Disregarded Warnings | Yemenia Flight 626

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Yemenia Flight 626 was an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sana'a in Yemen to Moroni in Comoros, when it crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 am local time (10:50 pm on 29 June UTC) while on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport, killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board. The sole survivor, 12-year-old girl Bahia Bakari, was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for thirteen hours. Bakari was discharged from the hospital on 23 July 2009.

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[andrewk]

Just to add a little more context concerning the survivor: "Bakari, who had little swimming experience, no life vest, clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage floating in heavy seas for over nine hours. Much of this was in pitch darkness before being rescued". The crash site is about 15 miles north of the island of Grande Comore, which lies off the east coast of Africa. RIP those who perished. Cheers Allec, great video as always.

[sg]

Had never heard of this one ty! AMAZING THAT GIRL SURVIVED! In her interview she said that when she walked on the plane there were many flies and it smelled horribly..quite an airline.

[armorer]

This looks like a case of pilots who know how to fly the computer but don't know how to fly the plane.

[frankblangeard]

6:45 "An inadvertent selection of the altitude selector to nearly zero feet".

[StephenLuke]

RIP
To the 152 passengers and crew of Yemenia Flight 626

[txrmnp]

The absolute negligence that the pilots, as well as the ATC on duty that evening, engaged in is nauseatingly disgusting

[SATisfaction]

Wait.. this approach was insanity from the outset: The published procedure is for an airliner to fly the MVI at a pattern altitude of GA aircraft?.. at night? .. !? No airliner should be making hard turn maneuvers to land in slow speed conditions at 1400ft AGL! ..autopilot or not..

[jamesgraham]

The co-pilot was 50 yrs old with just 3000+ hrs... doesn't inspire confidence.

[nurajafar]

The biggest crime and injustice is to blame this poor pilot.

The ATC guy was the one that messed things up. They blamed the pilot because he was dead. They always do. I remember what happened in the movie 'Flight' where they tried to put blame on the poor lady flight attendant while the pilot was at fault, who had survived

[minutesfromdisaster]

Fatigue also played a big role in the crash

[Dilley_G]

Those pilots shouldn't even be allowed to be forklift operators

[bobhead]

my sympathies to the familys who lost people on this flight, RIP .❤🙏

[mbvoelker]

Circling approaches make me cringe. So many crashes associated with them.

[efph]

Doesn't sound like they need training in emergency procedures (ok, well also that) - they need practice in hand-flying an airplane.

[ShadesOClarity]

Ugh. That circle-to-land approach. In my opinion, to hell with it. Across the board. The captain should have said. "Negative on the Circle." Some major commercial carriers forbid it now.

[f-xdemers]

The autopilot should get additional training.

[jeffreymcdonald]

It sounds like complacency born out of years of over reliance on AP. That stall could have been prevented, even at 50 feet altitude, by simple flying straight and level while applying power. Once power is up start a gradual climb. It's all about instrument awareness at that point. What a brave young lady.

[muffsmercury]

2009 was not a good year with the crashes of Colgan Air 3407 and Air France 447 just to name just two. There was also Turkish Air 1951 that same year that stalled on final approach similar to this one. Fortunately there were a number of survivors on that one (due to no fire)
The lone survivor would be 28-29 now and I hope life has been good to her. The survivors guilt would all but wreck me if I lived thru that.

[simonstevens]

I got a Lufthansa ad immediately after the crash 😂

[M-K-S-Koksi_]

thank god this channel not re uploading like Thefightchannel