Ural Airlines Flight 178

Now normally I write about flights that "if" I was the pilot (which is written like a flight simmer uses the term, if they became a pilot how would they have changed the outcome) and talk about how I could change the outcome of the incident, that's the way I normally write them!!

However, this one is different and more internally based on why these happen and what can be done about it!

What Happened------

Ural Airlines Flight 178 was a scheduled passenger flight from Moscow–Zhukovsky to Simferopol, Crimea. On 15 August 2019, an Airbus A321operating the flight suffered a bird strike after taking off from Zhukovsky and crash-landed in a cornfield, 5 kilometers (3.1 mi; 2.7 NM) past the airport. All onboard survived; 74 people sustained injuries, but none were severe.

This accident was caused by another birdstrike, just like the one that caused Cactus (US Air) 1549 in the Hudson river back in 2009! Instead of Canada geese, they hit some "seagulls" seagulls are smaller than Canada geese thus they would have gone through the engines but they are quite boney, thus they broke engine blades and caused both engines to fail!

Doing this caused the plane (an a321) to crash into a cornfield, and nearly killing all people, most survived but some were injured!!

Now we've seen this type of aircraft crash with a birdstrike back in 2009 with us air 1549, back then the deciding body who told the authority about the fact that they had no control of the plane thought something like this was a one-take or one time thing but they needed to learn any airliner could have this happen to them at any time without fuel and or the bird strike accident. its happened before and it will happen again.. airports work hard to make sure the planes don't hit them but planes do fly in other places!

So I can't say I know what I could change of the outcome but I have strong feelings that it will happen again and there are not much that pilots can do about it...except finding a proper landing area other than a field or river as both those could have catastrophic effects (if there was a boat or ship in river or a tractor or combine in field)... both came out with no other boats ships or a tractor/combine in the field so they were lucky!!

Focus on where you could land and try to land there (try yo avoid roads lakes rivers and highways!!

If you can make it to another airport try that, but we learned from 1549 that going to an airport might not be the right thing but that's only if you are in the city!! in the middle of nowhere an airport might be a proper place to go!! but only in that situation!!

Air France Flight 358/ Toronto 401 Crash

What Happened--------

Air France Flight 358 was an Airbus A340-313E, registration F-GLZQ, on a scheduled international flight from Paris, France, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On August 2, 2005, while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport at 4:01 p.m. EDT, it crashed into nearby Etobicoke Creek, approximately 300 m (980 ft.) beyond the end of the runway. All 309 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A340 survived, with 12 people sustaining serious injuries. The accident highlighted the role played by highly trained flight attendants during an emergency.

If i was the pilot i  would have seen that Toronto was too bad for landing and either diverted to ottawa or detroit 2which have 

Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314

What Happened------

On 11 February 1978, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200 crashed at Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, near Cranbook, British Columbia, Canada, killing 42 of the 49 people on board.<sup>[1]

This crash was 4 days after my brother was born, i happened in the middle of the night, a 737-200 heading from Edmonton to Cranbrook BC crashed into a snowplough on the runway because of a miscommunication on who was to clear the runway and who was to keep clearing the snow from the runway.

Both passengers and crew were killed instantly because of miscommunication.</sup>

What would I do?

<sup>If i were a pilot and or an ATC on the radio i would have instructed the plane to go around and the snowplough to get off the runway as soon as possible, and that would have saved lots of lives.


That's all i can say</sup>

First Air Flight 6560/Resolute Bay crash

What Happened--------

In the year 2011, a First Air 737-200, was on approach to CYRB Resolute Bay,NU and crashed into the side of a mountain only a few meters or miles from the runway at resolute bay.

In the moments leading up to the crash, they saw a lot of fog below them and got warnings telling them to pull up and within a few minutes they crashed into the side of a hill and nearly all on board were killed except for a few people.

The aircraft was operating as a charter flight from Yellowknife Airport, Northwest Territories to Resolute Bay Airport, Nunavut. It was carrying four crew and 11 passengers. The aircraft crashed on approach to Resolute Bay, killing 12 people. The weather at the time was reported to be poor. The Canadian Forces were conducting Operation Nanook 2011 nearby, which was about to simulate an air disaster in the Resolute Bay area and Royal Canadian Air Force firefighters were among the first to respond and reach the crash site locating three survivors.[9] The fire chief, designated Red Leader, was informed that there were 15 people on board the aircraft. Red Leader reported that 3 survivors had been located and the search for others was being organized in accordance with rescue procedures. The other crew and passengers were found to have died on impact.[10] The operation was suspended and those taking part assisted in the rescue efforts.[2] One surviving passenger was admitted to the Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit, Nunavut for one day while awaiting medivac transfer to Ottawa. The other two surviving passengers were moved from Iqaluit to the Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario.[11]

What I would do?

I would have seen the fog below and if the warning for the pull up had come on i wouldn't have hesitated i would have pulled up right away. Also what would have helped is if the aircraft had a terrain map gauge or dial on the aircraft, it tells the pilots and crew what is up ahead and what to look out for. This would have helped them immensely as they would have seen the hill approaching and knew to do something about it. 

What you read here is not  a new version of that the TSB would have wrote its more a "if i were the pilot" what would i do and how would i control the plane.

Thanks for reading... . 

Air Canada Flight 624/Halifax Crash

What Happened--------

This flight started from Toronto and was heading to Halifax flying an A320-200. On approach to land it crashed a few feet from the runway and hit a few ILS towers and power grid. His weather in Toronto wasn't bad a light drizzle of snow and his destination at the time of flight wasn't bad either but you see some weather can change within 5-10 minutes and upon approach the weather was too bad the pilot lost where the runway was.

Possibly this was a CATIII landing which most pilots can usually accomplish but it might have gotten worse while going around for another attempt at landing. The weather/winds can change really fast.

What Would I Do?

If i was the pilot i would have noticed how bad the storm was and turned around and headed back to Toronto or found an airport to land that had greater visibility than trying to land somewhere you cant possibly see the runway at!!

Im sure as pilots do they check the destination airports weather and that helps but i don't think they look at what the weather is going to look like at landing...they should have either looked forward in the weather  to how many hours the flight would be at their destinations. Even though no one was harmed on this flight its very interesting that they even tried to land at Halifax in Cat III weather....


Anyways that's all i can say about this flight crash...

hi and welcome to my new blog

I hope to give some people some ideas of what I would have done if I was a pilot. ill go through some airplane crashes and figure out what i "if I was a pilot" would have done in that situation. Not saying im better but my way would have saved lives!


You will expect I'm going to mention all well known and documented air crashes, like in tv shows and known in popular culture but I can't, I'm not lazy but there are incidents where it wasn't a pilot error and I think it's up to others to figure out, those ones I will ignore as aircraft are being updated, made to fly safer every year or so, so I may not get to those unless something prompts me to go talking about it, I mean I'm going to go after incidents that I watched or knew about where my situation expertise could have changed the outcome...some you see how easy it would be to make these choices...some you might not!!

That's the just of what this blog is about.  and hope you enjoy!!