JU-Air Junkers JU52 Crash, Switzerland, 2018.

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FrankPilot

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On 4 August 2018 a Junkers JU52 aircraft operation by JU-Air crashed in the Swiss Alps while undertaking a sight-seeing tour. The flight was operated by 2 very experienced pilots, both ex-Air Force & ex-Airlines, who had flown the route numerous times before over many years, & the weather was fine, & there was no mechanical failure of the aircraft. So, how could such a thing happen? Stay tuned. Hope you find it interesting. Cheers.

 
We already have such a series: National Geographic, Air crash investigation. I understand it's educational, but it's a sensitive topic.
 
To be fair to Frank, his vids on visiting heritage airfield sites in the UK and US were excellent. The accident ones are not to my personal taste either.

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Being a RL pilot I study accident investigations pretty regularly I believe it makes you a better pilot. The aviation industry is shaped by accidents of its past. I also watch Air Disasters and Air Crash Investigation, but if I wasn't into that kind of thing I wouldn't select that channel...... or click that thread.... :mixed-smiley-010:
 
There a lot of videos out using simulators to document mishaps. Every accident (fatal or not) is of great value in terms of the furtherment of Safety & Training. I have been witness to one fatal crash (a Nomad Turboprop flown by two cargo pilots our company knew well) and I rolled up on the scene of a fatal Merlin turboprop crash which unbeknownst to me at the time, a childhood friend was in the right seat. Most mishaps are a result of human error and at times mechanical failure which often came from human error during maintenance or manufacture of an aircraft, engines, or parts in the subsystems. It is vital to dissect all of it in the proper manner/context. Unfortunately it seems mishaps are increasing in number lately. Hopefully pilots & maintenance & managers will carry out recurrent training to reflect on these incidents to help prevent more in the future.
 
But for sure what you have to admit FrankPilot is that he approaches his films very professionally and you can see that he collects a lot of data on this subject even if it's related to this difficult topic. Personally, however, I would not like to play the role of this crew, even in a simulator.
 
Cees Donker said:
Are you mainly interested in crashes? A lot of your threads deal with crashes?

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No I am not. Only the last 3 out of about 100 videos so far deal with aircraft crash investigations, and those 3 brought home some very strong messages for my own RL flying, so I thought they might for others also, but maybe I was wrong. Please note that in none of them do I include graphic details or pictures - they are all about lessons learnt for safer flying and how good MSFS is for replicating things. Cheers.
 
Sorry am I missing or have I missed something - what are these historic air accident posts doing on this MSFS forum ?
 
collensr said:
Sorry am I missing or have I missed something - what are these historic air accident posts doing on this MSFS forum ?
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They feature links to YT videos that he created with MSFS, so they're definitely related to this section of the forum.
 
YoYo said:
But for sure what you have to admit FrankPilot is that he approaches his films very professionally and you can see that he collects a lot of data on this subject even if it's related to this difficult topic. Personally, however, I would not like to play the role of this crew, even in a simulator.
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For the record, as long as this is the case, and not a case of glorifying death and gore, I have no issue with these videos being posted. If it's not what you want to see, click elsewhere.
 
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