0:00 You're desperately low on fuel in your Boeing 747. Your destination is Houston. The place is absolutely clobbered. They're putting you in one vector after another, then a holding pattern. You're running out of fuel quickly. You've got to make a decision. What…
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5:07 Which is a 2-3-0 heading. So he says 2-3-0. Still gives them the same altitude. Not sure why he's climbing them up to 17 if he's going to turn them right around back to Dallas. They're just a little bit east of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport at this point.…
7:44 There is no runway 26 right at Dallas-Fort Worth. So the communication on the part of this crew is really poor. They keep just giving the runway. They don't say what airport. Then there's further communication as to what airport you're going to. Oh my word.…
10:27 Air traffic control now. This guy is great. He's going to take control of the situation. He's going to go, I don't care what you want. I'm going to tell you where you're going to go. And this guy, I think, saves the day. Because I don't think these guys would…
12:49 Okay, so he asked him to confirm the 6,000 pounds, and he says, yes, 6,000. I don't know if there was a language barrier. He's thinking six tons, or he's thinking 6,000. Whatever it is, these guys are really low on fuel. So Silkwest, he's going to give him…
15:38 So what's going on in the cockpit right now? Right now in the cockpit, they're having to program into the flight management computer
18:05 He says, you know what? I'm making this decision for you. He declares an emergency for them. That's something the air traffic control can do. They had already declared a pan, pan, pan. I think he's declaring kind of more of a Mayday type emergency. And you're…