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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by ubernostrum on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:14AM (#14742411)
You might enjoy this classic video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10

Just be sure to make a note of the video title so you can find it again -- copies of it tend to get taken down, since American Airlines got in some trouble after other parts of this training course were blamed for the crash of AA flight 587:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by jrockway on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:40AM (#14742996)
> American Airlines got in some trouble after other parts of this training course were blamed for the crash of AA flight 587

More specifically, the pilots manipulated the rudder on that airplane so aggressively that it sheared off in flight. They were trained to react aggressively in the "Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program", which this video is a part of. (There are also related videos that I'm going through now that are more relevant to this particular incident; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc, etc.)

BTW, if AA is indeed DMCA-ing these videos, that's pretty interesting. Copyright was designed to incentivize the progress of science and the arts -- not to make large corporations look less bad after they unintentionally kill a few hundred people. Oops.

Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by jrockway on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:02AM (#14743783)
Ah, here's the wake turbulence one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXwqAm1a-Y