[REAL ATC] Brickyard SUFFERS TRIM RUNAWAY | CONTROL ISSUES at Atlanta

Please, give a big like for these pilots, all the Atlanta controllers (I'm sure Ground, other Tower, Approach and Departure controllers also worked together to clear the airspace for Brickyard) and all the pilots who waited patiently. Aviation is awesome! Great job, guys!!

Fire chief : I'm ready :) Tower : Don't call me again Fire chief : :(

Hi all, I was one of the six passengers on that flight that day. I am an avid follower of this channel and have studied a lot of incidents. Couldn’t believe that it happened to me and I knew something was wrong the second we took off. I thank the pilots that day that saved my life. They looked absolutely exhausted and in shock when they came out of the cockpit. I shook both of their hands and I wish I can contact them again to tell them how much I appreciate how amazing they were. It was definitely the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.

4439: Which runway? ATC: All of them. I'll give you runways that aren't even at this airport. I'll fly in runways from Spain.

"Agh" is very high up the list of what I do not like to hear from a pilot

Heart sank at "... stalling situation...agh!" Great recovery.

As an E175 pilot who just read a company safety alert regarding this flight, all I can say is, great job guys. It cannot be overstated how close they came to disaster. A pitch trim runaway is one of the worst things you can be faced with in a plane. I was given a simulated one in the simulator just weeks ago. It is so scary because you just react like this is a wind change or something and you push against it. It takes a moment to realize, no this isn't normal and I have to do the memory item. This particular thing is insidious, but fast. I like to think I'm fast, but it still took over 3 seconds for me to recognize it was happening. Give it another second or two and it would have been unflyable in my case. This incident was apparently the result of damaged wiring shorting out. The first part of the checklist is to press autopilot/trim disconnect on the yolk. The corresponding wire was among the damaged. This prevented them from stopping it early enough to prevent the more serious situation they ran into. The next part of the memory item calls to disable the pitch trim system completely. Precious seconds could have been lost fumbling for buttons that are colloquially known in the industry as "dust collectors" because you never use them. For anyone who's freaked out about flying on E175s after this, I can tell you this issue is being worked on industry wide and extra inspections and measures have been put in place to prevent this from happening again. This incident is why I hate the saying, "These airplanes basically fly themselves." You can tell by the voice that these pilots were in an adrenaline pounding fight for their lives. All a computer can do is follow programming; it is not invested in self preservation or yours. So next time you're fuming and ready to hit someone because you didn't get upgraded or the food wasn't good, just remember to thank your flight crew for a safe flight.

I think the Fire Chief took the "don't call me again" statement as intended. Nobody took anything personal. It was all about getting that a/c down safe. The end result was the great teamwork between the Crew, the Tower, Fire staff and by the grace of God. So there!

For those wondering what a trim runaway is. It’s when you’re trimming the aircraft up or down and stop at your desired spot but it continues up or down. So for this instance if they departed and they were trimming up once he stopped trimming the aircraft continues to trim up. Which is obviously a serious problem.

Pitch trim runaway is my worst nightmare. I’d rather lose an engine than have any flight control issues. 🥵. I fly the 170/175 too

Great to hear the “nice job guys” after.

At 4:42 you can hear a female voice in the background asking someone if they were certified for flying a E175 Apparently how they found the Delta2304 crew who chimed in at 6:54 to offer assistance

Something about the pilots voice choked me up, dude was fighting for their lives.

Let's take a moment to acknowledge the engineering that went into a system that can fail, get switched over to the FO, and start functioning again. The redundancies have redundancies!

I‘ve got goosebumps hearing those three others saying „nice job“. Everyone knew how dangerous this situation was and what a heck of a good job those pilots and ATC (and ground etc.) did! Awesome job, everyone!

In case anyone was wondering what happened, Mentor Pilot just released a great video on this flight!

The tower heard "We've got a trim runaway" as "We need to return right away", then pretty much got no information except "We're in a stalling situation" and the radar visual that they were spiralling up for about five minutes. I can't imagine how they felt not knowing what was going on beyond that. Everybody did an amazing job with this one. I'm glad it ended well.

I have that tail number in my logbook. Such a weird feeling. These guys did an amazing job. Putting the aircraft in that steep right turn probably saved their lives by preventing a nose-high stall. It's something we're taught to do in the simulators but it's an entirely different animal when your life is on the line.

The ATC was absolutely incredible. Some really tough decisions about managing the amount and type of communications he was having in every direction. I loved that as soon as he heard them struggling to keep control he immediately stopped talking directly to them and started moving others around.

You could tell how exhausted they were even after they regained control by their voices. Just those few minutes of, in reality, fighting for their lives took the liveliness out of them. And then the relief in their voices when they got down really got me. I hope somebody took them out and bought them a few rounds that night for a job well done.