As you'll notice, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 and Jeju Air Flight 2216 are missing from this video. This is because we wrapped up work on this video prior to the holidays to give our post-production staff well-earned time off, and therefore we were unable to modify the video to include these incidents without disturbing their holidays. No doubt each of these two flights would be notable enough to include on this list had it been possible.

The graphics on the bottom for each flight were a very nice touch.

You think this guy would hide at an airport?

The man knows his audience, what can I say

This is the most Sam video that Sam has ever Samed

My most important flight of 2024 was on October 8th when I took my checkride and finally got my pilots license after decades of aviation geekdom 🤗

I think it’s important to remember that, amidst all of this horror, aviation is a huge positive for society

The irony that a triple airline incident in the span of 24 hours during the holiday season cannot be added to this video.

GO WENDOVER, WIN THE LAWSUIT AGAINST HONEY. Good for y'all for being the ones to take them on. I rarely subscribe to channels but I'ma give you mine. Love y'all ❤️

Have you thought about doing a video on the Australian Royal Flying Doctor Service? They are one of the largest aeromedical organisations in the world that are supported by volunteers and provide 24 hour emergency service to remote areas of Australia. They are an incredible organisation.

As we close the year, Wendover releases another plane video.

16:25 dropped bag could have just been a standard event in an airport, but now it's immortalized forever

When the Alaskan Airlines door plug incident happened, I was working at a Boeing parts manufacturer and it was taken extremely seriously by my company. They required more and more FOD and quality checks and more sign offs on procedures. It changed our entire process.
Edit: we didn’t manufacture door parts, we did engine parts. And. We had these processes already, they just created more checks and throughout more steps in the manufacturing process.

Just a note on the australian aviation duopoly, we seem to have a pattern with that.
1. Our grocery stores are pretty much a duopoly between Woolworths and Coles. Aldi as managed to  slowly climb up to i think about 9% (feel free to fact check that) of the market share, and the Independent Grocers Association (IGA) is pretty tiny. This means that for most australians, food and other necessities are stupidly expensive because of Coleworths being pretty much the only option.

2. Our kind of "home depot" thing is Bunnings, (also our most famous restaurant lol), and thats a fat monopoly. Only kind of silver lining is that this one APPARENTLY (not an expert, fact check) actually makes things cheaper. The profit margins on each individual item is so low, small businesses have to increase prices to keep up. Because bunnings sells so much, they can get away with having lower prices and slim profit margins per item, because it adds up so much. Still, its not competitive.

3. Yeah the airline thing you mentioned.

TLDR our anti-monopoly laws are shit

Thanks for mentioning last flight of CSA as one of key moments of 2024. Sending love from Czech Republic

0:21 Oooooooooooh boy, that didn’t age well

Fun fact: The 747 crossing over the road at 18:46 is VH-OJA.

In 1989 this aircraft set the record for the longest un-refuelled flight by a commercial aircraft, 20 hours and 9 minutes from London to Sydney.
In 2015 it set the record for the shortest 747 flight, just 12 minutes on its delivery flight to a museum south of Sydney.

Crazy seeing Lynx Air featured here! Half of our 23-person party found out that our return flight from LAX to YYZ was cancelled by Lynx due to their bankruptcy while in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a cruise. It honestly feels like a complete blur how we were able to book 13 of the last 14 seats of an Air Canada flight and arrived only a few hours later than our original Lynx flight.

Fun fact: travel insurance does not cover needing to book a new flight because of an airline's bankruptcy. Found that out the hard way.

Even with all of the headaches this caused, though, I'm incredibly sad Lynx is gone. As Sam said, Canada's domestic routes are now effectively a duopoly again. We went from YYZ to YVR flights down to under $125 round trip, to back now back up to $400-600.

15:56 “Serving Australia’s West Coast”. Another way to say that is “Perth”, given the second largest city of Western Australia, Bunbury, has a population of 75 thousand.

December was the month of accidents in aviation history

Japan Airlines focused on safety heavily since the JL123 crash. That’s why the only causality was the officers on board of that Japan Coast Guard plane.

They won’t allow any chance of losing market share to bullet trains due to safety issues, even there’s something called the “4-hour threshold”.
(This can be imagined as a boundary, where flying will be more convenient once you’ll need more than 4 hours to travel on the Shinkansen. Currently this boundary lies on Hiroshima, assuming the starting point is Tokyo Station.)