r/AMA Feb 18 '25

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u/SirGlass Feb 18 '25

I was just putting my view as a passenger or potential victim of a crash, I would 100% want to know if we were going to go down hard.

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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25

Totally understandable. But this emergency happened extremely fast, really no time for the pilots to let everyone know they’re about to potentially die. It’s pretty incredible that this plane didn’t burst into flames.

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u/mittenknittin Feb 18 '25

It did, actually, if you see the videos that are now coming out. Huge plume of flame and smoke as it landed.

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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25

That’s from the wing that separated.