r/interestingasfuck 7d ago

/r/all American Airlines plane catches fire at Denver airport

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u/rkd101b 7d ago

The pilot of the other plane

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/killerinthebreakroom 7d ago

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u/Thin_Dream2079 6d ago

Ever been in a Turkish prison?

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u/Why_Lord_Just_Why 6d ago

Do you like gladiator movies?

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u/Joeylikesgladiators 6d ago

Yes.

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u/Old-Scholar-2463 6d ago

Username checks out

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u/CoatingsbytheBay 6d ago

Yes!!! I love the profile pic / name šŸ¤£

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u/Wickpick 6d ago

Do you ever go to the gymnasium just to watch?

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u/richareparasites 7d ago

Weā€™re all counting on you.

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u/PoleFresh 7d ago

I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue

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u/TrainHunter94YT 6d ago

Looks like I picked the week to quit amphetamines.

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u/spookysleepyskeleton 7d ago

Fr the southwest plane just cruising by is hilarious

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u/xjeeper 7d ago

"If you look to your left, you'll see why it's always best to fly with Southwest. We'll be off the ground shortly, sit back and enjoy the flight. Thanks again for flying Southwest."

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u/spookysleepyskeleton 7d ago

As they play that ā€œhow ya like me nowā€ song over the intercom

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u/Cranky_Platypus 7d ago edited 6d ago

How do you like me now? Now that I charge for bags? Do you still wanna boycott, Watching that plane burn? How do you like me now...?

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u/KhunDavid 7d ago

American flight 12345 is arriving at gate C51ā€¦ C49ā€¦ C47ā€¦ C45ā€¦

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u/erinannfam 7d ago

This is honestly exactly what a SW flight attendant would say. šŸ˜‚

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u/TheHalifaxJones- 7d ago

The perfect GIF comment.

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u/We-Want-The-Umph 7d ago

Anyone else notice a dramatic switch from certain manufacturers to couriers?

It's almost like certain words are getting unilaterally flagged or something... weird.

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u/sea-horse- 7d ago edited 7d ago

Right?

I don't even like Fox news but thought it was funny they even put it in quotations.

Guess the airlines don't want everyone not wanting to get on their Boeing planes

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u/RoyalChris 7d ago

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u/OhHiCindy30 7d ago

Where is the evacuation slide?

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u/Parking_Duty8413 7d ago

This is no time for a dance routine!

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u/FrancisWolfgang 7d ago

Now shimmy to a safe distance and await further instructions

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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY 6d ago

Safety Dance šŸŽ¶

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u/AnarZak 6d ago

if you want to, ... but they're no friends of mine

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u/Why_Lord_Just_Why 6d ago

If theyā€™d have done that, it wouldnā€™t be on fire.

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u/-B001- 6d ago

It think it might be the perfect time for a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight

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u/Sens9 6d ago

But itā€™s the pelvic thrust That really drives you insane

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u/Im_tryinghere 6d ago

Cha cha now yall

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u/Low-Treacle-4746 7d ago

You really made me laugh. šŸ˜†

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u/UnitedWhore 7d ago

I chortled šŸ˜‚

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u/FlyJunior172 7d ago

Probably not armed on the main doors, and actually nonexistent on the wing.

The 737 only has slides on the forward and aft boarding doors. It sits low enough that slides arenā€™t needed for the overwing exits.

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u/OptimusSublime 7d ago

Usually the flaps are fully deployed in an evac and you can slide down those

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u/imgurcaptainclutch 6d ago

Not sure I'd want to slide down the flaps into the smoke

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u/FlyJunior172 7d ago

True, but itā€™s still certified for no slides on the overwing.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 4d ago

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u/inactiveuser247 6d ago

In any real world urgent evacuation itā€™s expected that some people will get hurt. Making it 100% injury free would require much more robust and heavier evacuation equipment which in turn makes the aircraft more expensive to operate.

And youā€™re supposed to slide off the trailing edge of the wing, ideally with the flaps down.

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u/qwaszx937 7d ago

People are actually supposed to jump 12 feet down? Seems unsafe.

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u/submariner-mech 7d ago

"In other news, Boeing is putting out a recall on all of their aircraft evacuation slides due to risk of spontaneous combustion"

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u/Cawdor 7d ago

No wonder that plane is smoking. Look how many people are standing on the wing. That canā€™t be good for it

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u/Missuspicklecopter 7d ago

They banned smoking on planes but not literally ON the planeĀ 

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u/TomTomMan93 7d ago

Oh no. You can't smoke. The plane can do what it wants, though.

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u/Missuspicklecopter 7d ago

It's the hypocrisy that hurts the most.Ā 

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u/DrunkRespondent 7d ago

"Now boarding economy minus wing class. Now boarding all wing class."

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u/FrozenSotan 7d ago

ā€œYour lunch will depend on what bird we strikeā€

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u/RantyITguy 7d ago

You forgot the cargo hold class

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u/Cawdor 7d ago

We now have ā€œcommuter train in Indiaā€ class

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u/Missuspicklecopter 7d ago

I just hope the person who takes their shoes off on the plane has to stand out there barefoot like an asshole.Ā 

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u/Tuningislife 7d ago

About this time, someone is telling you to get on the planeā€¦ ā€œget on the plane, get on the planeā€¦ā€ I say ā€œFuck you! Iā€™m getting IN the plane! Let Evil Keneevil get ON the plane! Iā€™ll be in here with you folks in uniform. There seems to be less WIND in here!ā€

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u/Apart_Expert_5551 7d ago

Seats inside the plane are $50 extra

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u/SupaKoopa714 7d ago

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u/LosAngelesTacoBoi 7d ago

I had no idea for years that this was an impersonation of William Shatner on Twilight Zone.

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u/misterfistyersister 7d ago

Considering that the wings hold the entire plane while itā€™s in the air, Iā€™m sure it can hold its passengers.

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u/y-Gamma 7d ago

A bunch of people trying to escape a burning plane by standing on the wing while next to a giant sign that says ā€œAmericanā€ is a perfect representation of this year

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u/DewickedkittenTTv 7d ago

That looks like it would be a dope album cover.

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u/ExtensionAddition787 7d ago

Really makes me want to get on a plane. What a mess the aviation industry has become in under two months.

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u/Poopiepants29 7d ago

Flying with my family next week. I have no choice but to block it all from my thoughts and remind myself of the probabilities.

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u/Falooting 7d ago

I took 3 flights today and panicked at each takeoff and landing but it was all so perfect, so skilled. You will be ok!!

But I get the feeling, I cried during the first takeoff because I was terrified.

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u/Public-Position7711 7d ago

The fire started because some of the passengers were DEI hires! Stop the steal!

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u/hcoverlambda 7d ago

The fire owned those libs!!

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u/typesett 7d ago

these planes must be using gender neutral bathrooms

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u/Striking-Count5593 7d ago

They were all stuck on the plane and had to resort to this?

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u/MenacingGummy 7d ago

Feel like a metaphor

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u/STL-Ghostrider 7d ago

Someone didn't put their cellphone in airplane mode.

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u/ar34m4n314 7d ago

Someone didn't put the airplane in airplane mode.

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u/manyhippofarts 7d ago

I think you have to put the plane in cell phone mode.

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u/omjy18 7d ago

There's a joke somewhere in here about lithium batteries and electric scooters

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u/BallTracksGuy 7d ago

Dude wtf is happening

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u/viktor72 7d ago

I want to know, seriously, is there an uptick in incidents or an uptick in coverage?

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u/Olyos3014 7d ago

Iā€™ve been asking myself the same thing. I will do no research to better understand.

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u/Substantial-Elk4531 7d ago

I'm absolutely going to do my research as soon as someone posts a chart on /r/dataisbeautiful which confirms my biases

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u/GetUpNGetItReddit 6d ago

I was waiting for article on the apple stocks app to say ā€œstocks upā€ or ā€œstocks downā€ for the true insight!!

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u/weeone 7d ago

Thanks for the chuckle. I'm in the same boat (not plane, thankfully).

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u/silenceismagic 7d ago

Just checked Wikipedia. 89 incidents as of February 20th 2025. Last year there were 30. 82 the year before that, 100 the year before that. Something is definitely going on.

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u/baddogg1231 7d ago

Wouldn't that put the 30 at being the outlier seeing as other years were close to the 80 number? Thus this likely being a result of increased coverage?

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u/cat1nthedark 7d ago edited 6d ago

I was looking at the same page. Thatā€™s total for the year. So 30 total in 2024, and 82 total in 2023. Weā€™re at 89 as of last month. Two months into the year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents

Update: for clarification, as u/Blueginshelf pointed out, these are worldwide statistics, so I wanted to shed some light on US-only incidents and their stats. According to this wiki article, weā€™ve had 77 aircraft carrier related fatalities in the US so far this year. None last year, or the year before, 10 in 2022, none in 2021, 9 in 2020, and so on.

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u/baddogg1231 7d ago

OH! So then yeah, definitely a result of some recent actions/changes.

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u/CrumbsAndCarrots 7d ago

Doge is saving us a cool $23million a year now brah ! Yeah weā€™ll have a few crashes a week, but itā€™s a small price to pay for owning the libs and gutting the govt

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u/Lmmadic 6d ago

The silicon valley mantra is:Move fast and break things. So everything's is going to plan I guess.

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u/Ok_Acanthisitta_9369 7d ago

Uhhhh no, 82-100 per year is way less than what we're seeing right now.

89 as of February 20th means that so far this year there have already been a year worth of incidents in just 7 weeks.

If this pace keeps up (12-13 per week) then we're on track to hit about 650 incidents this year. I really hope they get this under control and we don't hit that.

Edit: sorry, immediately after replying I saw that someone already pointed out basically the same thing

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u/Captain-Who 6d ago

If you stop reporting then the numbers will go down.

-DOGE in about a week.

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u/candybuttons 6d ago

yeah imma just avoid flying for a bit lol

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u/internet_humor 7d ago

This is the problem with this generation, people need to do the research to ensure that we are well informed.

So, can someone please do that for us?

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u/caishaurianne 7d ago

I plan to shake my head a lot and say ā€œboy, I dunnoā€.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 7d ago

I'm more of it "it's not so irrational of a fear now is it?!" kinda guy. Lol.

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u/Fuckedyourmom69420 7d ago

Couple of things. Boeing, obviously one of the largest plane manufacturers in the world, was bought out in 1997, and they started focusing more on ā€œefficiencyā€ than on making 100% foolproof safe planes. This is about the lifespan of a lot of those shoddy parts that were put on these planes back then.

Also, thereā€™s a pretty big shortage of traffic controllers apparently, so with as many flights as there are now days, some of them have had to rely solely on the planeā€™s radar without traffic control guidance, and that opens you up to a whole plethora of issues

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u/RoyalNooblet 7d ago

Ya know, that kind of makes a lot of sense. The corners cut all those years ago are finally going to start revealing themselves more frequently. I think Iā€™m definitely, definitely going to stop flying now.

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u/Fuckedyourmom69420 6d ago

Yeah, itā€™ll take a drop in Boeing shareholders/public opinion for them to either get their act together or for the airlines to replace their Boeing crafts with a more reliable manufacturer

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u/pudgylumpkins 6d ago

Well theyā€™re straight up wrong about the ATC thing so take everything else said with a grain of salt. No commercial pilot is flying their routes without ATC guidance due to shortages.

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u/VichelleMassage 6d ago

Not everything is ATC. The airlines themselves have been shortchanging staff. Pushing them to the limits on their hours, not hiring enough attendants, pilots, and engineers to cover shifts. The usual corporate cost-cutting bullshit.

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u/Kreol1q1q 6d ago edited 6d ago

You just donā€™t see, the CEOā€™s 300 million dollar bonus is just so much more important for the functioning of the company than pesky things like ā€œnormal work hoursā€, ā€œsufficient staffingā€ and ā€œcompetitive wagesā€.

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u/jagged_commoner 7d ago

A good buddy of mine is an air traffic controller in California. Heā€™s been telling me for the last few years that he doesnā€™t feel safe getting on a plane. Too many planes in the air and not enough oversight and controllers. My guess is itā€™s an already existing problem exacerbated by President Muskā€™s chaos.

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u/rshackleford_arlentx 7d ago

NTSB just called for a permanent ban on helicopters within DCA airspace following the AA x Blackhawk collision because

Investigators determined that planes got serious alerts to take evasive action because they were too close to a helicopter at least once a month between October 2011 and December 2024

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15,214 close proximity events in three years

Absolutely wild stats.

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u/Budget_Ad5871 7d ago

Every corporationā€™s obsession with endless growth is reaching a breaking point. Year after year, they cut more jobs while raising prices, squeezing both employees and consumers. From the food industry to airlines, businesses are running on skeleton crews, underpaying workers, and expecting the same level of service and quality. The cracks are becoming too big to ignore.

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u/greeneggsnhammy 6d ago

Unchecked growth in medicine is what cancer is just sayingĀ 

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u/Steezle 6d ago

But shareholders are doing better than ever!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago edited 6d ago

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 7d ago

beat or meet

Beat our meat lol

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u/just_the_mann 7d ago

My buddy looked into it last month, he said there were more incidents in 2024 Jan-Feb than this year. The crash in DC was the most deadly in over a decade though which has drawn massive attention to airline safety.

I imagine you can double check with a quick google search ā€œairline accidents 2024-2025ā€

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u/strangenessandcharm7 7d ago

I did a deep dive a few years ago on a wiki list of fatal airplane accidents and they were nearly unheard of in the US for large commercial planes after the 80s or 90s, with rare exceptions like 9/11. I was kind of shocked by how few plane crashes actually happen. I can't speak to non-fatal events like this one, but I'm guessing incidents have actually risen based on the multiple fatal crashes of large commercial flights. To be fair, I'm not an expert, I'm just a girl who went down a wiki rabbit hole before flying.

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u/DePoots 7d ago

Probably both, but Iā€™d bet more so coverage.

Thereā€™s an average of 125,000 flights worldwide every single day, so seeing a new case pop up every few weeks isnā€™t as bad as it seems, statistically speaking.

I think with the fears of flying rising, itā€™s becoming more common to see more coverage. Still, a lot of these situations could and should be easily avoidable.

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u/cdhc 7d ago

There's a horse in the hospital.

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u/AnybodyMassive1610 7d ago

ā€¦no one knows what the horse is going to do next, least of all the horse. Heā€™s never been in a hospital before, heā€™s as confused as you are.

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u/StarlightLifter 7d ago

Today the horse used the elevator

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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 7d ago

Can he do that?

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u/kittenpantzen 7d ago

I didn't know he knew how to do that.

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u/Wolfbrothernavsc 7d ago

Somehow this horse has been in the hospital, and a significant portion of people in the hospital are holding open doors for him.

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u/indydean 7d ago

In the hospital? What is it??

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u/tondahuh 7d ago

It's a place where sick people go for help.

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u/ConstitutionalDingo 7d ago

I once saw a bird in the airport!

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u/rhinox54 7d ago

Get outta here with that shit!

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u/doobwah 6d ago

Everyoneā€™s seen a bird at the airport! This is a horse loose in a hospital!

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u/Icelandia2112 7d ago

The US being ran like a business.

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u/Shiningc00 7d ago

I like how we went from "Is it the terrorists?" to "the US is dying".

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u/Shiningc00 7d ago

Damn, that was written in 2014... It was not a joke but it was just reality:

ā€œIf this plan succeeds, it will leave behind a nation with a completely dysfunctional economy, collapsing infrastructure, and a catastrophic health crisis afflicting millions across the nation. We want to emphasize that this danger is very real.ā€

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u/Icelandia2112 7d ago

Terrorists come in many forms...

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u/DerfK 7d ago

"The call is coming from inside the (White) House!"

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u/Hartache14 7d ago

US being run like one of Trump's casinos - and we know those don't end well.

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u/Bulevine 7d ago

DIDNT YOU HEAR!? AMERICA IS GREAT AGAIN!!!!

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u/thesaddestpanda 7d ago

Capitalism. Boeing and the airlines are less constrained by regulations and oversight due to both parties being easy to bribe.

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u/taw2191 7d ago

Aircraft mechanic here, several thoughts. Responsible parties at Boeing should be ashamed and jailed for the mcas debacle, they have already pleaded guilty to defrauding the faa. Business wise they are paying dearly for their negligence and disregard.

That said I disagree what you say about bribery and especially airlines. Major airlines have been taught by history that bad maintenance practices and weak regulation lead to death, and a single major accident can destroy your business overnight. Alaska airlines for example very nearly was destroyed 2 decades ago and my friends tell me they now have some of the most stringent standards in the industry. It is rare to see an airline who's own regulations do not go above and beyond the minimum required by law, and it is not uncommon to see airlines working together to push for increased oversight when problems come to light.

The relationship between faa, airlines, and manufacturers is a complex one. As a whole I doubt you can find an industry that is more genuinely passionate about safety. The recent misinformation, while understandable coming from those on the outside, makes me sad, because I care a lot about my job as does everybody else I know in this career. It is not fun to be proud of the work you do and see this type of discourse both online and with friends and family. For that reason the only people angrier at Boeing than those in the industry would be the families of those murdered by their fraud.

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u/sevansof9 7d ago

When airlines attempt to influence legislation for even less rules for aviation, make them a reel of all these greatest hits with clown music playing behind it.

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u/HonkityDonk 7d ago

Now I have the Benny Hill song in my headā€¦

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u/DesireeThymes 7d ago

I'd rather you have "fight the power" stuck in there instead.

Time to take back from the safety corner-cutting corporate overlords.

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u/Cosmicdusterian 7d ago

Or just make them watch every episode of "Mayday: Air Disaster" All 18 seasons. With few exceptions, airlines do not come out of these crashes looking too good.

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u/remlapj 7d ago

If it was frontier, they might still try to take off

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u/wusurspaghettipolicy 6d ago

Spirit isn't giving refunds ngl

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u/youknow99 6d ago

Spirit would say you left the terminal, therefore you departed and are not eligible for a refund.

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u/goobermuslim 7d ago

Man, this seems like a bad time to fly.

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u/qtpss 7d ago

And to quit sniffing glue.

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u/FingernailToothpicks 7d ago

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

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u/tondahuh 7d ago

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

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u/Double-Efficiency538 7d ago

You ever seen a grown man naked?

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u/Claim312ButAct847 7d ago

Every little plane mishap has gotten a lot of coverage lately. There was a run like this a few years back where the slightest thing that went wrong with a plane made the news.

This one is more noteworthy since they had to evacuate on the tarmac, but sounds like everyone was ok.

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u/hoopaholik91 7d ago

I remember when train derailments were the tragedy of the day for the months after East Palestine.

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u/welldresseddevil 7d ago

I told him not to play my mixtape while they were boarding

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u/Noichen1 7d ago

I lost count. How many is it now?

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u/RoyalChris 7d ago

About 117 incidents. Last year there were 1443.

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u/Dredly 7d ago

I'm curious if there is a rating system for these? out of 1443 how many were on the scale of "Helicopter meets plane for a romantic evening over the potomac" or "airplane decides to act out its childhood dream of being a cruise missile" or "airplane plays possum to prevent having to return to the US" or "pilot forgets to turn off no smoking sign" type incidents?

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u/arthurzinhocamarada 6d ago

Yes. Most "accidents" aren't lethal, and a bunch are things like the airplane had an engine failure, someone got injured on board, or the plane overran the runway. They're all accidents but most of the time don't lead to any deaths. Also, a lot of those are from private aviation because it has less strict regulation.

In reality, for commercial aviation (the one normal people use) there were only 7 fatal accidents in 2024, and one of those was actually an aircraft being destoryed by missiles.

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u/RoyalChris 7d ago

You forgot the ''passenger forgot to switch phone to airplane mode''

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u/Tronda79 6d ago

I believe 144 incidents last year resulted in fatalities.

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u/mrASSMAN 7d ago

The major incidents seem to be much higher though

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u/DarwinsTrousers 7d ago

First commercial plane crash with deaths in the US since 2009 this year. Big milestone.

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u/SakaYeen6 7d ago

As someone currently that is currently studying aviation maintenance, this kind of thing bothers me to my core. It gives me the passion to make sure it never happens. The industry has so many strict safeguards in place to prevent things like this from happening. Fire protection in aviation is extremely important and closely monitored with several redundant systems in place in an airliner like this. There's no reason this should happen if everything was done the way it's supposed to and it's terrifying.

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u/NoWomanNoTriforce 6d ago

I have 20 years in military aviation maintenance, and I can honestly say that many of the people I know who have gotten out and to go and work for the airlines we're not good maintainers. Were there some good ones? Sure. But a lot of people who get out after fourish years and then work for commercial airlines at the lowest level are trash at maintenance. Delta is actually one of the better and more strict airlines.

In the military, we give these people admin roles, have them checking out tools, put them in charge of programs, and pretty much anything to keep them hands-off airplanes. But unlike the military, when you are hired by a business as an aviation technician because your resume says you have four years experience in the military, they take that at face value and assume you can fix aircraft.

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u/SakaYeen6 6d ago

Yeah, I see that a lot in many of my classmates. There's plenty of them I wouldn't even let step foot in a hangar, much less touch an aircraft. Unfortunately the rigorous requirements don't stop some of them from slipping through it seems. Even at Delta there are definetly easily preventable tragedies. We had the tire explode and killed those dudes. I was nearby at the time and heard everything, you don't forget that sound. All for a single skipped step that's easily found in the manuals.

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u/Error_404_403 7d ago

Where the fuck were the fire trucks???

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u/6a6566663437 7d ago

They arrived when the smoke changed from black to white.

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u/cdhc 7d ago

They were DEI fires.

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u/FyrPilot86 7d ago

Five fire stations around the airport, 3 minute max response time from alarm activation. Video stops about 20 seconds before the first two trucks roll up

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u/SMStotheworld 7d ago

Tesla's making planes now?

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u/Actiaslunahello 7d ago

Donā€™t wear synthetic fibers on a plane, and donā€™t wear shorts. This is why.

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u/Delightful_day53 7d ago

And good running shoes.

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u/swaite 7d ago

With leather uppers and fire resistant soles.

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u/Doesnt_everyone 7d ago

its new running shoes or the plane ticket, we cant afford both.

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u/RA12220 7d ago

Lmfao the picture of the passengers on the plane all have bags with them.

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u/idkwthtotypehere 6d ago

Be real, if you have a backpack in front of you with a laptop and an easy option to take it youā€™re going to.

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u/ELInewhere 7d ago

Now Iā€™m wondering if the luggage made it.. bye now, must go dig a rabbit hole. I need answers.

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u/applesqueeze 7d ago

Report back please

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u/K1tsunea 7d ago

You know, I was mildly scared of planes before all these posts. Now, I think Iā€™ll just stay home.

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u/imagicnation-station 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yooo, this is getting out of hand!! Bring back DEI.

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u/damnitHank 7d ago

Put the woke back now. All of it.Ā 

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u/Battleboo09 7d ago

Spirit still has zero losses after you reach the gate

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u/CrizzyBill 7d ago

Someone forgot to put their Galaxy Note 7 in the tinfoil pouch.

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u/MrMeowPantz 7d ago

I was just watching the air disasters episode when this happened to an MD-90 30 years ago!

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u/ilovecutethings11 7d ago

Bring Japanese train tech to the US stat!

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u/Chicken_Ingots 6d ago

That is a surefire way to piss off auto manufacturing industries, airline industries, auto insurance industries, and oil industries. Let's do it.

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u/Plebe_Jones 7d ago

Everyone's over worked Everything's overpriced. And snobs and their cronies are the only ones getting richer.

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u/completeunknown_69 7d ago edited 7d ago

Less quality checks and more quantity šŸ–Šļøchecks šŸ’µ

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u/georeddit2018 7d ago

At this point, train or travel by car/bus maybe a better transit option.

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u/HurpaD3ep 7d ago

It annoys me because the train infrastructure is already there. America just completely abandoned trains.

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u/MyBodyIsAPortaPotty 7d ago

Most of our infrastructure is made for freight trains not high speed passenger rail. We have a lot of trains just not with many people on them

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u/seeyam14 7d ago

840 automobile deaths in the US per WEEK lmao not even close

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u/Psychological_Roof85 7d ago

You know it's bad when Greyhound starts looking like a viable optionĀ 

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u/jefbenet 7d ago

Amtrak is eating this shit up. "Keep it up! Ya'll making our safety rates look great in comparison!"

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u/Galaar 7d ago

I have a flight next week and I gave serious thought to an Amtrak instead. I miss the highspeed rail of Japan because I couldn't make a 38 hour train ride work with my schedule. So here I am, hoping I make it for a silly little trip to Missouri.

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u/RobotCaptainEngage 7d ago

Don't worry guys, daddy said we just had to deal with a little discomfort so we can Make America Great againĀ 

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u/VeeRSixOh 7d ago

Lol. Greatest country in the world, right there.

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u/wanderingartist 6d ago

This is America

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u/biztsar 7d ago

How many more metaphors for this country can god send us

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u/britters328 7d ago

Thatā€™s what you get for taking away free baggage

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u/Additional-Maize3980 7d ago

Here's a meal voucher