Deadly Deception! Unraveling the Mystery of Atlas Air Flight 3591.

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thank you for all the nice comments about my Dad. He was the captain and didn’t deserve any of this.

The guy would start pressing buttons randomly to make it appear that he was doing something, on a plane? That's crazy behavior.

I work for this company and fly the same aircraft. It was a tragic day when we all found out about this. I knew Sean, the jump seater, from my days at Mesa. He was a super great guy. Always loved flying with him. Thank you for the thoughtful and informative video. You always present these with respect and thoroughness.

I feel like we really need to build more of a cultural attitude of accepting that there's nothing wrong with simply not having the right kind of personality traits for a particular job. Some people just shouldn't be doing certain things for their own safety and the safety of everyone around them.

The first officer made such bizarre inputs that made the system disregard the information it was getting. Goes to show how incompetent that man truly was.

'In a crisis, he had a tendency to press any button to appear busy' 😱... That sent chills down my spine! That's what a child playing a pilot would do! 🫣

The thing that makes me most angry about this is that the FO obviously knew he sucked at flying planes and yet he persisted in doing so, even going so far as to lie on his resume to hide it from others. His deliberate disregard for his known inability to safely fly planes makes his actions basically murder in my eyes.

I knew the Captain and flew his last flight with his previous carrier. He was a great guy and did not deserve this. Neither did the jumpseater. The FO had zero business being there. Following the crash is very difficult for me. Wish I never read the CVR transcript. RIP Ricky

I worked in the past with a guy that reminds me of the first officer. Fortunately, we weren’t pilots so I survived. Many corporate wide computer systems were crashed repeatedly, but no aircraft were harmed. The behavior of pushing a lot of buttons without knowing what u are doing in order to appear to be taking action is something that I witnessed on a daily basis. It often led to a crash.

Out of all your videos, this one made me the most uncomfortable. You could see the accident happening from a mile away, and the FO's actions were quite frankly terrifying. However, good job on describing the accident with a lot of respect to the pilots that unfortunately lost their lives.

I worked on this plane in Jacksonville Fl in 2018. It is extremely stressful to hear a plane you've actually performed repairs on crashed. Very sad loss for the crews family.

As a 767 instructor and captain of 28 years , 14000 hours on type, this accident is really hard to get my head around.I didn't realize how this happened and want to commend your video, very well explained. While I was in Asia, I had to train hundreds of local pilots, many of them with just 250 hours total! It was hard enough doing type rating training, however in order to get typed, they had to demonstrate a PC in an actual 767! It was both exhilarating and scary in a real 767, then out to the line with passengers it got harder, but I never ever took my eyes off them below Cruise, NEVER! Landings were stressful, so were departures, I can't understand how this situation could happen with Atlas, this F/O should never have been passed to line. Well done with your videos, very informative

Some people are simply not cut out to be pilots and this "first officer" was definitely one of those people. Based on his history, he clearly had no business controlling a real aircraft and Atlas allowed this man to take out two completely innocent and capable pilots with his extremely obvious incompetence. Absolutely tragic. My sincere condolences to their family and loved ones.

It’s crazy how every airplane crash makes national news with all the speculation that they can gather, but you rarely hear the final report from the NTSB. Thanks for doing all the proper research to bring closure to this tragic incident.

I cant believe this guy was able to be anywhere near a cockpit with all these issues. Wow.

A good friend of mine used to fly the 767 for this airline and he once told me that the inadvertent activation of the TOGA switch/button was not an infrequent occurrence, due to its location. I feel so much for that poor jumpseater pilot, he quite literally just chose the wrong flight with the wrong crew. I believe he had a new wife with a young child/baby as well which just makes this unbelievably heartbreaking. P.S. I suppose I should add that accidentally activating the TOGA button would not normally cause this outcome of a crash. The chain of events starting with a completely (criminally in my humble opinion) incompetent FO was a disaster waiting to happen with this pilot.

Your videos should be mandatory for every pilot to watch, at least one a week. You provide such a valuable breakdown of each event. I believe in learning from the mistakes of others, especially with flying where such mistakes can have grave consequences.

I’m a 767 captain for a large US major airline. I just wanted to commend you on a really nice job with this accident analysis. I certainly paid a lot of attention to this accident when it happened, and your analysis is one of the best I’ve seen. Really nice job with being objective while doing a deep dive into the background!

What’s really crazy is the family of the FO Conrad Aska is suing Atlas and Amazon claiming negligence of failing to ensure the pilots were properly trained. If anything it should be the families of the other two pilots that should sue.