Easyjet - Nouvelair : Accident Evité de justesse à Nice

Good morning, my friends. Today we're going to talk about an extremely serious incident that happened at Nice airport this Sunday. In fact, on the night of Sunday to Monday, on Runway 04, we narrowly escaped the tragedy of this. Two planes flew at 320 with 300 people on board. Towards the end of the video, I'll also talk to you about some new directions that I want to give to this channel to ensure its long term sustainability and if I may say so, Right. So back to this Sunday. We have a situation. The media has talked about it a lot, but you'll see that it's a situation that to some extent, I almost want to say inevitable. There is no doubt, neither on the part of the controller nor on the part of the pilots of either plane. There is no bad faith, no incompetence, no obvious risk taking, none of that. We just have guys doing their job and you're going to see a situation arise against which, if we look closely, there is little or no protection. What saved These passengers, apparently 300 in number, was simply the reaction of the pilot of the 320 who was about to land. Let me put it back. Maybe I'm putting the scene back. We are at Nice airport. Nice airport, very busy, the third busiest airport in France. It has two parallel runways. These two runways go largely out to sea and they are numbered so 04 right, O4 left. Right. And they are not the same length. So these are not runways that start at the same place. O4 left is shorter than 0.4 right. So of course, when you have a short Runway and a long Runway, how do you distribute landings and takeoffs? Of course, takeoffs are on the longest Runway, O4 right, a little over 2,900 meters. Why? Because we want to give planes the greatest possible distance to do what we call acceleration stops, so as not to have any Runway restrictions, so that planes can accelerate to a decision speed, have an engine fail, for example, just before that speed and brake, always staying on the Runway without going off course. You always want to give the longest Runway to planes taking off. The shortest Runway, 04 left to the left of this one is 2500 meters and some 2500 meters and some. So of course we're going to use it for landings. So that evening this is what was taking shape. Now we're going to talk about the protagonists. We have two Airbus 320s. We have an Airbus from the Aziduit company which is going to Nant. It's going to take off for Nant, and it was already significantly late because it's going to happen on the 11:30pm course. It's almost midnight, it's obviously dark, it's raining, There's a very heavy cloud that's going to reduce visibility. There were still cumulus clouds, clouds with strong vertical development, heavy rain and everything that will actually reduce visibility. Even though the weather forecast often gives the prevailing visibility, which is not necessarily indicative of the actual conditions that the pilots will encounter during the approach. So the aircraft had been delayed several times during the evening because the weather was simply terrible. So they were waiting for a good weather window to take off. They had been authorized to taxi. They taxied to Runway 04, right, the takeoff Runway, and then they were entering the Runway to align themselves with the axis of the Runway. Another player is about to come into play. It's Nouvelle Air. We don't hear much about this company on this channel. And fortunately it's a Tunisian company that is actually older than ZJT. They were created in 86 ZID. We had to wait until the early 90s to see them arrive. So Nuvala is an older company than Dinshid. They also arrive in Airbus 320. But there's a particularity here. I'll tell you about it. It's that nice airport, like many airports today, not just nice airport, has a special approach. Why? Because if the plane arrives on the Runway axis and makes a normal approach by making a long approach, a long final, well, it will fly over Cap Dantibe. When flying over cap dive, it will make noise. And you have to know that most airports today are literally at loggerheads with local residents, the inhabitants around. So the inhabitants around often set up microphones, make recordings, sometimes even have the funds validated by, or have them recorded by a bailiff, and therefore file complaints quite regularly. All it takes is for a plane to arrive just maybe 100ft lower or 50 meters beyond its axis, and it will call, it will send registered letters with acknowledgment of receipt. So what happens on Runway 04? This is how the planes arrive. In fact, instead of arriving on the Runway axis, well, they arrive literally 45 degrees from it. So when they arrive, I'm going to show you some footage. During the editing, I showed footage during the day, but be careful, it's still night. I'll show you the image that the pilots see during the approach. In fact, the pilots keep their Runway to their right until they're about 500ft, roughly speaking, that means at the last minute they take a right turn to come into line. So they're in landing configuration, gear down, flaps down, everything is ready. And they're not in line with the Runway. And at the last minute they're going to turn 45 degrees, and then they appear in line with the Runway literally 30 seconds before touchdown. Okay? This is going to play a role that evening. That's why I told you at the beginning of the video that all the ingredients were in place for the protagonists, against their will, to find themselves propelled into this story. So now we have, as I said, the new air. The new aircraft is authorized to land on Runway 04 left. The pilots are approaching, so be careful. It's dark, it's raining, the windows are damp. How can you see the lights when there's humidity, despite the windshield wipers and everything, through the rain, how can you see the lights? You see the lights as points of light and blurry, right? And they're flying everywhere. What can you see? There are those of the city. There are those. So the millions of lights of the city of Nice and beyond, you can see the runways, the taxis, which also have thousands of lights, right? Which ones are each blurry? Right? And in there, in there, there are three lights, right? Plus the bacon at the bottom and at the top, making five in all, some lights that are those of a jet that is parked on the Runway. So you see that you're not just going to look like that and say, oh, look, there's a plane. Okay? You can't jet them. They can't see anything. Why? Because it's happening behind them. They've been authorized to line up. So, yes, since the Flying Club, what do we learn to do? Since the Flying Club, we learn that when we enter the Runway, we take a quick look, despite the air traffic controller's authorization. We look, we do this, we look along the axis, no one is coming. We look on the Runway, there's no one. And we check if there's someone coming against qfe, someone coming approaching in your direction. It's part of this game, right? The body always goes like this, like that. Check. Even on a Flying Club plane, the lady jet pilots, when they do this gesture, they don't see anything at all. Why? Because it's in the dark. And at this point, while they're turning to line up with the Runway, well, the new air, it's not in the axis, they won't see it. It's further away, okay? It's probably in the rain, at a distance that they won't go so far that they won't be able to see it. You See, it's very peculiar. They're going to line up afterwards. Now the rest of the story is happening behind their backs. They won't be able to realize what's happening at all. The new air, it starts its turn, okay? We tell it Runway right, 04, right. But except that. Which is the first Runway it sees? It sees. The first Runway it sees is O4, right. Which is the closest to it? 04 left on the. I made a mistake by a second. You see how easily it can be mistaken, huh? 04 left, right is very quick to do. Look, I'm sitting quietly in my seat. There's no rain, there's no turbulence, there's no vibration, there's nothing at all, huh? It's not dark either. I'm not falling asleep. It's daylight now. It's 5pm, right, you see? And I'm on the wrong Runway right now speaking to you. Okay? I didn't do it on purpose. So the pilots have their plane banked. They have to make a fairly sharp 45 degrees turn. The first Runway they see is O4, right. That's not the one they have to land on. They have to land on one that's further away, which doesn't start at the same level. It's parallel, yes, but it starts further away, see? So that's the thing. As soon as they see the Runway, they say, okay, that's the one, okay, lined up. And then they were very happy to be able to land. For them, in a few seconds it was landing. And suddenly, by some miracle, really a miracle, they were probably, let's say, when they saw that there was something strange, they were probably flying over the Runway threshold. They were probably about 50ft, a dozen meters, 12, 15 meters, let's say, from the ground, roughly speaking, right? And then they saw the idets there who were literally filling their rublood. So what did they do? They took the throttle, they put the throttle back on. What did the plane do when it put the throttle back on? It continued to sink a little. So we'll see later. Because the bee sees the planes for a while. They released them since then, but they seized them long enough to record. So to make a copy of the flight recorders. And this is one of the rare cases. Well, it's one of the cases where you don't have to search through the rubble to find the flight recorders. They're in place, they're intact, and all that stuff is pretty easy to copy. So what? The Tunis is the new air. The stick and bam, it pulls back to take off by applying full throttle. We'll see in the black boxes how the pilots of the new Air acted on the sidestick. Did they pull it all the way back? What was their action? But in any case, once they pull on the stick, they apply the throttle. The plane won't regain altitude right away. It will continue to sink. And only then will the moment come when the engines will accelerate well and they will lift it and it will take off again. People who feel in the jets are sitting quietly and suddenly the plane vibrates. They hear a huge engine noise and then the New Air passes over their heads. It seems, according to human judgment, with the naked eye, it was three meters. It was played out at three meters. This means that with very little difference, Neuvel was about to hit the jets. If he had landed on them, it would have been a major accident with probably a frightening toll. If we are talking about 300 people in the two planes, we are sure that we would have ended up with at least half. Right. It was inevitable, if not more so. Here the New Air regains altitude after having narrowly avoided it. So the jet regains altitude and then goes around to come back to land. And you will notice one thing. If you observe, you will see that the second approach, regardless of the noise, is it will make a very long approach. So we don't have the black boxes and all that yet, but maybe that was discussed with the controller. But look at this. The first approach, he did what he had to do to avoid the noise. The second approach, he didn't care about the noise. He arrived on a long approach. He flew over Cape Annabel on the Runway for a long time. And of course he landed on the right Runway, 04 left. What did lycides do? Well, the pilots were shaken and we can imagine. We've heard a lot of stories in the media. We don't know what's true and what's not. But apparently the captain was shaking all that. And we put ourselves in his shoes, huh? Because he must have seen his last, his last minute coming. In any case, the pilots of Lecides were in such an emotional state that they decided not to leave. The flight was canceled that night. They returned to the terminal. The story ended there for them. And we understand when someone escapes death in this way, you can't just say, okay, we escaped, we're taking off anyway. And this is also good, is that the fact that it was stopped allows the bee to access the plane, allows them to access the recordings. Because there have been cases, there have been Cases even on this channel, where there is a very serious incident, but the pilot continues as if nothing happened. And it's only sometimes 10 days later, 15 days later, that the authorities learn about it, sometimes through social media, through comments in the newspapers, all that intervenes to investigate. And then it's too late. Now all the black boxes have been rewritten, the planes are on the other side of the world, all that. So it's true that here it's good because everything will be. Everything has been captured. A few months ago it was in France, I don't remember the airport. I spoke to a pilot, a young pilot who was in a propeller plane. He was coming onto the Runway and then a Nurbis behind him came in to land on him and in fact he escaped. He managed to save the day. He had a reflex action because on the radio he heard that there was a plane coming up behind him. He put the throttle on, he went off the Runway in the plane. It was an Airbus, I think, landed right after. So this kind of situation, unfortunately, when it starts to happen again, it tells us that there is something very wrong with the organization, with the governance, with the way things are managed one peak, sooner or later we will end up with something big. So it's a very good thing that this incident happened because it will allow people to become aware, to have a real investigation, and perhaps try to dismantle the mechanisms of future accidents before they happen. So thank you for watching this video so far and I'll talk to you very quickly about the Aldoser 1 aviation channel where it goes. So I'll tell you about old videos about accidents that happened 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. We even have aircraft attendant accidents from the 50s. Well, you can imagine that if I talk about these accidents, it's like talking about the World cup in Mexico in 1986. So it's all well and good, but no one's interested. The YouTube algorithm won't push that to people because they don't come looking for it. Whereas if I talk about a second division match that happened this morning, I'll inevitably get more views and therefore more money to justify the work that went into it. Another problem is that old videos about old cases are videos that require a lot of work. Right now I'm working on an absolutely extraordinary video. Well, it's been three weeks, I'm on it, I'm gleaning the details bit by bit. And why? Because it happened in the 80s, of course. So I found myself in this paradox where, well, I make videos on old topics and I think they're very important. They have a lot to teach, but at the same time, well, basically no one's interested. So what did I decide to do? I decided to keep doing these topics. I'll keep doing them and I'll put them either on Patreon or on the subscription section. Right. Sponsor support for this YouTube channel. So what does that allow? It allows people who are genuinely interested in these topics, who are interested in these videos to support this work. What has changed compared to before? Before, I still had Patreon, which was in decline, which was completely emptying, and which was based on an honor system. This means that people on Patriot didn't really have any exclusivity. I would post videos on their sites for a while before putting them online. So this could lead many people to say, I understand. Instead of paying on Patreon to watch them a week or 10 days before, well, I just have to wait for the day they publish them. I'll watch them like everyone else on YouTube. That's good. There's no problem. Except that after a while it made me work. And in the end, these videos weren't paid at all. So what do I do now? What is it? What am I doing differently? And when I explained this in a few words at the end of the video about the Jackson 60s, a lot of work, 44,000 places at this point. That means, frankly, I can go to the beach, comment on Macron's visit to New York. I can get more views than that. Do you know what I mean? It's important because YouTube is also my job. It's not just a hobby, it's also my job. So when I do this job, it has to make economic sense too. Otherwise it's useless. If every video makes me poorer, it's not worth it. So look, when I talked about this last time, I lost 15,500 subscribers literally in a few days. Okay, that was pretty brutal. I was a little shocked. I didn't say anything bad. I just said nothing. Pam. 1500 subscribers, that's okay. Okay, we'll do them again. So that's it. The idea is that here there will always be news videos. There will be old videos when I negotiate with sponsors, because there are sponsors who have approached the channel and want to sponsor certain videos. In that case, it's great. A sponsor comes along and says, okay, I'll fund three videos for you. I'll make them and they'll be public. No problem. The other videos will be on Patreon, as I said, or on the community section. Of the site and they will never be public. They will never be public. The videos that are on Patreon, there are three today and a fourth coming soon. And the number will increase over time. Well, they will only be available there and will never be published on YouTube. That's what's simply changing. There you have it. Thanks again to everyone who has supported this channel, sometimes for years, to allow it to exist. And honestly, look, I often do journalistic investigations or other things. And when I search the French media, even if these French media receive subsidies that come from taxpayers money, practically all of them are locked down. Go find a newspaper today that publishes completely open articles. It no longer exists. Everything is locked down. It's been years. So I understand somewhere, I understand somewhere that they are forced to do this, because if they can't, otherwise, how are they going to feed their journalists if they leave everything open to the public for free? There you have it. It's the same economic equation that we face on YouTube. In any case, I'll stop talking, but I really wanted to explain. I really wanted to get to the bottom of the idea. And I am of course open to all your questions. Thanks again for watching this video up to this point. Thanks to those who support the channel on Patreon. Without them it wouldn't have existed. And then we'll see you in the next episode. Quite simply.