10 Seconds to Survive | Terrifying Dive Over the Pacific Ocean

Find out why a United Airlines Boeing 777 went into a terrifying dive immediately after taking off from Kahului Airport, Hawaii.

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[kennysmith]

That must've been an awkward cockpit for the remaining 5 hours

[waltquandt]

Give the Captain credit for remaining calm and pulling it out at the last minute. I imagine the passengers with window seats saw their life flash before their eyes.

[WayneM]

Very simple answer to this when the captain called for flaps 5 the correct response for the co-pilot is to repeat what he heard and say "flaps 5." In this case if the co-pilot had repeated back "flaps 15" the captain would have immediately corrected and have said "no flaps 5." The captain saved the day, but these type of incidents should never happen if the correct protocol is used. It's the reason why when communicating with ATC you repeat what you were told, so that both parties know each other has been understood correctly.

[johndoyle]

Thanks, Captain had nearly 20000 hours logged and yet required more training. Must have been very scary for the passengers and crew.
TFC, excellent as always.

[stephenfennell]

The Flight Channel's calm, factual, read-only style is very good.

[WorkingNomad]

I noticed that the United Airlines has very old 777s they fly from LAX to Honolulu route, there is always some technical faults before departure, they need to upgrade the fleet & better train the pilots

[perniciouspete]

I find it EXTREMELY interesting that this incident was kept from the NTSB for 2 months so there was no existing documentary evidence as to what actually happened. Consequently, the NTSB couldn't conduct a real investigation and could only rely on the pilots' accounts of their own actions.
The lesson I learned from this situation is if something untoward happens on an airplane I'm aboard, I'm contacting the NTSB as soon as I deplane.

[margeebechyne]

How frighteningly close they came to tragedy. Because of a misheard word. This says they came forward with this but waited 2 months?? I find that strange. So very glad no injuries or fatalities. Thank you again for a great presentation.

[jeremyk]

I think the worst of this situation for me would be having to listen to people scream

[WRIT]

Now THIS was a great and very unique TFC video unlike any I've seen: there was no loss of human life. Yay!

[georgeconway]

It was daylight, the weather was bad rain and wind. when the potential flap over speed happened the Captain pulled the power off rather than just raising the nose to control the airspeed. On the takeoff and climb the stab trim is set to climb at V2+10 and once you reach your acceleration altitude the trim will move toward down as you accelerate and retract the Flaps. By pulling the power off with engines mounted under the wing you remove the pitch up force caused by the underwing engines operating at takeoff power. You suddenly have a very nose heavy airplane and that is why they were heading down. No one was flying the airplane.

[ninajones]

Only flight channel I will watch. Best concise content.

[riverwildcat]

I recently experienced wind shear and heavy turbulence that tossed my Cessna around like a toy. It was scary and dangerous, especially because it was my first time.
Fortunately I learned from a good instrutor what the wind can and cannot do. At first you think you’ll be driven into the ground, but in fact the wind flattens out, "ground effcets" take over, and you can ride it like a surfer by keeping the nose down and applying full power. Suddenly you find your ground speed is far more than you could ever attain without two hundred horsepower, about 150 knots. Pretty exhilarating in a Cessna 172.
The worst thing you can do is panic, fearing that you’ll hit the ground. If you fight it you’ll stall and die. Just as scuba divers learn never to resist ocean currents, pilots must learn to go with the winds as they truly are; not what you want them to be.

[chrisjohnson]

They obviously didn't report it for two months because their union had them wait until there was no flight voice recorder data. There's a lot more going on here than this shows.

[arturo]

..."Still flying for the airline". What do you need to do to get sacked as an airline pilot?? I was one for many years and if I had been as incompetent as this, I would have resigned.

[wixom]

This is why "black box" cockpit voice and data recordings should be archived and stored immediately after every flight.

[manukakasthuriarachchi]

Good presentation flight channel... I'm glad that everyone ok

[Simon_PieMan]

A masterpiece of engineering yet still these errors occur.

[CraigArndt]

Communication is still today one of the most important things, a cockpit is no different.

[psalmforliberty]

I bet they were both distracted and tired, just got lazy in their communication.
What a rollercoaster ride !
God be praised, no harm beyond white knuckles !