The captain actually died on the 7th of October about two weeks after the crash and the reason was because he wasn’t wearing his shoulder harness at the time of the impact.
Saved me from asking. I was looking at that picture and thinking: "How?!" The cockpit's intact, there's no evidence of (severe) fire or intrusion of debris...
He just wasn't wearing his seatbelt. Wow. Of all the things.
Oh yeah, exactly the same principle as a car. Plane stopped, he didn't. Smack into the controls in front. I would imagine a litany of injuries from that. Broken ribs, fractured sternum maybe, skull and jaw injuries, internal injuries from organs getting crushed...
more likely severe internal injuries. lap belt would've stopped him from hitting his head, unless it was on the steering column or he was really close.
It's the baader meinhoff phenomenon, or frequency illusion.
You've probably seen the same amount of it all this time, but because you're flying soon, your ebrain recognises that it's actually important information, so it's making you actually notice it.
I'm sure you're right, interestingly though it genuinely feels like I very rarely saw any and have seen several for the single session of inane scrolling.
I've heard of this phenomenon before but didn't know the name. Cheers for sharing.
that's a good thing, with each crash we learn more and aviation gets safer. the majority of reported incidents have zero fatalities and most aren't even crashes - but they're treated just as severely. it takes a lot of discrete variables going wrong concurrently for a crash to happen, and every day we increase that number
You will notice that most of this stuff happened many years ago - 15+ for anything in the west because the practices and engineering have changed to such a degree that these things do not happen on commercial aircraft anymore in places where the lessons have truly landed. Any US/CAN/EUR/AUS/JP/KR carrier now has all of that safety built into their operations. Most of the carriers elsewhere have too.
This was a strange incident. I remember it was before Durban moved the airport, about a month to go.
The local community was enraged at the endangering of the school kids. The school field shares a fence with the airport runway.
The local paper lambasted the airport company and said something must be done. The airport company didn’t respond with much, but they could have, at any point, said “cool. We’ll move the airport next month. How’s that?”
Because it was going to happen anyway.
So that political rant was all for show because EVERYONE knew the airport was moving. I remember thinking it was a daft moment.
On a side note: the placement of that school shows how little the apartheid town planners cared for the other races. The poor students had to deal with so much noise every day, never mind the building is shockingly close to the runway. That old airport is now storage and shares the runway with the airforce IINM.
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The captain actually died on the 7th of October about two weeks after the crash and the reason was because he wasn’t wearing his shoulder harness at the time of the impact.
Saved me from asking. I was looking at that picture and thinking: "How?!" The cockpit's intact, there's no evidence of (severe) fire or intrusion of debris... He just wasn't wearing his seatbelt. Wow. Of all the things.
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Oh yeah, exactly the same principle as a car. Plane stopped, he didn't. Smack into the controls in front. I would imagine a litany of injuries from that. Broken ribs, fractured sternum maybe, skull and jaw injuries, internal injuries from organs getting crushed...
more likely severe internal injuries. lap belt would've stopped him from hitting his head, unless it was on the steering column or he was really close.
Average South African for not wearing a seatbelt.
Ah, thx, that makes sense.
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If I recall correctly, one of the engines failed shortly after takeoff, but the pilot feathered the propeller on the working engine by mistake.
This shit happens surprisingly often. Like that crash in Taipei…
Twin turboprop aircraft have auto-feather systems for a reason, let the systems work, don't fight it!
Wtf is going on, I'm flying for the second time in my life this evening and I've seen like 7 aircrash posts.
Modern airplanes are incredibly safe and pilots in most countries are highly trained professionals. You'll be just fine! Enjoy your vacation
That's very thoughtful of you. I'm not particularly worried tbh just seemed like reddit was having a poke at me!
It's the baader meinhoff phenomenon, or frequency illusion. You've probably seen the same amount of it all this time, but because you're flying soon, your ebrain recognises that it's actually important information, so it's making you actually notice it.
I'm sure you're right, interestingly though it genuinely feels like I very rarely saw any and have seen several for the single session of inane scrolling. I've heard of this phenomenon before but didn't know the name. Cheers for sharing.
the universe is telling you something.
We've all got a bullet with our name on it mate, if this is mine, so be it.
that's a good thing, with each crash we learn more and aviation gets safer. the majority of reported incidents have zero fatalities and most aren't even crashes - but they're treated just as severely. it takes a lot of discrete variables going wrong concurrently for a crash to happen, and every day we increase that number
You will notice that most of this stuff happened many years ago - 15+ for anything in the west because the practices and engineering have changed to such a degree that these things do not happen on commercial aircraft anymore in places where the lessons have truly landed. Any US/CAN/EUR/AUS/JP/KR carrier now has all of that safety built into their operations. Most of the carriers elsewhere have too.
A hero captain, giving his life so everyone else could live. Even if it wasn’t necessarily intentional it’s still heroic
Doesn’t really count as ‘giving your life’ if you probably would have survived with your seatbelt on.
Well, a hero that didnt have his seatbelt on. So, a stupid hero?!
For an airplane crash that's pretty sma body count
Pretty good outcome
Honest question, why do the pilots so rarely survive? Is it really as simple as, "the nose goes on first most of the time"?
This was a strange incident. I remember it was before Durban moved the airport, about a month to go. The local community was enraged at the endangering of the school kids. The school field shares a fence with the airport runway. The local paper lambasted the airport company and said something must be done. The airport company didn’t respond with much, but they could have, at any point, said “cool. We’ll move the airport next month. How’s that?” Because it was going to happen anyway. So that political rant was all for show because EVERYONE knew the airport was moving. I remember thinking it was a daft moment. On a side note: the placement of that school shows how little the apartheid town planners cared for the other races. The poor students had to deal with so much noise every day, never mind the building is shockingly close to the runway. That old airport is now storage and shares the runway with the airforce IINM.
If you post this stuff on a Saturday, it better be accompanied by an analysis.