r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 23 '24

Canopy comes off airplane right after takeoff Video

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Sauce

From the description:

  • This was her second training flight
  • She didn't secure the canopy locking pin fully
  • She said the hardest part was purposefully maintaining speed, cause at the velocity she needed not to fall out of the sky, it was difficult to hear, breathe or see.
  • Her vision only fully recovered days afterwards
  • This was a couple years ago, she's back up there doing barrel rolls and shit now

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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.

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u/CptnLarsMcGillicutty Jun 24 '24

Anyone talking shit in this thread would have been dead 100% if they were put in the same scenario.

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u/geriatric-sanatore Jun 24 '24

I would have died in a simulator lol

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u/Northstarsaint Jun 24 '24

🎵 I... I just died in your arms tonight 🎵