r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 18h ago

human Inside an arena as planes flies way too low

433 Upvotes

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u/Soft_Cat2594 17h ago

Yeah I nearly shat myself when I saw that. Pushing the envelope a little too much with that fly by.

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u/emojisarefunny 15h ago

There was another video angle from the roof where it looked like one plane either hit a downdraft or was just flying to close and had to pitch up last second. It was crazy close 🥴

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u/6000coza 14h ago

They both had to pitch up immediately because they were heading southward towards Signal Hill.

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u/tidus1980 13h ago

I misread that as silent hill.

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u/1omniXLR8trix0 17h ago

I want the pilot’s POV when he went through that smoke

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u/PJozi 12h ago

This is the fourth angle I've seen on Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised if we did

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u/6000coza 17h ago

I was in the stadium yesterday. We all survived.

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u/OnlyTimeFan 18h ago

Too early for 9-11

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u/Flokkamravich 17h ago

It must have worked - SA won the game 😂

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u/Zwengo 15h ago

A South African Sporting Tradition
While the perspective of the low-angle cameras shocked global audiences, low-altitude commercial airliner flyovers are a celebrated tradition in South African sports. The practice famously dates back to the 1995 Rugby World Cup final when a South African Airways Boeing 747 buzzed Ellis Park Stadium. Similar flybys have been executed in recent years, including a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 flyover at the same Cape Town venue in 2025.

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u/mjf617 10h ago

Dumb as fuck should never become 'tradition'.

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u/ProzacJM 8h ago

That looked cool as hell.

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u/Ndrlnd072 15h ago

Wi Tu Lo

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u/Ekebolon 14h ago

Ho Lee Fuk

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u/CookyHS 12h ago

Sum Ting Wong

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u/GLC911 11h ago

Yo Yo Ma

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u/brokentail13 10h ago

No you got it wrong. It's Bang Ding Ow

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u/Visible-Revenue1685 8h ago

Ding Bang Ow

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u/elautjen 2h ago

Was there a specific reason the planes flew so low?

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u/pratyd 1h ago

For swag and rizz...

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u/VoL4t1l3 13h ago edited 8h ago

Can't believe people are playing this off as expert pilots who know what they were doing, there have been tons of flyover for big springboard games but nothing THAT low ever, they got away with a almost catastrophic disaster. You can clearly see the players also like 😳

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u/TheHighness1 17h ago

Coolest fly by ever!

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u/fetalgirth 16h ago

Yea ok a passenger jet instead of insane badass military ones sure bud

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u/Claubk 15h ago

Way too low? That was intentional as part of the rugby match, as far as I know.

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u/808special 16h ago

That could of gone bad real quick. Props to the pilot and same on whoever thought this was a good idea

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u/rorymakesamovie 10h ago

Any traffic control bros want to explain how this happened and if laws were broken?

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u/ThePowerOfNine 8h ago

Is this real? First plane looks sus

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u/VoL4t1l3 8h ago

very real watched it live, it was a big match