Two Disasters At Los Angeles International Airport | Mayday: Air Disaster

Robyn went to jail right?

That's David Kohk of Kohk industries. We would have been much better off if he hadn't made it. What a po💩

Dear David coke you had no choice if you went back to try save others it would not work there is nothing for you to feel guilty saving yourself is what you did and im grateful for that one life im sure you have family who are great full that you were alive there was no way you could have gone back so please live your life and remember your special to your family who are very grateful that you survived good luck and remember this is not your responsibility im from England

Women can't multitask obviously

There should never be a collision on a runway all air ports should be runways for incoming flights and takeoffs.
There needs to be more room for planes at airports.

Robins got bad luck

Another episode showing humans are not to be in sky.. period

This made me really angry! You can't allow such a mistake to happen! The lack of professionalism cost not only the life of the passengers and crue members but also a trauma and an inhuman situation to deal with for the controller. She should have done her job but if you give her 3000 planes to handle it's only inevitable for this to happen. It's not her fault. Anyone could have done it under those circumstances. It's lives not paper cards. Unforgivable!

June2026: Obviously, runways should have the equivalent of traffic lights on them. An open runway would have green lights all along it. A closed runway red lights.
It is hard to know what runway you are landing on or taking off from. Fog, nighttime, rain, snow makes it more difficult.
Traffic lights are not a cure-all. You can still have 2 planes on a green-lit runway. Sensors and computer auto-control would help.
Retired in Sacto

US air never recovered either two accidents in one year.

This accident reminds me of the Zagreb incident from 1976 where a British Airways Trident, flight 476, collided with a Yugoslav Inex-Adria DC-9, flight 550 collided, killing all 176 people in both planes. Although the radar was known to be faulty, one controller was scapegoated by the Yugoslav authorities, Gradimir Tasić.

The other planes pilots and passengers having to land right after that 🤦🏼

That's SO much pressure!

Vancouver Canucks vs Los Angeles Kings
The Vancouver Canucks upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport the team charter witnessed the fatal collision of USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 as the aircraft landed on a parallel runway approximately 100 metres (110 yd) from the collision. The team suffered its worst defeat of the season 9–1 against the Los Angeles Kings.

😢😢😢.
What a tragic plane crash.

I dont blame the controller. 33:08 but doesnt a plane wait way behind the touchdown zone of the landing strip?

At the end of the day, I like to play guitar. If tired, I just start making mistakes and have to put it down.

High-speed rail would solve a lot of transportation problems, as China has brilliantly proved, but the airline industry has consistently lobbied against it. It would remove a vast amount of congestion, but would also remove the need for much of their very profitable business.

I believe it was not Robin's fault, you have extra supervisor and managers in that room, who should have helped

She wasn't provided the tools or resources to safely do her job 😢

Years later... Still a mess and still heavily overwhelmed ATCs.

Too many planes landing and taking off. An absolute problem for sure.

I feel kind of bad for the atc but every person has the right, even the duty to refuse unsafe working conditions whether they are unsafe for them or for others. There had to be something else that could be done, i mean if she dropped dead of a heart attack they wouldn’t just tell the planes ‘too bad so sad find your own way down’, no they wouldn’t call someone else in of course. Refuse to take on that many flights and talk to your union because i would practically guarantee that atc’s have a union.

How come she didnt have the strip of that plane that contacted her

A plane contacted her that she had no strip infront of her she tells the supervisor and she gives her the strip

We all know why we are here.
Rip to the 2 pilots of the crash in New York.
Healings to those who got hurt.

I bet the ATC is having PTSD when national news of LaGuardia broke out. At least to me the ATC is not entirely at fault here. I always blame management for faulty equipment or understaffing. To me personally, I don't care flight cancellation. They better be alive and complains about their flights cancelled than their lives cancelled forever.

I’m rewatching this episode after the ground collision at LaGuardia.

It’s often lazy and too simple to just blame the controller for the result. There’s almost always way more to it than that.

16:53 shouldn't the flight strip say SKW5569 instead? The call sign is SKYWEST 569 (according to Wikipedia) not SKW569 as in the video.

I do not like flying at night or in winter. 🥶

Another problem is the extreme activity at LAX and sometimes other airports. They are trying to handle too many planes within the same window of time. People may have to wait a bit on their flights and slow down on how fast they expect them to leave and go.

I feel sorry for robin washer and everyone who was killed at the Los Angeles airport when two planes collided on runway 24 left which cost Robin Washer her job on the night the collision happened. I have followed the story and watched the film many times 35:03

The trains are better. Unfortunately both Airbus and Boeing are heavily lobbying with Govt to make sure trains don't evolve and their own business runs smoothly.

She murdered them that horrible woman

33:35 left her job and never worked as an air traffic controller again... well of course, but she should be in jail for life, right?!?!

May God have mercy on the souls of the departed as well as the poor flight controller. Like it was said, it can happen to everyone we are only human.

1:28

Always strange in the US, that the landing clearance is issued, even when other landing and departing aircraft are still using the same runway. What is then the sense of a landing clearance?

Even back then they had DEI

why are people making excuses for robin in the comments

the only thing you need to avoid this is a controller who doesn't forget that they left a plane on the runway, to simply forget like that tells me this person was not under enough stress or she wasn't taking it seriously enough

this is where robotic tracker's in the traffic control tower's could be excellent attention to prevent conditions of ppl being always subject to human error .

Plane captain was not look another plane was ready in runway.

Yes but that is not a guilt I guess they were some that get our before you as we saw in documentary and did help you to get out of the plain you were not the first one to get out of the plain.

45:02 i was thinking why don't they put red lights when the runway is gets occupied, well they did. But unfortunately it was bond to happen that day or another. They just kept following same system and the runway kept getting busier.

Until a disaster happens and people pay the price till then nothing changes.

She should have never left the kitchen. Awful

Can you imagine what's going on now with the government shutdown? And with how many controllers probably can't show up for financial reasons? And that's on top of the regular stress and pressure they face on a daily basis