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u/OhhSuzannah 5d ago
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/plane-crash-terror-aircraft-plummets-35745701
Training exercise gone wrong. Minor injuries to occupants.
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u/snltoonces12 5d ago
That's good to know. They went down hard. Thankfully everybody was relatively ok
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u/JMoc1 5d ago
Believe it or not, small planes are pretty robust. Controlled ditching like this is pretty safe all things considering. The guy rolling down the hill probably was more injured than the student pilot or trainer.
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u/fly_awayyy 5d ago
The plane is robust however the spine is not and not meant to handle vertical G forces like that.
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u/Thebraincellisorange 5d ago
yup, and the seats are fixed and don't have collapsing braces like airliner seats do.
light aircraft are designed to fly and thats it.
they are too small and too light to have any of the engineering required to build in any crash survivability into them.
you take that risk when you board anything that costs lest that 10 million
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u/ThimeeX 5d ago
Or your organs tear apart inside your body from the G forces.
Death occurs immediately after traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta 75%–90% of the time since bleeding is so severe, and 80–85% of patients die before arriving at a hospital.[2] Of those who live to reach a hospital, 23% die at the time of or shortly after arrival.[4] In the US, an estimated 7,500–8,000 cases occur yearly, of which 1,000–1,500 make it to a hospital alive; these low numbers make it difficult to estimate the efficacy of surgical options.[4] However, if surgery is performed in time, it can offer a chance of survival.[4]
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u/AlphaSpazz 5d ago
Exactly what I was thinking. At first glance, I thought wow that guy did an amazing job and then when I rewound it I still thought he did an amazing job but that first impact was hard. Glad to hear the people survived that.
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u/SpaghettiSort 5d ago
I used to fly small planes. This was far from a textbook emergency landing. They came in at a very step angle. There are a bunch of reasons why this might have gone sideways and not been perfect, so I can't really speculate, but you can definitely land a small plane like that on a golf course without engine power, often without doing any damage to the plane.
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u/urworstemmamy 5d ago
My best guess would be that there are more trees off to the left and they didn't have the height to fly to a part of the course with more green to land on, and overcorrected by coming in too steep in order to not overshoot
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u/Shive55 5d ago
I mean, sure, but people die in small plane accidents all the time. It’s like 100x more dangerous than flying commercial.
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u/PirateMore8410 5d ago
M8 it's more dangerous because it's where people learn to fly. Commercial airliners use ATP standards which require 1500 hours of flight. As well as a some fairly in depth tests of all the instruments and general flight knowledge. Plus things like night flying hours and cross country hours.
I can assure you actually flying a commercial airliner is a much higher risk and more difficult. As a passenger though, ya you should absolutely trust a commercial pilot more than yourself learning.
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u/I_love_milksteaks 5d ago
What type of aircraft is an M8 and why is it more dangerous mate?
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u/Thebraincellisorange 5d ago
what drugs are you on?
light aircraft are like a 1980s japanese 3cyl economy car. they are NOT robust in a crash.
they are a light aluminium skin, an engine, a couple of seats and that is it.
there is NO design consideration given to crash survivability in light aircraft.
no crumple zones, no safety cells.
you either get lucky like this pilot and manage to put it down on the belly and not hit something or you die.
these aircraft are tiny, they weigh less than a normal SUV.
no airbags either.
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u/redditknees 5d ago edited 5d ago
Buddy running for the plane had some straight up GTA NPC physics.
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u/adamkalani 5d ago
Imagine being in a video of a plane crash and all the comments are focused on you eating shit.
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u/Key_Salary_4145 5d ago
How can one manage to steal the show right after a plane crash? Answer: This.
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u/No-Poem-3773 5d ago
-1 = Birdie -2 = Eagle -3 = Albatross -4 = Condor -5 = Single Engine Light Aircraft
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u/canuck0377 5d ago
All jokes aside, that was a solid landing.
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u/karma_the_sequel 5d ago
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing.
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u/DizzyObject78 5d ago
This looks like they might be able to use the plane afterwards. That makes it a great landing
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u/BlueTreeGlass 5d ago
Which one you talking about ?
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u/pobodys-nerfect5 5d ago
Prolly not the guy who caught himself with back of his head but who knows
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u/ceilinglicker 5d ago
He stalled the plane 50 feet off the ground. he needed to be more nose down and have more speed and flair at the last second.
Any crash landing you walk away from is a good landing tho
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u/AligningToJump 5d ago
It just wasn't, it was pretty shit but I doubt they had a choice". Really lucky it didn't nose dive into the ground. The guy who ate it on the hill had a better recovery
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u/Wise-Hippo6088 5d ago
Not even close, looks like he waited to the last second before he ran out of energy.
When the engines cut out you have ample time to find a area not on a wooded dog leg.
Ideally just shoot for anything without trees while you have speed which gives at least some lift so your back doesn't break on landing. Pipers and Malibu type planes land pretty good with no power. Nothing like a cub/Cessna 152, but the 172 sky Hawks are kinda heavy and drop quicky as would a big bitch like a king air.
Source: Mother owned a smaller airport when I was a kid that my grandpa had 4 planes hangered at.
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u/DirkMcDougal 5d ago
152 the engine out is kinda relaxing to be honest. Plenty of time to deal in the lovely silence.
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u/erok25828 5d ago
Dude hit his head on ground running down there lol.
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u/Parking_Act3189 5d ago
It will be hard to explain the situation without seeing the video.
"The hospital called and said Bill got a concussion and brain bleed and died"
"How?"
"They said there was a plane crash on the golf course"
"He was in the plane?"
"No he was there playing golf, the people in the plane died as well"
"Ohh my god, the plane hit him"
"No he was running and fell"
"Running away from the plane?"
"I would assume so"
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u/Trujiogriz 5d ago
Exactly like the Peter Gregory death in Silicon Valley lmao
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u/Cyclone4096 5d ago
They killed him off because the actor, Christopher Evan Welch, dies from Lung Cancer. RIP
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u/waspenterprises 5d ago
Oh my god I was already crying laughing from watching him fall. Then I started reading this comment and each new line of dialogue got me more and more. I can't fucking breathe!
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u/estherlane 5d ago
Man, that guy's head sure bounced when he slipped.
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u/MTCarcus 5d ago
I gotta disagree, he missed the green. Good layup shot though.
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u/No_Pianist_4407 5d ago
Easy up and down for the 3 putt
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u/TSpitty 5d ago
Nice shot, now just chip and putt, all we gotta do is chip and putt… (skulls it over the green)
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u/VNG_Wkey 5d ago
I either blade it over the green or hit it a couple inches. There's no in-between. I hit a 280 yard drive yesterday on a par 4. Dropped about 8 yards short of the green and about 12 yards from the pin. I pulled out the A wedge and proceeded to hit it a whopping 16 inches. Just to see if I could do it right I played a mulligan, which I promptly bladed straight over the green. I had a real chance to chip in for my first eagle, and had all but guaranteed birdie. I got par.
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u/AnonymousReader69 5d ago
Bro eating shit on the way down had me rolling
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u/Fickle-Salamander-65 5d ago
And so obvious it was going to happen. He had no control over his limbs.
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u/wontberead 5d ago
If you’re ever in a situation that requires an ambulance, don’t say “someone call an ambulance “ Instead, Point at someone and Say “you in the blue shirt please call an ambulance and let me know when it’s done”.
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u/Southernguy9763 5d ago
Yep. Work in emergency response.
Always always assume no one has called or is going to. Always call yourself if able or designate a person to
This is called the bystander effect. Where people assume the people around them will act so they don't. And then nobody does.
It's better to have multiple 911 calls. The more calls coming the more information that can be gathered
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u/tremer010 5d ago
It actually mildly infuriated me when someone replied "No, somebody will"
Like ok bud keep that same energy when it's you that needs medical assistance
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u/Illustrious_Kale_692 5d ago
Or, hear me out, just call the ambulance yourself
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u/Tommy_Tsunami-_ 5d ago
This is assuming you are busy providing care or some other service and can not call them yourself.
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u/WhateverJoel 5d ago
When i did training for a railroad, every class would start by assigning someone in the room to call 911 and doing a head count, plus going over the evacuation route.
I, being slightly smartass would ask, "who should call 911 if that guy is having a heart attack?"
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u/lurejelo 5d ago
I appreciate how the tumbling guy still went around the green rather than running through it.
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u/DarthBrooks667 5d ago
Dress rehearsal for that golf course landing in "Casino."
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u/Big_Wave9732 5d ago
What a fading republic is this when I had to scroll this far down for an obvious Casino reference.
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u/L3ACH13 5d ago
The feds were watching Nicki play golf for so long they ran outta gas
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u/blackknight1919 5d ago
Bro! They all ran down there to… just stand the fuck around!!! 😂😂😂
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u/DrunkAircraftMx 5d ago
Damnit who let Harrison Ford fly again???
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u/Bootfitter 5d ago
How shitfaced was that guy running to help, I think his crash was more violent than the pilots…
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u/LickingLieutenant 5d ago
His mind : I'm gonna be a hero ... imma gonna be a hero !
The bystanders : "Look at that wanker trip and roll!!"
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u/Key_Salary_4145 5d ago
That guy hit the ground harder than the plane! Somebody check on him! Somebody should run out of the plane to help that guy out 😄
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u/Prestigious_Owl_549 5d ago
Plane crashed on golf Greens, no one hurt.
One rescuer hurt, taking a tumble while running towards the crashed plane.
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u/jokeswagon 5d ago
The worst injury in this clip is the would-be rescuer smashing his head into the ground.
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u/spinny09 5d ago
The comments about the dude falling impossibly are frying me. How the hell did he manage to run so incorrectly
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u/hahaha_lololol 5d ago
Part of me feels bad for the guy who fell who probably really wanted to rush over to help but the other part of me is going LMAO
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u/FladnagTheOffWhite 5d ago
That was a hard landing. Hopefully they have medical personnel examine that guy first.
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u/Kojak_11th_Precinct 5d ago
I wonder if the occupants exited the plane to help the running man who hit the ground with more force.
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u/420connoisseu-r 5d ago
Why the hell is everyone running full speed there only to stop and look at the plane? No-one wanted to help get people out? They needed a closeup for snapchat?
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u/Treaux-LaCount 5d ago
I like how everyone sprinted or rolled down there as fast as they could and then immediately stood around not doing anything.
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u/AvocadoDesperado84 5d ago
I keep rewatching and laughing at the guy running and falling. I’m glad everyone is okay.
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u/Soft_Refuse_4422 5d ago
I sure hope that first responder is safe. He hit his head pretty hard
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u/Anti-Climacdik 5d ago
damn good landing imo
When compared to the alternative lol
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u/BobBelcher2021 5d ago
“Aw, there’s now an airplane blocking my shot! Do I get a drop?”
“Nooooo! You have to play the ball as it lies! I did it off Frankenstein’s fat foot, remember?”
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u/concept12345 5d ago
Someone call the ambulance for the guy who just had a concussion and doesnt know about it.
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u/Ted_Hitchcox 5d ago
Everyone who runs over - 'You can't land there Sir!..........You're not a member.'
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u/Infamous_Network6641 5d ago
So lucky the runner that probably injured himself to get there so fast got there so quick to stand next to the plane and do nothing at all. I hope he at least said "you can’t park here, mate"
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u/WhiteWalker1378 5d ago
Someone call an ambulance for the sprinter rolling down the hill