Turbulence So Bad It Broke The Plane (BOAC Flight 911) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN

My dad was an avionics engineer with BOAC and worked on the 707 fleet.

The flight number itself should’ve been a warning.😮

Please do the pan am 707 crash in 1974 in Pago Pago
This was another milestone 707 disaster
Very interesting book also Clipper 806

This could never happen to me, I love ninjas so much.

P plan

Why fly into an area reported to have high turbulence by numerous pilots?

Yeah, it's still creepy AF to watch the wings flex when things get rough.

Well done Chloe.

flight number is ironic

In one incident it was suspected that a mountain wave from the nothern america continent reached even Greenland....
Can't name the incident out off the top of my head.

In the back ground we see two tails and parts of the bodies of the KLM DC8/63.

OK, one more that's Brock- ohhhh - lee, not the veg. A cool follow up would be when a military tanker version KC135, on an inflight refueling mission was actually behind and below the B52 it was looking for and were smack in the middle of the wake. Tore two engines off, trashed the plane but they landed more or less OK.

Passengers saw the wreckage......that's why when you leave the oral surgeon, they don't let you walk out thru the waiting room. 🤕

So I’m right to fear turbulence

Bad flight number….

can a modern plane survive the same flight path?

10-06-1981 PH-CHI Moerdijk The Netherlands, a Fokker F.28 had a wing torn off flying through a thunderstorm, south of Rotterdam. You don't need mountains to have an airplane break up....

An excellent production.

911 what’s your emergency

Get well soon!

Well if, at the time, any one had asked a certain teen aged aspiring physicist with a side interest in meteorology and electronics, whether it was a good idea to get closer to the mountain, I would have screamed, NOOOO! However, that would have resulted in a pat on the head and " go read your books, little girl..." I did save one flight back when, blizzard, JFK, holding pattern,waiting for diversion, flames out of engine, advised flight attendant, emergency landing two minutes later. But here, in this poignant account, the number 911 suddenly opens a new set of questions. My very first flight was 14 hours on BOAC. They were brilliant.

Mt. Fuji is not called Fuji-yama in Japanese but rather Fuji-san.

Lesson from this crash: Always cancel your flights for ninja demonstrations.

Turbulence is one thing , but this was ridiculous.

The worst turbulence I ever experienced was when I was flying from Seattle to California in 2008. We passed right over Mt St Helens, which was erupting. The plane shook so hard that anything that wasn't strapped down was flung into the air and slammed into the ceiling of the fuselage. I've never been so scared in my life.

I still don't know what on earth that pilot was thinking going through that searing hot plume of smoke and ash, instead of going around it.

I maybe wrong, but I draw a conclusion that this disaster (in large part) falls under common sense. Common sense would have some idea that a magnetic field between the volcano and a metal construction, the plane, does not sound like a good idea for passengers just to have a better view to take better pictures. With 5 crew members in the cockpit not one would declare A Bad Idea! How horrible with that loss of lives with ,enormous hours collectively with these men, not once did anyone speak out a horrible decision was being made that fateful day.

First officer Edward Mellony

My grandparents were on this plane.

With so many airplane crashes that had the flight numbers with 9-1-1 in some order,it is a cursed number.. 😢🫣😞

Boeing innit

When I worked as a contractor in Afghanistan, we used to fly a little prop plane over the mountains to the remote Eastern border near Pakistan (FOB Salerno for anyone aware). Those flights were terrifying. The turbulance was so bad, I swore the plane was going down on multiple occasions. You could feel the gusts of wind twisting the plane sideways as we're flying forward. When we finally touch down, everyone is pale-faced, sweating and thanking God.

One correction regarding the Bond film passengers who cancelled. Lewis Gilbert was the director of "You Only Live Twice", not the screenwriter.

Though the incident is tragic, I can't help but laugh at the people who "Turbulence can't crash the plane".

Thank God for ninjas

I've always been told that no plane has ever crashed due to turbulence...LIES

this is the plane Albert R Brocolly and Harry Saltzman , the men who created James Bond movies in the 60s , were lucky to miss

Never fly a 911 flight #

What kind of BOZO Pilot uses his airliner for sight seeing ? This pilot was sight seeing Mt Fuji, and then there were the 2 sight seeing airliners in 1956 that crashed into each other over the Grand Canyon, and I also seem to remember a NZ airline that offered sight seeing excursions of Antarctica until one crashed. WTF ??? Sorry, but airliners weren't built for sight seeing. They were built simply to get people from Point A to Point B. PERIOD.

I love the music on his videos. It helps me unwind while i listen to the story and fall asleep

The background music at the very end is stunning.Anyone knows?

Flight 911🤦‍♀️😳

Thank you so much for all your efforts in putting this together. Both of my grandparents were on this flight along with many others from Thermo King truck-trailer refrigeration. My dad one the trip and as a dealer and gave it to his mom and dad as a gift. Rest in peace.

Flight 911. I guess that number is cursed

Canadian Pacific flight 402
Deaths: 70
Survivors: 8
Site: Tokyo, Japan
(Fun fact! BOAC 911 crashed over mount Fujiyama (mount Fuji) the day after Canadian Pacific flight 402 crashed!)

CORRECTION NOTICE
Thought I would drop a new pinned comment to highlight what some of my Japanese Speaking Viewers have pointed out. In this video I referred to Mount Fuji as "Fujiyama" Which (in a literal sense) translates to "Fuji Mountain". However I have been informed that this is not what Japanese speakers call the mountain. "Fujisan" is the correct name and is what I should have used here instead. My Apologies.

I always try to include correct names and pronunciations of place names in my videos and it looks like there was a bit of a breakdown of what I thought I should use, ended up using (from what I gather) an Europeanized mistranslation of the Mountains name. It certainly wont happen again.