Flight 604's Mysterious Crash Over the Red Sea | Mayday: Air Disaster

Flight 604 operated by Flash Airlines tragically crashes over the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Charmel Sheikh, Egypt. The flight, piloted by Captain Kader Abdullah, resulted in the loss of all 148 passengers and crew members. Initial concerns of terrorism were ruled out, but the crash's exact cause remained elusive despite extensive investigations

Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 4 Episode 9 "Vertigo": Flash Airlines 604
January 3, 2004, a plane crashes into the Red Sea minutes after take off. Was it terrorism?
A mechanical failure? Or did the very experienced and respected pilot make a mistake that
cost all on board their lives?

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[barbiek]

This originally aired on TV in 2007. I have seen it a few different times on You tube and other video upload sites. I am glad that there are more 'repeats' than 'new' episodes. Less new episodes means less planes crashing and less people dying.

[andycross]

A postcard saying ' I think this will arrive after me' - WOW!! That hits you right where it hurts.

[nenblom]

“There’s something wrong with the plane!” That broke my heart. May the passengers and crew of Flash Airlines flight 604 RIP. ❤❤

[DBEdwards]

To die in this fashion is unimaginable

[markmckinney]

Companies like flash shouldve never been operating in the first place. 😢. RIP to those lost.

[GUITARTIME]

Vertigo can be extremely sudden and powerful.

[Im_Just_Saying]

24:00 The situation raises several questions about the career trajectory and choices of a highly experienced pilot. Generally, one would expect a pilot with a significant level of skill and experience to be in demand by major airlines, which offer not only better financial compensation but also more prestigious routes. These airlines also tend to have more robust safety protocols and better resources for their staff, contributing to a more desirable and secure working environment. Why is this experienced pilot working for a 2 plain "Fly by night" airline?

[markmckinney]

These investigators Gove me great confidence in flying. They literally go everything they can. It's inspiring to see. NTSB should be proud of what they do. As an American I've very proud of our aviation system.

[camsfitness]

Yeah, whats sad is in my opinion, we can't just blame just the captain. The co-pilot and and 3rd guy should've said something to the capitan much earlier instead of being too scared.

[EasyGoer-ez]

Poor People Going Through Surreal Inhumane Psychological Terror Trapped and Waiting For That "Moment" They Smash into The Water/Ground and Perish....Unfathomable

[lesliecarr]

It is never one problem. Trying to place blame on only one aspect means other people have too much pride, don't believe they can do anything wrong, and are covering their a...s. There was something wrong with the plane, something wrong with the crew including the pilots, something wrong with maintenance, and something wrong with the airline. It costs too much to retrieve the airplane from the bottom of the sea, but it costs more to leave it there. The answer is buried in what they didn't care to know.

[ElChicoMexicano]

Rest In Peace Thoes Who Die In The Crash🕊️

[agl]

The moment @ 3:05 when I heard 'A former officer in the Egyptian Air Force' I knew what the problem was going to be. In these kinds of very hierarchical societies, this equates to the captain being infallible and the rest of the crew being too scared to tell him when he is wrong

[moofoo]

I've watched so many of these "Mayday" movies. They either blame the pilot, find mechanical errors or its due to poor weather conditions. I dont think this was about the pilot or crew.
The Egyptian government wants to save face.
The airline company was all about profits & could've cared less about properly maintaining their airline. Such a tragedy.

[lizhjelmeseth]

Change flight, change flight, 2, 6, and 8 years old. Cheap tickets not worth it.

[thepauldineen]

I had a friend, a Russian citizen, who was on vacation at that Resort at that time. I was unsure when she was returning to Russia and I thought she might have been on this flight. Initially, the news said that there was one Russian citizen on the manifest. She wasn't on it, which was a relief, but she had a different problem. 


While at the Beach Resort she was hit by a ski boat, which broke her left leg in five places. She spent almost the whole next year and a half in a Russian Hospital healing and regrowing the bone (with the use of a device created by a Russian doctor). She said that the Egyptian doctors who worked on her initially did a bad job. So it had to be redone when she got to Russia. 


I'm visited her and 2006 and she had a significant limp but was not too bad off considering how bad the injury was.

[Bluthemacaw]

It baffles me how this captain responded to vertigo. It doesn't matter if you have training on disorientation or not, if you have no visuals, you are flying IFR, your eyes as the PIC should be on the instruments ONLY in these conditions, you should not be looking around for visual references and trying to fly VFR.

How this captain had 7000+ hours and did not understand this vitial, basic rule in IFR conditions is beyond me. God rest his, the crew, and all the pax on board, but this was an inexcusable accident.

This is a B737-300, this aircraft has THREE attitude indicators, the captain should have had his eyes glued to his own, and, if he believed it to be innacurate, cross-checked with the secondary, and his F/O's.

[lizhjelmeseth]

Pitch black night. Simple turn over Red Sea, plane not working.

[susannahfox]

I watched two other videos recently, that had to do with crashes in the USA in the early 2000's. Problem was found to be a rudder issue, and a malfunction of that circuitry, which was later revised. The planes involved would bank to the opposite side when rudder was engaged. In watching this video, the movements of the plane and inability to control it, plane banking severely, then diving into a catastrophic crash looks exactly like these other two scenarios.

[hector]

It’s amazing how this cameraman survived all of these crashes.