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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
In 1996, the hijacking of an Ethiopian Airline 767 became the worst in history when it crashed into the sea off the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. The pilot, Captain Leul Abate, was no stranger to hijacks, this was the third time an aircraft under his command had been threatened.
The Boeing 767-200ER was hijacked on 23rd November 1996 en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on a Bombay–Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan service, by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board died, along with the hijackers; the rest of the people on board survived with injuries.
At the time this incident took place, it was the deadliest hijacking involving a single aircraft. It fell to second place with the 11th September 2001 attacks. The incident is one of the only documented water landing attempts of a wide-body airliner with survivors.
Clip from the documentary “Extreme Machines – Fear of Flying : Crash Landing”.
Watch it here – http://youtu.be/uI-4sCJ7s1Q
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I'm not scared of the crash, I'm scared of the fact that I can't swim.
In case of landing on water….
Thats all a lie after all.
Look how that plane ditched slowly, yet the plane was broken apart. In the middle of ocean, there would be no survivors.
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5:35 probably one of the scariest images in my entire life. Dude's cock eyed look could frighten the poo out of me.
I think those 127 other people wish the would have overpowered these 3 fools and their fake bomb
altleast everyones okay right?
thats terrible that a plane crashed into the ocean it happend to me onec but i survied even tho some people died by sharks in front of me but me and my family survied.
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Wow 😯
May the hijackers be burning in hell!
Imagine 127 people die in a pane crash and you and your wife survive. That’s incredibly lucky
Sully said he was thinking of this incident when he had to land in the Hudson. He said he specifically remembered to keep the wings level and not let one of the tips touch first.
Giving hijackers a menacing look is embarrasing. Get out of your seat and kick their asses. Show them who is boss.
Fun Fact: There are 100% more planes underwater than submarines in the air.
Did he set the code to 7500?
DAMN shouldve went for the midd
le landing instead of the wings… 😣😬😬
Great landing anyways, just too much speed.
That was like a Truman moment
"you ok"
Yeah
"Wanna do it again"
No!
As much as they wanted to make history, those 911 hijackings were the real history. Good thing hijackings as nonexistent today
Ethiopian airlines has secret law enforcement people flying covertly with guns. I noticed that.
I have flown with this airline.
Maybe I will pay the extra $100 next time.
The fact that was this caught on video is insane! Nowadays, everyone has a 4K camera on them at the ready. Back then, it was either one of those large cameras that recorded onto VHS or Betamax tapes. Or, it was one of the smaller but still cumbersome cameras that took smaller Hi 8 tapes.
I dont wanna be disrespectful but why did the pilot decided to land with his left wing? Him doing that made the plane twist to the left making the plane shatter much more. He should've begin with the tail of the of the plane proceeding with the belly on a straight line…i think that would give the people more of a chance.
This might have happened to MH370, not the Hijacking, the ditching of the aircraft; but at a much lower speed because little to no reckage washed up. Only about 20-30 pieces have been found of MH370. For the aircraft in the video, thousands of pieces looked to have been present in the water floating.
what happened to the hijakers?
Hello I'm your captain Leul Abate…
Everybody down this is a hijacking!
Leul Abate: Oh god not again…
*https://youtu.be/q9RAZxNdCk8
R.I.P to the people that sadly died except for the hijackers
4:20 That quiver in his voice and that smile. Damn he was serious. Kinda rare you see murder in a man's eyes
Behold. Subsaharan IQ in action.
I think this is one of the clearest videos taken of a plane crash landing on water, and it's terrifying.
If I was the pilot I'd have went to the bathroom around 100feet to sea…👍
I wish the hijackers never died like that! Would have loved to see them been tormented for a long long time then feed them to the sharks 🦈
if he was such a great pilot why did he dip the left wing tip in the ocean? That cartwheeled the craft and broke it up. If he had wings level the plane could skid on its belly to a stop.
157 passengers died and 50 passengers survived
IN water landing even if one person walks out from it calls a lot. It`s not measurable in %`s
Rip
unlucky lucky pilot, wth 3rd hijacking? wow
This stuff makes me so sad and so pissed off I wish I could change the world so people like that don’t exist those innocent lives were lost for no reason. RIP
That old guy is BADASS. Glad to hear those hijacking fools were among the dead.
That was kind of a terrible water landing
The camera angle on the interview😬
They should make floats on the planes so they won’t sink in the water in case of an emergency
Where were the flight attendants