Re:Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights
by marcosdumay on Thursday June 05, 2025 @11:06AM
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In car transit (like most things in life), you can do everything right and still die. In aviation, if you do everything right, you'll land safely.
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Re:Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights
by krisoft on Thursday June 05, 2025 @11:44AM
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> In car transit (like most things in life), you can do everything right and still die.
Same with aviation. The DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Iran Air Flight 655, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, American Airlines Flight 5342, Pan Am Flight 1736 are just the few easy ones which comes to mind immediately.
> if you do everything right, you'll land safely.
You. And the people who designed your aircraft. The people who maintain your aircraft. And the ATC. And other pilots. And the people on the ground operating anti-aircraft missiles.
The two pilots in the Tenerife aircrash would beg to differ.
Re:Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights
by gambiting on Thursday June 05, 2025 @11:35AM
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>> In aviation, if you do everything right, you'll land safely.
The pilots who died in the 787 MAX crashes would disagree. They did everything exactly as they were trained to do and still crashed.
Re:Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights
by david-gpu on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:15PM
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> 787 MAX
You are thinking of the 737 MAX [0]. There is no such thing as a 787 MAX yet [1].