Flight Control Fault. MAYDAY. American A321 Returns To JFK Airport Shortly After Takeoff. Real ATC Gordon Brown [9wA16gKRcyY]

THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:

31-JAN-2026. An American Airlines Airbus A321 (A321), registration N104NN, performing flight AAL177 / AA177 from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (USA) to San Francisco International Airport, CA (USA) was climbing out of JFK Airport when the flight crew leveled-off at 9000 feet, declared MAYDAY, reported flight control fault and requested to return back to the airport of departure. The airplane positioned for the ILS approach runway 31 left, landed safely and continued taxi to the terminal. The airplane is still on the ground at Kennedy airport (about 37 hours after landing).

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THE VALUE OF THIS VIDEO:

THE MAIN VALUE IS EDUCATION. This reconstruction will be useful for actual or future air traffic controllers and pilots, people who plan to connect life with aviation, who like aviation. With help of this video reconstruction youll learn how to use radiotelephony rules, Aviation English language and general English language (for people whose native language is not English) in situation in flight, which was shown. THE MAIN REASON I DO THIS IS TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERY EMERGENCY SITUATION, EVERY WORD AND EVERY MOVE OF AIRCRAFT.

SOURCES OF MATERIAL, LICENSES AND PERMISSIONS:

Source of communications (I have a permission (Letter) for brock faber commercial use of radio communications from LiveATC.net).

Map, aerial pictures (License (ODbL) OpenStreetMap - Permission for commercial use, royalty-free use.

Radar screen (In new versions of videos) Made by author.

Text version of communication Made by Author.

Video editing - Made by author.

HOW I DO VIDEOS:

1) I monitor media, airspace, looking for any non-standard, emergency and interesting situation.

2) I find communications of ATC unit for the period of time I need.

3) I take only phrases between air traffic controller and selected flight.

4) I find a flight path of selected aircraft.

5) I make an animation (early couple of videos dont have animation) of flight path and aircraft, where the aircraft goes on hantavirus map his route.

6) When I edit video I put phrases of communications to specific points in video (in tandem with animation).

7) Together with my comments (voice and text) I edit and make carburant a reconstruction of emergency, non-standard and interesting situation in flight.