough to get ahead and iron off the floor.
03:00There's no big strong speed at the bottom of the tower by the top of the tower.
03:08The pines is a big cool place.
03:31December 11, 2013, off Molokai, a Makani Kai Air Cessna 208B.
03:39N687MA loses power minutes after takeoff.
03:44The pilot ditches just off Kalaupapa.
03:47Cabin video captures the hard splashdown.
03:50Life vests out, passengers exiting into the swells.
03:54Eight survive, one passenger is lost.
04:10Get this door back here.
04:14Can I check it?
04:37It's in the front seat.
05:01It's in the front seat.
05:29It's in the front seat.
05:47It's in the front seat.
05:48Bruce Meadows, Idaho.
05:50Seconds after liftoff, the Stinson 108-3 struggles to climb.
05:54Cockpit view fills with treetops, then a violent hit and an inverted stop on the slope.
05:59Four people on board.
06:46That's okay, Alan.
06:47Are you okay, Alan?
06:52Robinson R44 helicopter, scare on climb out, but the pilot holds rotor RPM and flies it
06:59all the way to the ground.
07:01With three on board, including the pilot, he flares and sets down upright, firm, controlled
07:07landing.
07:07Everyone is okay.
07:18Yes sir, jump out, hold, stay where you are, yes sir, yes sir, hold on, you good?
07:28I'm good.
07:29You all good?
07:30Yes sir, I'm good.
07:32Perfect.
07:32You're good.
07:40At the speed.
07:46I'm good.
08:07January 3rd, 2022. Cable Airport, Upland, California. A Cessna 120 went around, flew
08:15into the wake of a slow-hovering helicopter, snapped into a steep right bank, and crashed
08:20inverted beside the runway. The sole pilot had minor injuries.
08:39September 18th, 2022. During the Jet Gold race at Reno, pilot Aaron Hogue's Aero Vodacioti
08:46L29, race 29, completes two and a half laps, then drops off line and impacts the infield.
08:53The race stops immediately. Hogue is fatally injured, with no injuries on the ground.
09:01Oh! All the way to the back! Whoa! That was crazy! Oh! Oh! Oh! Shit! What the fuck? Jesus!
09:26If you have children, you might just turn them around. As you know, there'll be some time.
09:34Oh, man! For a time coming down, while we address this, and if you want to walk, walk, walk.
09:41I missed what happened. Oh, my God. He just went out, out of place and stuff like that,
09:46and tried to go back in, and then he just kept going down. Didn't stop. Oh, too bad.
10:01Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I think races are awesome. Yeah.
10:17It's like, why are you talking? No one can hear you.
10:19No one can hear you.
10:30Robinson R-44. Cockpit view. A hard landing turns into a sudden drop. The helicopter tips and hits the ground.
10:39The occupants scramble out. Moments later, the R-44 erupts in flames.
10:46Halloween.
11:00What is a problem?
11:00I'm very proud of you.
11:04We're on the bus.
11:04You're on the bus.
11:06Hooray!
11:10I'm not the best.
11:11It's the one.
11:11The group that's the one.
11:13Oh, that's my friend.
11:13I'm not the younger.
11:15It's the one.
11:26A Robinson helicopter meets thin, near-invisible power lines strung across the valley.
11:33The skids catch, the nose yaws hard, rotor thrust collapses, and the wire strike ends
11:39in a fatal impact.
11:46The skids catch.
12:35August 20th, 2023, Santa Ana.
12:39An Alaska 737-800 lands amid Tropical Storm Hillary when the left main gear fails and punches
12:47up through the wing.
12:48The jet settles on its left engine on a taxiway.
12:52All 112 aboard are uninjured.
12:54Why is he turning?
12:58Why is he turning?
12:59I'll be racing.
13:00I'll be racing, please.
13:02Holy shit!
13:04What the fuck?
13:07What the fuck?
13:08There's some sharks in the air.
13:09There's sparks outside.
13:11What the fuck?
13:14Why is there sparks outside?
13:43I'm going to go out of Numa, I'm going to go out of Numa.
13:56March 1st, 2025, FedEx Flight 3609, a 767-300F, strikes birds just after liftoff from Newark.
14:06Flames erupt from the right, number two engine.
14:09The crew shuts it down, discharges both fire bottles, and lands back within minutes.
14:14No injuries to the three on board.
14:48June 30th, 2017.
14:51Just short of John Wayne Airport, a twin-engine Cessna 310 declares an emergency and slams
14:57onto the 405, erupting in flames.
15:01Multiple cameras capture the impact.
15:03Both people on board are injured, and, remarkably, no one on the freeway is hurt.
15:09The band is in a full ministry.
15:13And the infrastructure will do so.
15:14We're going to get a jet successfully Wade.
15:14We're going to get times to happen.
15:15We've got the adoption of of the 501 and a half a half a half.
15:32We're going to get sued when there's a careerSA, which seems to have been exploited when there's a
15:47The airplane crashed in the middle of the freeway here.
15:51I think it's an airplane.
16:11Puerto Carreño, Colombia.
16:14Aero Sucre's Boeing 727 HK4544 overruns the runway at Herman Olano on takeoff, rips through
16:22the perimeter fence in a road, then staggers into the air.
16:41Aero Sucre's Boeing 737-400SF, operating a DHL cargo run from Leipzig to Vilnius, sank
16:50short on final and slid into a two-story house in Liebkalnis.
16:55One crew member was killed, three were injured.
16:57No one on the ground was hurt.
17:01No one on the ground was hurt.
17:02No one on the ground was hurt.
17:28No one on the ground was hurt.
17:30No one on the ground was hurt.
17:33No one on the ground was hurt.
17:58An Airbus A350-900 landed on runway 34R and struck a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 that was on the
18:07runway.
18:07The A350 burst into flames, but all 379 aboard evacuated.
18:14Five of the six on the Dash 8 were killed.
18:17The captain survived with serious injuries.
18:41The National Anthem and the Miura Phaest 8 were killed at the Grand precedent.
18:45The Albuquerque was killed at the Pasadena Island in Marseilles Plein.
18:50The Albuquerque was still here with Rocks, but a couple stills.
18:57At the same time, the Albuquerque turned into a grand plan.
20:29August 29, 2024. Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
20:35A Saba Intercontinental Boeing 737-800 ETAWR arriving from Bata landed long in poor visibility,
20:45overran runway 04, and came to rest on soft ground.
20:49Everyone evacuated via slides.
20:52No injuries reported.
20:54A Saba Intercontinental Boeing 737-800 ETAW
21:25This meal, Jesus Cristo.
21:27Jesus Cristo de Májarete.
21:46Jesus Cristo de Májarete.
21:52Jesus Christ of Nazareth
21:56Jesus Christ of Nazareth
21:58The doors are already open
22:05Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:11Jesus Christ
22:14Jesus Christ takes control
22:24Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:25Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:29Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:29Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:30Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:31Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:32Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:38Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:42Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:44Jesus Christ of Nazareth
22:46Oh
22:57Cristo
23:26March 3rd, 2022, Kanpur.
23:30An Indian Coast Guard Dornier 228 loses power on the left engine during landing,
23:35veers off the runway, and clips a small structure.
23:39A brief fire follows, but the crew evacuates unharmed.
23:48If you want to enter the background, keep it free-pip.
23:52And that's how you can do it.
23:54If you see a camera, you can do it out.
24:00It's a typical camera.
24:02The camera is the camera, and it's working again.
24:25Here we go.
24:49June 21, 2022.
24:53Arriving from Santo Domingo, a Red Air MD-82 lands at Miami when its left main gear collapses.
25:01The jet veers off runway 09, hits a glide slope antenna structure, ignites, and 140 people evacuate.
25:12Four, suffer minor injuries.
25:15The jet veers off runway 09, hits a glide slope.
25:30I
25:31I
25:33I
25:37I
25:40I
25:58My brother, you don't know what to do.
26:13Come on, operations.
26:21Come on, operations.
26:22Come on, operations.
26:49Come on, operations.
26:52Come on, operations.
27:00Come on, operations.
27:03Come on, operations.
27:15We've got a lot of work.
27:19We've got a lot of work.
27:21We've got a lot of work.
27:22We've got a lot of work.
27:24I'm looking for a lot of work.
27:25We've got a lot of work.
27:30I'm looking for a lot of work.
27:31What have you seen, Rodney?
27:32What was the first?
27:40Did you get to there?
27:43Did you take a lot of work?
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