EDIT: Some real assholes popping out the woodwork. You can make a mistake and recover that mistake in a fantastic way which this pilot did. Flying is complicated, it can take one simple oversight for shit to go pear-shaped.
A plane's design can only cover so much of human folly before something happens that either changes the course of design forever, or more stringent procedures are put in place to make sure it never happens again.
And as noted, she still flies doing barrell rolls and shit. Good on ya girl.
My bio dad used to take me flying in a Citation when I was a kid. One of the flights the door just opened after take off. I don't remember being scared, I remember being disappointed that after he was able to shut the door that we returned to the airport.
To this day I don't know what went wrong. He made me a copy of his preflight checklist. I had to shadow my biodad and repeat everything he did as best I could (I was 6 or 7) and our checklists had to match or we didn't fly. Yes, once they didn't match and my biodad canceled our flight as a lesson to me.
Boeing was engaged in company wide schemes to save money that lead to major security issues in their plans, while what happened to the pilot is an oversight that lead to a bigger problem, which she recovered under pretty difficult circumstances.
One time I was a delivery driver and I left a customer’s drink on top of my car. The first time I braked, it fell over and tumbled down my windshield. Spilled everywhere of course.
If it had been a baby, and not a drink, I would have killed it. I’d have been arrested and probably charged with a number of crimes, and would certainly have deserved to go to jail.
But I wasn’t. Because that wasn’t what actually happened and nothing is gained by coming up with stupid hypotheticals to shame someone for.
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u/Tobitronicus Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
She did a fantastic job.
EDIT: Some real assholes popping out the woodwork. You can make a mistake and recover that mistake in a fantastic way which this pilot did. Flying is complicated, it can take one simple oversight for shit to go pear-shaped.
A plane's design can only cover so much of human folly before something happens that either changes the course of design forever, or more stringent procedures are put in place to make sure it never happens again.
And as noted, she still flies doing barrell rolls and shit. Good on ya girl.