THE VIDEO SHELF · aviation emergencies
Airbus A340 EMERGENCY - Engine Failure
Cockpit footage of a Swiss Airbus A340 crew dealing with rising oil temperature in one engine on a Zurich to Shanghai flight, ending with a safety landing. It shows the pilots' procedures through the emergency.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a captivating look at how a professional crew calmly handles an in-flight engine problem.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- AviationTV
- Topic
- aviation emergencies
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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PilotsEyeTV is a really really neat thing. They sell entire box sets of whole flights. It's pretty cool that the European airlines allow this amount of camera work in the cockpit: [LINK] If you really want to see something captivating, watch this clip of a …
joezydeco on Hacker News · 2018-09
In Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf]There's a company called PilotsEYE.tv that sells DVDs of exactly this. It seems to be mostly European airlines participating, but they have some serious aircraft filmed in operation. They load the cockpit up with GoPros. Not sure but there might also be someone in the …
joezydeco on Hacker News · 2014-12
In The pilots of Instagram: violating rules of the airHere's an amazing video of what happens in the cockpit during an engine failure in a commercial airliner: [VIDEO]
jballanc on Hacker News · 2018-04
In Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants
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