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East Coast Jets Flight 81
| big bisexual field | 05/18/24 |
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Date: May 18th, 2024 10:13 PM Author: big bisexual field I've been thinking about this plane crash a lot lately. Imagine that you're one of the developers for a new casino in Atlantic City, and you're taking a routine trip on a chartered private jet to meet with a glass supplier for the building. The flight is uneventful, your plane touches down on the runway. Then you notice that the plane is slowing, but it's taking a little longer than usual, and the pilot is panicking, but it's really not a big deal, because even if you reach the end of the runway the plane will still come to a stop and you'll be safe. Nothing too out of the ordinary here. The plane's going 30 miles per hour at this point, the same speed you might drive your car through a suburban neighborhood.
Then the pilot, who is still panicking and got very little sleep the night before, decides that the plane overrunning the runway is completely unacceptable, and so he makes an incredibly rash decision to power up the aircraft--which is still decelerating and getting close to the end of the runway--and go around. He and the copilot put the plane at takeoff thrust, and as it accelerates, it goes past the end of the runway and continues traveling along the grass. Then the pilot realizes that the plane is about to hit the localizer antenna that's past the end of the runway, so he pulls back on the steering yoke in an attempt to get the plane airborne. The plane gets about five feet off the ground, the pilot yells "not motherfuckin' flying," and then the plane hits the localizer antenna, flips over and slams into the ground, killing everyone aboard.
The whole sequence of events, from the plane's initial landing on the runway to the moment of the crash, takes LESS THAN ONE MINUTE. One minute you're landing in a chartered jet on a business trip, and the next minute--LITERALLY THE NEXT MINUTE--the plane has crashed and that's it.
No one survived the crash. Everyone aboard had their lives snuffed out in an instant because of one rash, thoughtless decision by a tired and panicked pilot. |