🟢 Support the channel on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/GreenDotAviation Join the conversation on Discord! https://discord.gg/6tafjstBzK ---- In the dead of the night, halfway over the Atlantic ocean, an Airbus A330 carrying 306 passengers and crew suddenly runs out of fuel. The lights go out, the oxygen masks drop, and the noise of the engines is replaced with an eerie silence. In pitch darkness, the giant aircraft begins drifting down towards the ocean below. The pilots are stunned, and begin trying to glide the aircraft as far as possible. The flight attendants prepare the passengers for an emergency ditching in the ocean - something which is likely be a death sentence for all on board. This is a living nightmare, but incredibly - it never had to happen in the first place. Many accounts of this incident focus on its technical aspects, but that is only half of the story. The truth is that at bottom, this is a fascinating story about human psychology. It’s a story about how people make decisions under pressure, when faced with ambiguous information. This is the story of Air Transat flight 236. ---- All music licensed through Epidemic Sound Final report: https://www.fss.aero/accident-reports/dvdfiles/PT/2001-08-24-PT.pdf Map tiles by a href="http://stamen.com/"Stamen Design/a, under a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"CC BY 3.0/a. Data by a href="http://openstreetmap.org/"OpenStreetMap/a, under a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"CC BY SA/a. Picture: FAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ---- 00:00 Intro 01:07 Flight background 01:43 A330 02:11 Pilots 03:15 Departure from Toronto 03:41 Cruise 04:26 An unusual indication 05:42 Another strange indication - crossfeed 06:14 Diversion 07:07 A fuel leak? 09:21 The real problem 09:41 Confirmation bias 10:36 Fuel imbalance 11:50 Fuel leak procedure 12:14 Framing bias 12:56 Engine 2 flameout 13:41 Engine 1 flameout - glide 14:30 Passenger prognosis 15:05 A forced choice 15:57 Gliding the A330 18:08 Coming down 19:35 Final approach 21:18 Aftermath 21:45 Alternate scenarios 22:21 Source of the fuel leak 22:49 Final verdict 23:45 Safety improvements 24:11 Thanks!