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Can you believe it? Another plane crash.
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On June 12th, 2025, Air India Flight
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171, a Boeing 787, crashed immediately
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after takeoff. It wasn't even in the air
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60 seconds, leaving you and me to figure
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out what went wrong. How does a plane
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that takes off perfectly and looks
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textbook all of a sudden just start
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losing lift and heading right back
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towards the ground again? Was it a
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maintenance issue? Was it a mechanical
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issue? Was it pilot error? Was it
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software? Or did Boeing just make
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another bad plane? Okay, so the problem
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is is if you're watching this video
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right here and you've seen this video on
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the news, unfortunately, you're looking
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at the wrong version of this video
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because you're looking at a copy of the
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video and not the original. Now, all of
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the news media outlets were eager and
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quick to be the first ones to get these
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videos up this morning. So that's what
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they posted because that's what they
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had. But then later on we got the
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original version of it. And it's this
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original version that I'm about to show
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you here that gives us clues into what
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might have happened to Air India flight
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171 on this Boeing 787-8
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Dreamliner. Right as it took off,
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something went wrong. What was it that
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went wrong? So let's take a look at
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these clues.
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Okay. So, I'll show you what's wrong
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with this version. This is what they
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showed on CNN. See how you could tell it
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was shot off of a computer screen
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and you can see the reflections on the
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screen
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and you can hear people talking in the
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background. Now, take a look at this
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newer version which is appears to be the
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original video to me. It's a much
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clearer and it starts a little bit
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sooner. And I want you to listen to the
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audio and tell me what you hear.
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So, did you hear what I hear? See, this
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is what being an engineer is is we
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always look for patterns. We hear
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things. We see things. And I heard
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something different here. So, I'm going
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to play this very first part of it just
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as the plane flies by. I'll play it like
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three or four times in a row for you.
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And I want you to listen to the sound
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that it's making as it flies right by
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the screen. It's going to go listen to
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the shape of that sound.
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Hm. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a
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Boeing 787 jet liner that you heard
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flying by. But yet, didn't it almost
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sound a little bit like there was a prop
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plane?
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So, that got me thinking. Hm. So, it
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sounds to me like what we were hearing
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here is a ram air turbine,
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otherwise known as a rat. And I smell a
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rat, folks. Okay. What makes this so
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interesting is that the RAT deployment,
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it's automated and it's a normal safety
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feature of the 787. So in these twin
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engine jets like the 787, if both of
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your engines fail or if the aircraft
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loses some kind of major electrical or
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hydraulic pressure, the rat comes out of
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its hiding there and it automatically
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deploys and it will then provide this
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emergency power that the plane needs to
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do whatever it has to do to to land. And
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so in the 787, they store the ram air
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turbine behind a small panel that's on
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the wing fuselage. And so it's a
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spring-loaded mechanism that
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automatically just pops this thing out.
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And so this is what I thought you were
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hearing here is that buzz from the ram
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air turbine. So I'm going to show you
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here. This is a video clip from uh Japan
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Airlines that was making an emergency
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landing one time. And you'll see it
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deployed. And let's take a look at it.
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And you'll hear that same type of sound
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here. I'll show you what it sounds like.
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Here is a Japan Airlines plane coming in
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for an emergency landing. And you'll see
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it hanging down right here behind the
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rear wheels on the fuselage. And it's
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just a little turbine fan. And you'll
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hear it sound just like a small airplane
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with a propeller. So listen for I'll
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show you when it's coming. You'll see it
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spinning right there as the plane comes
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in.
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Here
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is another example of a 787 coming in at
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a Boeing test facility. And listen as it
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flies by. You'll hear it nice and crisp
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and clear, too. It almost sounds like a
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drone.
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Okay, so this video was shot off of a
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computer screen also, and you can see
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the person who shot it moving the mouse
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around. There goes the plane down the
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runway. And when it clears behind that
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checkered building there is about the
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point when it's going to rotate and take
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off. So you can see the nose is lifting
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up right around there. So there it goes.
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So far, everything looks smooth. I don't
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see any smoke, nothing burning. You
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can't really tell in this grainy video
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whether there's anything wrong with the
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plane. It gets up to about 600 ft or so
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right here. Now, it's starting to go
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back down again. I can't tell if it's
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drifting over to the left or if it's
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just, you know, the angle and everything
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that this was shot at. But it is going
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right back down again here. So, at some
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point, something went wrong there and
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now it's going to crash back in there.
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And you don't actually see the plane
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hit. you just see a fireball off into
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the distance. And that was all that we
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had on this particular security camera
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video. Okay. So, if we look here at the
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flight radar 24 data, it shows here,
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here's the takeoff of So, first of all,
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the flight was supposed to leave a
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metadab at uh the 11:10 p.m. and it
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ended up leaving at 1:38 p.m. There was
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some video circulating around from a
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passenger who was on an earlier flight
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earlier in the day who showed some video
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inside the plane and he said it was very
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hot in there like the AC wasn't working.
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So, we don't know if that means anything
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or if that video uh was even really from
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a passenger that was on it earlier.
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Sometimes people like to throw out fake
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data whenever there's a big incident
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like this. Okay, so it took off right
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here and it looks like their maximum
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height that they have here is about 625
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ft with a ground speed of 174 knots,
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which seems to me to be right in the
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range of where you want to be for your
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V1 when you lift off. Now, whether
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there's other conditions that may
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degrade that number, uh, don't know at
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this time. There's not much to show. So,
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it's just going to be boom boom there.
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So, there weren't any data points really
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to speak of. So, in that previous video
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clip that I showed you of the plane
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taking off, the security camera must
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have been somewhere around over here
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along the left side of the runway. So,
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the plane takes off, it goes airborne up
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to 625 ft and then starts to lose
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altitude and comes back down and it's
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going to crash right over here into the
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BJ Medical College.
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So, there's the flight direction right
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there. came right over here and crashed
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into one of the buildings over in here.
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And then there at the scene, there was
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just numerous fires being put out
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everywhere. And there seemed to be like
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hundreds and hundreds of people showing
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up there to help out.
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So, it was just pandemonium everywhere.
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But at least it happened at a medical
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college where there's help right there.
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And when you look at all of these photos
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of like the damage and what happened to
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these buildings, look at that. There's
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some of your landing gear inside the
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building. And then here's u looks like
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the rear end of the plane. It's hard to
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tell from that shot. That looks like the
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tail. And then right here, it looks like
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the rear end of the plane sitting on top
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of the building. And then you're going
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to see an aerial view of that same
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thing. So man, this plane just got torn
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apart. And you would think nobody would
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survive this, but actually, ladies and
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gentlemen, take a look at Mr. Romesh
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Vishwashkumar and I hope I pronounced
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his name right. I'm pretty sure I
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didn't. I think he's about 45 years old
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and he was a passenger in seat 11A
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according to the news. Now, he says he
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jumped out of the plane, but I don't
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think that really happened. I think the
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plane crashed and fell apart and then he
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jumped out of the wreckage. And so here
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the news has released photos of him in
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the hospital. And there below his
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picture is a photograph of his actual
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boarding pass showing seat 11A. So if we
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look at the floor plan of the Boeing 787
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Dreamlininer here from flight 171 of
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India Airlines, you can see according to
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the ticket that he had there in the
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picture, if everything is correct, he
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was sitting here in seat 11A which looks
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like that upgraded business class
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section. And yeah, he was in the last
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row of it. I still don't see how you
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would survive like this because these
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are the wings here and the fuel tanks
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are here. And so this would be the
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maximum point of the explosion, I would
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think, on a on a fully loaded plane that
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just took off. So it must be just a pure
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miracle of God that, you know, somehow
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maybe this wing tore off a little bit
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and left a hole for him to jump out.
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Now, there might be some problems in
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translation and communication and
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language barriers and all that, but the
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stories that I've seen so far say that
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he claimed he jumped out of the plane.
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Now, I don't think that means he jumped
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out of the plane before it crashed.
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There's no way you would survive
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anything like that. I think what he was
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saying was that the plane crashed and it
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broke apart into pieces and he then
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jumped out of it. Now, going back to the
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security cam video here as it goes up,
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you know, you don't see any sign of a
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problem here, but they must have known
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there was something wrong. So, probably
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right around here is when they issued
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the Mayday. We do know that they issued
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a Mayday call and then it started to
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drop down right here. So, they must have
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known as soon as they took off that
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probably there wasn't enough power. So
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that's why I think either both engines
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weren't thrusting hard enough or maybe
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they were dying or there was an
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electrical problem and
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that's why the ram deployed on nearly
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all plane crash videos. People will
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always look at this and say, you know
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what, I don't see that the flaps were
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set, so it couldn't have gotten
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airborne. Well, you know, on these
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grainy videos, it is fairly hard to
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tell, you know, whether the flaps are
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set properly or not. So we simply don't
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know about that part at this point. But
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we do know that the US is sending
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somebody from the NTSB to help them out.
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So, you know, the NTSB is experts. They
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are experts at reading data out of
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cockpit flight recorders. So, hopefully
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they'll be able to recover those and
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find out what was going on and see what
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inputs were coming into the computer.
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Now, I know a lot of people like to come
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down on Boeing because of all of the
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previous crashes, but you know what? The
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Dreamliner here has a great track
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record. It's a very very safe airplane.
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It's been around since about 2011 or so
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and I believe there's about,00 of these
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flying around the world and they've
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never had like a a major crash like this
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and they've certainly never suffered a
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whole loss at all either. So I think you
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could write this off as an extremely
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safe plane and whatever happened here
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must be some kind of a one-off. Was it a
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maintenance issue? You know, it just
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really seems to me like they didn't have
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enough thrust because nothing else was
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going wrong. They didn't tilt the plane
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too much and stall out. The plane stayed
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level right till the very end. So, it
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looks like these pilots were doing a
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great job trying to control whatever
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they could with it. It doesn't matter
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what your ground speed is either because
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once you get up in the air there, if you
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don't have that thrust, the speed
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doesn't matter. It's going to just come
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right back down. And then just checking
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the stock market on Boeing on their
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stock price. It did have an effect on
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the price. You can see it right here.
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Fell off like a cliff overnight. And so
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the stock is down almost $10 today as a
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result of the plane crash. The stock
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price could drop even more if more bad
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news comes out like another design flaw
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from Boeing, but I doubt that will be
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the case. So that's my hypothesis on
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this crash so far. And of course, as
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more details emerge, we'll probably end
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up changing that hypothesis. And if you
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haven't seen my videos on the Philly
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medical jet crash from a couple of
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months ago, make sure you check this one
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out here. And a real detailed one here
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is the one you want to see here on the
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Boca Raton plane crash cuz that happened
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in my area. And I actually went to the
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scene of the crash there and showed you
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a lot more details of what was going on.
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So, thank you for joining us and stay
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tuned and we'll see all of you on the
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