How did this plane end up MILES off course?? American 965

🟢 Get perks on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/GreenDotAviation 🌏 YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCNU6LWB66VR48V58d2KOg/join ☕️ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GreenDot ---------- A few days before Christmas in 1995, the pilots of an American Airlines Boeing 757 wound up lost over the Andes mountains in South America. Under pressure to make it to the airport quickly, they began to make mistakes. What started out as a simple lapse in judgement, quickly snowballed into a series of critical errors, each one compounded by the one before it. In a few short minutes, these mistakes would result in the deaths of nearly everyone onboard. This is the story of American Airlines flight 965. ---------- This video was inspired by Admiral Cloudberg's analysis here: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/children-of-the-magenta-the-crash-of-american-airlines-flight-965-b16f57c34cfe Final Report: https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/bookshelf/1056.pdf ------ All music licensed through Epidemic Sound Maps: Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL. American Airlines 757 Livery: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/40975-old-american-airlines-for-flight-factor-757-200-v2-professional-extended-xp-11/ Pictures: 787: Masahiro TAKAGI from Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons A320: Ken Fielding/https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A330: JetPix (GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html or GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html), via Wikimedia Commons A340: Iberia Airlines, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons AAL965 Crash site pictures: FAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ----------- 00:00 Intro 01:05 Flight background 01:54 Pilots 03:38 Flying in Latin America 05:50 Initial descent 09:10 The first mistake 10:45 A shortcut 16:30 Wrong turn 18:58 Confusion begins 23:52 Terrain 24:54 Crash 25:26 Aftermath and Investigation 27:38 Children of the Magenta 29:10 Situational Awareness 29:40 Speedbrakes 30:50 American 965 documentary 31:44 EGPWS