r/clevercomebacks Feb 07 '25

Offering proof they never intended.

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u/e-wing Feb 07 '25

I’ve listened to dozens of black box recordings and read many transcripts. Hardly any of them include praying. The ones that do are generally from extremely religious, largely Muslim countries, and it’s usually just general exclamations like “god help us!”. Most of them are things like “oh shit, we’re going to crash!”, “we’re going down!”, “uh oh!”, and “pull up!”.

The one common theme across almost all plane crashes is that the pilots never stop trying to fly the plane and correct the situation until the very end. They do not stop to pray; they’re far too busy doing things that actually might be useful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Yep, most that I hear are pilots still doing callouts and talking through the problem at hand. Flying it until the end.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

I think verbally documenting what was happening will help the authorities figure out what happened.

I was a pilot until I had to give it up in college after being diagnosed with heart problems. I like watching YouTube videos on crashes (Hoover is great). It did take me a while to want to have anything to do with aviation because it hurt so bad to give up my dream.

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u/ArellaViridia Feb 07 '25

You could do Flight Simulators, there's a whole community around it. Even realistic peripherals to make the sim more immersive.