HUMAN ERROR or MECHANICAL?! | Yeti Airlines flight YT691 illustrated

I can't believe I can find this quality of work for free. Taking the time to interview the witness was incredible. Your animations are already so well made, talking to him just added a very human element to the situation that many disaster channels lack. I hope the friends and family members of the victims can grieve and heal over time. I wish the same for Mr. Bohora.

OMG. Mike, this is a brilliant combination of video and animation. It really clarifies the situation. What a shocking error. What a shame! My condolences to the friends and families of those who were lost.

Your video was incredibly informative and engaging. I appreciate the time and effort you put into creating it, and I learned a lot from watching it.

This is one of the very best aviation accident breakdown/animations that I've come across. You deserve every sub and view that you get fine sir! Fantastic!

As an aviation enthusiast, I highly appreciate this video. I’m always interested with aircrafts and want to learn more about them I also often do research and watch videos about aircraft accidents/incidents. I always look for videos showing an accurate animation for the real aircraft accident. I remember watching your videos about Champlain Towers South in 2021 and 2022. I was surprised to see that you also covered on this aviation accident. I do like to see you covering on more aviation accidents.

I really appreciate the effort you put in contacting people who witnessed the accident and the 3D render. Thank you for the amazing content.

You make it so easy to understand. My heart is with everyone that lost loved ones xx

I'm not sure whether you would see this or not, but i wanna thank you for the quality work that you provided for free. I will be attending flight school in the near future, and these types of videos help me realize and understand all the different complications that can happen in aviation. I wish these 72 victims Rest in peace.

Outstanding graphics showing the physical actions that caused this accident. Very easy to visualize and understand the sequence of events that took place in the pattern while preparing to land. Thank you.

Terrific analysis, animation, illustration and narration. Thank you so much for all the work you've clearly put into this.

this is a phenomenal presentation. Great use of animation + explanation that I haven't really seen on other channels. Thanks for sharing. Condolences to those who lost someone on this flight.

Mike, amazing video!!!! I just want to point out, moving the wrong lever is not an inexplicable error. It has been done quite a few times in the past, even with levers and motions as different retract the flaps instead of raising the landing gear after take off. The flaps lever is wing shaped, located in the central pedestal and needs to be moved forward to retract the flaps. The gear lever is wheel shaped, located on the instrument panel and needs to be moved up to raise the landing gear. Flaps and spoilers have also been confused despite being on opposite sides of the central pedestal with the throttle levers in between. There are basic ways for such a mistake to happen: One is intending to move the correct lever and missing. For that mistake, making the levers as different as possible in shape, location and operation is helpful. If you expect to grab a wing-shaped handle and grab instead a wheel shaped one (and you have touched both many times before) your brain will immediately sound an alarm. But the other way is you intending to operate the wrong lever, due to brain far... ehm, fluke. In this case no amount of differentiation will save you because your brain is actually expecting to receive the sensory perception of the wrong lever. What does help, however, is touch-confirm-move-verify-call. The pilot flying calls "flaps 30", you put your hand on the lever, confirm visually that you have your hand in that lever, move the lever to the 30 position, verify the result with the flaps indicator, and call "flaps 30". Another point is the landing checklist. In this accident it was performed after they had called for flaps 30 and they had mistakenly feather the propellers. What kind of landing checklist did they run that they didn't check the flaps position? I'll tell you what kind. Recited checklist. Checklists need to be acted, not recited, you read each item's challenge, then check the condition of the system by actually touching the lever, knob or indicator, then call the condition, then confirm that the condition is what the checklist was expecting as an answer. For example: "Landing gear?" - Touch and look the landing gear lights and then call out "Three green" - Then read the expected response from the checklist "Down and locked". The safety culture at Yeti has to be quite crappy for them not checking the result of the action when they change or attempt to change the condition of a system, and they they don't catch that in the checklist. Especially considering that these were a captain and a captain-instructor, not some junior first officer, So what they did must have been they normal way to operate. And because they cannot operate like this in isolation, because they would be caught and called out by other pilots, that speaks volumes for their safety culture.

what a brilliant clip, very informative. Thank you for the time and effort you have put into making this video

It's amazing how you modeled the urban neighborhood so accurately in 3d matching exactly with the videos. And you're also using BLENDER for the animation. As a Blender 3D artist, I can guess the amount of work went into it. BRAVO!👍👍 And my heart goes out to the departed souls of this crash, R.I.P!

The entire video is downright diagnostic - especially grateful for the detail in narrative and animation - found the segment on the flaps/thrust levers to be comprehensive and concise (a rare commodity in this era). Many thanks 👍🍻

Brilliant Mike. What an outstanding re-creation animation of the incident.

Incredible job displaying everything and explaining the story. Such a tragedy I cannot imagine how frightening those moments could be.

So puzzling.. Thank you for this. Excellent format and coverage.

Never seen a more in depth video, clearly taken the time and effort. RIP to all those on board 🙏

Very good quality documentary, it must've taken a lot of time! Thank you and may all poor people rest in peace!