Airline Pilot Rates 8 Airplane Emergencies In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
Pilot in command Zoya Agarwal rates eight pilot emergencies in movies and TV for realism.
Agarwal breaks down the accuracy of dealing with aircraft emergencies due to technical malfunctions in movies such as "2012" (2009) and "Flight," (2012), starring Denzel Washington. She looks at dealing with the threats on board the airplanes in "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), with Samuel L. Jackson; "Fast & Furious 6" (2013); and "Non-Stop" (2014), starring Liam Neeson. She also breaks down weather-related air emergencies and airline emergency landings and crashes in "Airline Disaster" (2010), "The Captain" (2019), and "Runway 34" (2022), starring Ajay Devgn.
Agarwal is a pilot in command for Air India, flying the Boeing 777 aircraft. She is the first woman commander to fly over the North Pole, together with an all-female crew, on one of the longest air routes in the world. She is currently pursuing her master's at Columbia Business School.
You can follow Zoya here:
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Airline Pilot Rates 8 Airplane Emergencies In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
"Please show me something realistic!" Snakes on a Plane.
I wanted to write exactly the same! 😅
That was great. These editors are brilliant!
Fast and Furious 6.
A documentary filmed in real time!
Captain: Can I review Sully? Insider: ...no.
“They will move mountains for you.” Would be pretty handy when you’re flying through mountains 😂
badum tss
moving mountains would silence the ground proximity warning system
Speaking of planes crashing on the mountains, watch.... ALIVE. CLIFFHANGER. MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US.
Thanks for explaining her joke back to us, good job
Say less
Applauded Zoya when she brought up her meetings and environment in cockpit. How many flights have ended in disaster because a co-pilot was scared or intimidated to speak up about bad practices. Too many pilots have been flying when they were a danger because no one had the confidence to speak up as a safe environment & culture wasn’t encouraged.
I absolutely concur
Definitely, this has been a major factor in aerospace disasters, NASA labelled it as "Group-think", and it's very dangerous to assume things and not speak up.
Yeah, another fact that I recently found out about, is that you don't have the same crew onboard on all flights... captain-first officer crews combinations constantly change so you have to build up trust and self-trust within two flights
I feel like half the air crashes we know about would not have happened if people felt like they could speak up
The biggest air disaster in history can be in part tied to this. The pilot basically overrode his flight crew and they didn't object because he was so well respected and had basically trained half their airline.
How can she smile so nice while describing awful disasters? She is really great!
thats experience and fearless
Professionalism, you gotta learn how to handle those situations with calm otherwise disaster turns into a bloodbath
botox. obviously
Milf
@@coal1987 not that obvious tbh
She has to be the harshest scenario critic of the entire series! But she was very knowledgeable and what a wonderful smile! She reminds me of my mom, a small batterie packed with the energy of a nuclear plant! 😅
that's because there's no room for error when flying
I don't think she was harsh, the clips were all bonkers.
@@ericfellner2689 Compared to the other experts she was! Harsh criticism ain't necessarily a bad thing if it's justified, which was in her case as you pointed out so well about how much most of these were indeed bonkers! She explained very well that criticism which made it a very precious knowledge for future filmmakers that would want to make such themed movies.
Many of these Hollywood scenes are supposed to be extraordinary events. Sure under normal circumstances it doesn't happen. Under normal circumstances you don't take off unless you have absolute certainty of all safety requirements, but none of them were supposed to be normal circumstances! Not to mention there would be tremendous mental pressure during such events, ie gun pointed to head, or passengers lives are already at stake anyway if she doesn't take off or land etc. etc.. She's missing a bit of the point here, looking only from a normal circumstance point of view. She is very knowledgeable and experienced though.
She's just being Indian😅 cheap in everything even giving scores!
I love the unbridled savagery of her reviews. "This is wild and enjoyable -10" Fun and realistic very rarely coexist and she just murders these clips, glorious. :)
I hope she does a part 2, this was a fun one to watch. Love all the minus scores lol
Yes! I’d love to see a part two!!
I know it doesn't necessarily include pilots but I really wanted her take on the airplane crash scene from the Dark Knight Rises.
It was done practically
She has surprised me how these movies are based on real life incidents...They truly study every single crash
"This is based off of something that actually happened .... so -100 for realism"
@@ItsBigZoo Lol, because it's not recommended
@@ItsBigZoo because the idea was taken from the real event, but it was taken to ridiculous Hollywood drama levels... f.e. the inverted flight from Flight, happened at much higher altitude and the pilots only took it as a last resort, they managed to keep the airplane airborne for some time until a solution was found, but in the end the plane crashed like a rock from the sky and everybody on board died
What a cool human ! I’d feel so safe with her as a pilot hearing the constant emphasis she puts of protecting the lives of her passengers, ik it’s a given but it’s v reassuring to hear . sending love to her and all ppl in positions of responsibility that operate like this !💖
Wow, she was great! I love how she had clearly thought about the disasters shown beforehand and figured out how she personally would have addressed it.
We need more of Captain Agarwal. She's awesome.
While that first example was based on a real flight, the actual conditions were utterly terrifying and when they got upside down it was unrecoverable sadly.
1:49 Correctly states that the movie was based on Alaska Airlines flight 261. *Editor shows a picture of a 737 in connection to that flight, which is not even close.*
The fast and furious one was absolutely ludicrous. Remember watching it thinking "just how long is this runway?".
That long runway featured in an earlier Insider, didn't it.
26 miles I believe. Lol
Never as long as the _Captain Tsubasa_ pitches.
Ludicrous and F&F are kinda synonymous. I have had the displeasure of seeing two of them, and I wish I could have that time back.
Would definitely like to see more of Zoya, she's a great commentator, and doesn't pull any punches!
When she said 2/10 I was like "Oh cool she liked it" 😄
😅😅
😂🤣😂
The scoring system is 0-10 Her : - 100 I love it
Do *"Astronauts review fictional spacesuits in movies & tv."* Like how practical and ideal they are in real life.
There was a video like that with a Smithsonian Air & Space Museum curator, who contextualized the spacesuits in terms of the years the movies were from, which was pretty cool.
@@grjohejw84thg Sweet. 👌
There’s one with Chris Hatfield. His review of Gravity was hilarious.
In regards to takeoff performance I remember a case where 747 was taking off and the captain noticed a poor climb rate, he went back to the airport. What has happened, the night before they cleaned carpets inside without drying them, the amount of water was enough to ground aircraft.
Jesus Christ.
Sheesh. Better safe than sorry but that would be annoying if your plans got canceled because of carpets.
Captain Agarwal: Please show me something realistic. Insider: Snakes on a Plane
1:27 last I heard flight attendants being in a cockpit, they were holding the pilot who was half ejected out the window while the first officer quickly landed the plane by himself. Which is not easy as the settings take two people to do.
british airways yep captian got partially sucked out 3 flight attendants held the captian in place while the copilot had to fly solo to an airport he didnt know without charts entirely by instinct and what the controllers told him. dude broke down as soon as they landed
i love her reactions. she is fearless on defending real airmanship
Props for knowing about the Alaska Airlines flight 261 incident! The jackscrew in the mechanism that controls the horizontal stabilizer got stripped due to poor maintenance, jamming the stabilizer in the nose down position. Since the pilot was unable to change that, inverting the plane to reverse the stabilizer action was his only course of action. The handbook didn't cover a fully jammed stabilizer, but I'm sure they read that before trying this. Unfortunately, they were unable to make a water landing in the Pacific inverted.
When a lady can say ‘chonqing to lhasa’ nonchalantly…u know she is a legitimate experienced world traveler
“please show me something realistic!” [snakes on a plane]
Working alongside her must be a joy! She's amazing!
We thought the blacksmith a few months ago was a hard grader.
Well she's Indian and they make jews look like the most "giving" human beings😂 just cheapest of the cheap even if it's not money and just scores!
Oh, she is good. She is really good. I wish there were more movies with airplane emergencies so that we could see more of her ;-)
this lady was my college professor. It's why it took me 8 years to graduate.
Did she give negative grades? ;)
I think she just gave the lowest average points in the history of the show😂. Brilliant!
In the Snakes movie: immediately following Mayday MUST BE the flight number so that the ATC knows which plane has declared the emergency. It has several/many planes in the sector and it can be anyone. Declaring mayday and describing the cirumstances without identification is counterproductive.
It should be said on the first one that there have been incidents where the situation deteriorated so fast that there was NO TIME to go through the quick reference handbook.
What an impressive lady. Beautiful, smart, and funny, not to mention a brave for piloting a plane.
Surprising the film that started the entire "Disaster" genre wasn't here... Airport 1970. Would like to see Zoya review the climactic scene where Global 2 is on its Precision Radar Approach to Lincoln Runway 29.
I just love how the scores get progressively SO MUCH WORSE! I live for the drama, she needs to come back
Ok I like her, very knowledgeable, cares about her profession and her passengers but her extreme “stick to the handbook” I don’t like too much cause yes in about 90% of cases can be solved with that handbook. But there are more than a few dozen events I can think of where they only survived cause they went against the handbook rather than following it. And in those cases it was cause the pilot knew their plane very well and knew what to do. So yes the handbook is good and saves lives but having a strict ideal to not “think outside the box” in an emergency could lead you to overlooking something it doesn’t cover or not think of something.
"Please show me something realistic!" *cuts to Snakes on a Plane*
I saw something once (I think it was like a National Geographic documentary, but can't remember for sure) where unfortunately all pilots and co-pilots ate the same thing for dinner (I think it was fish or something like that) which turned out to be highly contaminated and it was quite scary and touch and go for a while. It was unsettling for the passengers when they saw all three pilots out cold. Luckily there was a passenger who was a former pilot from the war onboard that used to fly smaller planes but somehow he managed to put it down relatively safely with help from the tower and stewardess, with no real injuries. It was only due to the stoicism and bravery of the passengers and crew that they survived, but it gives great insight as to all the issues that can arise from airplane disasters and the best way to conduct oneself in that scenario.
they give the pilots different meals from each other to avoid this
Airplane! 8/10
shirley you can't be serious
Airplane! Classic
Yeah, it's basically the summary of Airplane. And looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
A windshield broke and sucked out the co pilot? I already hate flying, now I gotta worry about cracked windshields?!?! “Show me something realistic” Proceeds to show snakes on a plane 😂
it happened twice, once to a british pilot, he also survived
@@isthatrubble British Airways 5390.
@@isthatrubble In the British case it wasn't a cracked windshield but the hole panel blew out because the ground crew used the wrong bolts that were to short.
To ease your tension a bit, the effects of explosive decompression are waaaaaaay overexxagerated in movies. People generally don't get sucked out when there's a small hole. To give you a real-life situation to look at for comparison. In 2018 there was a small leak on the ISS and an astronaut simply plugged it with his finger until his colleagues could fix it. And this was in space. Nothing blew out, and nobody got sucked through.
The only time I know of an extra person in the cockpit helping fly is United Flight 232, and that person moving the throttles was Check Captain Denny Fitch. The flight attendant who brought his offer for help up either escorted him or told him to head to the cockpit (1989, y'all) and went back to her job- preparing the cabin and passengers.
She can be my pilot. I love how she talks about CRM. This one i give -100 lol. I have a fear of flying but i know a lot about planes but if i hear her voice over the intercom i would feel safe
Zoya is such an inspiration
10:14 my biggest problem with that scene is the pilot not wearing oxygen mask. If even passengers are wearing it, surely the pilots would be wearing one, long before passengers get theirs.
There are actually a ton of crashes where the passengers in the cabin had their masks on but the pilots didn’t. The masks in the cabin and the cockpit deploy separately, and in some cases the pilots have to deploy their masks themselves rather than having them come down automatically. In that case, since hypoxia can be very subtle, pilots might not even realize they need the masks until it’s too late.
@@cockathiel5319 That's not how it works. Pilot oxygen masks are not even "dropped", not even "deployed". They are on the outboard sides of each pilot and can be donned in seconds, but are not automatic at all. There are checklists of when to use them. When the passenger masks have already automatically deployed, there will be decompression warnings in the cockpit, and the QRH would require them to don oxygen masks immediately.
Can we please have more people like her who call out Hollywood bullshit! This is awesome!
Everybody knows hw is bullshit
Bollywood is more bullshit!
I love that one of the highest rated one was the one by the Asylum
Pilot-in-Command, Zoya, has reaffirmed my confidence in crew aviation.
I like her, she could be a good companion of the historian guy who is saying "why don't they dig ditches, it's so unrealistic". :)
2:46 that made me laugh SO much! 🤭😆🤣 And have to say, as is the case with other roles in society, there must be subtle innuendo amongst airline pilot talk too. That or I just need to grow up a bit, because when she said "Open the flaps" it also made me burst out laughing 🙃😅
You guys should have gotten Mentour Pilot to do these. On his KZhead channel, he covers all sorts of real life aviation incidents and disasters and even uses the final reports when available to help explain everything.
In "Flight" the pilot was drunk. That's really what the movie is about. But it's a flight I would never want to be in.
She was fine, loved her.......feels like they picked the worst movies possible on purpose.
I disagree with the assessment of the first clip. First, like you said, that was a real incident, for which there was no procedure in the QRH. Second, in regards to calling someone else into the cockpit to help, did happen, with the Sioux City crash where a third pilot as passenger was called in to work the throttles when they lost directional control. Third, sometimes when the situation is dire enough with minimal time, the QRH isn't as option as in this movie, or like in Sullie, where he turned on the APU right away, even though that wasn't part of the checklist. Sometimes, you have to use your gut and experience to make judgement calls and decisions that aren't in the QRH. To say you should do what's in the QRH and only that would likely have killed a lot of people had that advise been adhered to. At the end of the day, fly the plane and save the lives of everyone aboard.
Why did it take so long to find somebody that was thinking exactly what I was thinking. Even after she said it really happened, and she "respected the Captain's decision.", she says 0/10??? Had he "stuck to the handbook", everybody would have died. I wonder if she thinks she could have done a better job.
How do u give it a 0 when I actually happened 😂
Flying the aircraft is always a priority QRF and ATC communication may be important but flying your aircraft comes first
Love this! She did great!!!
My brother was a pilot and watching this brought back some good memories. He was always by the book too!
You should do a video on the Airport movies from the 70s and 80s
when she said "I am doing this for 18 years" I pictured a 10 year old girl flying a plane
Some reports are that Alaska 261 was inverted before it crashed. When test flown for a promotional flight, the first 707 was flown upside down in a 1 G barrel roll. The 727 and 747SP were reputed to handle and be flown like fighter jets. Some anecdotes are that they could indeed be flown upside down for short periods of time. In dive like that, probably going through the QRH might seem as something one hasn't time for, I think the movie "Flight" was supposed basically show him as a crack pilot--such pilots are a thing and are noted for their ability to think outside the box. I believe such pilots are coveted for service as test pilots, who must fly planes not yet flown or tested whose handling, quirks, and faults are unknown. FedEx 705 was another plane that performed some serious acrobatics to foil a hijacker who intended to crash the plane. This was a DC10-30--a plane not noted for its acrobatic abilities at all. Even among airliners, it wasn't considered a terribly maneuverable plane. Another commercial plane to lose a cockpit window was British Airways 5390. A window was replaced, and the wrong sized screws were used. It blew out at altitude, sucking the pilot halfway out. Cabin crew had to hold him from being sucked out of the plane entirely. He survived.
Zoya" PLEASE show me something realistic.... Insider: *loading in...* Snakes on a Plane me: so accomidating to the lady!
I wish they had included the crash scene from _Greenland_ - it was made in such detail.
Perfect honesty
One of the best reviewers on this series. Definitely the hardest judge on fiction. I appreciate her bringing up the importance of crew resource management and use of the QRH instead of pilots trying to hotdog everything and closing their eyes while landing.
It's said that Flight is inspired by events of the Alaskan Md80 crash in the Pacific ocean near Los Angeles
She's so confident, have a high standard and well-versed knowledge in her field. A true professional indeed!
I wish she had commented on the kid in 'Snakes On A Plane', who flew and landed the plane, after claiming he had a few hundred hours of flying experience...in a video game.
Except more than once something similar to that has happened in real life and some games are scarily realistic when it comes to controlling the planes even if the physics are not.
while the playstation would not help much with flying a real airplane, I have seen some of the setups people have for things like the MS Flight Simulator. They probably could land the real thing. there is a whole community out there of hard core sim players who build what are called "sim pits", its basically a full flight simulator minus the motion systems. some of the "games" and I use that term lightly for things like DCS and MS Flight Sim will let someone basically run a full cockpit with all the buttons.
She's cool, reminds me of every pilot portrayal in a film, just dope.
As a bonified internet expert, who is a licensed commentator on areas out of my expertise: I can't entirely agree with the statement of this licensed pilot. Planes can hit birds and survive it. Planes engines are certified to ingest birds (small) and keep rolling. also there is many air incidents where planes literally lost parts of the fuselages or wing and survived.
Please make a video of railroad train engineer or locopilot react on train movies.
The plane that had 3 engines, 1 on each wing and 1 in the tail, they did have a passenger come up to the cockpit to help them fly the aircraft in that emergency. The passenger happened to be an expert on that particular aircraft, but it has happened before.
UAL232
He was not a passenger! Dennis Fitch was a training chek pilot. His job was literally to train and assess actions of regular pilots. More than that, after the catastrophe of JAL123 he went to the simulator to try and fly the plane with throttles only. By no means he could be called a cabin crew. And definitely he's not a pax.
@@freshname The one I watched, the guy was a passenger and not actually working at the time the plane lost it's hydraulics and tail engine.
@@CarbonGlassMan Yes, you're talking about the famous UA232. He WAS a passenger in a sense that he wasn't a part of the cockpit crew on that flight, but he WAS NOT a passenger in the sense that he wasn't paying for his trip. It's wasn't his private journey, he was being relocated to another training bace on that plane. He was summoned to the cabin because of his superior rank and superior expertise. It's not like it was his first time flying the plane, as we can see in that movie clip.
Passenger 57 and Executive Decision. I would have like to see these two for Zoya to review. Overall it was pretty good.
Love to see the take on Airplane!
Finally, someone reviewed Runway 34. Thank you, Capt. Agarwal
It would take a lot to make me fly anywhere, that been said I realize that airplanes are wonderfully designed machines and I respect all pilots P.S. I'm really tempted to watch Sully, it's prized by every pilot i seen in tv or net
Would have loved hear her talk about Homelander and Queen Maeve not saving that one flight
As a contractor employee, I can tell you I have been on the Apron and Taxiway of an AFB while the runway was active. I even drove near a bomber because the gate we were supposed to use was malfunctioning.
*OLD MOVIE HELP* I am looking for a movie i believe was based around 1950. I think the pilot was a seed spreader for farms and would charge the local kids to fly with him. He was building a plane to do a front loop. I think the plane was painted yellow. At the end either he or his buddy crashes and is stuck. He yells, "Don't let me burn!" His buddy hit him with a shovel and knocks him out then he dies. Dude didn't want to comply with the new FAA or ATC. Does anyone have any idea the name of this movie???
Great vid
Zoya was really interesting! Please bring her back for P2.
There definitely should have been a clip from Plan 9 from Outer Space and their pilots.
That picture they showed about flight 261 is completely wrong. That was a 737 "classic" and the real aircraft was an MD-83 "Mad dog". Same aircraft as the film. That flight ended in tragedy and it should have been no different in the film. Unfortunately, that film gets so many details wrong in the actual flight sequence that it is hard to explain. If you want a realistic depiction. Sully has the most realistic flight sequence ever put on the big screen.
1:50 Correction: the aircraft involved in that flight is an MD-80, in which its exterior looks similar to the film.
She is a beautiful lady with a gorgeous smile. Loved the fact she didn't give no bs scores. How she rated the movies reminds me of the ditch historian. No nonsense grading. Would love to see her back for another take.
She makes basic emergencies sound scarier than they should be
I don't like her explanation on the 2012 scene, bringing up the concorde incident doesn't make sense when there isn't a fuel tank above the landing gear on the AN225. The way she says "I would solve it from the flight deck", this is the AN225 which takes 6 people to fly, the fuel/hydraulic pumps can only be reached by the fuel/electrical engineer.
She's great. Please bring her back to do more!
It's kinda sweet the way she's glammed her hair up for this.....
Please up the volume of your vids. I have everything cranked up, but it's still hard to understand some parts.
She looks like she could be on a fast and furious movie
Sully is like a documentary in term of airplane emergencies.
It is accurate in every detail. Down to the flight attendant uniforms and the seats. I was a passenger on many 320-series US Airways flights until they were rebranded. It looked VERY familiar.
Until they get to the part where the crash investigators are harassing the pilot afterwards. Sully said that absolutely didn't happen and would never happen, because the investigators are professionals who handle their role respectfully, and he was on record as hating that the movie chose cheap drama over realism after the event.
5:23 not realistic? Air India IX 611 hit the airport perimeter wall during takeoff. 130 passenger, landed safely after the pilots (and ground crew) eventually realized what happened.
She’s harsh. But I can tell she knows her craft.
But, when the first one is based on an actual event, why is she giving 0 for this?
This is the type of person I need flying my plane! She playin no games “ blind landing nooo omg”😂😂😂
Thank you for telling us about your job and how show us how film scene in your career 😃
Love to see a gurl boss pilot woman. Her assertiveness lets me know she takes her job seriously.
I don’t understand the comments on the movie Flight. I know the movie and event were embellished and dramatized, but didn’t the real life pilot actually invert the plane?
"Show me something realistic" cuts to Snakes on a plane
She is our 🇮🇳indian lady