Panic Reaction! The Tragic Explanation behind Sriwijaya flight 182

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Putting me in the pilot's seat when the "bank angle!" warning sounded was perfect. As soon as you showed me what he saw my first thought was, "oh no he's going to turn it to the left."

The chairman of Canada's nuclear industry regulatory agency used to joke that he wished that the reactor operator chair could be equipped with automatic clamps. These clamps would automatically lock down the operator's arms for 5 seconds whenever a high level alarm came in. This would force the operator to first study the instrument panel and gain situational awareness, before releasing him to take action. He was joking when he said it, but he was also highlighting the risk of an operator taking action before they've read their instruments and formed a clear picture of the problem, and the required corrective action.

I really appreciate the emphasis on how humans can be expected to respond given certain circumstances. Too often, people attribute failures to human error without considering human psychology and how circumstances contribute to the failure. Thank you for continually demonstrating how to properly analyze failures! Keep it up!

I love this Channel. There's something so earnest and genuine about Petter, the way he relays the events but also the context and insight his experience have earned him. This has never been your average aviation content - this is the gold standard.

To me as a passenger it looks like a good idea to make it mandatory for all pilots to watch everything on the Mentour Pilot channel. There is so much to learn from everything that went wrong!

Petter, I wanted to publicly praise you and the Mentour production crew. The information and explanations are, as always, top-notch but the improvements in video or text overlays, maps, digital reenactments and the like have not gone unnoticed. Thank you, each and all.

As an ex B777 pilot we were bias against Airbus with its non-moving thrust levels. However after 11 years flying the A320 it’s a great machine and very well thought out. Looking forward to my A350 course next month. 😊. Startle factors can lead to ‘chimp’ response which made the situation far worse. We ‘cage’ the chimp and rebuild situational awareness before appropriate action. Very interesting, thanks.

I worked on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as an IBM software architect on their Boeing Electronic Distribution of Software (BEDS) system, and I have appreciation of how much more complex it is to fly any plane. A modern plane has so many systems and modes that it is absolutely mind boggling. Mentour Pilot shares these aspect very well but what I really like is how he explains the psychology and circumstances that are going on. I love his videos. He has a cute dog too.

As Indonesian, watching this accident breakdown feels like getting hard punch in the face. This accident shows how our regulators and airline itself really messed up on maintenance and pilot training (or lack of) that led up to this disaster. I hope that they really learn from this disaster to actually improve AND implement recommendations from final report. Thanks to Mentour Pilot, you guys really doing amazing work as always. Do not stop doing this, it's really helpful to the society. Cheers

While not being a pilot, I have appreciated your videos due to the lessons you share about the value of understanding how the mind works under stress, situational awareness, attention to detail, empowering procedure, practice and more. Such knowledge can be applied to individual acts like driving or tasks at work but also to corporate systems as well.

In my opinion Boeing could have done a lot more to prevent this upset to escalate beyond recovery. In-flight thrust asymetry should be treated as something out of the ordinary and result in some kind of alert. Also, the bank angle warning could be improved by adding a call out into which direction to turn. In this case: "Bank angle! Turn right!". This is already the case for the TCAS and GPWS. TCAS adds "Climb!" or "Descend!" depending on the action required to avoid collidig with another airplane. GPWS adds "Pull up! Pull up!" when the airplane gets dangerously close to terrain. By just saying "Bank angle!", the pilot needs to quickly figure out the direction to turn to rectify the upset situation. This is an unecessary step in a critical situation. Could there be a reason why the direction to turn has not been added to the callout? I would love to hear your thoughts on that. Thank you Mentour team for yet another excellent accident presentation. It feels like each new video gets slightly better than the previous ones. Keep up the good work, and RIP all crew and passengers on this tragic flight.

Now that I have finally started flight training, these type of situations feel so much more real and scary understanding exactly what is going on and the fear that these kind of things could happen to me. I hope this will always remind me to never slack off when flying

It is peculiar to think that this series has been going for so long that you are now covering accidents that happened after you started making these. These are still the best airline accident analysis videos on Youtube.

Very well done 👏 As an aeronautical engineer I often become distraught at the way information regarding aviation issues is presented in the media and especially on social media … but definitely no such occurrence when it comes to your content or the way it has been presented. Congratulations, your work and the work of your support team deserves high praise.  Thank you for raising the bar and for freely sharing quality content.

That planes like a metaphor for a lot of people tbh; everyone ignores the warning signs for years, then all of a sudden, just like that, the lights go out..

Thank you, Mentour Pilot for your analysis about the the accidents and issues involved in the aircraft. At first, RIP to all passengers aboard. I've boarded that plane back in 2015 and it was a normal flight although it encountered heavy rains during the landing phase. And after heard SJ182 crash, I've shocked when knew that the plane involved in that accident was the same plane I've boarded 6 years ago.

When I first began driving school as a teenager, my instructor said something very important: in an emergency we often revert to the habits we learned first, so it is very important to learn the right behaviors first. That advice has saved my life more than once. For professional aviators, I imagine that making sure to bypass certain instincts, looking at the instrument panel, and avoiding confirmation bias are probably some of the important life-saving habits. The 1500 milliseconds it takes to ask “what is really going on” to break the spell could make all the difference.

What an absolute horrific and unnecessary accident. Thank you, Petter, for this great, in depth look at this tragedy. Rest in peace to those lost in this accident, including, as I understand, 6 dead heading crew.

24:52 A well trained pilot would not have looked at the controls but at the instruments on hearing the “bank angle” caution. I’m flabbergasted that any pilot would be in cloud, during a climb and not be aware of the attitude indicator. Further to this, keeping hands and feet lightly on the controls, even with the autopilot in, is prudent and would have highlighted the thrust asymmetry as it occurred. Another great video Petter!