A Routine Emirates Takeoff Quickly Turns into Every Pilot's Nightmare | Terror in Johannesburg

Find out how a routine takeoff performed by an Emirates Airbus A340-300 (operating as Emirates Flight 764) nearly turned into a near disaster.

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[Taladar]

A further contributing factor would be to transfer two pilots who are both new to the aircraft there simultaneously instead of having each fly with someone who already knows that type for a bit first.

[a]

File this under "responsible but not guilty" - they clearly made mistakes BUT everything their training and experience provided them reinforced that mistake. I'm glad no one was hurt learning this lesson.

[johnscarborough]

Despite apparently doing everything by the checklist comfirmation bias, combined with no actual flight hours between the two pilots was nearly a recipe for disaster. Boggles my mind that they would not have an experienced PIC in the cockpit.

[MrAromero]

Glad everyone survived, that was a close one.

[grmpEqweer]

"We pay for all of runway, we use all of runway!"

[shreyanshaswal]

Imagine being a passenger and seeing the runway finish, yet your plane didn't lift off!

[ian]

Taking off at Jo-burg is terrifying enough due to the thin air / altitude …. I honestly couldn’t believe how long it takes to get up enough speed to rotate. It’s a seriously long runway and most of the planes are big and heavy and going a long way to Europe or the US.

[martindunstan]

Most of the commentators on this channel I'm sure have plenty of experience and are aware of many aspects regrading aircraft management but even for me as ignorant as I am of such matters it is totally engrossing and addictive. Great job thank you✌️

[maxtornogood]

They ended up being 'trained' into making an error.

[neillstephenson]

Airlines love to set the minimum power settings, fuel saving and noise abatement. Many pilots no longer are able to bring themselves to fly an aircraft by hand in an emergency, especially using an emergency application of Power. Student days, Power, Attitude, Trim.

[jamesseabolt]

I'm so glad no one got seriously hurt in this one. The Flight Channel always gives us great visual stories. Thank you.

[ilyasbouali]

cant imagine what the passengers went through awhile this was happening..

[Delta_NWABfan]

When Emirates had the A340’s, their fleet was pretty cool, and that’s coming from a Boeing guy. For a brief period they had:
- A380-800’s
- B747-400F’s
- A340-500’s
- A340-300’s
- A330-200’s
- B777-300’s
- B777-200/ER’s
- B777-200LR’s
Their fleet was pretty diverse for a bit but now mostly consists of 2 types until they get the A350’s, B787’s, & 777X’s.

[mancuby]

OMG..!! It seems really a miracle!
Never mind of an aircraft that managed to get airborne after running on the grass passed the runeway…😓😓😓😓😓

[sarahalbers]

Excited for this! Can't believe we are so early! Your video on the parachute jump really was powerful. Great work as always.
Thanks!

[arnoldcobarrubias]

I found this AND your Emirates Flight 407 video next to each other in my recommended

[roberthagedorn]

Apparently the aircraft had enough unburst tires and undamged flap drive mechanism remaining to enable it to land safely upon its return to the airport. Once again, everyone was lucky. But they certainly had an exciting take off with lots of extra noise from colliding with various objects beyond the end of the runway.

[guyunknown]

Following the training and still ending up with this

[JakJim]

Emirates do really well keeping all the incidents out of the media, thanks for making this

[wnn]

Yeah the A340-300 is equipped with 5 APUs