United 737 Wing Hits Runway on Landing

It is very uncommon to have planes have a wing strike but more uncommon is to have footage of it happening from INSIDE the plane.

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[LewDixAviation]

My clip landing the PA28 made it into this video 🙌🏻 Honoured

[joelzimmerman]

To Kelsey, I appreciate your aviation advocacy! From a retired B-727/DC-8-70/B-757/767 pilot. Thanks for your efforts to explain to “non-pilots” about “what’s happening “. Excuse me for my shout out to the people who made my 35 year, commercial aviation career “un-eventful “. I want thank the flight dispatchers, the aircraft mechanics, and the aircraft load supervisors for keeping us safe. As a pilot, our, ultimate goal is arriving safely, efficiently and with no o-shites!

[nitehawk]

8:15 That DHL flight that landed after getting hit with a missile is an epic story. They landed it with no working hydraulic system. I can highly recommend the Air Disasters / Mayday episode on it.

[helenafranzen]

You guys are like 200 ton ballet dancers, especially under these conditions. So much hard work cant be perfect all the time. Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Much respect to all of you pilots out there!

[richyt]

One of my favorite approach plates is for Pease RNAV (GPS) 16 at Portsmouth NH. The approach fixes are (in order): ITAWT, ITAWA, PUDYE, TTATT, IDEED.

[samschellhase]

I recognized the RC-135 from the nose right away. The hourglass shape of black paint, from the nose POV, seems rather recognizable to me, alone with the top being white

[luid]

The quality of your videos is always going up man. Adding the flight sim pictures and videos as reference is a great touch and really helps visualize the accident with only such a small clip. Always waiting for your videos to come out man thanks for the great content.

[PetThePeeves]

I’ll say it again…if you ever take a break from flying you’d be the perfect personality to join our ranks in education…AND you’re so good at translating everything into layman’s terms. Join us, join us!

Also Kelsey I love how you always add “don’t freak out” for things that routine but don’t seem like they should be…I mean freaking out even when it’s serious isn’t great. Freaking out in an emergency can over ride your ability to think about your options. Easy to say from the ground, though, I know!

[mapleext]

Wow, I learned a lot from this video. I’m not a pilot for sure, but it always seems like crosswinds at landing are a huge challenge, and would require a lot of experience. And it’s good to see aircraft landing ok with wing damage, and to learn that a hard landing could be the best one. Aircraft and their engineered redundancy amazes me!

[lightseeker]

My dad was a pilot, tiny little Luscombe, he loved flying. I guess that's why I love watching and learning from your videos. Thanks!

[Rainersherwood]

The bouncy airplane is a rc135 "combat sent". There are only two in this configuration, really rare aircraft, mostly because of all the sensors onboard. The more common version is rc 135 "rivet joint". The combat sent collects data on enemy radar -- location for targeting purposes but also how the enemy radar is working. The data is used to make new HARM missiles, new jamming techniques, etc.

[kevinstyles]

without doubt you have the best channel on youtube. keep them coming as it is nice to hear from a real pilot who we will get true facts from all your videos

[ninjalectualx]

This is my favorite series, please don't stop making them! The RC-135 one was especially interesting

[tracycapilot]

Kelsey, your comment at the end about being "rattled" and out of rhythm made this former student pilot smile because, the very same thing happened to me on my solo. Well, not quite so much as these Air Force aviators but, after my 3rd and final landing I was taxiing off the runway trying to calm myself and talking to the tower for clearance back to parking. The tower was congratulating me on soloing and one of the last things he reminded me of was: "Don't forget your flaps"! Guess it happens to everyone at some point. For me it is immortalized on video (no GoPro's yet) taken by a friend and my family listening with my CFI on the radio!! They all got a great laugh at my expense! Still is one of the best days of my life.

[roderickcampbell]

That Rivet Joint landing was amazing. Really cool as Kelsey would say. I cannot get over how long the 707 airframe has lasted. Some folk really knew what they were doing.

[alanclark]

Wonderful explanation Kelsey, as usual - you were born to educate! One thing for those that don't realise is - those Rivet Joint aircraft are flying at max military loading, huge generators, lots of antenna panels (not just the little gadgets on the roof) tons of black boxes inside and then the aerodynamics are altered by all the lumps and bumps. That crew did very well in that strong crosswind. My mate flew the U.K's Nimrod for about as long as anyone and has a few stories to tell because the kit kept changing and he just had to deal with it.

[helios]

I love how you explain things in a way that’s so easy to understand! When I found your channel, I knew absolutely nothing about airplanes, but your way of making everything comprehensible made me get hooked onto your channel!

[leonardhirtle]

You have made me appreciate pilots and how difficult their work is. Thank you.

[fayelitzinger]

you & mentour pilot have helped me so much with my fear of flying. but the way i would SCREAM if i saw the wing hit the ground like that. i enjoy your travel vlogs too

[Deltarious]

The aircraft in the second half is an RC-135, Specifically it looks like an RC-135U Combat Sent, the platform is designed to collect intelligence on radar emissions so they can design better countermeasures/counter countermeasures. It also looks like a newer upgrade of the type as this type in particular did not have those top mounted (dorsal) antennae before and they are *possibly* for communication, datalink and relay purposes. The 'cool parts' of the aircraft are really housed in those 'cheek pods' as well as in the wings and on the tail boom