This Aircraft almost CRASHED TWICE! | Among the worst I have seen.

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Captain: Yea we did hit a bird. A seagull to be precise. He was sitting on the water when we hit him.

Can't say the pilot didn't monitor the water. He had a real close look and even took a sample.

"Tower, we're in go-around." "Why?" "Bird strike." "At what elevation?" "Sea level." " ..... what?" " ..... It was a VERY tall bird, to be fair."

What's scary is that if the plane hadn't hit the water, there wouldn't be any damage to the plane and the Captain would have in all likelihood gotten away with violating procedures.

First Officer's actual flying abilities seem to have been pretty good, he managed to not crash it even after it bounced off the water and the captain retracted the flaps on him. The captain, I wouldn't leave in charge of a bicycle.

The most sinister aspect of this situation is basically listening to the senior captain teaching the junior captain to cheat the system. He is actually grooming the junior captain to be monstrously unsafe.

Pilot: “Tower we hit a pelican” Tower: “What altitude?” Pilot: “twenty feet” Tower: “feet?” Pilot: “No tower, depth.”

"Terrain ahead. PULL UP." "Ugh jeez that again? Turn that off it's annoying. I can't concentrate on trying to touch the water like this."

This captain seriously drilled all of his own holes in the swiss cheese. He’s all about efficiency- determined to get to the accident site as quickly as possible!

"Hey, remember that annoying thing that said 'pull up' when we came within 30 feet of the sea? We gotta turn that off, right?"

As a commercial pilot flying the 767, one of my biggest fears is impacting a dragon from Lord of the Rings. Thank you for highlighting this truly terrifying prospect. 😂

This guy is not just a captain, but a 'senior' training captain for this airline. If he is giving the birds to all the rules and guidelines, his student pilots will happily learn from the "best".

When he kept saying “we will never know what they were thinking” - it convinced me everyone died

It is very difficult to go against authority. I'm a nurse, and was asked to lift a patient in a particular way I knew would be harmful; I didn't. I was asked to leave whilst they got someone else who would do it. I was bright red and sweating with both fear or embarrassment at the idea this could selfishly affect my career. Wrestling with the flight controls is like wrestling with a colleague across a patient. You meet many bullies and authoritarian cretins in one's life. Today I don't take any bull** from anybody.

If he felt comfortable enough to make an unsteady approach with a cadet in the cockpit, Imagine how many times he's done that before something went wrong.

Original message to ground was probably "We had a fish strike." But it was lost in translation.

The senior pilot had an “ ego” problem, he trains people. In his mind he’s never wrong and he’s a liar! Every profession has some of this personality and they are dangerous in transportation, medicine etc. this wasn’t the first time he flew by his “rules”.

None of this sounds to me like this was the first time the captain broke the rules. He has probably been on the slippery slope of bending the rules more and more for years. Makes me wonder how many close calls there have been before.

The fact that even the smallest flaw can bring down a plane flown by the best pilots, it's incredible that this plane bounced twice on water and still managed to fly away and land, despite the best efforts of the Captain.