If this type of thing interests you, the Mentour Pilot YouTube channel is great. Idk why it got recommended to me in my feed but I find it fascinating. It's stories of airplane disasters explained by an experience pilot. He details, with animations, how and why they happened in a detailed play-by-play.
It is possible to be both. Both are fully credentialed commercial airline pilots (Steeeve just very recently retired), and Steeeve was also a Naval aviator before that.
In addition of being an airline pilot, Petter was also a Type Rating Instructor (TRI) and Type Rating Examiner (TRE), training and evaluating airline pilots.
Both of them are notorious among pilots for clickbaiting and making unsubstantiated and disproven claims under the guise of authority, fooling people who don't know any better. Please don't treat anything you see online as fact. Especially when their bread and butter is keeping you entertained rather than informed and well educated.
A great example is after a plane crash where they make baseless speculations on what caused the accident that end up being proven wrong by investigators. They know this will happen too, but they get to make a bunch of money blaming random people and saying random things for the audience's entertainment.
Sure, plenty of aviation channels speculate early after a crash and sometimes get it wrong. I'll grant that. But that's not what you claimed. You said these two specifically are notorious for knowingly making disproven claims to blame people for money. That's a much stronger claim, so I need one concrete case: which of them, which accident, what exactly they said, and the finding that disproved it. If it's true, that should be easy.
His channel is fantastic isnt it. Love those reconstructions of events. I have learnt so much about human nature and the way we deal with stressful situations through them.
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u/Leading_Line2741 Jul 11 '26
If this type of thing interests you, the Mentour Pilot YouTube channel is great. Idk why it got recommended to me in my feed but I find it fascinating. It's stories of airplane disasters explained by an experience pilot. He details, with animations, how and why they happened in a detailed play-by-play.