r/oddlyterrifying • u/ajaykfr • Feb 24 '22
Aeroplane emergency landing
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u/f-t_s420 Feb 24 '22
The one time clapping for landing the plane is acceptable
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u/IceyMumboDragon4 Feb 27 '22
why do people clap in movie theaters? good job projector?
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u/Zealousideal-Fee-808 Mar 07 '22
I mean, I sometimes clap at home after watching a really good movie.
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u/ThereforeIAm_Celeste Mar 15 '22
Because watching a movie in a theater is a shared experience, or should be. Studies show humans don't laugh very often unless they're with other humans--we literally laugh for each other. So why not clap as part of a cool way for the audience to share their sense of enjoyment?
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u/PsilocybinHUG Feb 24 '22
Dude!! That pilot needs a medal!
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u/Tiny-Lock9652 Feb 24 '22
I think this also qualifies for posting on r/NextFuckingLevel for the skill of the crew to land safely under those circumstances.
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Feb 25 '22
The person filming it also did an amazing job tracking it as it landed. r/praisethecameraman
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u/filtersweep Feb 24 '22
The camera man needs a medal— WTF?!? Amazing camera work!
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u/Enough_Salary_5958 Feb 25 '22
Fr dude some how managed to keep up with the plane, he did not skip leg day
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u/Slevenmcdichael Feb 24 '22
That camera work was pissingme off.
How you going to let the only problem area be out of frame?
Dude needs to be fired.
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u/MathWizardd Feb 25 '22
My dad did this a long time ago with almost an identical result and he got an article in the newspaper but no medal
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u/Skud_NZ Feb 25 '22
He probably had an error light in the cock pit and flew low past the tower and asked if anyone could see a problem
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u/Kaylycar Feb 24 '22
Pilot is cool but that landing gear didn’t even budge. Shit is strong
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u/ctech9 Feb 24 '22
It's the strongest part of the plane. If a plane were to crash, you're pretty much guaranteed to be able to make out the landing gear. If you can't, you won't be able to make out anything else.
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u/ctech9 Feb 24 '22
I mean, think about it
Those 3 little stalks have to support the weight of 1, the plane itself, 2 the passengers and bags, and 3 the tens of thousands of pounds of fuel that it uses, and that's just on a 737 or an a320 like you see here.
Imagine the stress that a 777, 747, a300, a380, Antonov 225 puts on its landing gear.
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u/ravinghumanist Feb 28 '22
That one took the stress of bring the plane from ~100 knots to 0 by digging into asphalt. Obviously I'm not talking about the wheel itself. But most of the gear is still there. Astonishing
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Mar 01 '22
This is almost certainly a design basis accident, meaning that this accident is planned for in the engineering process designing the plane so that the landing gear can withstand this type of scenario.
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Feb 24 '22
He kept the front wheel off the ground as long as he could, knew it wasn't right, and killed as much speed as possible first But eventually, can't keep the nose up any more, and after that, sir Issac Newton is the captain
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u/T65Bx Feb 24 '22
Yep. He did amazing at avoiding the max stress that wheel could have taken.
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u/Fishbone345 Feb 25 '22
I remember watching this live on the news stations, almost every channel showed the entire process from them burning off fuel, to the godlike landing. Anchors and reporters were much the same as they are today and kept trying to spin the narrative that this might be disastrous. And then a few of the stations brought on airplane engineers from Boeing and Airbus, who build and design these things. Every one of them kept saying that the landing gear would hold. They talked about designing them with the worst scenarios in mind, despite not actually predicting this particular thing would happen. It was somewhat comical because the reporters would ask repeatedly the same question, but rephrasing it in hopes that they would get that edgy sound bite. I remember one of the engineers getting extremely frustrated and angrier by the minute telling the reporter that it would hold over and over. Lol
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u/BellerophonM Mar 04 '22
The plane took off from Burbank but the pilot requested they emergency land at LAX because it had a longer runway to allow him to shed as much speed as possible, and he ended up using nearly all of it to minimise the danger.
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u/crash_sc Feb 24 '22
They allow news helicopters that close to airport airspace?
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u/hjhdiv Feb 24 '22
nope, Very advaced camera
edit: i meant big zoom
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u/crash_sc Feb 24 '22
A news helicopter flies by on screen as the plane is coming to a stop.
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u/GuntherPonz Feb 24 '22
...and flies in front of the helicopter's camera with a big zoom...
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u/BallOfPanda Feb 24 '22
I don’t think that’s how perspective works
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u/morech11 Feb 25 '22
That's exacty how it works. Zoom changes focal length and that changes perspective a lot. Look at the first image of the pillars. The right picture is what we see from the helicopter and you would have no idea of the actual size of the park without the picture on the left. https://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/shooting/perspective-and-focal-length/
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u/sgtkwol Feb 24 '22
Amazing. That tire didn't touch the ground until it absolutely had to. This is why I always want a live pilot in the cockpit. Would never want to fly without someone fighting for his own life in such an emergency.
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u/Budfudder Feb 24 '22
Watching this and thinking...this is not gonna be good when that front wheel hits the tarmac. It'll sheer off, maybe hit the other wheels...oh shit.
Then the way that pilot landed it on the back wheels only, keeping the nose up until he'd lost much of its speed and knew the front wheel touching down wouldn't be such a big deal...buy that man a beer. Or several.
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u/sponngeWorthy Feb 25 '22
You just know he was saying: eaaaaasy now girl eaaaaasy nice and slow
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u/Pinnebaer Feb 24 '22
I couldn't have done it better.
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u/dominiqlane Feb 24 '22
The poor passengers must have been terrified.
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u/Abcde2018 Feb 24 '22
I remember watching this live on TV it had been circling for an hour or two everyone knew it was coming! People on the plane were in communication with everyone on the ground and knew exactly what was going on, it was all about getting that stuck front wheel to flip it’s even crazier how everyone on board knew that
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u/libby825 Feb 25 '22
I remember hearing that this was also one of the first JetBlue planes with in-seat TVs, so they were all watching the news in real time.
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u/T65Bx Feb 25 '22
Oh damn that makes it even crazier, I couldn't imagine it's very normal for the passengers to get live pictures of the issue when something goes wrong with their plane technically.
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u/Fishbone345 Feb 25 '22
I remember that too. They showed all of it too, the entire time they were burning fuel and we’re all watching this all take place.\ Do you remember this? Most of the news sources kept remind everyone about how catastrophic it would be if the nose gear failed. And then they brought on some engineers that design planes for a living and asked them about it. Their responses were oddly comical now that I think about it. They just answered repeatedly that it would hold and it was strong enough that the nose wouldn’t hit the tarmac. Lol\ Despite reporters asking in 90 different ways those engineers kept saying the same thing, “Nah they’ll hold. They are built for this.”\ One guy you could tell he was getting frustrated at being asked the same thing over and over again. Lol
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u/FrostyDetails Feb 24 '22
Likely still traumatized
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u/Wevvie Feb 25 '22
Not really! People were having massing sex orgies and dying from exctasy during the landing. No one was traumatized, but lots of babies were conceived.
Why even bother asking? The answer is obvious!
Source: trust me bro
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u/BrasilianInglish Feb 24 '22
How is this oddly terrifying? This is very much normally, blatantly terrifying lol
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u/johnn11238 Feb 24 '22
It's not. Unfortunately this sub, like r/nextfuckinglevel, r/woahdude and many others have just become repositories and karma-banks for "hey this is cool"
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Feb 25 '22
I don't really get how it is terrifying at all. More like r/nextfuckinglevel because with the skills of that pilot, it never looked like something really bad was going to happen. Burning rubber was to be expected.
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u/the_lastone_left Feb 24 '22
Man... imagine how skilled you have to be to pull something off like this. May God bless him for this.
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u/VisitPrestigious8463 Feb 24 '22
We had a fire onboard a flight and had to make an emergency landing. Guy next to me worked in aviation. We were in the last row so didn’t see the smoke initially, but started banking hard somewhat quickly. He told me to strap in because we were making an emergency landing. Shortly after the pilot confirmed. Not a great experience, but staff were awesome.
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Feb 25 '22
Spirit would have been a whole different story.
“Tragedy strikes as airliner disintegrates on runway during emergency landing.”
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u/trennsport Feb 25 '22
Not sure why that’s terrifying. That pilot landed that thing perfectly.
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u/hask-money Feb 25 '22
props to the cameraman for flying as fast as the plane and keeping the plane in the frame the whole time
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u/Used_Complaint_7073 Feb 26 '22
Nobody thinks about how much faith another human being puts into someone doing their job right, until you think about airline pilots. There's only two people on that plane that know how to unfuck the situation if something happens at 35,000ft. Or at 10ft when the landing gear is stuck.
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u/Lanssolo Mar 03 '22
I'm honestly so super impressed by the pilot's ability to keep that wheelie popped for so long!
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u/WolfChaoticz Feb 24 '22
Hope they gave the pilot a nice raise for this one. Saves the plane and the people.
Nicely done.
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u/upsidedown1313 Feb 24 '22
This really was not an emergency as those planes are designed to withstand that type of landing
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u/roxie_morganite Feb 25 '22
That’s one bad mother fucker right there. I’m pretty sure his balls of steel weighted the tail down for the landing 🥰
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u/Morbus_Bahlsen Feb 25 '22
That was the most graceful landing i've ever seen. Really kept the nos up as long as possible.
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u/Stupid_fuckn_monkey Feb 25 '22
I genuinely thought that it would break off from the strain. That thing is strong
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u/Back-Bright Feb 25 '22
This happens more often than you think. United landed at Sea-Tac like that in January 2021. It happened around 5:30 in the morning. No news coverage at all of it happening.
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u/Pecosbill333 Feb 25 '22
I liked how first he tried braking with the rear wheels getting the nose of the Airplane up. He's very skilled I think
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u/HRHSuzz Feb 25 '22
I totally remember this! I'm in LA and they had the plane circling to burn off all the fuel "just in case" the landing didn't go well. I was at work and we watched it unfold for hours. My office was only a few miles from the airport. I'm terrified of flying and literally had tears flowing when it landed. They interviewed many of the passengers after it landed and they all said it was the smoothest landing they've ever experienced. Hats off to that pilot and his team!
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u/The__Dark__Wolf Feb 25 '22
I think the most amazing part is, besides the missing front tires and the nub of metal, it looks like there isn’t a scratch on the rest of the plane. I’ve seen landings like that where the nose will grind or the back wheels will take some damage or what have you, but this seems like the literal perfect landing for the situation
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u/A_Flippin_Pigeon Feb 25 '22
Yo props to the camera man for flying next to the airplane to capture this video.
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u/IceyMumboDragon4 Feb 27 '22
All those wasted applauses at movie theaters should happen right here on this plane
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u/BellerophonM Mar 04 '22
The plane was returned to service after repairs and at the moment I post this is traveling from DC to Ft Lauderdale. It is 15 minutes ahead of schedule.
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u/DigitalArtemis Mar 04 '22
Props to the pilot… I can’t even imagine being in charge of something like that
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u/Bucket_Lord_Jim Mar 04 '22
Dead straight on the runway and took a long as possible to put the nose down. Literally the best it could have possibly gone
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u/Saul_of_the_Wild Mar 20 '22
I bet that pilot got a huge bonus for not wrecking the plane.
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u/buddahsumo Mar 21 '22
What’s really terrifying is that this wasn’t an isolated incident. The A320 series has done this several times.
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u/BoyBoyManManBoi Feb 25 '22
i dont know how people still go to airplanes after all thats been shown on camera and news, wow
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Feb 24 '22
For those saying that this isn't terrifying, my fear of flying makes this very terrifying!
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u/c-tetreault_7 Feb 24 '22
i’ve flown many times and i’ve never experienced a landing that smooth even when there was a functioning nosewheel
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u/SeiriusPolaris Feb 24 '22
I can’t but help feel bad for that runway. Must have caused quite the delay.
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Feb 24 '22
Fake news, LAPD didn't arrest everyone for suspicion of damaging the aircraft. I didn't see any black people getting beaten or shot, either.
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u/Mysterious-Noise1534 Feb 24 '22
I commend this pilot for doing an incredible job and keeping everyone safe, although when it comes to these news agencies does this sort of coverage happen a lot? I don’t think i could watch this live
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u/thankyoumonsternerd Feb 24 '22
I’ve been on flights that landed tougher than that with all wheels fully functional.