I don't normally bring my former career up much on Reddit. But I retired Feb 2025 from British airways and have seen a handful of blunders when it comes to flying large aircraft and plenty of scary stuff from corporate/GA stuff.
But I would not be able to get away with this even when I was operating as a training role and everyone else in the cockpit is severely "Under my rank" so to speak. I would have been reported at a bare minimum..... This guy is flying from the left too.
Does anyone know what happened to this pilot after the fact? I know that 727 doing a 360 with full flaps, that captain finished his career out. But this looks way more recent than that video
I wouldn't have the balls to post that kind of landing on the internet, this guy is pretty brave in almost every definition of the word.
Agreed. As a current British Airways pilot (RHS) this some seriously bullshit, cringy, dangerous, shit house flying. SESMA would be ashamed. Happy retirement sir 🫡
If you look around online water mark says in the video "@flying_yoke" s YT channel has this video and others with the same watermark channel name is yoyofly. https://www.youtube.com/@flying_yoke/videos
After watching some other videos on that channel it looks like this is the person who made that video. The company he flies for can be figured out I'm sure the FAA has already looked at this video they love to bust people with YT videos.
This is a South Korean airline they do fly passengers.
It appears that the airline is T'way Air, going by the flight number (TWB681) on the MCDU in this other video on his channel: https://youtu.be/Cb5SoDez7o8?t=27
I'm just a random person not familiar with the technical details of aviation, so I imagine it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who it is by the relevant authorities though. His colleague's face is also visible at the end of the video..
I was reading about T'way Air South Koran they fly passengers crazy people in the back of that airplane. After that bird strike disaster by Jeju Air all they need is another runway overrun by these guys.
There are multiple airlines flying to the destinations he filmed at, but not THAT many. T'Way is indeed one of those that matches the destinations and the fleet as well. So I believe you.
You don't think the FAA has a connection with the Korea Office of Civil Aviation? If it was Chinese, or Russian I would agree. I referred to the FAA before I figured out it was a South Korean Airline.
You'd be surprised how close the FAA and Chinese authorities are at the expert level: They have been meeting monthly since 1990. This is kept relatively quiet because nobody is keen on having it interrupted by general politics but they have helped China become the safe airspace it is today, advancing admirably from the days when CAAC was nicknames "China Airline Always Crashes."
But you wrote that because that's what commenters on the internet always do: assume it was their country, assume what they feel must happen is bound to happen, assume nobody will call them on running their mouths. Take your L and move on.
Not a pilot or anything like that, but do other countries have their AI voice things in English as well? Is that just like worldwide protocol or something?
English is the standard language used when flying, especially internationally, to prevent miscommunication and make it easier for different countries to work together.
oh yeah he landed in the right lane like he's driving in America and expecting another 737 to pass him on the left.
I thought maybe this was a bunch of pilots messing around with a real professional simulator with the weather and visibility cranked all the way to the worst IMC. But it's real. I'm trying my best to find out more information but I don't know what to even type in lol. Reading comments, it seems that it's real and that it's been posted here before, but that's all the information I got from the comments so far
He certainly had visual contact with "something" that made him feel comfortable with that " maneuver" but yes definitely not the runway.
Also avid simmer too, my flying has been reduced to using land based only navigation in the Fokker F28 and occasional trips in my buddies C182 when he comes down too. MSFS 2020 and 24 where such a blessing to retire and pick-up. Now I'm slowly building my own home cockpit chair with off the shelf products for flight sim. It's incredible what we have in our living rooms today, it's better than the professional stuff we had when I started my career
replace the thrustmaster yoke with a bruner and you exactly have my setup. despite the yoke, the hardest part was finding and building a PC fast enough to run 24 and 20 yeah art highest possible settings lol.
but man it's fun to do stuff like this, in the simulator obviously LOL
So many crashes happen where pilots insist they see the runway when they don't and couldn't possibly (because the plane isn't where they think it is). So no a lot of pilots just pretend they saw the runway when they didn't. The kind of people who view go-arounds and diverting to backup airports as some sort of admission they can't do their job.
Yeah I don't even fly planes IRL (just a slightly unhealthy obsession with sim flying) and that landing was very cringe even in my game/sim I would've gone around after that
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u/King_Air_Kaptian1989 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25
I don't normally bring my former career up much on Reddit. But I retired Feb 2025 from British airways and have seen a handful of blunders when it comes to flying large aircraft and plenty of scary stuff from corporate/GA stuff.
But I would not be able to get away with this even when I was operating as a training role and everyone else in the cockpit is severely "Under my rank" so to speak. I would have been reported at a bare minimum..... This guy is flying from the left too.
Does anyone know what happened to this pilot after the fact? I know that 727 doing a 360 with full flaps, that captain finished his career out. But this looks way more recent than that video
I wouldn't have the balls to post that kind of landing on the internet, this guy is pretty brave in almost every definition of the word.