Who Is Flying?! The Unbelievable Story of Kenya Airlines flight 507

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There is nothing wrong with his aircraft but still, it has flipped over into a 115 degree bank and the pilots are struggling for their lives to get the aircraft back under control. Outside its dark and stormy but its not the weather that has caused this upset.
This is the almost unbelievable story of what went on indide the covkpit of Kenya Airlines flight 507.
I hope you will find this documentary interesting and if you do, leave some love in the comments!
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Sources
Aircraft Used: Boeing 737-800 by PMDG:

Aircraft Used: Boeing 737-800 by Zibo:

Scenery Used: FKKD Douala International Airport MSFS by FSXCENERY:

Crash 1: Cameroon Civil Aviation Authority

Crash 2: UNKNOWN

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CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Intro
00:20 - crew overview
01:41 - The Captain
04:18 - The First Officer
05:43 - Departure from Cameroon
08:45 - Weather updates
10:22 - Engine Start
12:12 - Taxi out and backtrack
15:06 - Takeoff
17:55 - No one in control
20:24 - Flight directors don’t lie
23:12 - Bank angle, bank angle!
25:16 - “We’re crashing!“
28:17 - Lessons learned

[justing.]

It's crazy. I was an AF pilot in the U.S. Then with AA for about 9 years. You always check and double or triple check everything. Whatever you need to do for your crew to keep people safe. As the PIC or captain I had to do a go around in ORD in Chicago because of the low ceiling of fog. An executive from AA came up to me a few days later and asked me, "do you know how much that go around costs"? I said "a lot less than 186 people dead"!

[jamesmacharia]

KQ flight 507 just got its justice From Mentour Pilot! Being a Kenyan, I have read about this incident several times and this is the first time I'm coming across crucial information on the CRM skills and general skills of the Captain. Thank you so much for the core details and research put into this video.

[jethanpaul]

Whoever passes in the hands of this guy as a trainee pilot is so lucky to have such an incredible instructor 🙌.

[tx_]

As a Kenyan pilot there is a generational gap sometimes between us young pilots & the older generation some of whom are quite difficult to deal with (stems from our culture where elders believe they know better than the youngings*) -*warlord* is a term for those captains that are rigid & hard to deal with. Sad, lives had to be lost. 😢

[pfefferle]

As a car driver I check my speed routinely every 5 seconds or so just to make sure I'm adhering to the speed limit. It's incomprehensible to me how a trained pilot wouldn't even glance at his primary flight controls for such a long period just to make sure he's not crashing everyone to certain death.

[suziedeschene]

Oh my gosh. My uncle was on this flight. I remember he was on his way to South Africa with a connecting flight from Nairobi, and his wife begged him not to go. She had a terrible feeling in addition to a nightmare she had the night before he had to leave. When he left for the airport she followed him in a taxi begging him not to go. He went. Needless to say she, their two girls and our entire family was devastated. Till this day she mourns him. She was in her 30s when he died and the kids were toddlers. They are now teenagers. She never remarried. RiP my dear uncle FRU ANE CONNILIUS

[bertwal]

As a cameroonian, this accident did send shock waves throughout the country when it happened. To date when you say "mbanga mpongo" ( that's the village were the plane crashed) everybody just know what you're talking about. This is the best video I have seen detailing what happened.

[ianomondi]

Am super stoked you're covering a Kenyan story. Much love from Kenya.

[Lilianthecookingnurse]

As a fan of this page and a Kenyan as well, the details are impeccable. Definitely mistakes done by the pilot were fatal, the 1st officer panicked not knowing what to do or say due to fear of being scolded, that coupled with the weather was a recipe for disaster. This was an eye opener for sure, thank you for all you do.

[bugra]

It's so scary knowing that there are some pilots out there who are underqualified and can cause a crash

[lZGamerzI]

I cant imagine the work done on each video of this series, from research to writing the script, simulating and editing..
Great job to you and your team, really appreciate the work.

[bogwife]

I feel so bad for the poor first officer. the fact that before they even took off he had to correct the pilot on _which way they were turning_ is unbelievable. he didn't deserve to die because of the captain's incompetence. neither did anyone else on that plane

[hellonomasonto]

This one is very close to my heart. We lost our CEO, CFO and her husband, company secretary and an engineer in this crash (MTN Cameroon). Most of them were my fellow countrymen, South Africans, and they were on their way to our head office in Johannesburg for an executive meeting. It's so funny, I even remember where I was when I heard about this and this was 16 years ago. It was utterly, utterly shocking! It was just doom and gloom throughout the company for a very long time.

Petter, you've put it very gently. The situation in the cockpit was unbelievable. The captain was a complete and utter nightmare to the first officer. I think at some point he even called him stupid or something. That is what caused him to be afraid of him and keep quiet throughout the ordeal until the last few seconds. Upon investigation, they had to go back and listen to the cockpit recorder of the previous leg of the flight, and that's where they discovered the 'verbal abuse.' I'm putting this accident squarely on the captain and his unbelievable behaviour.

[davidwamson]

I’m a Kenyan and I extensively read about the pilot’s character in one of the papers then. The writer described the captain as obnoxious man who took his colleague for a junior or treated him like his own son. Thanks for doing this vid.

[havenmedia]

Lost a cousin who was part of the cabin crew on this flight. Thanks for the video, at least I have something to share with my kin back home on what really led to this tragic aircrash that claimed the life of one of our own.

[dj_mosz]

Being a Kenyan, this episode has really hit differently. Other investigative series never really gave so much details.
Thanks Mentour pilot for this.

[Fred-O-]

It's great that you chose to cover the KQ507 crash from your own point of view. I do like your channel. As a crew for Kenya airways at that time this accident came as a shock and it's something I will never forget. I remember taking off from the same airport on another 737-800 a day after the lost aircraft had still not been found and I just looked down the dense forest with hopes of spotting something.
It was a really sad time for us and the families of the lost crew and passengers.
The weirdest thing is I had a strong premonition of a KQ plane crash in November 2006 the year before this fatal accident happened. That was the time I joined the airline as a trainee flight attendant. What's different in the dream was that I was in the plane and there were many survivors me being one of them. In the dream the plane ditched in the ocean.

[SueArnold-fg]

My brother in law was on this flight.
Being the wife of an airline pilot who saved our lives with an engine failure on take off and he saved many lives when the engine dettached on take off at CT international
Its all about training, training, training and experience

[FlywithMagnar]

I applaud your recommendation to take a suitability test before starting flight training. For some people, becoming a pilot is more about social status than passion for aviation. As an instructor, I have met a few people who started flight training with the wrong motivation. Many years ago, I was instructor for a young man on a type rating course on a transport category aircraft. His dad had paid for all of his training, and he was promised a job in an airline company after completing the type rating. You should think that he was very motivated, but as the training progressed, his performance declined. He struggled with situational awarness and emergency procedures. Remedial training didn't help. He just gave up. This was just not the right thing for him. So yes, it is better to be screened before spending a small fortune on flight training. The airline companies alwyas set the border higher than the licencing authorities.

[johnmitchell]

In a world full of TikTok crap, it’s great to see someone use platforms in such thoughtfulness, professionalism and detail. This content is what YouTube and other platforms were meant to be. Excellent work.