Avianca Flight 52: The Plane Crash That Left Many Questions Unanwered | Mayday S2 EP6 | Wonder

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1. The sheer volume of avoidable F ups in this incident alone is mind boggling. The nonchalant attitude of the ATC to each other was like “Meh. Avianca has disappeared. No idea why…” was unbelievable.
   To think that things have probably gotten worse with volume of air traffic means I will fly only soooo far toward the north east and drive the rest of the way in. They have NOT fixed the fundamental problems that led to this sad event.

2. What more you want ?
   Low on fuel!!

3. Flying into that "indefinite" traffic jam with less than an hours worth of fuel was the main culprit, paired with very bad weather the Captain should've rerouted to the nearest airport.

4. 31:42 “The guy is angry!”. Wow

5. I hope all those atcs went to jail. That plane was literally ignored and tossed around.

6. Priority according to Oxford Dictionary "noun
   the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important than others" which Air Traffic control didn't. It's a shame Americans always stick on to particular words without understanding the context. Pilot said no fuel, need priority what part of it was not clear? Airtraffic control is responsible for all the deaths period.

7. Anuncios Desgraciados no dejan ver las películas me desesperan y mejor ya no sigo viendo…

8. The most important question did not get an answer!! Did the airport meet the number of landings per hour ?

9. 20:30 "This guy is killing me"….the irony in that statement.

10. who is the actor played the first officer?

11. I must say these actors are incredibly believable. You instantly start to develop a strong level of aversion against the controllers (maybe even hate). In my opinion the controllers are solely to blame for this crash due to their negligence. It makes is it even more sad that the pilots after repeatedly indicating being low on fuel are blamed due to their lack of communicating the urgency and not using the word 'emergency', but 'priority' instead. I find this an outrageous conclusion of the investigation board. Who on earth in the position of a controller does not understand 'low on fuel' or 'priority'? Air Traffic Control found blameless? It is absolutely disgraceful and painful to hear. The controllers not admitting their mistakes, while they are responsible for the tragic deaths that should have been prevented, is just a big shame. Really, they should have been prosecuted for negligence and manslaughter. My heart goes to everyone who lost their lives in this crash and their loved ones. For those who have survived I hope they found a way to continue living.

12. This was mishandled at every single step. That airport should have been closed. Those pilots should have been told before they even hit the system to redirect to Boston. Those pilots needed to be clearer about their emergency situation– "We have low fuel, can we have priority?" doesn't come across anywhere near as urgent as the situation actually was. People should not be handing over planes that are about to land halfway through, ESPECIALLY in horrible weather. Absolutely, tragically avoidable.

13. This one is Terrifying. For all you searching comments before watching.

14. I am not a pilot and English isn't my first language, however, I hereby declare an emergency, I repeat, I hereby declare an emergency.

15. The First Officer didn't elaborate more on the fuel situation and even the air time they had been up in air. I'll blame him for this incident. God bless those who perished!

16. The controllers here were “blameless”. Right. So “we are in an emergency” “we are low on fuel” “we need priority” “we lost two engines” “we have enough fuel for only 5 minutes” does not mean anything serious? This is, in my opinion, only the fault of the controllers.

17. FFS out of 11 babies, 10 survived so someone lost their baby

18. At least they had not much fuel left so it did not explode but I think the blame here is on the Tower

19. Another BOEING. what a surprise

20. this crash is the most avoidable tragedy

21. Judging by what I observed
    CLEARLY the Pilots Terribly Failed to convey the Seriousness of their situation to The Tower "IN TIME". They were Talking about Hamburger.shame. What an irresponsible Captain!!!!
    Tower Did what They Could in such short time, given so much Traffic and BAD weather. Delay was inevitable.

22. Priority does not mean the same thing in English as May Day, or Emergency.

23. The captain was relying on the co-pilot to communicate effectively, and he repeatedly asked his co pilot whether he had relayed how dire their circumstances are, and he assured the captain he has, but he hadn’t… the flight engineer also should have been much more insistent. So, those two crew members and the Kennedy ATCs, as well as their superiors for forcing 33 landings per hour I find to be most at fault. Just tragic.

24. The copilot should’ve called PAN PAN out of fuel he was way too darn nice which is why they didn’t understand the situation . So darn sad so many mistakes made . And the darn towers didn’t give a darn tooting what happened to that flight that’s so sad and also thank goodness they didn’t have any gas because that would’ve caused a fire they probably would’ve been no survivors then

25. Honestly air flight controllers are more to blame than the pilots.

26. God bless the victims families R.I.P

27. To me, it was the controllers!!!!!!! No concern for people's lives!!!!!!!! It WAS THE CONTROLLERS FAULT!!!!!!!!! NOT THE PILOTS!!!!! The controllers are disgusting . An injustice that God will surely punish for their lies and lack of concern!!!!!!

28. Watched 👀

29. 35:00 just horrific to watch

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