That Time a Plane Crashed into a Tornado – NLM CityHopper 431

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The tiny sleepy village of Moerdijk in the Netherlands is home to just 1,200 people. Located on the south side of the mighty Hollands Diep Estuary, not much ever happens here. However, in the evening of October 6th, 1981, this village was thrust into national headlines and became a focal point of interest for Air Crash Investigators as they arrive at the site of a baffling accident. As it would turn out, this corner of the Dutch countryside would also draw the interest of meteorologists.
The case of NLM City Hopper Flight 431 is unlike any other aviation accident we have ever discussed previously or will likely ever discuss again. It is a one-of-a-kind accident. A regional jet, performing a short routine domestic flight in The Netherlands goes horribly wrong when it flies into bad weather. The pilots had no idea of the true extent of its ferocity. In an age before sophisticated weather radar and forecasts, they were clueless to the fact that they had just flown into one of nature’s most devastating weapons,

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49 thoughts on “That Time a Plane Crashed into a Tornado – NLM CityHopper 431”

  4. Your voice is so clear and pleasant to listen to, and the script is concise with the perfect amount of snarky humor. There are certain channels where the narrators speak unclearly or are too roundabout, but this channel certainly isn't one of them.

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  8. Great video! "I'm not saying that" I don't blame you! 😹
    Delta 191 was the first air crash documentary I ever watched in the 1980s, it was a science documentary on the BBC or ITV about the development of Doppler weather radar. They even played the CVR! 🙀

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  10. Never knew that part of Europe could have actual tornadoes. In the north where I live, shielded form the worst of Atlantic low pressures by the mountain range between Sweden and Norway, we still have some rare cases of bad weather swirling wind patterns, which can lift railcars off the rails and rip out roofs.

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  11. Chloe, you put so much work on your videos and I enjoy them so much! You are beautiful and I love seeing you on screen more ❤️ thank you for sharing your transition journey. Exposure is very important. Much love

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  13. This reminds me of a video that I saw here on YouTube that showed a helicopter flying too close to a tornado which looked like it being flushed down a toilet as it tumbled and circled the tornado. One person was flung from the helicopter mid air. Not a great way to go. 🙏

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  15. I used to watch all of your videos, and I just rediscovered your channel after a several year hiatus. The unbridled joy I felt when I realized that in the interim you'd also transitioned, and you'd also chosen the name Chloe, cannot be overstated. Welcome back to my home page, Chloe o7

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  17. I have a terrible fear of tornadoes. I’m from the south having lived in Kentucky and Florida. I moved to Eastern Washington State because the weather is more predictable. I can’t imagine flying an aircraft anywhere near a tornado. They are so unpredictable though, that’s why I fear them. Thank you Chloe for the informative video.

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  18. This might come as a surprise to some folks, as we don't normally associate tornadoes with Europe, but the area from northern France, through the Benelux countries, into northern Germany and even into Denmark and Poland is the European equivalent of America's Tornado Alley. Granted they aren't as prolific or intense as the ones in the American plains or southeast, rarely getting above EF2 status.

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  31. What an amazing and well made video, thank you so much. I can't wait to see you take on the '92 El-Al crash in Amsterdam, which is has a lot of online resources available.

    Btw chilling coincedence to see you published this a day before the Flight 2283 crash in Sao Paolo, which seems to be from flying into a severe weather system as well.

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  33. I appreciate your competence when it comes to aviation. I like the way you talk. But you will always be a man. Wearing a dress and putting on make up doesn´t make you a woman. Happy contrails, everyone! 😀

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  34. Fix your mic when you’re on camera. The audio quality goes way down. Seems unnecessary to do if the audio is worse. Why are you so insistent on being on camera if it means worse audio? Strange….

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  39. Tornado"s in the Netherlands can be quite common. Most of the time they cause minor damage. But in June 1967 there was one in the F3 catagory which destroyed more than 1500 houses and killed 7 people in the villages of Chaam and Tricht.

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  42. At that time it was big on local news but I never knew until now that this aircraft flew into a tornado. My cousin's bf worked for KLM at the time and knew the pilots so I also heard from her. All I remember is that the weather was stormy dark and miserable, a typical Dutch autumn.

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  44. In the Dutch language the 2 letters "oe" combined like this do have the sound of the letter "u" in english.
    The letter "ij", which is one (!) letter in Dutch, sounds like the "I/Y" in english, like in "I by myself"
    Example sound file of Moerdijk is in the dutch, german and of course englisch Wikipedia.

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  45. <- Born and Bred in Kansas – ground zero tornado alley. That one – hundred mph one your showing maybe you could have slingshotted right through it, probably ruin the plane but you maybe could go home.. Saw one in Idaho so weak you could stand in it. Had one out by Greensburg, that dear god not only did it grind through the town it turned and went back through it again (truth look it up). When that sob was done with that poor town there just was not anything left that would not fit in a glad bag.
    Wow, had not seen the images of the crash site. That plane got it worse than I thought it had. God bless them.

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