The Tragedy of Crossair Flight LX 3597 That Crashed 4kms Short of The Runway [4K] | Mayday | Wonder

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On the snowy night of November 24th, 2001, Crossair Flight LX 3597 – an Avro RJ100 regional airliner en route from Berlin – aborts its ILS landing at Zurich Airport and crashes into a wooded hillside, 4km short of the runway.

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  1. This pilot had, I believe they said 17,000 flying hours. That's immense. Yet, he didn't learn the basics. Perhaps it was hubris, though as a former recreational pilot, one thing I learned, was don't run into the ground. It hurts, but not for long! The prime directive for all pilots, esp. commercial, is don't let saving a minute or so, ie. a few bucks allow you to make or neglect a safe landing procedure, ie min. altitude for a go around!. Go arounds and touch and goes are easy, but you must practice them! Always expect the best, and assume the worst. That's how you, and most importantly, your crew and passangers arrive safely! This guy was lucky and got away with POOR piloting skills for years! But, inevitably it caught up with him and his, too quiet, shy copilat, who knew all along that they were in deep sh-t, and didn't speak up! Bob

  2. wow. It's super rare that we find out that a pilot, experienced at that, senior, was actually just a really bad pilot and shouldn't have been approved for flying passenger flights.

    I can't recall this scenario – this isn't like an airline having poor training, etc… this is a case of a pilot who just was bad, had terrible record, and they needed a pilot and he was "good enough" I guess.

    How tragic.

  3. I'm just asking a question?????
    What's the point. Of even paying these pilots????
    It seems they always use auto pilot!
    I just don't get it

  4. Fire him as an instructor, but smoke him to continue flying people around. Ugh.

    Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach probably shouldn't do.

  5. 21 passengers never showed up. Stories like that are always interesting. A very popular girl group was on the flight. Another interesting dynamic. The unsafe pilot is just another layer to this story.

  6. Well, I hope those people on the ground got their beauty sleep that night, seeing how their noise abatement complaints, shut down the ILS approach into Zurich essentially contributing to this crash?

  7. They probably don't tell you how far to run from a burning plane because people can barely follow the short list of instructions they're already given, and usually in that scenario you'd be dead

  8. Even tho I watched this on another channel I’m going to pretend it’s my first time seeing it just because I love Wonder

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