Fatal Mistake That Killed 33 People | Crossair Flight 3597 | Mayday: Air Disaster

November 24th, 2001 — Making the routine one-hour journey from Berlin, Crossair Flight 3597 is on its final approach to Zurich. It‘s one of the last planes scheduled to land before the airport shuts down for the night. In the final minutes before landing, the crew is given a last minute runway change.

What rule of flying did the pilot violate when approaching Zurich?

Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 10 Episode 1 "Cockpit Failure": Making a routine one-hour journey from Berlin, Crossair Flight #3597 is on its final approach to Zurich. It is one of the last planes scheduled to land before the airport shuts down for the night. But just minutes before landing the pilots cannot find the runway. They decide to abort the maneuver and apply full power to all four engines in order to get their jet to climb. But they are too late.

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[MaydayAirDisaster]

What rule of flying did the pilot violate when approaching Zurich?

[jacksonkuster]

“The Passion Fruits may have saved our lives”
A sentence I never though I would have heard in a air crash documentary

[imranyounis]

It is easier to blame persons who are not alive to defend themselves. For me, the people who had noise complaints of airplanes and the authorities who passed the law to divert planes after 10:30 pm without installing ILS system at the airport, should equally be blamed for this air crash. They must be punished. 😢

[alejandroalejo]

I know it's definitely a good thing that there aren't more episodes out there of these deadly plane crashes, but me being selfish wishing there were new ones as I've watched just about every episode 5x or more 🤦

[wizzardofpaws]

Also killed was Melanie Thornton, the 90s hit group La Bouche. She was just about to hit superstardom. RIP to Melanie and everyone who died.

[sbolden]

The supervisor should have stayed until all planes were landed. ✈️ That's a sign of a good supervisor. Last one out, first one in.

[calcrappie]

Didn't notice they were in Italy until the passengers reported the road signs were in Italian. Wow.

[DEADisBEAUTIFUL]

It was adorable listening to Peter Hogenkamp lightly teasing that he didn’t need the Passion Fruits keeping him awake. I’m happy that he seems to have dealt with having gone through a plane crash in such a good way. I’d never be able to joke, even as lightly as he did in this video, ever again most likely.

[kpolicexj]

Cpt. Lutz seems pretty arrogant and difficult to work with...

[paulrobinson]

How that captain achieved his bars is genuine mystery.

[paulis]

Ever since the day I started flight training in 2001, I was aghast at noise abatement procedures. Having airplanes fly unconventionally because some people don’t like the noise is a recipe for disaster, and as a retired pilot I still stand by that statement.

[mattp]

Flight 3407 that crashed in Buffalo, NY is another example of lack of training and pilot incompetence on a regional airline; Renslow didnt know how to de-ice the wings. All 50 souls aboard died, and one man on the ground. Damn you Cptn Lutz .

[worrierqueen]

Jonathan Aris is the greatest narrator in history.

[lmachain]

I live by LAX for over 20 years. “Noise pollution” is bullshit.

1. Wtf you expect when you willingly chose to live by an airport?

2. “Noise pollution” isn’t that noticeable and eventually just falls to the background. People just want to complain.

[benhuston]

Noise complaints. And all because people who decided to live next to an airport were, and still are, shocked that there are, of all things, PLANES at the airport.

[shadowalastor]

this is the best series on youtube to date

[SilverSnowstorm]

If that happened to me and I got out and survived. I don’t think I could fly again, or it would take a long time to get over. So sad that the crew and passengers went through something horrific like this. It was an awful year for aviation, I know they mentioned the German girl group Passion Fruit, maybe they didn’t mention Melanie Thornton name because her family and friends wanted privacy from this documentary. I can’t believe that 24 people died and 9 survived. May those who died R.I.P and those who survived are ok. I couldn’t imagine being in something like this so traumatic.

[annieworroll]

Questionable competence to that degree and they not only hired him, and kept him on staff, but made him a Captain?

[TMPSpodcast]

Next time I fly, I’m going to ask if my pilot has limited abilities

[saltamonte]

Flying is so procedural, it’s hard to understand how the captain could have made such a mistake, but I guess his CV explains it. The FO also not speaking up, a major mistake. When it comes to lives, hierarchy goes out of the window.