Air Crash Investigation – British Airtours Flight 28M HD Part 1 British Airtours Flight 28M was an international passenger flight on 22 August 1985 which originated from Manchester International Airport’s Runway 24 in Manchester, England en-route to Corfu International Airport on the Greek island of Corfu. The aircraft, previously named “Goldfinch” but at the time of the accident named “River Orrin”, had 131 passengers and six crew on the manifest. At the peak of the holiday season, most of the passengers were holidaymakers. At 06:12 BST, during the takeoff phase, the captain heard a loud thump coming from underneath the plane. Thinking a tyre had burst, he abandoned takeoff and activated the thrust reversers. Taking care in applying gradual braking, the plane was steered onto a taxiway off to the right of the runway and into a slight prevailing wind. As the plane stopped, the crew discovered that the No. 1 engine was on fire. By this time, fuel spilling from the port wing combined with the light wind had fanned the fire into a giant blaze. Fire quickly found its way into the passenger cabin, creating toxic smoke and causing the deaths of 53 passengers and two cabin crew, 48 of them from smoke inhalation. 78 passengers and four crew escaped, with 15 people sustaining serious injuries. One passenger, a man rescued 33 minutes after the outbreak of fire after being found unconscious in the aisle, died 6 days later of his injuries in hospital.
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Even then, at the end of the day, the 737 is a design from the 60s – it can only be updated so much without a completely radical redesign or overhaul, which is expensive, not to mention the goal of keeping the aircraft “familiar” across versions for pilots and maintenance reasons.
@ClassicMusicOnly I compared aircraft volume (# made) to safety record with regards to the other popular aircraft at the time, the McDonnell Douglas DC series. Since then, Airbus has entered the scene and while they do have a shining safety record, they’re still relatively new. There are also a lot more Boeing planes still flying in the skies than any other manufacturer, and the odds of you stepping onto a 737NG are still pretty small.
Hi again , its me
Well its all great , but really if you want to prove that Boeing is realiable your not really showing that.
If you want to show that Boeing is better prehaps compare it to a well known and second manufacturer of comercial aircraft in the world , Airbus.
Of course , you would’nt have much to compare to because Airbus would probably win. ( I’m not sure , just my educated guess from what I know about Airbus crashes).
But its worth a shot in researching!
Cheers!
Not Really.
Most of the 737 out there today , are Boeing 737 “Next Generation” aircraft which were introduced in 1998 and were Boeings response to the A320 Family.
Currently , you CAN compare the two because Boeing had its shot in computerising its aircraft. If you look at it really deatailed , you will see that the A319 family shores very highly over the Boeing 737 Next Genertion aircraft.
So , concluding , Boeing COULD use fly-by-wire systems on their aircraft because they had teh chance.
Hello ,
You must remember , that just because Boeing has many aircraft out there , it dosen’t defend Boeing. Boeing is a great company and I enjoy flying their aircraft because they are state of the art but they are known to be unsafe.
You cannot JUST rely on the safty record. You also have to know why and how the crashes happened.
There were many crashes involving the Boeing 737 aircraft because the rudder was found to malfunction , and so on.
So Boeing is not entierly annocent.
@radbrad4 First, I was commenting on Funfisique’s constant bashing of the Boeing Safety Rating, and making a direct comparison to Boeing’s chief competitor at the time, McDonnell Douglas. Second, comparing the B737 which was introduced in 1968 with the Airbus A319 (introduced in 1987) is hardly a fair comparison. It wasn’t economical (if at all feasible) to use fly-by-wire or computer adided landing/emergency resolution during the late 60s/early 70s due to size and power limitations.
Mnn… Looks like my last post didnt find its way to public so lets write it agian…
Automatization is very important, it eliminates human error. On B737 pilots have to do most manually…. On A319, computer is in comand, it even tunes ILS frequency on its own, recovers stall on its own, and even, if the visibility is less than minimum, it can make autoland. Who have ever flown Airbus like a pilot will confirm.
Too much messing about and not evacuating quick enough.
Which airline out of all the air crash investigation progames comes up the most do you think? and what do you guys think is has been the worst crash of all time?
So before you go mouthing off on other videos about how Boeing is unreliable, please check your facts. I’d much rather fly Boeing or Airbus than some old McDonnell or Lockheed plane any day of the week. Boeing is a master of aviation, and their safety record proves it.
Case in point: I compared planes built, production runs, incidents and fatalities between Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, its chief competitor at the time. Check them out below, in order from oldest to newest planes:
B707 (58-79): 2.7 deaths and 0.16 accidents per plane produced
McD DC-8 (59-72): 4 deaths/0.25 accidents
B727 (64-84): 2 deaths/0.15 accidents
McD DC-9 (65-82): 2.2 dead/0.11 accidents
B737 (68-pres): 0.6 dead/0.05 accidents
McD DC-10 (71-88): 3.3 dead/0.11 accidents
Seeing as how you’ve bashed Boeing in all five parts of this video, I thought I’d dig up some statistics and set you straight.
Boeing is the most popular airline manufacturer in the world. As such, a proportionate amount of aviation accidents and incidents involve Boeing aircraft. HOWEVER, Boeing has a better safety rating than their competitors over the years they’ve been in service, and make progressively safer planes.
The Killer 737 strikes again…
Is this the new season 7? Thanks
What’s the point being the first viewer ?
yess im the first viewer